Young, Black, and addicted to fast food

A Center for Disease Control (CDC) study shows that American youth are still eating too much fast food, and in particular that young-adult African American populations have growing obesity rates.  Sean Shavers lives in West Oakland, and admits to exploiting his single mom's busy schedule to eat as much fast food as possible growing up.  He tries harder these days to eat healthfully but struggles -- fast food is "cheap, quick and easy to eat on-the-go," qualities he thinks befit his busy lifestyle. Find out the other ingredients in his continuing addiction to fast food, on Richmond Pulse.t1larg.fastfood

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