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Tasty Delights in Phillips Arena

posted by MarieS, a Women Talk Sports blogger
Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 2:26pm PST

About MarieS:

Marie Spano, MS, RD/LD, FISSN, CSCS is one of the leading sports nutrition and nutrition communications experts in North America. Currently serving as Vice President of the International Society of S...more

Friday night at the Atlanta Thrashers game at Phillips Arena, I started to wonder what people eat in the Arena and if I could get a healthy dinner there. Despite my protein craving (after all it had been about three hours since my last meal and I was hungry), my inner love of all things chocolate dominated and my eyes fixated on this Rockslide brownie. Chocolate, pecans, chunks of chocolate and a drizzle of pure caramel ganache delight. What could be better? My friend asked me how many calories I thought this gooey dessert contained. Alas, I had no clue but I was bound and determined to find out.

According to this foodservice website: http://foodservice.sweetstreet.com/product_details/sellsheet/disp_productDetail.cfm?c=1755, the Rockslide Brownie contains 550 calories for a 4.5 oz serving (okay, way smaller than the serving size t the arena) and a whopping 35 grams of fat, 15 from saturated and 0.5 from trans fats. Again, that's for a 4.5 oz serving. I'm willing to bet the one they served there was twice that size.

Now you are probably wondering if I ate it - nope. One look and I pretty much knew it had man made artery-clogging, belly-fat boosting trans fats in it - one thing that I hope never crosses my lips again. So I continued racking up some steps walking through the arena in favor of good healthy food. Is it available? Yes indeed - especially on the club level. But, you do have to weed through an array of mouth-watering desserts, bypass the smell of candy-coated nuts and mocha lattes to find something figure-flattering and athletic performance enhancing foods for for an athlete.

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