New Fast-Food Restaurants Banned in South LA

City council members voted unanimously on Tuesday, July 22, to allow a proposal calling for a ban on new fast-food restaurants in a 32-square-mile area to be presented to the Los Angeles (LA) City Council for a decisive vote.  If passed, the ban on opening new fast-food restaurants will last one year, with the option for renewal twice, at six-month intervals. Read more

Dangerous Trend: Kids, Fast Food, Liver Cirrhosis

Cirrhosis of the liver has long been associated with alcoholism and hepatitis C but recent studies in both the United States and Europe point to the typical American diet, high in fat and sugar, as the reason more and more children and teenagers are developing liver disease, too. Read more