This is definitely something I want to get used to. All young people should try and eat home more. Boycott the fast food.
However, relatively few young people regularly shop for, plan, or cook meals for themselves, Larson, of the University of Minnesota, and her colleagues found. Just 21 percent of young men and 36 percent of young women bought fresh vegetables every week, for example, while 44 percent of the men made a dinner with chicken, fish or vegetables at least once a week.
Larson’s team surveyed 1,710 18- to 23-year-olds about how they shopped for and prepared food. Young adulthood, when many young people move away from home and fend for themselves for the first time, is a key period for building lifetime eating habits, the researchers note in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
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