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Fast-food employees across the country are clocking out and rising up. The low-wage workers plan a day of nationwide strikes today to demand higher pay in the largest of a series of industry protests that have rippled across the USA since last fall.
Continue reading… “Fast food workers are marching for equality”
Fast food workers at dozens of fast food chains are walking out on strike for better wages.
When you think of a typical fast food employee do you think of a teenager working for extra cash, some guy who couldn’t get past high school, or a single mom trying to provide for her kid? Whatever your answer is it will say a lot about your feelings towards the fast food workers who’ve been striking these past months for a $15 hourly wage.
Continue reading… “More that 26% of fast food workers are raising a child”
Eating fast food will not only make you likely to put on weight but may give you the blues as well.
Eating junk food has a negative effect on mental health, making those who consume it regularly feel depressed, new research has revealed.
Researchers say the new study throws into doubt previous claims that fast food restaurants were the primary cause of obesity.
Middle class families in the U.S. eat more fast food than less-healthy poor ones, according to a new study from the University of California, Davis.
Continue reading… “America’s middle class families eat more fast food than poor families: study”
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Developmental psychologist and mother, Erin Carr-Jordan, has made a shocking discovery of what is really lurking in children’s playlands. There is a lack of state/local regulation that is resulting in potentially deadly conditions for our children.
Continue reading… “Arizona mom inspects and records filthy conditions at fast-food playlands”
Would you like a beer with your whopper meal?
Fast food restaurants like Burger King and Sonic and coffee powerhouse Starbucks are trying to boost sales during slow business hours by experimenting with sales of alcohol along with their standard offering.
Continue reading… “Fast food chains experimenting with booze to boost sales”
Mothers tend to take their children to fast-food outlets for different reasons to fathers.
Traditionally, mothers are depicted as the ones who choose what to feed their children. While fathers turn up just in time to put their feet under the table.
Continue reading… “Dads Have More of an Influence on Childhood Obesity”
Regulators are asking food makers and restaurant companies to make a choice: make your products healthier or stop advertising them to youngsters.
The Federal Trade Commission has proposed sweeping new guidelines that could push the food industry to overhaul how it advertises cereal, soda pop, snacks, restaurant meals and other foods to children.
Continue reading… “FTC Proposes Stricter Guidelines on Food Ads for Children”
Six months after a heart attack 50% of patients eating at their favorite fast food restaurants.
It would seem logical for patients who have had a heart attack to cut back on fast food. Some devoted fast food eaters do. But six months later, more than half can still be found at their favorite fast food places at least once a week, according to a study in the American Journal of Cardiology.
Continue reading… “Many People Stick With Fast Food Even After a Heart Attack”
Children and adolescents noticed the calories posted on the menu but the calorie counts made little difference.
Requiring fast-food restaurants in New York City to post calorie counts on menus did little to cut the number of calories children and teens consumed, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
Toast your nuptials with soft drinks at McDonald’s
We can’t think of a better way to throw traditional wedding protocol out the window than to host it at McDonald’s. Hong Kong will be the first city in the world to roll out McDonald’s nuptial packages for couples starting January 1 next year. (Pics)
Continue reading… “McWedddings – McDonald’s to Offer Weddings in Hong Kong”
The toys are said to be luring children to high calorie foods.
McDonald’s “Happy Meals” and other fast food snacks that come with toys are to be banned in part of California in an attempt to wean children off unhealthy, high-calorie diets. The measure, believed to be the first of its kind in the United States, is being introduced in Santa Clara County, an area of 1.7 million people that includes Silicon Valley.
Continue reading… “‘Happy Meals’ with Toys Banned to Fight Childhood Obesity”
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