Similarly, burgers were reported
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among popular choices for American college students at
fast food restaurants (31). As expected, carbonated soft
drinks were the main beverages usually consumed with
fast food meals by Saudi girls. This finding agreed with
previous studies. Driskell et al. (31) found that carbonated
soda has been reported to be the most frequently
ordered beverage with fast food meals by female college
students. Bowman (32) reported that fast food restaurants
provided 25% of the carbonated soda consumed by adolescent
girls. In Saudi Arabia, Al-Hazzaa et al. (28) revealed
that about 60% of Saudi adolescent girls consumed
sugar-sweetened drinks more than 3 days per week, and
31% of girls consumed them on a daily basis.