Count Your Calories
Welcome to the Wake Forest University of Medicine Nutrition Web Site. The information provided here is designed to address the needs of generally healthy adults. The site will provide guidelines for diet and physical activity that will promote good nutrition. These recommendations are based primarily on 1995 Dietary Guidelines for Americans published by USDA and US Department of Health and Human Services and the CDC recommendation for physical activity. This site is not a replacement for the care provided by your physician or health professional. It is meant to be used as a guide only. If you have specific health related problems or questions be sure to consult with your healthcare provider.
Hows Your Diet?
This module helps you compare what you eat with the 1995 Dietary Guidelines, so you can see how well your eating habits match up.
Fit or Not Quiz
Find out whether you are physically fit, according to age, height, weight, waistline and hip measurements, and how to increase your level of fitness. The calculator also includes an area that helps you figure how many calories you burn during your favorite exercise and how a combination of calorie reduction and exercise will accelerate your weight loss.
Drive-Through Diet
The fast food section of the Nutrition Center web site gives fat, cholesterol, calories and sodium content of just about everything on the menu at several of the largest fast food restaurants including Wendy's, Burger King, McDonald's, Subway, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, Papa Johns and Domino's Pizza.
Once the Nutrition Center web site comes up, simply find which fast food restaurant you wish to reserach and click on the logo or name of the appropriate chain and their whole menu appears.
On the Subway menu, for instance, scroll down to the salads section and compare several possibilities for fat (or sodium, cholesterol or calorie) content. The lowest fat salad at Subway, according to Subway's own nutrition estimates, is the roast beef salad with 10 grams, followed by the turkey breast salad with 11. The highest fat content is in the tuna salad, which many people would assume to be a good food choice. It has 68 grams of fat. There's also a handy "best" and "worst" series of buttons at the end of each menu.