Thursday, March 1, 2012

Health Nutrition Food That Isn't

It can be hard enough keeping to a healthy diet; what happens these days though is that the major restaurant chains come and try to mix up our personal definitions of what we can safely call "healthy". A restaurant staple at McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's or Ruby Tuesday's can easily get called "healthy" even when it is saturated with calories, fat and salt. Let's take a look at the worst offenders on the restaurant menus around the country that promote their products for their health, nutrition, food value all at once.

The Ruby Tuesday Avocado Turkey Burger should actually have been a really healthy meal. Turkey is great for your heart's health - nutrition food that actually heals. But not here. The burger has nearly 100 g of fat (that's nearly a fifth of a pound of fat), and heaps of salt held together with more than 1000 calories.

Okay, is there any way that you can not be making the right choice with a salad? Well, at the California Pizza kitchen, the Waldorf chicken salad actually comes with even more calories than the burger above. How did they even manage to do this in a salad? It's all in the dressing, of course. But you will need to be on the lookout across their entire menu.