Food for Thought
Today: Burger King’s $1 Stackers
We get it: Money’s tight and everybody loves a bargain. The Burger King Stackers currently in heavy promotional rotation are an incredible value. One buck buys a burger topped with two half-slices of bacon and a piece of American cheese. Keep adding dollars, keep adding beef patties. They're incredibly tempting, too, even for the nutrition-minded among us who may experience moments of weakness when no one’s looking.
As fast food burgers go, the single version isn’t so bad: 380 calories, 8g sat fat, and 700mg sodium. As the stacks mount, so do the anti-nutrients; pick the $3 Stacker, and you wind up with 650 calories, 18g sat fat (just 2g shy of the entire day's limit), and 1020mg sodium. There’s even an 800-calorie Quad version listed on BK’s downloadable nutrition chart.
You could always order the sensible 260-calorie basic burger BK sticks into kids’ meals, but you shouldn’t have to order from the children’s menu just to find something that could conceivably fit into a healthy diet.
Because you’re paying for the people who do. Last month, the CDC released a report that tallied the direct and indirect healthcare costs of the U.S. obesity epidemic at $147 billion dollars each year. Taxpayer supported Medicare and Medicaid spending on obesity-related health concerns is up from 6.5% in 1998 to 9.1%. That's a cost we're all paying, one dollar at a time.
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Yes but Burger King tastes so good. The truth is you can make a 10 times better tasting burger with none of the fat and calories of a BK stacker.
I love burger. burger is good for health. i am alway eat healthy diet.We should take a healthy diet for our health.
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That’s what is so sad; fast food is so inexpensive. It’s a difficult call for a family that is trying to make ends meet – very tempting when you can feed the entire family for under 10 bucks. Soon fast food restaurants may be required to post their calorie and nutrition information. I don’t know that it will necessarily make that many people think twice about it, but I hope it might encourage restaurants to make some changes, knowing that the information will be more public. Thanks for the post!
Gosh, those are scary numbers. At least I don't have those tempting burgers in my own kitchen. Otherwise it's so easy to give in.
The secret to eating healthier in fast food chains is to cut back on fries and say no to go large (or super size). Cut back on softdrinks as well.
That is a good deal from Burger King. I can eat up to four for just $4. Quite tasty actually.
