Healthy eating tips

Kaitlin Prettyman

09-18-09

It’s the oatmeal guzzler again. Today’s health tip is going to be about eating. Going to the grocery store, out to dinner or stopping at the gas station all provide temptation for eating.

We go in these places sometimes without thinking to look at the calories, the protein, the sugar or the fiber. There is also the fact that restaurants don’t normally tell us the calorie count or the facts of nutrition—if there is any nutrition.

Did you know that a cheeseburger from McDonalds is 300 calories, with 750 mg of sodium and 6 grams of saturated fat? How did I know that? Not from doing some investigative reporting, not because I am health obsessed and not because I sued McDonalds for making me fat.

I found out from this great website called caloriecounter.com. It offers nutrition facts for practically anything and everything. It makes dieting fun and it makes eating healthy fun too! So, join us next week for the next fun healthy tip.

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