Southern Food Frustrates Health Officials

[Gifted Gourmet]

And now comes the news that many, many fast food outlets are specifically built to be near schools ... the kids are the targets apparently ... how very sad to set up the younger generation for (health) failure ...

CBS article on this ...

Nearly 80 percent of Chicago schools studied had at least one fast-food restaurant within a half mile. Statistical mapping techniques showed there were at least three times more fast-food restaurants located less than a mile from schools than would be expected if the restaurants had been more randomly distributed, the researchers said....  The findings beg the question of whether fast-food companies intentionally locate their restaurants near schools to make them easily accessible to young people, some of their key customers, Austin said.  "We know that a great deal of thought and planning goes into fast-food restaurant site location," and that children "are very important to the market," Austin said.