Men’s Health editor-in-chief David Zinczenko has a new book out---Eat This, Not That!
Highlights of bad foods:
The 2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey estimate 66 percent of U.S. adults are either overweight or obese and the Department of Health and Human Services notes that approximately 300,000 deaths each year in the United States may be attributable to obesity. To put that in perspective, 400,000 Americans die from cigarette smoking each year.
Check out the terrifying trends in obesity from 1985 to 2006 watching this interactive map.
Highlights of bad foods:
- Worst Fast Food Meal: McDonald’s Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips with creamy ranch sauce. Chicken sounds healthy, but not at 830 calories.
- Worst Drink: Jamba Juice Chocolate Moo’d Power Smoothie. With 166 grams of sugar, you could have had eight servings of Ben & Jerry’s.
- Worst Supermarket Meal: Pepperidge Farm Roasted Chicken Pot Pie. It packs 64 grams of fat.
- Worst “Healthy” Burger: Ruby Tuesday Bella Turkey Burger. With 1,145 calories, not a very healthy choice.
- Worst Airport Snack: Cinnabon Classic Cinnamon Roll. Packed with 813 hot gooey calories and 5 grams of trans fats.
- Worst Kids’ Meal: Macaroni Grill Double Macaroni ‘n Cheese. With 62 fat grams, it’s the equivalent of 1.5 full boxes of Kraft Mac ‘n Cheese.
- Worst Salad: On the Border Grande Taco Salad with Taco Beef. A salad with 102 grams of fat and 2,410 mg of sodium.
- Worst Dessert: Chili’s Chocolate Chip Paradise Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream. At 1,600 calories, it’s like eating the caloric equivalent of three Big Macs.
The 2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey estimate 66 percent of U.S. adults are either overweight or obese and the Department of Health and Human Services notes that approximately 300,000 deaths each year in the United States may be attributable to obesity. To put that in perspective, 400,000 Americans die from cigarette smoking each year.
Check out the terrifying trends in obesity from 1985 to 2006 watching this interactive map.
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