Say it ain’t so Jared

From:  John Hernried, M.D. & Maureen Allen, MPH

   

We were dismayed to read that fast food restaurants are turning to even higher fat and higher calorie options. The latest entry is Burger King’s BK Stackers, a hamburger bun with four slices of beef and cheese. And not a vegetable in sight. At 1000 calories and 68 grams of fat (30 of those saturated) it is fast food royalty. We expect this from the King. However, particularly troubling is that Subway, the healthy alternative, has also entered the high fat arena. Their double tuna sandwich contains 1580 calories and 110 grams of fat. This represents more than an entire day’s worth of calories and fat for many of our patients.

    

In light of a growing obesity epidemic, what are these companies thinking? The bottom line, of course, not their customers expanding bottoms. Sales figures show that the worse the nutrition, the better the sales. They’re just giving us what we want.

      

Is this ethical or conscionable? Absolutely not! To make things worse, Burger King is selling collectible figurines of the Stackers Union to market the BK Stacker to children as well as their parents.

    

At some point you want to throw your hands up. If you can’t beat ‘em you might as well join them. Here are a few of our suggestions for giving the people what they want in this era of “new-trition.”

      

Chocolate coated vitamins are a must. They’re hard to swallow so let’s make it fun! Try adding Skittles instead of carrots, tomatoes and onions when making a salad. Tacos will sell themselves when finally available in vanilla or chocolate. Hold the lettuce, please. Spaghetti is amenable to all kinds of toppings like caramel or coconut cream. The Italians really had no imagination with this one. Who needs meatballs when there are marshmallows?

    

Even a 32 ounce drink (serving size 4) won’t wash that down. Let’s double the sugar so each serving has about 25 teaspoons. Now that’s a soda and a time saver to boot. By ingesting the sugar and fat with the meal you don’t need to waste precious time on dessert.

    

And finally, goodbye food pyramid - hello food donut! All food is now equal. Remember, it’s just about what you want, not what your body needs.

Comments

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1580! Eek! That's more than a full day's worth of calories for me. I'd gain if I ate that much.

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The BK Stacker has choices...
The Double (two meat, two cheese four bacon, and sauce)
The Triple (3 meat, 3 cheese, 6 bacon, and sauce)
And The
Quad (4 meat, 4 cheese, 8 bacon, and sauce)
The bacon is only half a slice.
I know because I work at Burger King. You only hear what some people want you to hear

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Yes, the stacker comes in 3 choices, and you don't need to shove a quad in your face.. in fact, most people order a double stacker, and the double stacker is the one that is advertised.
Like the last person, I know this first hand because I have experience in the Burger King Restaurants. And although you may not think what I have to say is important.. you can make anything look bad with a little propaganda, which I definatley observed in this article.

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The only thing I see coming from ANYONE is the medical profession regarding obesity help is lip service. I was very thin until I was 41...had a hysterectomy and have been obese ever since. No diet has worked....nothing has worked. Yet my primary physician, my therapist or anyone else for that matter has ever tried to help me. I've given up and I know now that I will die fat. Unless, that is, the medical profession decides to help us.

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The subway diet worked for Jared and anyone else who goes on it, because of two factors: Portion control and caloric intake. If you stick with the subs that are low fat and are low calorie and avoid mayo, cheese, and oils, you are limiting the amount of fats and calories that you consume.

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