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"Healthy" Foods Can Sabotage Your Diet |
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By Mark Huffman March 6, 2007
Spanish version
"These are the foods we naturally look to as we try to lose extra pounds; however, they are the ones that we need to be careful about," says Dee Rollins, PhD, R.D., dietitian with Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine. Case in point -- granola. "Everyone thinks granola bars are wonderful and yet if you turn it over and look at the ingredients you'll see that it has high fructose corn syrup and a lot of sugars," adds Dr. Rollins. In fact, the average granola bar contains more than 300 calories and 10 grams of fat -- not a healthy snack at all. Now what about some of those bran cereals? "You'll find that there's a lot of hidden sugar, perhaps even some hidden salt, even a little fat in those cereals that you don't anticipate finding," Rollins said. The meat aisle is no safer -- a pound of ground turkey can really ruffle a dieter's feathers, sometimes containing more fat grams than a pound of ground beef. "If you flip that label over and read the ingredients, you'll see that it's high salt, maybe they added some fat, maybe they added some sugar and those products might not be as healthy as you think they are," Rollins said. And don't look down the bread aisle for any less deceptive packaging. "Multi-grain, honey wheat, seven-grain ... we're looking at all of those names and inside that brown bread wrapper we think it's going to be a really good product," he said. But experts say it's actually 'whole grain' that's the only indication that it's a truly healthy buy. And the ultimate in diet deception -- "low-fat." "When they take the fat out they almost always put the sugar in so check the calorie count. There's probably more calories in a low-fat or low-carbohydrate product than in a regular product," Rollins said.
And here are some other "healthy" foods to watch out for:
So what exactly should you look for when reading labels? According to Rollins, concentrate on three things -- sodium, fat and total calories. Then read through the ingredients and make sure things like salt, sugar and corn syrup aren't at the top. Report Your Experience
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