Hospitals Serve Fast Food to Sick Patients
~ Hospitals Profit on Junk Food – YouTube
~ US Hospitals Sporting Fast Food Chains Video – ABC News – VIDEO
- ~ Allowing fast food in kids’ hospitals sends mixed message to families – CBC News
- ~ Fast Food Being Sold in Dozens of US Hospitals (+Map) – The Epoch Times
- ~ Fast Food Chains Are Allowed Inside Hospitals In These 15 States – HuffPost Life
- ~ Fast Food Chains In Cafeterias Put Hospitals In A Bind – NPR
- ~ Fast food in hospitals a weighty issue – The Houston Chronicle
- ~ Fast Food in Hospitals Spurs Debate on Health (1987) – The New York Times
- ~ Fast food restaurants have no place in our hospitals – The Conversation
- ~ Hospitals face ad blitz over Chick-fil-A, other fast food in cafeterias – Healthcare Finance News
- ~ Junk-food galore at Brooklyn private hospitals; just three joined Bloomberg ban – New York Daily News
- ~ Pediatric hospitals that serve fast food raise more alarm – Chron
- ~ Should hospitals serve fast food? – NBC News
- ~ Study Slams Fast-Food At Hospitals – CBS News
- ~ What Are McDonald’s Burgers Doing In Hospital Cafeterias? – Daily Gossip
- ~ When the Hospital Serves McDonald’s: In peddling unhealth meals, health centers fail both their patients and their employees – The Atlantic
- ~ Do Your State’s Hospitals Serve Big Macs? – Mother Jones
- ~ Does Your Hospital Sell McDonald’s In The Lobby? – Vocativ
- ~ Fast Food Americna – Hospitals Serving Up McDonald’s – Natural Society
- ~ Fast Food, Obesity, and Hospitals – Medscape
- ~ Fast Food Restaurants in Children’s Hospitals – NutritionFacts.org
- ~ Hospitals & Hamburgers — Fast Food Emerges on Campus – Today’s Dietitian
- ~ Hospitals Urge Peers To Ditch Fast Food, Turn Down The Lights – Kaiser Health News
- ~ Leading US Hospitals Serving Fast Food Send Mixed Message – Medscape
- ~ Many Hospitals Offer Fast Food – WebMD
- ~ Many US Hospitals, Including Children’s Hospitals, Continue to Serve McDonald’s Fast Food in Their Cafeterias – Organic Consumers Association
- ~ Selling Sickness, Fast Food in Hospitals – Jeffrey Dach MD
- ~ Texas Hospital Feeds Cardiac Patients Doritos and Oreos? – Weighty Matters
- ~ The Scary Reason Why Hospitals Are Pushing Fast Food – Prevention
- ~ These States Serve McDonald’s In Their Hospitals [Infographic] – True Activist
Hospital Food is Unhealthy and Will Make You Sick
~ Hospitals Selling Sickness – YouTube
- ~ Hospital food still makes one in four patients feel sick – Daily Mail Online
- ~ How Healthy Is Hospital Food? – US News
- ~ Not Your Grandmother’s Hospital Food – The Salt – NPR
- ~ Why Hospitals Are Serving Unhealthy Food to Patients – ATTN
- ~ Unhealthy Hospital Food Must Stop – HuffPost Life
- ~ 16 Hospital Food Secrets You’re Not Supposed To Know – So Yummy
- ~ Apparently There’s A Good Reason Why All Hospital Food Is So Gross – HealthyWay.url
- ~ Facts About Hospital Food,What to Eat at the Hospital – Dr. Axe
- ~ Hazardous Hospital Food https://www.pcrm.org/news/exam-room-podcast/hazardous-hospital-food – Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
- ~ Healthy Food in Health Care – Health Care Without Harm
- ~ Hospital Food Often Unhealthy – The Hospitalist
- ~ Why Hospital Food Makes It Difficult for Patients to Get Better – Spoon University
Hospital Food is also Bad for Doctors and Nurses
~ When The Food Isn’t All Right On The Night Shift – NPR
Most Hospital Food is Wasted because Nobody Wants to Eat It
~ The Impact Of The Literal Tons Of Food Waste At U.S. Hospitals – D Magazine
Get Junk Food Out of Hospitals
~ McDonald’s restaurant at the Medical Center, Navicent Health to close – YouTube
- ~ Activists call for McDonald’s to be booted from Texas Children’s, Ben Taub Hospitals – ABC13 Houston
- ~ Ban fast-food outlets from hospitals, MPs demand – Hospitals – The Guardian
- ~ Doctors call for hospitals to ban junk food to fight obesity crisis – Mirror Online
- ~ Doctors Fight to Ban Fast Food From Hospitals — and for Good Reason – Yahoo! Life
- ~ Doctors’ group to Grady: Dump McDonald’s location – AJC
- ~ Doctors Want Sugar and ‘Cancer-Causing’ Foods Out of Hospitals – Live Science
- ~ Kicking McDonald’s out: the hospitals getting serious about food – The Guardian
- ~ New York City seeks to toss hospitals’ junk food – The Boston Globe
- ~ Stop hospitals selling toxic treats to patients: How can doctors encourage healthy living when junk-food is served on hospital grounds? – UK – Daily Mail Online
- ~ Would A Ban On Junk Food in Hospitals Be A Good Thing (Even If It Meant No Vending Machines)? Three quarters of the best-selling items in hospitals are unhealthy, a study has found.- HuffPost UK Life
- ~ Boot Fast Food from the Hospital – Stakeholder Health
- ~ Doctor-Led Protest Confronts McDonald’s in Northside Hospital – Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
- ~ Doctors Fight to Ban Fast Food From Hospitals—for Good Reason – Take Part
- ~ Doctors’ Group Calls On Hospitals To Stop Serving Fast Food – ThinkProgress
- ~ Doctors Want to Ban Fast Food From Hospitals – Eater
- ~ Physicians group seeks to ban fast food from hospitals – Food Service Director
Reports
Fastfood
- ~ Fast Food Franchises in Hospitals – JAMA Network
- ~ Marketing Fast Food: impact of fast food restaurants in children’s hospitals – PubMed
- ~ Prevalence and Type of Brand Name Fast Food at Academic-affiliated Hospitals – American Board of Family Medicine
Unhealthy
- ~ 2016 Highlighting Hazardous and Healthy Hospital Food Environments – Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine – PDF
- ~ Hospitals lead by poor example- An assessment of snacks, soda, and junk food availability in Veterans Affairs hospitals – Pub Med
- ~ The Five Worst Hospital Food Environments – A Report from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Winter 2011 – PDF
Bad for Doctors / Nurses
Get Junk Food Out of Hospitals
- ~ Ban junk food in hospitals, say doctors – The BMJ
- ~ It’s time to ban junk food on hospital premises – PubMed
Unethical
Websites
~ Healthy Hospital Environments – Overweight & Obesity – CDC