Saturday, December 1, 2012

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: Fast Food 'Healthy Options' Don't Mean Fewer Calories

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Fast Food 'Healthy Options' Don't Mean Fewer Calories
Dec 1st 2012, 05:45

We at Healthy Living have long known that the 'healthy' items on fast food menus can be anything but. And now, a new study has confirmed that observation: although menus grew between 1996 and 2010 to include 53 percent more items, the average number of calories in each item hasn't changed significantly. The major growth area on menus during this 14-year period has been toward "healthy" salads, yogurt parfaits and other lighter-seeming fare. Unfortunately, these items aren't rendered less caloric merely by the addition of iceberg lettuce or apple slices.

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