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The sodium levels in the same fast food items can vary widely depending on where you live. Take a guess which country's burgers are saltiest.
Contrary to popular wisdom, eating at McDonald’s isn’t exactly cheap, costing some $28 for a family of four. Which might help explain the results of a recent study from the University of California, Davis, which found that people’s visits to fast-food joints increased along with their incomes, and that poor people were spending fewer dollars [...]
Welcome again to the podcast, which is now available on iTunes! Click subscribe—it’s free, and you will get this podcast every week on your mobile device. This week we discuss why restaurant calorie counts may not work, why McDonald’s should be applauded for its new Happy Meals, and the psychology of polygamy. You can either [...]
McDonald’s is hoping to make Happy Meals happier — at least, for nutritionists and health-conscious parents. The fast-food chain’s executives announced that they will keep the toys but ditch extra calories in their kids’ menu items starting in September. The restaurant will not only cut french-fry portions in half for Happy Meal-ers but also include [...]
This week on the podcast, we discuss three topics: How restaurant chains may mislead you when writing their menus; whether nutraceuticals work; and new data on the perils of sexting. To hear the podcast, click this play button:
—CHRIS ANDERSON, communications director for The Marketing Arm, which ranks the McDonald's mascot, Ronald McDonald, fourth in consumer awareness out of 2,800 celebrities in an index, but 2,109th in terms of likeability. This week, a corporate watchdog group got more than 600 health-care professionals and organizations to sign a letter asking McDonald's to retire the [...]
Fast-food restaurants are loading their menus with nutritious-sounding options in a bid to draw more-health-conscious consumers. But how healthy are these options?
Are you hankering for a Whopper? How about a Gordita Supreme, or a bucket of Extra Crispy? According to numbers crunched by AggData for the Daily Beast, you’d have the best luck in Orlando, Fla., the U.S. city with the highest concentration of Burger King, Taco Bell and KFC restaurants per capita.
The first clue you might be eating something unhealthy is that you’re eating it at McDonald’s. That applies even to some of Mickey D’s most nutritious-sounding menu items, such as the recently debuted breakfast offering: Fruit & Maple Oatmeal (FMO).
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