Fast food is the term given to many foods that can be prepared and served quickly. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food, such as TV dinners, typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store which is rapidly prepared and served to the customer in a packaged form for take out/take away.Outlets may be stands or kiosks, which may provide no shelter or seating, or fast food restaurants (also known as quick service restaurants). Franchise operations which are part of restaurant chains have standardized foodstuffs shipped to each restaurant from central locations.The capital requirements to start a fast-food restaurant are relatively small, particularly in areas with non-existent or poorly enforced health codes. Small, individually-owned fast-food restaurants have become common throughout the world. Fast food restaurants with higher sit-in ratios, where customers can sit and have their orders brought to them, are known as fast casual restaurants.

Americans are spending more of their hard earned dollars on breakfasts at fast food restaurants. The problems with this trend are obvious. Fast food breakfasts are loaded with fat & salt, and they are packaged in paper & plastic that is used once, then tossed as soon as possible. Here are 10 ways to make breakfasts quick, healthy and green.

Health wise, fast food really has little or nothing to offer. Just because a fast food chain serves a salad, or some sliced apples, does not mean they are now a healthy restaurant. That being said, if you manage your portions at these places, you should be able to survive one or two stops at your favorite greasy spoon joint.

Arbys fast food doesn't have to be unhealthy as long as you make the right choices. Here's how to eat healthy at Arbys.

As more Americans seek out products with green credentials, more quick and casual restaurants are ready to serve them. Eating green no longer means just ordering from a vegetarian menu. In fact, it doesn't even have to mean eating healthy.

An insanely comprehensive and completely sortable side-by-side comparison of the most popular foods from over 20 fast food restaurants to see how each restaurant's food stacks up against all of the others. See which is the best, which is the worst, and which will probably kill you 5 minutes after you eat it.