How well do you think you classify foods as healthy or not? And, if you know that a certain food is unhealthy, do you know just how much? Recently, Men’s Health magazine highlighted the worst foods in America. Here is a rundown of some of the items they deemed “worst” foods with a few nutritional tips, too.

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1. Worst food in America — Outback Steakhouse Aussie Cheese Fries with Ranch Dressing (coming in at just shy of 3,000 calories, and a total of 182 grams of fat and 240 grams carbs). Next time, consider just doing a salad as your pre-dinner food choice!

2. Worst Starter — Chili’s Awesome Blossom (2,710 calories, 203 grams fat, 194 grams carbs, 6,360 mg sodium.)

Not that you would order one just for yourself, but even shared between four people is a meal’s worth of calories and most of your fat for the day.

3. Worst Breakfast — Bob Evans Caramel Banana Pecan Cream Stacked and Stuffed Hotcakes. Need I say more?

4. Worst salad — On the Border Grande Taco Salad with Taco Beef (1,450 calories, 102 grams fat, 78 grams carbs, 2410mg sodium).

Don’t forget — not all salads are healthy. When you get taco salads, opt for no taco shell or dressing.  Choose a reasonable amount of guacamole or sour cream as your topping instead of dressing. And, chicken or fish tacos would be healthier than beef most of the time.

5. Worst sandwich — Quiznos large classic Italian (1510 calories, 82 grams fat, 106 grams carbs, 3750 mg sodium). No one needs that big of a sandwich.
6. Worst Kids Meal — Macaroni Grill Double Macaroni ’n’ Cheese (According to the Web site: 1,200 calories, 62 grams of fat, 108 grams carbs, 3440 mg sodium).  Your child might be better off ordering something off the adult menu.

7. Worst fast food chicken meal — Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips from McDonald’s (five pieces) with ranch sauce (According to McDonald’s Web site: 870 calories, 61 grams fat, 3.5 grams trans fat, 44 grams carbs).

Go for the grilled sandwich or snack wrap instead. If you really want nuggets, opt for the six-piece chicken nuggets with honey sauce which comes in at 300 calories, 15 grams fat, 1.5 grams trans fat, 15 grams carbs and 670 mg sodium.

8. Worst Mexican entrée — Chipotle Mexican Grilled Chicken Burrito (1,179 calories, 47 grams fat, 125 grams carbs, 2656 mg sodium). Opt for a bowl (minus the burrito shell) and watch the portion and toppings.

Remember that healthy portions throughout the day on a 2,000-calorie diet range from 225-325 grams carbs per day, 50-175 grams protein and 56-78 grams fat.

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