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friday, september 5,2003
Restaurantsalads full of fat, calories
uy Danielle Hillix
dhillix @kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Kelly Lanigan had spent the past two hours sweating on the softball field. The Gardner freshman didn't want to waste her workout by gobbling up calories. So when her team stopped at McDonald's after the game, Lanigan passed up the burgers and ordered a salad instead.
ordered a sandwich instead.
"I really wanted French fries, but
I was being healthy," Lanigan said.
Or so she thought.
Or so she thought. Salads are becoming popular in fast food restaurants, as chains try to reach the health-conscious consumer.
McDonald's recently added a new premium salad line to its menu. A new advertising campaign is promoting Wendy's four packaged salads. And even sandwich shops like Subway have begun pushing salads to weightwary customers.
Depending on the type of salad and toppings used, fast food salads can pack on as much fat as a Big Mac or more.
Nutritional Analysis Between Salads and Burgers at Two Fast Food Chains
But nutrition labels reveal that green doesn't always mean good for you.
A 7.6-ounce Big Mac had 33 grams of fat and 580 calories.
MacOrhite:
McDonald's, for example, offers three salad options. Without chicken, dressing or croutons, the salads range from four to 11 grams of fat and 90 to 160 calories.
Between and
burgers at Two
Fast Food Chains
Weight (g)
Calories
Total Fat (g)
Wendy's
Chicken BLT Salad
Homestyle Garlic Croutons
Honey Mustard Dressing
376
14
64
310
70
280
16
2.5
26
Mandarin Chicken Salad
Roasted Almonds
Crispy Rice noodles
Oriental Sesame Dressing
348
21
14
64
150
130
60
250
1.5
12
2
19
Big Bacon Classic
282
570
29
Jr. Hamburger
117
270
9
McDonald's
Grilled Chicken
Bacon Ranch Salad
288
270
13
Crispy Chicken
Bacon Ranch Salad
294
370
21
Newman's Own
Ranch Dressing
59 mL
290
30
Grilled Chicken
California Cobb Salad
302
280
14
Crispy Chicken
California Cobb Salad
308
380
23
Newman's Own
Cobb Dressing
59 mL
120
9
Butter Garlic Croutons
14
50
1.5
Hamburger
105
280
10
Double Quarter Pounder
with Cheese
280
760
48
fat and 170 calories.
A two-ounce packet of Newman's Own ranch dressing contains 30 grams of fat and 290 calories alone.
but add crispy chicken, croutons and a packet of dressing, and the salads can jump to 52.5 grams of fat and 710 calories.
The case is similar at Wendy's, where a plain Mandarin Chicken Salad has 1.5 grams of fat and 150 calories.
Kerri Henderson/Kansan
calories.
Top it with the roasted almonds,
crispy rice noodles and oriental
sesame dressing that come with
the salad, and the totals balloon to 34.5 grams of fat and 590 calories.
These numbers are enough to scare any calorie-counter. But dietitians like Ann Chapman at Watkins Memorial Health Center say that even with high fat and caloric content, the salads have a slight edge over burgers and fries.
Chapman said that the toppings and ingredients added to a salad made all the difference.
made an the university.
"If you add saturated fats like cheese and bacon bits, those are really high in calories and fat," Chapman said. "But if you choose mono- and polymono- unsaturated fats, such as nuts and seeds.
Chapman said that saturated fats clog arteries and were a major cause of heart disease.
that is a much healthier choice than a cheeseburger."
Mono- and polymono-unsaturated fats are actually hearthealthy, Chapman said.
To keep salads healthy and low in fat and calories, Chapman said to choose ingredients and toppings carefully.
"You can make any meal unhealthy." Chapman said. "It all depends on what you put on them."
Edited by Erin Riffey
WOMEN:
Funding needed
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Rose-Mockry does not believe the bikinied women featured in the "Women of KU" calendar have anything less to offer. She said it was just that the role was limiting.
Professors, campus leaders and athletes are all possibilities for the calendar. Rose-Mockry said she would take suggestions until the end of September.
until the end of year. Between now and January the group needs to find funds, photos and a printing estimate.
and a printing committee The problem is not interest, Rose-Mockry said. Professor Elizabeth Topp from the School of Pharmacy contacted Rose-Mockry last fall to propose the project. And after Rose-Mockry, many others have joined the project.
have joined the project. Santos Nunez, director for the Multicultural Resource Center, attended the meeting with printing brochures in hand. Nunez has been supportive, especially with funding. The MRC, the first donor, contributed $500. But the donation is only the first of many donations the project will need to reach its estimated $5000 cost.
