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New Fast Food Chains Can Improve Businesses as Usual
It’s only natural that the boom of new healthy and sustainable fast-food chains would provoke an eye roll. Marketers always jump on the latest fad: whether it’s Häagen-Dazs’s Five, a line of ice creams with only five ingredients (never mind that Häagen-Dazs vanilla has always had just five ingredients) — or McDonald’s 2003 promise to reduce the use of antibiotics fed to cattle, never fulfilled. So it’s easy to dismiss new initiatives as greenwashing.
But the new crop of healthy fast-food start-ups — Sweetgreen, LYFE Kitchen, Tender Greens and Native Foods — are not companies trying to dress themselves according to the latest fad. They are chasing…
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7 Popular Fast Foods You Should Never Eat
Some fast foods, no matter how popular, you just shouldn't bother eating. Ever.
The Healthiest Orders at Every Major Fast-Food Chain
You might've seen a headline like this before. The subsequent list was probably filled with dressing-less salads and veggie burgers wrapped in lettuce and it probably made you go, "Welp, guess I'm not eating healthy at those places anytime soon." DO NOT DESPAIR. We aren't having any of that, because people should know how to be relatively healthy at these places and still come away from the experience feeling full. That's your right, dammit!
The Healthiest Fast Food Restaurants AND The Not So Healthy
For those of us that do eat fast food, we are blessed with an abundant choice of restaurants, so we can at least choose to eat at fast food restaurants that have the healthiest ingredients as well as healthy options on their menus.
Eating Fast Food Exposes You To A Controversial Chemical
If you need another reason to ditch that fast food habit — and pink slime didn’t scare you off for good — let’s talk about phthalates.
Fast Food's Dirty Little Secret: It's the Middle Class Buying Burgers
The assumption has always been that the drive-through is a place where people go to feed their families on a budget, but that's not the case
How Junk Food Can End Obesity
Demonizing processed food may be dooming many to obesity and disease. Could embracing the drive-thru make us all healthier?
Is Fast Food Healthier Than Chipotle?
Calorically speaking, America's favorite fast-food meals probably check in below their fast-casual counterpart.
The Fast Food Restaurants You Should Be Watching...
We’d like to talk about the up-and-comers and the rapid expanders. Which of these chains is Ray Kroc circa 1955, poised to change the fast food conversation for good? Some of them are new, with the earth-moving ambition of Silicon Valley startups, while others have modestly done their thing for decades—but recently hit their stride. We’ve got some chains that embrace sustainable sourcing, others that focus on healthfulness, and still others that just want to make a better burger.
These Disturbing Fast Food Truths Will Make You Reconsider Your Lunch
But before you scarf one down, you might want to truly evaluate what’s going on with your fast food. Here are some truths that may make you wonder if you still want to go to there for lunch.
With Fast Food, It's Tough to Sort the Beef From the Chaff
Despite extensive regulations governing certain areas of food processing, there are scant data available to the public about what really goes into some of their favorite restaurant meals. And what information is available—often on fast-food chains' websites—often omits crucial details.
Would You Like Kale With That? Big Healthy Changes Are Coming to the Fast Food Industry
“The word is out that highly processed foods are not a good basis for healthy diets,” adds food politics expert and author Marion Nestle, the Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at NYU. “The trend is clear: fresh, natural, local, organic. This is hard for fast food and processed food makers to accomplish, but they are all trying.”
Your Fast-Food Hamburger Contains Antibiotics. Here’s Why
So aside from staying well away from those “D Grade” fast food restaurants and only ordering chicken from McDonald’s, what more can you do to avoid antibiotics as much as possible?
New Fast Food Chains Can Improve Businesses as Usual
...the new crop of healthy fast-food start-ups — Sweetgreen, LYFE Kitchen, Tender Greens and Native Foods — are not companies trying to dress themselves according to the latest fad. They are chasing a multibillion dollar market of well-off moms and Millennials who are demanding healthy and sustainable food that’s also convenient.
15 of the healthiest fast-food menu items
Heading to McDonald's for a healthy lunch might not sound like an easy task. But it can be.
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