What makes us different? Read our Declaration of Journalistic Independence Home | About Natural News | Contact Us | Write for Natural News
Search our 25,000 free articles and special reports

Feature articles on fast food:

L.A. City Council Decides to Outlaw New Fast Food Restaurants

8/20/2008 - (NaturalNews) The City Council of Los Angeles, in an effort to combat the problem of the rapidly increasing number of obese citizens, has voted to put a moratorium on building new fast food restaurants in the area for a period of one year, according to...

A Month of Fast Food Can Wreck Your Liver

6/10/2008 - (NaturalNews) Just one month of eating fast food and walking less than 5000 steps in a day is all it takes to impair liver function. That’s what scientists found in a study published in Gut, a peer review journal for health professionals and researchers...

Fast-Food Liver Damage Can Be Reversed

6/6/2008 - (NaturalNews) Diets high in fast food can be highly toxic to the liver and other internal organs, but that damage can be reversed, says one of the country’s leading experts on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, who offers four steps to undo the effects...

Children's Report Cards: McDonald's New Marketing Platform

1/29/2008 - (NaturalNews) McDonald’s paid the $1,700 tab for Seminole County, Florida’s report card jackets in exchange for a coupon, featuring Ronald McDonald, on the card’s cover (1, 2). With good grades and attendance, the coupon can be redeemed for a free Happy...

Los Angeles Considers Health Zoning to Limit Density of Fast Food Restaurants

12/31/2007 - (NaturalNews) The city of Los Angeles is considering placing a two-year moratorium on any new fast food restaurants within South Los Angeles, in an effort to redress the disproportionate prevalence of such restaurants in this poor part of the city. The...

McDonald's Marketing Focused on Children, New Report States

12/7/2007 - (NaturalNews) A new report released by Corporations and Health Watch, earlier this month, exposes the marketing tactics of McDonald's. According to the report entitled "McDonald's and Children's Health: The Production of New Customers, "the world's largest...

Surprise Ingredients in Fast Food

11/3/2007 - (NaturalNews) The movie Supersize Me has probably had more of an effect than the producers anticipated. Since then, in the fast food industry, there has been a market trend promoting menu items that appear to be healthy. But most of these menu items have...

Junk Food Ads, Fast Food Increasing Teen Obesity

10/9/2007 - (NaturalNews) Many of the television commercials seen by teenagers are for junk food products. According to research released this week by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, this may be a major reason obesity rates continue to rise among 12-17...

Photo shows beer promotions at McDonald's restaurant (humor)

9/28/2007 - On a recent road trip to Phoenix, Arizona, I stopped to take a driving break and found myself staring in disbelief at the scene depicted in this unaltered photograph: A McDonald's restaurant is apparently advertising beer! As you can see in this picture,...

Top 20 things that are more dangerous to children than lead paint in Mattel toys

9/5/2007 - The mainstream media is amusingly irrational when it comes to reporting scare stories. The latest example involves the lead content of Mattel toys made in China. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a third recall of Mattel toys involving...

Animals are smarter than humans when it comes to feeding their children (opinion)

4/6/2007 - Humans are the only species on the planet who actually go out of their way to feed their children crap. All other animals instinctly seek out the best nutrition they can find. Birds find grubs, worms and insects to feed their young, honeybees painstakingly...

New study links fast food to increased weight

1/22/2007 - (NaturalNews) Results from a recent study yield stronger evidence to correlate fast food with increased body weight. A collection of nearly 3,400 young adults were tested for a decade, and with each fast food meal they ingested, their body mass index...

From Processed Foods to Natural Wholesomeness

12/17/2006 - (NaturalNews) Appetite and diet are highly personal matters, and many people struggle with weight problems. Often, people feel harshly judged for their habits and choices. Diet, and the weight that comes and goes, is a lifelong struggle for most. In our...

McDonald's files 55-page patent on process to make a sandwich

12/7/2006 - (NaturalNews) The simple process of assembling a McDonalds sandwich may become a trade secret if the fast-food giant is granted the European and U.S. patents it filed for in June. Hoping to give its hot deli sandwiches a uniform look and taste across...

Fast food restaurants at children's hospitals influence parents to feed their families unhealthy meals

12/6/2006 - (NaturalNews) New research states that at least 59 of the nation's 250 children's hospitals have fast-food restaurants as part of their cafeteria operations. According to Dr. Hannah Sahud -- the lead researcher behind the new study -- that is a troubling...

