McDonald's original restaurant in San Bernardino, California served only hamburgers, milkshakes, and french fries. While still based on hamburgers, today's menu includes numerous other items that have been added through the years. Below are listed both the basic items sold in the company's home market, and local variations in the nearly 100 countries where McDonald's does business.

Hot on the heels of a bill that proposes to ban obese customers from dining in restaurants, a new bill bans restaurants from hiding calories inside mixed green salads, paillards of chicken breast, mashed potatoes and chicken club sandwiches. I wish.

Scientists have found the biological switch called neuropeptide Y (NPY) which promotes fat growth in stressed mice that also ate a calorie-rich diet. The discovery could lead to new ways to melt flab and manipulate fat, molding firmer buttocks and bigger breasts.

1. Avoid drinking your calories, aside from post workout shakes.Drinks such as soda and cappuccino are a useless when it comes to proper nutrition. A 20 oz. Coke contains 270 calories. A 4 oz. Chicken breast, a serving of brown rice and broccoli are roughly the same amount. Which do you think is the better choice?

"The fact that Kati Kim was able to breast-feed both of her children for the amount of time that they were stranded most likely was lifesaving for them," "Breast milk not only provides the calories needed to sustain life, it also helps prevents dehydration,"

One drink could pack the 500 to 600 calories of a healthy dinner of chicken breast, rice and vegetables, said Dana Wilkinson, nutrition research co-ordinator at the University of Alberta. A daily double-double or low-fat latte adds up to an extra 17 pounds of fat in one year.