Rose-Mockry said she hoped the calendar would be the first of many years. And for this year, she hoped students would get it for free.
Donations can be sent to RoseMockry's office made out to KUEA-ETWRC, Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd. Room 400.
Edited by Shane Mettlen
Bush visits Kansas City talks about economy
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — U.S. manufacturing recently has shown signs of economic recovery, but manufacturers say politicians need to do more to help them.
them. President Bush, who talked about the economy in Kansas City yesterday, already has announced plans for a special Commerce Department post to address manufacturing job losses.
"Our economy is starting to grow again." Bush said at the Kansas City Convention Center. "Americans are feeling more confident. I am determined to work with the United States Congress to turn these hopeful signs into lasting growth and greater prosperity and more jobs."
The recession has bludgeoned the nation's factories in the past three years, with a record 36 consecutive months of job losses totaling 2.7 million. Low demand at home and abroad, coupled with a flood of imports, have slowed production.
"We do need some help," said Larry Miller, a spokesman for Kansas City-based Butler Manufacturing, which makes components for nonresidential buildings, "and that starts with policies in Washington and states, reducing the costs of doing
Paul Freedenberg, vice president for government relations with the Association for Manufacturing Technology, said he hopes the Bush administration will announce new technology research and will extend or expand incentives for business to build and keep factories in the United States.
Despite the upturn in the economy, Freedenberg said, "it's still gonna be a bad year, because we need certainly a lot more.
The Commerce Department reported last Thursday that the economy rebounded in the second quarter of this year and grew at a solid 3.1 percent annual rate, a better performance than the government thought just a month ago.
business here."
Yet 2.7 million net jobs have been lost since the recession began in March 2001, and the average time people are unemployed is more than 19 weeks. The nation's unemployment rate is at 6.2 percent.
"We people have to gain confidence in the economy," he added.
is at 6.2 percent. Manufacturers say China is their biggest roadblock. They complain that China is manipulating its currency to artificially low levels, boosting overseas sales and giving the country an unfair trade advantage.
Sandwich shop wraps it up
By Steve Schmidt
sschmidt@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
There's a new bug in town, and it's serving up sandwich wraps.
On Aug. 13, Roly Poly opened its doors in the heart of Massachusetts Street as a self-proclaimed sandwich wrap specialist.
"We decided that Mass, Street location was the place to be. It's central to everything around us," store owner James Barr said.
Barr said his store, located at 818 Massachusetts St., offered about 60 already-made wraps, but also had more than 150 ingredients from which patrons could design their own wraps. The various fixings could make almost 200,000 combinations, he said.
"Lawrence had nothing similar has far as our product goes," Barr said. "We only do wraps, and there's nobody else that does that in town."
The average cost for a wrap is $3.50 for a halfand $5 for a whole. Leff
Store shift supervisor jeff
Mincher said the low costs were
always a big draw for students.
Mincher said that Roly Poly and the rest of downtown as well was busiest on Saturday mornings.
In addition to running the downtown location, Barr owns eight other locations. One is in Manhattan, six are in Nebraska and the second Lawrence location is set to open up on 23rd Street near the intersection of Naismith Drive in two months. It will sit on the site of the old Pizza Hut. He said the Massachusetts Street store would still serve as the main store.
Similar to other recent additions to the business community, such as Half-Price Books, the Lawrence locations are coming largely because of the high interest from the five Roly Poly stores in the Kansas City metropolitan area. That number should increase to 40 in the Kansas City area within the next five years.
Barr said that statistically stores in large university towns did 50 percent more business annually than other cities. He noted that the most successful
cities were Bloomington, Ind., with Indiana University, College Station, Texas, with Texas A&M University, and Birmingham, Ala., with the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
Alabama-Birmingham. About 180 franchises could be found nationally, he said.
"Obviously university locations are very exciting for us," Brown said.
Greg Brown, the company's vice president of operations, said that out of their top ten most successful stores, six of them were in college towns.
opening in June Andy Biggs, Wichita junior, said he ate all at three places last week.
The store is just one of three new on-the-go eateries to open up within the last two years on the well-traveled street. Subway, 1008 Massachusetts St., opened in June of this year. Jimmy John's, 922 Massachusetts St., had its opening in June of 2002.
week.
"I think they all have their own taste." Biggs said. "I like variety. I like to eat out a lot and go everywhere."
