11.20.09

Movie popcorn a nutritional horror

Posted in Daily life, Food, Health, Science at 5:01 pm by LeisureGuy

Mary MacVean in the LA Times:

A medium-sized popcorn and medium soda at the nation’s largest movie chain pack the nutritional equivalent of three Quarter Pounders topped with 12 pats of butter, according to a report released today by the advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest.

The group’s second look at movie theater concessions — the last was 15 years ago — found little had changed in a decade and a half, despite theaters’ attempts to reformulate…

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