The Truth Behind The “Chick-fil-A Diet”

The chicken chain has printed a lifestyle tip on the side of their take-out bags recommending that customers add “one healthy habit to your routine”.

Experts say the decision to eat several small meals a day versus the traditional three is an individual choice, as some people can eat larger quantities three times a day and not need to snack, while others need energy from food every few hours.

And the last place you would want to go in order to gulp down a healthy, well-balanced and nutritional sound meal is Chick-fil-A. According to the small, yet visible fine print found on the restaurant’s doggie bags, you can cleanse your body of toxins with a chicken nugget diet.

Chick-fil-A has an idea for you when it comes to eating healthier.

The nuggets are relatively healthy with 140 calories and 3 grams of fat per serving.

Alissa Rumsey, a registered dietitian and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, said that while snacking on grilled nuggets from a fast food chain is OK on occasion, “It is not something I’d recommend on a daily basis, and certainly not multiple times per day”. One of these tips was called the chicken nugget diet, chicken nugget cleanse or the chicken nugget detox.

Chick-fil-A also advocates that people exercise more, along with eating their grilled chicken nuggets every three hours. It seems that it wouldn’t be cheap at all, a person having to spend $23 a day and a shocking $700 per month, just for chicken nuggets.

As Kurlander argued, it’s nearly self-explanatory that people’s diets shouldn’t revolve around just one food item exclusively, especially since even Chick-Fil-A has a wide assortment of meals on its menu. However, it is not the healthiest diet in the world, by any stretch of the imagination, and it is high in sodium, while low in fiber, vitamins, and antioxidants, and it can be expensive to eat meals based entirely on Chick-fil-A grilled chicken nuggets. Weight loss may only happen at first but is not sustainable.