Fast food.

It's cheap, convenient, and predatorily marketed to us when we're

young in the hope that we'll be consumers for life. For many companies, that
strategy has paid off: more than 1 in 3 American adults consume fast food on a
given day, according to the CDC.
But there's a wrinkle in that math. If we eat too much of this stuff, that
frequent consumer's lifespan could be a lot shorter than if he'd eaten more
food unassociated with clowns, colonels, kings, and freckle-faced girls with red
pigtails. Studies have found that the higher the ratio of fast-food restaurants
and convenience stores to grocery stores and produce vendors near home, the
higher the prevalence of obesity and diabetes, which increase your risk of early
death, in those communities