Specializing in a healthy, organic version of the traditional high-fat fast food, Naked Pizza has won financial backing from Dallas Maverick owner Mark Cuban.

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Fringe retailers, by her definition, are those shops that specialise in food high in salt, fat and sugar, plus non-food items such as fizzy drinks.

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The plaintiffs sued for deceptive acts and practices under the federal Consumer Protection Act, New York's General Business Law and New York City's Administrative Code, charging that McDonald's negligently sold food high in cholesterol and fat, and failed to warn about the dangers.

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The proposal addresses how toys and other marketing freebies entice children to buy fast-food meals that are high in fat and calories, Mar said.

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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.

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Margins, meanwhile, are fat for a reason: fresh food is always a high-risk business, which requires an intimate understanding of how customers' tastes vary according to store location and time of day.

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For rats on the high-fat diet, the group that ate both types of potato chips gobbled more food, gained more weight, and developed more fatty tissue than the rats that ate only the high-calorie chips.

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United Airlines tried offering "active'' and "organic'' snack boxes with high-protein, low-fat and organic items, but ended up donating thousands to food banks before eliminating them from the menu.

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Try to eat non-cream-based soups, lots of non-starchy vegetables and salads (but watch the dressing and high-fat toppings), and low-fat or nonfat dairy with most meals and snacks to get adequate food volume with fewer calories.

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