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A McDonald's sign is shown at a McDonald's restaurant in East Palo Alto, Calif., Friday, April 20, 2012. McDonald's mix of old menu standbys and new items like Chicken McBites lured in more diners, who helped boost its first-quarter profit. The world's biggest hamburger chain said Friday that its net income rose 5 percent in the first quarter, in line with Wall Street expectations. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Hospitals criticized for allowing McDonald's operations

Rhiannon Meyers Caller-Times (Corpus Christi, Texas)

Last updated Friday, April 20, 2012 - 2:15pm

A Corpus Christi, Texas,. hospital says it has no plans to evict a McDonald's restaurant, despite a national campaign by a health advocacy group to keep Big Macs from being sold on hospital premises.

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Cinemark Theaters to offer healthier alternatives at concession stands

Contributed Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 11:11am

PLANO, Texas -- Cinemark Holdings, Inc. announced the rollout of the Lite Bites snack pack expanding upon the healthier and lower calorie food and beverage options available at the concession stand.

Cinemark has been testing Lite Bites snack packs in select theatres over that past several months. Lite Bites contains a 16oz. Coke Zero, a Jamba(R) Fruit & Nut Trail Mix, and a calorie-counter's portion of Cinemark's Orville Redenbacher popcorn. Lite Bites weighs in at less than 450 calories and will be expanding to numerous Cinemark theatres across the country.

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Healthful school lunch menu panned by students

Teresa Watanabe Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 12:39pm

LOS ANGELES -- It's lunchtime at Van Nuys High School and students stream into the cafeteria to check out the day's fare: black bean burgers, tostada salad, fresh pears and other items on a new healthful menu introduced this year by the Los Angeles Unified School District.

But Iraides Renteria and Mayra Gutierrez don't even bother to line up. Renteria said the school food previously made her throw up, and Gutierrez calls it "nasty, rotty stuff." So what do they eat? The juniors pull three bags of Flamin' Hot Cheetos and soda from their backpacks.

"This is our daily lunch," Iraides says. "We're eating more junk food now than last year."

For many students, L.A. Unified's trailblazing introduction of healthful school lunches has been a flop. Earlier this year, the district got rid of chocolate and strawberry milk, chicken nuggets, corn dogs, nachos and other food high in fat, sugar and sodium. Instead, district chefs concocted such healthful alternatives as vegetarian curries and tamales, quinoa salads and pad thai noodles.

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Junk food ban costs schools thousands

Brian M. Rosenthal The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, December 12, 2011 - 3:28pm

SEATTLE -- The Seattle School Board is considering relaxing its ban on unhealthful food in high schools amid complaints from student governments that the policy has cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars in vending-machine profits over the past seven years.

The policy, approved in 2004 -- before any state or federal regulations on school nutrition had been established -- put Seattle on the cutting edge of the fight against childhood obesity.

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