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Eating :: Chain restaurants charged with promoting X-treme Eating

A 2,000-calorie appetizer. A 2,000-calorie main course. Another 1,700 calories for dessert. Those aren?t typos. It?s more like par for the course at Ruby Tuesday, On the Border, the Cheesecake Factory, and countless other top table-service chain restaurants.

Diet :: Uno Chicago Grill provides nutritional information for diets

Uno Chicago Grill’s President and Chief Executive Officer Frank Guidara issued the following response to the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI) recent nutritional evaluation of Uno Chicago Grill’s Pizza Skins appetizer and the request that nutritional information for every item be listed on the menu.

Salmonella :: Peanut butter salmonella victims to protect legal rights

A Salmonella outbreak has sickened nearly 300 people in 39 states, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. The source of the bacterium has been linked to Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter.

Vasectomy :: Vasectomy may put men at risk for type of dementia

Northwestern University researchers have discovered men with an unusual form of dementia have a higher rate of vasectomy than men the same age who are cognitively normal.

Procrastination :: Procrastination can be explained by a single mathematical equation

A comprehensive meta-analysis of procrastination research, 10 years in the making, shows that: Most people’s New Year’s resolutions are doomed to failure; self-help books have it wrong when they say perfectionism is the root cause of procrastination, and procrastination can be explained by a single mathematical equation.

Diet :: Do you know where the food on your plate comes from?

David Miliband joined Tony Blair and celebrity chef Lesley Waters (Ready Steady Cook) at 10 Downing St for the launch of a campaign to encourage people to ask where their food comes from when they’re out for a meal.

Trans Fat :: Starbucks drops trans fats from items

Starbucks, the world’s largest multinational chain of coffee shops in US, plans to provide trans fats free items in its menu. Pastries and other foods sold at half of Starbucks’s US outlets will be free of artery-clogging trans fats starting this week.

Hepatitis :: Hepatitis scare at Auckland McDonalds

Auckland health authorities are on high alert for a possible outbreak of infectious hepatitis A after a sick McDonald’s worker handled food at one of Auckland’s busiest restaurants. The worker may have exposed hundreds of customers to the virus during an evening shift at the Greenlane restaurant just over a fortnight ago.

Trans Fat :: Connecticut lawmakers ban trans fats in restaurants

Two Republican state senators in Connecticut proposed legislation to ban artificial trans fats in restaurant food, specially french fries and fried chicken. Sen. Andrew Roraback, R-Goshen, ranking Republican on the legislature’s Public Health Committee, co-sponsored the bill.

Norovirus :: Norovirus in Olive Garden food illness outbreak – Indianapolis

Marion County Health Department confirms norovirus highly contagious virus for an outbreak of illness among nearly 400 customers of an Olive Garden restaurant outside Indianapolis. Tests on three employees and one customer were positive for norovirus.