Tag: fast food
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Where you live can affect your weight, studies find
A child’s weight can be determined in part by what neighborhood he or she grows up in, a new series of studies indicate. (Photo by Getty Images) In one of...
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Convenience, not expense, is making us avoid eating fruits, vegetables and other non-processed foods
A lack of convenience, not a high price, is the major obstacle to getting people to eat more fruit and vegetables, a study published in the journal Public Health Nutrition...
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Trans fat levels in white adults have fallen by more than half since FDA started requiring labeling of the unhealthy food ingredient
After the Food and Drug Administration required food manufacturers to label how much trans fat is in their products, levels of the unhealthy ingredient in the bloodstream dropped by 58...
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Yum! Brands asks state to allow elderly, disabled and homeless to use food stamps at restaurants
Louisville-based Yum! Brands, which owns the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell chains, wants the homeless, disabled and elderly to be able to pay for their meals with food stamps....