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"Fast-food consumption has increased in the United States during the past three decades," said Pereira. "While there have been many discussions about fast-food's effects on obesity, this appears to be the first scientific, comprehensive long-term study to show a strong connection between fast-food consumption, obesity, and risk for type 2 diabetes."

Response: This quote comes from the article "15-Year Study Shows Strong Link Between Fast Food, Obesity And Insulin Resistance. In the article, a study that was conducted by Mark Pereira, Ph.D and David Ludwig, M.D., Ph.D., for 15 years showed that there was a correlation between fast-food, obesity, and insulin resistance. In the study, there were people who ate fast food twice a week, and then people who ate fast food once a week or less. The people that ate fast food twice a week gained on average 10 pounds more over the period than the people who at fast food once a week or less. This shows that fast food is unhealthy and is causing people to gain more weight than what they would if they just ate at home. Since the article was just an overview of the whole experiment, there were no details provided about how eating fast food affected a person's insulin resistance. Also there were not very many details provided about the health of the people who participated in the study.  The article alone however has enough evidence to show that fast-food is a factor in the reason why the obsity rate is climbing in the United States. Gaining ten pounds here, and ten pounds there can easily result in becoming obese over the years.