Fast Food Sandwiches (Read 1291 times)

Those pre packaged lunches are always really high in calories That's why I bring my own lunch --- like you do. Hang in there, though --- one Heavenly Ham sandwhich won't do you in.

I refuse it all.

Thank you for that. I wish more medical professionals were so...well, professional. The drug costs are so insane. I'm always shocked by how much cheaper most drugs are once they go generic. The difference in price is flabbergasting. Yeah, fast food "healthy" can be such an oxymoron. Sometimes the healthier choices at FF joints can really be a good deal, but not often. Those salads at McD's are a prime example...you can order your chicken deep fried (ha, not healthy), but even the grilled stuff is injected with sugar. So much for watching calories and it's not exactly diabetic friendly for those who have to be careful with sugars. I do like the chicken salad wrap at Arby's...it's not really low calorie or low fat, but the wrap itself is whole grain and there aren't really any mystery ingredients...white meat chicken, grapes, apples, celery, mayo, pecans, romaine lettuce. They're huge, so I will order one and just eat half--saving the other half for dinner or for lunch the following day. k

She is correct. We may not otherwise learn about new drugs. Like that is a bad thing?

See, I knew we agreed on lots!

Zoebella, you still have plenty of time to get in a 7-mile run to burn off that sandwich.

Modal, great info. Beans are fantastic. Everything you wrote is great. Except this:

plaque builds up down there too

I thought is was pretty healthy, they market it that way...

Any food that brags on its packaging about how healthy it is should make you suspicious. Consider: it's almost entirely the highly-processed, pre-packaged stuff that makes such claims. The truly healthy foods are too simple to benefit from any such gimmicks.

"... By comparison, the typical real food has more trouble competing under the rules of nutritionism, if only because something like a banana or an avocado can’t easily change its nutritional stripes (though rest assured the genetic engineers are hard at work on the problem). So far, at least, you can’t put oat bran in a banana. So depending on the reigning nutritional orthodoxy, the avocado might be either a high-fat food to be avoided (Old Think) or a food high in monounsaturated fat to be embraced (New Think). The fate of each whole food rises and falls with every change in the nutritional weather, while the processed foods are simply reformulated. That’s why when the Atkins mania hit the food industry, bread and pasta were given a quick redesign (dialing back the carbs; boosting the protein), while the poor unreconstructed potatoes and carrots were left out in the cold. Of course it’s also a lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a potato or carrot, with the perverse result that the most healthful foods in the supermarket sit there quietly in the produce section, silent as stroke victims, while a few aisles over, the Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms are screaming about their newfound whole-grain goodness." - from Michael Pollan's NY Times Article