Edited by Erin Riffey
FBI warns terrorist may tactics such as poisoning water, food
WASHINGTON — The FBI is warning that terrorists might try to poison food or water supplies, and senior bureau officials said yesterday that al-Qaida is determined to attack Americans at home even though the organization appears to have a relatively small U.S. presence.
small U.S. prescribes. The FBI has not detected any individuals or cells actively planning attacks such as those almost two years ago that killed some 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. Most al-Qaida operatives in the United States provide logistical support such as travel documents, recruitment and fund raising, said Larry Mefford, the FBI's chief counterterrorism official.
errors on it.
"My view is, it's very small but it does exist," Mefford said of al-Qaida's U.S. presence. "Our concern continues to be what exists in the United States that we're not aware of."
Separately, the Homeland Security Department is advising federal, state and local security officials to evaluate their security procedures in the run-up to the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, but said current intelligence doesn't warrant an increase in the national threat warning.
The current code yellow alert, which signifies an elevated risk of
terrorist attack, is the middle level on the five-color scale.
The Homeland Security advisory, issued on Thursday, says, "We remain concerned about al-Qaida's continued efforts to plan multiple attacks against the U.S. and U.S. interests overseas." It adds that they have no specific information on individual targets or dates for any attack.
Recent arrests of senior al-Qaida members appear to have slowed some of their operational planning, the advisory says.
However, it notes that al-Qaida operatives are still looking to conduct an attack similar to the Sept. 11 strikes, using hijacked aircraft as missiles.
aircraft as missiles.
The FBI's Mefford said al-Qaida remains America's most dangerous terrorist foe because of the group's tenacity, patience and willingness to use tactics, including weapons of mass destruction, that demonstrate "they have no inhibitions and they have no rules."
tions and the Homeland Security advisory says intelligence indicates operatives may try to hijack flights that fly near, but not into, the United States, so they will not have to pass the increasingly stringent requirements to board a U.S.-bound flight.
U. S.-bound high- It also warns of truck bombs at infrastructure targets, like power plants, petrochemical facilities, transportation hubs, dams and
food distribution centers. Lightly protected targets like restaurants, hotels and apartments are also possible targets, it says.
Terrorists could also try unusual approaches to artfully conceal suicide devices, the advisory said. "Male bombers may dress as females in order to discourage scrutiny."
The FBI's latest weekly bulletin to state and local law enforcement agencies cautions terrorists might use two naturally occurring toxins — nicotine and solanine — to poison U.S. food or water supplies. Nicotine is found in tobacco plants and solanine in potatoes that are old or have been exposed to sunlight for a long time.
The bulletin, obtained yesterday by The Associated Press, says that terrorist manuals and documents recovered at al-Qaida sites in Afghanistan contain references to use of both substances as poisons.
polls.
The FBI said there are no known uses of either toxin by al-Qaida or other Islamic extremist groups, and there is no intelligence indicating such an attack is imminent. But the bulletin noted a Michigan man pleaded guilty in May to lacing 250 pounds of ground beef with an insecticide containing nicotine, sickening 92 people, in an attempt to get a supermarket co-worker in trouble.
Dems oppose marriage amendment
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Democratic senators on yesterday said they opposed a constitutional amendment to preserve the definition of marriage as a manwoman union, saying the law defining marriage as such is not at risk.
They were responding to witnesses in a Judiciary subcommittee hearing who pushed for an amendment because they believe the law may soon be challenged in court.
in court. "No courts have questioned that law ... I don't think anyone has seriously suggested that law is in danger," said Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont).
The law known as the Defense of Marriage Act was passed in 1996. It denies federal recognition of same-sex marriages and allows states to ignore same-sex unions allowed elsewhere. Some politicians, including President Bush, have been concerned that U.S. courts might overturn the federal law.
"No courts have questioned that law ... I don't think anyone has seriously suggested that law is in danger."
Sen. Patrick Leahy
D-Vermont
federal law. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said he organized the hearing to determine whether more laws were needed to strengthen the Defense of Marriage Act. He
But Democrats said it is the ultimate goal of some Republicans.
cans. Though no amendment has been proposed in the Senate, a measure was introduced in the House.
insisted it was not intended to consider a constitutional amendment.
Supporters of an amendment said it is needed to protect children and to help stem the disintegration of families.
Maggie Gallagher, president if the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, testified that marriage is a key social institution for the protection of children.
Other witnesses said it is only a matter of time before the traditional marriage definition is challenged, particularly as states pass laws recognizing gay marriages.
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