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What are the unhealthiest foods in North America?

What are the worst foods in North America? The Center for Science in the Public Interest revealed their 2011 list yesterday, and it has some doozies: desserts with two and a half days' worth of saturated fat, drinks with more than half a day's calories.
By Vanessa Milne

What are the unhealthiest foods in North America? Masterfile

What are the worst foods in North America? The Center for Science in the Public Interest revealed their 2011 list yesterday, and it has some doozies: desserts with two and a half days' worth of saturated fat, drinks with more than half a day's calories. And it's not all American-only restaurants — a Starbucks classic and grocery-store staples also made the list. Here's the worst of the worst:

Marie Calendar's (16.5 oz) Chicken Pot Pie: 520 calories, 11 g saturated fat, 800 mg sodium.

Olive Garden's Tour of Italy: (Homemade Lasagna, Lightly Breaded Chicken Parmigiana, and Creamy Fettuccine Alfredo): 1,450 calories, 33 g saturated fat, 3,830 mg sodium.

Campbell's condensed soup: 850 mg sodium.

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Chipotle Chicken Burrito: 970 calories, 18 g saturated fat, 2,200 mg sodium.

The Cheesecake Factory's Chocolate Tower Truffle Cake: 1,670 calories, 48 g saturated fat (two and a half days' worth!)

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Pillsbury Grands! Cinnabon Cinnamon Roll with Icing: 310 calories, 2 g saturated fat,  2.5 g trans fat.

Land O' Lakes margarine spread: 2 g saturated fat, 2.5 g trans fat (more than a day's worth).

Starbucks Venti (20 oz) White Chocolate Mocha with 2-percent milk and whipped cream: 580 calories, 15 g saturated fat.

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Häagen-Dazs ice cream petite half cup: 300 calories.

Cold Stone Creamery's Oh Fudge! shake: 1,250 calories

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As Bonnie Liebman, CSPI director, said: "It's as if the restaurants were targeting the remaining one out of three Americans who are still normal weight in order to boost their risk of obesity, diabetes, heart attacks, and cancer."

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