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The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food companies. Nestlé was in attendance, as were Kraft and Nabisco, General Mills and Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and Mars. Rivals any other day, the C.E.O.’s and company presidents had come together for a rare, private meeting. On the agenda was one item...
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Restaurant food not much healthier than fast food
Researchers found that eating food from restaurants - whether from fast food places, or better establishments - led to increases in calories, fat and sodium compared to meals made at home. Public health interventions targeting dining-out behavior in general, rather than just fast food, may be warranted to improve the way Americans’ eat, says the study’s author. Ruopeng An, a professor of kinesiology and community health at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, noted that people have previously equated fast food with junk food.
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Restaurant food not much healthier than fast food
Home cooking is still the best way to control the calories, fat, sugar and other nutrients that families consume, a new U.S. study suggests. Researchers found that eating food from restaurants - whether from fast food places, or better establishments - led to increases in calories, fat and sodium compared to meals made at home.
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Scientific experts: Sugar intake 'should be halved'
A committee of scientists has advised the government to halve the current recommended daily intake of sugar. Nutrition experts say no more than 5% of daily calories should come from added sugar - about seven teaspoons. Most people consume at least twice this limit. The government has said it will accept the recommendations and will use them to develop its national strategy on childhood obesity, which is due out later this year.
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The Best Burger In America
Which restaurant chain serves the most delicious burger in America? We've collected 32 contenders from across the U.S.—eight each from the East Coast, West Coast, South, and Midwest. Can a newcomer like Umami Burger beat a classic like Hardee's? Will Wendy's sliders overtake the Big Mac? We'll find out.
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Top 10 Toxic Ingredients Used By McDonald’s
McDonald’s has a very complicated brand image: entirely unhealthy, yet an affordable option that is almost universally available. McDonald’s isn’t a place we go to get our nutritional needs met, and with most research connecting our Western/fast food diet directly to various diseases, such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease, one begins to wonder why this company continues to serve billions and billions. Availability is a key to McDonald’s worldwide success.
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Now You Can Get Table Service at McDonald's
McDonald’s is experimenting with offering table service at some U.S. locations in a effort to revamp its fast-food image and boost lagging sales. Table service is already taking off Australia, Germany and France and seems to be popular with guests, so McDonald’s is rolling it out in 50 U.S. locations, CNNMoney reports. Visitors order their meals at electronic kiosks, then go to a table to wait for their meal to be brought to them.
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Fried, fatty food in Southern diet bad for heart, study confirms
A new study confirms that a typically Southern diet, loaded with fried and fatty foods, is bad for the heart. Researchers from the University of Alabama looked at the diets of 17,000 people over 45. They found that those who loaded up on fried and fatty foods, processed meats and sugary drinks faced a higher risk of a heart attack or heart-related death within six years.
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Divine Southern Pimento Cheese Spread In 5 Easy Steps
Pimento cheese is the ultimate Southern junk food. But unlike most junk food, pimento cheese at its best is a homemade affair.
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Iran's supreme leader is not happy about this McDonald's knockoff in Tehran
The supreme leader of Iran went off about American influence in his country, saying that even with a newly struck nuclear deal, they will "block all attempts of penetration of Iran." Much of the concern seems to revolve around American culture seeping into Iran — like the knockoff fast food restaurants that have popped up in the country.
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This is a terrible sign for McDonald’s
On Tuesday, McDonald's announced it is planning to close 184 restaurants across the United States this year, 59 more than it is planning to open.
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How Giving Up Refined Sugar Changed My Brain
I have a love-hate relationship with food. I love it; it generally hates me. Matter of fact, I love food so much that until a few years ago, I was extremely overweight. So overweight that I invented a piece of health tech to help me lose 80 pounds. It worked, and since then I’ve remained a healthy weight primarily by making sure I count my calories, don’t overeat, and get regular exercise.
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Jamie Oliver Is Right: It’s Madness Not to Clamp Down on Sugar
The food crusader’s campaign is much needed. We’re addicted to the sweet stuff and it’s killing us.
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Broken down into its ingredients, a Chicken McNugget is strangely beautiful
You may be surprised where food additives come from—and what they look like.
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McDonald's ignores BK 'peace burger,' launches campaign to help refugees
Have to get them hooked young and first!
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Caffeinated peanut butter just made lunch more interesting
Some people will horde caffeine in any form.
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Put a Bow on It
This week we go into the room at the headquarters of fast food chain Hardee's with the people who decided that this burger with beef, hot dogs, and chips is what America should be eating. We'll hear the story of how they sold that burger and other instances where how you tell the story is more important than the literal facts.
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Over Half of Food Industry Workers Admit to Working While Sick
Not the folks you want sneezing on the job. A survey conducted by the Center for Research and Public Policy for Alchemy Systems found that the majority of food industry workers continue to go to work when they’re sick, Tech Times reports. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median wage for food industry workers as of May 2014 was $19,560. For many of them, missing work could be too costly.
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People Who Live Alone Have Pretty Terrible Diets
We’ve been seeing a steady stream of studies examining the health problems that can arise from living alone; a study from 2013 found a higher mortality rate, for example. New research from the Queensland Institute of Technology in Australia takes a more granular look at a subject that’s of special interest to us: the diets of the solitary. And the findings aren’t good.
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In-N-Out Sues Startup DoorDash to Block Delivery of Its Burgers
Popular West Coast burger chain In-N-Out has filed a lawsuit against delivery startup DoorDash for delivering its burgers, claiming it has asked the service repeatedly to cease selling its dishes. "We have asked DoorDash several times to stop using our trademarks and to stop selling our food," the restaurant's general counsel, Arnie Wensinger, told CNBC in an email. "Unfortunately, they have continued to prominently use our trademarks and serve our food to customers...
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