If you haven’t heard about it, KFC is featuring a brand new style of chicken. It’s the “healthier” alternative, the Kentucky Grilled Chicken.
Although this may be a better choice than the undoubtedly fatter fried alternative, it’s still nowhere near being an ideal food choice.
You are the lucky winner! Congrats! That almighty, supposedly healthier “grilled” chicken comes with nutritious garbage-mac and cheese and biscuits sure to help you look good with your clothes on. Don’t be caught naked or you may want to sue KFC.
KFC states that their grilled chicken has significantly fewer calories and fat, and even better, much less sodium than the Original Recipe fried chicken that helped launch the brand to stardom more than fifty years ago.
You can’t forget that the high calorie side dishes (the mac and cheese, the biscuits, and even the tasty mashed potatoes and gravy) will inflate your waistline faster than a clown can fill balloons. By the way, they’re loaded with refined starches, sugars, and all sorts of saturated fat that would make you need to call AAA to help jump-start your heart again.
Think about it this way; you can prepare, season, or dress your garbage any way you want. At the end of the day IT’S STILL GARBAGE!
So what’s healthier about KFC? For too long now almost all the fast food industry has done is make a fortune from lying to consumers about what’s healthy and isn’t healthy for you.
So let’s face it. KFC claimed that it recently switched cooking oils to eliminate ALL trans fats from their products. Although a noble effort, let’s review the ingredients to KFC’s coveted Grilled Chicken.
Here are the ingredients directly from their website:
KFC Grilled Chicken
Fresh Chicken Marinated with: Salt, Sodium Phosphate, and Monosodium Glutamate Seasoned with: Maltodextrin, Salt, Bleached Wheat lour, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean and Cottonseed Oil, Monosodium Glutamate, Spices, Palm Oil, Natural Flavor, Garlic Powder, Soy Sauce (Soybean, Wheat, Salt), Chicken Fat, Chicken Broth, Autolyzed Yeast, Beef Powder, Rendered Beef Fat, Extractives of Turmeric, Dehydrated Carrot, Onion Powder, and not more than 2% Each of Calcium Silicate and Silicon Dioxide Added as Anticaking Agents.
Contains Wheat and Soy
How’s that for ingredients? Sounds good? What especially sounds tasteful is the “Partially Hydrogenated Soybean and Cottonseed Oil,” which is a form of trans fat. Nutritious isn’t it?
You may not know it, but trans fats are synthetic, fake, fats that the body has no idea what to do with. What does you body do with UFOs (Unidentified Foreign Objects)? Nothing really, besides cause you a whole butt-load of problems including weight gain, kidney problems, liver problems; the list goes on and on.
One thing to notice is there are over 20 ingredients in the “healthy” choice. Most health foods only have 5 or less ingredients. Makes you wonder, huh? Oh by the way, most of it is added chemicals to make you want to eat more of it, making you fatter and fatter.
So here is some tips, so you make it easier on yourself to lose weight, look good, and feel healthier. Plus, you’ll make our job as trainers easier and be able to wade through all the BS these money-hungry commercial SOB’s are sending our way.
When a company says:
“Our_______(name of product) is good for you because it is low in fat or fat-free”
Or
“Our_______(name of product) is good for you because it has no sugar”
Or
“Our______(name of product) is the perfect snack because it’s only 100 calories”
Beware of “Fat-Free or Low Fat” Foods:
Add the extra sugar and make it high please. All fat-free or low-fat foods typically have all this added sugar to make up for the missing flavor that fat adds. This kills your energy level, causing fluctuation throughout the day and a wonderful crash, too. By the way, it does wonders at helping hold on to fat.
Look Out for “Sugar-Free” Products:
Yum, Sugar-free products are the food of choice for most people who want teh sweets without the swift sweet kick. The problem is that most sweet products, like Splenda, Sweet-and-Low, and Equal, are made up of artificial sugar, which, again, the body does not know what to do with. Also, the sugar-alcohols in most sugar-free products tear up your digestive system.
Stay Away From “100-Calorie” Items:
And the best of them all-the special bag of ZERO nutritional value. There is no protein, almost no fiber, and no natural, healthy fats that would make them of any value to you at all, besides…well…helping you store fat for the winter.
So, now who wants the “100-Calorie” snack packs?
Which is better for your body: 100 calories of broccoli or 100 calories of mini-muffins?
GET IT?
How many snack packs could you eat? I know personally could eat about 10 of those little packs…so that’s 1,000 calories. Imagine that…since there’s no fiber and all those added chemicals telling your body not to get full…well, you have the convenience of having 1,000 empty calories at your fingertips, and still no satisfaction.
Unfortunately, we live in a calorie-conscious society, and marketers have truly taken advantage of this mindset.
But you don’t have to be a dope like the rest of them.
Educate yourself.
Educate your family.
Educate your friends.
Remember, you help determine which way companies will go. If we know what to do, and don’t support this garbage by buying and eating it, they will eventually stop making it.
Average is Not Enough
Sarai Jones
PS- Please comment about what angers you most about this KFC controversy, whether it’s a comment on their grilled chicken, or for any other item or company. This has to hit home, so let me know about it!