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Fat Doesn't Mean Unhealthy: Obesity, Judgment, and Chicken McNuggets

Seventeen-year-old Stacey Irvine's Chicken McNuggets diet has driven her to the hospital. She's also (gasp!) thin.

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Does Banning Toys Make Fast Food Healthier?

With or without the promotional tie-in, most kids prefer french fries to apple slices.

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Have It Your Way: The Evolution of the Kids' Meal

Fast food restaurants attempt to make Happy Meals seem a little happier.

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The Drive-Through Middle Class: The Surprising Link Between Income and Fast-Food Eating

Middle-class families are more likely to eat fast food frequently than the poorest Americans.

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Should Burger King Do More Than Just Hint at Apple Fries?

Optimal defaults could change fast-food orders. Companies should go a step further and offer discounts for healthier choices.

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Is It Better to Provide Health Food or to Eliminate Junk Food?

When it comes to the fight against obesity, what's more important: access to healthy food or barriers to unhealthy food?

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Calorie Counting: When Nudge Comes to Shove

If we're serious about the obesity problem a gentle nudge, like providing calorie information, may not be enough.

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"Organic" Foods Pack on the Pounds

We often think organic means fewer calories, and that's why we should institute mandatory calorie counting.

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Calling All Canadians, Help Explain the McLobster McLobster: Where to Find McDonald's North Atlantic Seafood Sandwich

What McLobsters, McRibs, McCrab, McArabia, and the McLaks say about the regionalization of the homogenous McDonald's fast food chain.

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The World's Fastest Dinner Table

There is a furniture speed record, and it's been taken by a dinner table traveling at 113.8 miles per hour.

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Radical Rutgers Professor Maps Toxic Ads, Then Buys Billboards to Publish Her Results

Naa Oyo A. Kwate counts fast-food outlets, alcohol ads, and immune system markers to analyze the impact of the urban environment on our health.

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Food for Thinkers: Panic In Aisle Five

Feedlots and chicken fried steak: James Reeves on the moral grey zone at the heart of his relationship with food.

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Feed Your Food Cart Fetish

Responses to the design challenge of creating a "fast" food truck for the 21st century.

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Vote for the Best Solutions to Reinvent Fast Food in Yoxi's Social Issue Competition

Six teams are trying to solve the fast food dilemma. And today you can vote on which idea is best.

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Vote for the Team That Will Reinvent Fast Food in Yoxi’s Social Issue Competition

Today you have the power to vote on the future of fast food. Right now, at Yoxi.tv, ten teams are facing the challenge: Reinvent Fast Food.