Posted on 07/31/2017 11:56:25 AM PDT by simpson96
Watch out, diners: There are serious calories in some restaurant meals.
That was the message of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nutrition advocacy group, as it released its annual "Xtreme Eating Award" winners — the most calorie-stuffed dishes and drinks from the country's chain restaurants.
Topping the list were entrees like The Cheesecake Factory's Pasta Napoletana, which the chain describes as a meat lover's pizza in pasta form. The pasta, dressed in a Parmesan cream sauce, is topped with Italian sausage, pepperoni, meatballs, and bacon and clocks in at 2,310 calories, 79 grams of saturated fat, and 4,370 mg of sodium.
Or the Flying Gorilla, also at The Cheesecake Factory, with 950 calories. The chocolate and banana milkshake, with dark chocolate and banana liqueur, has 26 grams of saturated fat and an estimated 60 grams of added sugar.
The Food and Drug Administration recommends that adults take in around 2,000 calories a day, and health associations generally say Americans should limit saturated fat to 20 grams, sodium to 2,300 milligrams and added sugar to 50 grams per day.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
If I want any ‘unhealthy’ food to eat, and I can pay for dinner, it is my choice to eat it. If my kids wants to eat unhealthy, it is not the government, the center for Science in the Public Interest or any Busy Bodies, it is my wife and my choice...
Why this obsession over what people eat, and all the nanny warnings? If someone wants to eat 1000’s of calories in the form of nutritionally useless carbs and sugar that turn right to fat on their ass, it is no one’s business-neither is it anyone else’s responsibility to fund their bariatric surgery and tummy tucks when they get to the point that they can’t stand the way they look and have barely enough energy to collapse onto the seat of a motorized cart at the grocery store.
The calorie thing is dependent on individual metabolism, size, etc as well as activity level-one size does not fit all. I am nearly 5’9”, 106-108-on a very small frame-I’m slightly muscular because I have a physical job and I work out with weights and resistance several times per week-I eat only organic, unprocessed veggies and meat, almost no carbs, no sugar-about 1100-1200 calories per day of protein and good things found in veggies and fresh fruit-this is the same way I’ve been eating all my life, and it works for me-it would not be enough food for a person my height with a larger frame, but it might keep a sedentary 5’9” female office worker with a small frame enough overweight to be thinking about starting the NutriSystem plan-those stupid food pyramids and calorie recommendations totally ignore the fact that humans are all individuals...
I’m with others here and wonder just how much Cheesecake pays to have their dishes listed as the ABSOLUTE UNHEALTHIEST.
What really gets me suspicious was a few years ago I ate one of their ‘horrible’ dishes, and it was useless as far as being unhealthy. I manage to drive home just fine, without a heart attack and still haven’t put on the 20 plus pounds they promised if I ate the meal. Beyond that, it wasn’t even very filling...which is what really convinced me that these are simply reverse-psychology advertising.
I realize the food you posted appeals to a lot of people-I might even like it with sautéed veggies substituted for the pasta and pesto sauce for the cream stuff-but a grilled ribeye steak-very rare-some steamed asparagus or Brussels sprouts with plenty of real butter and a nice salad with spinach and arugula would be my 1st choice-maybe with a nice merlot...
We all like different food-an example of that diversity thing liberals are supposed to love, so why are they bitching and scolding instead of celebrating it?
After looking at the pictures in the story, I’d prefer to make these myself and save the money. One of the pics looked like someone had diarrhea... really nasty looking.
It seems that when I eat more filling high fat foods like omelettes, steaks, cheeses, nuts and butter, my appetite is curbed quicker and I don't snack between meals quite so much.
I especially like the high fat yogurts that have very little sugar but are high in fat because they use more cream. Just one little container with some fresh blackberries or blueberries mixed in is a very filling breakfast (along with a hard boiled egg or two).
Siggi's just came out with a triple cream 9% milkfat yogurt/skyr that is most excellent! Tastes like ice cream.
True that.
Count me as a fan of Pasta Putanesca !
I will NEVER look at the calorie count when I am out to dinner.I will order exactly what I want.
Plenty of other times for “healthy” dining.
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this is why our country has a 35% adult obesity rate
I love the food in Italy, and the levels of obesity in Italy are much less than in the US. Part of it is portion size, another part is how you prepare the food (heavy cream sauces are not for me), and the fact that people walk more there. Plus, I truly believe that lifestyle matters. In Italy, while the stores are closed in the afternoon, people eat the equivalent of ‘dinner’, generally between 2 and 3pm. Then the stores and businesses reopen, and people work until early evening. They go out again, commonly, after 10pm.
The omelet and the pasta with meat sauce look nauseating.
That doesn’t look like Italian to me!
I don’t see 2310 calories in that pasta dish either. Guesstimating sizes on the high side:
1 1/2 C pasta - 315 calories
2 slices bacon - 80
3 oz Italian sausage - 125
8 slices pepperoni - 70
1/4 lb meatballs - 155
1/4 C cream sauce - 162
Total = 907 calories
Same here. And save on the calories. Can't imagine what they add to have such a high calorie count.
A bunch of crackheads who’s advise over the last 45 years has created an Obesity and self inflicted diabetes epidemic.
EAT REAL FOOD!!
High FAT
Moderate Protien
Low Carb
No processed, hydrogenated,low fat,..NONE.
Agree completely. And avoid processed foods as much as possible.
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