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Fast food facts.(Goodnews: essential natural health news)(Brief Article)
If you've been looking for nutrition information on fast food, three recent developments will give you reason to cheer.
First, a new bill that would require many restaurants to include nutrition info on their menus was introduced in Congress on November 5, 2003. Second, a similar bill will be introduced in the Senate. And finally, the Food and Drug Administration is weighing similar proposals that would serve up food figures.
The labels would be far less detailed than information boxes now found on packaged food. But visitors to McDonald's or Wendy's could soon see calories listed on menu boards above cashiers' heads. And customers at sit-down restaurants such as Denny's or Applebee's may see menus that reveal saturated plus trans fats, and carbohydrate and sodium ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 12, 1995 700+ words
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- News wire article from: AScribe Medicine News Service January 5, 2004 700+ words
...day when children eat fast food, they consume substantially more total calories, with poorer nutritional...ate an average of 187 calories a day more than those who did not eat fast food. These additional calories could account for an...
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- Newspaper article from: Science Letter December 7, 2004 700+ words
...other U.S. fast-food giants are offering...other lower-calorie fare. Subway...with 1,000 calories or more, and...adults to 2,800 calories for teenage boys...toward healthier fast food," CSPI executive...don't need calorie counts on menu...Cheese has 1,070 ...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Blake, Judith August 18, 2003 700+ words
...millions who make fast-food spots a regular...high-fat, high-calorie fare to a nation...loaded with fat and calories, just like the...that reduces the calorie load yet still tastes...merely efforts by fast-food chains to improve...
- Health Highlights: Oct. 26, 2009; Calorie Info Reduces Fast Food Consumption:...
- News wire article from: Consumer Health News (English) October 26, 2009 700+ words
...compiled by editors of HealthDay: Calorie Info Reduces Fast Food Consumption: Study New Yorkers who used calorie information to order lunch at fast-food chain restaurants bought 106 fewer calories' worth of food than people...
- Calorie labels sought for fast-food menus: CONCORD: Mayor wants city to require...
- Newspaper article from: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) February 11, 2007 700+ words
...000 teens eating fast food three or more times...target not only fast-food chains but all chain...that thousand-calorie burger, maybe I...estimates that she eats fast food 15 times a month...someone how many calories is in that Big Mac...
- Food & drink: Can't do the cooking? Burger it; Fast food is going low-fat, low...
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) September 21, 2002 700+ words
...about all its foods. Yet fast food is not obviously a healthy...Coca-Cola contains 958 calories. This constitutes nearly...resorting to ready meals or fast food. 'The average fast food meal contains more calories and fat than most people...
- FAST FOOD CAN EQUAL FAST CALORIES.(CNY)(Column)
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) June 6, 2006 700+ words
...when the first Carrols Corp. fast-food restaurants opened in my hometown...entire meal. The Pied Piper of fast-food and fast calories was blowing his horn, and we...get out of our cars to purchase fast food. Not that we are getting exercise...
