{"id":4604,"date":"2013-07-06T11:45:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T18:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4604"},"modified":"2013-07-10T11:51:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T18:51:39","slug":"balls-of-fried-corn-starch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/06\/balls-of-fried-corn-starch\/","title":{"rendered":"Balls of Fried Corn Starch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsfeed.time.com\/2013\/07\/04\/the-most-unhealthy-meal-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from TIME Magazine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Report: Long John Silver\u2019s \u2018Big Catch\u2019 Is The Worst Meal in America<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Long John Silver\u2019s &#8220;Big Catch&#8221; is nothing but heart-wrenching trouble, according to a watchdog group<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By\u00a0<a title=\"Posts by Mackenzie Yang\" href=\"http:\/\/newsfeed.time.com\/contributor\/mackenzie-yang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Mackenzie Yang<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/timenewsfeed.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/big_catch_deception_450.jpg?w=360&amp;h=240&amp;crop=1\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you think eating fish\u2013with its purported\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2011\/12\/01\/brain-food-eating-fish-may-lower-your-risk-of-alzheimers\/\" target=\"_blank\">brain-boosting benefits<\/a>\u2013is healthy regardless of how it\u2019s made, think again! Long John Silver\u2019s \u201cBig Catch\u201d has been deemed the most unhealthy meal in America, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a consumer advocacy organization.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ljsilvers.com\/news-events\" target=\"_blank\">The meal<\/a>, which consists of fried \u201cwild-caught whitefish\u201d and a choice of two side-dishes, costs only $4.99\u2013but the cost to your health could make it not worth the savings.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at CSPI found that the assortment of fried fish paired with fried onion rings and hushpuppies (balls of fried corn starch) adds up to 19 grams of saturated fat, almost 37 grams of sodium,\u00a0and a whopping 33 grams of trans fat \u2013 which is an ingredient considered so harmful to heart health that New York City\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2012\/07\/17\/nycs-trans-fat-ban-worked-fast-food-diners-are-eating-healthier\/\" target=\"_blank\">banned it<\/a>\u00a0in 2006. In comparison, approximately the same amount of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nutritiondata.self.com\/facts\/finfish-and-shellfish-products\/4153\/2\" target=\"_blank\">raw whitefish<\/a>\u00a0has less than a gram of saturated fat, less than a gram of sodium, and\u00a0no trans fat.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/newsfeed.time.com\/2013\/07\/04\/the-most-unhealthy-meal-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at TIME.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TIME Magazine Report: Long John Silver\u2019s \u2018Big Catch\u2019 Is The Worst Meal in America Long John Silver\u2019s &#8220;Big Catch&#8221; is nothing but heart-wrenching trouble, according to a watchdog group By\u00a0Mackenzie Yang If you think eating fish\u2013with its purported\u00a0brain-boosting benefits\u2013is healthy regardless of how it\u2019s made, think again! Long John Silver\u2019s \u201cBig Catch\u201d has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}