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    'Healthy' option not always healthy

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If you think about ordering a salad on the menu realistic that's got to -- Option right think again sometimes a salad can be just as bad or worse for you calorie wise and a big -- wants.

Here are some of the biggest offenders -- should -- and founder of -- source ink.

-- -- -- -- -- great to see you name it this is a great segment because obviously all of us that will get the salad or making irresponsible choice you've found to be loaded with fat and -- let's talk about this first on people love the southwest and -- -- -- hit the trail with -- southwest salad also goes by the name of a fiesta salad it's essentially a if piled on with not guacamole sour cream.

Chili cheese.

Even tortilla chips so it places this salad anywhere in the calories between 812100.

-- -- tortilla chips alone can end up being hundreds of -- absolutely and die you don't really recognize that you think you're -- healthy by doing ago chicken and before you know -- -- Eating -- almost three big Macs the worst offender had a 14100 calories 92 grams.

Of fat 92 brands that are less and -- -- I see people order all the time -- again -- is grilled the Asian grilled chicken salad what's the problem I switch cultural gears and go with the nation's salad and you're looking at healthier type ingredients.

With not -- and -- -- and the like but you've also got to sodium rich dressing.

And Doug Christie fried -- and again this puts this salad around 12100 calories so the Cobb salad people think hey I've got an Aegon there.

I'm probably and I'm there I'm healthy with the Cobb salad at the case yeah and it's also got that Hollywood -- is a very famous salad originating in Hollywood it's very popular.

You have grilled chicken but they've been looking at bacon you're looking at eggs you're looking at that you the thousand island dressing of the light.

Again another 12100 calories and -- people on low carb diets they think that V chef salad answers all of their names what's the problem with the shot of the problem is they take a healthy base about one to 200 calories are the greens and and pylon at least eight ounces of meat cheese.

And egg and couple that with a thousand island.

-- there right now this is allison's favorite salad she orders it all the time.

Greek salad and talk about it it has everything low fat fat -- me -- that's a less fattening cheese what's the problem while I you have to say that is disappointing it's a favorite for many it is basically it's workable it has healthier ingredients but you've got to watch the addition.

Of the updated she's the domestic of the stuff Greif gray believes in and how much oily vinaigrette dressing your -- thing.

The best tip is to use vinegar first did and which in this salad and then go ahead and use that -- sparingly and that's one of the healthiest ones here that's about 800 calories a big Mac about 550 to 600 calories so all of these salads have more calories than a big hits it it rates.

Big Mac how odd -- -- pace again -- the founder of nature's source anchor thanks so much from information -- disease.

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