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Sickness With a Side of Fries: The SAD State of U.S. Hospitals | Dr. Roxanne Becker
Americans say there is no place for the likes of McDonald's and Chick-fil-A in hospitals. The giants of fast food are serving greasy, fatty, artery-clogging foods in the same building where patients are receiving artery-opening stents and pacemakers. Often these lifesaving surgeries are just a floor or two above where the unhealthy combo meals are being served up. In a way it's like having an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting above a bar. It just doesn't make sense. Eating fast food four times a week may increase heart disease risk by 80%, according to one study. So, why is it happening? Dr…
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