Product Description Thousands of simple foods swaps that can save you 10, 20, 30 pounds or more! Full color vibrant images. Includes guides to popular fast food and sit down restaurants, and lots of supermarket items.
That pie has the same calories as three Big Macs?December 25, 2007 Sean P. Logue(Research Triangle Park, NC USA) 352 out of 379 found this review helpful
This is a great book. Slick and attractive, with fantastic full-color pictures. Very well researched too, which is expected coming from the folks behind one of the most densely-packed, informative magazines, Men's Health.
The truth is that casual dining restaurants have higher calorie meals than the much-maligned fast food joints. While the fast food restaurants are now required to publish calorie, fat, and sodium contents, the casual restaurants have been quietly fighting against requiring them to release the same information. Thanks to this book and the research behind it, we can now get a better idea of what we've been eating at these restaurants. And it is eye opening.
Each two page section has a high-calorie, fat trap food on the right, and a healthier alternative on the left. Lots of reasons for why one is a better choice than the other, as well as quick lists of other good choices (and not so good choices) on the left and right.
This simple, but effective layout conveys a ton of information quickly and easily. The sections are by restaurant, and by situation type (like shopping at the mall, or at a holiday party), so it is easy to read and get good ideas for how to make better food choices.
The only negative is that you might never get fries again, after you see all the things you could eat instead and still not hit the calorie count of the fries. Outback's Aussie Cheese Fries have 2900 calories. Wow!
Highly recommended book, even if you aren't trying to lose weight. You'll learn a ton about the foods you are eating at restaurants, which is well worth the price of admission.
Sean P. Logue, 2007
Great, helpful guide that restaurants don't want us to read :->December 13, 2007 Little Miss Cutey(Melbourne, Australia) 134 out of 157 found this review helpful
This guide gives you heaps of smart choices to help you manage your weight so you can still go out to eat at great places without packing on as much weight. If you don't know what you're putting into your body, you can make huge mistakes when it comes to the choices you make. Sometimes your main meal could contain two days worth of fat, so Dave has given us these choices to still enjoy ourselves when eating out either at restaurants or fast food restaurants.
There is information in here that you may not have ever heard in here and when you find out why, the choices are even easier for us. When he tells you about the amount of meat in burgers and how that can be four days worth of meat in one sitting. Scary. He's done a years worth of investigating to put this book together and bring us these facts and found that the typical fast food restaurant has about 552 calories per entre and a typical sit down restaurant has aprox 870 and these numbers will shock you into better choices.
Dave is well researched and knows what he's talking about. I love this book and find it really interesting even if you don't need to watch your weight but just want to make healthier choices. You can take it around with you when you are in the drive thru or at a deli etc etc. Therefore I think everyone can benefit from reading this book and would make the perfect birthday gift or a treat to yourself. I love it.
A helpful guide for cheatersDecember 28, 2007 c20(Oakland, CA, USA) 34 out of 38 found this review helpful
First of all, go to www.menshealth.com/eatthis/ for a sample of what you will find in this book. Their preview of the book is almost half of the stuff you will find in the actual book and it's structured about the same, so you can decide if you should still need to buy it (which you should because there's so much good advice in here)
Second, if you're serious about "dieting" or a lifestyle change, you shouldn't be eating too much of these foods anyways. However, if you love going out and you're tired of salads, this guidebook provides a lot of swaps you should try. There are many different types of chain restaurants so whereever you go, this book should be able to give you tips. There's examples from "healthier" places like Subway to those places that even if you swap out for a "healthier" item, you're still killing your diet, like Krispy Kreme.
There are 2 sections that I found helpful that was not available online - the drink section and the menu interpretations. I love coffee and beer. I can drink the occasional coffee and I cheat sometimes with beer. Upon reading the page about beer, it turns out my beloved Samuel Adams is listed under "Not that" and it highly recommends Beck's Light.
My favorite section of the book is the menu interpretations. We won't always be going to KFC, Subway, Chili's, etc and Dave knows this. He has listed sample menus from your run-of-the-mill taqueria, steakhouse, bbq joint, even sushiya! In each menu, it tells you what to eat and what to avoid!!
This book is just so helpful when you go out and it's advice will help you somewhat stay on your diet and still have fun. Just don't go overboard and think it's now okay to eat these items all the time.
Fun and informativeDecember 11, 2007 Food Fan 40 out of 46 found this review helpful
This book sorts through good and bad foods and explains it all using great pictures. It's easy to read, and compact enough to go with you to the store or restaurant...
Fast Food Junkies UniteApril 16, 2008 Bennet Pomerantz(Seabrook, Maryland) 27 out of 32 found this review helpful
OKAY, i ADMIT IT. I AM A FAST FOOD JUNKIE
I am always on the go. Fast food is easy to get and find. BUT sometimes my choices are bad
Ever since I gotten this book, my healther choices have become better
Fast Food Junkies Unite. so If you like me have hard food choices to make, this book is a simple and easy way to pick the better foods. This guide book is filled with tips and pictures.
If this small volume helps anyone, it is well worth it
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