Fat, salt and calories stay high at fast-food outlets
Forget about super-sizing. Portion size at three major fast-food chains changed little from 1996-2013, say researchers at Tufts. In a pair of reports, they say sodium, fat and calorie totals “stayed relatively constant albeit at high levels,” according to a Tufts release. It quotes nutrition professor Alice Lichtenstein as saying “the variability among chains is considerable… » Read More
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