12 healthy foods that really aren't
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:
via LIfehacker







.jpg)











Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
11-28-2007 @ 10:40PM
leosatter said...
I hope you can help me out. I am trying to get my health under control so starting to eat right is my first step. Do you know where I can purchase quality food online? (that is on the healthy side) I am starting to do all of my shopping online because of various reasons…so I am hoping you can help me out with a suggestion or two.
So far I have only tried Celebrity foods (which is outstanding by the way)
I am in desperate need to grow my list of quality services or stores, where I can buy my food from. Thank you and have a great day or night (depending on when you read this. LOL!
Reply
11-28-2007 @ 10:49PM
lin said...
leo have you tried peapod.com ? It is grocery store food delivered to your home.They even have an organic section.
Or are you looking for already prepared foods? I know they have a prepared food section but I think it's like typical deli/frozen food stuff with lots of preservatives and sodium added. I'm going to try peapod this winter to stop the impulse buying and to keep our spending to a minimum. If I'm at the super walmart I tend to pick up more than I need and sometimes that includes too much JUNK!
Good luck!
Reply
11-30-2007 @ 6:28AM
dennis said...
Celebrity foods made me and my wife sick. food poisoning.
Reply
11-30-2007 @ 7:52AM
Reese said...
Sorry, folks.
But if you're one of those who believed any of these items qualified as a "health food" prior to reading this story...
You are likely to think that canister of Pringles you polished off in one sitting counts as one of your daily "vegetables."
An, undoubtedly ~ your favorite fruit?
Chocolate-covered cherries.
There's always a trade-off.
Low-fat? Almost always means, "BUT (and this is a BIG BUTT), high in sugar and/or salt."
Baked beans! REALLY? Someone thought baked beans, right out of a can, would be a "healthy" choice?
WOW.
Forget fighting a war on the other side of the world. For what? It appears in the span of another 20-30 years, America will die of "natural causes."
Such as, say ~ "willful ignorance?"
Reply
11-30-2007 @ 8:45AM
Bob said...
As most literate Americans know, the news media is destroying the English language as we had known it. I heard one of our local broadcasters the other day telling me something was "so fun" (wow). How many times have you heard the phrase "you and I" improperly used in place of "you and me"? The word "me" is just about gone from the vocabulary, thanks to these bozos.
Now, I know this article isn't from the "news media", but it does proliferate one of the most aggregious offenses to the language that has been spread by them. That is, personifying all sorts of inanimate objects with the descriptive adjective "healthy". In general, anything that isn't alive, but is good for you is "healthful". It isn't healthy, because it's DEAD (or more accurately, never lived). Specifically:
1) It's "healthful foods", not "healthy foods".
2) It's OK to say "being lazy and healthy at the same time", because you're alive.
3) It's "eating healthfully", not "eating healthy".
4) "Fruit may be healthy" is OK if you're talking about the health of the fruit, but if you're talking about it being good for you, it's "healthful".
I think you get the idea now. Unfortunately, this article gets and "F" for stupid. (Oh, that starts with an "S", doesn't it.) Anyway, Mrs. Hall from sophomore English class will thank me for standing up for all she taught me, many years ago.
...and I'll apologize in advance for any spelling or grammar mistakes, because I'm really going to hear about it if there are any...
Bob
Reply
11-30-2007 @ 9:03AM
Marc said...
Good grief... Quit worrying so much! Enjoy EVERYTHING in MODERATION.... and QUIT worrying so much! None of that stuff will kill ya. And anybody who thought croutons were considered a healthy food? You must have been really working really hard to find examples for this story.. LOL
Reply
11-30-2007 @ 9:31AM
Pam said...
Hey Bob?
You're right about the spelling..
When arguing for literate America.. umm.. it isn't aggregious ... it is egregious...
Mrs. Hall is probably spinning...
Reply
11-30-2007 @ 10:14AM
Healthy Now said...
Was deathly sick, given not long to live because of fulminating systemic auto-immune disease. Went vegetarian, meaning not only a no meat, but a whole foods (natural; no refined flours, no artificial colors, no preservatives), all but sugar-free, low-salt diet, with lots of water. I was well within three months. That was two decades ago and I still eat this way. Am healthy. Whole. Have a sweet sense of well-being. SO thankful!
Reply
11-30-2007 @ 10:35AM
Rebecca said...
The granola situation is abysmal. It's rare that you can even find a box of plain old granola and cereals cost upwards of $4 a box sometimes while granola bars can be found for about $2.20 a box, at least on sale.
Post cereals made a great granola cereal back in the day (I remember eating it in the 1980s anyway) called W.C. Post. Now all the cereals brag about putting "some" granola in with the flakes. Give me a break. Put W.C. Post back on the market and get that lady in the shower cap to hawk it -- we don't care about banana bread flavored cereal when we can't find granola on the shelves anymore. Aaaaarghhh!
Reply
12-02-2007 @ 7:37AM
Devlyn said...
I was at the market the other day and and saw some granola it was about $5 very high in caleries carbs and sugar and it was suppose to have walnuts in it I did not see any now how is this healthy?? not to mention that when it says it is healthy for you it is more exspensive and basically all the ingrediants are the same and the caloric run down too .
reese BTW I am wondering if you have any real friends ?
