Journal of Healthy Living » Reader’s Digest http://journalofhealthyliving.com To a healthier, richer, and more rewarding life Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:46:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How To Eat Healthy At Fast Food Joints http://journalofhealthyliving.com/how-to-eat-healthy-at-fast-food-joints.htm http://journalofhealthyliving.com/how-to-eat-healthy-at-fast-food-joints.htm#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:44:36 +0000 jim http://journalofhealthyliving.com/?p=178 Reader’s Digest offered up twenty three ways you can go through the drive thru and still eat healthy. I don’t frequent fast food places very often, partially for health reasons but mostly because I find them boring, but sometimes you really have no choice. You get to the airport and the food court consists of McDonald’s, Panda Express, a Starbucks, and a few other locally owned versions of other fast food chains. Even in those cases, keeping these tips in mind are helpful.

Some of the tips are obvious ones – go for the salad minus fried toppings, skip the cheese (the cheese at McDonalds has 50 calories and 2 grams of sat. fat!), ask for extra veggies. Some others are not as obvious such as:

7. Use hot sauce, not ketchup, on your french fries. Hot sauce is low in calories, has a big, adventurous flavor, and contains nutrients that are particularly good for your body. Plus, it gets you drinking lots of water, which reduces your appetite.

While they don’t quantify the difference, as I suspect it’s not much, but the idea that it gets you to drink lots of water is a clever one.

14. Get skinless chicken. This is particularly important when you’re hitting KFC, home of the finger-lickin’ good fried chicken. Ditch the skin — and much of the batter — and you’ll save 240 calories and 16 grams of fat on a typical serving.

I guess skin isn’t in anymore. :)

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