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All entries tagged with fast food$5 is the New "It" Word in Fast Food
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"Five...five dollar foot longs." You've probably had Subway's catchy little ditty stuck in your head--ALL DAY--at least once by now.
Granted, it's not as nagging as Chili's "I want my baby back, baby back, back," but its pretty hard to shake, which might be a good thing.
Turns out, $5 is the latest win-win in fast food gimmicks. Subway raked in $3.8 billion with it, and now other restaurants are giving it a try too.
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The 7 Hotdogs of the Apocalypse
Flickr: chrishuseinGlobal warming, swine flu, terrorism, even the Jonas Brothers, you'd figure one of these would mark the destruction of mankind, but no.
Instead, doom will come stuffed with cheese, wrapped in bacon, fried in oil, stuffed in a bun and topped with sauerkraut, mayonnaise and lard.
The streets will run pink with hotdog.
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How Many Calories In Your Burger and Fries?
With mandatory calorie information in restaurants in New York, and Congress calling for calories to be displayed on fast food menus throughout America, we might hope that fast food consumers are starting to pay attention and reconsider eating that giant burger.
Unfortunately, early indications aren't good...
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Why Do We Eat Fast Food?
A survey from the journal Obesity, Relationship of Attitudes Toward Fast Food and Frequency of Fast-food Intake in Adults, found that knowing fast food is unhealthy isn't stopping us from eating it.» Continue...
United Kingdom to Post Calories on Menus Too
Flickr: Aaron WebbAmerica's fat. So many of us shovel calories down our throats like it's going out of style! But the rest of the world isn't much better.
As of 2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) projects 1.6 billion adults, ages 15 and up, were overweight and 400 million adults were obese, worldwide.
And the latest rage to help curb obesity is printing calories on the menus of fast food restaurants. And now, Great Britain is getting in on the act.
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The 5 Worst Fast Food Value Meals
A dollar meal might sound like a bargain, but is it worth the price for your health?
Dietitians from The Cancer Project have taken a look at the high health cost of "value meals" at fast food restaurants, and have listed the five worst options.» Continue...
Fast Food Linked to Alzheimer's?
Researchers in Sweden have demonstrated that a diet high in saturated fats, cholesterol and sugars (characteristic of fast food) could cause similar brain changes to those seen in patients with Alzheimer's disease.» Continue...
Calories on Fast Food Menus: Should it Become Law?
As a growing number of states adopt the practice of making fast-food restaurants list calories on their menus, Congress continues in its struggle to implement this obesity-combating tactic nationwide, reports Reuters Health.
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