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Ten Worst Calorie Clogging Food in America

When it comes to eating out, America has no shortage of unhealthy options. While many of the artery-clogging, calorie-packing, and waist-expanding choices are obvious, other fast food items are deceptively deleterious. And although some can be enjoyed on occasion, most you’re better off avoiding—for good.

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Salads: Cutdown on the Calories

KFC Crispy Chicken Caesar Salad

That’s what I had for dinner last night. Supposedly. LOL.

This is what how it really looked like. See the not so nice looking lettuce bits on the right?

Tips on how to minimize your dressing application on your salad from take out. I learned this thing from my good friend Oliver Aquino when I had a salad from Starbucks when we were there 3 years ago. This is a great thing to do when you’re on a diet or counting your calories. Why? The salad I had minus the dressing and croutons is just 360 – 370 Calories give or take. But after you add ALL the dressing from a sachet, it’ll bloat to a whopping 630 calories. Almost double! Imagine the local kind that we get that comes from a CUP. So I’d say that’ll be as bad as eating a Burger King Whopper which is 740 Calories.

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