Fast food supersizes consumers: study
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LONDON - Fast-food meals are causing consumers to gain weight, according to a 15-year study on the health effects of the diet pattern.
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NEW YORK  - While people have a good sense   of the calories contained in smaller portions of fast food,   they sharply underestimate the calories in "super size"   servings, research hints.
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NEW YORK  - Children's tendency to become   overweight might have something to do with how their mothers   urge them to eat, a new study hints.
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Eating a high-fat, high-carb  fast food meal produces damaging cellular changes that are  greater and longer-lasting in obese people than in  normal-weight people, a new study shows.
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Abdominal obesity is a bigger heart attack risk factor in Latin America than elsewhere, partly because of surging consumption of junk foods loaded with sugar and fat, researchers reported on Monday.
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LOS ANGELES  - After setting the fast-food industry on its ear with 2004's "Super Size Me," Morgan Spurlock turns to examining U.S. foreign policy and the "war on terror" in "Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?"
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Having fast-food restaurants in children's hospitals influences patients' families to eat fast food and to think that it's relatively healthy, new research suggests.
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Along with the American waistline, the American plate and portion size have grown too. A study at Rutgers University supports earlier research that people today eat bigger servings than they did 20 years ago.
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A siege of fast-food commercials on  Spanish-language television channels in the United States may  be helping drive an obesity epidemic among Latino youth,  researchers reported on Tuesday.
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A paper in The Journal of Consumer Research looks at the effects of self-restraint on subsequent impulse purchases.
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The fast-food giant keeps growing in its fiscal second quarter.
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NEW YORK  - People who opt for a meal at a "healthy" restaurant often consume more calories than they would dining at fast food joints that make no health claims, a new study shows.
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New study findings suggest that controlling portion sizes may be the fastest route to weight loss.
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A treat at a fast food chain could expose children to "staggeringly" high levels of salt, a survey suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Modifying the consumption of  different food-groups may keep body weight from creeping up  over time, new research suggests.
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LONDON - A new study gives scientific clout to a conclusion many already see as obvious: Eating lots of fast food makes you fat and increases the chance of developing diabetes.
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Fast food outlets are common inside U.S. children's hospitals, leading more patients to consume hamburgers and fries and encouraging them to view the fare as healthier than it probably is, a study said on Monday.