4. Large French Fries (Five Guys)
When you go to fast food restaurants, you don’t usually order French fries as the main dish. You order something else, and the fries are the side dish. Maybe that’s why you never think that your fries might actually be responsible for your high-calorie intake.
If you usually order from Five Guys and, besides your main order, you have a large portion of french fries, you should start to be careful because the nutritional content is shockingly high. A single large portion of fries from Five Guys has, brace yourself, 1,400 calories!
This is more caloric than most of the products on this list! And a big part of these calories come directly from fat. A large portion of beef has 57 grams of fat. Moreover, the American Heart Association recommends reducing sodium intake to 1,500 milligrams per day. Well, these fries have 1,314 milligrams of sodium. That is almost the maximum sodium intake per day.
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While I do agree with all of these “no-no’s,” I have to put in my own 2-cents’ worth. Twice a month, I order a Whopper from Burger King. Actually, it is a cheese burger… but nothing “double,” I didn’t even know that was an option. But I order the Whopper with lettuce, tomato, pickles, mustard and mayonnaise. That said, I never eat it all in one day. I eat approximately half, and save the rest (in the fridge, to be microwaved) the next day. As for what else I eat, in addition to that, well… very little, actually. Except for that Whopper, I eat ONLY organic foods, bought at an all-organic market. That Whopper is my one indulgence. I do wish that articles about the sins of fast foods would offer the suggestion of eating only half, or a third, or even a quarter (in the case of some of those subs), in which case they wouldn’t be as unhealthy as claimed. Just sayin’…