14 DAY TRIAL // This might sound like an excuse to go to restaurant alone, without having to take your little ones with you, but a new study has shown that children who eat more of their meals outside the home are more vulnerable to high blood pressure, poor cholesterol scores and other risk factors for cardiovascular disease, as healthcentral.com announced.
"This confirms, once again, that when we eat out, we lose control over nutrients", Dr. Lawrence Appel, professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said.
The scientists are saying that eating outdoors is not the only factor that affects your health and that the home environment also has a negative potential.
"When you eat out, you do worse, but the home environment is not ideal either", Lawrence Appel declared.
A combination of poor eating habits, inside and outside the home, dramatically increases the prospect of big health problems later in life, he outlined.
The study has involved two groups of students: one who ate out four or more times a week, and another one, who ate out less than four times each week.
The persons in the dining-out group had higher blood pressure, lower insulin sensitivity, lower HDL. Their diet had higher levels of starch, sugar, sodium, fat and cholesterol.