{"id":8811,"date":"2013-05-14T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8811"},"modified":"2013-05-14T07:12:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T11:12:14","slug":"when-a-big-mac-is-healthier-than-subway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/when-a-big-mac-is-healthier-than-subway\/","title":{"rendered":"When A Big Mac Is Healthier Than Subway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/051413_1108_WhenABigMac1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Subway built its reputation on comparing itself to McDonald&#8217;s and showing how much healthier it was. Yet according to a study reported on by Tracy Miller, the average subway sandwich is usually far less healthy than a McDonald&#8217;s burger:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientists asked a group of 100 adolescents to eat at McDonald&#8217;s and Subways and to return with receipts for what they purchased.<\/li>\n<li>An analysis of the receipts showed that the average sandwich bought at Subway had 784 calories in it. This compares to McDonald&#8217;s 582 calories.<\/li>\n<li>Subway, for example, offers a footlong Big Philly Cheesesteak that packs in 1,000 calories \u2013 almost double that of a Big Mac.<\/li>\n<li>The average Subway meal still had fewer calories than an average McDonald&#8217;s meal \u2013 this is because McDonald&#8217;s sides such as fries and sodas, had more calories than Subway sides that include apples and potato chips \u2013 but the difference wasn&#8217;t great \u2013 or statistically significant.<\/li>\n<li>The authors conclude that it&#8217;s what \u2013 not where \u2013 you eat that matters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about how McDonald&#8217;s and Subway compared on carbohydrates, sodium, and sugars, as well as the methodology of the study, and the comments of those who ran it, over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/life-style\/health\/study-subway-healthier-mcdonald-article-1.1340434\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/life-style\/health\/study-subway-healthier-mcdonald-article-1.1340434\">Daily News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subway built its reputation on comparing itself to McDonald&#8217;s and showing how much healthier it was. Yet according to a study reported on by Tracy Miller, the average subway sandwich is usually far less healthy than a McDonald&#8217;s burger: Scientists asked a group of 100 adolescents to eat at McDonald&#8217;s and Subways and to return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/051413_1108_WhenABigMac1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8814,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811\/revisions\/8814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}