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First, it was the cheese stuffed crust and the crust made of garlic bread. Now, Pizza Hut offers all pizza lovers a new treat – and it's hot dog flavored. Sadly, the new variant is only available in the UK. Neither does Pizza Hut plan on releasing it in other territories, since this is a limited edition v... |
11 April 2012
15:21 GMT |
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A group of researchers from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the University of Granada say that eating fast food can make people depressed. Their investigation finally links the two together, even though researchers have suspected this was the case for quite some time now.
While eating junk food wil... |
2 April 2012
08:03 GMT |
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One woman from the UK, 43-year-old mother of 6 Sara Agintas, believes taxpayers should pay for her gastric bypass surgery because she wants to be slim again, to be able to go on vacation like before. She's been gorging on junk food for years. In a new interview with the latest print issue of Closer magazine (q... |
28 March 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Easter is almost here, which means that many are already thinking about the delicious lamb dishes they will be enjoying. Burger King is also thinking about that, so it's just introduced the Lamb Flatbread Burger.
Available only for a limited time and only in the UK, the new burger is every meat lover's wi... |
27 March 2012
16:21 GMT |
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As one dietitian puts it, since nothing beats sweating your way through an 8-pound (3.6 kg) mountain of beef, cheese and bread while watching athletes at work, the Washington Nationals have introduced the StrasBurger, which they describe as a “monstrosity” for the entire family.
In a statement released t... |
14 March 2012
14:51 GMT |
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The Heart Attack Grill is a junk food restaurant in Las Vegas that takes so much pride in serving clients very unhealthy food that it's turned it into its trademark. In what must be a case of ultimate irony, one man had a heart attack while eating one of the most calorie-laden burgers.
The establishment is run... |
17 February 2012
13:31 GMT |
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A common misconception is that diets are automatically more expensive than eating “regular” food, which more often than not, is junk food. A new research shows that families can in fact save money by choosing to eat healthy.
Published in the latest issue of the esteemed British Journal of General Practi... |
16 December 2011
07:52 GMT |
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Assuming you'd ever want to get in your car and drive until you no longer see a McDonald's restaurant, you'd probably have to go abroad if you happen to live in the US or the UK, as HelaBlog brings to attention once more.Two years ago, Data Pointed set out to illustrate (literally) how consumerism was ... |
10 November 2011
15:41 GMT |
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Some people would rather die than gain a few pounds, while others can't seem to find in them the motivation they need to lose weight. Part-time personal trainer Drew Manning is somewhere in the middle, but his experiment will help him understand both sides.
Because he's never been anything but healthy and... |
20 October 2011
15:51 GMT |
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One of the reasons that lie behind the ever-increasing rates of overweight and obesity are bad eating habits. A recent study reveals that people won’t stop eating even when the food has a bad taste, and also proposes one way to fight this habit.Mindless eating has been identified as a serious problem in today&r... |
26 September 2011
03:15 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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Since she’s so petite, every extra pound counts. Snooki, the diminutive hellraiser from MTV’s hit reality show Jersey Shore, has been losing the extra weight – and it’s all down to cutting down on alcohol and junk food, she says.
After taking to her Twitter to boast about her slimmer, more ... |
26 April 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Britney Spears is about to embark on a brand new tour to promote her recently released album, “Femme Fatale.” Because she’s determined to make it her best live show so far, she’s already set a few, very important ground rules as regards food.
For starters, she’s banned junk food and ... |
26 April 2011
14:51 GMT |
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If you’re a fan of bacon and ever wondered what it would be like if you could breathe in bacon instead of eating it, wonder no more. J&D’s Foods did that before you, which is why it’s now proud to present to the world the little wonder called BaconAir. BaconAir is basically a can of air with bacon f... |
4 April 2011
14:01 GMT |
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It’s hard to imagine that Vanessa Hudgens was once addicted to junk food, especially judging by her insanely toned tummy on the cover of Shape magazine, yet this was the case back in 2007, she says for the publication. Back in the day when she was still working on the insanely successful Disney franchise &ldquo... |
15 March 2011
17:31 GMT |
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If you thought the McGangBang, the famous, off-the-menu sandwich made of a McChicken sandwiched in a cheeseburger, was a lot to take in – literally – meet the Titanic. This monster burger packs over 4,000 calories, weighs over 2 pounds and is 11in tall.The Titanic was introduced in Oscar’s Diner fro... |
28 January 2011
15:51 GMT |
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One McDonald’s location in Leyland, England has a new security rule: after 7 p.m, all under-eighteens wearing tracksuits will not be served food and will be asked to leave the premises. Scott Wilson learned that the hard way.The 16-year-old boy is telling the British media that he went to McD’s for some t... |
28 January 2011
14:51 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 new study by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the World Health Organization comes to reveal that the only way to effectively cut obesity rates in the UK is to apply the so-called “fat tax.”This would mean, of course, putting junk food on par with cigarettes and alcohol, whi... |
12 November 2010
