yet another turnaround .. 
Fast Food No Worse for Health Than Full-Service Meals
"Eating on the run might not be so bad after all: A new study finds diners consume more salt and cholesterol in sit-down restaurants than they do in fast-food joints.
"People usually view fast food as junk food, and blame it for serving an extra intake of calories, sugars and sodium," said study author Ruopeng An, an assistant professor in the College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
"That's often true when compared with eating at home. But we found that when the comparison is with full-service restaurants, fast food is not necessarily worse," An said.
For example, he said, people who frequent fast-food places and full-service restaurants consume about the same number of additional calories (nearly 200) and total fat (about 10 grams), on average, compared to those who cook their meals at home.
The findings were published recently in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition."
taken from this link where more info is available
Fast Food No Worse for Health Than Full-Service Meals
"Eating on the run might not be so bad after all: A new study finds diners consume more salt and cholesterol in sit-down restaurants than they do in fast-food joints.
"People usually view fast food as junk food, and blame it for serving an extra intake of calories, sugars and sodium," said study author Ruopeng An, an assistant professor in the College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
"That's often true when compared with eating at home. But we found that when the comparison is with full-service restaurants, fast food is not necessarily worse," An said.
For example, he said, people who frequent fast-food places and full-service restaurants consume about the same number of additional calories (nearly 200) and total fat (about 10 grams), on average, compared to those who cook their meals at home.
The findings were published recently in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition."
taken from this link where more info is available
