Study: LA Fast Food Ban Won’t Cut Obesity Rates

Los Angeles, CA (AHN) – Restrictions on fast food restaurants in Los Angeles, Calif. are unlikely to cut obesity rates among residents living there, according to a new study.

Researchers from RAND Health said in a statement, that South Los Angeles doesn’t have more fast food restaurants on a per-capita basis than other regions of the U.S., but it does have more small food stores and other food outlets that affect people’s diets.

The Los Angeles City Council in 2008 approved a ban on opening or expanding fast-food restaurants in the South LA area. But the RAND researchers said there were actually more of these types of establishments in more affluent areas of LA that had lower obesity rates.

But the researchers said there are many more small food stores that sell snack food, which may be more of a factor in obesity in the area than .

The study appears in the journal Health Affairs.

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