We had Hungry Jacks last night. This (eating out on Wednesdays) is a fairly regular thing on Wednesday nights as we go out and don't have time to cook for ourselves.

I've been only eating their recent addition "Spicy Chicken Baguette". It claims to have "less than 9 grams of fat" which sound impressive, except that I have no idea how much fat I should eat each day.

That information is hard to get, as it's based on your overall size, how active you are, how well your body details with fat, and what kind of diet you need (some people need more fat and less sugar for example). This ABC.net.au article suggests less than 40 grams of fat a day is desirable. Preferably around 30 grams.

While in HJs we picked up their nutrition sheet for a laugh. The Double-Whopper contained over 50 grams of fat. Add cheese and you're getting into 60+ grams of fat. That happened to be what K was eating... Add a large fries (which we didn't) and you're looking at another 25+ grams of fat. Makes any diet drinks kind of pointless...

After reading this... I decided to look up the details of KFC meals. KFC publish some of their nutrition info on their website in PDF format.

A Twister, the only KFC I eat, has 33.3 grams of fat.

Meanwhile the amount of salt in the HJ's Spicy Chicken kicks it out of the heart-tick club.

Recently I read an article (been doing that a lot lately, reading articles that I can't link to...) that suggested we're all rather too obsessed these days with fat. It's salt, the article said, that is the real killer, the most likely to cause heart problems. We're all eating on average 5 grams of salt a day when we should be eating 0.9 to 2.3 grams per day. We only need 0.5 grams of salt a day to live [BetterHealth.vic.gov.au].

A KFC Twister has 1.4g of salt. HJ's Spicy Chicken has 0.98g.

Nandos Supremo burger isn't on their website yet, but a Chicken Wrap is under 20 grams of fat.

I'm not preaching here, just documenting what I've finally bothered to lookup. I'm not overweight, nor am I likely to be with my families history. With my families history I'm more likely to have organ problems before I get fat...

I started thinking about all this because of yesterday's (or day before?) discovery of the water cost of a burger.

It seems we really should all be eating unprocessed, uncooked food (like fruit, veges straight out of the ground) for almost every meal, and the massively processed, cooked, prepared food should be once a week, if that. Not just for health (which would be a nice side effect) but for the planet's health too.

Now I'm off to finish my coffee.

Also, check out this Choice article on fast food.

What happens when the big record companies start suing each other for copyright infringement? Will they run each other into the ground? Or will they reach a compromise?

Financial Times (via BoingBoing):

In separate lawsuits, Universal alleged that Grouper.com – recently acquired by Sony Pictures Entertainment – and Bolt.com had built up traffic by encouraging users to share music videos from its artists without their permission. In one incident, it claimed a video for the Mariah Carey song "Shake it Off" was viewed more than 50,000 times on Grouper without the company’s permission.

The Victorian government created a list of Victoria's top 200 water users. They had threatened to publish the list but it seems they have backed off.

This article (thanks Josh) suggests that Crown Casino and Chadstone are on the list.

That's hardly surprising as they're very popular and full of toilets. Crown even more so as it includes masses of accommodation, and thus we presume, a huge laundry.

I'm not sure a top 200 water users list is really that useful but it can point out some trouble spots.

A list of 200 water uses would be good. Power generation? Rice growing? Clothes cleaning? Fountains? Car washing?