Sally Squires writes in the Washington Post about the American Heart Association’s new My Fats
Translator, an online tool that tells people how many grams of fat they need to eat, based their age, sex, weight, height and physical activity
level. The new
tool also offers smart choices in several categories of food, and shows, for example, that a cheeseburger from a
fast-food restaurant delivers 27 percent of the daily calories for a
45-year-old sedentary woman and provides more than a third of her daily
fat as well as a day’s worth of saturated and trans fat. The cool tool, Squires points out, was underwritten by part of an $8.5 million settlement
from McDonald’s, the fast-food chain that was sued in 2003 for allegedly
failing to tell the public that it had reneged on a promise to switch
to healthier oils for its french fries.
Check it out at MyFatsTranslator.
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Truly a royal waste of money! The problem most people face is eating the wrong KINDS of foods. Claiming that someone or some organization “knows” how many calories, fat grams, or “percentages” of anything you eat is pure baloney! People should be taught that whole, real foods: vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, nuts and seeds, etc. should make up the major part of their diets, while reducing the highly processed, calorie-dense foods, such as those filled with sugar, fats, and processed flour. The American Heart Association is doing a generally poor job of helping Americans eat healthfully.
Truly a royal waste of money! The problem most people face is eating the wrong KINDS of foods. Claiming that someone or some organization “knows” how many calories, fat grams, or “percentages” of anything you eat is pure baloney! People should be taught that whole, real foods: vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, nuts and seeds, etc. should make up the major part of their diets, while reducing the highly processed, calorie-dense foods, such as those filled with sugar, fats, and processed flour. The American Heart Association is doing a generally poor job of helping Americans eat healthfully.