Is Chinese restaurant food unhealthy?

Are you a fan of eating Chinese food? I was a huge fan until a few years ago when I started investigating all the sugary coatings used on many of those tasty dishes along with the huge amount of sodium found in many dishes on the standard Chinese restaurant menu. Of course, there were so many levels of things off the chart that I can to cut down on eating "most" Chinese food completely, unless I prepared it myself.

There are many kinds of Chinese foods that are excellent; watercress, green soybeans, snow peas, pepper chicken, brown rice (not fried) and others -- all without all that added sugar and salt. But then again, many Chinese restaurants seem to have cratered to catering to the salt-hungry American, as a new study shows.

A consumer group study has found that a typical Chinese restaurant menu is filled with nutritional no-nos. For example, a plate of General Tso's chicken contains about 40% more sodium and more than half the calories an average adult needs for an entire day. The battered, fried chicken dish with vegetables has 1,300 calories, 3,200 milligrams of sodium and 11 grams of saturated fat.

Yes, that woke me up on most Chinese food dishes. How about you?