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We Americans eat a lot of crap. That’s why America is the fattest country. But it take a special certain type of crappy food to make the top ten unhealthiest fast food meals in America. Click on one of the links to see the top ten most unhealthiest fast food meals.

Let’s face it: Fast food is an American institution. Love it or hate it, it’s a facet of life that we’re not shaking any time soon. The good news? It’s entirely possible to eat the occasional drive-thru meal without inflicting too much bodily harm. The challenge is avoiding the kind of foods that wreak havoc on your wasteline. Chain restaurants will try to convince you that a bacon-gravy-sausage sandwich is a slight indulgance, when in truth it’s a severely dangerous way to spend a lunch break. Here we’ve uncovered the country’s 10 worst fast food meals. You’d be wise to avoid them at all costs.

The 10 Worst Fast Food Meals | Eat This, Not That

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Most restaurant foods aren’t very healthy and they are only getting worse. Here are five new dishes at  some pretty well known food chains that you should try to avoid. Click on the link to find out the five new dishes to avoid and their nutritional information. 

There’s an arms race going on, and it could mean disaster for your waistline.
But this terrifying competition to build the biggest, scariest weapons of mass destruction isn’t happening between the United States and Russia, or on the Korean peninsula, or among angry rivals somewhere in the Middle East. It’s happening between America’s restaurants—every one of them, it seems, is eager to show it has the biggest, scariest, most destructive new food in the marketplace. And the unsuspecting victims of this Strangelovian contest? You and me.

Scariest New Restaurant Foods

Technorati Tags: applebees, denny's, fast food, fast food chains, IHOP, Uno, yahoo, yahoo health

This is a list of sixteen different sit down restaurants and what they are hiding. The sixteen restaurants include IHOP, Applebee’s, Fuddruckers, Red Robin, Burger King, Panera Bread, T.G.I Fridays, and a lot more big chains you probably wouldn’t expect were hiding anything.

What does the restaurant industry have to hide? A lot, apparently. A hidden force behind America’s obesity epidemic is the fact that many chain restaurants—which provide one-third of all restaurant meals, according to the New York Department of Health—obfuscate the fat and calorie counts of their menu items, and fight any attempt to shed light on what, exactly, is going on between their buns and inside their taco shells.

16 Restaurant Industry Secrets | Eat This, Not That

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A lot of people probably do not know this, but menus at restaurants are designed to make you want to buy the food that is the cheapest to make but gives the restaurant the biggest profit. And that is the food that is usually the most unhealthiest food on the menu. Here are five tips that will defiantly help you eat healthy next time you go to a restaurant. 

If you walk into a restaurant with the intention of ordering the grilled chicken salad, but find yourself wolfing down a bacon cheeseburger, it may not be because your willpower suddenly pulled a disappearing act. It’s possible you were duped by menu-design experts who are paid to dream up sneaky ways of enticing you into ordering cheap, not-so-healthy foods that yield big profits. WH reveals the tactics restaurants use so you never fall for them again.

Outsmart Restaurant Menus

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A lot of people when they are trying to be healthy order a salad when they go out to eat. That might sound healthier that a burger but it turns out, it may not be. Here are the six worst salads you can order when you go out to eat.

Maybe your kids are screaming for fast food. Or your partner is dying to hit the local rib joint. Or your company is holding its employee appreciation lunch at Fat Joe’s House of Lard. Regardless, you’re trying to watch your weight. So what do you do when the waitress slides a greasy menu into your hands?
Easy. Just order the salad. And if your family and friends tease you for ordering the “wimpy” food? Well, that’s the price you pay for cutting calories, right?
Just one problem: All the discipline, self-deprivation, and scorn you suffer at the hands of your peers might be for naught. Because at many restaurants, the salad is just about the unhealthiest thing on the menu.

6 Salads Worse Than a Whopper!

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