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McDonald's Happy Meals Get a Healthier Overhaul
12:00PM 7/26/2011
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For more than 30 years, the standard McDonald's Happy Meals have been exactly the same -- a burger or chicken nuggets, fries and a soda. But no more. In an attempt to help youngsters make healthier food choices, the fast food chain is making big changes to its kid's-meal-in-a-box.
The 10 Most Unhealthy Fast-Food Items on America's Menu
3:30PM 6/15/2011
America is getting heavier and less healthy every year, and our increasing consumption of fast food is at least partially to blame. 24/7 Wall St. examined the menus of the top 10 quick service restaurants to find the items that were the highest in calories, carbohydrates, sodium and saturated fat. Here's what they found:
Galeos Dressing, much hyped as a low-calorie and low-fat dressing promoted by trainer Jillian Michaels and eaten by contestants on the reality show "The Biggest Loser," has failed another set of laboratory tests.
The law firm Paris Ackerman & Schmierer, which sued the makers of Galeos after...
Meat, Poultry Nutritional Labels Will Hit Shelves in 2012
11:00AM 12/31/2010
The USDA is rocking its comfortable relationship with some of its biggest constituents -- the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, for one -- with its announcement that nutritional labeling will be required beginning Jan. 1, 2012.
The new labels will detail the number of calories and the grams...
Obesity is expensive. Each year, obese American men pay an additional $2,646 to carry their extra weight, while obese women pay $4,879. That's the surprising result of a new study on the individual cost of obesity.
Diabetics who undergo weight-loss surgery have been found to need fewer medications and have lower health-care costs.
Around 75 percent of obese patients with Type 2 diabetes were able to stop insulin and other blood-sugar controlling drugs within six months of bariatric surgery, according to a...
In spite of all the attention on weight gain from health and diet industries, public policies and the news, U.S. obesity rates keep rising. A new study finds that those rates grew in 28 states last year, only declining in one place -- the District of Columbia.
Four Trends That Will Dramatically Change China
9:20AM 6/14/2010
The financial media's coverage of China tends to focus on trade-related topics, but China is undergoing deep cultural shifts that will significantly alter its economic landscape. These four long-term trends could drastically change China -- and its relationship with the world.
The biggest horror show in movie theaters right now isn't on screens but in the tubs of popcorn resting in audience members' laps, if you ask one consumer advocate. Snacking on a medium popcorn and soda at one of Regal Entertainment Group's (RGC) cinemas is the nutritional equivalent of eating...
Movie theater popcorn gets two thumbs down from advocacy group
2:00PM 11/19/2009
Eating popcorn at the movies used to be fun. Now it's scary, thanks to the Center for Science in the Public Interest -- the advocacy group that also has given the beat-down to Chinese food, fast food and most other things Americans love to pig out on.
The group performed lab tests on popcorn...
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