Instructions: As an eating machine Im driven far more by taste than by nutritional considerations. After all, one of my all time favorite dishes is Tung Po Pork, a Chinese concoction that consists mainly of pork fat and skin that is stewed in spices then steamed for several hours. Thats why I was surprised to find myself interested in a flyer I got from The Nutrition Action Healthletter. Maybe it was the title that caught my interest. Here are some excerpts from the flyer.

1. Quaker Oats 100% Natural Cereal. This overrated granola cereals ten g of fat per half cup serving make it high in fat compared to other cereals. And, despite the crunch, its not high in fiber. A much better choice would be a low fat, whole-grain cereal like Kellogg Nutri-Grain Wheat, Post Grape-Nuts, General Mills Wheaties, or Nabisco Shredded Wheat.

2. Contadina Alfredo Sauce. A typical four ounce serving contains 34 grams of fat20 of them artery-clogging of a stick of butter If you want a good bottled pasta sauce, try Enricos Spaghetti Sauce No Salt Added, Tree of Life, or Colavita.

3. Nissin Chicken Cup O Noodles. It will give you a surprisingly strong shot of fat (about 3 teaspoons worth) and almost as much sodium

(1,700 mg) as you should ideally eat in a whole day. Try The Spice Hunter Quick and Natural Soups instead. A serving averages just half a teaspoon of fat and 200 mg of sodiuma much healthier alternative.

4. Taco Bells Taco Salad with Shell. With the shell, this platter of beef, cheese, and beans has 14 teaspoons of fat, more than 5 teaspoons of saturated fat, and 905 calories. Thats almost all the fat and saturated fat an adult should eat in an entire day. If youre in the mood for a fast food salad, head to McDonalds. Its Chunky Chicken Salad contains a single teaspoon of fat and 1/4 teaspoon of Hash Browns. This measly 6 1/2-ounce breakfast will slap you with more than half the fat you should eat in a day. And Swanson wont even say how much saturated fat and cholesterol it contains. Youd be better off skipping breakfast entirely. For a healthier microwave morning, have a Healthy Choice English Muffin Breakfast. At just one teaspoon of fat per serving and 15 to 20 mg of cholesterol (it contains egg whites, not yolks), its a far "healthier" choice. 6. Oscar Mayer Lunchables. It would be hard to invent a worse food than these combos of heavily processed meat, artery-clogging cheese, and mostly white-flour crackers. The line averages 5 1/2 teaspoons of fat

(thats 55 percent of calories) and 1,517 mg of sodium. Youd get less fat and salt from two slices of Pizza Huts Pepperoni Pan Pizza.

7. Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream. Gourmet ice creams like Haagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerrys are loaded with grease. A one-cup serving has as much artery-clogging saturated fat as 1/4 cup of lard. Choose an ice milk like Breyers Light and youll cut the fat by 75 percent. Buy Sealtest Free or Edys or Dreyers Fat Free and youll get rid of almost all the fat. 8. Campbell Chunky Soups. Theyre brimming with salt. An average 9-ounce serving contains 975 mg of sodium. Thats half your quota for an entire day. If youre looking for more than salty water, check out Pritikin Soups. A cup has 160 mg of sodium and less than one gram of fat. Thats a bit less fat-and far less sodium than youll find in Campbells Healthy Request or ConAgras Healthy Choice Soups. 9. Swanson Hungry Man Turkey Pot Pie. If you think that turkey products are always lower in fat than foods made with beef or pork, youre wrong. Crammed into a single pie are 650 calories, 36 Swansons Hungry Man Beef Pot Pie. 10. Stouffers Entrees. Despite their popularity, Stouffers en- trees get a greater percent of their dinners or entrees. Not one of Stouffers 52 varieties meets our criteria for a "healthy" frozen meal. If you want low-sodium, low-fat frozen meals, try Tyson Healthy Portions, Healthy Choice Dinners, or Le Menu New American Healthy.

1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20009. The only vegetables we found in an entire Banquet Vegetable Pie with Chicken were twelve peas, 1/11 of a carrot, and 1/12 of a potato. And in a Lean Cuisine Glazed Chicken with Vegetable Rice, youll find just 1/3 of a mushroom, 1/2 ounce of green beans, and a teaspoon of onions. Thats it for vegetables! Need more whole grains in your diet? Dont count on Wheatsworth Stone Ground Wheat Crackers, with less than half a tablespoon of whole- wheat flour in four crackers. And Pregos "made with Fresh Mushrooms" Spaghetti Sauce has only about half a mushroom reviewed by brand name along with "healthy" recipes (they cite Indian, Mexican and Asian recipes) and general tips for eating

"healthy". The thing I got was a special promoten months of the get a couple of charts. One is called "Chemical Cuisine" and lists various food additives along with their relative safety. The other is a "Nutritional Scoreboard" that lists foods along with their relative nutritional values. Im going to subscribefor ten bucks how far wrong could I go? Oh yeahif you dont like the publication, you can cancel at any time and get a complete refund. Ifn youre interested, the subscription address is: CSPI/Nutrition Action Healthletter, P.O.

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