Worst Fast Food Meals

Silvio

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Thursday, June 17th 2010, 7:46pm

Worst Fast Food Meals

"The Food Police" released a list of the most off-the-chart restaurant dishes in May.

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Nine decadent restaurant meals got a slap on the wrist Tuesday when the Center for Science in the Public Interest (dis)honored them with its 2010 Xtreme Eating Awards.

"These meals are the calorie champions of unhealthy restaurant food, with all meals (and one dessert) weighing in at well over 1,000 calories and shocking amounts of sodium, saturated fat, and sugar," says Bonnie Liebman, co-author of the center's report.

"When two out of three adults in America are overweight and one out of three are too fat to join the military," she says, "we mean this [report] as a warning to people that some foods you order at restaurants are a lot worse for you than you think. People often target fast food but many sit-down restaurants actually have larger portions and more fat and calories."

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What do you think about fast food? Do you eat it regularly or do you try to avoid it as much as possible?

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Nike

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Thursday, June 17th 2010, 9:01pm

Fast food is not my favorite, though I have it sometimes. I can avoid fastfood restaurants quite good, except for when you're on holiday and can't find somewhere else to eat within a reasonable time, but I always keep it at a minimum

The problem with fastfood is indeed the high calorie amount and too much salts and other not too good nutrients. Sometimes fastfood (including microwave dinner) can have amounts of salt that should be spread over several days...

As I said, I do have it sometimes; when I have no time to cook, or am at home a bit too late, but it's not my favorite, despite being easy to make.

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