Beware of Restuarants

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Yesterday, after I posted Wellness Wednesday, I learned of a recently published report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest entitled Extreme Eating 2013 that exposes the calorie and other nutritional information on meals offered at common restaurant chains.  Often a healthy-sounding dish is not always what it appears to be.

A good example is the Bistro Shirmp Pasta from The Cheesecake Factory.  Sounds pretty healthy, right?  Seafood.  Pasta.  Mushrooms.  Arugula.  This meal packs whopping 3,120 calories and 89 grams of saturated fat.  That is in just an entree!  This doesn't include a drink, appetizer, salad, bread, and dessert.  Put in perspective, an average adult should consume about 2,000 calories (fewer if you're sedentary, and most Americans are) and at most 20 grams of saturated fat a day.  Smoothie King's tagline is "Nutritional Lifestyle Centers."    Again, sounds like they serve up some healthy smoothies.  Well, the 40 ounce "Peanut Power Plus Grape Smoothie" comes in at 1,460 calories and 22 teaspoons of added sugar.  Healthy-sounding sweet potato fries at Johnny Rockets has 590 calories (along with 800 mg. of sodium).  That is 110 calories more than the regular fries.  Read the report through this article and remember "buyer beware."