This article should be titled, "Best Places to Take Your Feedee on a Date!" :happy:
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyl...lar_slow_food_chains_worst_for_waistline.html
Popular 'slow food' chains such as Chili's, Applebee's are worst for waistline - report
BY Patrick Huguenin and Nicole Lyn Pesce
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Tuesday, June 2nd 2009, 6:03 AM
Uno Chicago Grill's Mega-Sized Deep Dish Sundae: 2,800 calories. Amy Johnson/Nutrition Action Healthletter
Uno Chicago Grill's Mega-Sized Deep Dish Sundae: 2,800 calories.
Chili's Big Mouth Bites: 2,350 calories. Amy Johnson/Nutrition Action Healthletter
Chili's Big Mouth Bites: 2,350 calories.
Red Lobster's Ultimate Fondue: 1,490 calories. Kate Sherwood/Nutrition Action Healthletter
Red Lobster's Ultimate Fondue: 1,490 calories.
Take our Poll
Food for thought
Which dish is most worth the calories?
Chili's Big Mouth Bites (2,350 calories)
H&H Everything Bagel and Cream Cheese (400 calories)
Junior's Cheesecake (543 calories)
Nathan's Famous Beef Hot Dog, including bun (296 calories)
Pastrami and Swiss on Rye (374 calories)
Red Lobster's Ultimate Fondue (1,490 calories)
Uno Chicago Grill's Mega-Sized Deep Dish Sundae (2,800 calories)
There's a supersized secret about what chain restaurants are the worst for your waistline.
And no, it's not Mickey D's or the B.K. - they don't even make the list of the worst.
A new report finds you'll really pack on the pounds if you're a regular at popular chains like T.G.I. Friday's, Chili's, Applebee's and The Cheesecake Factory.
Heaping portions, deep-fried dishes and appetizers the size of entrées are the culprits, say the folks in Washington who put out the Nutrition Action Healthletter.
"You're essentially looking at 2,000-calorie meals, which is what most people should have in an entire day," said registered dietitian Jayne Hurley, who wrote the belt-loosening report.
"I was on the Web a few months ago - again, looking at numbers that are online - and I thought, 'Oh my God, as if this can get any worse!' And it had," she said.
"You used to decide, Do I want the chicken Parmesan? Do I want the lasagna? Do I want the chicken Alfredo? None of them lightweights by themselves.
"But now, go to Romano's Macaroni Grill, go to Olive Garden, you can get all three on one plate. And of course that's without the complimentary unlimited breadsticks and salad."
Hurley's aptly named report is called "Xtreme Eating 2009: Care for an Entrée with Your Entrée?"
Hurley is the senior nutritionist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit in Washington that publishes the Nutrition Action Healthletter.
She began monitoring nutritional information online as restaurant serving sizes swelled and more dishes were deep- fried or layered with cheese.
"There's no limit to the amount of deep fat frying and cheese covering that can go on in a restaurant," lamented Hurley.
The Cheesecake Factory's fried macaroni and cheese is a particularly hefty example.
At 1,570 calories and 69 grams of saturated fat, "you'd be better off eating an entire stick of butter," she said.
TALE OF THE TREATS
BY AMY EISINGER and NICOLE LYN PESCE
Gut-busting menu favorites from some national chains are caloric catastrophes when sized up against some good old-fashioned hometown classics.
Some of the heavy hitters:
Red Lobster's Ultimate Fondue
Serves shrimp and crabmeat in a creamy lobster cheese sauce. It's the equivalent of eating 10 ounces of Velveeta cheese with 58 Nabisco Premium Saltines.
Calories: 1,490
Fat: 40 grams
Sodium: 3,580 milligrams
Uno Chicago Grill's Mega-Sized Deep Dish Sundae
Yum: A chocolate chip cookie baked in a deep-dish pizza pan, laden with ice cream and covered with whipped cream and chocolate sauce.
Calories: 2,800
Fat: 72 grams
Sodium: 410 milligrams
Chili's Big Mouth Bites
Four miniburgers with the works - fries, fried onion strings and jalapeno ranch sauce - will have you opening the belt by at least a notch or two.
Calories: 2,350
Fat: 38 grams
Sodium: 3,940 milligrams
N.Y's not bad
New York's favorite foods aren't that unhealthy, by comparison. These hometown classics are all under 600 calories.
Junior's Cheesecake
A plain slice is a better bet than those 2000-plus-calorie bikini busters.
Calories: 543 calories
Fat: 37 grams of fat
Sodium: 309 milligrams
Nathan's Famous Beef Hot Dog
The Coney Island mainstay is just fine - and don't worry about loading up on mustard. It's a calorie-free condiment.
Calories (bun included): 296
Fat: 18.2 grams
Sodium: 692 milligrams
H&H Everything Bagel & Cream Cheese
Go ahead - have it with a schmear.
Calories: 400
Fat: 10 grams
Sodium: 210 milligrams
Pastrami & Swiss on Rye
Not as bad as it sounds.
