40 Salads That Can Kill You: Yes, 40 Salads That Can Kill You -- Has Society gone mad?

For those keeping summer fit via leafy greens, be warned: From Applebee's pecan chicken salad (1,340 calories) to a Jason's Deli monster (2,000 calories), VIEW OUR GALLERY of 40 dangerous salads.

It’s the default summer pick on any menu for those trying to keep swimsuit fit: a nice, healthy salad. The very word—“salad”—connotes wellness. But while the lettuce-and-fresh-vegetable fundamentals of a traditional American salad remain ideal parts of a sensible diet, America’s restaurants often bury them beneath loads of diet-sabotaging sustenance.

In many national eateries, fatty meats, cheeses, and sauces overpower the veggies. With the sour cream and fried taco shell that accompanies a Mexican salad or the fried chicken and cheese atop the chicken-tender salad, many choices from the salad side of the menu contain more calories, unhealthy carbs, and artery-clogging saturated fat as the hamburger offerings. (read more)

Poster note: Seriously, salads that can kill you? Healthy eating is important, but of all the things out to get us these days, and all the changes occurring int he world, salads are the things being focused on?