What's My Beef!

The food offerings from Long John Silvers' may be offensive to your health!

This greasy stuff...OFF MY DIET, IMMEDIATELY!

According to their nutrition guide available from their website, you can easily exceed your daily requirements for fat if you eat a full meal.

Are Long John Silver's one of the most unhealthful places you can eat?

Here's what a sample meal at Long John Silver's will net you.

Two pieces of battered fish:
520 calories. 280 calories from fat. 32 total fat grams. 48 percent of daily value.
8 grams of saturated fat. 40 percent of daily value.
9 grams of trans fat.
70 mgs of cholesterol. 24 percent of daily value.
1580 mgs of sodium. 66 percent of daily value.

One piece of Breaded Clams:
320 calories. 170 calories from fat. 19 total fat grams. 29 percent of daily value.
4.5 grams of saturated fat. 23 percent of daily value.
7 grams of trans fat.
35 mgs of cholesterol. 12 percent of daily value.
1190 mgs of sodium. 50 percent of daily value.

Regular Fries (85 grams):
230 calories. 90 calories from fat. 10 total fat grams. 15 percent of daily value.
2.5 grams of saturated fat. 13 percent of daily value.
3 grams of trans fat.
0 mgs of cholesterol. 0 percent of daily value.
350 mgs of sodium. 15 percent of daily value.

4 oz. of Cole Slaw:
200 calories. 130 calories from fat. 15 total fat grams. 22 percent of daily value.
2.5 grams of saturated fat. 11 percent of daily value.
0 grams of trans fat.
20 mgs of cholesterol. 6 percent of daily value.
340 mgs of sodium. 14 percent of daily value.

Grand Totals:
1270 calories. 670 calories from fat. 76 total fat grams. 117 percent of daily value!
17.5 grams of saturated fat. 87 percent of daily value!
19 grams of trans fat. (0 is best!)
125 mgs of cholesterol. 42 percent of daily value.
3460 mgs of sodium. 145 percent of daily value!

So as you can easily see, if you add up the numbers, you get a very unhealthy way of eating out, and Long John Silvers needs to shape up and make some serious improvements in their offerings. They definitely need to get the fat count down as eating just this one meal uses up more than 3/4's of your daily reccomended intake! The saturated fat count is even worse...almost 7/8's of your daily reccomended intake! They still have trans-fat in their food. Shameful! The cholesterol is a warning light. It's almost 1/2 of your daily reccomended intake. But the clincher of all...the sodium count is well over 100 percent of your daily reccomended intake!

Here's what I did. I got that meal, and gave away one piece of battered fish and all of the fries (since it was too late in the day to eat potatoes anyway. I saved myself 750 calories, 6.5 grams of saturated fat, 12 grams of trans fat, 35 mgs of cholesterol, and 1140 mgs of sodium. I still came out with 97 percent of the reccomended daily intake of sodium. Yikes!

Some better offerings from Long John Silvers', next time I eat there, I will have the Chicken Sandwich, the Shrimp and Seafood Salad with Lite Italian Dressing, four ounces of Rice, and a large Diet Pepsi, because that's all of the food that's safe enough to eat.

Also this week, another fast food advertiser I won't name recently sent out some coupons for a buy one $5.95 (I'm calling it something else) Super Fat Burger get one free deal among others. Check out the nutrition information next time you go to that place, and double them. Eat no more than 70 total fat grams a day, which is 100 percent of the daily value, and most of their $5.95 burgers either hit the mark or go over just for one burger! 20 grams of saturated fat is the limit, but some of their burgers are over the limit! The cholesterol is about half of the 300 mg daily limit. The sodium count is way out of line, coming near or over the 2400mg daily limit!

So the problem with Americans being overweight and obese is coming from the fact that the people who are too busy to explore better alternatives are eating fast food too many times and are putting on the pounds as a result of these fast food outlets offering cheap unhealthful eats while keeping the healtier offerings expensive.

Thanks to all of the radio and TV advertising, the fat food industry is contributing to the expanding waistline. The fat food businesses need to do something about it and get those bad numbers down. The health care industry is collapsing on the weight of insuring the obese, who are basically too lazy to seek out healthier alternatives than the same fat food restauraunts for their daily lunch, and that's driving up the costs of health care as we care for the people who get heart attacks and strokes because the fat food businesses are not heeding the dire warnings of our civilization hooked on fat foods.

It's time for the fast food industry to shape up, get some cheap healthy foods in, and jack up the prices of those fattenning burgers, so that people will choose what's cheaper, which happens to be like a $1.99 eight-ounce serving of fruits and vegetables and other low-fat/low-cholesterol items. Cut out the fat from the burgers, make them lean, and cook them in fat-free oils. Pile on more veggies and make the burgers smaller. Offer drinks without sugar and caffiene (Mormons don't drink such beverages).

Better shape up before the government tells you how to do business, and that would be wrong!

And as for the fast food fans, better watch what you eat. The life you save may be your own.

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