The chart below shows how frequently people in the USA ate at fast-food shops between 2003 and 201

The diagram outlines the frequency of having fast

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meals by

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at restaurants from 2003 to 2013. Generally speaking, almost half of

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ate fast

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in a bistro either once or more than a few times a week between 2003 and 2013. It is worth noticing that more

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chose not to eat junk

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as frequently as they used to do so in the past. As the diagram suggests, almost one

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twenty

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ate junk

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daily at a restaurant in 2003

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rate slightly decreased over the period. Interestingly around the same percentage of US citizens never ate at

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restaurants, as the data suggests. Again, around 17% of

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ate at fast-

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eateries several times a week and the ratio of

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people increased in 2006 before it dropped to just over 15% in 2013. Many

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preferred eating fast

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once a week and they constituted almost

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. Their ratio,

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percentages over time. A similar percentage of

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had fast

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meals once

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a month and their ratio went higher. People who rarely dined at a fast-

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café accounted for around 15% of the total. The increase in the

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two categories suggests that many

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who more frequently ate at fast

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shops had stopped doing so after a decade