Yesterday there was a comment to my blog about salads describing the chain Panera now listing calorie contents of foods and offering up a number of lower caloric choices. EXCELLENT! This is showing a responsibility to society as opposed to just making it all about the $$$.
Soft drink companies removing soda machines from schools: GOOD
Fast food companies offering toys/childrens movie paraphrenalia with the purchase of the "value childrens meals" : BAD
Bistro restaurants offering "free dessert" with the purchase of certain meals: BAD
I believe with enough ingenious thoughts from their MBAs and marketing people on staff, most huge companies offering food services to America can find the right way of making $$$ and yet not killing Americans...
It is kind of sad to say, but there is a truth here: We do need to be protected against our own destructive behaviors at times, and aside from personal responsibility to make the "right" food choices, we cannot be incentivized to make the wrong ones.
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Most of the blog entries and comments related to restaurant food are focused on the calorie content. While that may be the major concern from a weight loss perspective, I believe the sodium content of some of the food is equally as harmful to your health as calorie-laden food. For example, Panera Bread’s ½ Mediterranean Salmon Salad and cup of black bean soup contains 1640 mg of sodium. That’s 68% of the recommended daily intake of 2400 mg of sodium for a healthy individual and exceeds the daily intake of 1500 mg a day for an individual with cardiovascular problems. This example is not atypical. I have found finding low calorie food choices at restaurants to be not that difficult, but have found finding lower sodium food choices to be much more difficult.
I agree wholeheartedly...the sodium content at restaurants and other prepared foods is unbelievable. And weighing myself daily confirms the affect this sodium has on my weight and general feeling...
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