16:21 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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McDonald’s has often come under fire for its products, beverages or attitude towards public health. This time, it’s for its toys in Happy Meals that it’s being criticized because it’s a campaign that targets children directly, luring them to junk food and unhealthy eating patterns, the Center ... |
23 June 2010
16:41 GMT |
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As of late, a sandwich that, until not long ago, did not even appear on the McDonald’s menu, has started to garner more and more attention. The McGangBang was first named in a 2006 entry in the Urban Dictionary, where it was described as a McChicken sandwich sandwiched between the halves of a double cheeseburge... |
12 June 2010
10:31 GMT |
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They often say that chocolate and other sweet treats are called guilty pleasures because the better they taste, the more calories they have. In the case of a milkshake available in California, called Cold Stone PB&C, packing no less than 2,010 calories, that doesn’t even matter, for it is officially the unhealt... |
26 May 2010
16:31 GMT |
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Earlier this year, Kentucky Fried Chicken announced it would be coming out with a sandwich that contained no bread, in what was labeled a revolutionary move on the part of the company. Made of two pieces of chicken with bacon, cheese and the Colonel’s Sauce, the new offer was initially meant to be a limited edi... |
23 May 2010
03:27 GMT |
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Socialite extraordinaire, television personality, singer, actress and fashionista Paris Hilton has always been a lean girl. She often attributed her enviable figure to her hectic work schedule and very good genes, which allowed her to basically eat whatever she desired, no matter the time of day. Paris is now slimmer... |
13 May 2010
14:31 GMT |
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Earlier this month, KFC proudly announced that, on the 12th, it would introduce a sandwich that had been tested in two separate locations about a year back, called the Double Down. This breadless bacon sandwich was hailed by KFC as a revolution in the fast-food industry, while health experts lamented what it would do... |
27 April 2010
16:31 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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Nutritionists have for a long time been drawing attention to the fact that overeating is one of the main drivers of obesity. People who do not know when to stop nibbling on various types of sodas and snacks, and who continue eating even after their stomach is full, are at a much higher risk of developing the conditio... |
29 March 2010
05:57 GMT |
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This story could easily be titled “The Power of Preservatives” or “Don’t Feed Your Kids Poison,” it’s being said. One nutritionist and blogger, Joann Bruso, has set for herself the task of seeing how McDonald’s food goes bad and bought a Happy Meal precisely for the purpose. ... |
19 March 2010
15:41 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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Jamie Oliver, the internationally famous British chef who, in a past show, attempted to tackle the issue of childhood obesity, has hit a dead end as he’s shooting for the upcoming ABC show Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution in Huntington, West Virginia. After several “warnings” from the local medi... |
19 January 2010
13:21 GMT |
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Keisha Buchanan, the only original member of the Sugababes, had some problems with her yo-yo-ing weight at one point, but she has finally found a way to a flat stomach and she didn’t even have to go to the gym for it. Cutting out KFC junk food and crisps, two of Keisha’s favorites, has helped her get in p... |
10 September 2009
15:31 GMT |
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We’ve been told that fast food is not good for us so many times that we often tend to cringe just when we think of it, despite craving it on more occasions than we would like to admit to ourselves. Still, staying healthy does not necessarily mean steering clear of the so-called junk food altogether, experts say... |
2 June 2009
15:21 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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A 24-year-old British woman, the fattest mother of triplets ever, has come again to the attention of the media for admitting that she feeds her kids junk food – and has been doing so ever since they were as young as six-month-old. Yet, Leanne Salt sees no problem in doing so, and insists her babies are healthy,... |
29 April 2009
14:51 GMT |
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The alarming rate of obesity in children has become a widespread issue, often attributed to unhealthy eating habits, combined with an increased consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks. While this still holds true, a new study comes to show that fast food is also directly linked to happiness in children, as physorg info... |
15 April 2009
16:31 GMT |
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While junk food represents a serious danger to the health of all of us, perhaps it’s children who are the most exposed to it and to its negative effects. This is also the main approach of a new series of ads to be launched in the UK, targeting not the children who can’t stop eating junk food, but the pare... |
29 December 2008
04:10 GMT |
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In the modern era, our society has been confronted with a variety of terrible epidemics, ranging from AIDS and mad cow disease to Ebola and the infamous bird 'flu. We seem to have found antidotes for the oldest demons that have been plaguing us for centuries, only to find that new, more powerful such afflictions... |
17 May 2008
04:27 GMT |
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Of all the people in the world, the Jolie-Pitts would be the ones we'd least expect to keep their growing brood on a junk food diet, however, that really seems to be the case. No idea why everyone automatically assumes celebrity kids have better diets than the ones whose parents are not fame-seeking millionaires... |
16 April 2008
06:15 GMT |
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There are people who would like to ban any and every video game there is in this world and totally wipe them out of our memory. Others have problems regarding the violent ones, while certain groups focus their efforts on different items/features within the video games. And things are not likely to change.So, a new ba... |
23 January 2008
10:41 GMT |
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