NY eateries face new rules on transfats, calories
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New York City's board of health on Tuesday voted to phase out most artificial transfats from restaurants, forcing doughnut shops and fast-food stands to remove artery-clogging oils from their cooking.
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In a move affecting the cooking of more than 6 million pounds of french fries a year, Marriott International is eliminating frying oil containing trans fats from its more than 2,300 hotels throughout the United States and Canada.
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Some of the leading sandwich chains are today criticised by a consumer group for failing to give customers nutritional information about the fat, salt and sugar content of all their products
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The American Medical Association said on Wednesday it wants fast-food and chain restaurants to add nutritional information to menus and menu boards as part of an effort to combat obesity in the United States.
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A city proposal to ban restaurants from selling food containing an unhealthy artificial fat could open a new front in a national fight over the safety of America's food supply, legal experts said.
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New eating guidelines issued by the U.S. government on Wednesday stress losing weight by eating more vegetables, fruits and whole grains but stop short of limiting any specific food group.
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The New York City Board of Health voted unanimously yesterday to require the city's roughly 20,000 restaurants to stop cooking with trans fats, making New York the first major U.S. city to adopt such a ban.
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New York City's Board of Health bans artery-clogging trans-fats from restaurants in the Big Apple.
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Burger King said Friday it will use trans-fat-free cooking oil at all its U.S. restaurants by the end of next year, following in the footsteps of other leading fast-food restaurants.
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Many U.S. chain restaurants are promoting "extreme eating" with dishes that pack at least a day's worth of calories and fat, without giving customers facts about their orders, a consumer group said on Monday.
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A judge has struck down a city rule requiring fast-food restaurants to post calorie content on menus, saying it conflicts with federal law.
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The city's ban on trans fat-laden cooking oils, the first of its kind in the nation, went into effect Sunday.
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Whole Foods in Manhattan is teaching the locals a new rule of living: the longer the line, the shorter the wait.
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Three years after the city banned smoking in restaurants, health officials are talking about prohibiting something they say is almost as bad: artificial trans fatty acids.
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Demand for calorie labels on restaurant food is sweeping the country but the real question is whether diners with more information will make wiser decisions.
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Marriott International Inc. said Thursday it will eliminate trans fats from the cooking oil used by its restaurants at more than 2,300 hotels in the United States and Canada.
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Dec. 6, 2004 -- The FDA announced stricter rules on record keeping by food importers and distributors Monday, just days after Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson warned of dangers to the US food supply from terrorists.