Milkshakes at Zaxby's

Zaxby's has a new milkshake - a Birthday cake shake! Now you can have your cake and milkshake at the same time...or so you thought. The question of the day is...is it healthy?

• It looks pretty. 
• It looks pretty healthy? 
• Is it? 

Let's look at the details: [hang onto your chair]

860 calories [yes, you read that correctly]
37.5g fat
113g carb
10g protein
98g sugar [read that again, and again]
256mg sodium

Do any of those numbers look healthy to you?

This is a carb-loading, fattening, over-the-top sugar coated, high calorie DEATH TRAP! Really, it is. It's scary how UNHEALTHY this one item is. Do you think you'll go to Zaxby's and have this alone? No, it's dessert. On your birthday, I guess. But still, if you already eat a reasonable meal - let's say 850 calories - and then you add this?

Obesity is sky-rocketing in the United States and this milkshake is a good reason why. No, it's not all the milkshake's fault. It's Zaxby's fault for making and advertising such a product. It's our fault as consumers for eating it, for not looking up nutritional information on-line before we go.

It's time to stop the craziness. Just because you hear the phrase "milkshake" doesn't mean that it's healthy because it has milk. If you are SERIOUS about living a healthy life or helping your kids live one, then you have to be serious about what you are eating. And it starts with taking these out of your nutrition plan.