Fast Food Health Risks - Articles
Finally! Fast food = health food
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Jean D.
The Health Food Hut, a new chain of fast food restaurants is getting started in Florida. Big deal, you say? Well, yes, it actually is. Get this: The menu? All organic and natural, featuring among other things, all wild Alaskan seafood, organic beef and chicken, and organic salads and wraps. The menu will also provide complete nutritional informati ...
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Fast Food HealthCare
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Steven ..
Another datapoint in the trend towards the retailing of healthcare:Walgreen Buying Health Centers, Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2008.Walgreen-the nation's largest drugstore chain(by $)- bought I-trax Inc ($259.7 million cash) and Whole Health Management ($???). The purchase gives Walgreen over 500 worksite (in businesses like Lowe's, Toyota Mot ...
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The Future of Health Food
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Douglas R.
Healthcare reform is all over the news.Obesity is recognized as a major global health concern.The baby boomers are becoming senior citizens.Health food, organic food, slow food and local food movements are becoming mainstream.And the cost of healthcare is increasing at an almost exponential rate..As a result, you might as well forget about those oi ...
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Health Food Wannabe
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Julia O.
Nobody said this would be easy. In a quest to reduce my exposure to unnecessary and potentially harmful food additives, I have been doing more grocery shopping in those nuts-and-berries type stores these days, and I've come to the conclusion that eating healthy - you know, organic and unprocessed and fresh as possible foods - is actually kind of a ...
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Watermelon, health food
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Dr. Richard Keller
This heat does bring back memories of eating sloppy wet pieces of watermelon at my aunt’s house or the park near her home during summers of my youth. Now science has endorsed that activity by finding great health benefits in the fruit. Most obvious to anyone who has eaten it by the slice is the high water content (94%) that can go a long way ...
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HEALTH FOODS
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Niyaprakash
EAT ONE / SOME FOOD(S) FROM EACH OF THESE GROUPS DAILYFruits : Apple, Banana, Papaya, Mango, Guava, Pear, Gooseberry, Grape, Orange and Watermelon.Vegetables:Potato, Onion, Ginger, Garlic, Tomato, Lime, Radish, Turnip, Tomato, Lime, , Cabbage, Cauliflower, Carrot, Asperagus, Spinach, Coconut and Bitter gourd.Grains & Pulses: Beans, Pe ...
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Health Food Myths
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Big Daddy D.
This link will take you to an article on "MarthaStewart.com" about "Health Food Myths". Myths addressed are: A calorie is a calorie... Not all calories are created equal.The less fat I eat, the better... Explains good fats and not-so-good fats.If it says "organic", it must be nutritious... Organic junk food is still junk food.Whole-grain products a ...
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Healthful food combinations…
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Margaret
The most recent Cancer Compass newsletter (http://tinyurl.com/bnxwyy) gives us some good food combination ideas. For instance, if you are preparing a spinach salad, add a mandarin orange to it or, another suggestion (=mine), some lemon juice. The vitamin C contained in citrus fruit not only makes spinach taste better but also helps our bodies absor ...
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Fish: Not a Health Food
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Bronwyn
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While the media touts fish as a health food, I've been preaching otherwise for some time now. Besides the Omega-3 fatty acids found in most fish, there's really no benefit to eating it, although there are plenty of hazards: mercury, PCB's (Polychlorinated Biphenals), cholesterol content (the same as red meat), homocysteine levels, Heterocyclic Ami ...
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