Also, 84 percent of parents say they've taken their children to eat fast food at least once in the past week.
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Ms. AUSTIN: We know on the days when children and teens eat fast food, they consume more calories, more fat, more added sugars and fewer fruits and vegetables.
If you eat fast food once a week, a small switch from French fries to apple fries could save your children almost three pounds of weight a year.
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People who eat at fast food restaurants might think, as the old McDonald's slogan suggested, that they deserve a break.
Reduce Digestive Problems: By slowing down your eating pace and chewing for longer, you can take better care of your digestive track, which is agitated when you eat too fast.
During such times, he says, Americans are more prone to travel closer to home, stay at less expensive hotels, eat at fast-food restaurants rather than fancier dine-in restaurants and plan more online trips looking for the best deals.
One Heinz executive even bought a used minivan in which to eat ketchup with fast food.
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The best television shows of the year are broadcast for families who gather to eat after the daytime fast, ensuring a maximum viewing audience.
He had bought her some fast food to eat, and became known to internet users as "French Fry Brother".
"Training was during Ramadan so we would train all day during our fast then finally eat at sunset around 7pm, " Mustafa, who was one of the coaches, says with a smile.
In addition, Pizza Hut has recently introduced Pizza Station, a fast-food pizza establishment offering fast and convenient service, both eat-in and take-away.
Many researchers believe that it's actually cheaper, in our fast-food society, to eat a high-fat, high-calorie diet than it is to stay slim.
Ms. HARRISON: We think that there is a subtle message there that children can eat things like sweets, soft drinks and candy and fast and convenience foods and not raise their risk of being overweight.
Our traditional view of the food chain is that large companies manage it, industrial farms produce for it, food ingredient experts intervene with flavor enhancing and preservation chemicals, and fast food joints or supermarkets shift food to the public, who eat it, often to their detriment.
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