Speaking of salads, this is one gut-bomb that you'll want to avoid. Healthy? If 750 calories (210 more than the Double Down) and 1750 grams of sodium makes this bowl healthy, then the Double Down itself must be the equivalent of a light garden salad! Right? Well, that really depends on the salad in question.

Leaving aside for a second that anything served in a bowl in a fast food joint is usually questionable (sorry, KFC we've got your back on the whole Double Down situation, but these are disgusting), let's instead focus on the fact that this is listed on JITB's 'Healthy Dining' portion of the menu. Your bloodstream has more salinity than the Dead Sea now. And you're eating white meat, not that terrible dark meat! Sorry, but what you're actually consuming is 660 calories and 40 grams of fat, not to mention 1680 grams of sodium. Look at how good you're being, ordering 'premium' chicken strips instead of those McMangled McNuggets. McDonald's Chicken Select Premium Breast Strips (5 pieces) But what about a salad? What about an item that's even marked with a cute little heart symbol next to it on the menu? The hidden fat and calories in these items make a Double Down look positively macrobiotic in comparison.ĥ. It's obvious that Wendy's Triple Baconator will be the death of you. Instead, what people should be focusing on is the fact that there are far worse fast food choices out there, some of which you may unwittingly make every day. To place this into context, a regular old Big Mac has 540 calories, too (and just a little bit less fat), but you don't see people proclaiming that the end times are near over a McDonald's burger. If you do, you've just knocked the fat and calorie content of the Double Down even further, from an already pretty manageable 540 calories and 32 grams of fat to an even slimmer 460 calories and 23 grams of fat. And if the fried chicken bothers you, you can always get your Double Down with grilled chicken sandwiching those strips of bacon and cheese.

Sure, protein that has a fatty, crunchy exterior, but it's closer to actual 'real' food than those buns were. Good for the Double Down! It simply replaced all that sugar and starch and overprocessed 'flour' (if you can even call it flour anymore once it's been made into the mass-produced buns that haunt every fast food chain) with a bunch of protein. So it's a sandwich that doesn't have any buns. What did it ever do to deserve the kind of scorn that's been heaped upon it by the media? Yes, that's right - we're here to take up the dubious mantle of Double Down Defenders.

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