Texas and Oklahoma have made the list for the 10 states who eat too much fast food
If you're like most Americans, you probably eat fast food.
Don't believe it? Well, in 2010, Health.com says we spent $165 billion on the delicious, sometimes greasy (ahh), fast food.
Yes, $165 BILLION.
That's a lot of cheeseburgers, chicken strips and tasty fries. For Texas and Oklahoma, you better believe we are in the top 10 states for fast food consumption.
In Texas, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso and Corpus Christi were named to the top 10 in Men's Health's annual list of the "fattest" U.S. Cities. Additionally, 20 percent of all 10- to 17-year-olds in Texas are obese.
"About half of Texas children grow up in low-income households, where cheap but satiating junk food might be all that fits the family budget," the CEO of an advocacy group noted in 2010.
In Oklahoma, more than half of all restaurants serve fast food. Sonic, which was founded in Oklahoma, accounts for 271 locations. An average of 58 cents of every restaurant dollar is spent on fast food, according to health.com.
Fortune Magazine named Oklahoma City the fast food capital of America in 2007. Market research shows that 55 percent of OKC's residents went to a fast food restaurant at least 12 times in the previous month.
The top 10 states were chosen by using government data on the percentage of restaurants in each state that serves fast food.
