convenience foods

Offers dietary and nutritional advice to encourage weight loss with guidance on food selection from restaurants and supermarkets, detailing the calories, fat, sodium, sugars, and related content information on thousands of items.

Describes how convenient fast foods such as hamburgers and french fries are overprocessed and contain little to no nutritional value, and suggests alternate food choices.

Discusses the controversy over the consumption of fast food in America in establishments such as McDonald's and Burger King through a series of essays that debate issues of obesity, animal abuse, and the environment in connection with the fast food industry.

Identifies obesity as a health crisis of epidemic proportions in the United States, discusses the role of fast food and supersizing in perpetuating the problem, and offers advice on how to make healthier choices.