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As an eating machine I'm driven far more by taste than by nutritional
considerations. After all, one of my all time favorite dishes is Tung
Po Pork, a Chinese concoction that consists mainly of pork fat and
skin that is stewed in spices then steamed for several hours. That's
why I was surprised to find myself interested in a flyer I got from
The Nutrition Action Healthletter.  Maybe it was the title that
caught my interest. Here are some excerpts from the flyer. 1. Quaker
Oats 100% Natural Cereal. This overrated granola cereal's ten g of
fat per half cup serving make it high in fat compared to other
cereals. And, despite the crunch, it's not high in fiber.  A much
better choice would be a low fat, whole-grain cereal like Kellogg
Nutri-Grain Wheat, Post Grape-Nuts, General Mills Wheaties, or
Nabisco Shredded Wheat. 2. Contadina Alfredo Sauce. A typical four
ounce serving contains 34 grams of fat++20 of them artery-clogging
saturated fat. That's like drowning your pasta in more than a third
of a stick of butter If you want a good bottled pasta sauce, try
Enrico's Spaghetti Sauce No Salt Added, Tree of Life, or Colavita. 3.
Nissin Chicken Cup O' Noodles. It will give you a surprisingly strong
shot of fat (about 3 teaspoons' worth) and almost as much sodium
(1,700 mg) as you should ideally eat in a whole day.  Try The Spice
Hunter Quick and Natural Soups instead. A serving averages just half
a teaspoon of fat and 200 mg of sodium++a much healthier alternative.
4. Taco Bell's Taco Salad with Shell. With the shell, this platter of
beef, cheese, and beans has 14 teaspoons of fat, more than 5
teaspoons of saturated fat, and 905 calories. That's almost all the
fat and saturated fat an adult should eat in an entire day. If you're
in the mood for a fast food salad, head to McDonald's. Its Chunky
Chicken Salad contains a single teaspoon of fat and 1/4 teaspoon of
saturated fat. 5. Swanson Great Starts Scrambled Eggs & Sausage with
Hash Browns. This measly 6 1/2-ounce breakfast will slap you with
more than half the fat you should eat in a day.  And Swanson won't
even say how much saturated fat and cholesterol it contains.  You'd
be better off skipping breakfast entirely. For a healthier microwave
morning, have a Healthy Choice English Muffin Breakfast.  At just one
teaspoon of fat per serving and 15 to 20 mg of cholesterol (it
contains egg whites, not yolks), it's a far "healthier" choice. 6.
Oscar Mayer Lunchables. It would be hard to invent a worse food than
these combos of heavily processed meat, artery-clogging cheese, and
mostly white-flour crackers. The line averages 5 1/2 teaspoons of fat
(that's 55 percent of calories) and 1,517 mg of sodium. You'd get
less fat and salt from two slices of Pizza Hut's Pepperoni Pan Pizza.
7. Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream.  Gourmet ice creams like Haagen-Dazs and
Ben & Jerry's are loaded with grease.  A one-cup serving has as much
artery-clogging saturated fat as 1/4 cup of lard.  Choose an ice milk
like Breyers Light and you'll cut the fat by 75 percent.  Buy
Sealtest Free or Edy's or Dreyer's Fat Free and you'll get rid of
almost all the fat. 8. Campbell Chunky Soups.  They're brimming with
salt.  An average 9-ounce serving contains 975 mg of sodium.  That's
half your quota for an entire day. If you're looking for more than
salty water, check out Pritikin Soups. A cup has 160 mg of sodium and
less than one gram of fat. That's a bit less fat-and far less sodium
than you'll find in Campbell's Healthy Request or ConAgra's Healthy
Choice Soups. 9. Swanson Hungry Man Turkey Pot Pie. If you think that
turkey products are always lower in fat than foods made with beef or
pork, you're wrong. Crammed into a single pie are 650 calories, 36
grams of fat, and 1,470 mg of sodium. That makes it worse than
Swanson's Hungry Man Beef Pot Pie. 10. Stouffer's Entrees. Despite
their popularity, Stouffer's en- trees get a greater percent of their
calories from tat (440 percent than any other major line of frozen
dinners or entrees. Not one of Stouffer's 52 varieties meets our
criteria for a "healthy" frozen meal. If you want low-sodium, low-fat
frozen meals, try Tyson Healthy Portions, Healthy Choice Dinners, or
Le Menu New American Healthy. From the Nutrition Action Healthletter,
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20009. The only vegetables
we found in an entire Banquet Vegetable Pie with Chicken were twelve
peas, 1/11 of a carrot, and 1/12 of a potato. And in a Lean Cuisine
Glazed Chicken with Vegetable Rice, you'll find just 1/3 of a
mushroom, 1/2 ounce of green beans, and a teaspoon of onions. That's
it for vegetables! Need more whole grains in your diet? Don't count
on Wheatsworth Stone Ground Wheat Crackers, with less than half a
tablespoon of whole- wheat flour in four crackers. And Prego's "made
with Fresh Mushrooms" Spaghetti Sauce has only about half a mushroom
per serving ... that's three mushrooms in the whole jar! This
newsletter appears to be a culinary Consumer's Guide with products
reviewed by brand name along with "healthy" recipes (they cite
Indian, Mexican and Asian recipes) and general tips for eating
"healthy". The thing I got was a special promo++ten months of the
newsletter for ten bucks or 17 bucks for 20 issues. As a bonus you
get a couple of charts. One is called "Chemical Cuisine" and lists
various food additives along with their relative safety. The other is
a "Nutritional Scoreboard" that lists foods along with their relative
nutritional values. I'm going to subscribe++for ten bucks how far
wrong could I go? Oh yeah++if you don't like the publication, you can
cancel at any time and get a complete refund. If'n you're interested,
the subscription address is: CSPI/Nutrition Action Healthletter, P.O.
Box 96611, Washington, D.C. 20077-7212 Posted by Stephen Ceideberg;
August 18 1993.
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