8. Pasta Salad
300 calories
14 grams of fat
When the main ingredient for a snack or a side is pasta, you’re asking for trouble. That’s because pasta is made from highly-refined flour, which means quick-burning carbs and a huge spike in blood sugar. Not only does it save you a hundred calories, but the egg salad [...]
7. Granola Bars
200 calories
15 grams of sugar
Ever wonder what keeps a granola bar together? The makers of one of America?s favorite (and most misunderstood) snacks use mostly high-fructose corn syrup as their glue, which in turns quickly raises blood sugar and cancels out any of the potential benefits you might otherwise get from the [...]
6. Fruit Smoothies
600 calories
120 grams of sugar
Unless it says 100 percent fruit, your “fruit” smoothie is likely made with ice cream, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and a few token chunks of banana. All told, this popular afternoon snack has as much sugar as six Haagen Dazs Vanilla and Almond ice cream bars. Ouch.
5. Turkey Burger
850 calories
50 grams of fat
At home a turkey burger might be a decent choice, but in the restaurant wrld it means high-fat ground turkey, heavy mayo, melted cheese, and a big, pillowy bun. It’s the equivalent of three 8-oz sirloin steaks.
How many calories do you need? Well, that depends on a lot of things. Your age, sex, type of work, physical activity, all come into play. There is no one answer for this type of thing. I have to warn you, I don’t believe the general ideas on how many calories a person should have. [...]
4. Chicken Wrap
700 calories
35 grams of fat
How wraps got such a good rap is beyond us, since they’re really just over sized tortillas, packing up to 400 calories on their own – that is, before the onslaught of cheese, meat, and dressing it houses! You’d get the same number of calories from 20 strips of [...]
3. Tuna Melt
950 calories
55 grams of fat
Plain tuna out of the can is healthy; tuna drenched in mayo, shrouded in melted cheese, and slicked with another layer of dressing is not. You’d be better off eating three six-inch roast beef sandwiches from Subway!
