Nation IN BRIEF: LOUISIANA : Kids Head for Wrong Potatoes, Study Finds

Kids aren’t fat just because they’re couch potatoes, but because they stuff themselves with mountains of potatoes cooked the least healthy way, a Baton Rouge, La., researcher says. Potato chips and French fries make up more than one-quarter of the vegetable servings eaten by children, and nearly one-third of the vegetables eaten by teenagers, according to a survey compiled by Catherine Champagne of Louisiana State University’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center. “It just sort of confirmed what I suspected--that for some people, the only way they get vegetables might be in this form. And that’s really sad,” she said.