Fast Food Nation movie meets with mixed reviews from critics, moviegoers

11/27/2006 - (NaturalNews) Fast Food Nation, a fictionalized movie version of Eric Schlosser's best-selling nonfiction depiction of fast food companies' negative impacts on American life, opened over Thanksgiving weekend to mixed reviews from both critics and the...

Burger King struggles with higher health expectations of consumers

11/3/2006 - (NaturalNews) In the United Kingdom, Burger King appears to be struggling with sales due to the renewed interest in healthy eating by its British consumers. Burger King -- the world's second-largest hamburger vendor -- indicated that its 650 British...

Child-centered marketing causing kids to carry unhealthy food habits into adulthood

10/30/2006 - The next time you get up early on a Saturday morning, turn on your television to any one of the major broadcast stations or child-oriented cable networks. In between Saturday morning cartoons, you'll suddenly find yourself bombarded by commercials advertising...

Fast food chicken contains cancer-causing chemicals; warning labels sought

10/2/2006 - (NaturalNews) According to a press release issued Thursday by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, the nonprofit health organization is suing national fast food giants McDonald's, Burger King, Outback, Chick-fil-A, Applebee's, Chili's and...

When fast food restaurants outnumber grocery stores, city residents die earlier from disease

7/19/2006 - (NaturalNews) A new study found that residents in large cities who live farther from grocery stores than fast-food restaurants are more likely to die prematurely of diseases such as cancer and diabetes. Researchers conducting the study for LaSalle...

Fast food giants prey on parents' gullibility to sell unhealthy food to children

7/13/2006 - Many experts name Ray Kroc, founder of the McDonald's franchise, and Walt Disney as the pioneers of child-focused marketing, since they first recognized children as a separate marketing demographic from adults in the 1960s. For Kroc and Disney, the decision...

New York City may reduce density of fast food restaurants through healthier zoning laws

7/12/2006 - (NaturalNews) New York City health committee chairman Joel Rivera is taking a stand against the raging levels of obesity in his city by lobbying to slow the uncontrolled growth of fast-food chains. "(Fast-food restaurants) make good-tasting, affordable...

Interview with Jennifer Mattox, founder of Faerie Films and director of school nutrition documentary "Vending Machine"

7/18/2005 - Jessica: I'm talking with Jennifer Mattox, founder of Faerie Films and director of the upcoming documentary, "Vending Machine." Can you tell me a little bit about Faerie Films and why you launched the company? Mattox: Faerie Films was created because...

How to (not!) get fat in five easy steps

2/7/2005 - You may think it's strange to find a "How-To" article focusing on five easy steps for adding fat to your body. You might say that we already know how to do that: two thirds of the people in the United States are overweight and one third are considered...

The Cleveland Clinic battles with McDonald's over fast food in hospitals

1/30/2005 - One of the most ridiculous things about many hospitals and surgical centers is that they host fast food restaurants like McDonald's and Pizza Hut. Now making headlines is the heated debate between the Cleveland Clinic and McDonald's restaurants. Toby...

Former CEO of McDonald's dies of colon cancer at age of 44

1/16/2005 - Forty-four years of age is too young to die of anything, much less colon cancer. With this story being all over the news, there will no doubt be lots of articles pointing out the irony of it all, given the current awareness of the health risks associated...

Kudos to Burger King for making fast food low-carb food

1/18/2004 9:07:44 AM - It's rare that I have any praise for a fast food chain, but in this case, I applaud Burger King's move to offer bunless hamburgers to their customers. It's being done in response to consumer demand and the accelerating popularity of the Atkins...

Fast food environment incompatible with the biological hardware provided by human evolution

11/23/2003 8:04:57 PM - As scientists are discovering, our modern food supply -- overloaded with fast food, processed foods and soft drinks -- is simply incompatible with the biological hardware engineered through human evolution. We're designed to burn lots of calories and...

