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Fast food serves up career opportunities
At core of family business are lessons learned from the front line and the corporate boardroom Phil Gray always knew he wanted to start a family business — and fast food created the path.
Burger and chips off the menu: Fast food crackdown as council limits take-aways in poor areas 'to increase life ...
Haringey council in London plans to reduce number of fast food restaurants after research shows that areas with lots of them have shorter life expectancies.
MPP wants fast-food calorie chart
Think choosing a raisin bran muffin at a fast-food restaurant is better than going for a doughnut?
AFGC rejects Melbourne council’s proposal to increase rates for fast food outlets
The Australian Food and Grocery Council has rejected a Melbourne suburban municipal council’s proposal that could see major fast food outlets taxed up to 400 per cent more on their commercial rates than other businesses. Darebin City Council’s proposal to charge major fast food companies higher rates hit national headlines in Australia this week. According [...]
Report: Schools key to fighting America's obesity
Fighting obesity will require changes everywhere Americans live, work, play and learn, says a major new report that outlines dozens of options - from building more walkable neighborhoods to zoning limits on fast-food...
Cumberland, Salem county health experts discuss 'fat tax' on unhealthy foods to reduce obesity rates
If health warnings, exercise programs, social stigma and voluntary diets haven’t impacted rising obesity rates, could a hefty “fat tax” have an effect?
MPP wants calorie counts posted on fast food menus
Think choosing a raisin bran muffin at a fast food restaurant is better than going for a donut? Think again.
Report calls schools key to fighting obesity epidemic but says changes are needed society-wide
WASHINGTON - Fighting obesity will require changes everywhere Americans live, work, play and learn, says a major new report that outlines dozens of options — from building more walkable neighbourhoods to zoning limits on fast-food restaurants to selling healthier snacks in sports arenas.
Diet Choices Influenced By Food Combinations And Past History
Connie K. Ho for RedOrbit.com “You are what you eat.” This is a well known phrase that has been mentioned many times in discussions related to health and nutrition. A new report discusses how the combinations of what you eat can affect your consumption, and also how the diet choices you made as a child could affect the diet choices you make as an adult. Two researchers, T. Bettina Cornwell of ...
MPP France Gélinas wants calories posted on fast-food menus
MPP France Gélinas introduced a private member’s bill Tuesday that will compel chain restaurants, with five or more locations, to post calorie counts for hamburgers, hot dogs, fries, wrap, milkshakes and other items on menus.
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