OMG!!!!

I just saw this and I had to post about it - I still have yet to post about today's run - see danny's blog for a picture of the run.














Apparently Swanson came out with a breakfast meal - called Hungry Man! They have these commercials with overweight-obese men say things like: "I know what I like and I like a lot of it" Now granted I will never eat one of these, nothing to do with health, but rather because they are not kosher - but I always wonder about commercials for food that show huge men.

I went to the Swanson website which has a huge picture of their "HungryMan salisbury steak dinner." It doesn't even look good - but those peas and carrots sure look healthy.

So I went online to find out more about what's in this breakfast and the nutritional contents of this breakfast delicacy. From the picture I saw - it would appear that 3 pancakes, 3 pieces of sausage, a couple of strips of bacon, 2 huge home fries and some sort of fake scrambled eggs. Now that certainly is a lot of food. The box proudly advertises "Over 1lb. of food" - hmmm....does one person really need that much food?


But what really blew my mind was the nutritional contents. 1,030 calories for the whole thing. To put that in perspective - the average male is 5'9". If we assume a weight of 180lbs (giving him a BMI of 26.6 - in the category of overweight) then he will burn off about 2050 calories per day - so he will have consumed >50% of all his calories by the time he finishes breakfast. Now granted the guys in this commercial may have been 5'9" but they were more like 250lbs (BMI=37 = obese), but even so their basal metabolic rate will only burn 2350 calories/day. But let's imagine that I didn't keep kosher and I ate one of these - I could burn off all the calories by doing an 8 mile run. So I could stay skinny, not bad.

But wait! it gets better - it's like one of those late night infomercials. Nearly 100% of one's daily fat intake and >100% of their saturated fat comes from this one meal. 231% of the daily cholesterol - which we know is a risk factor for heart disease. So I guess it's not all good!

But to be fair - It does have 25% of the daily iron and 20% of the daily calcium.

So for all you hungry men out there - go eat!

But wait again! I just had a brilliant idea - I am a very hungry man - what would my day be like if I had the HungryMan breakfast, lunch and dinner. I am going to have the hearty breakfast, the HungryMan buffalo style chicken strips for lunch and look what I found! a HungryMan XXL (1.5 lbs of food - if 1lb wasn't enough).















Here's the totals:
Calories: 1030+920+1450 = 3400
Total Fat: 64g (98%) + 53g (82%) + 58g (89%) = 175g (269%)
Saturated Fat: 21g (105%) + 14g (70%) + 26g (130%) = 61g (305%)
Cholesterol: 230% + 50% + 55% = 335%
Protein 36g + 34g + 47g = 117g

Well at least it's got a lot of protein.

And I wonder why people are so fat! I think I am going to go vomit now.