Consuming Fast Food: The perceptions and practices of middle class young teenagers.

Wendy J. Wills; Kathryn Backett-Milburn; Julia Lawton; Mei-Li Roberts

doi:10.1007/978-0-230-24497-9

Consuming Fast Food: The perceptions and practices of middle class young teenagers.

Wendy J. Wills, Kathryn Backett-Milburn, Julia Lawton, Mei-Li Roberts

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Abstract

Children in the United Kingdom are widely believed to be consuming fast food in vast quantities with little thought for their own health or weight. Enter ‘teenagers’ and ‘fast food’ into any internet search engine and you will discover literally millions of web-based stories and sites focusing on addictions to fast food, guides alerting young people to the poor nutritional quality of such food, food scares affecting fast food-eating teenagers and so on. In 2008, the Daily Mail, a British tabloid newspaper, reported that the police were using burgers and stuffed crust pizza to bribe teenagers to improve their behaviour (Daily Mail 2008), thus linking the popular obsessions of junk-fuelled diets with problem youth.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Children, Food and Identity in Everyday Life.
Editors	Allison James, Anne Trine Kjørholt, Vebjørg Tingstad
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Pages	52-68
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	978-0-230-24497-9
ISBN (Print)	978-1-349-36596-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-24497-9
Publication status	Published - 2009

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Children, Food and Identity in Everyday Life.. ed. / Allison James; Anne Trine Kjørholt; Vebjørg Tingstad. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. p. 52-68.

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