Nutritional Scavenger Hunt You are planning to go out to lunch with a co-worker
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Nutritional Scavenger Hunt
You are planning to go out to lunch with a co-worker and want to find a healthy fast food option. To plan, go to the website of two restaurants – one that you think will provide you with the healthiest meal and the other that will be the unhealthiest. Using the websites chosen put together one proposed lunch menu from each restaurant. Create one healthy meal and one unhealthy meal for a total of two lunch menu options.
In your post, include the following nutritional information for each meal:
total calories
grams of fat
saturated fat
cholesterol
sodium
Then, discuss how you would convince your co-worker to choose the healthier menu. Be sure to include what health benefits that would be gained by choosing the healthier meal.
Guidelines for your initial post:
The meal plan MUST be realistic in what is being consumed.
You must use two different restaurants.
Meal plans can be “supersized.”
Nutritional information can be obtained directly by visiting the restaurant or finding the nutritional information online.
In addition, describe the role of fast food in your everyday life and if you foresee a change in the future of how much, how often or what foods you choose will change after this class.
Remember that your goal for Discussion Assignments is three-fold:
To get involved throughout the entire week
To contribute in a way that adds to the discussion and moves it forward in an original fashion
To use the course content to inform your posts and responses
Keep in mind that when you post, you should include APA formatted references to the textbook and articles found online, as well as the restaurant’s websites
Explanation / Answer
Answer:
Restaurent - A)
Healthy Meal: Chicken Teriyaki
This dish would be better if it had brown rice instead of white rice, and the sodium is definitely high (1461 milligrams). Still, it's very low in saturated fat yet contains plenty of protein (25 grams) and some fiber (4 grams). I chose the Chicken Teriyaki Bowl over Jack in the Box’s Steak Teriyaki Bowl because the steak option has even more sodium (1739 mg) plus 2 more grams of saturated fat.
The Chicken Teriyaki Bowl from Jack in the Box contains 585 calories, 6 g fat (9% calories from fat), 1 g saturated fat (2% calories from saturated fat), 0 g trans fat, 36 mg cholesterol, 1461 mg sodium, 106 g carbohydrate, 4 g fiber, and 25 g protein
Restaurent - B)
Healthy Meal: Chipotle's Carnitas Burrito
Calories: 1365
Fat: 66 g
Saturated Fat: 22 g
Sodium: 3085 mg
Cholesterol: 135 mg
This is what happens if you add up the the nutritional data for a burrito with carnitas, white rice, black beans, lettuce, cheese, fajita vegetables, corn salsa, tomato salsa, sour cream, cheese, and guacamole.
There might not be any trans fat in this meal, but it's still a lot of calories and fat — and that's without chips!
Conclusion:
The lack of precise nutrition information available for meals on secret menus makes it hard for consumers to make informed choices. But multiply the staggering fat, cholesterol, and sodium of a typical meaty, cheesy, fast-food meal and it’s easy to calculate the consequences of consuming a secret menu time bomb: obesity, heart attack, cancer, and diabetes. Fast-food restaurants found serving unregulated secret menu items should be fined as they would for any other violation that imperils customer health.
references: www.pcrm.org , www.kfc.com, www.subway.com
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