{"id":3490,"date":"2010-05-25T04:29:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T02:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2015-02-15T09:25:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T14:25:17","slug":"sodium-content-fast-food-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/sodium-content-fast-food-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sodium Content of Fast Food Meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is waaaay higher than it ought to be, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/obesitypanacea\/2010\/05\/06\/how-much-salt-is-in-your-fast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this report of a recent study\u00a0on Obesity Panacea<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this trial, meals bought from 300 randomly selected chain restaurant locations in New York City during the weekday lunch hour between March 27 to June 8, 2007 were assessed for salt content. A meal was defined as any purchase with at least 1 entr\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>The main findings?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>56% of meals purchased at fast food outlets contained more sodium than should be consumed during the entire day (&gt;1500mg), with 20% of meals exceeding the uppermost limit for daily sodium intake (&gt;2300mg)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Chicken fast food places tended to have the worst sodium levels per meal with 83.8% of meals exceeding the daily recommended level (1500mg)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Only 1 in 36 purchased meals met the Food and Drug Administration &#8220;healthy&#8221; sodium level for meals (600 mg)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The high sodium intake wasn&#8217;t necessarily driven by a high calorie intake, but rather by a high sodium per calorie ratio, with an average of 2136 mg sodium per 1000 calories purchased. Thus, even those eating lower calorie meals were likely to exceed their daily sodium limit within a single meal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take home message:<\/p>\n<p>Stay the hell away from fast-food outlets!&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We already knew that last bit, but there&#8217;s more to this proscription than just concerns over excess fat, sugar and calories (bad as those are&#8230; ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is waaaay higher than it ought to be, according to this report of a recent study\u00a0on Obesity Panacea&#8230; In this trial, meals bought from 300 randomly selected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,28],"tags":[321,498,631,904],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8966,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions\/8966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}