Anna on October 31st, 2008

Commercial Kitchen Design and Planning services, and commercial catering equipment for restaurants and bars – with expert advice from industry trained catering equipment specialists.

Having gained more than 25 years experience as a leading supplier of commercial catering equipment means that understand exactly how a catering kitchen works.

Nelson Catering Equipment’s philosophy is to provide the same attentive level of service to all customers, no matter how small or great their needs.

Being a ’supplier’ of commercial catering equipment however, is merely the tip of the iceberg. The full extent of the services Nelson Catering Equipment offers begins with the sale of a single piece of catering equipment to the local high street cafe and ends with the complete kitchen design, sale, project management and installation of commercial kitchens and bars in many of the UK’s most prestigious catering operations.

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Nin on October 28th, 2008

Recently the childhood obesity has taken a form of endemic in the United States. Rate of childhood obesity has increased by 5 fold from 1970s to the current time. Consumption of food rich in calories and fats are the main culprits for this increasing trend in the childhood obesity. A major part of this increase calorie intake by children comes from consumption of fast food.

A recent study conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture looked at the food intake data of children in the United States. These researchers analyzed data from 6,212 school children with ages ranging from 4 to 19 years. The study found that children who ate fast food consumed significantly higher number of calories compared to those children who did not consume fast food. They found that those children who ate fast food had significantly higher consumption of fat, saturated fat, and carbohydrates. Also those children who consumed fast food added more sugar to their meals, drank more of sweetened beverages and ate less milk, fiber and vegetables.

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