Naughty Nine Diet Busters

GARLAND, Texas (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- You may think these foods are innocent pleasures, but if your New Year's resolution is to be healthy you may need to give them up.

The morning must-have, the after-dinner delight, the grab-and-go lunch. They all top most Americans' favorite foods list. Unfortunately they also top the Center for Science in the Public Interest's list of foods you should never eat. Christy Younger found some of her old favorites on it.

"I am a big fan of the buffets, so I'm sure I was accumulating a lot of calories there," Younger told Ivanhoe.

She's lost 25 pounds by exercising and avoiding foods like these. The chicken burrito from Chipotle comes in at number nine on CSPI's naughty list. Just one has 1,180 calories and 19 grams of saturated fat. That's the same as eating three Subway steak and cheese subs.

"I think sometimes people don't realize what they are actually consuming," Pam Davis, certified diabetes educator at Baylor Medical Center in Garland, Texas, told Ivanhoe.

Take a regular can of soup. Eat one and you've got your entire day's worth of sodium.

"The places you are going to find the most sodium will be in your convenience foods, canned foods, packaged foods, frozen dinners, those types of things, and certainly restaurant food," said Davis.

But it's not just the salt that puts this burger on the list. It's the 1,000 calories and 30 grams of fat that comes along with Burger King's Quad Melt. Think this plate of pasta is good for you? Think again. It has 2,060 calories and 128 grams of fat, more than most need in day.

"When you consume more than you should have in a whole day in one meal or one item, that's certainly out of line with a healthy diet," Davis said.

Number five on the list, Starbucks' Venti Caffè Mocha with whip. Think of it as a Quarter-Pounder with cheese in a cup. Also on the naughty list, Dove ice cream, Cheesecake Factory's low-carb cheesecake and one of Younger's old favorites, McDonald's fried six-piece chicken strips.

"I was raised Southern, so I am used to the fried foods," Younger said.

Finally, one of her all-time favorite foods is also the CSPI's least favorite. The Pepperidge Farm chicken potpie is number one on the list. While you may think the 510 calories are worth it, take a closer look at the box. You'll see that's for just half of it. Eat the whole thing and that's a lot of calories for a little taste.

For more information, please contact:

Susan Hall, media relations

Baylor Health Care Systems

2001 Bryan St. Dallas, TX 75201

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