Want to know the world’s greatest weight-loss tip? It’s KISS. No, not the creepy 1970s rock band that dons makeup and sells Dr. Pepper. It’s an anagram: Keep It Simple, Stupid. Simple foods tend to have the fewest additional calories and the healthiest ingredients. Problem is, the biggest trend in American restaurants this year has been to make their meals more complicated than Kim Kardashian’s love life. Over and over, food marketers have demonstrated that they can’t leave well enough alone. From deep-frying pasta to turning simple salads into adventures in caloric chaos, I’ve broken down some of the most deeply disturbing turns in American food culture, circa 2010. And as the New Year emerges, you can find up-to-the-minute new developments in the food universe (and plenty of weight-loss secrets) when you

It’s not all bad news, though. A lot has changed to our food supply and policies since we first published Eat This, Not That! in late 2007. Some of these changes have made eating healthy foods easier than ever, while others (mentioned above) continue to put industry interests in front of our collective need to slim down. Here we’ve rounded up the best and worst food trends of 2010.

(Also, don’t miss our other year-end walk down the Restaurant Hall of Shame: The 20 Worst Foods of 2010.)Worst Food Trend #5: Chips as CondimentHow do you turn a vegetarian sandwich into a crunchy calorie-bomb? Fill it with tortilla chips. That’s the recipe Blimpie uses to create their Special Vegetarian sub. Or what they could also call the Doritos Sub, since the sandwich is built on a bed of the crumbled nacho-cheese-flavored chips. Unfortunately, consumers are likely to enjoy this creation—the chips add addictive crunch, salt, and flavor—which will only encourage more products like it. And that’s bad news since just one of these 12-inch subs delivers 1,180 calories (three meals’ worth) and 3,540 milligrams of sodium (two days’ worth). Blimpie isn’t the only restaurant to use chips as a condiment. The Cheesecake Factory is now serving a Double-Cheese Crunch Burger—which is aptly named after its “condiment” of crunchy potato crisps.

EAT RIGHT RULE: If your food can go bad, it’s good for you. If it can’t go bad, it’s bad for you. and get FREE health, nutrition and weight-loss wisdom every day! You’ll drop weight faster than ever–without ever dieting!

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