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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

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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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Even thought it really isn’t healthy people eat fast food all of the time. Here are the worst five fast food meals you can order when you go out to eat and a healthier meal (still not healthy, but healthier than the other meals) that you can order at the same restaurant.

In the past few years there’s been some progress on the fast-food front. Many chains have answered our calls for healthier, lower-calorie options. Thing is, these efforts are almost always undermined by the rest of their menus. Show me a laminated menu (or plastic menu board), and I’ll show you a meal that will absolutely obliterate your waistline. To wit: These five caloric calamities—among the worst fast-food meals in America.

Worst Fast-Food Meals in America

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We all know that eating out isn’t healthy. Some fast food chains are making an effort to cut down on the amount of fat in their meals. But a new study shows that fat is not the only thing they should be cutting down on. There is 2,300 milligrams of salt in one fast food meal. That is way over the daily healthy amount of sodium. But there are a few things you can order that are low in sodium next time you go to a fast food chain. Click on one of the links to find out five low sodium meals you can order at fast food chains.

Eating out can be a headache these days for people who are trying to stick to a healthy diet. Meals are intentionally loaded with sugar, fat, and salt to make them more palatable, and while most chains are making efforts at cutting down on fat, a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine finds that they’re doing a pretty poor job of reducing the salt, exposing a large percentage of Americans to more than an entire day’s recommended sodium allotment of 2,300 milligrams (mg) in a single entrée. Concerns about America’s over-salted diet have prompted the federal government to consider regulating the use of salt in packaged and restaurant food.

Four Ways to Order Low-Sodium Fast Food

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