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Because more is sometimes better, Burger King has just the thing for them: a thicker, more appealing french fry. The new offering will become available on December 5 in 50 locations all across the US, the company says in a press release. Pricing will remain the same. In their constant struggle for customers' aff... |
30 November 2011
16:31 GMT |
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According to the results of a new study, it would appear that fast food habits are not exclusively responsible for the high obesity rates encountered in poor people in the United States. This is a common misconception, the research team explains, but one that is not without merit.
This study is not meant to say tha... |
31 October 2011
04:44 GMT |
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH) were recently able to determine why is it that parents continue to feed their children fast food, even when they know about the adverse side-effects of doing so. The main question the team wanted to answer was whether parents a... |
16 August 2011
08:54 GMT |
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If you ever wanted to eat or wondered how an ice cream sundae with maple syrup would taste like with plenty of crispy bacon in the mix, Denny’s has just the thing for you. The Maple Bacon Sundae is now available for a limited period of time.
The new “treat” was premiered as part of a feast calle... |
28 March 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Things are changing and KFC wants to be on board. With the introduction of new cooking oils and new, healthier items on the menu, the fast food restaurant will also be dropping its famous slogan in UK restaurants. “Finger Lickin’ Good” came to happen by accident in the ‘50s when franchisee Dav... |
21 February 2011
16:41 GMT |
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The world’s biggest coffee chain is making a bold move to shatter competition, having announced the introduction of a new supersized drink. The Trenta cup will become available for certain beverages starting this month. The Trenta is a 31-ounce cup (916 ml), which will only cost $0.50 more than the Venti, the p... |
18 January 2011
14:41 GMT |
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Several years ago, a new rule called for fast food vendors to display nutritional facts about their products on each of them, so as to inform people about the choices they are making, and make them more aware of their health. The public health initiative yielded no tangible results. After a year of surveys, researche... |
18 January 2011
09:41 GMT |
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McDonald’s foodies in the Czech Republic have now the change to get a taste of the American way, thanks to a new offer now available in all Mc’Ds locations: the I ♥ New York line of burgers.As BurgerBusiness reports, this is not the first time that McDonald’s does cultural branding with its p... |
9 December 2010
15:41 GMT |
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A Manhattan artist, Sally Davies, set out in April on a journey to discover what happens to junk food in time if kept in inadequate storage conditions. As it turns out the McDonald’s Happy Meal doesn’t go bad – ever. This experiment is similar to the one conducted by nutritionist Joann Bruso, who ke... |
12 October 2010
14:21 GMT |
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McDonald’s and other giant fast food restaurants have often come under fire for the health risk they present to the general population because of their products. A new television spot targets McDonald’s by showing just how dangerous junk food is. Known as the McDonald’s death ad or the “Conseq... |
17 September 2010
13:11 GMT |
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As fast food restaurants are struggling to come up with new offerings that are both cheaper and more filling than their regular products, Denny’s comes in to join the fun with the Fried Cheese Melt. This new sandwich will go on sale starting August 24 and, as its name suggests, is made of deep fried cheese, pla... |
13 August 2010
17:01 GMT |
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McDonald’s has taken an advert for McFries and turned it into something palpable – literally. In Switzerland, the fast food giant has so-called McFries pedestrian crossings, in what is another instance of intrusive marketing. The moment the photo that also come attached to this article (via here) ended up... |
12 August 2010
04:42 GMT |
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Motivated by the surprising success of KFC’s breadless chicken burger the Double Down and the increasing popularity of McDonald’s off-the-menu McGangBang, Carl’s Jr. is also looking to get a share of the pie that is the jumbo-size sandwiches. Right now, it is testing a cheeseburger called the Footlo... |
13 July 2010
13:31 GMT |
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As the pace of our lives is picking up, even fast food tends to become… well, faster. As if nutritionists and health experts were not having enough trouble trying to fight the fast food industry and the effects it has on consumers’ health and weight, a new food item – that is even faster than food ... |
10 July 2010
09:21 GMT |
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Fast food is taking the rap for countless evils, no matter how hard fast food chains are trying to counter the attacks by releasing “healthy” options as well. A recent study cited by Times Online adds another evil to the very long list: that of making us impatient, by promoting a culture of instant gratif... |
19 April 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Last year, KFC rolled out a brand-new product for testing in two different locations in the US. The gimmick that made this menu special was that it had no bread or bun, its place having been taken by two slices of boneless meat. Clearly, testing went well, because the fast food giant is coming out with the Double Dow... |
