Science in the Public Interest 10 worst/best list
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http://www.cspinet.org/nah/10foods_bad.html
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Stouffer's Satisfying Servings (16 oz) White Meat Chicken Pot Pie has "only" 590 calories, 13 grams of saturated fat, and 930 mg of sodium. But those numbers are for only half a pie. Eat the entire pie, as many people do, and you’re talking 1,180 calories, 26 grams of saturated fat (more than a day's worth), and 1,860 mg of sodium (over a day's worth).
Triple ByPass
Can’t decide what to pick from a restaurant menu? No worries. Now you can order not just one entrée, but two… or three... all at once. Olive Garden’s Tour of Italy – Homemade Lasagna, Lightly Breaded Chicken Parmigiana, and Creamy Fettuccine Alfredo – comes with 1,450 calories, 33 grams of saturated fat, and 3,830 milligrams of sodium. Add a breadstick (150 calories and 400 mg of sodium) and a plate of Garden-Fresh Salad with dressing (350 calories and 1,930 mg of sodium) and you’ll consume almost 2,000 calories (an entire day’s worth) and 6,160 mg
Tortilla Terror
Interested in a Chipotle Chicken Burrito (tortilla, rice, pinto beans, cheese, chicken, sour cream, and salsa)? Think of its 970 calories, and 18 grams of saturated fat as three 6-inch Subway BLT Classic Subs! Skipping the cheese or sour cream cuts the saturated fat to 6 grams, but you still end up with 750 calories and more than a day’s worth of sodium. Yikes!
Factory Reject
People don’t expect light desserts at The Cheesecake Factory. But the Chocolate Tower Truffle Cake kicks things up a notch. If it weren’t served on its side, this one would stand over six inches tall. And upright or not, the slab of cake still weighs in at three-quarters of a pound. What do you get for all that heft? Just 1,760 calories and 2½ days’ worth of saturated fat (50 grams), mostly from chocolate, sugar, cream, white flour, and butter
Starbucks on Steroids
The Starbucks Venti (20 oz) White Chocolate Mocha with 2% milk and whipped cream is more than a mere cup of coffee. It’s worse than a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with Cheese. Few people have room in their diets for the 580 calories and 15 grams of saturated fat that this hefty beverage supplies. But you can lose 130 calories and almost two-thirds of the bad fat if you order it with nonfat milk and no whipped cream.
Extreme Ice Cream
An average halfcup serving of Häagen-Dazs ice cream squeezes half-a-day’s saturated fat and a third-of-a-day’s cholesterol into your artery walls and makes a nearly 300-calorie down-payment on your next set of fat cells – if you can stop at a petite half-cup!
LOLOL LOL they do have a sense of humor LOL LOL
egArtery Crust
Stouffer's Satisfying Servings (16 oz) White Meat Chicken Pot Pie has "only" 590 calories, 13 grams of saturated fat, and 930 mg of sodium. But those numbers are for only half a pie. Eat the entire pie, as many people do, and you’re talking 1,180 calories, 26 grams of saturated fat (more than a day's worth), and 1,860 mg of sodium (over a day's worth).
Triple ByPass
Can’t decide what to pick from a restaurant menu? No worries. Now you can order not just one entrée, but two… or three... all at once. Olive Garden’s Tour of Italy – Homemade Lasagna, Lightly Breaded Chicken Parmigiana, and Creamy Fettuccine Alfredo – comes with 1,450 calories, 33 grams of saturated fat, and 3,830 milligrams of sodium. Add a breadstick (150 calories and 400 mg of sodium) and a plate of Garden-Fresh Salad with dressing (350 calories and 1,930 mg of sodium) and you’ll consume almost 2,000 calories (an entire day’s worth) and 6,160 mg
Tortilla Terror
Interested in a Chipotle Chicken Burrito (tortilla, rice, pinto beans, cheese, chicken, sour cream, and salsa)? Think of its 970 calories, and 18 grams of saturated fat as three 6-inch Subway BLT Classic Subs! Skipping the cheese or sour cream cuts the saturated fat to 6 grams, but you still end up with 750 calories and more than a day’s worth of sodium. Yikes!
