You can now find out the nutritional details of food your favorite fast-food restaurant. A new free website, Wellternatives, lets you use your cell phone to get this information, as well as a healthier alternatives.

This new site launched recently by Wellsphere.com is totally easy to use and really interesting. This web site has data on more than 400 national fast food chains. Consumers have been asking for nutritional information that will support making healthy choices. Attempts to get laws enacted that require restaurants to provide this information keep getting stalled or vetoed by our elected officials. Wellsphere offers a way to get this important information.

To use this site, send a text message to 878787 with the word "diet," followed by the name of a chain restaurant and a menu item. I tested the site, comparing hamburgers at Jack-in-the-Box, McDonalds, and Wendys, with the following results:

Burgers
Jumbo Jack 598 (Calories) 51.3 (Carbs/gm) 34.6 (Fat/gm) 2.5 (Fiber/gm)
Big Mac 539 (Calories) 45.0 (Carbs/gm) 29.0 (Fat/gm) 3.0 (Fiber/gm)
Baconater 839 (Calories) 38.0 (Carbs/gm) 51.0 (Fat/gm) 1.0 (Fiber/gm)
Ultimate Cheeseburger 1011 (Calories) 52.7 (Carbs/gm) 71.4 (Fat/gm) 2.1 (Fiber/gm)

Alternatives Suggested
Hamburger Deluxe (with cheese) 462 (Calories) 33.1 (Carbs/gm) 27.8 (Fat/gm) 1.6 (Fiber/gm)
Double Cheeseburger 439 (Calories) 34.0 (Carbs/gm) 23.0 (Fat/gm) 2.0 (Fiber/gm)
Jr. Cheeseburger 319 (Calories) 34.0 (Carbs/gm) 13.0 (Fat/gm) 1.0 (Fiber/gm)
Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger 428 (Calories) 30.5 (Carbs/gm) 25.4 (Fat/gm) 1.1 (Fiber/gm)

Not only is the nutritional information available at this site, but you can use something called Wellphone to get all sorts of support to reach your health goals. I hope you enjoy using this amazing new resource, and for goodness sake, please eat out less!