People eating at restaurants are more likely to report stomach illnesses than people who eat home-cooked meals, Knight Ridder reports.
Results of a survey – presented in Atlanta – found that “those who had eaten food prepared outside their homes in the prior week were 38 percent more likely to say they had contracted some kind of gastrointestinal illness than people who had relied solely on their own kitchens.”
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologists and seven state health agencies performed the survey on 14,059 people.
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