Is It Worth It?

Is It Worth It?

It is noon and you are hungry. You ate breakfast who knows how many hours ago, and you aren't even sure if that tiny granola bar counts. As you are walking around looking at you choices for lunch, various aromas compete for your attention. Your stomach grumbles in anger and impatience. You smell the delicious sent of freshly made French fries coming from a nearby McDonald's. Then, your nose alerts you to the zesty scent of orange chicken coming from a Panda Express. You settle for a nearby Taco Bell. You order you food and inhale it as soon as you sit down. Finally, your stomach has settled, your nose no longer tracks each smell it picks up, and your brain provides you dopamine that gives you a nice, satisfied grin in your face. Now, what about that waistline you were watching? What about your sugar and salt intake? How about maintaining that 2,000 calorie daily limit? Was eating all that fast food worth it? Did you even think about all of that? Exactly

Don’t worry. You aren't supposed to think about the tasty foods you are eating. According to Michael Moss’ Salt, Sugar, Fat even Stephen Sanger, a former General Mills CEO, stated, as the voice of a consumer, Don’t talk to me about nutrition, talk to me about taste, and if this stuff tastes better, don’t run around trying to sell stuff that doesn't taste good. This blog will help you do just that. It will provide you with a visual break down of the salt, sugar, and fat content of common fast foods. Or rather, tasty fast foods. The findings are something that even the most informed and health-conscious student will find troubling...

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Cheese and tomatoes; it must be healthy!

Everyone loves pizza.  It really doesn't matter where you're from, there is going to be a pizza place around because pizza has been blown up by food giants and the taste is irresistible.  And seriously, how could you resist?  It must be healthy; cheese is healthy, tomatoes are healthy, and pizza has both of those all in one.   I guess we'll see just how healthy it is..

Look at that apple. Doesn't this meal look so healthy?


Now that looks delicious. Look at that cheese. And that glistening grease.. mmm!


Now it looks a little less good. That's quite a bit more cheese than I'd thought there would be!


From left to right:  Salt (1370 mg), Sugar (7g), Fat (26g)



So this delicious pizza packs quite a punch to our health.  Loaded with saturated fats (primarily from the cheese), eating this every day would not be good at all.  Check the "Pizza Hut" page for some nutritional information!
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