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Eating Out
Most restaurants have few healthy food choices
available. Restaurant foods are usually highly processed,
contain large amounts of fat and sodium, and are
high in calories. Because of this, we’ve given nearly all
restaurant foods at best a “yellow.” You’re going to have
to eat at restaurants. We know that. Compromise is an
inescapable fact of life. The goal of the rating system is
merely to give you a better sense of when your diet is
on the bulls-eye and when it’s a little off-target.
Many national chain restaurants don’t have
nutritional information posted on their web sites.
During our time online, we were unable to find complete
nutritional info for many restaurants. If a restaurant
chooses not to post nutritional information about its
food, you’ve got to ask yourself why.
A good detective will plan ahead and visit the
restaurant’s web site, find the menu and read the
nutritional information.
Try to choose foods you can rate as “green.” If
you must choose “yellow” items, split portions with
another person to minimize your exposure to unhealthy
ingredients and/or concentrated calories. Sharing a
dessert isn’t as good as skipping dessert entirely, but it’s
twice as good as eating the whole dessert yourself.
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