My mouth is watering and my arteries are closing just reading this article. I gotta get over to that Cheesecake Factory in King of Prussia before they get shamed into serving healthy food. I still can’t understand why half of America is obese.
Most Unhealthy Restaurant Meals Revealed
Chances are you’re an “Xtreme Eater” and don’t even know it.
Thought you were making a healthier choice by sitting down to dine on The Cheesecake Factory’s Farmhouse Cheeseburger instead ordering a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder from the drive-thru? Wrong! Chowing down on the Farmhouse Cheeseburger is actually the same as eating three McDonald’s Quarter Pounders with cheese and four if you plan on eating French fries.
The burger is topped with grilled smoked pork belly, cheddar cheese, onions, lettuce, tomato, mayo and a fried egg and boasts 1,530 calories, 36 grams of saturated fat and 3,210 milligrams of sodium.
The Center for Science in the Public Interests (CSPI), that conducted the study, points out that the average person should limit themselves to about 2,000 calories, 20 grams of saturated fat, and 1,500 milligrams of sodium per day.
“It’s as if the restaurants were targeting the remaining one out of three Americans who are still normal weight in order to boost their risk of obesity, diabetes, heart attacks, and cancer,” said CSPI nutrition director Bonnie Liebman.
Still craving something sweet? Adding The Cheesecake Factory Ultimate Red Velvet Cake Cheesecake to the mix will cost you another 1,540 calories and 59 grams of saturated fat. That’s about the same as one Pizza Hut Personal Pan Pepperoni Pizza and two Quarter Pounders with cheese.
The Cheesecake Factory was dishonored with two Xtreme Eating 2011 Awards for sky-high fat and sodium content, but what other restaurants and their fatty meals made the list?
- Denny’s Fried Cheese Melt
Description from CSPI’s Nutrition Action Healthletter: “Four fried mozzarella sticks and melted American cheese grilled between two slices of sourdough bread.”
Nutrition Facts: 1,260 calories, 21 grams of saturated fat and 3,010 mg of sodium
Equivalent: Two Pizza Hut Personal Pan Pepperoni Pizzas
- Cold Stone Creamery PB&C Shake, “Gotta Have It” size
Description from ColdStoneCreamery.com: “Chocolate Ice Cream, Skim Milk & Peanut Butter”
Nutrition Facts: 2,010 calories and 68 grams saturated fat
Equivalent: Two 16-oz. T-bone steaks plus a buttered baked potato
- Applebee’s Provolone-Stuffed Meatballs with Fettuccine
Description from Applebees.com: “Provolone cheese-stuffed meatballs braised in a rich marinara sauce with a hint of crushed red pepper, layered over tender fettuccine pasta lightly blended with Parmesan cream sauce. Served with toasted garlic bread.”
Nutrition Facts: 1,520 calories, 43 grams of saturated fat and 3,700 mg of sodium
Equivalent: Two Applebee’s 12-oz. Ribeye Steaks and a side of Garlic Mashed Potatoes
For more shocking food facts, check out the report in its entirety, here.
Avalon says:
Here is another thing that may be contributing to obesity…
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/07/21/are-diet-sodas-making-you-fat.aspx
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21st July 2011 at 10:15 am
Administrator says:
Damn it to hell!!!
I thought it was the bacon cheeseburgers and fries, when it was really the diet Coke.
I’m changing my habits. I’ll order a regular Coke with my bacon cheeseburger and fries next time.
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21st July 2011 at 10:19 am
matt says:
have you ever seen this at a fast food joint: ” I’ll take 3 big macs, a fish fillet, two large orders of fries an apple turnover and a ice cream cup………….oh and a small diet coke”
That lady in the upper right pic is disgusting. Jim, I know you have covererd this before, but how much money do the morbidly obese cost this country in health-care?
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21st July 2011 at 10:29 am
Avalon says:
Very funny!
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21st July 2011 at 10:33 am
Administrator says:
matt
They keep howard in nyc and AwholeDr and Hope Zero Kelvin employed. The obese die young, so they use less social security. I think they are a net plus to society.
Super Size It Please.
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21st July 2011 at 10:34 am
Administrator says:
Avalon
What’s for dinner tonight?
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21st July 2011 at 10:34 am
Avalon says:
I made a bunch of hard boiled eggs this morning, hows that sound? Lol. I’ll make something before I go out with the girls tonight.
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21st July 2011 at 10:43 am
Muck About says:
The reason that obesity is a problem – actually more than a problem – a disaster in this country is that it takes no brains or effort to eat, especially order out or fast food crap. After all, it is a painless way of contributing to the GNP, right?
Plus one gets instant satisfaction (right up to when you die) and isn’t instant satisfaction what this fine USofA is all about?
Never fear, matt, that lady will be dead real soon now.. If she had a total lipo job she could hire out as a tent.. The guy on the motorcycle could get a lipo and turn himself into mud flaps..
MA
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21st July 2011 at 10:47 am
Muck About says:
Admin: Ever busy, aren’t you! Now pop-up ads in the articles and comments.. Can’t blame you, however for as long as you pay taxes on the income, the goobermint will allow you to publish TBP.
More taxes paid, the further out you can puch – er – push the First Amendment!
MA
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21st July 2011 at 10:51 am
Colma Rising says:
Admin: Have that shit for lunch, never for dinner…
I’m going to eat some sausage biscuits now.
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21st July 2011 at 10:54 am
Kill Bill says:
Desires must overshadow needs.
Now eat that chubby burger, stat!
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21st July 2011 at 11:03 am
Administrator says:
Muck
The ads tied to words is kinda cool. I copied their code into my widget and it happens automatically. Avalon hates it. I don’t care.
