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More Proof – We Are a Fast-Food Nation

In America, fast food restaurants are everywhere — including hospitals. Nearly 70% of U.S.-based hospitals affiliated with a medical school have at least one fast food establishment inside their facilities,…

The Scourge of Sugary Drinks

According to research published in the journal Nature Medicine, sugar-sweetened drink consumption accounts for more than two million new cases of type two diabetes, and 1.2 million new cases of…

What Do You Think?

Beans and lentils might be playing a starring role in newly proposed changes to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. If adopted, the new guidelines would emphasize such plant-based proteins and…

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Junk Food in American Diets

Based on a duo of surveys of food intake among 10,001 U.S. adults, 47% of calories hail from junk food in the typical American diet.