High street restaurants sign up to healthy eating

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Six leading high street restaurant chains ? Burger King, KFC, McDonald's, Nando's, Subway and Wimpy ? have today announced a commitment to make changes in their restaurants, which support Agency activity to help people eat more healthily outside the home.

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CookieMonster

About time too...but in my honest opinion the damage has already been done,we have two generations who have been given unhealthy fast food junk with no consideration to their health.

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Ann

This is true! Little did we know the unhealthy circumstances!

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shammrok

Better late than never though!

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greenkitchen

I'm a bit skeptical...McD's did that here by introducing salads and fruit and doing a year long cross promotion with 24 Hour Fitness. I still don't know anyone who goes to McD's for the fresh food..LOL.

Ann

GK, You hit that right on the head. lol

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Jason Chapman

The only fast food place I'll eat is Pizza Hut. Went to KFC earlier in the year and tried some chicken in sticky sweet chilly barbeque sauce. It was absolutely vile. The sauce tasted more like liquid candy floss/cotton candy, pourd over a piece of chicken, makes me feel sick just talking about it.

Ann

I've lsot my taste for alot of fast foods since I've been trying to eat better. I think it's great.

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webwonder

Anyone who frequents a fast food outlet has one thing on their mind, a quick easy solution to a craving bought on by the companies in the first place.
Lazy, fat and unadventurous may sound harsh but that in my personal opinion sums up the people who visit these places on a regular basis, i can knock up a homemade burger in 10 minutes, knowing exactly what goes in it. Im no health freak but there is no excuse with food availability for having a healthy nutricious meal.
I bought a burger maker from kitchenaria.com for less than £5 the cost of a meal at one of these places, they not only look and taste better but they wont kill me in 10 years time!!!

them apples

@ Jason: yes, KFC is, erm, special. So much salt.

I think it's a good thing that the big fast food chains are making an effort, but I fear it's a token one. Really, how healthy can you make a piece of chicken, coated in breadcrumbs and fried in a deep fat fryer. This is neve, ever going to be healthy, and that's kinda the point of it anyway.

I don't really eat in any of these places, but at least the last time I went to Nandos I got a decent piece of chicken that actually looked like chicken and had a bit of kick to it. Not stellar food by any stretch, but sometimes only something like that will do.