Where we have to be told to eat a big mac instead of a whopper.

We've completely given up on trying to be anything that would even slighty resemble a healthy population.

http://health.msn.com/nutrition/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100199762>1=31036

4/9/2008 11:47:10 AM

4/9/2008 11:49:24 AM

Wow.

It disturbed me when I went to the store yesterday and saw a mom shopping with her two kids who had a shopping cart full of about a dozen bags of chips, frozen pizzas, cookies, butter crackers, candy and no vegetables or really anything healthy in sight. But then I realized that's the way most families eat. It's really scary.

This is really cool http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519,00.html

4/9/2008 11:52:25 AM

Wow. I want to live with that Italian family.

4/9/2008 12:10:27 PM

^^Wow that is pretty interesting. Amazing how that one family lives on less than $2 of food a week. The Egyptian family looked like they had the most amounts of vegetables/healthy stuff.

4/9/2008 12:24:04 PM

^^^ That was a great idea.

The best work / exersise / food / rest ratio I can remember having was when I spent a summer in Ecuador. I outate everyone in my host family, but very very little of it was processed. It is near impossible to replicate that here.

4/9/2008 12:33:24 PM

That surprised me a little bit. I always figured with the extra bun and the "special sauce"...that a big mac was more unhealthy than a whopper. Oh well...I don't know if I've ever had a whopper...and I probably haven't had a big mac in over 5 years.

4/9/2008 12:33:49 PM

double post

[Edited on April 9, 2008 at 12:34 PM. Reason : .]

4/9/2008 12:34:13 PM

this is making me hungry. ima go get a FIVE DOLLA FOOTLONG

4/9/2008 12:37:06 PM

Hahahah


the germans are the only ones who have a bunch of beer in their photo



the 2nd or 3rd to last one had pretty much all vegatables but most of them had a bunch of crap and tons of soda

4/9/2008 12:39:46 PM

Yeah, the Germans had 27 bottles of beer and 4 bottles of wine, haha. Revis family reppin NC for a nice $350.00 per week That's a mortgage on a nice NC house that they eat per month.

4/9/2008 12:42:35 PM

Did you notice the amount of shit they hate, too?

4/9/2008 1:13:41 PM

I read Men's Health, but that section has to be taken with a grain of salt. If you're going to do fast food then I guess it's good advice. It's just that they seem to judge things on different values each time. One article might say to eat the lower calorie/lower fat item whereas the next month they might choose a higher calorie item because it uses whole grains or healthier oils in it's preparation. There is truth in both, but there really doesn't seem to be much consistency in the magazine.

Ultimately you have to choose how you're going to get your nourishment and, I suppose, if you're going to eat a Whopper or a Big Mac this article is dead on. Doesn't mean it's not either way.

[Edited on April 9, 2008 at 2:02 PM. Reason : s]

4/9/2008 2:01:35 PM

I was watching one of those Telemundo beauty pageants with the smoking hot latin girls with a friend a while back. I wondered out loud why our Mexicans didn't look like that. He had done some missionary work and made it pretty clear that ones here are closer to poverty line so they eat unhealthy shit like McDonalds all the time and then develop obesity and diabetes.

4/9/2008 2:14:44 PM

^^^I was pretty surprised that the NC family wasn't the fattest of the bunch (in fact all of them looked to be normal weight...)

Overall it makes me think how said it would look if I laid out what I ate for a typical week, all together. I eat out so often and eat so few fresh fruits/veggies it would probably make that family look good though.

[Edited on April 9, 2008 at 2:37 PM. Reason : d]

4/9/2008 2:37:26 PM

Mens Health is a shittastic magazine.

4/9/2008 2:41:49 PM

Whatever.

You still die at the end.



NOM NOM NOM

4/9/2008 3:30:07 PM

Quote :

"That's a mortgage on a nice NC house that they eat per month."

Wait wait wait... how much would an average mortgage run you? $350... that cant be right

4/9/2008 3:43:44 PM

Their food bill is $350 per week. $1400/mo. would get you a pretty nice house as a mortgage payment.

4/9/2008 3:47:35 PM

indeed

^^pay attention

4/9/2008 4:20:16 PM

Damn. And the German family? $2,000 a month. FUCKING HELL.

Dude must be earning $8-10,000/month to spend that much on food.

4/9/2008 4:52:27 PM

^^^ DOH!

I see what you did there

4/10/2008 1:24:46 AM

4/10/2008 1:44:58 AM

Wanna know the really sad part? Both of those are about 2x healthier than pretty much anything on a chain restaurants menu. You would be a lot better off eating one of those burgers than say even a Chicken Ceaser Salad from a restaurant.

4/10/2008 1:47:34 AM

^proof?

I'm intrigued.

4/10/2008 9:50:52 AM

^^proof?

