{"id":150253,"date":"2010-01-07T12:03:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T17:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2010-01-07T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T17:03:20","slug":"fast-food-joints-lie-about-calories-denny%e2%80%99s-we%e2%80%99re-looking-at-you-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/150253","title":{"rendered":"Fast Food Joints Lie About Calories (Denny\u2019s, We\u2019re Looking at You) | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"denny's-web\"Surprise, surprise…. Fast food restaurants might be lying to your face.<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em> health blog,\u00a0Booster Shots<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Researchers from Tufts University took commercially prepared foods — both prepackaged and from restaurants — and analyzed them in a bomb calorimeter. The measured energy values of 10 frozen meals purchased from supermarkets averaged 8% more than originally stated, and foods from 29 restaurants (both fast-food and sit-down venues) were on average 18% more than reported.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The most egregious offender? Denny’s, whose dry toast is advertised<\/a> to contain 92 calories but actually packs a diet-busting 283 calories! If they can’t even get the numbers on toast right, just imagine the true caloric content of one of their Grand Slamwiches<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So if your New Year’s resolution includes getting back in shape, help yourself out by resolving to stop eating fast food and frozen meals all together.<\/p>\n

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Surprise, surprise…. Fast food restaurants might be lying to your face. According to the\u00a0Los Angeles Times health blog,\u00a0Booster Shots: Researchers from Tufts University took commercially prepared foods — both prepackaged and from restaurants — and analyzed them in a bomb calorimeter. The measured energy values of 10 frozen meals purchased from supermarkets averaged 8% more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}