| 1 | As an eating machine i"m driven far more by taste than by nutritional considerations. |
| 2 | After all, one of my all time favorite dishes is tung po pork, a chinese concoction that consists mainly of pork fat and skin that is stewed in spices then steamed for several hours. |
| 3 | That"s why i was surprised to find myself interested in a flyer i got from the nutrition action healthletter. |
| 4 | Maybe it was the title that caught my interest. |
| 5 | Here are some excerpts from the flyer. |
| 6 | Quaker oats 100% natural cereal. |
| 7 | This overrated granola cereal"s ten g of fat per half cup serving make it high in fat compared to other cereals. |
| 8 | And, despite the crunch, it"s not high in fiber. |
| 9 | A much better choice would be a low fat, whole-grain cereal like kellogg nutri-grain wheat, post grape-nuts, general mills wheaties, or nabisco shredded wheat. |
| 10 | Contadina alfredo sauce. |
| 11 | A typical four ounce serving contains 34 grams of fat++20 of them artery-clogging saturated fat. |
| 12 | That"s like drowning your pasta in more than a third of a stick of butter if you want a good bottled pasta sauce, try enrico"s spaghetti sauce no salt added, tree of life, or colavita. |
| 13 | Nissin chicken cup o" noodles. |
| 14 | It will give you a surprisingly strong shot of fat (about 3 teaspoons" worth) and almost as much sodium (1,700 mg) as you should ideally eat in a whole day. |
| 15 | Try the spice hunter quick and natural soups instead. |
| 16 | A serving averages just half a teaspoon of fat and 200 mg of sodium++a much healthier alternative. |
| 17 | Taco bell"s taco salad with shell. |
| 18 | With the shell, this platter of beef, cheese, and beans has 14 teaspoons of fat, more than 5 teaspoons of saturated fat, and 905 calories. |
| 19 | That"s almost all the fat and saturated fat an adult should eat in an entire day. |
| 20 | If you"re in the mood for a fast food salad, head to mcdonald"s. |
| 21 | Its chunky chicken salad contains a single teaspoon of fat and ?teaspoon of saturated fat. |
| 22 | Swanson great starts scrambled eggs & sausage with hash browns. |
| 23 | This measly 6 ?ounce breakfast will slap you with more than half the fat you should eat in a day. |
| 24 | And swanson won"t even say how much saturated fat and cholesterol it contains. |
| 25 | You"d be better off skipping breakfast entirely. |
| 26 | For a healthier microwave morning, have a healthy choice english muffin breakfast. |
| 27 | At just one teaspoon of fat per serving and 15 to 20 mg of cholesterol (it contains egg whites, not yolks), it"s a far "healthier" choice. |
| 28 | Oscar mayer lunchables. |
| 29 | It would be hard to invent a worse food than these combos of heavily processed meat, artery-clogging cheese, and mostly white-flour crackers. |
| 30 | The line averages 5 ?teaspoons of fat (that"s 55 percent of calories) and 1,517 mg of sodium. |
| 31 | You"d get less fat and salt from two slices of pizza hut"s pepperoni pan pizza. |
| 32 | Haagen-dazs ice cream. |
| 33 | Gourmet ice creams like haagen-dazs and ben & jerry"s are loaded with grease. |
| 34 | A one-cup serving has as much artery-clogging saturated fat as ?cup of lard. |
| 35 | Choose an ice milk like breyers light and you"ll cut the fat by 75 percent. |
| 36 | Buy sealtest free or edy"s or dreyer"s fat free and you"ll get rid of almost all the fat. |
| 37 | Campbell chunky soups. |
| 38 | They"re brimming with salt. |
| 39 | An average 9-ounce serving contains 975 mg of sodium. |
| 40 | That"s half your quota for an entire day. |
| 41 | If you"re looking for more than salty water, check out pritikin soups. |
| 42 | A cup has 160 mg of sodium and less than one gram of fat. |
| 43 | That"s a bit less fat-and far less sodium than you"ll find in campbell"s healthy request or conagra"s healthy choice soups. |
| 44 | Swanson hungry man turkey pot pie. |
| 45 | If you think that turkey products are always lower in fat than foods made with beef or pork, you"re wrong. |
| 46 | Crammed into a single pie are 650 calories, 36 grams of fat, and 1,470 mg of sodium. |
| 47 | That makes it worse than swanson"s hungry man beef pot pie. |
| 48 | 10. |
| 49 | Stouffer"s entrees. |
| 50 | Despite their popularity, stouffer"s en- trees get a greater percent of their calories from tat (440 percent than any other major line of frozen dinners or entrees. |
| 51 | Not one of stouffer"s 52 varieties meets our criteria for a "healthy" frozen meal. |
| 52 | If you want low-sodium, low-fat frozen meals, try tyson healthy portions, healthy choice dinners, or le menu new american healthy |
