Americans cutting calorie intake but junk food proves a hard habit to kick

• The drop in calories is greater for children than for adults
  
• Findings a first step in obesity fight as improving nutrition is a long battle

Americans have for the first time in decades cut their calorie intake, but are still eating a diet that is largely made up of junk food and doing very serious damage to their health, say experts.

The downturn in calorie intake is not so much a watershed in the fight against obesity as a first step down a long and hard road to better nutrition, according to Barry Popkin, professor of public health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, whose latest research paper flagged up the shift.

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