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Fast Food Facts: Effects of Fast Food
Fast food can be a convenient option to satiate your taste buds, but it has hazardous effects on your health. Read more about effects of fast food in this article.

Fatty Foods
Fatty foods or junk food as it is known popularly has several adverse effects on your health. Read on to find out more...

Cheeseburgers
When it comes to cheeseburgers, many people would love to chuck their dietary plans out of the window! Here’s a close look at tempting cheeseburgers and some easy recipes for the same.

Fast Food
Fast-food might seem very delicious and convenient when you decide to grab a bite while in a hurry but it can harm your health in the long run. Read on to find out more...

Fast Food Nutrition Guide
Fast food has become much more popular of late and all over the world the out cry regarding harms of fast foods is on increase. So, here are some fast food nutrition facts and information.

Fast Food Nutrition Facts
This is the fast food era we are living in today. Here is an account of fast food facts, the effects they have on us, and the choices you can make to eat healthy fast foods.

Fast food and Obesity in Children
We all know what causes obesity, and that is eating too much of the wrong kinds of food and not getting enough exercise. Some studies have shown that fast food causes obesity in children. However, the fast food industry claims that their foods do not cause obesity in kids. So, is there a link between fast food and obesity in children?

Man Sues McDonald’s Over ‘Snotty’ Phlegm Booger, er…Burger
An Iowa police officer is suing Mickey D’s after two workers there slimed his burger with a loogey, imitating the "Super Trooper" movie stunt.

Woman Claims She Found a Razor Blade in Her Egg McMuffin
A Florida woman says that she ordered a breakfast sandwich from a McDonald’s drive-through early Wednesday, and when she bit into it her teeth hit metal.

Hardee’s Packs Meat on a Burger that Will Pack on the Pounds
In a country where obesity is threatening the lives of people and padding the pockets of weight-loss clinics and gastric bypass surgeons, fast food giant Hardee’s is doing its part by piling even more meat and calories on its already obscenely caloric burger.

McDonald’s Adds Yet Another Warning to French Fries
Just last week, the worldwide king of fast food announced that its French fries contain 30% more trans fats than they had previously disclosed. Now they’ve admitted that their fries also contain gluten, even though they’ve claimed for years that their fries are free of gluten.

Perpetrators of Wendy’s Chili Finger Fraud Sentenced
Anna Ayala, the woman who claimed she bit down on a severed finger in a bowl of Wendy’s chili last March, was sentenced Wednesday along with her husband, who was her accomplice in planting the finger in the food.

Fast Food Lovers Take Note: The McDonald’s Only Diet Works!
Big Mac lovers around the country have discovered that instead of supersizing fast food, they can use it to reduce their size.

Ronald McDonald Gets An Extreme Makeover
Ronald McDonald, the colorful and goofy mascot that has hawked McDonald’s French fries and shakes for decades has decided to go on a diet.

Finger In Wendy’s Chili Hoax Belonged To Asphalt Worker
The finger Anna Ayala put in her Wendy’s chili to shake down the fast-food giant for selling tainted food has finally been identified as belonging to a man who used to work with her husband.

Another Severed Fast Food Finger Found
The bizarre parade of severed body parts ending up in people’s mouths continued Sunday when a North Carolina man bit down on a human finger in a mouthful of frozen custard.

KFC Resurrecting Old Kentucky Fried Chicken Name, With New Image
After years of trying to downplay consumers’ image of their fried chicken being unhealthy, KFC has decided to turn its name back into Kentucky Fried Chicken, although the return to its original roots is a change in name only.

Wendy’s Accuser Fingered By Police
A woman who claimed she bit down on a cooked human finger in her bowl of Wendy’s chili has been arrested by police for making up the outrageous story to extort money from the fast-food giant.

McDonald’s Celebrates Fifty Years Of Fast Food
April 15th wasn’t just a day to celebrate finishing your tax return before the deadline, it was also a day to celebrate a half century of Big Macs and Quarter Pounders.

Wendy’s Customer Bites into Human Finger in Her Chili
A woman in San Jose, California, was eating dinner at Wendy’s Tuesday night when she bit into a human finger that had been cooked in her chili.

Lose Belly Fat and Get Ripped Abs Eating Junk Food
Want a ripped six pack but don’t have the willpower to stick to those tough diets? Good news is, you can in fact lose fat and get ripped eating whatever you want, including junk food.

What's in the Big Apple?
The owners of New York's fast food joints are feeling queasy over legal pressure to reveal how many calories go into their meals

The Many Things To Be Said About Having A Beer Belly Are Not Complimentary
If there are two things that go together in life, it’s definitely not sugar and spice. Hands down it has to be beer and a beer belly, because there’s no denying it, if you love your beer you will have a beer belly, even if it is a wee small sagging gut and not a beer belly of legendary proportions.

How Little Known Subway Nutrition Facts Can Benefit You
Facts would imply that it is very common these days to quickly eat a meal while driving from one place to another. Families often eat separately, fitting their eating time between various activities. The easiest and quickest foods to prepare tend to be high-fat fast foods and this is causing more and more obesity in the United States. This article will explore the subway nutrition facts and how they can help. . .

