10 Foods You Should Never Eat!
The Center for Science in the Public interest shared in a Nutrition Action Health letter the top 10 foods you should never eat. They are not afraid to call out product names of foods that are extremely unhealthy for us. Listed below are these top 10 foods.
1. Marie Callender’s Chicken Pot Pie 2. Parkay Margarine sticks3. Campbell’s regular Condensed Soup4. Chipotle Chicken Burrito5. The Cheesecake Factory’s Chocolate Tower Truffle Cake | 6. Pillsbury Grands! Southern Style frozen biscuits 7. Olive Garden’s Tour of Italy8. Starbucks Venti White Chocolate Mocha9. Häagen-Dazs ice cream10. Cold Stone Creamery’s Oh Fudge! shake |
http://www.cspinet.org/nah/10foods_bad.html
1. Chicken Pot Pie – Eat the entire pie, as alot of people do, and you’re talking 1,180 calories, 26 grams of saturated fat (more than a day’s worth), and 1,860 mg of sodium. While this might be a quick tasty meal, it is not the healthiest of choices.
2. Parkay – Land O’Lakes declares it is an excellent source of ALA Omega on the margarine box. Could margaine really be heart healthy? It isn’t. Each tablespoon of the spread has 2½ grams of trans fat (more than an entire day’s limit) and 2 grams of saturated fat. And beware of other trans-filled sticks by Blue Bonnet, Parkay, Country Crock, and Fleischmann’s. At least those brands don’t imply that a bit of ALA outweighs the harm caused by the margarine’s trans and saturated fat.
3. Campbell’s Condensed soup for one cup has 760 mg of sodium. That’s half a day’s worth … assuming you eat only one of the 2½ servings that the label says the can makes. Campbell’s Healthy Request and Select Harvest, Progresso Reduced Sodium, and Healthy Choice slash the sodium to the 400s. Look for lower sodium lines in the 100s to 300s by Amy’s, Imagine Foods, Pacific Natural Foods, and Tabatchnick. Or better yet, make some homemade chicken soup yourself, then you will be sure to know what it is your foods.
4. Interested in a Chipotle Chicken Burrito (tortilla, rice, pinto beans, cheese, chicken, sour cream, and salsa)? Think of its 970 calories, and 18 grams of saturated fat as three 6-inch Subway BLT Classic Subs! Skipping the cheese or sour cream cuts the saturated fat to 6 grams, but you still end up with 750 calories and more than a day’s worth of sodium. Yikes! This one is also about portion control, if you split with a family member or save for another meal, it cuts the calories in half.
5. People don’t expect light desserts at The Cheesecake Factory. But the Chocolate Tower Truffle Cake kicks things up a notch. If it weren’t served on its side, this one would stand over six inches tall. And upright or not, the slab of cake still weighs in at three-quarters of a pound. What do you get for all that heft? Just 1,760 calories and 2½ days’ worth of saturated fat (50 grams), mostly from chocolate, sugar, cream, white flour, and butter. The next time you think about ordering dessert, imagine how many calories just one serving might contain. Even if you halfed this one it would still be over 850 calories.
6. No one thinks of cinnamon rolls as health food. But each Pillsbury Grands Cinnabon Cinnamon Roll with Icing has 310 calories and 2 grams of saturated fat plus 2½ grams of trans fat (more than a day’s worth) and 5 teaspoons of sugar. While
7. Can’t decide what to pick from a restaurant menu? No worries. Now you can order not just one entrée, but two… or three… all at once. Olive Garden’s Tour of Italy – Homemade Lasagna, Lightly Breaded Chicken Parmigiana, and Creamy Fettuccine Alfredo – comes with 1,450 calories, 33 grams of saturated fat, and 3,830 milligrams of sodium. Add a breadstick (150 calories and 400 mg of sodium) and a plate of Garden-Fresh Salad with dressing (350 calories and 1,930 mg of sodium) and you’ll consume almost 2,000 calories (an entire day’s worth) and 6,160 mg.
8. The Starbucks Venti (20 oz) White Chocolate Mocha with 2% milk and whipped cream is more than a mere cup of coffee. It’s worse than a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with Cheese. Few people have room in their diets for the 580 calories and 15 grams of saturated fat that this hefty beverage supplies. But you can lose 130 calories and almost two-thirds of the bad fat if you order it with nonfat milk and no whipped cream. Who would have thought that a drink could be worse for you than a McDonalds meal.
9. An average halfcup serving ofHäagen-Dazs ice creamsqueezes half-a-day’s saturated fat and a third-of-a-day’s cholesterol into your artery walls and makes a nearly 300-calorie down-payment on your next set of fat cells – if you can stop at a petite half-cup!
10. Cold Stone Creamery’s Oh Fudge! shake (chocolate ice cream, milk, and fudge syrup) starts at 1,250 calories for the “Like It” (16 oz) size. That’s more than a large (32 oz) McDonald’s McCafe Chocolate Triple Thick Shake. The “Love It” (20 oz) has 1,660 calories and the “Gotta Have It” (24 oz) reaches 1,920 calories (just about an entire day’s worth) and 69 grams of saturated fat (3½ days’ worth). That’s the saturated fat content of two 16 oz T-bone steaks plus a buttered baked potato, all blended into a handy 24 oz cup.
As you can see from the list there is a wide variety of foods that have been identified on the “Not Good To Eat List” and were all chosen for different reasons. But the main reasons are:
1) that they have way too many calories
2) they are packed with lots of sodium,
3) they are made with tons of saturated or trans fats