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21st July 2011 at 11:06 am
newsjunkie says:
What could explain the rise in kitty obesity? They’re not drinking those diet sodas.
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21st July 2011 at 11:38 am
AwholeDr says:
Admin: Funny as a fat chick.
If you don’t think obesity is like cancer, look at that picture. God bless the size acceptance movement, now people aren’t ashamed to show off their “investment”.
a couple of redneck hotties from my neck of the woods:
And the super-hero from the size-acceptance movement: SUPERFATTY
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21st July 2011 at 12:16 pm
ecliptix543 says:
I don’t think it’s so much a problem of these Big-Fat-Nasties having the shitty food choices that allows them to become so utterly disgusting. It’s those goddamned chinese Walmart clothing manufacturers that make clothes that fucking big!! Look who the REAL enablers are here!! There would be no BFN acceptance movement if there were no XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL clothes for those insipid, foul creatures to parade themselves around in…
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21st July 2011 at 1:23 pm
Buckhed says:
Fat has gotten a bad rap…you need some in your diet. I eat healthy as hell, all of the vegetables I eat are organic as is the rice I eat. It’s not hard to eat healthy plus if you exercise you can eat a lot and you’re never hungry .
Doc Mercola is right, soda is very bad for you especially if you drink three or more a day. At one time I was downing 2 to 3 of them…it put 15 pounds on me. I cut out the soda . Now if I drink one I drink cola made with cane sugar like in the old days not the High Fructose Corn Syrup version we have now.
I guess the new mantra for America is “Thin was in but fat is were it’s at ” .
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21st July 2011 at 2:34 pm
Stan says:
Those two chicks on the bed of the pickup truck,—- how does anybody get that fat?
Who would want to climb on top of beasts like that?
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21st July 2011 at 4:35 pm
ragman says:
I’m surprised that the front wheels aren’t off da ground. That is some serious ballast.
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21st July 2011 at 6:26 pm
Marianne says:
The reason there are so many fat people is the exact same as the reason no one saves money and everyone is up to their eyeballs in debt. Our society is obsessed with consumption – doesn’t matter if it is hoarding useless crap or shoving tasteless pseudo-food in their mouths, you always need to have something else. If these people would just slow down on the “gotta have it” obsession for a second and think about if they really need or enjoy it maybe they wouldn’t be a bunch of fatties. No matter what it is, if you enjoy it in monderation it isn’t going to give you thighs that size (okay, maybe high fructose corn syrup is the exception to that but I still can’t figure out how they actually get to call that food); the problem is these people never stop.
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21st July 2011 at 6:39 pm
matt says:
Soda is indeed bad for you and I cut it out of my diet as well. I haven’t had a jack and coke in ages, I just pull straight from the bottle with an anchor steam chaser. Lost 10 pounds easy, and my license.
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21st July 2011 at 6:46 pm
Colma Rising says:
Matt: I can’t believe you drink my favorite.
Shot of Jack and a steam… (a shot and a beer is ONE drink, dammit)
Try mixing Jack with unsweetened iced tea. Not bad with lemon. Better with sweetened tea, though.
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21st July 2011 at 6:52 pm
matt says:
Colma,
Beam and tea was my drink forever, now I’m thirsty.
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21st July 2011 at 7:11 pm
Colma Rising says:
Matt: Me too…
Tomorrow’s Friday. I like Friday…
I know now what I shall drink.
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21st July 2011 at 7:42 pm
crazyivan says:
1/4 cheap vodka
1/4 fruit gatorade
1/2 water
ice
good for long life
not so good on pecker
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21st July 2011 at 9:17 pm
newsjunkie says:
I ate a bag of Cheetos today because I was pissed off at someone at work. That should help.
Now Hubby is making a run to the liquor store. Fuck maturity.
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21st July 2011 at 9:27 pm
matt says:
Ivan,
why don’t you just hit yourself in the head with a hammer and have the gatorade later?
Newsjunkie,
that’s the spirit, I hope you smeared your cheetos covererd hands all over the back of that bitch at work.
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21st July 2011 at 9:35 pm
newsjunkie says:
Matt,
Wish I’d thought of that. I licked my fingers CLEAN. Damn. If I’d have gotten that close to her, though, I’m sure I’d have done worse than smeared Cheeto dust on her.
I’m thinking of much more devious things now. Hmmmmm.
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21st July 2011 at 10:00 pm
crazyivan says:
matt-
“Ivan,
why don’t you just hit yourself in the head with a hammer and have the gatorade later?”
Why? Because I am not an idiot.
Jeez.
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21st July 2011 at 10:07 pm
cv51 says:
How do obese people wipe their ass? They don’t. And the cheese that ferments in those folds. Whew did you say Jack and ice tea?
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21st July 2011 at 10:26 pm
newsjunkie says:
I’ve GOT it!!
http://trollcats.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/so_ah_thought_fuck_it_trollcat.bmp
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21st July 2011 at 10:27 pm
matt says:
Ivan,
sorry you missed my humor, the cheap vodka reference reminds me of head-pounding mornings.
Jeez
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21st July 2011 at 10:57 pm
Buckhed says:
Jack and Anchor…two of my favorites…Patron is at the top though or any Extra Anejo Tequila for that matter.Following behind tequila is a good small batch Bourbon .
If those two heifers were the last two women ( if you can call them women) on the planet,I was the last man and the only way the human race would go forward is for them to be impregnated by me, I’d tell them to get a turkey baster .There’s no why my bull serum is gonna flow looking at two whales . I’d need this to help !
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21st July 2011 at 2:41 am
Buckhed says:
HERE SHE IS :
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21st July 2011 at 2:46 am