Cracker Jacks
To go back in time, while yet here, and double the Cracker Jacks, experience!

What's in the Big Apple?
The owners of New York's fast food joints are feeling queasy over legal pressure to reveal how many calories go into their meals

What's in the Big Apple?
On America: The owners of New York's fast food joints are feeling queasy over legal pressure to reveal how many calories go into their meals. By Andrew Clark.

Health Fears As Japan Falls for Fast Food
Japan, the home of sushi, seaweed cuisine and the world's longest life expectancy, is rearing a generation of young sugar addicts who are destined to spend their adolescence fighting obesity and acne, according to a report that paints a devastating picture of the country's health crisis.

Why you can’t count on the FCC to control the smut on TV
Many people look to the FCC to keep smut off of their TV’s, to stop "wardrobe malfunctions," to force the cable companies to offer a la carte programming, and regulate junk food commercials for kids. The ongoing scandal suggests people's faith in the agency is grossly misplaced.

Happiness Sells!
In the small city where I shop and do business, we have a fast-food alley with a McDonald’s and a Wendy’s side by side.

Healthy Fast Food Options
You don't have to sabotage your diet just because you're on the run. In fact, most fast food chains have added healthier options to their menus in just the past few years. Here are some of the healthier options you can choose from.

Fast and Healthy Food
Fast food is part of our society but unhealthy fast food shouldn't be.

Fast Food Feeding
We are seeing more obesity in children at younger ages. The rise in childhood obesity has been steadily climbing in recent years.

San Jose Schools Changes School Nutrition and Limits Junk Food
Following in the footsteps of both federal and state trends to limit junk food and provide better nutrition to students, San Jose Schools will implement new some changes starting in September 2006. These changes may appear sudden but actually is part of a long term goal for improving student nutrition.

The Dog Food You Feed May be Linked To Behavior
Find out how food can effect your dog's behavior. We all know the dangers of eating junk food or living on a diet of foods that are processed.

Research Shows a Direct Link Between Junk Food and Violent Behaviour
Research shows a direct link between junk food and violent behaviour. But governments are in cahoots with the industry. By George Monbiot

Eric Schlosser, Author of Fast Food Nation
Saturday Interview: Five years ago, Eric Schlosser changed the way we ate with Fast Food Nation. Now he's served up a second helping, and faces a fresh onslaught from critics.

The 7,000km Journey That Links Amazon Destruction to Fast Food
· Farmers illegally seize virgin land for soya crops · Export chain ends in big fast food outlets in UK

The Original Fast Food Diet
Fresh raw fruits and vegetables have live enzymes in them which help to heal, cleanse, & revitalize us. The live enzymes that are in the raw foods that we should consume every day are like soap to our insides.

Eating Healthy in a Fast Food World
It is possible to still eat healthy in this fast food world of ours, and here are a couple pointers.

US Consumers Sue Over Children's Ads
US consumer groups are to sue the network behind SpongeBob SquarePants, Viacom, and food company Kellogg's for promoting junk food to children. By Stephen Brook.

Why Fast Food Companies Must Be Help Accountable for Their Ingredients
Lynn VanDyke delivers a powerful look into America’s fast food culture. She explains why fast food companies must be held accountable for disclosing their ingredients for each and every product.

The Obesity Epidemic: Blame Junk food or Blame the Parents!
People are getting more and more lazy and does not concentrate on their health.

Americans shrinking as junk food takes its toll
Poverty and poor diet mean the average US man is getting smaller, while Europeans keep growing taller.

Lawsuits frighten Kraft into fighting flab
Kraft Foods, the world's biggest maker of processed foods, said yesterday that it would shrink its ready-made meals and snacks to help combat the obesity epidemic.

Chirac: I Love the Us, Especially Its Junk Food
President Jacques Chirac, a man so partial to good grub that he once sent an Elysée palace sous-chef to Spain to learn how to make a decent oxtail soup, yesterday admitted that he had a soft spot for American junk food. Savaged across the Atlantic for his opposition to the US march...

Junk Food - the New Tobacco
The fast food industry could soon be viewed in the same light as the tobacco industry, writes Felicity Lawrence.

Junk Food Firms Fear Fat Litigants
A $50m class-action lawsuit launched against a US food manufacturer has created concerns in the food and restaurant business that obese Americans could now seek damages for being overweight.

Sprinter warms to new diet
An Aga stove, a sense of failure and words of encouragement from Olympic champions past and present are set to fuel Mark Lewis-Francis's quest for glory in 2002. The teenager has cut out the junk food he loves so much. He has been helped in this regard by the sponsors of his club,...

Flab beats fab
I 'll confess it: I'm hooked on Pop Idol. Like admitting an addiction to junk food or a paid subscription to heat , this is probably not a boast to make in polite company, but there it is. In fact, I'll go further. I am not a mere viewer of the ITV show, but a devotee, a committed partisan...