Reply
12-02-2007 @ 8:47AM
kelly said...
THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!!!!!! DIETS! DON'T EAT THIS! DON'T- EAT THAT! THIS IS BAD!THIS IS GOOD! BLAH,BLAH,BLAH! WHEN DOES IT END?? PEOPLE, LISTEN TO YOUR OWN BODY IT WILL TELL YOU WAHT IS GOOD AND BAD FOR YOU.NOT SOMEONE THAT DOES NOT EVEN KNOW YOU THAT HAS WRITTEN A BOOK THAT WORKED FOR THEM AND THEIR BODY. DO WHAT WORKS FOR YOUR BODY NOT SOMEONE ELSES.
Reply
12-02-2007 @ 9:09AM
Jan said...
The food situation on chemicals and hormones got so desparate, the costs so high for prepared healthful ingredients, I gathered all my recipes from the '60s -'07 and put them together in a book. I suggest you do the same. When I found I can bake a better loaf of bread in a breadmaker for 25 cents compared to $3 for the same high quality, I was astounded.
Reply
12-02-2007 @ 9:22AM
joncdodge said...
I AM WITH MARC#6
QUIT WORRYING ABOUT EVERYTHING LITTLE THING IN LIFE. JUST EAT ALL FOODS IN MODERATION AND YOU WILL BE A HEALTHY WEIGHT!
JONBOY
BORED? CHECK OUT MY BLOG: HTTP://CURIOUSREAD.COM
Reply
12-02-2007 @ 9:46AM
Sarah said...
THE ONLY WAY I CAN LOSE WEIGHT IS BY COUNTING
CALORIES NO MATTER WHAT I EAT! 1200 CALORIES
A DAY IS SUFFICIENT...ALSO GET ORGANIC VITAMINS..
HAVE LESS CARBS AND FATS, BUT SOME ARE OK AND
DON'T STARVE YOURSELF. PROTEIN IS IMPORTANT..
Reply
12-02-2007 @ 9:48AM
NICOLE JEAN-LOUIS said...
VERY GOOD PAM!
MISTAKING EGREGIOUS (AS IN FLAGRANT) FOR AGGREGIOUS WHICH DOES NOT EXIST IN THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY IS UNBELIEVABLE. BEFORE CRITICIZING SOMEONE FORM, STYLE,SPELLING OR GRAMMAR,ONE SHOULD CHECK HIS FIRST. HE HAS THE AUDACITY OF APOLOGIZING FOR HIS OWN SPELLING AND GRAMMAR AT THE END OF HIS LONG WIT. I STRONGLY THINK THAT IT IS PERFECTLY RIGHT TO QUALIFY FOODS AS "HEALTHY" AS IN FOODS "CONDUCIVE TO HEALTH".
Reply
12-02-2007 @ 10:11AM
Liz said...
What's making us ill is our love/hate relationship with food, a diversion from other issues, activities.
Make your meals from scratch, do not rely on deli or packaged food, eat for one person rather than 10, and relax. Fish, fruits, vegetables, oatmeal, nuts, some meat if that's what you like, etc., chocolate ice cream (not the whole container.) Get some exercise and go do something else rather than focus on food -- and the TV.
Food holds us hostage when it's not at all the problem. Our inactive, bored lifestyle is what's killing us, not food.
Reply
12-02-2007 @ 10:47AM
michael said...
It's alway's what you eat,not how much.A glass of red wine once in a while.A happy way of staying healthy.
Reply
12-02-2007 @ 11:22AM
Evelyn said...
Very misleading saying yogart and fruit is not healthy - please be more specific. There is nothing wrong with eating plain yogart and with fresh fruit added. The problem arises when you grab the quick and easy processed yogart with tons of added sugar and tiny amounts of over processed fruit. The real key here is to buy from the outside edges of the store where the unrefined, unprocessed foods are and read the labels of what processed food you do buy.
Reply
12-02-2007 @ 11:57AM
Camille said...
Hey Bob,
Mrs Hall notwithstanding, English is a living language, so it will change as its usage does. When the word "impact" began being used as a verb, I was annoyed, but it has gained general usage, so I let it go. Now we have "ginormous," which sounds strange, but not to those who use it. You can try to operate as the Grammar Police, or relax & go with the flow. Or you could become an English teacher! That said, I miss the days when most people could read, write, spell & communicate clearly. Now, they grunt, mumble & butcher written the word.
Reply
12-02-2007 @ 12:01PM
Jackie said...
I had to learn how to eat all over again - I ate what I considered to be healthy/good food. I eat fresh or frozen vegetables now...and I nothing processed. Fast food is out - I have fast food at my home (fruit, vegetables). I have lost 40 lbs. in the last 6 months by throwing out the salt shaker, throwing out canned foods...and calories at 1500-1800 depending on my activity. Prior to learning the right way - I was eating 4,000-8,000 mg. of sodium per day by eating "light" dressing...taco soup (w/canned veggies)..and I in turn found myself on blood pressure meds and having blood sugar issues.... Now - after cutting back and losing the weight - I am off everything and feel great. I would have never had this discipline in my 20s...but, I am in my 40s and it was time to make a decision. And I chose life. Cut the crap...life is too short the way it is.
Reply