Hmmm, does the Double Down come as a salad?

Salad undressing

We know what you’re thinking: you’ll avoid the bigger, fatter, longer drive-thru fare by ordering a salad instead, an option now in most fast food shops. But buyers beware — even seemingly low-cal salads can be waist-wideners. As it turns out, some of these token “healthy options” can actually be much worse for you and your ticker.

Take Wendy’s Chicken BLT Salad with Honey Dijon Dressing. It packs a whopping 720 calories, 51 grams of fat, and 1,540 milligrams of sodium. That’s almost enough to make the Double Down look like the smarter choice. Toss those salads … while trying not to toss your cookies.

Our advice? Stay far, far away from the drive-thru universe if you can — no one is safe in a world where footlong cheeseburgers and thousand-calorie salads grace the menus.

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