A New Additiction 'Food Porn'

Preview for Sunday 112110

Hey folks,

I'm not kidding. There is a new Addiction out there. You may be suffering from it. It's called Food Porn. {Laughing} Not what you think. According to WTOM.com - 'Food porn' - Is your favorite restaurant on this list?

WASHINGTON - It's "food porn." That's what the Center for Science in the Public Interest dubbed the 1,030-calorie, deep-fried Lasagna Fritta appetizer at the Olive Garden.

The restaurant, known for its "bottomless" salad and breadsticks, made the consumer group's 2010 "Xtreme Eating Awards".

Other restaurants you frequent also made the list: P.F. Chang's, Five Guys, The Cheesecake Factory, California Pizza Kitchen, Outback, Chevy's and Bob Evans.

Two Cheesecake Factory dishes were also singled out. The pasta carbonara -- described as spaghettini with smoked bacon, green peas and a garlic-parmesan cream sauce -- is loaded with 2,500 calories and 60 grams of saturated fat. The chocolate truffle cake has 1,670 calories and 48 grams of saturated fat.

The group, which some call the food police, knocks Five Guys for its 700-calorie hamburger and its fries (620 calories for the small and 1,460 for the large). Five Guys is "no friend to your hips," CSPI says, pointing to the bacon cheeseburger and large fries adding up to 2,380 calories.

In issuing its awards, CSPI says two out of three adults and one third of children are now overweight or obese in America. Nearly 30 percent of young people are too heavy to join the military.

Restaurants are changing their ways, with more of them offering smaller portions or lower-calorie fare.

They're doing it ahead of a U.S. healthcare law that will require calorie counts to be posted on menus as early as next year.

So remember, you are not cheating on Healthy Foods, you have an addiction. It's not your fault.

Welcome to the Big Sunday Edition of the OPNTalk Blog. I AM Peter Carlock, your Provocateur of Thought. Coming right up today?

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Peter