Title: Fast Food Nation: Americans Cook Less Than Any Developed Country | Live Science
Headings: Fast Food Nation: Americans Cook Less Than Any Developed Country
Fast Food Nation: Americans Cook Less Than Any Developed Country
Content: The report actually included several metrics related to food, including time spent cooking, time spent eating, and obesity rates. Interestingly, researchers found that about one-third of people in the U.S. are obese — which leads the way among other countries — despite ranking in the lowest third for the amount of time spent eating, at one hour and 14 minutes per day. These measures of U.S. obesity and time spent eating are "paradoxical and probably unrelated," said David Levitsky, a professor of nutrition and psychology at Cornell University. He suspected that the effect likely came from inaccurate measurement of the time spent eating, as the fat content of the food that Americans eat is not considerably higher than that found in food in other countries. Chapple said that some countries' measures of eating time included time socializing with friends and family. Besides short eating times paired with high obesity rates, the report also had some curious findings related to health spending and life expectancy. People in the U.S. spent the most on health care, some 16 percent of the GDP. This is not news. A 2007 report from the World Health Organization also showed that the U.S. spent the most of all member countries on health — with costs totaling around $6,100 per person per year. But the U.S. did not set any life expectancy records: