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THE WORST FAST-FOODS FOR SODIUM, AND BETTER OPTIONS

January 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment

The first week of the new year has come to an end. Remember that fitness is a life long journey. Fast food is convenient, but it can be salty. Americans eat about 3,400 milligrams of sodium a day, more than the suggested 2,300 milligrams and double the 1,500 mg for people who are over 50, are African-American, or who have hypertension, diabetes or kidney disease.

While “fast food isn’t going to wreck anyone’s diet if consumed on occasion,” sodium consumption must be controlled.

Here are some of the worst fast-food meals for sodium, and better options.

Quiznos’ Large French Dip: While it sounds good — sliced prime rib with mozzarella, roasted peppers and onions, and mild peppercorn sauce on artisan bread with a side of au jus — this sandwich is a sodium-delivering bomb. Even without the cheese, sauce, and juice for dipping, you’ll be consuming 2,240 milligrams. With the works, it packs a whopping 3,610 mg of sodium and 1,200 calories. (The au jus adds 850 mg of sodium).
Choose this instead: Create your own flatbread. Try roast beef and Swiss with lettuce, tomato, onion, cucumber, and honey-dijon dressing. Sodium: 995 mg. Calories: 410.

Dunkin’ Donuts’ Salt Bagel: Is a bagel better for you than a donut? Not when the word “salt” is in it. Dunkin’s version packs 3,350 milligrams of sodium and 310 calories.
Choose this instead: A 320-calorie Cinnamon Raisin Bagel. It has 500 mg of sodium.

Chipotle’s Burrito: Salt adds up pretty quickly when you’re building a burrito from scratch. A Carnitas, or pork, burrito with white rice, pinto beans, Tomatillo-red chili sauce, Romaine lettuce, sour cream, cheese and guacamole has 2,650 milligrams of sodium, not to mention 1,185 calories. Surprise: the saltiest item is the soft flour tortilla that holds it all together (at 670 mg of sodium).
Choose this instead: A Burrito Bowl. Skip the tortilla and dish up lower-salt fillings like chicken, brown rice, fajita veggies, and green tomatillo salsa. The total comes to 920 mg of sodium and 385 calories.

Jack in the Box’s Deli Trio: This roasted turkey sandwich on artisan bread is layered with salty Genoa salami, ham, Provolone, and pickles and slathered in a creamy Italian dressing. Surprise! The saltiest ingredients are actually the turkey (455 milligrams of sodium) and the bread (596 mg). The Deli Trio packs 2,442 mg of sodium and 624 calories.
Choose this instead: A Chicken Fajita Pita. You’ll cut your sodium intake by nearly two-thirds, to 870 mg. Calories: 320.

Arby’s Mozzarella Sticks: Six battered-and-fried sticks contain 2,530 milligrams of sodium, more than a day’s worth , and 620 calories. Whole-milk mozzarella isn’t the saltiest cheese around. It contains 178 mg of sodium per 1 ounce, according to CalorieLab.com, versus nearly 272 mg for a Kraft nonfat American single. “Typically, a lot of salt is added to the breading mixture, which drives up the sodium content of the fried mozzarella sticks,” Kleiner says.
Choose this instead: A serving of three Potato Cakes contains 700 mg of sodium and 340 calories.

Hardee’s 2/3-lb Monster Thickburger: This two-patty monstrosity is a beef-lover’s dietary downfall. With three slices of American cheese and four bacon strips, it has 1,300 calories, 93 grams of fat and 2,860 milligrams of sodium. That’s without a soda or fries.
Choose this instead: A Double Cheeseburger. It’s beefy, cheesy, and has a fraction of the calories (410), fat (21 grams) and sodium (900 mg).

Popeye’s Chicken Po’ Boy: This Southern favorite nestles two battered, fried chicken tenders in a French baguette with pickles and mayo. This fatty, salty combo has 2,120 milligrams of sodium and 635 calories. You can do better.
Choose this instead: Naked Chicken Wrap. “Naked” because the chicken is prepared without breading, slashing the sodium count to 580 mg and skinnying up the calorie count to 200.

