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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." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"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." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

"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." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"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." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"When the "authorities" came knocking on the Boutenkos' door after hearing reports that the family was on a "weird" diet, the kids, who were home alone at the time, answered the caseworker's query with, "We just got back from burger king!" After she left, satisfied that they were eating "nutritious" fast food like everyone else, the kids would jokingly refer to drive-in as "Murder King." As for your extended family and friends, unless they are health seekers, don't overwhelm them. When I first went raw, I was sure that if everyone simply tasted the raw gourmet food, they would switch." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"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." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"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." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "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." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"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." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"When I turned sixteen, I felt like the last kid in America who had never once gone inside a McDonald's or burger king. So what was the very first thing I did when I got my driver's license? That's right, I pulled up to the drive-thru of the nearest fast-food restaurant and ordered a huge, greasy bacon cheeseburger. "If only my mom could see me now!" I thought gleefully. I parked my car and ripped right into the bag of delicious-smelling food. Unfortunately, the fun stopped there. The hamburger was disgusting—I couldn't believe this is what my friends had been eating all those years!" - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Also, a typical burger king outlet sells only 4 or 5 of its allegedly healthier Veggie Burgers in a day compared to 300 to 500 of any other sandwich or burger on the menu.28 Burgers are more profitable than salads Fast-food chains are faced with unavoidable food-related obstacles when it comes to serving truly healthy alternatives. For example, produce is much harder to store than, say, frozen hamburger patties. Other challenges include standardization and mass production of messy, perishable fruits and vegetables. Such annoyances of nature add up to more complexity and higher costs." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"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." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

"Remember the burger wars between McDonald's, burger king, and Wendy's? The cola wars between Coke and Pepsi? What were they The One way to fighting over? Us. More accurately, our disposable income. get thin is to re- The fast-food chains and manufacturers are fighting for establish a tne r'gnt to sea us high-fat, high-calorie, low-nutrition, purpose in life mass-marketed, mass-produced food. As citizen- _ .. _ ,, consumers we are being pounded mercilessly with adver- —Cyril Connolly _ . . tising come-ons to live the good life of gluttony. Like all rhetorical wars, they can't be won." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Imagine being able to get a burger king hamburger or McDonald's french fries from a vending machine." • Pursue well-being: "The good news is that 'wellness' products are typically associated with higher net selling prices and . . . fatter margins . . . What if Coke and Pepsi created [soft drinks] that are rich in vitamins and other nutrients? . . . How about marketing to bored patients waiting endlessly in their doctors' offices? . . ." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"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." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"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." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"You will have lots of choices for garbage foods: McDonald's, burger king, KFC,Wendy's, Denny's,Taco Bell, Dunkin' Donuts, and more, but you will be hard put to find a restaurant that will serve you fresh vegetables or fish, or free-range chicken. Today when you take a trip, you have to take real food with you. It's not your fault that you can't find real food in the average American town. The food industry conspires to keep real food off the shelves. Why? It's simply not as profitable to sell vegetables, fruits, and nuts as it is to sell Twinkies, candy bars, and chips." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"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." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"McDonald's has come to them; burger king, KFC, and other Western eating habits have also invaded Asia. Meat, cheese, and other greasy foods are displacing rice and vegetables. As the Japanese diet has become Westernized, the prevalence of diabetes has exploded. In studies of adults in Japan over age 40, diabetes prevalence was between 1 and 5 percent prior to 1980. By 1990, it had gone up to 11 to 12 percent.1 Statistical projections suggest it will rise even further." - Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan, Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs (Get the book.)

"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." - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.)

"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." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.) "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." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"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." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"ACSH's corporate fun-ders have included Coca-Cola, burger king, Frito-Lay, General Mills, Kellogg, Kraft, Nestle, PepsiCo, the American Beverage Association, and the Sugar Association.14 Like ACFN, ACSH has effectively used the media as a sounding board for its pro-industry ideology. A good example of ACSH's rhetorical handiwork is an editorial by its president, Elizabeth Whelan. Titled "A Year of Public Health Lunacy," the piece appeared in the New Tork Post in December 2005." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Fast food, including Taco Bell, Arby's, McDonald's, Carl's Junior, burger king, In and Out Burger, fast-food pizza joints, fast-food Chinese, Subway, KFC, Popeye's Chicken, and any other fast-food restaurants 18. Fried foods, such as French fries, onion rings, fried chicken or chicken wings, and fried zucchini sticks 19. Popcorn with fake butter flavor 20. Condiments with sugar, table salt, or preservatives; that includes sugary ketchup and mayonnaise 21." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.) "Literally swallowed up by advertising, he craved a Big Mac, a sloppy cheeseburger from burger king, and most of all, pizza. Todd missed pizza more than anything, but he felt so much cleaner and could breathe so much better without it, he stuck with the process. I was happy he was staying strictly on the diet, but there was a great deal more work to be done. I read a book by Robert O. Becker, M.D., and Gary Selden, The Body Electric, and I gained an understanding of body electricity. I also found another book, by Dr. C." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.) "On other days, Carlos would run over to burger king for a Whopper with extra cheese, or to McDonald's for a Big Mac, large fries, hot apple pie, and either a shake or a soda. When I asked Carlos why he didn't eat the lunches at school, he said they were boring and too healthy. The typical school lunch was a riddle to us all. We never could figure out what we were eating because it was processed and covered with gravy." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.)

"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." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Cross-promotion: A sales promotion technique whereby the advertisement or promotion for one product includes a promotional message for another product; for example, Star Wars toys at burger king. Energy balance: The oversimplified term that food executives use to explain obesity in a way that sounds objective and scientific, but which conveniently obscures overconsumption of their unhealthy products. It also has the added benefit of emphasizing weight loss and physical activity, keeping the focus on individual behavioral change." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"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. 271 Three, people have a habit of taking the path of least resistance, which is often the path of greatest convenience." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

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