Fast-food toxicity comparison chart
The Calorie Counter website has pulled together a great chart comparing the "nutritional" information from the "kitchens" of a variety of junk-food fast-food places. If you're trying to figure out how to slow down the rate at which your trans-fat/ high-fructose/ ground-grade-z- beef habit is killing you, you can use this chart to pick the best of the worst. And hell, if you're trying to commit suicide-by-burger, here's the roadmap you need to get yourself into the grave ASAP. Link (via Kottke)
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But suicide by burger is the very best kind of suicide. Slow and oh so delicious.
I wonder why the Hardee's crispy curls are so salty?
As a caregiver for an elderly family member who has the classic metabolic suite of disability: diabetes type 2, mild dementia, heart disease and low funcioning kindeys (approx 25%), finding food he will eat while travelling is difficult at best so I take carefull note of the nutritional charts. Notice the good old MacDonalds burger is relatively low in sodium...lower than a typical bran muffin for that matter...a lot lower in many cases. And the bun is the biggest source of sodium for that burger. Even a regular sized bag of french fries has less sodium than the burger's bun.
Nowadays everyone is checked for high blood pressure, even a commercial drivers license will require the driver's BP to be normal...so lots of BP medicine is being dispensed even though our intake of salt is probably the biggest factor.
We do not have Sonic in France, but it looks better than Mc Donald's...
I know his heart is in the right place, but I can't help but notice something.
The difference between "best" and "worst" is basically a matter of size.
Sonic fries (best) have 2.87 calories per gram
Dairy Queen (worst) is actually slightly better at 2.61 calories per gram. But DQ's large is bigger. (you can still top it by getting the Sonic Size)
So... eat less. That makes sense.
Yeah, this guy's conclusions are worthless because he's not comparing serving sizes. You're really going to compare the saturated fat in a 58 gram White Castle burger to the saturated fat in a 602 gram Double Six Dollar Burger? Really?
Also, the calories discussion is a bit silly. You're probably going to want to eat more than 58 calories (or 602 calories) per day, so green lining a single White Castle burger for low calories is fairly useless. Comparing sodium-per-calorie or fat-per-calorie would be more revealing.
Since Long John Silvers isn't listed, I'll take that to mean that everything on their menu is healthy. Extra crispies, here I come!
Reminds me of Morgan Spurlock's documentary "Super Size Me".