
Show & Story Ideas
With two thirds of all Americans overweight (Centers for Disease Control) and the average American eating out 4.2 times a week (National Restaurant Association), restaurants are often getting the blame for the weight problems. Dr. Jo, author of Dining Lean, will offer your audience and/or readers straightforward advice about how to eat healthy in every restaurant. She'll tell you which menu items are the healthy – and which aren't. You'll be surprised to hear that the healthiest menu items aren't always the grilled chicken and salads. In fact, sometimes, these are the highest calorie items on the menu!
Topic Ideas:
• General Tips (take a look at one of my magazine articles)
• Common Misconceptions (I have lots of quiz questions designed to shock)
• The Fittest Fast Food (I’ll name items at all the popular chains)
• Making a Case for Calorie-Watching (see press release)
• Pizza without Penance (October is Pizza month)
• Coffee drinks – Hot & Heavy (great as the cold weather approaches, shocking facts about coffee drinks: calories, fat, and caffeine)
• Dining Lean with Ethnic Cuisines (how to eat healthy in Chinese, Italian, Mexican… restaurants)
• Summer snacks: how to fit ice cream, snow cones, and funnel cakes into your diet
• Smoothies: fit or fat? The truth about what’s in smoothies. Are they as healthy as they sound?
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