How eating at Subway can be harmful to you

We all know that Subway (fast food restaurant) is one of the healthier alternatives to McDonalds or KFC. Well, if you just order lettuce, cucumber, onion and tomato on your sub with a lean meat, how harmful can it be.. correct? So how can eating a subway can be unhealthy? What am I missing here? Read on..

In a research study it was observed that customers at Subway, consistently underestimated the number of calories in each meal. Second, customers at Subway are more likely to choose higher-calorie side dishes.

I agree that, most of the subs that you could order at Subway are healthy as long as you use whole wheat bread and stay away from cheese and mayo. There are some bad choices in subs as well, for example "Footlong Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki" will give you 110 grams of carbs and 770 calories.

But what about the side orders and drinks? One of the biggest choices one can make when buying a meal is the DRINK you gulp along with your sub. Why? Well a 16 oz apple juice or Snapple from subway has about 320 calories (160 per 8 oz. serving). You get roughly 300 or so calories for a 20 oz coke. Not to mention these calories are from SUGAR. Did you know that there is 65 grams of Sugar in 20 oz Coke? I mentioned this because when you drink high sugar content, the pancreas go in overdrive mode and they get stressed out. Note that there are free refills on Soda, and if you go for that free refill, it is a doubly whammy on your health.

Also the chips, cookie, that go with the meal can add appox 200-400 calories of high glycemic carbs and or fats to the total caloric total. Especially if you are dining at a subway you get 300 calories from Soda, and the 200 from the whole grain chips equals 500 calories that go against your goals of trimming up, not to mention the insulin response from all the added carbohydrates.

Now coming back to my original point of how eating at Subway could be harmful. If you would repeat the daily routine of Soda/Juice and Chips / cookies along with your sub frequently, your pancreas are bound to get tired of going in overdrive to produce insulin. That could results in a condition called, pre-diabetes.. which if not corrected.. would result in Diabetes. Diabetes and associated heart disease are the leading causes of death in USA and worldwide.

I hope this is an eye opener and you quit making unhealthy choices at seemingly healthy places such as Subway. Why I picked on Subway? Well, most people know that fried products of McDonalds and KFC have high calories and are unhealthy. Subway offers a choice that combines healthy as well as unhealthy food.. and you could get caught off guarded. Some people may just give themselves credit assuming they have eaten a healthy food, while in reality they would have loaded up carbs and sugar.

I understand, changing eating habits toward a more healthy life style can be difficult but if you follow the simple rules of drinking water, or occasionally diet soda, and avoiding chips (no matter what kind) and mayo and cheese than you can pretty much win the battle when eating out.

Details on Jared Fogle: You would have also heard the story of “Jared Fogle”, the young man who lost 245 lbs. by eating nothing but Subway sandwiches for almost a year. He had a 6-inch “Subway turkey” for lunch and a “foot-long Veggie Delite” for dinner. He sometimes drank “DIET Soda” and rarely ate Chips. Jared also included lots of walking as part of the diet program that he invented, which allowed him to lose 245 lbs. in about a year.

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hubber-2009 says:
5 months ago

Your wallet will tell the harmfl expereince?

compu-smart says:
5 months ago

I have never eaten at one of these! Everytime i ask for the subway directions, i end at up the underground!!

Seriously, I want to try a subway one day, and like most things, i guess moderation is the key!

Patti Ann says:
2 months ago

You're right - most people don't think about the chips and sodas.

Rebecca E. says:
5 weeks ago

so true so true.

nicomp says:
5 weeks ago

Everything in moderation. Subway is no more dangerous than Wal Mart.

loua says:
4 weeks ago

Great practical post... Now you need to do one for everything else, lol... If only you could get people to be practical the problems of the world could be solved...

Micky Dee says:
6 hours ago

Great blog. I was driving on the interstate and dropped off for gas. Thought I'd Subway myself a $5 tuna sandwich. It cost me over $7. This was against national advertising and maybe the biggest reason I may avoid Subway. This is all great advice you have. Great job. I'm a new fan.