Wow - as if it wasn't cheesy (and toxic, nutrient void and fattening) enough to eat one or the other, Denny's has combined deep fried & breaded cheese sticks and a grilled cheese sandwhich on processed white bread!!! 

S.A.D. at it's worst!

The whole Denny's new menu story is here: http://www.nrn.com/article/dennys-update-2-4-6-8-value-menu

By now everyone knows that hi fructose syrup is bad for you on many levels. This article about a U.S. study dives even deeper:

Aug 2 (Reuters) - Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same.

Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of California Los Angeles found.

They said their finding, published in the journal Cancer Research, may help explain other studies that have linked fructose intake with pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancer types.

"These findings show that cancer cells can readily metabolize fructose to increase proliferation," Dr. Anthony Heaney of UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center and colleagues wrote.

"They have major significance for cancer patients given dietary refined fructose consumption, and indicate that efforts to reduce refined fructose intake or inhibit fructose-mediated actions may disrupt cancer growth."

Americans take in large amounts of fructose, mainly in high fructose corn syrup, a mix of fructose and glucose that is used in soft drinks, bread and a range of other foods.

Politicians, regulators, health experts and the industry have debated whether high fructose corn syrup and other ingredients have been helping make Americans fatter and less healthy.

Too much sugar of any kind not only adds pounds, but is also a key culprit in diabetes, heart disease and stroke, according to the American Heart Association.

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This slam campaign towards McDonald's having smoothies should have launched on April 1st.

Thank goodness IT IS A JOKE!

Seriously?
OK, this is not a joke - but it SHOULD BE!
If it were a joke it might be funny. But since this is real, it's SAD!

Mark One Foods is producing the "Canwich"  a sandwich in a can that lasts for a year and can be sold out of a vending machine.
Their first flavor will be PBJ (peanut butter and jelly).
YUCK. YUCK. YUCK!!

This has to be the stupidest 'food' product ever invented and it shouldn't even be allowed to be called food!
....So disappointing on so many levels.

See video report

Answer - You'd be overweight and malnourished!!
Oh Yeah, this is America and we ARE!

Check out this great article by Alice Park on time.com
 
It should come as no surprise that the typical American diet isn't exactly brimming with healthy goodness — rather, it's laden with fat, sugar and salt. And now new research published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association points to a troubling reason: TV ads for food may be skewing our decisions on what we eat in powerful ways.

To figure out exactly how unhealthy a TV-guided diet would be, researchers studied food commercials that appeared during 84 hours of prime-time programming and 12 hours of Saturday-morning cartoons broadcast over the major U.S. networks during one month in 2004. When the research team calculated the nutritional content of a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet containing only foods that were advertised on television, they found that it exceeded the government's recommended daily amount of fat by 20 times and had 25 times the recommended daily intake of sugar. "That's almost a month's worth of sugar in one day," notes study leader Michael Mink at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Ga.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1993220,00.html

This article is awesome.

I love how the photos show you the sugar content equivalents of each drink.
Some drinks you'd expect to be high in sugar but many drinks are marketed as "healthy" and many are marketed to kids.