Some Sugar With Your Fat?
Few people would pour themselves a half-cup of sugar and eat it for dessert. Nor would you (hopefully) sit down and gobble up five breakfast sandwiches sprinkled with 10 packets of sugar. Yet U.S. restaurants are serving the equivalents of those things every day, no matter how much bad press their woefully unhealthy offerings garner. Each year, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) releases its annual "Xtreme Eating Awards" (dis)honoring the lows to which chain restaurants will stoop to get you to buy their food."This year, we found the highest-calorie menu items we've ever seen," says Paige Einstein, a registered dietician with CSPI, despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration is getting closer to finalizing calorie-labeling rules for chain restaurants. Such labeling was required as part of the 2010 healthcare overhaul, and, says Einstein, it's probably the only way people will be able to dodge nutritional landmines like this year's "honorees." Without further ado, here's the CSPI list.
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