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Carb watch out.


"Delicious items for the carbohydrate carbohydrate, any member of a large class of chemical compounds that includes sugars, starches, cellulose, and related compounds. These compounds are produced naturally by green plants from carbon dioxide and water (see photosynthesis).  conscious"--that's how Denny's describes its new Carb-Watch menu. Make that for the "calorie-unconscious.

"The chain's three CarbWatch breakfast items start your day with 610 to 660 calories and roughly three-quarters of a day's worth of saturated fat saturated fat, any solid fat that is an ester of glycerol and a saturated fatty acid. The molecules of a saturated fat have only single bonds between carbon atoms; if double bonds are present in the fatty acid portion of the molecule, the fat is said to be  (15 to 17 grams). You can choose from the Carb-Watch Two-Egg & Three-Meat Breakfast, the Ultimate Carb-Watch Omelette, or the Carb-Watch Ham & Cheddar Omelette (with "even more shredded shred  
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If that's not enough to make your blood slow to a rush-hour crawl To search the Internet for hosts, Web pages or blogs. See crawler. , you can come back for the Carb-Watch Burger lunch (630 calories and 19 grams of sat fat) or the Carb-Watch T-Bone Steak dinner (790 calories and 26 grams of sat fat).

Luckily, the four other Carb-Watch items keep the calories below 400 and the sat fat under seven grams. In fact, the Grilled Chicken Breast Salad and Grilled Chicken or Sirloin Steak dinner could even qualify for Denny's Fit Fare menu (15 grams of fat or less).

How nice of Denny's to help customers make up for its 1,000-calorie Meat Lover's Breakfast or its 1,400-calorie Fabulous French Toast Platter One of the disks in a hard disk drive. Each platter provides a top and bottom recording surface. There may be only one or several platters in a drive with each platter having its own pair of read/write heads. See magnetic disk.  or Farmer's Slam or its ....

Denny's: (800) 733-6697.
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Title Annotation:Food Porn; Denny's Carb-Watch menu
Publication:Nutrition Action Healthletter
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 1, 2004
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