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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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