Busy life, high demand at work, meetings, family
time, house work, all seem like endless tasks that keep piling up on our
to do lists. People these days are just too busy to worry about food. Research
shows that the majority of Americans depend on restaurants for lunch
and a few eat every day with their families at home. The tendency of Americans
eating out keeps increasing every year. Here is where the
problem is. Most people think that restaurants, fast food in particular, are very unhealthy and
they are right. However, they also believe that eating at sit down restaurants
is a healthier choice and that's just not true. Restaurant food these days have great amounts of
sodium and are very high in calories.
Here are a few examples for some popular restaurants. Keep
in mind that the healthy amount of sodium per day is 2300 mg
and people should eat around 2,000 to 2,500 calories per day :
PF Changs:
Mongolian Beef: 2700 mg of Sodium, 720 Calories
Pad Thai Chicken 3720 mg of Sodium, 1160 Calories
Lemon Grass Chicken Salad: 780 mg of Sodium, 590 Calories
Season’s 52:
Alaskan Salmon: 1130 mg of Sodium, 470 Calories
Scallops:1870 mg of Sodium, 470 Calories
Even a place like Season's 52, which is known for low
calorie food, have large amounts of sodium in their food. Eating out, most of the time, is eating unhealthy. That’s a fact and it’s ok to treat
ourselves with some of these foods once in a while, but eating them on a Monday through
Friday basis may just kill you sooner than you think.
Eating at home is the best (and arguably only practical) option to keep healthy. You control
what you buy and you control what you eat. What if you, like most people, just don’t
have the time? Then we're here to help.
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