Posted on 03/30/2005 1:26:30 AM PST by jolie560
Burger King's new Enormous Omelet may be too hefty for its own good - and yours - said New Yorkers weighing in yesterday on the latest fast-food belly buster. "I'm a big dude. I eat a lot. But that looks like a Whopper with bacon and sausage thrown on," said Brooklynite John Butler, 31, at a Fulton St. Burger King. "It's mad big. You're gonna have a coronary on the first bite."
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I love Thai food and would eat it everyday if I could!!!!
The entire recent Burger King commercial blitz is offensive, brash, rude, and tasteless. Nonstop T and A, idiotic jingles. It's scary, and they don't seem to be selling food.
I meant they use cane sugar for soft drinks, but generally speaking beet sugar is perfectly fine too!
They've got the only good fast food burger, though... the Angus Steak cheddar & bacon burger. Their fries leave something to be desired for.
I mix stevia with unsweetened cranberry juice. It's been a healthy combination for me so far.
I am in Min Buri which is a suburb of Bangkok.
Yes I like the food a lot except for the sugar.
The sausage here is wonderful but not for an
omelet.
It isn't easy. All labels have to be checked. "100% whole wheat" breads often include it. It's very common in yogurt. Tomato sauces, read the label, and avoid sauces that might include it in restaurants.
The situation should improve with the new publicity. But then the manufacturers will come up with some new body poison to use as a cheap sweetener.
I'm thinking "sugar alcohol" is probably not something I'd want to consume.
Sigh....nothing is easy anymore.
"Yes. I'll have one of those and a diet coke please. I'm watching my weight".
Stevia is excellent and it's a true shame that the FDA refuses to let it be used as a manufacturing food additive in order to protect the aspartame/saccharin companies. It's been used for centuries in Latin America and is approved for use in Japan and China and other East Asian countries where they use it for diet sodas and low-calorie foods instead of aspartame. No ill effects have ever been reported and it comes from a natural, cheap plant. Meaning it can't be patented and has no great profit margin so the FDA has illegally blocked it.
Too bad more Americans don't know about it or else the FDA could be pressured to change the illegal policy (natural foods with a long history of use by statute aren't supposed to be prohibited).
Excellent post. I am amused by people that think your scrambled eggs will kill you with cholesterol, but think nothing of eating a giant starchy bagel slathered with margarine.
The cholesterol in eggs is much more natural and healthy than the trans fats in margarine.
I tried going almost no-fat once, when I was 30 pounds heavier. My cholesterol was 219 but the ratio was an abysmal 1 to 6 good to bad.
After a year of low carb and exercise my cholesterol was 209 but with a 1 to 2.5 ratio - much healthier. Without enough fat in your diet your liver will build cholesterol - the bad kind almost exclusively.
These things are great. They have been selling them at the base BK for about 2 weeks. They fill me up until dinner.
My cholesterol tracks closely with my weight.
At 249 pounds, I was at 247. Danger Will Robinson, Danger!
After losing 20 pounds through an "eat-less-exercise-more" diet, it was down to 176.
hyper not hypo
hypo. As in the slow kind. Very mild though.
I haven't seen this one, but it isn't nearly as creepy as the one where the plastic Burger King guy is in bed with the guy to serve him breakfast when he wakes up. That had a little homosexual overtone to it.
Good on you for the weight loss.
But cholesterol at the extremes are a problem.
And there are some folks (like me) that think Ancel Keys and his lipid theory is a crock of feces.
Changed my diet due to bleeding ulcers, intestinal hernia's blah blah and all healed the hernia is in check not flaring up and the big bonus that I was not even trying for was my cholesteral went from 325 to normal and sugar is now normal.
But Ithink diet is very personal each one of us need to eat what works for us considering indvidual needs.
I've become convinced that HFCS needs to be banned by Constitutional Amendment for anything not specifically marketed as "candy". (Ok, I'm kidding, but only just barely...)
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