I'm intrigued.

according to panera's website (i'm trying to pick a fast-ish food place), their grilled chicken caesar salad is 560 calories (for the full, not the half), has 34g of fat (9 of which is saturated), 135mg of cholesterol, 1280mg of sodium , 26g of carbs (4 of which is fiber), and 39g of protein

[Edited on April 10, 2008 at 10:25 AM. Reason : panera]

4/10/2008 10:22:29 AM

Quote :

"It turns out that Ruby Tuesday’s Carolina Chicken Salad contains a whopping 1022 calories and their Club House Salad has 896 calories, and that’s without any dressing. Throw some ranch one on of those and you’re easily adding 100 additional calories. Chili’s “Crispy Chicken Salad” comes in at a 810 calories and their “Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad with dressing” comes in at 1,010 calories!"

http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2008/01/applebees-ruby-tuesday-and-chilli%E2%80%99s-are-less-healthy-than-mcdonalds.html

I'm sure there are better examples, but that's the first thing I found. And ranch would be way more than 100 calories for most people.

http://tinyurl.com/6pnc8m
http://www.pcrm.org/health/reports/fastfood_salads.html

[Edited on April 10, 2008 at 10:33 AM. Reason : more links]

4/10/2008 10:27:53 AM

Quote :

"Family recipe: Pig's knuckles with carrots, celery and parsnips"

I'll take a big mac thnx

[Edited on April 10, 2008 at 10:32 AM. Reason : ""]

4/10/2008 10:31:11 AM

^^^,^^^^ from the article linked in the very first post

Quote :

"Chili's Chicken Caesar Salad 1,010 calories 76 g fat Panera Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad 560 calories 34 g fat "

whereas the burgers were:

Quote :

"McDonald's Big Mac 540 calories 29 grams (g) fat Burger King Whopper with Cheese 760 calories 47 g fat"

but the important thing to remember with the burger is:

Quote :

"If you add a medium order of fries and a Coke, your lunch just grew to 1,130 calories."

[Edited on April 10, 2008 at 10:41 AM. Reason : ^'s]

4/10/2008 10:38:33 AM

meh...i'd rather have the panera salad anyway

4/10/2008 10:40:23 AM

maybe so, but I would assume by "chain restaurant" he meant places like Chili's, Applebees, Ruby Tuesdays, TGI Friday, etc.

Yes I realize Panera is a chain, but most people see it as more of a bakery / sandwich shop type thing.

Speaking of sandwiches:

Quote :

"Eat This: Subway 6-inch Turkey Sub with provolone 330 calories 8.5 g fat Not That: Panera Sierra Turkey 840 calories 41 g fat"

4/10/2008 10:44:36 AM

^ yikes...i believe it, though...their bacon turkey bravo is something like 1000+ calories

4/10/2008 11:00:47 AM

wow

aha

4/10/2008 12:50:32 PM

What if i'm not trying to eat low calorie?

What if I look at these meals as a weekly cheat meal?

4/10/2008 4:04:05 PM

Quote :

"Not all burgers are created equal. That's important, especially when you consider that the average guy will eat 100 of them this year. Take America's two most famous burgers, the Whopper with Cheese and the Big Mac. A fair fight, right? Well, if you go for the Arch alternative, you'll save 220 calories over the BK behemoth. Use that strategy for every burger you eat in 2008 and you'll save 22,000 calories — the equivalent of 6 pounds of body fat. See, the way you pick your favorite fixes — from burgers to banana splits — could help you make the transition from chubby to chiseled. In researching Eat This, Not That! the best-selling book based on the popular column in Men's Health magazine, we found that the most effective weight-loss strategy doesn't require you to abandon the foods you love but simply to make better choices when selecting them. Do that and you'll trade failed diets and wild weight fluctuations for healthy eating patterns and a lean, new you. Who wouldn't make that swap? "

4/10/2008 4:10:06 PM

so this is what they eat in north carolina



[Edited on April 10, 2008 at 4:17 PM. Reason : lol pizzahut kfc taco bell mcdonalds burger king bacon lol]

4/10/2008 4:16:31 PM

i'm going to panera after work, to get some dinner and work on my other projects...what should i get, tdub???

4/10/2008 4:44:02 PM

maybe you shouldnt have given up on exercise

4/10/2008 5:09:11 PM

who, me? i still go to the lake to walk/jog 3 times a week...that's about it, though

the puppy keeps me active sometimes, too

4/10/2008 5:12:02 PM

no

4/10/2008 5:12:43 PM

*whew*

4/10/2008 5:17:11 PM

4/10/2008 9:08:28 PM

dont worry we will soon have socialized medicine to pay for all these tubs of shit, at the tax payers expense of course.

4/11/2008 8:30:49 AM

I might go get me a Big Mac.

4/11/2008 7:38:52 PM

fast food sucks and so do fat people

4/11/2008 7:58:29 PM

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4/12/2008 5:12:15 PM

you know.
ive heard caeser salads are not healthy but.....

Quote :

"Chili's Chicken Caesar Salad 1,010 calories 76 g fat"

dayummmmmmmmmmm

[Edited on April 12, 2008 at 5:42 PM. Reason : caesahhhh']

4/12/2008 5:42:23 PM

that Time thing was crazy

4/12/2008 6:44:09 PM

The sesame chicken salad from Bruegger's has more fat and calories in it than the chicken caesar salad.

And the better bacon cheddar sandwich.

[Edited on April 12, 2008 at 6:47 PM. Reason : No link needed.]

4/12/2008 6:46:14 PM

all those families with plates and plates of fruits and vegetables are just plain liars and ought to be ashamed of themselves

4/12/2008 8:46:46 PM