Los Angeles has taken a bold move in the battle against unhealthy eating by banning new fast food restaurants from opening in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods. The city council has issued a moratorium on new fast food for a year in South Los Angeles.

The nanny state tactics hit South Central Los Angeles. The Los Angeles City Council is proposing a one-year moratorium on new fast food chains in the area.

Nathans Hot Dog Eating Contest 2008 is happening today on this July 4th weekend. As I was waiting to write the story about Nathans Hot Dog Eating Contest 2008 I was waiting untill the official website of Nathans Hot Dog Eating Contest 2008 www.nathansfamous.com is up, but it has been several hours the site is still down and it's hard to get any official information as to how is the hot dog eating contest going today.

Fast food chain Burger King is preparing to roll out the U.K.'s most expensive burger costing a staggering 85 pounds ($170), national media reported on Thursday.

A Swedish study has revealed both good and bad health results for fast food diets.

A burger and fries may be the quintessential North American meal but it can also be viewed as the perfect example of humanity’s increasingly varied diet, according to researchers who have conducted a unique study of the plants used around the world for food.

Americans are less willing to pay more for healthy dishes, less knowledgeable about healthy menu items, and more likely to consider healthy items bland tasting, finds a Temple University analysis.

According to new sudy raising children on diet foods and drinks could inadvertently turn them into obese adults. Research from the University of Alberta said that children's bodies learn to connect the taste of different foods and drinks with whether they are high or low in calories, and if they only have diet food and drink this connection becomes distorted leading them to overeat as they develop into adults.

Say what you will, Shakespeare, but a McNugget by any other name is just not as tasty. At least, not to the 3- to 5-year-old set.

Preschool children preferred the taste of foods and drinks in McDonald’s packaging to the same foods and drinks in unbranded packaging, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Dallas-based 7-Eleven Inc. is celebrating its 80th birthday with free Slurpees for all.

Wendy's International Inc.'s representatives said on Monday that it is exploring a possible sale of the company, the nation's third-largest hamburger chain, as it warned that profits for the year would fall short of Wall Street expectations.