7 April 2010
13:41 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that fast food and the cultural effects it produces may be linked to some extent with people growing more and more impatient as the years pass. Since this industry first appeared, as a means of saving time and allowing people to go on about their usual business fas... |
26 March 2010
11:48 GMT |
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A group of experts at the San Francisco State University has recently released a new scientific paper, showing that removing fast food from American schools could help curb the growing trend of obesity among children. Sugary beverages and junk food are considered to be primarily responsible for the wave of overweight... |
2 March 2010
04:50 GMT |
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The issue of the obesity pandemic that is slowly taking over the world has been so strongly emphasized in the US that we have often been misled into believing this was the one country most affected by it. Nevertheless, a new study comes to show that the true “fast-food nation” is actually Bulgaria, and no... |
5 June 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Leading a healthy lifestyle should not be considered by most people to be a burden, or to be a sacrifice that they have to make by refusing to eat junk food and drink all types of soda. A healthy lifestyle is the way to go, and people gorging themselves in fast food restaurant all day long should not be considered th... |
28 May 2009
07:02 GMT |
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A new international investigation, focused on the type of food-related ads that are broadcast in 11 countries, has determined that almost 67 percent of them are about junk food, and also that they are shown at times when children are likely to be watching television. Researchers made the announcement on Friday, and i... |
9 May 2009
03:20 GMT |
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With most of the negative press in terms of healthy eating going to junk food such as pizza, French fries, KFC and McDonald’s, many tend to forget about the ready-made sandwiches we perhaps eat on a daily basis. A new study by Which? has revealed that the levels of salt and saturated fat in these quick lunches ... |
24 April 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Until 10,000 years ago, when humankind invented agriculture, evolution took our ancestors on an uninterrupted journey from primates to two-legged creatures. Once people started cultivating the land, and the hunter-gatherer society disappeared, the natural course of evolution was disrupted, with yet-undetermined conse... |
13 March 2009
11:49 GMT |
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We have often heard that junk food is bad for us, but that rarely stops us from pulling over at one such restaurant for a quick snack on our way to work or when we’re simply not in the mood to cook. With this in mind, Health Magazine set out to find the top 10 healthiest fast food restaurants in the US, to at l... |
5 March 2009
05:32 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study released by US researchers on Thursday, people who live on streets packed with fast food diners and implicitly eat in such establishments more often than others are at a very high risk of suffering from heart strokes. The danger is more than 13 percent higher than that recorded in ... |
20 February 2009
10:56 GMT |
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has resumed its protests against the McDonald's corporation, with its renowned McCruelty campaign, which blames the giant fast-food restaurant chain of killing the animals it uses for its products in inhuman ways, even though alternatives exist. The organization... |
20 February 2009
10:03 GMT |
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Activists managed to persuade Subway to join fast food giants McDonald's, Burger King and Taco Bell in paying an extra cent for each tomato they buy, in order to give workers attending to the fields day and night a fair wage. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, which was behind this success, represents the inter... |
3 December 2008
17:01 GMT |
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Fat, sugar and cholesterol are the three main "ingredients" that cause the brain tangles associated with some forms of dementia, including Alzheimer's. Karolinska Institutet's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center scientist, Susanne Akterin, announced on Friday that mice fed with fast food products for n... |
1 December 2008
05:38 GMT |
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The fact that America has been experiencing a real obesity epidemic over the past few years shouldn't be news to anyone, given the number of statistics that mercilessly point this out. And while other countries, such as Sweden, Finland and Norway, have already taken concrete actions for reducing the number of pe... |
20 November 2008
09:45 GMT |
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The Miami-based corporation announced recently that it would move for the reduction of sodium quantities it currently puts in its foods, especially in meals designed and advertised for children below the age of 12. One of the last fast-food chains to comply with the new health measure set in place by the National Ins... |
20 November 2008
09:09 GMT |
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More or less, it was somewhat common knowledge that corn plays a crucial part in the industry of fast food, in one way or another. And in order to add more solid ground to this belief, a recent research has explored the real basis on which the $100-billion industry resides. The chemical tests performed in restaurants... |
11 November 2008
08:50 GMT |
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