“Britain is the junk-food nation despite obesity crisis”, says Fiona Barton from the Daily Mail.
“Britons’ fondness for hamburgers, chips and pizza has left the Americans trailing.Almost half of us say we enjoy fast food too much to give it up, taking the UK to the top of the world’s junk food league. A survey puts the US in second place.The healthiest eaters are the French. Fewer than one in five admits to fast food cravings. The research, for the BBC, found 45 per cent of Britons “liked the taste of fast food too much to give it up”. In the US the figure was 44 per cent, while third place went to the United Arab Emirates, where 35 per cent are junk-food addicts.
And according to China News, “Chinese kids are ‘addicted’ to foreign junk food”.
“Munching on french fries and sipping cola while walking down the street has almost become a fixture in the daily life of Chinese youngsters, a sign of the success and even fruition of foreign fast food corporation in China. McDonald’s, KFC and Japan’s Yoshinoya have become the companions of urban Chinese new generation within only 20 years, with McDonald’s golden arches and the amiable smile of the KFC Colonel on almost every Chinese street. In drastic contrast, traditional Chinese hot-pot and dumpling restaurants are losing appeal to Chinese kids.”
“A survey shows that about 80 percent of Beijing middle and primary school students are fond of foreign snacks, 43.6 percent of them go to McDonald’s, KFC or other foreign fast food eateries every month, and 6.1 percent go every week or every day.”
Yet interestingly, Chinese take-away food is the most popular now in Britain, leaving Indian food behind, according to Giles Coren from the Times.
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