Pasta and pizza win again! Just days after taking the cake as the world's first- and second-favorite foods, the two Italian-cum-American dishes have l...
Burger King has officially added the Jalapeno and Cheddar BK Stuffed Steakhouse Burger to its menu. Unfortunately, an unrelated article dampened my enthusiasm last week.
While McDonald's intentions may be admirable, it's going to take a lot more than a bunch of drought-tolerant plants to convince us that we are buying a product from a company that's really interested in sustainable food production.
McDonald's seems to be trying to re-position itself with changes in the menu and ads featuring what could only be imagined as cultured, urban, hip women getting together to eat a healthy meal at the restaurant. But it won't work.
Restaurant owners must lead the way if we are to change the way we raise cattle and serve meat. I'd encourage restaurants to offer the genuine product and then advertise the hell out of it.
According to Harvard Medical School researchers, 11 large companies that offer life, disability, or health insurance owned about $1.9 billion in stock...
Behold, the KFC Double Down sandwich. It is, if you really want to know, two slabs of fried chicken intersliced with two pieces of bacon, two slabs of cheese, and the Colonel's "special sauce."
As an alternative to McDonald's popular Happy Meals for children, the fast-food giant is introducing a new line of Sad Meals, for adults whose lives...
My wife and I have a five month old baby and last night, he decided to cry for a couple of hours right around the time we were going to grill some sal...
If capitalism is a virtue, fat people are saintly. The obese are good consumers. So, stop blaming fat people for doing what companies have urged them to do.
As you may have heard, the U.S. economy is predominantly a "service economy." Which means, for better or worse, a large percentage of Americans have b...
I cheered when I learned of First Lady Michelle Obama's new initiative, Let's Move, aimed at the mounting epidemic of childhood obesity. It's a breakthrough for government to address obesity's systemic causes.
Here at HuffPost Green, we think that fast food often embodies what's wrong with how America eats: it's fast, cheap, and easy. Today's concerns about ...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.