Concept-related articles:

nutrition:processed foods:food supply:refined carbohydrates:genes:obesity:nuts:restaurants:junk food:sugar:
    Burger King:
      carbohydrates:diets:low-carb:fast food restaurants:


      View fast food on NaturalNews NaturalPedia™


      Related Concepts

      nutrition | processed foods | food supply | national food supply | refined carbohydrates | human genes | genes | obesity | appetite | nuts | restaurants | junk food | sugar | McDonalds | Burger King | low-carb diets | low-carb menu items



      Related books:

      Grocery Warning

      How to recognize and avoid the common foods (and food ingredients) that cause disease. Names all the exact ingredients that directly cause heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, depression, osteoporosis, arthritis, high blood pressure, ADHD, behavioral disorders, mood swings and many more.
      The Healing Power of Sunlight and Vitamin D: an exclusive interview with Dr. Michael Holick

      In this interview, Dr. Holick reveals fascinating facts on how vitamin D is created and used in the human body to ward off chronic diseases like cancer, osteoporosis, mental disorders and more.
      The Seven Laws of Nutrition

      Learn how to transform your health, reverse chronic disease and free yourself from pharmaceuticals by mastering the fundamental laws of nutrition.
      Superfoods For Optimum Health: Chlorella and Spirulina

      In this free online book, you'll get the astounding truth on how these two superfoods are far more than just "supplements" like vitamins and minerals: they are disease preventing foods from nature that can actually help conquer cancer, diabetes, heart disease, clinical depression, and much more.
      The Five Habits of Health Transformation

      Explores the five most effective, yet effortless strategies for transforming human health. Written for busy people and based on research involving 763 participants, this book reveals which health strategies deliver the most results with the least investment in time, money or effort.
      Poison in the Food: Hydrogenated Oils

      Exposes the horrifying truth about hydrogenated oils and the diseases it causes: birth defects, heart disease, cancer, diabetes and more.
      The Food Timing Diet

      Revealed: The Mike Adams secret to shedding body fat, experiencing phenomenal mental and physical energy and eliminating blood sugar swings -- all while eating enormous quantities of health-enhancing (and delicious!) food. Learn why it's not WHAT you eat as much as WHEN you eat!
      The Five Soft Drink Monsters: how to kick the soft drink addiction for good

      This downloadable ebooks reveals how to easily and permanently break the soft drink habit for good. This guide will show you, in clear understandable terms, how to recognize each of the five addictive elements of soft drinks -- and then beat them with a clever strategy that's already worked for thousands.


      Google search on fast food

      See Google search results on fast food (NaturalNews.com site)

      See Google search results on fast food (entire internet)

      See Google Scholar search results on fast food (includes scientific, academic and medical journals)



      Other Resources

      CounterThink cartoons are free to view and download. They cover topics like health, environment and freedom.

      naturalnews.com offers news, commentary and a free email newsletter covering natural health solutions and criticism of conventional medicine.

      TruthPublishing.com offers alternative health books and free downloadable interviews with top doctors and health authors.

      The Honest Food Guide chart is a free, downloadable public health and nutrition chart that dares to tell the truth about what foods we should really be eating.

      HealingFoodReference.com offers a free online reference database of healing foods, phytonutrients and plant-based medicines that prevent or treat diseases and health conditions.

      The Natural Health Library offers more than fifteen free, downloadable books and interviews on natural health solutions.

      HerbReference.com is a free, online reference library that lists medicinal herbs and their health benefits.

      Read about emerging, renewable energy solutions at the NaturalNews energy channel, covering solar power, wind power, hydrogen, fuel cells and other topics for the eco-conscious consumer.

      NutrientReference.com is a free online reference database of phytonutrients (natural medicines found in foods) and their health benefits. Lists diseases, foods, herbs and more.

      Join our natural health e-mail newsletter for free daily updates on health news that matters. Our e-mail newsletter is powered by ArialSoftware's E-Mail Marketing Director newsletter software. Videos are powered by Zeop Online Video Engine.

      This site is part of the Natural News Network © 2008 All Rights Reserved. Privacy | Terms All content posted on this site is commentary or opinion and is protected under Free Speech. Truth Publishing International, LTD. is not responsible for content written by contributing authors. Truth Publishing sells no health or nutritional products and earns no money from health product manufacturers or promoters. The information on this site is provided for educational and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional advice of any kind. Truth Publishing assumes no responsibility for the use or misuse of this material. Your use of this website indicates your agreement to these terms and those published here. All trademarks, registered trademarks and servicemarks mentioned on this site are the property of their respective owners.