Extreme Eating: Where Do You Draw the Line?
Some restaurants pack a day or two's worth of calories into a single meal.
When you eat out, do you choose your meal based on its nutritional content, or do you splurge? The Center for Science in the Public Interest’s website put the spotlight this week on some of the more extreme options offered by national restaurant chains. The organization reveals the caloric, fat and sugar contents of specific dishes at IHOP (the only restaurant on the list with a Buffalo Grove location) as well as Chili’s, Maggiano’s, The Cheesecake Factory, Uno Chicago Grill, Johnny Rockets and Smoothie King. IHOP’s Country Fried Steak & Eggs breakfast combo packs 1,760 calories and 23 grams of saturated fat, as well as 3,720 mg of sodium and 11 teaspoons of sugar, according to a press release announcing the organization's 2013 Xtreme …
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