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Last Updated: Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 03:05 GMT

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Watchdog blasts 'X-treme Eating'

People who eat out are more likely to consume more, research says
Chain restaurants in the United States are promoting dangerous "X-treme Eating", a US watchdog has said.
They are serving up "ever-more harmful new creations," says the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

It says that some individual dishes can exceed 2,000 calories, more than the recommended daily intake for women.

As more than one in five US adults are obese, it says restaurants should list nutritional information on their menus to make consumers more aware.

'Hybrid horribles'

Some 60 million adults in the US are obese, according to the American Obesity Association, which says that obesity is not a simple matter of overeating.

But the CPSI said many restaurants are doing little to alleviate the problem.

"Rather than compete to make their products healthier, restaurant chains are competing with each other to make their appetizers, main courses, and desserts bigger, badder, and cheesier than ever before," a CPSI statement said.

With dishes like these, it's easy blow your diet not just for the day but for the whole week

Margo Wootan, Center for Science in the Public Interest

"Burgers, pizzas, and quesadillas were never health foods to begin with," CPSI executive director Michael Jacobson said.

"Now we see lasagne with meatballs on top; ice cream with cookies, brownies, and candy mixed in; bacon cheeseburger pizzas, buffalo-chicken-stuffed quesadillas, and other hybrid horribles that are seemingly designed to promote obesity, heart disease, and stroke."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6399267.stm

[VanIslander]

It's still a free country isn't it?

Let people eat what they want.

With logic like that article, the day will come when no one will be allowed to climb Everest any more.

The world is going mad.

[Pligganease]

Yep... It's not the people's fault. It's the restaurants' fault. They should sell only tofu and water. All of them.