Putting the 'jumbo' in shrimp - Lehigh Valley Health Blog

January 17, 2013

Posted by Tim Darragh at 04:43:12 PM on January 17, 2013

When the discussion gets to the obesity crisis and eating, the usual suspects are soft drinks and fast food. And for good reason -- there's a lot of empty calories in those combos.

But in a new report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, some of the real calorie/saturated fat/sugar villains get the spotlight treatment. And none of the entries is a fast food meal.

The "winner" of the center's Xtreme Eating 2013 is an entree that might not sound like something that would provide -- get ready for this -- one and a half days' worth of calories, a workweek's worth of saturated fat and most of your daily recommended serving of sodium. But that's the recipe for the Cheesecake Factory's Bistro Shrimp Pasta. All in one meal.

(I like the center's editorial aside, noting that the meal is made with mushrooms and arugula, "for heaven's sake.")

There are eight other doozies, listed here.

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Source: http://blogs.mcall.com/health/2013/01/putting-the-jumbo-in-shrimp.html

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