Dying to Eat One?
The CSPI has just published a little blurb on the back page of their April "Nutrition Action Health Letter" that will make you think twice before opening wide for the Swiss Chalet Charbroiled Chalet Burger with Bacon & Cheese. Y'all ready for this?
Each burger has close to 1 & 1/2 days' worth of killer fat, weighing in at 24 grams of saturated fat plus 3 & 1/2 grams of trans fat. Seems bad enough, right? Hold onto your arteries, it ain't over yet!
Calorie count is as follows:
*630 for the meat, bacon and cheese
*240 for the white bread bun (no fiber, no whole grains, no taste)
*70 for the coleslaw
*30 for the dipping sauce
*470 for the "freedom fries"
Do the math, folks. We're talking 1,400 calories for a meal that gives you negligible food value in return. Is this really a meal you want to dump on your your waistline and your butt?
One last number for you to be aware of is the meal's 2,100 milligrams of sodium, which is more than a day's worth. The U.S. Institute of Medicine currently recommends you ingest only 1,500 milligrams of sodium in a day.
Visit the Swiss Chalet website and you'll see their slogan, "Taste It Once. Love It Forever." Maybe you could get away with it just once, eating one of those burger meals, but if you make too much of a habit of it, the slogan might be better worded this way - Taste It Today, Regret It Forever.
What do you think?
Each burger has close to 1 & 1/2 days' worth of killer fat, weighing in at 24 grams of saturated fat plus 3 & 1/2 grams of trans fat. Seems bad enough, right? Hold onto your arteries, it ain't over yet!
Calorie count is as follows:
*630 for the meat, bacon and cheese
*240 for the white bread bun (no fiber, no whole grains, no taste)
*70 for the coleslaw
*30 for the dipping sauce
*470 for the "freedom fries"
Do the math, folks. We're talking 1,400 calories for a meal that gives you negligible food value in return. Is this really a meal you want to dump on your your waistline and your butt?
One last number for you to be aware of is the meal's 2,100 milligrams of sodium, which is more than a day's worth. The U.S. Institute of Medicine currently recommends you ingest only 1,500 milligrams of sodium in a day.
Visit the Swiss Chalet website and you'll see their slogan, "Taste It Once. Love It Forever." Maybe you could get away with it just once, eating one of those burger meals, but if you make too much of a habit of it, the slogan might be better worded this way - Taste It Today, Regret It Forever.
What do you think?

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