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- Deep fried Snickers or Mars bars - This "snack" packs over 450 calories and about 30 grams of fat, and a king size will deliver more than 700 calories and 44 grams of fat. What's more disturbing is that some pubs plate them with a side of fries and call them lunch.
- Shelf stable “creamers” – Water, sugar or corn syrup solids and partially hydrogenated oils make up this shelf-stable faux cream. Need we say more?
- Pasteurized, processed cheese food - No, we don’t care how well they melt. These melty, spreadable, day-glo orange “cheeses” have to be labeled as “cheese food” because of the addition of preservatives and liquids. Yum.
- Burger King Chicken Fries – A tiny amount of chicken with four layers of breading, deep-fried in soybean oil 3 ounces of “fries” with dipping sauce, come up to 340 calories and 24 grams of fat, as well as 1020 mg of sodium per serving.
- Instant ramen noodles – Very high in both sodium and saturated fat On the plus side, there is little, if any sugar in these, though you’ll be reaching for something sweet to get the salt out of your mouth.
- Movie theater popcorn – popped in coconut oil and topped with “butter," a large size has about 20 cups of popcorn and almost three days worth of saturated fat.
- McDonald’s Sausage, Egg and Cheese McGriddle – only if you want to have over 50% of your recommended daily intake of fat, saturated fat and sodium in a 7 oz. (199 gm) sandwich.
- Super sized soft drinks – Huge drinks, like the 52-ounce X-treme gulp at 7-11, when filled with sugary sodas, can pack away over 600 calories each!
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2-14-2006 @3:04PM guest1234567 said... The only time you will probably ever eat a deep fried Snickers bar would be at the County Fair. How many of these a year to you actually go to? And do you really expect healthy carnival food?
Go ahead and eat one once a year. They really are tasty and a part of the County Fair experience.
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2-15-2006 @9:12AM Brian Preston-Campbell said... The thing about instant ramen noodles most people don't realize, other than they are salty as hell, is that they are not dried -- they are fried to a state of dryness. This makes them 1. last forever 2. cook quickly and 3. very bad in conjunction with the salt and or MSG the seasonings contain.
Brian
http://brian.preston-campbell.com
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1-16-2006 @10:39AM lil said... Deep fried candy bars?! Partially hydrogenated soybean oil?! Why, why, why?!
Meanwhile, why weren't Twinkies listed? I left one in the yard for 1 month, and it didn't even dry out. And nothing ate it. (including me, I don't touch the stuff anymore).
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1-16-2006 @11:07AM Rob said... A deep-fried onion a la the Awesome Blossom from Outback Steakhouse is absolutely the worst...I've heard it has several THOUSAND calories and well over 100 grams of fat. Of course you don't usually eat the whole thing alone, but still.
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1-16-2006 @11:21AM Punisher2k said... Its a simple formula.
A calories/fat increase, so does taste.
It is an evolutionary leftover from our ancestors days where nature encouraged to eat fatty, high cal things because they never knew when the next meal would come. Now that every meal is 5 steps away I wonder if we'll evolve out of it eventually.
If we are around that long that is.
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1-16-2006 @11:29AM Bruce Dearborn Walker said... Wow...I actually never eat any of those things. Maybe I'll never die.
Just so you know, I intend to try one those deep fried Mars bars at the first opportunity.
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1-16-2006 @11:43AM Ultra Magnus said... The sodium content of ramen noodles is only important if you consume the soup entirely ... that is, most of the sodium is in the soup base, the rest leaches out of the noodles when you boil them. So, you're not consuming the entire amount of sodium listed on the package if you only eat the noodles (for the most part). You can also put half the package of the soup base in instead of the whole thing (or water it down more).
The saturated fats are present because the noodles are deep fried in palm or cocunt oil .. both are high in saturated fats. To cut down, you can boil the noodles in plain water and strain the noodles under warm water .. some of the fats will be discarded with the boil water.
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1-16-2006 @11:45AM Brian said... For an in-depth review of the Deep Fried Snickers (with pictures) check this out:
http://candyaddict.com/blog/2005/10/26/deep-fried-snickers/
Brian
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1-16-2006 @12:17PM Diane said... Here'e the thing, most of the time I eat very healthy food, low fat, mostly organically grown, no artificial sweeteners, no high fructose corn syrup, but I would eat a deep fried Snickers bar in a second!! Probably only one every ten years, but boy would I enjoy it.
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1-16-2006 @1:43PM jenny o'shannon said... what about the "Yakasoba" noodles sold in stores? do they still carry the gynormous amount of sodium and calories?
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1-16-2006 @3:18PM Huffy said... The way many Americans eat is one of my bandwagons, and when it comes to what we feed our children, I am apt to go apoplectic. Now don't misunderstand me, please. Junk food?? Of *course* I crave it now and then; I am, afterall, only human! As Punisher2K notes, such cravings are a function of evolutionary imprinting. That said, we can ill afford to continue the pre-packaged, over-processed, super-sized, nutritionally void pattern of food consumption so common these days. A recently-posted article here offered distressingly real examples of "Kid Menus," and after reading them, I couldn't help but think of Eric Cartman.
Huffy
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1-18-2006 @6:40AM Tabitha said... mmmmmmmmmm Fat mmmmmmmmmmm calories keep em commin you only live once, live happy. and any ways I am not eating card board.
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1-18-2006 @7:10AM lori said... i think everything in moderation could be okay, but a deep fried snickers? that just sounds plain gross, why not get a funnel cake instead :)
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1-18-2006 @7:34AM chris said... Rember living healthy is just dieing slowly. Also its not just Americans who have seen a raise in obesity rates most developed countries have. Even if you want to say that its all America all I have to say is this. "Why is America fat? Becuase we can be."
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1-18-2006 @7:41AM reggaeton said... reggaeton reggaeton
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1-18-2006 @7:50AM Jim said... It's articles like these that caused McDonalds to change the way they cook their fries. If the public doesn't want these "junk food" items, then the public won't buy them. We should have the option to buy them if we want to. McDonalds could offer their fries both as "Original Recipe" and "New Recipe" (remember "New" Coke?). That's how you tell what the public really wants.
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1-18-2006 @8:03AM windamere said... I never even heard of deep fried snickers. The stuff is no good for you but I would try it once!
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1-18-2006 @8:15AM AL said... it's not what i eat that's a problem, it's portion control. i actually love rice cakes. love, love, love'em (plain, not salted, and i don't add any condiments, etc.). buy i can eat an entire package in a sitting. but, just so you know, it's not what i'm eating that makes that outrageous consuption possible, it's my appitite. i'm the same 5'2" girl who can down an entire ny stip stake, then ask someone to pass the breas basket.
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1-18-2006 @8:18AM James White said... I love Snickers bars, but deep fat fried? I can't believe what some people eat.
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1-18-2006 @8:46AM Basil said... Yep, some of you people are right. You only live once. I know I want to spend the only life I get sitting on the couch 100 pounds overweight and unable to move. God forbid I should want to travel, or climb a mountain, or swim in the ocean during the short short time on earth that I get. HELLO???!! It's about what you do in life not what you eat that will make life worth living. And to those of you who have the "hey might as well enjoy it" attitude maybe you will get lucky. Maybe reincarnation will turn out to be the final solution.Then you can come back as someone who has a clue.
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