Calories: 374
Fat: 13 grams
Sodium: 1,366 milligrams
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http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyl...lar_slow_food_chains_worst_for_waistline.html
Popular 'slow food' chains such as Chili's, Applebee's are worst for waistline - report
BY Patrick Huguenin and Nicole Lyn Pesce
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Tuesday, June 2nd 2009, 6:03 AM
Uno Chicago Grill's Mega-Sized Deep Dish Sundae: 2,800 calories. Amy Johnson/Nutrition Action Healthletter
Uno Chicago Grill's Mega-Sized Deep Dish Sundae: 2,800 calories.
Chili's Big Mouth Bites: 2,350 calories. Amy Johnson/Nutrition Action Healthletter
Chili's Big Mouth Bites: 2,350 calories.
Red Lobster's Ultimate Fondue: 1,490 calories. Kate Sherwood/Nutrition Action Healthletter
Red Lobster's Ultimate Fondue: 1,490 calories.
Take our Poll
Food for thought
Which dish is most worth the calories?
Chili's Big Mouth Bites (2,350 calories)
H&H Everything Bagel and Cream Cheese (400 calories)
Junior's Cheesecake (543 calories)
Nathan's Famous Beef Hot Dog, including bun (296 calories)
Pastrami and Swiss on Rye (374 calories)
Red Lobster's Ultimate Fondue (1,490 calories)
Uno Chicago Grill's Mega-Sized Deep Dish Sundae (2,800 calories)
There's a supersized secret about what chain restaurants are the worst for your waistline.
And no, it's not Mickey D's or the B.K. - they don't even make the list of the worst.
A new report finds you'll really pack on the pounds if you're a regular at popular chains like T.G.I. Friday's, Chili's, Applebee's and The Cheesecake Factory.
Heaping portions, deep-fried dishes and appetizers the size of entrées are the culprits, say the folks in Washington who put out the Nutrition Action Healthletter.
"You're essentially looking at 2,000-calorie meals, which is what most people should have in an entire day," said registered dietitian Jayne Hurley, who wrote the belt-loosening report.
"I was on the Web a few months ago - again, looking at numbers that are online - and I thought, 'Oh my God, as if this can get any worse!' And it had," she said.
"You used to decide, Do I want the chicken Parmesan? Do I want the lasagna? Do I want the chicken Alfredo? None of them lightweights by themselves.
"But now, go to Romano's Macaroni Grill, go to Olive Garden, you can get all three on one plate. And of course that's without the complimentary unlimited breadsticks and salad."
Hurley's aptly named report is called "Xtreme Eating 2009: Care for an Entrée with Your Entrée?"
Hurley is the senior nutritionist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit in Washington that publishes the Nutrition Action Healthletter.
She began monitoring nutritional information online as restaurant serving sizes swelled and more dishes were deep- fried or layered with cheese.
"There's no limit to the amount of deep fat frying and cheese covering that can go on in a restaurant," lamented Hurley.
The Cheesecake Factory's fried macaroni and cheese is a particularly hefty example.
At 1,570 calories and 69 grams of saturated fat, "you'd be better off eating an entire stick of butter," she said.
TALE OF THE TREATS
BY AMY EISINGER and NICOLE LYN PESCE
Gut-busting menu favorites from some national chains are caloric catastrophes when sized up against some good old-fashioned hometown classics.
Some of the heavy hitters:
Red Lobster's Ultimate Fondue
Serves shrimp and crabmeat in a creamy lobster cheese sauce. It's the equivalent of eating 10 ounces of Velveeta cheese with 58 Nabisco Premium Saltines.
Calories: 1,490
Fat: 40 grams
Sodium: 3,580 milligrams
Uno Chicago Grill's Mega-Sized Deep Dish Sundae
Yum: A chocolate chip cookie baked in a deep-dish pizza pan, laden with ice cream and covered with whipped cream and chocolate sauce.
Calories: 2,800
Fat: 72 grams
Sodium: 410 milligrams
Chili's Big Mouth Bites
Four miniburgers with the works - fries, fried onion strings and jalapeno ranch sauce - will have you opening the belt by at least a notch or two.
Calories: 2,350
Fat: 38 grams
Sodium: 3,940 milligrams
N.Y's not bad
New York's favorite foods aren't that unhealthy, by comparison. These hometown classics are all under 600 calories.
Junior's Cheesecake
A plain slice is a better bet than those 2000-plus-calorie bikini busters.
Calories: 543 calories
Fat: 37 grams of fat
Sodium: 309 milligrams
Nathan's Famous Beef Hot Dog
The Coney Island mainstay is just fine - and don't worry about loading up on mustard. It's a calorie-free condiment.
Calories (bun included): 296
Fat: 18.2 grams
Sodium: 692 milligrams
H&H Everything Bagel & Cream Cheese
Go ahead - have it with a schmear.
Calories: 400
Fat: 10 grams
Sodium: 210 milligrams
Pastrami & Swiss on Rye
Not as bad as it sounds.
Calories: 374
Fat: 13 grams
Sodium: 1,366 milligrams
[email protected]
