Craig Pepin-Donat
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 At that time, I was in excellent shape, but in 1980 I moved to Northern California for a little over a year where I ended up taking a job as a broiler guy at burger king. Being a motivated individual, I quickly worked my way into management and even finished third in my class at burger king University. Yes, there really is a burger king University. During my time with burger king I started packing on the pounds from eating too many Whoppers with cheese and fries. I also picked up a nice little habit of smoking about a pack of cigarettes a day. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 She told me to go down the main street and turn left at the burger king on the corner, approximately a mile from my house. Although I had lived in the neighborhood for several years and had driven by there hundreds of times, I had no idea where the burger king was. When I told her so, she laughed in dismay and then remembered that I was a health food nut.
"Wow, you mean you really don't even notice places like burger king?" she exclaimed. "I wish I could do that, I'd probably be able to lose that extra 20 pounds!"
I honestly don't notice fast-food places anymore. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Yes, there really is a burger king University. During my time with burger king I started packing on the pounds from eating too many Whoppers with cheese and fries. I also picked up a nice little habit of smoking about a pack of cigarettes a day. I was well on my way to clogging my arteries and almost certain disease from my poor diet, lack of physical activity and bad habits. |
Jack Challem
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 For example, to burn off the 670 calories in a burger king Original Whopper, you would have to walk for almost three hours, cycle for more than one and one-half hours, or jog for a little more than one hour. Similarly, it would take almost an hour of walking to burn off the 210 calories in a Subway turkey breast sandwich. Most people don't have that much time after each meal, so it's far more effective to combine a lower intake of carbohydrate calories with more physical activity. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 The recent rapid increase in obesity parallels the widespread availability of fast-food outlets like McDonald's, Wendy's, burger king, Subway, and Hardees as well as chain restaurants like Olive Garden and Outback Steakhouse, which serve megaportions of food. Every day one out of four Americans eats at a fast-food restaurant, 43% of the time at McDonald's. Convenience-food makers try to increase our desire for the items we crave most (fat, sugar, and salt) in order to sell their products, even if they are killing us. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| During my time with burger king I started packing on the pounds from eating too many Whoppers with cheese and fries. I also picked up a nice little habit of smoking about a pack of cigarettes a day. I was well on my way to clogging my arteries and almost certain disease from my poor diet, lack of physical activity and bad habits. With a history of obesity in my family, it was the fear of being fat that inspired me to join a local fitness club to get myself back into the shape I was in before my "Double-Whopper-with-cheese-large-fries-and-a-Coke" days. |
| It was this same desire that led me to manage burger king Restaurants when I was nineteen years old, and ultimately to the fitness industry in 1981.
I was 21 years old living in New York City making more than $40,000 in my first year of club management. Having made the decision that health and fitness was the career I wanted to pursue, the pressure to perform was on. Like most young people, I experimented with drugs. I never felt addicted to drugs, but then again, addicts do not admit to their addictions until they are ready to face them. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| McDonalds, burger king, and chain restaurants like Applebee's and TGIF pile on the calories in ever-expanding portions, with sodium and fat all far in excess of what we actually need. And since there is a natural tendency to eat everything on your plate, you know the consequence of ordering from their menus.
People who eat fast food three or more times a week have a greater than 90% chance of developing heart disease or diabetes. I don't want to develop heart disease or diabetes, do you? That's why I stopped eating fast food. |
Jack Challem
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| Fast-food restaurants include (but are not limited to) burger king, Carl's Jr, Domino's, Hardee's, KFC, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Subway, Taco Bell, and Wendy's. Our best advice for these restaurants is simple: avoid them! According to a recent article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, people who regularly ate at fast-food restaurants, as opposed to any other type of restaurant, were more likely to become overweight over a seven- to ten-year period.
Although one chain has claimed that you can "have it your way," most meals are anything but individualized. |
| If you travel in the United States, it often seems as if the only food options are McDonald's, burger king, Taco Bell, and other fast-food restaurants. Their presence blinds people to other options. These purveyors of bad nutrition lobby Congress and federal agencies to serve their financial interests instead of the health and basic nutritional needs of consumers.
