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Health & Wellness News tagged with Fast Food

Mediterranean Diet Declines, and Weights Rise - NYTimes.Com
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, health, mediterranean, junk food, blood pressure, fat, weight gain, fast food, pizza, sugar, olive oil )

Cissy
- 10 days ago - nytimes.com
Dr. Michalis Stagourakis has seen a transformation of his pediatric practice here over the past three years. The usual sniffles and stomachaches of childhood are now interspersed with far more serious conditions: diabetes, high blood pressure, high
Video & Article: Pima First People's Water Rights Give Hope for Better Health
Health & Wellness  (tags: Native People, Water, Water Rights, Agriculture, litigation, GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY, Arizona, government rations, canned food, unhealthy, fast food, diabetes, traditional farming, natural foods, community garden, diet, fats, sugar )

Jill
- 35 days ago - nytimes.com
Now, after yrs of litigation that produced the largest water-rights settlement ever in Indian country, the Pima are getting some of their water back. Will they now go back to natural farming & vegies to fight the diabetes >1/2 the tribe suffers from?
Water Rights Restored, Southwestern Tribes Hope for Health Benefits
Health & Wellness  (tags: Native Americans, water rights, farming, irrigation, diet, tradition, diabetes, fast food, Native culture, Pima, Maricopa, Tohono O’odham, New Mexico, Arizona, Gila River )

Ombretta
- 36 days ago - nytimes.com
The Pima, Maricopa & Tohono O'odham communities in the American southwest are looking forward to using the water to farm for more traditional, natural foods, as obesity accompanied by diabetes devastates their health.
Fast Food Report Card
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, health, humans, Fast Food )

Michael
- 74 days ago - lime.com
I'm still not quite sure how I feel about Newman's Own partnering with McDonald's. Does it debase Paul Newman and the virtuous brand he's built, or does it redeem McDonald's from the bad rap that its suffered from exposes like SuperSize Me?
King Corn
Health & Wellness  (tags: corn, video, fast food, GMO, nutrition, food industry )

Adrian
- 145 days ago - elements4health.com
Engrossing and eye-opening KING CORN is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation. (Full Feature)
Corn: Fueling the Fast Food Industry and Obesity
Health & Wellness  (tags: corn, obesity, diabetes, fast food, livestock, corn carbon, American diet )

Cris
- 202 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Corn is in everything we eat and drink, from soda to beef, and it's fueling the nation's obesity epidemic. "King Corn" is Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis' new documentary, which shows how corn has turned the American diet into a fast food nightmare.
McDonald's Mice 'Becoming Human'
Health & Wellness  (tags: mcdonalds, mcd, mice, animal, testing, burgers, fries, diet, weight, human, scientists, nutrition, humans, food, fast food, vegetarian, chimps, vegan, chips )

Katie
- 249 days ago - tech.uk.msn.com
Mice fed a diet of McDonald's burgers and fries not only put on weight but start to develop human-like genetic traits, scientists have found.
The 88 Fast Food Items Most Likely To Kill You
Health & Wellness  (tags: fast food, trans fat, worst, unhealthy, ingredient, nutrition, facts, menu )

Jean
- 333 days ago - acaloriecounter.com
The absolute worst ingredient your food could possibly contain is trans fat. Knowing this, I looked over the nutrition facts of literally every single item from 21 fast food menus to put together a list of the 88 fast food items highest in trans fat.
McDonald's Gets Sued in Food Allergy Cases
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, food, health, allergies, law suit, McDonald's, fast food )

Julia
- 369 days ago - reuters.com
Just last week, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that an O'Fallon, Missouri family is suing McDonald's for misleading them about the ingredients in their french fries and hash browns.
Why Are U.S. Kids Obese? Just Look Around Them
Health & Wellness  (tags: cjildren, obese, fast food, health )

Eduardo
- 376 days ago - reuters.com
When people cannot get to supermarkets but instead rely on the convenience stores that proliferate in many poor neighborhoods, families end up eating less healthy food. Lower-income neighborhoods also have a higher proportion of fast-food restaurants.
   

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