MetaFilter posts tagged with fastfood and health

Ice vs. toilet water

riffola — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:51:40 -0800

Jasmine Roberts, a seventh-grade student: "I found that 70-percent of the time, the ice from the fast food restaurant's contain more bacteria than the fast food restaurant's toilet water."

fast food fitness

me3dia — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:03:13 -0800

An unholy union of fitness and fast food: Bally Total Fitness teams up with Yum Brands to offer free four-month gym memberships to people who eat at Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC, Long John Silver's or A&W restaurants.

mcdonalds supersizeme

stbalbach — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:00:30 -0800

His mission: To eat three meals a day for 30 days at McDonald's and document the impact on his health. "It was really crazy - my body basically fell apart". Spurlock charted his journey from fit to flab in a tongue-in-cheek documentary which he has taken to the Sundance Film Festival.

Rick Bayless @ BK

blakewest — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 06:24:50 -0800

Recently, Rick Bayless has been making some appearances in Burger King ads for some new sandwiches they're trying to sell. If you've ever seen Rick's show, you know that he's a true lover of food. Why would he do an ad for BK? The money, you say? Many seem to agree. Here's what Rick Bayless has to say for himself: "I decided that it’s time for those of us in the healthy food/sustainable food movement to applaud any positive steps we see in the behemoth quick-service restaurant chains." I have noticed that Rick looks like he's in pretty good shape, despite the fact that he occasionally cooks with "a little freshly rendered pork fat". Maybe he's for real.

plinth — Wed, 15 Mar 2000 08:08:04 -0800

Worried about nutrition? Then you should be very scared if you eat at:

Even Subway which sells its food as healthy (low fat) contains more sodium than canned soup.