May 2, 2008

McDonalds Nutrition Best Choice Awards

Filed under: University of Nutrition — admin @ 11:36 pm

Your late for an appointment, running vigorously, and just
realized you are hungry and haven’t eaten lunch. You look
around and the only place you can find quickly is
McDonalds. What do you do?

Your mind says no, it’s not healthy food. Your stomach says yes,
it’s time to eat. It is either going without food, or grabbing something quickly at McDonalds. What about all the negative exposure regarding McDonalds nutrition information?

You make the decision to grab something so your mind is clear
for your big appointment. Now what? Burgers, McNuggets, fries, shakes, salads all confuse you as the best nutritional choice.

After reviewing the current McDonalds nutrition facts, I have
decided to make it easier for consumer to make intelligent
choices by listing my McDonalds “Best Choice Awards.” Please remember, you do have a choice. Mickey D’s has made an attempt to offer some healthier alternatives to choose from. It is your responsibility to make that intelligent choice.

My biggest concern when analyzing the McDonalds nutrition facts was the amount of artery clogging saturated fat found in each item. I also paid close attention to the amount of calories found in each item.

Please note, there are healthier items found on their
menu than in the past, but overall, it is not like eating brown rice and steamed vegetables. I am listing all the foods below in the “not too bad” category.

Here is my list of the McDonalds “best choice awards.”
The choice is yours!

1. Premium Grilled Chicken Classic Sandwich 2g saturated fat / 420 calories

2. Chicken McNugget (4 piece) 2 g saturated fat / 170 calories

3. Fruit and Walnut Salad 2 g saturated fat / 310 calories

4. Caesar Salad (without chicken) 2.5 g saturated fat / 90 calories** Beware of the saturated fat in the dressing. The best dressing offered is the Newman’s Own Cobb Dressing.

5. Caesar with grilled chicken 3 g saturated fat / 220 calories

6. Chicken McNuggets (6 piece) 3 g saturated fat / 250 calories

7. Premium Spicy Chicken Sandwich 3 g saturated fat / 510 calories

8. Premium Crispy Chicken Classic Sandwich 3 g saturated fat / 500 cal.

9. McChicken 3.5 g saturated fat / 370 calories

10. Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips (3 pc) 3.5 sat. / 140 cal.

11. Bacon Ranch Salad without chicken 3.5 sat. / 180 cal.

12. Hamburger 3.5 g sat. / 260 cal.

13. Premium Grilled Chicken Ranch Sandwich 4 g sat. / 490 cal.

14. Filet of Fish 4 g sat. / 400 cal.

15. Best dessert is Fruit and Yogurt

For a complete list of all McDonalds nutrition information for
its whole menu visit http://www.WellnessWord.com/blog

Choose foods that have the lowest calories with the lowest
saturated fat. Watch out of extras such as high calorie, sugar
loaded soft drinks, and large amounts of salad dressing.

Now you can make good healthy choices and not feel guilty if you
decide to grab something quickly at McDonalds. McDonalds
nutrition is not all bad. The choice is yours!

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April 13, 2008

Find Mineral Nutrition Online

Filed under: University of Nutrition — admin @ 10:59 pm

Mineral nutrition

Searching for mineral nutrition information is much easier today than ever before. I remember when we’d have to search manuals, books and do it at the library and also searching the encyclopedia. Thanks to Senate document 264 the truth finally comes out. Much buried of course as its information doesn’t support the bottom line of retailers. But, to find the truth sometimes takes digging and especially mineral nutrition.

We’ve come to discover that many serious health issues including life threatening can be at the source of lack of minerals in our diet. Most of us haven’t been taught that without these vital nutritional nutrients taking vitamins is useless. Since vitamins are such a large marketing item with plenty of resources we seldom read or see much about anything else.

It is critical to our health to understand that the depleted soils today do not yield its fruits and vegetables with the nutrients they once did years ago. Fast foods haven’t helped either, and now we even read of a national epidemic about overweight child. Our kids are starving from the lack of good nutrition and most of us aren’t doing anything about it.

Research online can be the resource of choice that let’s us do the research work rather easily. Armed with some good up to date education and information goes a long way towards correcting one’s path to optimum health. The responsibility falls on us for self preservation, not the doctors when it’s perhaps too late.

We may also need to adjust our thinking for days of old. Our parents who didn’t have the information available today taught us what they could, but may not in fact be the most effective approach today. When you gather your information you may very well be shocked, so stay open minded and be patient. Correcting the sorry state of affairs with good mineral nutrition isn’t difficult or over expensive.

The rest of the story at http://www.liquid-vitamins-4u.com