High calorie fast food

Fast food is associated with a diet that is high in total energy and energy density (calories) but low in micronutrients density.

A typical fast food meal provided more than one-third of daily recommended calories, total fat and saturated fat intake.

Although fish, chicken and potatoes alone are relatively low calorie foods, they become high fat, high calorie foods when dipped in batter and fried.

If the fat used in cooking is beef tallow, fried foods – regardless of their source - are also high in cholesterol and in saturated fat, believed to promote clogged arteries.

Pasta salads are usually high in fat because of added dressings, cheese or processed meat toppings.

According to NASH (National Adolescent Student Health) survey, they found that from 11,000 eights and tenth graders, 88% of the girls ate at least one snack the previous day with almost one-fourth (24%) eating four or more snacks.

Almost two-thirds of these snacks (62%) were categorized as high-fat or high-sugar foods (chips, soda, candy, ice cream, cake).

Human passion for high-fat high-salt and high-calorie fast foods has become a major threat to human health.

Heart disease remains the leading killer of North America, largely due to elevated insulin and artery inflammation, both of which are caused by diets high in sugar and refined carbohydrates as well as saturated and transfats – the hallmarks of most fats foods.
High calorie fast food

Definition of Calories

Definition of Calories
Nutritionist measure the amount of heat produced by metabolizing of food in units called kilocalories. A kilocalorie is the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree on a centigrade (celsius) thermometer at sea level.

In common use, nutritionists substitute the word calorie or kilocalorie. This information isn’t scientifically accurate: strictly speaking, a calorie is really 1/1000 of kilocalorie. But the word calorie is easier to say and easier to remember, so that term we see whenever we read about the energy in food.

Calories provide fuel to keep the human body going. They provide our body with the energy that we require to perform all our body functions.

We require energy for survival – to breathe, pump blood and for all kinds of physical activity like walking, running, sitting and working.

Calories are required even when we are lying down or sleep. They also expended in digestion of food, and for making available the calories from that food to our body.

They are essential for maintenance of our body temperature. Thus, adults require calories mainly for physical activities and involuntary body functions.

In case of infants and children in their growing years, besides the above mentioned roles, calories perform they very vital function of supporting growth and development.
Definition of Calories

Healthy Eating

Healthy Eating
Big foods are those that are low in caloric density, but they give you a feeling of satiety on fewer calories.

Examples include salads, noncreamy soups, vegetables fresh fruits, water, nonfat plain yogurt, fish and seafood, and cooked oatmeal.

Because these natural high-volume, or “big,” foods are high in fiber and water they fill you up on fewer calories than the calorie-dense highly processed foods.

You are hard-wired to eat until your stomach is stretched, which generally takes about fifteen to twenty minutes.

If you are eating cheese fries, chicken nuggets and M&M’s and drinking sugared sodas, during that fifteen to twenty minute meal, you will consume thousands of calories, mostly in the form of unhealthy and nutritionally barren foods that will be stored as belly fat and leave you hungry again in two or three hours.

On the other hand, if you sit down to a meal of boil shrimp, crisp celery sticks with guacamole dip, an apple and a tall glass of iced tea, fifteen to twenty minutes later you will be just even full though you consumed a fraction of the calories and loads more antiaging antioxidants, fiber and vitamins.

As a bonus, you remain full for four to six hours without cravings for junk food.

Many healthy foods are essential calorie-free, including spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce and asparagus. But not everybody enjoys all the vegetables.

Drinking calorie-free beverage such as water tea and coffee is another way to fill up without stressing your system with excess calories.
Healthy Eating