Tips to eating healthy while dining out
In a world constantly on the move eating healthy can sometimes be thrown to the wayside for convenience and cost. At least, that’s what a few new studies with alarming statistics are suggesting.
Earlier this month the United States Department of Agriculture released that as many as half of all American adults are eating at restaurants three or more times a week.
The same study also attributed one-third of all calories consumed in the United States to restaurant food.
And then in the past week, a health journal, Public Health Nutrition, released the results of an 18-month study conducted by Rand Corp. which concluded that 96% of main restaurant entrees at nearly 250 chain restaurants exceeded USDA suggested daily limits for calories, sodium, fat and saturated fat.
All of this information comes on the heels of a study conducted by Duke University which points to a rapidly rising obesity rate in the United States.
The study, which used statistics from the Center of Disease Control, estimated that by the year 2030, 48% of the American population will be considered obese.
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