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12 healthy foods that really aren't

Posted: Nov 28th 2007 8:49PM by Rigel Celeste
Filed under: Food and Nutrition

Geez, we just can't catch a break when it comes to being lazy and healthy at the same time, can we? Once again eating healthy means you have to be on your toes and know your stuff at all times -- you can't even trust labels. Not really -- just because the label says "healthy" doesn't mean the product really is.

Some foods are particularly bad for being considered healthy when they are really not. Yogurt with fruit on the bottom, for instance, has a LOT of added sugar in the worst possible form: corn syrup. Fruit may be healthy and yogurt may be healthy, but the combination usually turns out to be anything but. Check out these other supposedly "healthy" foods:

Gallery: 12 "healthy" foods that really aren't

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