{"id":268740,"date":"2010-02-03T02:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T07:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/03\/can-eating-fast-food-help-you-lose-weight\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T02:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T07:26:00","slug":"can-eating-fast-food-help-you-lose-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/268740","title":{"rendered":"Can Eating Fast Food Help You Lose Weight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/health\/\" rel=\"tag\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/healthy-eating\/\" rel=\"tag\">Healthy Eating<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/02\/fries.jpg\" \/>When people are trying to slim down, they rarely think about hitting the drive through. But a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=fast%20food\">fast food<\/a> outlets are adding so-called &#8220;healthy options&#8221; to their menus. McDonald&#8217;s has grilled chicken sandwiches. Wendy&#8217;s has a variety of salads. Starbucks has reduced-calorie paninis. Subway is endorsed by successful contestants from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=The%20Biggest%20Loser\">The Biggest Loser<\/a>, boasting that some of their sandwiches can be a key part of any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=weight%20loss%20program\">weight-loss program<\/a>. And even Taco Bell (which is more frequently associated with liquid cheese and slushy meat), now offers a &#8220;Fresco&#8221; menu of items with less fat. <\/p>\n<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> recently took a stab at this phenomenon (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8220;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/28\/fashion\/28SKIN.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\" >Forget Jenny Craig. Hit the Drive-Thru<\/a>&#8220;), and put these healthier menus to the nutritional test. Here&#8217;s what they found&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/03\/can-eating-fast-food-help-you-lose-weight\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Can Eating Fast Food Help You Lose Weight?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/03\/can-eating-fast-food-help-you-lose-weight\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19341723\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/03\/can-eating-fast-food-help-you-lose-weight\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Health, Healthy Eating When people are trying to slim down, they rarely think about hitting the drive through. But a number of fast food outlets are adding so-called &#8220;healthy options&#8221; to their menus. McDonald&#8217;s has grilled chicken sandwiches. Wendy&#8217;s has a variety of salads. Starbucks has reduced-calorie paninis. Subway is endorsed by successful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268740","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\/2979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}