How to Research Nutrition for Fast Food

If you've decided it's time to make some changes in your life that will promote overall wellness, one area to focus on is your diet. How much you eat is important, but so is the nutritional value of what you eat. If you find yourself eating out as often as or more than you cook at home, you need to know just how nutritious -- or not nutritious -- the choices are at your favorite fast food restaurant.

Instructions

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  Look at independent researchers online. Websites like fast-food-nutrition.info list nutritional information for over thirty fast food restaurants including McDonald's, Arby's and Pizza Hut. Choose the restaurant, click on the food you order most often, and a black and white Nutrition Facts table identical to the ones you find on all your processed groceries pops up on the screen.

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  Get quick answers from your iphone, if you have one. Looking up fast food nutrition information online is great if you know in advance you're going to a specific fast food restaurant in advance. If your visit to Wendy's or Long John Silver's is a spur-of-the moment decision, you don't have to lose the chance to make nutritionally sound meal choices. A fast food restaurant nutrition app is available for iphones that give you the information you need wherever you need it.

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  Check with the restaurant itself. Most fast food restaurants offer their customers brochures or tray liner sheets that contain basic nutrition information for their most popular menu items. While these papers can help you make a quick, better choice, they may not include information on all menu items. If you can, take the information home with you and compare it to what you've found online, or information you've gotten from a less biased source than the restaurant's management.