Nutritionist: Thanksgiving feast same as eating five Big Macs

November 29, 1996
Web posted at: 3:00 p.m. EST

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (CNN) -- Here's some food for thought. If you plan on shedding that Thanksgiving feast, you may have to power-walk for 12 hours or go on a leisurely four-hour run.

That's what nutritionist Charlotte Bragg of the University of Alabama-Birmingham says. Bragg said the typical Thanksgiving meal, especially Southern style, contains 130 grams of fat and more than 2,500 calories, the rough equivalent of eating five Big Macs.

It's also about the same as sitting down and eating any of the following:

To work off the meal, Bragg said a 150-pound person would have to do one of the following:

Bragg based her results on a Thanksgiving dinner that included turkey, cornbread stuffing, sweet potato casserole, gravy, gelatin salad, green bean casserole, buttered bread, deviled eggs, tea and pecan pie.

 

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