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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Get out your shopping list – and cross these “healthy” items OFF your list...


Some of the seemingly healthy items in your grocery cart are anything but. 

Reader’s Digest has a list of what to put back:

• Veggie Burgers: The processed, frozen varieties have more fillers than actual vegetables.

• Sliced Ham: Most brands have about 1/3 of your daily sodium in one serving.

• Energy Bars: Praise the marketing geniuses who figured out a way to sell these “healthy” snacks that often more sugar and calories than some candy bars.

• Bran Muffins: Depending on the size, a bran muffin can have more calories and sugar than a doughnut.

• Multigrain Bread: Words like “multigrain” “wheat” and “7 grain” don’t mean all that much. Refined grains can actually spike your sugar and trigger cravings.

• Reduced-fat Peanut Butter: The fat from nuts is GOOD for us. Get the real deal.

• Couscous: This exotic-looking grain is really just a tiny pasta.

• Sushi: One California roll is equivalent to eating two sandwiches filled with imitation crab meat. A spicy tuna roll is like adding another one and a half tuna sandwiches with full-fat mayo.

• Rice Cakes: So light and so airy—and chock full of sodium and carbs.

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