February 27, 2007

Group says restaurants promote "extreme eating"

Wow, if you think the portions are getting bigger and "richer" looks like you're right:

Many U.S. chain restaurants are promoting "extreme eating" with dishes that pack at least a day's worth of calories and fat, without giving customers facts about their orders, a consumer group said on Monday.

Some of the dishes from the major chains contain nearly as many calories as you are supposed to have in a single day, and that's not even including the beverage and breadsticks...

Ruby Tuesday's offers an entree called Fresh Chicken & Broccoli Pasta so loaded with cheese and other stuff that it tipped the scales at 2,060 calories and 128 grams of fat, he said. Jacobson dubbed it "Angioplasta," alluding to angioplasty, a medical procedure to open clogged arteries.

Full article here.