On Apr 5, 7:00 am, "Matty \(I Weighed More Than Jared From Subway\)"
<Idontthin...@spammy.net> wrote:
> http://health.msn.com/dietfitness/ar...ocumentid=1001...
The basic premise of this article is laughably stupid. Why go to these
places and try to fix the order? If Bob Evans might be in jail if
trans fats were criminal, why eat at his restaurant?
Maybe I'm biased by living in Vancouver, which has a lower obesity
rate than any other big city in North America. (11.7% according to
Statistics Canada figures for 2006). I'm doing my part by maintaining
at 6% body fat!
It's perhaps not an unrelated fact that we have seemingly boundless
choices for dining out well.
> Interesting article on MSN about eating healthier while eating out at some
> chain restaurants.
The idiocy of this article reaches the first high point in its entry
for PF Chang's.
In correcting the Mu Shu Pork menu item, the author subtracts 490
calories, of which only 8 grams is fat! That's not even 20% of the
total calories. She's taking out a lean portion of the meal. What is
left behind is quite likely fatter as a consequence. Say, what if I /
want/ to eat 490 calories, with only 8 grams of fat in it?
Skip the hoisin sauce? Nothing wrong with that stuff. I have some in
the fridge and use it from time to time, and only maybe a teaspoon to
a tablespoon at a time. A 400 gram jar lasts me a year. She must be
confusing hoisin sauce with the fatty sauces used in the other
restaurants. The chief constituents of hoisin are sugar, water and
fermented soybean paste (i.e. something similar to miso). Oh yeah,
real killer stuff! One whiff and you put on half a pound.
Other stupidity in the article:
``[A] woman dines typically dines out five times per week.''
What? Maybe it describes cow who penned this claim, without any sort
of citation to back it up.
``Choose brown rice-it's lower in calories than fried varieties ...''
Is it rational to compare brown rice to fried rice??? Of course fried
rice has more calories, since it picks up oil. You can fry brown rice
too. I'm guessing that she is suggesting that white rice is fried in
order to imitate the color of brown rice, which isn't the case. There
isn't any deception: it's a traditional meal. (Actually, the brown
tint mostly comes from the soy sauce rather than the frying).
Now let's think about the idiocy of the suggestion that at an
``Asian'' place where you are supposedly ordering shrimp stir fry, you
should request brown rice instead of fried rice. Okay, first of all,
they won't have any brown rice in the back. Someone would have to be
sent on an errand to go buy it. Even if they have it, it won't be
cooked. So you're looking at a 50 minute wait for that. Your best bet
would be to cook your own brown rice at home, bring it in a plastic
container, and just order the stir-fried shrimp.
Article on eating healthy while eating out 
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