Meanwhile, here's our checklist of how to choose relatively healthy fast foods.

Healthy fast foods are hard to find. If you have to eat fast food - and for your health's sake, you should keep it to the absolute minimum - here's how to make healthy junk food choices

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Looking for healthy food on the average fast food restaurant menu is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Even when junk food purveyors claim to be providing healthy fast foods, their offerings tend to be high - sometimes sky high - in fats, sugar and salt.

Try hard to cut down on the number of times in a week or month that you eat fast food. This kind of food is addictive, and the more you eat it, the more you'll crave it. If you cut down on salty, fatty foods, and substitute fresh, unprocessed foods, gradually you'll lose your taste for junk food.





Meanwhile, here's our checklist of how to choose relatively healthy fast foods.

Choosing Healthy Fast Foods: Reading The Menu

* Select foods that are grilled, not fried.

* Avoid deep fried foods and any that are battered or have crumb coatings.

* Avoid supersizes. Even 'Regular' can be enormous. Always select the smallest sized portion available. Share a serving between two (or more) people, as another way to reduce the amount you eat.

* Don't be seduced by an 'all you can eat' deal. You'll simply be encouraged to overeat.

* Read the junk food menu with an eagle eye. Words like 'crispy' and 'crunchy' mean 'deep-fried' and 'fatty'.