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Three, people have a habit of taking the path of least resistance, which is often the path of greatest convenience. |
Jack Challem
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 Examples: McDonald's, burger king, Wendy's, KFC, Taco Bell, Carl's Jr., and Denny's, are among the many fast-food and chain restaurants to avoid.
Guideline 7. In All Restaurants, Practice Defensive Eating
Here s why: It is possible to navigate menus in most restaurants, but the guiding rule is this: don't assume anything about what will be served on your plate. A meal such as a chicken Caesar salad that is usually similar from one restaurant to another may be very different in the restaurant you've chosen. |
| McDonald's and burger king) and convenience foods (e.g., microwave meals, breakfast bars) has grown at an astonishing rate, supplanting home-cooked meals. Only about one-third of all dinners are now completely homemade, and 7 percent of these meals are nothing more than sandwiches. One-fourth of home meals are actually purchased frozen or prepared at a restaurant or a market, and the number of take-out meals from restaurants has increased by two-thirds over the last twenty years. We suffer serious neuronutritional consequences because of our poor eating habits. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Dayton, OH: The Mazer Corporation, 1993. burger king website, www.burgerking.com.
Challem, Jack. "Fructose: Maybe Not So Natural . . . and Not So Safe." Nutrition Reporter. http://www.thenutritionreporter.com/fructose_dangers.html.
Center for Science in the Public Interest. "America: Drowning in Sugar—Experts Call for Food Labels to Disclose Added Sugars." Press release, August 3, 1999. http://www.cspinet.org/new/sugar.html.
-. "Consumer Group Petitions FDA to Require 'Diarrhea' Notice on Foods That Contain Sorbitol." Press release, September 27, 1999. http://www.cspinet.org/new/sorbitol_pr. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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| Although I had lived in the neighborhood for several years and had driven by there hundreds of times, I had no idea where the burger king was. When I told her so, she laughed in dismay and then remembered that I was a health food nut.
"Wow, you mean you really don't even notice places like burger king?" she exclaimed. "I wish I could do that, I'd probably be able to lose that extra 20 pounds!"
I honestly don't notice fast-food places anymore. They're like noise on the side of the road to me. My selective perception filters them out. |
Jack Challem
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| Fast-food restaurants, such as McDonald's and burger king, follow stringent rules to avoid bacterial contamination of food. You're not likely to get food poisoning at these and other fast-food restaurants. But this doesn't mean most fast foods are healthy. Don't assume that fast foods are safe to eat because they're prepared in clean kitchens. Germ-free or not, fast foods contribute in a big way to prediabetes and overweight.
Food-Philosophy Principle #5. |
Melody Petersen
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 Iowa pharmacies were also taking cues from the likes of burger king and Jiffy Lube, serving up prescriptions fast and conveniently, any time of the day or night. If someone in Iowa City remembered at midnight he was out of tablets of Paxil or Provigil, he did not have to wait for morning. He could drive down to the Walgreens at the busy corner of Highway 6 and First Avenue in Coralville, which was staffed with a pharmacist twenty-four hours a day. Iowans needing to refill prescriptions did not even need to park their cars. |
| It's Yours for the Asking) were hard to distinguish from those for burger king (Have It Your Way), Wheaties (The Breakfast of Champions), and Eve cigarettes (The first truly feminine cigarette—almost as pretty as you are).
In 1946, George Orwell observed that language can corrupt our thoughts. The "invasion of one's mind by ready-made phrases . . . can only be prevented if one is constantly on guard against them, and every such phrase anaesthetizes a portion of one's brain."
There was no question that the drug companies were attempting such an invasion. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Cheese has 740 calories and 42 grams of fat; Burger King's Triple Whopper with Cheese burger has 1130 calories and 74 grams of fat; and Hardee's Double Thickburger has 1240 calories with
90 grams of fat. In addition, large soft drinks containing substantial amounts of sugar are often consumed as part of the fast-food meal and contribute substantially to total energy intake [36, 193].
Several fast-food chains have tried to introduce reduced-fat entrees, but later withdrew them because of slow sales. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| When I joined my second fitness center during my burger king days, I realized that my time in the fast food industry would be short. Soon after walking into a local fitness club I was filling out a form loaded with questions about what I wanted from a fitness program. After receiving a tour of the club from the sales manager, he outlined the enrollment options and before I knew it, I signed up for a membership.
