Many of the most popular menu items are loaded with excessive fats, refined sugars, and refined carbohydrates, which enhance flavor but also make them high in calories. Fast food chains often ...

Whether you're counting cals or just curious to see how high those numbers can go at your fave drive-thru, we rounded up the highest calorie menu items in fast food. Do with this info what you will.

These fast-food meals pack in sky-high calories, fat, and sodium. Find out which menu items to avoid at 14 major chains.

An curved arrow pointing right. In 2008, New York City began requiring chain restaurants to post the calorie counts of their menu items. The FDA will begin requiring calorie counts nationally ...

But on this fast food plan, my calories plummeted ... I thought I had hit the jackpot with Taco Bell's al Fresco menu. They take off all the cheese and mayo-based sauces and replace it with ...

The Mud Hens and KFC's Colonel are hardly the first food vendors to flip a big ol' bird at the calorie cops ... is the second most caloric item on the menu, weighing in at 910, but comes served ...