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    The Cheesecake Factory's Secret Fattening Menu Items. Don't Blame the Cheesecake

    Photo by: The Cheesecake Factory
    The CSPI's Xtreme Eating Awards, designed to highlight those mega-portion meals at chain restaurants that tip the calorie counting scales, had some usual suspects on ... more 
    Photo by: The Cheesecake Factory
    The CSPI's Xtreme Eating Awards, designed to highlight those mega-portion meals at chain restaurants that tip the calorie counting scales, had some usual suspects on the list: IHOP's country fried steak and eggs? No surprise there. Johnny Rockets' bacon double cheeseburger? Sure, that ain't on Weight Watchers. It wasn't such a big surprise to see The Cheesecake Factory's name on the list twice, considering the restaurant's dessert foundation, but cheesecake wasn't the high calorie culprit.
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    Wed, Jan 16, 2013 3:10 PM EST
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    In my estimation there should be some kind of award designed for people who eat at The Cheesecake Factory and don't order a cheesecake for dessert. But The annual Xtreme Eating Awards, a not so figure flattering list released annually by the nonprofit Center for the Science in the Public Interest, some seemingly healthy entrees from the chain has more calories than that slice of the most decadent oreo cheesecake you've been drooling over. Lets look at what you've been ordering versus what you've been missing.


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