Comments on: Watch Out For That ‘Healthy’ New Fast Food Menu Item

By: Kent A

Kent A — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:41:29 +0000

For all the bedeviling of Mc Donald’s they are still my favorite or perhaps more accurately most often visited fast food restaurant. There are better locally owned options, but they never fail to get my 2 double cheeseburgers without bun only lettuce, onion, and cheese order with a Caesar side salad (4g only due to 2 serving size) right. It’s what it’s there for cheap easy legal eats.

I can’t go out to my local grocery store salad bar every day, and Mc. D’s fulfills that role for me.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:20:33 +0000

This is a great article; thanks. I do appreciate that Pizza Hut is going with better-quality ingredients. People need to understand, though, that most of us cannot digest wheat well in the first place. Cereal grains were only domesticated in the past couple thousand years, and were traditionally sprouted. Our bodies haven’t had time to evolve to digest refined, mass-manufactured grains.

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:44:40 +0000

I agree with you that LJS deserves a big thumbs up — I’ve had that meal, and it’s fabulous, great flavor and texture in both the fish and the veggies.

BK actually does facilitate low-carb somewhat; you can get any burger served in a dish on lettuce, instead of on a bun. Not that this helps you with the breaded fried onions on the angry burger, but it’s a step. They also have a low-carb handout on the website, which is pretty good except that at the bottom it inexplicably goes off about the importance of 5 servings of fruits and veggies.

McDonald’s is still pretty awful. Not only do they, as someone else noted, put sugar in dressings that are low-carb safe elsewhere (like ranch!), they smuggle it into a lot of other places that you’d think would be okay. For instance, there’s food starch, corn syrup, and sugar in the sausage-and-egg mix that goes into the sausage burritos — plenty of it, too, because a tortilla that size shouldn’t give you more than 15g carbs, but this item (which otherwise contains the aforesaid sausage-and-egg mix and cheese) has 29g in total. You really have to watch them, and consult the nutrition info closely. Or just “vote with feet” and go somewhere else!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:24:27 +0000

Jimmy,
I know the whole-grain bread stuff is silliness, but I’ve always loved fast food. I sometimes go to McDonalds and get double-cheeseburgers and throw away the bun. Burger King is wonderful, just toss the bun. Chicken is a problem because it’s usually breaded.
I feel like LC people are so ahead of the curve, and the media is just discovering whole wheat! I went thru my whole-wheat -is- healthy stage a long time ago! ha.

By: Dan (aka Renegadediabetic)

Dan (aka Renegadediabetic) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:50:20 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I went out to LJS for lunch and the salmon with veggies is great.

Sounds like Pizza Hut has improved the toppings. I’m with you, eat the toppings and ditch the crust.

I don’t like that Subway charges you extra to make a sandwich a salad. When we get Subway to go, I get a wrap or $5 footlong and make my own salad at home, ditching the bread where it belongs — in the trash!

I guess whole grains are a little better than refined grains, just like filtered cigarettes are a little better than unfiltered cigarettes.

McDonald’s is the worst. Their salad dressings are full of sugar. The onions on the Angry Burger look like they are breaded. I like getting a burger and tossing the bun, but you have to watch the extras.

Everyone has to get on health kick. The problem is that the conventional notion of “healthy eating” is based on the food pyramid and the low fat lie.

By: Rev.HaggisMacJedi (Brian Sharp)

Rev.HaggisMacJedi (Brian Sharp) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:53:35 +0000

*sigh*

I don’t think we’ll ever see a TRUE definition of what healthy eating is in this country. How can a person deny the benefits of eating Low Carb? One look at medical test results from a person who has being doing Low Carb 6 months or more consistently will PROVE time and again that it is truly healthy.