As a kid growing up in the early ’80s, I made every mistake in the book. I ate fast food instead of smart food. I played video games when I should’ve been playing outside. By the time I reached age 14, I was carrying 212 pounds on a 5’10″ frame. (I wanted to be built like a basketball player, but instead was shaped more like a basketball.)
Read more here: Health SearchWorst Fast-Food Meals in America
How would you like to meet your daily sodium and saturated fat allowance, as well as nearly half of your daily calorie needs, in one quick breakfast eaten on the road? It’s becoming progressively easy these day as food technicians, chefs, and market researchers, holed away in corporate fast food “studios,” are busy developing monstrous new breakfast items.
Read more here: Eleven scary fast food breakfasts
Burritos have a lot of calories. That’s not exactly “news at eleven,” but even the most calorie-conscious among us would be surprised by how quickly the numbers add up between the flour-tortilla folds. Sure, we could cut out the shredded cheese and even the tortilla itself and save a few calories, but that’d be ignoring one important fact—life is short. Too short, in my opinion, to waste it worrying about the occasional foil-wrapped indulgence. (Unless “occasional” means multiple times a week, in which case you probably don’t give a flying fiesta bowl about calorie counts.)When it comes to burritos, I say go big or go home. And at these Mexican fast-food chains, it’s hard to do otherwise.
Read more here: 8 Belly Busting Burritos From Your Favorite Fast Food Joints
For a mere $2, reports USA Today, fast-food fans can get a taco or burrito, a soda pop, and chips at Taco Bell, starting this Sunday.
That’s a buck less than a threesome from McDonald’s dollar menu, and the latest you-want-cheese-with-that volley in the recessionary fast-food battles. The paper also points out places like T.G.I.F., Denny’s, and Pizza Hut have whipped up cheap eats to lure peckish penny-pinchers.
Read more here: Fast Foods: Cheaper, But Just as Fast and Fatty
How many health issues could be averted?
A councillor in Tofino, B.C., wants to ban fast-food franchises and retail chains from the West Coast surf town in order to preserve its uniquely laid-back character.
For the approximately 2,000 residents of the Vancouver Island community, a craving for a Starbucks coffee or a McDonald’s hamburger means a drive out of town.
Read more: B.C. surf town could ban fast-food outlets
MIAMI – Winter storms hurt Burger King’s results in January and February, the fast-food chain said Tuesday.
In the United States and Canada, Burger King’s sales in locations open at least a year fell 8.2 per cent over the two-month period. Over 75 per cent of Burger King stores are in the Central and Eastern U.S., which were hardest hit by storms.
Read more: Burger King sales in January and February hurt by severe winter storms
