Fast Food Week!
Time again for our weekly Fast Food News roundup… And this week, we have a really eclectic selection of reports, from ‘Brekkie Burgers’, to a janitor who became a VP, to a CEO with new Tex-Mex challenges, to a cavalcade of limited-time come-backs, to a KFC near-catastrophe in the UK…Read More →
Weight Management Week: Get a Dog!
I’ve tried a number weight loss regimes in the past and they’ve all worked to some degree. But, before Riley The Wonder Dog came into our life, neither I nor my sister, Erin, had come across a ‘diet’ that not only took the pounds off but helped us keep them off… The Riley Diet: Simple, easy, healthy…Read More →
Weight Management Week: Parental Examples
A wide-ranging study by researchers at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and the University of Melbourne, Australia, strongly suggests that the habits of, and problems faced by parents in their adolescence and prenatally can have a serious negative impact on their children…Read More →
Weight Management Week: Vitamin D’s Role
Researchers at the University of Southern California report that Vitamin D deficiency in mothers during early pregnancy can lead to fatter babies and obesity in the kids later in life. And that’s an issue that can be addressed easily, if expectant mothers simply follow their doctors’ orders…Read More →
Weight Management Week: Change Eating Habits
The focus has traditionally been on changing what you eat, how much you eat and when you eat it, when it comes to creating diets and ‘healthy eating’ plans. But, now, Japanese researchers have discovered that other behavioural factors can have a significant effect on weight-gain/loss…Read More →
Weight Management Week: A Peservative’s Story
There’s a lot of weight management news in the pipe this week, so I thought I’d focus on that issue and make sure we see all of it in this space. Today, we segue to a chemical family known as ‘obesogens’, because they appear to promote weight gain by suppressing your resting metabolic rate…Read More →
A Fat-Burning Switch In Your Brain?
Have you ever gone on a diet and lost the weight – only to have it all come back soon after you went off the diet? I have. More than once. Now, however, science has discovered what might be called a fat-burning switch in the brain that could potentially end this frustrating, disappointing yo-yo situation…Read More →
Fast Food Week!
It’s that time again. Time for our weekly roundup of ‘quick service’ and ‘take-out’ food industry news. Arby’s is (re)launching a trio of classic Sandwiches for spring, Subway is trying a high-end approach to breakfast, and there’s news of a new addition you can request on any McDonald’s Sandwich…Read More →