RE: Health Tip: Are restaurants really healthier than fast food?
This might be a great discussion :-) Why fast-food restaurants have a bad image...
It's true that most restaurants differ mostly on taste/quality, but if they would produce the same bad food, why is it that only fast-food restaurants are being attacked?
There are restaurants, especially the more expensive ones that take nutrition into account and therefore use products of better quality and use them in the right amounts. However, a lot of restaurants earned their fame by either their fantastic taste or the decoration of the establishment, making the client forget about the most important thing, health and nutrition. Then you can't say anything about a restaurant until they present the nutrition facts of the meals :-)
I'm not a vegan, but I prefer a vegan restaurant over a normal restaurant, because I simply like vegetables more than meat. My question is, what is the chance that a vegan restaurant prepares a bad meal? Do they take nutrition into account?
Hmmm I think fast-food have a bad rep because that way the more expensive restaurants can charge... well more expensive for their food haha.
And vegan restaurants usually are healthier because usually the restaurant owners and their employees are more conscious amount the food they eat. Also, the preparation of meat is intrinsically much more complex and much more salt/preservatives is used. So I think it's usually a good bet going with Vegan restaurants.