Papa John’s Buffalo Chicken Pizza: Creamy ranch and buffalo sauce, cheese, bacon, and pizza dough are the likely sodium culprits in this chicken-encrusted pie. One slice of a large, original crust — 1/8th of an order — has 1,050 milligrams of sodium and 370 calories. But you know you’ll go for two slices, if not more.
Choose this instead: Papa John’s Garden Fresh is loaded with fresh veggies. A large, thin-crust pie has just 360 mg of sodium and 220 calories per slice.

KFC’s Variety Big Box Meal: KFC provides nutritional information for individual items. We figure this meal — a drumstick, a Crispy Strip, an individual box of Popcorn Chicken, two Homestyle sides (we chose mashed potatoes with gravy and cole slaw), a biscuit and a 32-oz. drink (Pepsi) — blasts the daily sodium maximum, with more than 3,000 milligrams of salt and more than 1,400 calories.
Choose this instead: The Honey BBQ Snacker with a large corn on the cob, House Side Salad with buttermilk dressing and a 16-ounce Lipton Brisk Lemon Tea. This meal has less than quarter of the sodium (725 mg) and 505 calories. Kleiner’s tip: Do dressing on the side. Dip your fork in it to get the taste of it without all the sodium.

Taco Bell’s Volcano Nachos: These molten cheese-laden nachos with spicy ground beef, pinto beans, and jalapeños break the nutrition bank with 970 calories and 58 grams of fat — more calories and fat than any other single item on the menu — plus 1,670 milligrams of sodium.
Choose this instead: Nachos Supreme comes with spicy beef, beans, nacho cheese, diced tomatoes and reduced fat sour cream, but has only 430 calories, 23 grams of fat, and 690 mg of salt.

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CHICK-FIL-A, FAST FOOD GIANT GOES TO WAR WITH ONE-MAN BUSINESS

June 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Bo Muller-Moore sells $25 hand-stenciled “Eat More Kale” T-shirts that he cranks out one at a time in his Vermont home, and this has ruffled the feathers of Chick-fil-A.

The fast-food chain, which rang up $3.5 billion in sales in 2010, is trying to put Muller-Moore out of business—for the second time in five years. Chick-fil-A, which is second only to king-of-the-fast-food-coop KFC, considers him a threat to the brand.

Chick-fil-A says Muller-Moore’s T-shirt business, founded in 2000, infringes on its trademarked slogan “Eat Mor Chikin.” It’s a [deliberately-misspelled] advertising campaign the Atlanta-based chain launched in 1995 and, according to the company website, changed the burger-eating landscape forever. The message “reaches millions—on television, radio, the Internet, and the occasional water tower,” explains the website. (The closest Chick-fil-A to Vermont is in Nashua, N.H., more than 120 miles away.)

Chick-fil-A first came after Muller-Moore in 2006, with a letter demanding that the artist—who also posts screenprinting instructional videos at eatmorekale.com—cease and desist from printing T-shirts and send Chick-fil-A any inventory.

“Man, it knocked the wind out of me,” Muller-Moore, 39, told the Burlington Free Press. “I make my living as a foster parent. At the time, I had one small child. I now have two of my own. My business has grown every year. I’m certainly not getting rich. I can’t live on it. It’s the foster parenting gig that pays the bills, but that said, the business is growing every year. I’m in it for the long haul.”

Muller-Moore applied to the Vermont Arts Council for free legal help, and a lawyer wrote some letters on his behalf. It seemed Chick-fil-A backed down. But then in August Muller-Moore applied for a U.S. trademark for “Eat More Kale” to use the phrase on a range of clothing and stickers.

Chick-fil-A cried fowl. In October of 2011 the company’s lawyers sent a letter to Muller-Moore, noting that the company owns numerous U.S. and international trademarks and copyrights for both “Eat Mor Chikin” and for cows holding sandwich-boards reading “Eat Mor Chikin.”

“Your client’s Eat More Kale Mark plays off of and imitates Chick-fil-A’s valuable ‘Eat Mor Chikin’ Intellectual Property by using a prefix confusingly similar to Chick-fil-A’s federally-registered ‘Eat Mor Chikin’ trademarks,” Chick-Fil-A’s lawyer wrote to Muller-Moore’s, according to the Free Press. “Your client’s misappropriation of Chick-fil-A’s ‘Eat Mor Chikin’ intellectual property, to play off of and benefit from the extraordinary fame and goodwill of Chick-fil-A’s trademarks, copyrights and popular promotional campaign, is likely to cause confusion of the public and dilutes the distinctiveness of Chick-fil-A’s intellectual property and diminishes its value. Such actions constitute trademark infringement, dilution and unfair competition in violation of federal and state law.”

