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How many times have you bought a food item labelled as healthy only to discover it was junk food in disguse?
asked Sep 29, 2009 at 11:03AM in Nutrition
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answered Nov 04, 2009 at 04:37AMToo many times, unfortunately. Labels are very misleading. An item touted as "light" might be lower in fat and higher in sugar and too high in sodium. Getting a "healthy" item that's not so healthy is a mistake that so many people make.
I do my best to read labels more carefully than ever. Weight Watchers has a really good program about how to assess whether a food is healthy. One doesn't have to be overweight to join, but essentially, the organization factors in fiber grams, fat grams, and calories to assess whether a food is healthy.
A high-fiber, low fat diet is the way to go. Reading the nutrition labels and ingredients are really what we should use to determine whether a food is healthy. Also, fruits and vegetables are typically healthy, especially raw. -
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answered Dec 17, 2009 at 05:58PMYogurt is a good example of a product that has benefited from a very successful and expensive corporate marketing campaign that has 'educated' the consumer about yogurt as a health food - even though much of the commercially available yogurt is high in sugar, fat, artificial additives, or all of the above.
Yogurt IS a healthy food if you buy plain unsweetened yogurt - drizzle some honey over it and your own fresh fruit if you like. More on this at: "Dannon Hit With $35 Million False Advertising Settlement over Activia Probiotic Yogurt": http://ethicalnag.org/2009/10/06/yogurt/
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