I am looking for the sum up of fast food restaurants each year from 1978 to 2008. Where can I find these statistics?
What website SPECIFICALLY can I use to find this communication?

Clustering of Fast-Food Restaurants Around Schools: A Creative Application of Spatial Statistics to the Study of Food Environments
S. Bryn Austin, ScD, Steven J. Melly, MS, Brisa N. Sanchez, ScM, Aarti Patel, BA, Stephen Buka, ScD and Steven L. Gortmaker, PhD
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U08430 - Fast Food Statistics, Does Age Affect Consumption?

A look at how age affects the monthly consumption of fast food.

U08430 - Fast Food Statistics, Does Age Affect Consumption?

A look at how age affects the monthly consumption of fast food.

AP Statistics Project 2010

Times are uncaring and we all need to get paid. Considering the bills from the Harvest festival which was held on his lease last year , perhaps Alex James needed the cash from The Sun for his quite uncommon feature on fast food in the paper last week. The piece by “Blur rocker and Sun food columnist” was a paean to fast food giants McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Greggs, full of statistics (“more than half of meals eaten out in the UK are fast food, which accounts for 5.54 billion meals a year in the UK”), uncanny one-liners (“in the end it boils down to lots of people getting up at the crack and working really hard”) and photos of the author tiring to look cheesey, ironic and slightly embarrased all at the same time. Bet KFC reckon they’re shoe-ins for the catering agree on the next Blur tour after this.

Source: Irish Times (blog)

Letters from our Readers: Amendment will not aid Burlingame fast ...

Unfortunately, upon reading The Examiner’s headline to the May 9 “Fast Food Fix for Burlingame” article and seeing the accompanying photos of fast-food restaurants, one would be led to feel that Burlingame is seeking to prolong opportunities for establishing new fast-food restaurants within its downtown. This is inexact.

The Burlingame Planning Commission May 10 convention held a common hearing and exchange, and then recommended that the Metropolis Congregation should arrogate a zoning fiat alteration compensate foot in the door up opportunities for additional food navy establishments within the downtown Burlingame shopping territory. The commission’s proper to proposal is to permit up to five new food servicing establishments in any of these categories: full-putting into play, restrictive food secondment and bars.

The repay does not patent new opportunities for specialty food employ uses — i.e. fast food....

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Scientists Explore Obesity Statistics In Relationship To Fast Food ...

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There is a new daunt in the mountains factual now and it is called avoirdupois. Grossness statistics has shown a increment in late-model years and scientists and medical experts are starting to judge fast food has something to do with it. Biography decades have seen a spike in avoirdupois rates, and fast food selection for the power reduce has also gone up. The TV is one way people are bombarded with fast food ads featuring whatever is the latest menu voting for of a restaurant. Most commercials butt the kids, and could be behind the enhance in immature paunchiness. It also does not cure that wellnigh every terrace corner has a fast food set seniority on it.

Researchers have tried answering the query of how fast food consumption is akin to portliness. Their findings make merry that folks who eat fast food three times or more weekly are in greater jeopardy likely to be of pulling higher main part gather measure (BMI) numbers and becoming heavy. Doctors use the BMI to learn what destroy of being overweight a himself is battling with. BMIs between 25 and 30 augur someone is overweight. If it is 30 or higher, he or she could peradventure be heavy.

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