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Healthy Restaurant: Lyfe Kitchen
Lyfe Kitchen (Love Your Food Everyday) is a new fast-casual restaurant from two former McDonald’s executive and an Oprah Winfrey celebrity chef that hopes to be the antithesis of McDonald’s with:
- no fried foods
- no butter
- no cream
- no high-fructose corn syrup
- all menu items contain less than 600 calories
If you were looking to build the next great restaurant chain, surely you’d start with a burger. Or some delicious, oily chicken. Or deli sandwiches. No one has ever made it big in America with veggie burgers and vegan brownies.
Then again, Americans have never been fatter, nor have the trumpets of moderation ever been sounded so loudly. Movies and books lecture the country about laying off the fat and salt, and packaged-food companies have been changing their recipes in response to consumer requests and to anticipate new government dietary guidelines that call for more healthful eating.
The Los Angeles Times has more on the new company.
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Stephanie on February 14th, 2011 9:13 am
Thanks so much for the great post. I really enjoyed reading it. I love food and restaurants.
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Angela Shupe on February 14th, 2011 10:35 am
That half smile/plate looks a little like Goodwill’s half smile/g face (well, without the eye dot anyway). Am I the only person who thinks so?
Audrae Erickson on February 15th, 2011 1:59 pm
Consumers are being misled into thinking that there are nutritional differences between high fructose corn syrup and sugar, when in fact they are nutritionally the same. Whether it’s corn sugar or cane sugar, your body can’t tell the difference. Sugar is sugar. They all contain four calories per gram. Switching out a kind of corn sugar for table sugar is not for health and it is not for science.
According to the American Dietetic Association, “high fructose corn syrup…is nutritionally equivalent to sucrose. Once absorbed into the blood stream, the two sweeteners are indistinguishable.”
The American Medical Association stated that, “Because the composition of high fructose corn syrup and sucrose are so similar, particularly on absorption by the body, it appears unlikely that high fructose corn syrup contributes more to obesity or other conditions than sucrose.”
As many dietitians agree, all sugars should be consumed in moderation as part of a balanced lifestyle.
Consumers can see the latest research and learn more about high fructose corn syrup at http://www.CornSugar.com.
Audrae Erickson
President
Corn Refiners Association
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