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December 18, 2017 09:09PM
I haven't shopped at Five guys for quite a while now, mainly due to health reasons and getting away from tempting foods. After doing some blood work done, my cholesterol readings have fallen quite considerably and into a healthy range. After looking into some nutritional guidelines, people shouldn't eat more than 16-20 grams of saturated fat in a day. A 2 patty burger with a regular size fries is 23 grams of saturated fat. If you do a single patty and and small fries it would be around 12 grams of saturated fat. Hopefully from this information, people will be more mindful about what goes in your body when doing these fast food type shops. Yes, your food is reimbursed from mystery shopping, but the health costs associated with poor eating will follow you down the road.

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December 18, 2017 09:39PM
Where is your degree in nutrition from? Do you follow the government guidelines that are useless? Do you know how carbs and other micros affect your cholesterol and blood sugars? Are you insulin sensitive?

Thanks for sharing your opinion though.

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December 18, 2017 09:50PM
Dave, I agree and good for you, and thanks for writing in one outstanding color...my eyes thank you. I have a suggestion, as I had to change my way of eating, got my #'s way down and got off blood pressure pills.
When "needing" a burger try Bison meat, hardly no fat, and lower in calories and just as good. The Counter makes them, they used to be shopped. Look at who sells Bison meat or you can buy it from your market.
Eat the good fats as olive oil, or Safflower oil, avocado, and of course fiber type veggies..I think I'm a good inspiration still going strong at 80yrs.....people think I'm 60 something...smiling smiley

Live consciously....
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December 19, 2017 07:15PM
I have high cholesterol and have vowed to do hardly any food shops. I've lost 10 pounds in one month, and I look and feel better. Those food shops are not worth sacrificing my health.
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December 20, 2017 02:24AM
Someone doesn't need a degree in nutrition. Dave seems to have some empirical evidence. I ate relatively healthy for most of my life. For a variety of reasons there was a period of a few years before mystery shopping when my FF intake increased dramatically. The result were numbers ridiculously out of whack. I immediately stopped eating all FF and banned trans fats from my diet. Within one year my bad cholesterol dropped by over 40 points while my good cholesterol climbed into the healthy range.

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December 20, 2017 03:48AM
Love love love the topic of fast food! 'Eat This, Not That' is a reference series. It's easy to understand, and it compares nutritional data for specific foods from multiple ff (and other) companies. Another author teaches simple tricks such as removing one patty or one bun and blotting the food that is eaten. Still another author suggests drinking milk with the meal. Yet another says that the Egg McMuffin, blotted, and either minus one piece of muffin or with milk, is a perfectly balanced meal. Someone else says we should eat/drink the protein first and then consume the carbs. It is easy to adjust the fast food meals and other restaurant offerings. Has anyone, while on a ff shop, stirred powdered fiber into their coffee of milk? Has anyone stirred powdered greens or powdered reds into their ff orange juice? Just checking...

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December 22, 2017 05:52PM
Dave Pi I do like your attitude about eating nutritionally. I have studied nutrition for most of my life. I am in my 70s, eat as nutritionally as I can most of the time. If I eat fried food, I only eat the fish portion and never eat fries with the meal. I always get a salad or coleslaw. I alternate my foods, meaning, meat, poultry, fish, vegetarian meals weekly. I have been doing this for so long that I don't have to think about it. I never eat bread with pasta together, too many carbs. I agree with Irene. Good cold pressed olive oil is a must, no artificial colors or artificial flavoring, try to avoid hormones in meat. Yes I love a good pizza, a good sub sandwich, and a good piece of steak on occasion. I never eat at fast food restaurants. Eat walnuts, avocados, real butter, no low fat foods. Good fat does not make fat in our bodies. My weight is good, I walk as much as possible, do not take pills and feel really good. Oh yes red wine!

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