How can you eat well when you hate veggies? That's a question many wannabe health nuts are asking themselves. You see, eating well would be easy if healthy things tasted like French fries, but unfortunately, that's not how things work. But the good news is that you can learn to like healthy things. I know because I did -- now I prefer fresh veggies to junk food any day of the week.

eDiets recently revealed five ways you can learn to love the foods you're not crazy about:

• Try them again. Growing up, I hated tomatoes. Now I love. Go figure. Your tastes change so don't be afraid to give something another try.
  
• Broaden your horizons. There are more vegetables than brussel sprouts and cauliflower, so if you don't like certain ones, go on the hunt for others that you might enjoy.
  
• Compromise. You might like full-fat dairy, but it's better for your waistline if you opt for skim. If you can't stand skim, find a middle ground, like a smaller glass of 1%. The same goes with all fat-rich foods.
  
• Eat foods that soak up flavour. Tofu and mushrooms are two good-for-you foods that take on whatever flavour you're cooking them with, making them as yummy as you want them to be.
  
• Cover it up. Still can't stand veggies? Find a favourite salad dressing, and enjoy them in conjunction. Hey, veggies with dressing is better than no veggies at all.
  

How did you learn to like healthy foods?

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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:



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You can bet that when our parents and grandparents were growing up, the grocery store wasn't full of low-fat, omega-3-enriched, antioxidant-infused foods. In those days, 100-calorie packs would be seen for what they are -- a rip-off. Things were what they were, without flashy labels and empty promises. And yet, with all the low-fat food in our grocery stores, the population as a whole is much heavier than we were even a few decades ago. These so-called health foods aren't doing much for our health, it appears. Which brings up a very interesting question: Are they what's making us fat?

A new study shows that if you view an item as healthy, you tend to overeat said item. So while it might not be the item itself that's making you fat, it's your perception of it. This is understandable -- when I have butter in the fridge, I don't use it nearly as liberally as I would olive oil, even though the two items probably have roughly the same amount of calories.

So here are some things to keep in mind: Fat-free doesn't mean calorie-free. Healthy fats are better for you, but they have just as many calories as unhealthy fats. And just because the commercial says it's a healthy choice, chances are it's not. Be your own diet detective.

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