http://www.marksdailyapple.com/scientists-perplexed-issue-%e2%80%98impossible-calorie%e2%80%99-award/ Serving up health and fitness insights (daily, of course) with a side of irreverence. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:12:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/scientists-perplexed-issue-%e2%80%98impossible-calorie%e2%80%99-award/#comment-2548 Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » Top Secret Nutritional Info Released, Award Given Wed, 16 May 2007 20:19:27 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/scientists-perplexed-issue-%e2%80%98impossible-calorie%e2%80%99-award/#comment-2548 [...] This week’s award goes to Chili’s for something unusual they have included on their menu. We aren’t about to suggest you go out and order their baby back ribs with a side of cheesecake. What we are excited about is that they actually list nutritional information for some of their entrees right on the menu. In the “Guiltless Grill” section they list calories, total carbs, total fat, saturated fat and fiber for each item. Now if we could only persuade them to make the nutritional facts for the rest of their menu items as accessible. “Fat chance,” (snicker) you say? Well, we won’t hold our breath, but we would love to see this kind of openness become a trend at all major restaurants. As long as the purveyors of food make it difficult to access nutritional info for their menu items we can only assume they have something to hide. I don’t know about you but I’m not to keen on eating food from an establishment that has something to hide. [...] [...] This week’s award goes to Chili’s for something unusual they have included on their menu. We aren’t about to suggest you go out and order their baby back ribs with a side of cheesecake. What we are excited about is that they actually list nutritional information for some of their entrees right on the menu. In the “Guiltless Grill” section they list calories, total carbs, total fat, saturated fat and fiber for each item. Now if we could only persuade them to make the nutritional facts for the rest of their menu items as accessible. “Fat chance,” (snicker) you say? Well, we won’t hold our breath, but we would love to see this kind of openness become a trend at all major restaurants. As long as the purveyors of food make it difficult to access nutritional info for their menu items we can only assume they have something to hide. I don’t know about you but I’m not to keen on eating food from an establishment that has something to hide. [...]

]]> http://www.marksdailyapple.com/scientists-perplexed-issue-%e2%80%98impossible-calorie%e2%80%99-award/#comment-2359 Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » Scientists Perplexed: Issue Impossible Calorie Award Wed, 09 May 2007 17:55:29 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/scientists-perplexed-issue-%e2%80%98impossible-calorie%e2%80%99-award/#comment-2359 [...] Just as the experts from Orchard University thought they were close to cracking the mystery behind the Cheesecake Factory’s infamous carrot cake their work was derailed by a four pound behemoth of a meal that further tried their capacity to imagine anything so calorie dense. [...] [...] Just as the experts from Orchard University thought they were close to cracking the mystery behind the Cheesecake Factory’s infamous carrot cake their work was derailed by a four pound behemoth of a meal that further tried their capacity to imagine anything so calorie dense. [...]

]]> http://www.marksdailyapple.com/scientists-perplexed-issue-%e2%80%98impossible-calorie%e2%80%99-award/#comment-2223 Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » I’m Not Lovin’ It Wed, 02 May 2007 19:47:44 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/scientists-perplexed-issue-%e2%80%98impossible-calorie%e2%80%99-award/#comment-2223 [...] We try not to pick on McDonald’s too much. After all, there’s the Cheesecake Factory, where you can gain a pound by eating a single slice of cake. And to its credit, McDonald’s does make nutrition and calorie information available, something which the Cheesecake Factory evidently has a lot of trouble doing. But I feel McDonald’s is being blatantly disingenuous when there’s all this talk about premium chicken, premium coffee, and premium salads going on yet surreptitiously the G.A. (that’s Golden Arches) still pushes new sugary, fattening products with more speed and consistency than their employee turnover rate. [...] [...] We try not to pick on McDonald’s too much. After all, there’s the Cheesecake Factory, where you can gain a pound by eating a single slice of cake. And to its credit, McDonald’s does make nutrition and calorie information available, something which the Cheesecake Factory evidently has a lot of trouble doing. But I feel McDonald’s is being blatantly disingenuous when there’s all this talk about premium chicken, premium coffee, and premium salads going on yet surreptitiously the G.A. (that’s Golden Arches) still pushes new sugary, fattening products with more speed and consistency than their employee turnover rate. [...]

]]> http://www.marksdailyapple.com/scientists-perplexed-issue-%e2%80%98impossible-calorie%e2%80%99-award/#comment-731 Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » The Fuming Fuji Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:15:50 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/scientists-perplexed-issue-%e2%80%98impossible-calorie%e2%80%99-award/#comment-731 [...] The catch: A sensible portion compared to what? The Cheesecake Factory and its evil one-pound slice of cake? This does not make a cupcake smart. Yes, the Fuji grants that your cupcake is better than many things. A cake in a cup is, for example, much better than lard in a cup. But the Fuji must inform you that a little bit of bad compared to a lot of bad does not make the little bit of bad good. You are stunned. [...] [...] The catch: A sensible portion compared to what? The Cheesecake Factory and its evil one-pound slice of cake? This does not make a cupcake smart. Yes, the Fuji grants that your cupcake is better than many things. A cake in a cup is, for example, much better than lard in a cup. But the Fuji must inform you that a little bit of bad compared to a lot of bad does not make the little bit of bad good. You are stunned. [...]

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