15 Fast Food Wonders

Very useful, thank you! It should be posted on the walls of mentioned fast food joints.

It be cooler if they just had a formalla for many weights

Those McDonald's breakfasts are insane...it's almost like they inject calories into that stuff. I think it has a couple of frozen pancakes, some scrambled egg stuff, a biscuit, a sausage patty, and a hash browns...or something like that. It certainly doesn't LOOK like it'd have 1200 calories in it.

Whoa, I had a mini-burger a few days ago. Not from Denny's but it was pretty much the same thing. I guess it does make sense considering there are usually 4 of them.

If you really want fast food, but not the calories check out this website:

www.dwlz.com

I use it ALL the time for finding healthy choices on menus full of unhealthy ones. It has loads of restaurants and nutrition info. as well as the weight watcher's points in each one (if you're on weight watcher's).

Nic--Thanks for that site! I've been looking EVERYWHERE for Culver's nutritional data. That's one of the most comprehensive lists of restaurants out there...very cool!

Nic, that's a great site! I'm glad all the items at Starbuck's are thoroughly catalogued. That's a place where you can pick up too many calories too easily.

Not only that, all these menu items contain excessive amounts of partially hydrogenated oils. Take for instance, that Denny's "Mini Burgers with Onion Rings" (this is listed under Appetizers!), may contain as much as 15 to 20 grams of trans fats, which is four times the amount an average American eats.

And there's another problem in our American sugar habits: Artificial sweeteners. Guys, Artificial sweeteners, though they are less calories, are like switching from saturated fats to trans fats. These chemical sweeteners causes all kinds of health problems and they are the worse kind that can cause cancer, reduced sperm counts, and enlarged organs.

When you are eating out, common sense:

Avoid ANY fried foods. They are the worse offenders of trans fats. That includes: french fries, fried onion rings, and anything deep fried. Best of all, STAY AWAY from Kentucky Fried Chicken. Instead, go to places where they serve healthier sandwiches like Subway, and they also serve healthy items in D'Angelos.

Go to seafood restaurants more often and order out oily fish. They contain good fats, and are more likely to serve steamed or boiled vegetables as sides. It's nice to go out and have a good salmon dinner with steamed vegetables and even brown rice, with some green tea.

Instead of margarine at locations, opt for some butter. Butter in moderation is good for you, because it helps you better absorb vitamins A and D. Trans fats, found in margarine, blocks these vitamins.

And other times at home:

Opt for lean meat instead of tofu. These vegetarian diets seem healthy as believers do, but health problems arises. Bob Barker since going vegetarian in 1979 suffered three strokes, and could be at risk of suffering a massive stroke before his retirement in June 7th of this year. When I looked at his portrait, he looked sick, and his skin was totally spotty and wrinkly. Fokes, Vegetarian diets are a result of nutritional deficiencies, not only omega 3 and B12, but alpha caritones (full-blown vitamin A), low amounts of B6, and vitamin D3, and imbalanced protein intake.

Again, many fast food items on the menu consists mostly of fried foods, baked goods, refined breads, and is cooked with partially hydrogenated oils. Would you want to eat a large fry and a double quarter pounder with cheese that contains 1500 calories, 15 grams of artery clogging trans fats, and a large sugary soda? Trans fats (hydrogenated oils), sugar, salt, and artificial sweeteners are killers, kids. So as an overload of saturated fats (You need Some, but not a whole lot). Don't worry about cholesterol, though. For now, worry about the artificial trans fats. Conjugated Linoleic Acid, the naturally forming healthy trans fats found in meat and dairy products, are an exception to the trans fat rule.

When you want to sweeten things up, use herbal or natural sweeteners like stevia, maple syrup, honey, or xylithol. They are beneficial for you, and contain some antioxidants and vitamins. It's like sweet vitamins you are adding to your foods, unlike chemical laden Aspartame, Saccharin, or Sucralose, or caloric-laden sweeteners like sugar and high fructose corn syrup.

My husband was horrified to find out his favorite sub is that fattening (he eats the 6", but still). The 6" meatball is equivalent to 2 Roastbeef for calories *with the cheese* (I always pay a few cents extra to replace the nasty cheese with more roastbeef). Once he realized he could be eating a foot long roastbeef for the calories of his small meatball sub, he said he'll never order that again. We'll see.

This is nasty people should not be eating this stuff

Danii 13

is this relieable

Yes Joe, the information came from the fast food vendors themselves, so it is reliable.

but it tastes SO goooood

omg where can i eat that its not bad for me ilook at all the food and its like omg where can i go to get good food

Well I have a friend who's family business is a large conglomerate company. And he told me that he even never go to their own fastfood outlets because he knows the calories are very high.
And jokingly, he said that after these people get clogged arteries & obesity, they can all go to his hospitals and the money keeps on coming in.
So, in the end I believe that in the end, it's all about money. Obesity is a planned epidemic which is carefully orchestrated to keep the money rotating in the food & health business, for the advantage of certain individuals.Sad, but true!