The six-page letter notes that Chick-fil-A has successfully defended against 30 other “Eat More” phrases, including “Eat More Goat” and “Eat More Beer,” and says the chicken chain has won lawsuits against Burger King Corp. and others. (In 2000, Chick-fil-A objected to a Burger King ad where animated poultry from the film Chicken Run held up signs reading “Save the Chickens: Eat a Whopper.”)

The letter asks that Muller-Moore abandon his trademark application, “cease and forever desist” all plans to use the phrase “Eat More Kale” for his business—and transfer the eatmorekale.com domain name to Chick-fil-A. (It says the chicken chain would not object to Muller-Moore using “Eat Kale” or eatkale.com.”)

Muller-Moore’s lawyer has fired off a five-page response, which observes that no one is likely to confuse the two slogans.

“My client’s phrase shares only six out of twelve of the same letters as your client’s phrase and none of the imagery or conceits,” Richardson writes. “My client has no cow designs which appear in conjunction with the phrase ‘Eat More Kale.’”

Whether one is likely to be confused with the other may be less at issue than whether Chick-fil-A can be seen to be lax in its defense of its own trademarks.

“If a trademark owner fails to protect their trademark, they run the risk of losing it,” wrote Steve O’Donnell, a Lancaster, Pa., trademark attorney, of a 2010 case where Chick-fil-A complained about an Orlando area fruit and vegetable market using the slogan “Eat More Produce.”

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DISNEY BANS JUNK FOOD ADS ON TV CHANNELS AND ON THE INTERNET

June 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The Walt Disney Company, in a first for a US media giant, said Tuesday it will ban junk-food advertising on its TV channels and websites from 2015 to help fight obesity among US children.

“This new initiative is truly a game changer for the health of our children,” said First Lady Michelle Obama, a champion of better eating for young people who attended Disney’s landmark announcement in Washington.

“This is a major American company, a global brand, that is literally changing the way it does business so that our kids can lead healthier lives,” she said.

In a statement, Disney said all food and drinks advertised on Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Junior, Radio Disney, and Disney-owned children’s websites would, from 2015, be required to meet its own nutrition guidelines.

The rules will also apply during Saturday morning cartoons on the ABC stations owned by Disney, which reach one in four American households from New York to Los Angeles.

“The nutrition guidelines are aligned to federal standards, promote fruit and vegetable consumption and call for limiting calories and reducing saturated fat, sodium, and sugar,” it said.

Breakfast cereals, for instance, would have to contain less than 10 grams of sugar per serving in order to be advertised on Disney outlets. Kellogg’s Sugar Frosted Flakes, squarely targeted at youngsters, now come in at 11 grams.

Besides the new advertising standards, Disney said it would roll out a “Mickey Check” check-mark icon this year to identify nutritious food and menu items at its retail shops and theme parks.

Seventeen percent of US children are obese, a figure that has tripled in 30 years, according to a report last month from the Institute of Medicine that warned of a “catastrophic” impact on national health care and productivity.

Another study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, said 42 percent of Americans could be obese by 2030 — the year when today’s eight year olds will be turning 26.

“I believe this is a positive development,” said Kelly Brownell, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, in an email to AFP.

“Disney has credibility and reach, and they have set quite good standards for what can be promoted as healthy food. I believe they are making good progress and other media companies will have to take notice.”

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), whose members include such food industry giants as Kellogg’s and Kraft Foods, called Disney’s announcement “another important step” to helping consumers have a healthy diet.

‘We have voluntarily adopted strict advertising criteria,” it added, “so that 100 percent of ads seen on children’s programming from GMA members now promote healthier diet choices and better-for-you products.

But others expressed skepticism.

“Kids aren’t obese because they are watching fast food commercials on the Disney Channel,” wrote a Virginia resident under an online story about Tuesday’s announcement on the website of Advertising Age, a trade journal.

“They are obese because instead of being active, they are sitting in front of a TV… How about creating TV shows that challenge kids to be active while watching?”

Speaking from Los Angeles, a Disney spokeswoman explained that the 2015 start year for the guidelines had been set in order to allow existing advertising agreements to expire.

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