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• A new study in Canada's Ontario Province found that death rates in areas with the highest concentration of quick-service restaurants were twice as high as those in places with fewer fast food outlets, local press reportedThursday.
• The study found that heart attack hospitalization rates were about 11.5 times higher in the areas with high density of quick service restuarants.A high-density region was considered to have 20 or more eateries per 100,000 population.
• "We've found an important link between the number of fast-food outlets in a region and the rate of heart disease and mortality inthat region," said Dr. David Alter, lead author of the study by Canada's Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences (ICES).
• The study also looked at differences based on socioeconomic status, but the association between fast-food density and poor health outcomes held fast, Alter said.
• "It was the same whether these were affluent communities or impoverished communities."
• Stephen Samis, director of health policy for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, agreed on the importance of continuing to remind Canadians to eat a healthy and balanced diet.
• However, the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association called the research flawed and misleading.

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