Tag — junk food

Fast food chains and weight loss companies are not supposed to get along, let alone collaborate. This week in New Zealand and Australia, Weight Watchers and McDonald’s have announced they are teaming up to offer weighted meals based on the Weight Watchers point system. Talk about a marketing ploy! In the past, Weight Watchers always offered their members a point system for typical fast food meals such as KFC, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, etc… [Read more →]

Venus and Serena Williams are definitely the divas of tennis but now the sisters are endorsing the new Nabisco 100 Calorie Pack snacks and so they are now the divas of diet. The Nabisco 100 Calorie Pack snacks come in various flavors and varieties, they have cookie bonbons, snack cakes, thin crisps, sweet and salty kettle mix and many more. Venus said, [Read more →]

With the United States facing its biggest obesity crisis ever, slimming the nation has never been more important. Whole Foods Market CEO, John Mackey, has found a way he can help the government in its crusade, even if it only affects his employees. Mackey has launched a new rewards initiative, the Team Member Healthy Discount Incentive Program, where healthier employees receive bigger store discounts. [Read more →]

We all know what it’s like to get home at the end of a tough day and just want to curl up on the sofa with a jumbo sized Pepsi and super-sized Big Mac. We all think that junk food makes us feel a little self-indulgent and a little better about ourselves, but it might actually be fueling the bad mood you’re in and making feel worse – even to the point of increasing your risk of depression. [Read more →]

He may still have a lucrative contract with Subway sandwiches, but Jared Fogel the ‘Subway Guy’ gained a whopping 40 pounds last year. He famously lost 245 pounds by eating only Subway sandwiches but he dropped the ball this year when he quit working out and didn’t pay attention to what he was eating. He told People Magazine,

“I look at it as a little bit of a hiccup, not exercising as much as I should have and not paying attention to what I was eating.”

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If you can’t trust the calorie labels on foods and in restaurants then what can you trust these days? A small study has revealed that restaurant and ready-made frozen meals at times contain more calories than stated on the labels – in extreme cases, twice as many calories.

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One fast food restaurant capitalizing on weight-watchers’ New Year’s resolutions to get in shape is Mexican chain Taco Bell, with their new “Drive-Thru Diet”. And their new spokesperson? Christine, a beautiful brunette who claims to have lost 54 pounds in 2 years all because of the new, healthier options now available on the menu.

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Did Jared Fogle the Subway guy have too much Christmas pudding over the holiday season? He was spotted last week at Miami International Airport looking very top heavy with a double chin and burly chest.

Back in 2000 Jared became a celebrity after losing over 200 pounds by eating only low-fat Subway sandwiches for lunch and dinner. He’s still their spokesperson and he travels to schools through out the nation to encourage kids to lead a healthy lifestyle. But by the looks of this last photo (photo above on the right) it appears he may need to rethink his eating habits. According to Subway’s website, [Read more →]

Is it possible the Subway guy Jared has met his match? Taco Bell’s new spokesperson, Christine Dougherty, says she lost 54 pounds over a two-year time period by eating the ‘Fresco’ menu items offered at the fast food chain restaurant. According to the company the Fresco items,

“can help with calorie reductions of 20 to 100 per item compared to corresponding products on our regular menu.”

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If you’ve purposefully ignored our advice on how not to fall off the diet wagon this holiday season, then let this blog entry serve as a few words of warning – you’ll consume some of the fattiest food over Christmas lunch. The authors of This Is Why You’re Fat have compiled their list of the craziest foods they’ve come across that’ll practically obliterate the hard work you’ve put in throughout 2009. [Read more →]