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Nutrition
Nutrition
LOVE your body
Fast Food Information
| | - Nutrition on the Web—for Teens, by Teens A great ThinkQuest site, websites designed and built by students.
- The New Food PyramidWhat do Meat and Beans, Milk, Fruits, Vegetables, and Grains have in common? They all are parts of the US Department of Agricultures new food pyramid.
- Understanding the New Food PyramidA PDF file that includes the following information: Building Healthy Meals and Snacks, Pryamid Snacks, Nutrition Facts Label, Understanding Fats, and Getting Energized with what you eat!
- Cookbooks for Young PeopleGreat ideas for easy and healthy cooking. Take charge of what you eat and impress your friends while doing so!!
- How to read a Nutrition Label Read it, BEFORE you eat it!! You'll be surprised on what and how much you are eating once you understand how to read the nutrition label.
- What's in the Foods You Eat Search ToolSearch a database of 13,000 foods to find nutrient values.
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Despite it's convenience, fast food is a very UNHEALTHY meal...
Check out these surprising statistics..... - Surgeon General David Satcher: "Fast food is a major contributor to the obesity epidemic"
- Each day, 1 in 4 Americans visits a fast food restaurant
- In 1972, we spent 3 billion a year on fast food - today we spend more than 110 billion
- McDonald's feeds more than 46 million people a day - more than the entire population of Spain
- French fries are the most eaten vegetable in America
- You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac
- 60 % of all Americans are either overweight or obese
- One in every three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime
- Left untreated, obesity will surpass smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in America
- Obesity has been linked to: Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease, Adult Onset Diabetes, Stroke, Gall Bladder Disease, Osteoarthritis, Sleep Apnea, Respiratory Problems, Endometrial, Breast, Prostate and Colon Cancers, Dyslipidemia, steatohepatitis, insulin resistance, breathlessness, Asthma, Hyperuricaemia, reproductive hormone abnormalities, polycystic ovarian syndrome, impaired fertility and lower back pain
- The average child sees 10,000 TV advertisements per year--Before most children can speak, they can recognize Ro nald McDonald
- Only seven items on McDonald's entire menu contain no sugar
- Diabetes will cut 17-27 years off your life
- McDonald's: "Any processing our foods undergo make them more dangerous than unprocessed foods"
- The World Health Organization has declared obesity a global epidemic
- Eating fast food may be dangerous to your health
- McDonald's calls people who eat a lot of their food "Heavy Users"
- McDonald's operates more than 30,000 restaurants in more then 100 countries on 6 continents
- Most nutritionists recommend not eating fast food more than once a month
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