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Fast Food Industry

Why Choose Health When You Can Have Dinner in a Bucket?

Christina Pirello | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Mcdonalds, Fast Food, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Kfc, Dunkin' Donuts, Fast Food Industry, The China Study, Living News
Christina Pirello

Ninety percent of all the 'lifestyle diseases' (stroke, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, some cancers) that plague us are preventable if we just take a minute and think about what we put in our mouths.

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Why It's So Hard Not To Be Fat

Christina Pirello | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Fat, Weight Loss, Sugar, Pesticides, Fast Food, American Diet, Prevention-Magazine, Steroids, Weight Loss Tips, Herbicides, Fast Food Industry, Weight, 1950s, Papa-Johnss-Pizza, Salt, Wendy's, McDonald's, Marketing, Processed Food, Losing Weight, Food Marketing, 1950s-Housewife, Canned Foods, Growth Hormones, Weight Gain, Blackberry Addiction, Pollan Food, Food Labels, Weight Control, Michael Pollan, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Health, Real Food, Toxic Waste, Consumer Protection, Heart Attack, Living News
Christina Pirello

Fat, sugar and salt; the triple threat to our waistlines... and health. Mere decades ago, the food industry made a conscious choice to seduce the Amer...

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You Are What You Eat: Food Inc. Brings Food to the Forefront

Tracy Hepler | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Matters, Gmos, You Are What You Eat, Food Inc., Factory Farms, Fast Food Nation, Alice Waters, Fast Food Industry, Monsanto, Green News
Tracy Hepler

Looking at today's society it seems clear that when it comes to our food and nutrition, our priorities are out of whack. We need a wake up call and Food, Inc. is just that.

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McDonald's China Expansion: 500 Stores Over Three Years

Reuters | Fang Yan and Hongwei Li | Posted 03.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Fast Food, Mcdonalds China, China Fast Food, McDonald's, Fast Food Industry, Mcdonalds, Business News

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp (MCD.N), the world's largest fast-food chain, is optimistic about business prospects in China and plans to open a...

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Every Monday Matters: No Fast Food, The Billion Dollar Killer

Matthew Emerzian and Kelly Bozza | Posted 01.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Fast Food Industry, The Giving Life, Fast Food, Every Monday Matters, Living News
Matthew Emerzian and Kelly Bozza

With each fast-food feast, you significantly increase you carbohydrate and fat intake, as well as your calorie count. It's time to make your health more important.

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Toronto's Great Coffee Cup Debate Heats Up

Graham Hill | Posted 04.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Packaging, Sustainable Packaging, Fast Food Industry, Plastic Bag Ban, Plastic Bags, Green News
Graham Hill

Toronto has a beloved coffee chain, Tim Hortons. It also has a group of City Council public works committee members working hard to reduce fast-food p...

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LA Bans New Fast Food Outlets In Poor Areas

Los Angeles Times | Molly Hennessy-Fiske and David Zahniser | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Food, Fast Food Poverty, LA Fast Food Ban, Fast Food Industry, Fast Food, Business News

A law that would bar new fast-food restaurants from opening in South Los Angeles for at least a year sailed through the Los Angeles City Council on Tu...

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Eating Well is a Revolutionary Act

Dr. Jonny Bowden | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Childhood Obesity, Slow Food, Food, Poverty, Obesity, Diet, Health, Fast Food, Soda, War on Drugs, Fast Food Industry, Politics News
Dr. Jonny Bowden

To really get "serious" in the war on obesity is a revolutionary act. The bad actors are the very folks who hold the GDP in their hot little corporate hands.

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Time for Fast Food Companies to Move Faster on Climate

Wood Turner | Posted 07.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Environment, Fast Food Industry, Fast Food, Business News
Wood Turner

Unfortunately, the cost of that now almost 80-year embrace with the drive-thru far exceeds what consumers can buy from the value menu.

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