fast food issues

Listen, before you go out and buy one, it's fake. But, let's face it, you can totally see something like this becoming a reality.

According to The Onion, "Yum! Brands" unveiled the product innovation that may change the way Americans stuff fast food into their gaping maws.

Watch the video. It's amazing to see how easily people bearded with fast food feed bags blend into day-to-day life.

So let's talk about hamburgers and ice cream!

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McDonald's seems to be the villain in the never ending battle of good food versus evil food.

There is so much information floating around out there about the famous golden arches, that it's hard to know what is true and what is just hype.

Let's face it, we all know by now that McDonald's' food is for the most part unhealthy and should be avoided, but still they don't deserve to be misrepresented by faulty claims or studies.

One claim came to my attention today from Best of Mother Earth blog that really made question it's scientific validity.

Early next year, ad men Alex Bogusky and Chuck Porter will release The 9-inch Diet.

The premise of the book is: by using a 9-inch plate at every meal, caloric intake can be decreased by 30-35 percent.

A new study again confirms that eating fast foods not only causes weight gain, but also rapidly damages the liver. The 18 participants of the new Swedish study had transformations that mirrored filmmaker Morgan Spurlock in his controversial 2004 documentary "Super Size Me."

For anyone who did not see the documentary, Spurlock spent one month eating all of his meals from McDonald's to document exactly what would happen to his body on a 100% fast food diet. The startling results included various physical ailments that ranged from low sex drive and facial acne to gaining almost 25 pounds and suffering severe liver damage.

New research shows that people who live in areas with more full-service restaurants tend to be thinner.

Those who live in areas with a high ratio of fast-food restaurants tend to be heavier.

So it seems it's not just about eating out - it's the way we are eating out.

John Andrews at NewsTarget uncovers some of the more unpleasant ingredients in what often sounds like 'healthy' food.

Did you know? Wheat bread at Subway is not 100% whole grain (whole wheat flour is down on the ingredients list - followed closely by High Fructose Corn Syrup). The color of the bread is from "caramel color" - which contains sulfites. There is also an ingredient called azodicarbonamide.

Azodicarbonamide is a respiratory sensitizer (a possible cause of asthma) that is banned in Australia.

Mover over Jared and the Subway diet, there is a newcomer to the fast food weight loss arena and his name is Justin Hall.

Over three months, Justin has lost 40 pounds by eating a Chipotle burrito every day, but compared to the Subway diet, Justin’s new “Chipotle Diet” is pretty extreme since Justin’s daily burrito has a whopping 1330 calories!

Los Angeles officials are considering implementing a 2 year ban on new fast food outlets in the south of the district.

There is a local KFC outlet that I often drive past. There is no escaping the powerful wafting aromas that seem to find their way into my car.

I've often joked that maybe KFC have some very large extractor fans rigged in such a way as to maximize that distinctive KFC smell.

KFC have realized this, and have been trialling a new form of advertising that uses the "smell factor".

Check out this brochure from Domino's Pizza. While there's nothing particularly radical about this - it just highlights some of the cultural viewpoints that underpin our obesity issues.

Are McDonald's and other fast food vendors shaking in their boots? Maybe. Eric Schlosser (author of Fast Food Nation) is on a mission. Not only is his book being turned into a movie, but he is releasing another book aimed at children that exposes the unsavory realities of the fast food industry.

Morgan Spurlock's SuperSize Me prompted outrage. Outrage at McDonald's for apparently being the author of the world's weight problems - and outrage at Morgan Spurlock for producing such a slanted "documentary". What followed was a series of people determined to show that a 30 day diet of only McDonald's food could actually improve health and result in weight loss.

All their experiences have been compiled into a single website - 30 Day Dieters.