McDonald’s Corp. said Monday its global same-store sales jumped 8.2 percent during the month. That beat the company’s own prediction for a rise similar to the one it recorded in its last quarter, when same-store sales, or sales at locations open at least a year, jumped 7.1 percent worldwide.
The results were a bright spot in [...]
Filed under: Food, Stress on November 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
Obesity is often blamed on eating high-fat, high-sugar, non-nutritious foods. But the manner in which one eats may play an important role in body weight, too.
A study published online today in the British Medical Journal found that people who said they eat quickly and eat until full were three times more likely to be overweight [...]
Filed under: Body, Food on October 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »
1. Buy Smaller Plates: It’s all about presentation: If you put the same amount of food on a smaller plate, it’ll look like a bigger serving. Simply switching from a 12.5″ plate to a 10.5″ plate will make you unconsciously serve 20 percent less food. “A smaller plate suggests what’s called a smaller consumption norm,” [...]
Filed under: Food on October 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
Millions of people from many cultures from around the world enjoy the flavor and fire of hot foods. After all, chiles are the second most common spices in the world, following salt. Few people, however, realize the many health benefits that chile peppers offer. A substance called capsaicin causes the heat of chiles and [...]
Filed under: Food on September 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
You already know that drinking wheatgrass juice is healthy, but did you know that wheatgrass juice and juice in general is becoming very popular? The Next Big Thing? One of the top 10 new business trends for the new century as reported by Entrepreneur Magazine? Soon, juice joints will be popping up everywhere like Starbucks [...]
Filed under: Body, Food on August 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
