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The Trouble with Takeout
Before You Dial Out for Dinner, Look at the Numbers Here
By Naomi Barr
O, The Oprah Magazine  |  From the April 2005 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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Make yours a veggie burger
We gave Laura Pensiero, dietitian and founder of the nutritional consulting service Chef4Life, and Jayne Hurley, senior nutritionist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest and coauthor of Restaurant Confidential—a book analyzing the often grisly nutritional details of hundreds of restaurant dishes—some of our favorite takeout meals. They gave us healthier ways to hit the spot. Your order, please?

What should you avoid? What can you substitute? Find out right here.

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