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

Some Chik-Fil-A with Tacos on the Side

                                                                                    Chick-Fil-A Meal (1)

Chicken Sandwich:
Fat: 18 grams
Sugar: 5 grams
Salt:1390 mg
Waffle Fries:
Fat: 21 grams
Sugar: 0 grams
Salt: 180 mg
Soda:
Sugar: 47 grams
Salt: 15 mg






Taco Bell Meal (2)
Burrito Supreme:
Fat: 16 grams
Sugar: 5 grams
Salt: 1140 mg
Soda:
Sugar:70 grams
Salt:50 mg
Hard Taco:
Fat: 8 grams
Salt: 310 mg
Sugar: 1 gram












Chick Fil A and Taco Bell are two of the most popular places for students to eat at in Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). It is very convenient and fast for when students get hungry in between their classes. What they do not realize is how much salt, sugar, and fat is actually in the meals they eat. The chicken sandwich meal that the majority of people order at Chick Fil A has more than the daily intake of salt sugar and fat should be. The same goes for Taco Bell's meals. All these foods that people order for taste and convenience should be looked at again, with a closer look, to see how bad the food they are eating actually is.

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