On every visit I would see the sales manager touring people through the club selling them memberships. |
Dan Buettner
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 Nicoya city, the "Gran Apertura" of the burger king?the peninsula's first. I regarded it all with mild disgust. "Enduring" just one quotidian afternoon in Juan Diaz had recalibrated my tolerance for our world's din and made the idea of quietly eating an orange in the shade of a tree seem genuinely appealing.
I now wish I had accepted Segundina's invitation and stayed for rice, beans, and more simple conversation. |
Ann N. Martin
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 According ro an article by Jeff Gordy on MSG, a lot of restaurants may use MSG to prepare their food, including McDonalds, burger king, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and many others.5
Clumping Kitty Litter
Clumping kitty litters are supposed to reduce odor and help in absorption but how safe are these products for our cats? One of the ingredients in these products is sodium bentonite, which makes the litter clump and makes it easier for disposal. |
David Steinman
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 Till then it is all strings of cookie-cutter homes running up flattened, bulldozed shale-stone mountainsides, interlaced with periodic peaks of cars lined up at the Jack-in-the-Box, McDonald's, Wendy's, and burger king fast-food stop-offs. There's a lot of jockeying in and out of traffic. I tried not to blow my top and maybe I felt a bit of wonder at how big this population in Southern California has become, as well as how utterly dependent we are here on our dinosaur-fueled cars. Fortunately for me, I am leaving the city, so the freeway traffic is relatively light. |
Alex Steffen
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 Founded by Stonyfield Farm president and CEO Gary Hirschberg, O'Naturals has opened a handful of stores in the northeastern United States, with the goal of cranking out meals at the speed of burger king. It's no small feat to go up against a long-established and relatively homogenous population of cheap restaurant chains—but this one may hit the Zeitgeist at just the right moment to really take off. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 Corporate members include Coca-Cola, Taco Bell, burger king, Nestle, Pfizer and Roche Vitamins.9 Some drug companies sponsored the report directly, in addition to their support through the International Life Sciences Institute. I don't recall private corporations providing financial support for the NAS expert panels that I served on.
It seems as if there is no end to this story. The chair of the FNB has been an important consultant to several major dairy-related companies (e.g. |
Mike Adams
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 Kurtz reported that Whelan praises the nutritional virtues of fast food and receives money from burger king. She downplays the link between a high fat diet and heart disease, while receiving funding from Oscar Mayer, Frito Lay and Land O'Lakes. She defends saccharin and receives money from Coca-Cola, Pepsi, NutraSweet and the National Soft Drink Association.
John Stauber, Toxic Sludge Is Good For You
Despite all the spin efforts, it is generally recognized that soft drinks are unhealthy and certainly not "wholesome beverages" as claimed by soft drink makers. |
Michele Simon
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 If the President's Council partners with burger king, how likely is it that anybody in the president's administration is going to speak out against how the fast-food chain lures children with Star Wars toys and other kid-friendly promotions to get them to eat Whoppers and fries? With these arrangements, food companies are essentially buying the government's silence.
Signs that Government is Promoting Food-Industry Interests
Sometimes it's not so easy to tell when federal government officials are towing the corporate line. Here are some ways to spot what's going on. |
| Product placement (Coca-Cola merchandise on American Idol), cross promotions and movie tie-ins (Star Wars toy promotions at burger king), brand licensing (Pop-Tarts boxes adorned with cartoon hero SpongeBob SquarePants), and marketing in schools all make television commercials seem tame by comparison.
Children are now marketed to in ways that were not contemplated even a few years ago. For example, "advergaming"— product promotion in video games—has become a permanent part of the marketing lexicon. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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| When one group of participants in an Eating-for-Health program was asked what they would do if that burger king on ... ,. the corner, for example, wasn't available for them to drive mal |
| Wow, you mean you really don't even notice places like burger king?" she exclaimed. "I wish I could do that, I'd probably be able to lose that extra 20 pounds!"
I honestly don't notice fast-food places anymore. They're like noise on the side of the road to me. My selective perception filters them out. In the past I could have told you not only where every fast food restaurant was within a 20 mile radius, but I also could have told you everything available on their menus along with their prices. |
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