10 Worst Breakfast Foods- September 19, 2008
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It’s hard to overestimate the importance of eating breakfast. Studies show that people who take time for a morning meal consume fewer calories over the course of the day, have stronger cognitive skills, and are 30 percent less likely to be overweight or obese. Beyond that, people who skip breakfast are more likely to drink alcohol and smoke, and they’re less likely to exercise.
But just because breakfast is the most important meal of the day doesn’t grant you permission to go into a feeding frenzy. But that’s exactly what many of the country’s most popular breakfast joints are setting you up for, by peddling fatty scrambles, misguided muffins, and pancakes that look like manhole covers.
These foods are loaded with unhealthy fats, added sugars, and refined carbohydrates, which catapult your blood sugar, sap your energy levels, and tell your body to store fat.
To help you avoid the morning mishaps, we searched out the good, the bad, and the greasy, and uncovered some of the worst breakfast foods in America. We’ve presented a sampling of the worst offenders below. It’s like a lineup down at the local police station, except in this case, they’re all guilty as charged.
Worst Side Dish
Burger King Hash Browns (large)
620 calories
40 g fat (11 g saturated; 13 g trans)
1,200 mg sodium
60 g carbs
Yes, you’re ingesting more than a meal’s worth of calories from a side dish, but the real cause for concern here is that these little potato cakes pack seven times more trans fats than you’re supposed to eat all day! Until BK learns to cut out the partially hydrogenated oils, avoid encounters with potatoes of any kind at that fatty food joint.
Eat This Instead!
Burger King Egg & Cheese Croissan’wich
300 calories
17 g fat (6 g saturated; 2 g trans)
740 mg sodium
26 g carbs
So right! Although it is the most important meal it is also the most abused by either under or over eating and simply wrong choices.
Good post.
We should definitely be starting our day out with the highest level of nutrition vs. the lowest. I usually have a fiber shake (all natural of course), a nutritious shake (mostly natural), and my customized supplement. When I miss any of those, I feel like I’m dragging. The days I replace it with something like cinnamon rolls, I feel miserable. Oh, I am a coffee addict too!
Woa. I will never even think about eating at Burger King for breakfast again. Those hash browns don’t even taste good and they always end up hurting my stomach.
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Now, I will think twice before munching juicy, fatty, yummy burgers again. I didn’t know that these have unhealthy fats, added sugars, and refined carbohydrates, which catapult your blood sugar, sap your energy levels, and tell your body to store fat. Thank you for this excellent post it made me prudent on my breakfast choices.