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6 Worst Things to Eat at the Movies

Watching movies at theaters excite us and we buy a lot of food to munch while watching. It’s yummy to have those bags and boxes of oily and crunchy food and we are forgetting how these food affect our health. So, better make home-made sandwiches and healthy finger food such as celery, sushi, and a lot more.Just be creative with the preparation.

Anyways, here are the common food that we love to have when watching movies. But, be careful with these because they are not nutritious.

Large Popcorn 1,283 calories 78 g fat (49 g saturated) 1,850 mg sodium Each American consumes more than 200 cups of popcorn a year, and it’s no surprise considering a movie theatre’s large bucket is 20 cups in itself! But snub the butter soak and you’ll save yourself from two-and-a-half day’s worth of saturated fat.

Large Nachos with Cheese (40 chips, 4 oz.) 1,101 calories 59 g fat (18.5 g saturated) 1,580 mg sodium This movie-time snack has more calories than two large orders of McDonald’s French fries. In fact, you’d still be saving fat and calories if you smuggled in two Quarter Pounders with Cheese instead!

Snickers Popables (5 oz., 46 pieces) 692 calories 33 g fat (14.6 g saturated) 73 g sugars The name’s cute, but think about this: your chewy-nougat body in a bathing suit. The Snickers will be following you in two ways. The combined fat-load of these little popables is equal to two-and-a-half full-sized Snickers bars. So even if you split the bag, you’d still do better to down a real candy bar.

Whoppers (5 oz. box) 676 calories 24 g fat (20.3 g saturated) 88 g sugars How many malt balls does it take to run up a day’s worth of saturated fat? About 70, the number in a theatre-sized box of Whoppers. This candy’s a long-standing classic, but so are fat-guy comedians. You want to join that jowly double bill?

44 oz. Cherry Coke 572 calories 0 g fat 154 g sugars The theater owners say it’s all about convenience: They give you the super large size cup, so you won’t have to come back if you want seconds. Oh, and they can charge you twice as much up front while they’re at it. That’s why movie-theatre cups (and everything else in the theatre) have grown to such mammoth proportions. This beverage, for instance, has 50 percent more calories than a half-pound of ground beef, and every bit of it comes from —yikes! — high fructose corn syrup. (For other drinks that will lay waste to your waistline, check out this eye-popping report on America’s worst drinks!)

Large Soft Pretzel with 3 oz. Nacho Cheese 643 calories 14.5 g fat (3 g saturated, 4 g trans) 3,068 mg sodium The pretzel weighs in at 5 ounces, and it holds nearly 100 calories in each ounce of soft bread. Top it with a massive load of warm, trans-fatty cheese sauce, and you’ve got the plot of a disease-of-the-week movie. This “snack” packs more calories than a proper dinner, and well over a day’s worth of sodium. If you buy one of these salty dogs, don’t eat it: Just throw it over your shoulder for good luck. (Do the same with these saltiest foods in America!)

Source: Yahoo, Men’s Health

Skip The Soda In Your Life

Skip the soda drinks from your life and you will see the total difference. I’ve been practicing this for almost a year and I’m happy with it. It’s easy to do it. First, try not to order it when you dine out. You may also lessen your intake. Then, try not to drink for a week, a month and later on you will not look for it.

Here’s why: Recent research has shown that artificial sweeteners in soda may interfere with your body’s ability to estimate how many calories you’ve ingested, so you eat more than you need.

In a new rat study, animals that ate fake sugar consumed more calories overall and gained weight, compared to those that didn’t eat artificially sweetened treats.

This is just one study, but it’s enough to make me want to kick the can habit. Need more convincing? For every diet soda you sip daily, your risk of becoming overweight can rise by 37 percent, according to researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.

We also know that regular soda is a total sugar bomb — most people I know gave it up long ago. At roughly 225 calories a pop, a 20-ounce bottle of regular soda packs nearly as many calories as a chocolate bar (but is much less satisfying).

Typically, soda also contains zero nutrients — so who needs it? Still have some soda around? Fine, stow it for guests who haven’t decided to quit. Next time you want a fizz hit, try seltzer with lime (or for a caffeine fix, green tea). What are your favorite low-cal soda substitutes?

Source: Yahoo.com