How about indulging in a Cold Stone PB&C shake? It’s what Men’s Health calls “The Worst Beverage in America.” If you choose to inhale one of these, get ready for a day’s worth of calories, over three times the daily recommended allowance of saturated fat, and an amount of sugar equivalent to that found in 30 Chewy Chips Ahoy Cookies… all in one giant cup.

Thanks to Dave for the reference.

Until now, we’ve been led to believe that a sandwich, by definition, is two slices of bread with some kind of filling in between. How foolish we’ve been!

Leave it to KFC to think outside the box and bring us the Double Down, the first fast-food sandwich to use slabs of fried chicken as buns.

Inside the “buns”: Bacon and mayonnaise. Nutritionally, it clocks in at 540 calories, 32 grams of fat, and 1380 mg of sodium. How does it taste? The consensus, at least among discerning palates, is that it’s an overly moist, overly salty mess.

Although it isn’t health food by any stretch, it’s also important to realize that the Double Down is nowhere near the worst the fast-food industry has offered. It’s no worse, for example, than a Quarter Pounder with Cheese from McDonald’s.

Not surprisingly, chefs are up in arms over this heavy-handed and totally unreasonable proposal to lower the sodium intake of restaurant-goers.

This bill is an unfortunately consequence of the smoking and trans fat bans having passed so successfully and with such good results. Our lawmakers are starting to think it’s their responsibility to monitor every aspect of our health.

This time, it appears, they’ve gone way too far.

This has to be a joke. I’m not African-American, and I’M offended by what is a clearly a marketing strategy to target black people.

On the feedback page, they make several statements and ask visitors to the site if they agree or disagree.  An example of one such statement is: “McDonald’s is a brand that gets me.”

Strongly disagree.

Blitz Blintz: A large meat pizza rolled like a blintz filled with ranch dressing.

Studies of the health effects have been done only on animals. The effects on humans are still not known. Furthermore, it’s believed that consumption of artificial sweeteners could increase a person’s appetite for more sweetness and for foods with higher carbohydrate content.

So what are your options? Stevia, a new player in the sweetener game, is considered safer than the others because it is natural. (It could indeed be fine, but I’m not particularly convinced by this argument. Cyanide, after all, is “naturally” found in small amounts in bitter almonds.)

When all is said and done, it helps to put things in perspective. The number of calories in a teaspoon of sugar? Only 15.

Why are American’s so damn fat? Mad TV’s figured it out.