Don’t Count Calories
December 20, 2007 – 3:35 pmA word to the wise: this is your conscience speaking… go easy on the food this holiday season.
It’s been a junk food nightmare in the office for the past week or so. Vendors are sending us baskets of cupcakes, cookies, brownies… and today, cheesecake. There’s one sitting in the kitchen of our office right now. I’m not a big fan of cheesecake, so I took half a piece. Thankfully, the cheesecake had the nutrition facts on it. I have never really thought too much about the nutrition value of cheesecake before, but now that I have, I am pretty certain that I will never eat it again.
350 calories. 70% of your daily allowance of saturated fat. 47% of your daily allowance of cholesterol. IN 1/20 OF THE CAKE. Uh… yeah, lay off the cheesecake.
In case you’re counting at home, that means that an entire cheesecake has 7,000 calories and two weeks’ worth of saturated fat. Those sheer numbers will make your head explode, if your entire body doesn’t explode first.
