CBS News/ October 10, 2012, 11:52 AM

What (and what not) to order at the restaurant

P.F. Chang's

Ashley Koff, RD: Celebrity dietitian and co-author of "Mom Energy: A Simple Plan to Live Fully Charged"

Gluten free flourless chocolate dome from P.F. Chang's

/ Health.com

I'm ordering: Steamed vegetable dumplings (split), Norwegian salmon steamed with ginger, small garlic snapped peas, gluten free flourless chocolate dome (split)

"I enjoy one or two steamed dumplings (45 calories each--they also have pan- fried, but skip those), lightly dipped in mustard or rice vinegar, which feels like a treat. I choose healthy brown rice with my entr?e, but keep it to a half cup."

"Making a savings there leaves me room for gluten-free flourless chocolate cake--I split it with a friend. I choose it not because gluten free is necessarily 'healthier,' but rather because it's made with the best, simplest ingredients."

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rikster319 says:
Try this, think for yourself and learn from your family's past. Did your 80-90 year old Grandparents/Great-grandparents buy the garbage boxed food in the middle of the grocery store? I doubt it!!! When they grew up they ate "real" food from the farm, even if they didn't live on a farm. They ate eggs, bacon, steak, chicken, butter, milk, cheese, whole grains, fruits and vegetables. All the stuff you find on the outer edge of the local grocery store, better yet what you find at most Farmers Markets. Which is a better course of action, cause you get to know those who grow your food. (Wow!!! What a concept.) What your Grandparents/Great-grandparents didn't eat is "boxed food" experiment in the middle of the grocery store. Start with this simple change and you'll loose pounds and maybe get rid of some of those meds you or your family members are on, like insulin for Diabetes, or those High blood pressure meds, etc. This is just the first step, the next step would be to get away from the "process" part of the processed foods around the edge of the grocery store. IE. Milk and the homogenization process. (not a good thing, look it up on the internet) Let me just say this much, lactose intolerance can actually be your body rejecting the homogenization of milk.

People research and observe what is really happening to your food supply. The FDA and Big Agriculture business is about corporate profits, not healthy food for your family. Quit being their experimental Guinea Pig, your life and your loved one's lives depend on it.
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liveloveforgod says:
The food was changed in the USA, UK and Australia 30 years ago when dangerous food chemicals from the USA was allowed into Europe. The food today causes stubborn insulin If you have stubborn insulin you hold fat and have a hard time losing weight. You can eat very little and the weight still does not come off. Stubborn insulin will hold fat and diets won't work. When researchers used a specialized diabetes diet on overweight people all lost weight even those who did not have diabetes.
just google SPIRIT HAPPY DIET
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Thomas T says:
More misinfo here to keep you obese, sickly and weak. No, it's NOT the calories that aften its the that fatten, it's the carbs, especially so the refined carbs. fruit, and high fructose corn syrup.

Digested carbohydrate, carbs, (especially so from the ill-advised high intake of grains fruit and veg, potatoes, etc. from the food pyramid), first top up the glycogen storage in the muscle and liver. The rest is rapidly converted to bodyfat in the cells' mitochondria via the Krebs and citric acid cycles. Fructose from fruit and ugars converts directly into bodyfat in the liver. Meanwhile digested fat is very slowly converted to glucose by the liver, not to bodyfat. Fructose is converetd DIRECTLY into bodyfat by the liver.


Calories counting is meaningless as the body has various homeostasis mechanisms that slow or speed metabolic rate, (MR), depending on what, when, how little or how much is eaten.


One such mechanism, thermogenic effect, is bone structure dependent. A light boned ectomorph, who has an inherent high MR rise after a meal, burns-off even half gallon of 40%-sugared ice cream. A heavy boned endomorph gains fat on a small slice of apple pie, due to much lower inherent MR rise.



On the ill advised low fat diets, one soon feel hungry after sucha a meal, craving more food. That in turn will be high in fattening carbs. Valuable life-giving nutrients are lost from missing the high saturated fat foods such as butter, cream, egg yolks, red meat, organ meat, beef fat etc.

Saturated fat?



http://healthimpactnews.com/2012/heart-surgeon-admits-he-was-wrong-about-low-fat-diet-and-heart-disease/

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/12/05/does-high-cholesterol-really-cause-heart-disease.aspx
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Thomas T says:
Olives, olive oil high in 3 plant allergens that inflame pituatary, phlodzin; the hypothalamus, chlorogenic acid. and the pamcreas, gallic acid.

These three organs degrade. their degraded parts join-up to form the cancer nucleus, essential to startr and fuel all malignacies, other players being in place. Clark H R PhD ND 2007. Dr Clark's works since 1995 are based on over half a million repeatable, (scintifically VALI)!! bioresonance stests.

The fact that mainstream medicine, (including the totally corrupted dieticians, brainwashed sports trainers, obese celeb chefs and uninformed food writers) dont 'recognise' Dr Clark does not invalidate the science.
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Thomas T says:
Who needs to listen to an RD? Not me thanks. Too much misnfo.

They are controlled in a totally corrupted system. Registered Dieticians worldwide must strictly follow their Assn. guidelines which are set out by the US Dietetic Assn. That 'self-appointed' Assn. is now changing its name to the Academy of Dietetics and Nutrition, after having been exposed as being totally corrupted. They are funded by producers of foods, by manufacturers of foodstuffs, of confectionaries, and of beverages, by fast food companies, by a biotech giant and indirectly by big pharma.





Dieticians spew-out 1970s misinfo, to keep the public sickly, weak and obese, with confusing snippets of hope for this or that. I caught them lying in the early 70s with their false vege oil advice, (promo), and butter-bashing. I guess they got more 'funding' from the corn oil people than from the dairy industry.
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mcrich3 says:
Most people need to learn what to eat from their own pantry. Restaurants are not the issue. Peoples behaviors is.
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athena8 replies:
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Excellent point. Stay home and cook your meals with clean hands, hair pinned back, and fully aware of what's going into your food. Lack of Americans doing these simple things is why people are heavier, lazier, and more prone to getting food poisoning. Food poisoning really sucks.
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Nate650 says:
If at all possible I suggest avoiding the vast majority of chain restaurants as they use cheap low quality ingredients and often times are not much healthier than fast food. Many times the only difference between a sit down chain restaurant and a fast food joint is the service of the waiter/waitress. For example, I was shocked when I received a response to my inquiry to Red Lobster asking about the ingredients of the "Cheddar Bay Biscuits." Among the nasty ingredients were trans fat (listed twice), artificial flavors, and dimethylpolysiloxane, the same anti-foaming agent used in McDonald's Chicken McNuggets.
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jimatmadison says:
I stop reading when they say that you need to order stuff that's not on the menu at a chain restaurant in order to meet the requirements of the exercise.

It's like saying you should order the Chevy with a hydrogen engine on the hope they might come up with one.
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Jaylah54200 says:
Is the average American really so dumb that we need to be told this?

....Never mind....
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