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Did you know, that a fast food cheeseburger has more nutrients in it than an apple? Yeah, neither did I, until I picked up Covert Bailey and Ronda Gate's Smart Eating: Choosing Wisely, Living Lean . But before you go tossing away your fresh fruit and running to the nearest fast food joint (not that any of you would, I just had a picture of myself doing that), let me point out that, despite this amazing food fact, eating a McDonald's Big Mac every day is not smart at all; on the contrary, you'd probably blow up like a balloon, following in Morgan Spurlock's footsteps on Super Size Me . So you're probably wondering exactly then, how a fruit that was once followed by the phrase, "An apple a day, keeps the doctor away" is not as healthy as a burger. The catch is, it's not necessarily less healthy; it just holds less nutrients altogether. Good Nutrients and Bad Stuff What do I mean by "less nutrients altogether "? Well, Bailey and Gates (authors of Smart Eating: Choosing Wisely, Living Lean ) have done a pretty awesome job in explaining the method. They put together a fine chart of each food item: the apple, and the cheeseburger. For a single chart, imagine two triangles, one on top of the other, with both of them pointing their tips at each other, sort of like a two pieces of pie. On top is the nutrients, while on the bottom is the bad stuff. For the apple, if you could imagine the diagram, you would see two very narrow pie pieces facing each other. So that means that while the bad nutrients on the bottom is very limited (sugar, empty calories, etc.), the nutrients piece (vitamins) on top is also very narrow. Basically, you would have to eat a lot of apples to get any real dose of vitamins out of the fruit. For a cheeseburger, imagine the same chart with the two pie pieces facing one another. This time, the one on top is greatly increased, and wallah! That's where we get the good nutrients (protein, iron, calcium), and therefore that's how a fast food cheeseburger takes the crown of having more nutrients than that narrow piece we saw with the apple. Now here's the bad thing about the burger; if you guessed that the bottom pie piece has also greatly increased, then you're correct. In fact, the bottom piece is much fatter than the top, due to the bad stuff, like more empty calories and fat. But don't let the idea of eating a burger get you down, and don't push the idea of an apple away either. They both taste great, and having a burger occasionally won't kill you, nor will having an apple-or lots and lots of apples for that matter! ~~~ Source: Smart Eating: Choosing Wisely, Living Lean by Covert Bailey and Ronda Gates IMDb (www.imdb.com) |
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