A fast food restaurant, sometimes known as a quick service restaurant or QSR, is a specific type of restaurant characterized both by its fast food cuisine and by minimal table service. Food served in fast food restaurants typically caters to a Western-style diet; is cooked in bulk in advance and kept hot to order; and is usually available ready to take away, though seating is provided. Fast food restaurants are usually part of a restaurant chain or franchise operation, which ships standardized foodstuffs to each restaurant from central locations.The first fast food restaurants originated in the United States of America during the 1950s. Today, American-founded fast food chains such as McDonald's and Pizza Hut are multinational corporations with outlets across the globe.Variations on the fast food restaurant concept include fast casual restaurants and catering trucks. Fast casual restaurants have higher sit-in ratios, and customers can sit and have their orders brought to them. Catering trucks often park just outside worksites and are popular with factory workers.

One of the most common food choices for the average person is fast food. And, as if this is going to be a shock to anyone on the planet, fast food is one of the worst high calorie offenders. This list is taken from the nutrition facts of literally every single item from the menus of 25 popular fast food restaurants.

The best way to lose weight fast is NOT low fat foods. Low fat foods have been popular for more than 15 years, yet our society is getting more overweight as each year passes. This fact alone should tell you that eating a purely low fat menu is not the answer to losing weight.

Around holiday time, a common comment I hear is, "I cooked for 6 hours and we ate everything in 20 minutes." Well, aside from the fact that there must be zero socializing at that holiday table, it seems to me that eating a couple thousand calories in 20 minutes is a little fast. Could you enjoy the food just as much by slowing down?

A new online tool with nutrition facts on thousands of fast foods. If you are counting calories to lose weight, or are being more cautious about your nutrient intake, check out fast-food-nutrition.info .

Chinese food. It's certainly tasty enough, but is it healthy? In these modern days of looking good and feeling good this is a question that might often be on the lips of anyone who has just devoured an egg fu yung. Well the answer to the question is that, yes, authentic Chinese cooking is very healthy. In fact the Chinese diet might be one of th...