Thursday, June 22, 2006

10 Foods a Person Should Never Eat

According to Center for Science in the Public Interest located in Washington D.C., there are 10 foods we should never eat. This goes for everyone...not just people who are dieting.

1. Artery Crust
Pepperidge Farm Original Flaky Crust Roasted Chicken Pot Pie....has 510 calories
and 9 grams of saturated fat listed on the box. Look closely and you will see,
it is only half a pie. Add the whole pie and you have over 1000 calories and
31 grams of artery-clogging total fat.(18 sat. fat, 13 trans fat)

2. Strip Tease
McDonald's Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips sound healthy. In fact, ounce
for ounce, the Selects are no healthier than the chain's Chicken McNuggets. A
standard, five-strip order has 630 calories and 11 grams of fat. That's about
the same as a Big Mac, except the burger has 1,010 mg of sodium, while the
Select has 1,550 mg. without the salty sauce.

3. Factory Reject
Each slice of The Cheesecake Factory's 6 Carb Original Cheesecake has 610
calories--only 20 less than their Original Cheesecake. There are 29 grams
of fat...1 1/2 days supply.

4. Discomfort Food
Marie Callender's Herb Roasted Chicken with Mashed Potatoes, Broccoli Florets
and Carrots has 530 calories, 12 grams of saturated fat, and 1,270 mg of
sodium. This is equal to a Big Mac.

5. Out In Left Field
One Mrs. Fields Milk Chocolate and Walnuts cookie has more than 300 calories
and as much fat as a 12-ounce sirloin steak.

6. Starbucks on Steriods
Starbucks Venti Strawberries and Creme Frappuccion Blended Creme with whipped
cream is more than a mere cup of coffee. It as like a milk shake. It contains
770 calories and 19 grams of fat. (10 of them saturated--half a day's quota)

7. Coronary King
Burger King makes some of the worst french fries you can buy. A King Size
order packs 600 calories and three-quarters of a person's daily maximum
for heart-unhealthy fat.

8. Salt's On
Campbell's red-and-white label condensed soups are brimming with salt: Half
a can averages more than half of a person's daily quota of salt.

9. Oops
Swoops a product of Hershey's, has almost 200 calories, 7 or 8 grams of
saturated fat, and more than 4 teaspoons of sugar in each six-Swoop pack.
While the Almond Joy or Hershey's Milk Chocolate Swoops are no worse than
the candy bars, that's not the case for the other varieties. Thanks to the
highly saturated palm and/or palm kernel oil, York Swoops have more than
three times as much sat fat as a York Peppermint Pattie, and Reese's Swoops
have roughly twice as much as Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

10. Razzle, Dazzle 'em
A Haagen-Dazx Mint Chip Dazzler (three scoops of ice cream, hot fudge, Oreos,
chocolate sprinkles, and whipped cream) has 1,270 calories and 38 grams of
saturated fat. Think of it as a portable T-bone steak with Caesar salad
and baked potato with sour cream. But that's dinner--yet many people have a
Dazzler as a dessert after lunch and dinner!!

My next post...I'll share healthy alternatives.

 

1 Comments:

Blogger Mel said...

Hi Chris.

I just found your blog through Google . . . I'm going to link to this post on my blog, The Amazing Shrinking Mom. http://shrinkingmom.clubmom.com

Good luck on your weight loss journey.

7:08 PM  

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