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How McDonald’s Plans to Make Happy Meals Healthier
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 …
Mom and Consumer Group Sue McDonald’s For Luring Kids with Happy Meal Toys
In conjunction with the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Monet Parham, a 41-year-old mother of two, filed a class action against McDonald’s on Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court, claiming that the fast …
Judge to McDonald’s: Pay $17,500 For Making Your Employee Fat
Talk about an occupational hazard. A former manager of a McDonald’s franchise in Porto Allegre, Brazil, was awarded $17,500 as recompense for gaining 65 lbs. over 12 years on the job, the AP reports.
McDonald’s recalls 12 million Shrek glasses
Together with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, fast food giant McDonald’s announced the recall of roughly 12 million Shrek-themed glasses today after discovering that the designs printed on the glasses contained the harmful metal cadmium. Out of what it called “an abundance of caution,” in a statement issued today McDonald’s
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A lawsuit to get toys out of Happy Meals?
Less than two months after a California county voted to ban toys from children’s meals at fast food restaurants, the chain known for the Hamburgler and Ronald McDonald may face a lawsuit over the the trinkets it tosses into Happy Meals. Public health research and advocacy group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), sent
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Former McDonald’s Executives to Open a New Healthy-Food Chain
Fast food has become synonymous with fatty food, but Mike Roberts, a former president and chief operating officer of McDonald’s, aims to redefine the concept. Teaming up with another McDonald’s alumnus and an Oprah Winfrey …
Menu Makeover: Is Fast Food Finally Making Impactful Changes?
McDonald’s announced on Thursday it will stop marketing a portion of its unhealthy fare to young kids — including soda — and will start offering healthier side alternatives like salads and sliced fruit to its adult menu too.
Study: Fast-Food Ads Target Kids with Unhealthy Food, and It Works
A team of public health researchers from Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity spent more than a year compiling data on 12 of the nation’s big fast-food restaurants, and what they found surprised even them: …
Is Olive Garden Healthier Than McDonald’s? Maybe Not
If you’re trying to be healthy, sitting down for a meal at a full-service restaurant like Olive Garden is a better option than pulling up to the nearest McDonald’s to grab a Big Mac. Right?
If You Thought Oatmeal Couldn’t Be Bad For You, Guess Again
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 & …
Health Care Under the Golden Arches: Cheap But Faulty
There’s a central maxim to health insurance pricing: If it seems too good to be true, it is.
McNuggets—on the Weight Watcher’s plan?
As part of a broader effort to shed their unhealthy food reputation, in Australia and New Zealand McDonald’s is teaming up with Weight Watchers to market some menu items as healthy options that fit into the diet program’s points system, the Telegraph reported last week. The collaboration means that McDonald menus will bear the Weight …
