Fast Food Calories
All entries tagged with Fast Food CaloriesHow Many Calories In Your Burger and Fries?
With mandatory calorie information in restaurants in New York, and Congress calling for calories to be displayed on fast food menus throughout America, we might hope that fast food consumers are starting to pay attention and reconsider eating that giant burger.
Unfortunately, early indications aren't good...
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Vote: Will You Try Dunkin' Donuts New Menu?
Dunkin' Donuts recently announced a new menu containing "better-for you" food and drink. They've called it DDSMART. Food must meet the following criteria:
Is that enough to make you want to eat there?
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The Most Sugary Beverage Is...

A Baskin-Robbins Heath Shake.
It contains 266 grams of sugar. If you doubt me you can check the source here.
A quick glance might make you think it said "Health shake" - but no:
This toffee/coffee mix begins with Heath ice cream blended with coffee, Heath Bar candy pieces and caramel, topped with whipped cream and even more Heath Bar candy pieces.» Continue...
How Many Calories in Coffee?

There is considerable confusion over the caloric content of coffee. Not all coffee drinks are high in calories. Coffee - without additives - is almost a zero-calorie drink.
Here is a complete guide to understanding coffee calories.
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Secrets of the Restaurant Industry
The January issue of Men's Health has an interesting article about 16 secrets of the restaurant industry.
The article begins with a report about a recent legislative proposal that would have forced all California restaurants to disclose their nutritional content to all consumers. Unfortunately, Governor Schwarzenegger never signed the bill, so California restaurant goers will have to use their best judgment.
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Eat This Not That: Choosing the Right Foods

Eat This Not That is one of the most useful diet-related books to appear in recent years.
Rather than supplying vague guidelines or impossible-to-follow meal plans - it simply delves into the foods most of us eat today. The book then provides some better choices as well as delving into the confusing world of fast food calories.
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Quiznos Calories: No Wonder They Concealed Them

Fast food outlet Quiznos has finally listed their nutrition information.
A brief look through the data shows some outrageously high Calorie amounts in their food.
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Hardee's Breakfast Burrito

Another testament to gluttony:
Hardee's presents the Country Breakfast Burrito.
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Keep Slim: Eat Maltesers
From 1959 comes this classic ad: "Choose the chocolates that can help keep you slim."
Maltesers (balls of honeycomb surrounded by chocolate) were popular in the UK (in the US, Hershey's Whoppers are similar).
As seen in the print advertisement below - some marketers are masters of twisting words.
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Subway Diners Eat More Calories?

Researchers Brian Wansink and Pierre Chandon have shown that people routinely underestimate the amount of calories consumed when eating at Subway.
They call it the "Biasing Health Halos of Fast Food Restaurant Health Claims".
It seems we believe the low-calorie hype, and end up adjusting our eating habits because of it.
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Hugo: Super-Size Soda

McDonald's have long been touting "healthy options". I've always wondered if it was nothing more than elaborate window dressing. The real money is in the burgers, fries, and sodas.
McDonald's have been trialling a super-sized soda called "Hugo". 42 ounces (1.24 liters) and 410 Calories.
But didn't they drop Super-size items years ago?
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Does Vegetarian = Healthy?
Restaurants often market foods as “vegetarian” and consumers normally assume that food labeled vegetarian must be a healthier alternative to other menu choices.
This week, I had a patient who was on a business trip and received quite a surprise when he ordered a Vegi Muffaletta for lunch from a COSI restaurant.
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No Time to Eat Right? Try This Challenge

Fast food is popular because... it's fast.
Could you get something healthier - for the same price - and get it just as quickly?
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Restaurant Calories: Too Hard Basket?
If calorie counting is important to you, then you need to think carefully and realistically about restaurant or fast food.
Two reasons:
Accurate assessment of calorie content in restaurant food is very difficult. Even listed nutritional information can be flat out wrong.» Continue...
Is Subway Better Than McDonald's?

Subway have taken aim at McDonald's with their new "Fresh Fit" meals. The combo meals are compared side-by-side against a Big Mac meal. Subway's meal comes out at 265 calories, while the Big Mac meal hits a gluttonous 1230 calories.
But there's more to it than that...
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Fast Food Restaurants Hide the Calories

In response to a new regulation in New York City, which will require major-chain restaurants to start listing calorie information on menu boards, three fast-food chains deleted the calorie information they had made available on their websites.
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Restaurants: Extreme Eating
Many chain restaurants are serving meals (and even entrees) with ridiculous calorie counts. Unfortunately nutrition information is nowhere to be seen.
Ruby Tuesday's colossal burger weighs in at 1,940 calories including 141 grams of fat.
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Pizza: Good Choice For a Healthy Diet?
Domino's pizza is apparently a "Good Choice for a Healthy Diet".
That's according to a press release claiming that Glamour magazine and Men's Health both recommended Domino's Pizza.
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Superbowl Fast Food Ads: Overkill
Common Sense Media has carried out a nutritional analysis of each food product promoted during the Superbowl. The totals are: 3325 calories; 178 grams of fat (that's about 270 percent of the FDA's recommended daily intake; 1665 calories from fat; and 6910 mg of sodium (288 percent of the FDA's recommended daily intake).
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