Factory Reject
People don’t expect light desserts at The Cheesecake Factory. But the Chocolate Tower Truffle Cake kicks things up a notch. If it weren’t served on its side, this one would stand over six inches tall. And upright or not, the slab of cake still weighs in at three-quarters of a pound. What do you get for all that heft? Just 1,760 calories and 2½ days’ worth of saturated fat (50 grams), mostly from chocolate, sugar, cream, white flour, and butter
Starbucks on Steroids
The Starbucks Venti (20 oz) White Chocolate Mocha with 2% milk and whipped cream is more than a mere cup of coffee. It’s worse than a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with Cheese. Few people have room in their diets for the 580 calories and 15 grams of saturated fat that this hefty beverage supplies. But you can lose 130 calories and almost two-thirds of the bad fat if you order it with nonfat milk and no whipped cream.
Extreme Ice Cream
An average halfcup serving of Häagen-Dazs ice cream squeezes half-a-day’s saturated fat and a third-of-a-day’s cholesterol into your artery walls and makes a nearly 300-calorie down-payment on your next set of fat cells – if you can stop at a petite half-cup!
LOLOL LOL they do have a sense of humor LOL LOL
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It all sounds delicious to me.0
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http://www.cspinet.org/nah/10foods_bad.html
Extreme Ice Cream
An average halfcup serving of Häagen-Dazs ice cream squeezes half-a-day’s saturated fat and a third-of-a-day’s cholesterol into your artery walls and makes a nearly 300-calorie down-payment on your next set of fat cells – if you can stop at a petite half-cup!
LOLOL LOL they do have a sense of humor LOL LOL
This amuses me because I'm having this tonight
Not even joking. Those of my FL will confirm this for me.0 -
i ate two of the sea salt caramel last week.http://www.cspinet.org/nah/10foods_bad.html
Extreme Ice Cream
An average halfcup serving of Häagen-Dazs ice cream squeezes half-a-day’s saturated fat and a third-of-a-day’s cholesterol into your artery walls and makes a nearly 300-calorie down-payment on your next set of fat cells – if you can stop at a petite half-cup!
LOLOL LOL they do have a sense of humor LOL LOL
This amuses me because I'm having this tonight
Not even joking. Those of my FL will confirm this for me.0 -
i ate two of the sea salt caramel last week.http://www.cspinet.org/nah/10foods_bad.html
Extreme Ice Cream
An average halfcup serving of Häagen-Dazs ice cream squeezes half-a-day’s saturated fat and a third-of-a-day’s cholesterol into your artery walls and makes a nearly 300-calorie down-payment on your next set of fat cells – if you can stop at a petite half-cup!
LOLOL LOL they do have a sense of humor LOL LOL
This amuses me because I'm having this tonight
Not even joking. Those of my FL will confirm this for me.
I had sea salt last night. I'd intended for a whole cup but it was a little rich for me. This will me my first time with the dark chocolate, but a pokemon told me it was good.0 -
i ate two of the sea salt caramel last week.http://www.cspinet.org/nah/10foods_bad.html
Extreme Ice Cream
An average halfcup serving of Häagen-Dazs ice cream squeezes half-a-day’s saturated fat and a third-of-a-day’s cholesterol into your artery walls and makes a nearly 300-calorie down-payment on your next set of fat cells – if you can stop at a petite half-cup!
LOLOL LOL they do have a sense of humor LOL LOL
This amuses me because I'm having this tonight
Not even joking. Those of my FL will confirm this for me.
I had sea salt last night. I'd intended for a whole cup but it was a little rich for me. This will me my first time with the dark chocolate, but a pokemon told me it was good.
Oh, it is. :bigsmile: It's freakin' rich and delicious and helps me reach my fat macro (which I surprisingly still have trouble meeting even with the gelatos more often than not. :drinker:0 -
How is promoting orthorexia and food phobia in the public interest?0
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Hi minnie! *waves*0
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:laugh:Hi minnie! *waves*0 -
i ate two of the sea salt caramel last week.http://www.cspinet.org/nah/10foods_bad.html
Extreme Ice Cream
An average halfcup serving of Häagen-Dazs ice cream squeezes half-a-day’s saturated fat and a third-of-a-day’s cholesterol into your artery walls and makes a nearly 300-calorie down-payment on your next set of fat cells – if you can stop at a petite half-cup!
LOLOL LOL they do have a sense of humor LOL LOL
This amuses me because I'm having this tonight
Not even joking. Those of my FL will confirm this for me.
I had sea salt last night. I'd intended for a whole cup but it was a little rich for me. This will me my first time with the dark chocolate, but a pokemon told me it was good.
I think haagen dazs flavors are much like Pokemon, you gotta' catch 'em all.
