Tag: fast food

Check out this video report on fast food chains. The authors of this story seem shocked that the fast food stores they visited did not PUSH healthy food choices on them. This is kind of silly. The restaurant is not going to work against themselves, they want to serve...

How bad must they be? Really, how bad MUST they be before Burger King removes their own chicken tenders because, “the quality of the product was too poor to serve to its customers”. But was it flavor, or safety? BK also teased with the curious statement: “Food safety at...

Is this good policy, or just intrusive? The government inspects your meat to make sure meat from those “downer” cow beef doesn’t get into your kids. The government also makes food products put their ingredients on the labels. These two ideas are pretty universally accepted. And now the new...

This story show that Americans are never more than 107 miles from a mcDonalds. A McDonald’s Is Never More Than 107 Miles away How close are we to a farmers market? My guess is that it’s further. I wonder why we have such drastic health problems … Maybe it’s...

It turns out that the three most important aspects of purchasing a new home, can also impact your weight! This article in the NYTimes indicates that ninth graders whose schools are within a block of a fast-food outlet are more likely to be obese than students whose schools are...

Here’s the question: Should we look at legislating junk food advertisments aimed at kids? I understand regulation of cigarette ads to children, because nicotene is addictive and tobacco is lethal … a terrible combination that mystifies anyone who asks, “and WHY is a lethal addictive carcinogen on the market...

Fast food + nearby schools = fat kids We can wring our hands about WHY this is true — whether it’s the loss of recess or addition of too many video games, but the bottom line is this: youth who study just a short walk from a fast-food outlet...

Data glut. Information overload. Knowing more and more about less and less. Isn’t this how it feels when you look at the encyclopedic information on the back of a food label? It’s not helpful … but we have to do something. Our problem with Overweight and Obesity threatens to...

What is the significance when Fast Food giant McDonalds decides to go trans-fat free? According to this report, McDonalds is responding to public pressure to improve its image. As the most salient smiling image of unhealthy food, they fight the reputation of contributing to our nation weight and health...