"mens health" news and stories

A tipple is one thing, but some U.S. cities have a problem with the bottle. Using factors DUI arrests, liver disease dealths and binge drinking stats, Men's Health crunched the numbers to find America's Drunkest City. Who won the dubious honor? Fresno, California, which received an "F" from the magazine when it comes to its drinking problem. We definitely won't say "cheers" to that.

Want to see if your town belongs in rehab? Check out the full list from Men's Health.

The popular guide to making better choices at casual and fast-food establishments, Eat This, Not That! is out with a new 2011 edition. Exposed inside are the dirty secrets of the food industry; the best and worst foods to boost brain power; the newest picks from more than 50 fast-food and sit-down restaurants; and, our favorite section, the 20 worst foods in America.

Slashfood was lucky enough to get a peek at 10 of the 20 worst foods, including the worst fast-food burger, the worst salad and the worst meal overall. For photos and statistics, click through the gallery after the jump.

For the remaining 10 (including the worst supermarket meal, worst drink and worst appetizer), as well as tips on stocking your pantry with America's best packaged foods and a guide to getting your kids to eat more fruits and veggies, visit Eat This, Not That or pick up a copy of the book.

Visit Men's Health regularly for more Eat This, Not That!

Listen up, fellas: just in case you thought it was ok to satiate your man-sized appetite with a Carl's Jr. Double Guacamole Bacon Burger for lunch, the editors at Men's Health are telling you to think again.

The magazine that is perhaps single-handedly responsible for the American obsession with six-pack abs has combed through all the tiny type of those fast-food nutrition tables and come up with its list of the ten worst fast-food meals in the country.

While many of the revelations are hardly startling (do they really think that anyone who's going to order something called the "Triple Baconator" at Wendy's gives a hoot that it's got 43 grams of saturated fat?), there are a handful of surprises.

Take the Quiznos large Tuna Melt with a side of Cheetos. It might seem smart to opt for heart-healthy tuna over a burger somewhere else, but, smothered in mayo, this sandwich is the caloric equivalent of "eating one whole bag of Chewy Chips Ahoy! Cookies," the editors point out, "making it one of the absolute worst sandwiches in the country."

Another day, another list. This time, it's Anthony Bourdain's "13 Places to Eat Before You Die," which appears in the June issue of Men's Health. Bourdain's article shouts out restaurants and stores across the globe, from New York's smoked fish shrine Russ & Daughters to Spain's gourmand ground zero, elBulli.

Bourdain acknowledges that as "any seasoned traveler can tell you, the 'best' meals on the planet are the result of an ephemeral confluence of circumstances," and makes convincing arguments for each of his picks, which also include Kansas City, Kan.'s Oklahoma Joe's Barbecue, Tokyo's Sukiyabashi Jiro and London's St. John.

But even with the disclaimer and rationale behind Bourdain's choices, plenty are as likely to find fault with his logic (and apparently abundant frequent flier miles) as they are with a list proclaiming, say, the best pizza places in the U.S.

We have the text of the article so you can weigh in on Bourdain's hits -- and misses -- after the jump.

Move over Outback Steakhouse bacon and ranch cheese fries - the Baskin Robbins large chocolate Oreo shake is the new Worst Food in America, according to Men's Health. This diabetes-bomb has 2,600 calories, 135 grams of fat (59 of them saturated), 263 grams of sugar and 1,700 mgs of sodium.

Check out the link to see a full list of "worst" sandwiches, "worst" Mexican foods, "worst" pizzas, etc. The "worst" burger, Chili's Smokehouse Bacon Triple-The Cheese Big Mouth Burger with Jalapeno Ranch, has more than 150 grams of fat, the equivalent of eight 6-ounce steaks. While anyone can probably guess that massive milkshakes and burgers with more than more than three adjectives in their names are probably not great for you, Men's Health also uncovers a few presumably healthy foods that are actually not much better than sucking down melted margarine with a straw. The "worst" salad is T.G.I. Friday's Pecan Crusted Chicken Salad, which has 1,370 calories (more than half most people's daily need) and an undetermined amount of fat - T.G.I. Friday's refuses to disclose full nutritional information for their foods.

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