MMmmm, maybe even with cookies.
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Noms. I could have all that. At once.0
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You and your buddy know the 411.0
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OP, I could pick three to four items from that list and eat it in a day while still maintaining a deficit. Umad?0
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Nevermind. Nope.0
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lichent
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1. Third-person plural present indicative of the verb lick .
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Processed foods spike the insulin levels and that sets off the vidious cycle of insulin desentivity and the bodies willingness to store fat.0
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Processed foods spike the insulin levels and that sets off the vidious cycle of insulin desentivity and the bodies willingness to store fat.
Bless your heart.0 -
Well, I'm convinced.
Where is the science again?0 -
Well, I'm convinced.
Where is the science again?
Who need science when you can have fear instead?0 -
I agree with most of the responses.
I will say, however, that there is the "sticker shock" factor. I mean, nobody should be surprised that a six inch tall slice of cake is going to be high calories, nor a heaping bowl of triple pasta delight. But the Starbucks stuff really shocked me.
I picked up one of their nutritional info brochures last time I was there. One of their cookies (white chocolate macadamia) was almost 500 calories. I was pretty stunned. And their drinks can also be very high calorie, not something I expected in a drink.
It's not that I have anything against any type of food, etc. but tracking calories and actually looking at calorie counts has been a real education.0 -
oh mama wally it is a shock , a real shock , those food products could be called the highway to diabetes.0
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2000 calories isn't my entire days worth of calories...0
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2000 calories isn't my entire days worth of calories...
It's way more than mine.
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I just gotta try that chocolate cake . . .0
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Food causes diabetes?oh mama wally it is a shock , a real shock , those food products could be called the highway to diabetes.
I mad, bro.OP, I could pick three to four items from that list and eat it in a day while still maintaining a deficit. Umad?0 -
The truth is that eating any of these once in a while is not going to be a big issue. But many of us have found our entire life of consumption dominated by one or more of these items (or their peers) every day. And that, even if it turned out to be within one's calorie budget, is just not healthy.
As I said in another posting, I treated myself to a corned beef sandwich (at Carnegie Deli in NY) this last week. It was a treat. I know it was not healthy at all. Not one little bit. It was potentially a pound of corned beef, though I didn't exactly finish it. The next day I was back to fruit, fish, salad, and other healthier fare. Now I've had my deli fix for many months to come, instead of feeling I missed an incredible opportunity while I was in NY.0 -
Processed foods spike the insulin levels and that sets off the vidious cycle of insulin desentivity and the bodies willingness to store fat.
--Gerald Reaven[Referring to one study he conducted, some insulin resistant participants put on 85% carbs, others put on 17% carbs.] The only thing that affected their weight was how many calories they ate. There's not one shred of evidence that insulin resistance causes obesity. Insulin resistance means that insulin isn't acting correctly. [...] If anything, you would lose weight.
Who is your source?0 -
You want studies Fung has so many of them , The Aetiology of Obesity Part 1 of 6: A New Hope the entire series:
the entire series:
http://www.youtube.com/user/drjasonfung?feature=watch
1. a new hope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpllomiDMX0
2.Trial by Diet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbnshVO4PRM
3. The fast solution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG89j432w-Y 0 -
Yeah i went to Olive Garden and i got the grilled steak and veggies, thought that was going to be low sodium and low calories. no ! so i made 3 meals out of it,, in order not to go over.. oh well. i enjoyed it though. I shudder at what i COULD have gotten, sheesh which would have been worse.
I now try to find restaurants that wont be so bad but are enjoyable, even my fave taco place, i just budget my macros and calories, so far so good. but still i am losing weight at 2 pounds a week.
For ice cream, i got the Edys slow churned, tastes full fat, but low calorie, excelent.
so you can find stuff if you just look.
oh yeah by the way, I used to eat those pot pies a lot, a few times a week, no wonder i got fat. but they were goood good goodie good good!!! rich and creamy !!! so perfect of a food. yeah i would never eat a half a pie sheesh.0 -
If this guy needs a 6 part video series to say "eat below TDEE" then he is incompetent.You want studies Fung has so many of them , The Aetiology of Obesity Part 1 of 6: A New Hope the entire series:
the entire series:
http://www.youtube.com/user/drjasonfung?feature=watch
1. a new hopehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpllomiDMX0
2.Trial by Diethttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbnshVO4PRM
3. The fast solutionhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG89j432w-Y0
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