Instead, being a Nutrition major, I thought of doing a brief write-up on food. The kind of food you would want to throw away in trash. You probably know most of them. But I'm still listing the Good-to-Know facts. Here's the list, check it out -
1. Cheeseburger
Quite self-explanatory if you consider the two pieces of white bread, all that cheese, fried and fatty red meat, mayonnaise, salt. This little sucker could give you upto a 1000 calories. Not to mention, a shit load of Saturated fat*. Imagine that! You may wanna think twice before you jump on a cheeseburger the next time.
2. French Fries
The staple food of all Fast-Food junkies. Yumm. Who can resist those starchy potatoes deep fried in oil, right? Trust me, if you cant resist them, the least you might wanna do is control eating them. They are your worst enemy. Fried in saturated oil, these fries increase your bad cholesterol and puts you at a high risk for developing heart diseases. And ofcourse, it makes you real fat!
3. Starbucks Venti
The largest size of a Starbucks coffee, with 2% milk and whipped cream is more than 'just a cup of coffee'. It is recipe for disaster, with 15 grams of Saturated fat* and 500 calories! The next time you hit Starbucks for coffee - try reducing the cup size and take the whipped cream out of your coffee. Will do you good!
4. Pop Secret Kettle Corn
Eat an entire bag of this and you will have consumed 18 grams of Trans fat**, in other words- artery clogging junk. And ofcourse, all the calories and sodium this pack claims to offer are of no good. Instead, try Orville Redenbacher's Movie Theatre Popcorn. It comes with no Trans fat** and way lesser cals.
5. Baskin Robbins (Large) Chocolate Oreo Shake
15 minutes is all it takes to sip down this drink, which promises 2600 calories, 135g of fat and 263g of sugars! Twenty-six-hundred-calories. 600 more than what an average person requires in an entire day and 3 days worth of Saturated fat*. I dont see why this drink isn't banned already. If I were you, no matter how skinny or not, I would stay a mile away from this catastrophe.
6. Häagen-Dazs Ice Cream
Yet another disaster, which increases your Saturated fat*, bad cholesterol, unnecessary calories and what not. It also helps clog your artery walls and definitely not something you want to carelessly throw down your stomach.
*Saturated fat - The bad kind of fat and typically solid at room temp, eating foods rich in Saturated fats increases the level of cholesterol in the blood - which in turn, raises your chances of developing heart diseases. It is not recommended to eat more than 16 grams of Saturated fat per day.
**Trans fat - Also called 'partially hydrogenated oils', this is your worst enemy and a total nightmare for your body. Raises your bad cholesterol, helps develop Type 2 Diabetes, several heart diseases and Stroke. Not recommended to eat more than 2 grams of Trans fat per day.
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