Has anyone else read this book? It's called Restaurant Confidential and was written by Michael F. Jacobson, Jayne Hurley. I just finished and i have to say it was so helpful! (I enjoyed it almost as much as Fast Food Nation which i would also recommend but anyways...) The book went through all the most popular restaurants and the everyday mom and pop restaurants and showed in detail the sodium, fat, calorie, etc. content for all the foods served. The book also gave detailed descriptions of what to look for and what to stay away from. It really opened my eyes as to the hidden fat and calories in a lot of food. Anyways i wanted to know if others have read it and what they thought of it....:)

~laru
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Wow surprised no one else responded to this thread.

I've never heard of the book before, but now that you mention it, I'll have to check it out the next time I'm at the book store.
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i've never read this book, it sounds interesting
but as far as fast food goes, a simple way to figure out what is good or bad (if fast food can be good at all) you could go by the wieght watchers points system. basically the higher the points, the worse it is for you. here's a link that has the points listed for various fastfood chains.

http://www.healthdiscovery.net/restaurants/index.html

this of course won't tell you about all the nutritional values but it's a good jumping off point if you are trying to lose wieght yet still enjoy food. slim fast gets old quick, ya know?
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Thanks for the link Shade72. The ww points system is also an excellent guide. I can't stand Slimfast, i have never been able to enjoy it or even stomach it....just too chalky tasting for me. I used to eat fast food all the time. Ever since i started eating healthy and read Fast Food Nation the only fast food i do is subway and the salads from Wendys (or the baked potato and chili...yummy and healthy :) ) The book has definitely been helpful, especially when you want to be *bad* but don't want to completely kill your way of eating.

~laru
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