Healthy. It must be...

Healthy.  It must be healthy if... There are a lot of words or phrases that can complete the rest of this sentence.  Just because a food comes from a certain supermarket promoting whole foods or organic goodness does not mean that eating an abundance of sugarcoated candied nuts is a healthy choice.  A delicious one, maybe, but a healthy one, maybe not.

The same goes for cooking methods or food ingredients.  Fried foods scream "I'm fat! Eat me now!" Most foods prepared via the deep fryer or other lard application will have a higher calorie count than their non-fried counter parts.  However, the calorie count of foods labeled as "low fat" may also be a calorific shocker to body's level of blubber.  The reason for such high calories in low fat foods is due to the fact that removing fat from food products requires the fat to be replaced by other ingredients.  Quite typically, these ingredients are made from carbohydrates and proteins.  While not as calorie dense as fat, in order to make the food taste just as good, more of them are needed in the product and thus, the product is now equal to if not contains more in calories.  Shocker.

To help avoid the healthy versus non-healthy food dilemma, learn how to properly read the product packaging.  Beyond the nutrition panel found on every food product (food product referring to a manufactured product), there is a list of ingredients that tells exactly what the product is made of.  If an ingredient is not pronounceable, would you want it in your body? Well, that's up to you as you begin to define your own diet but at least now you some truth to what is healthy.  Just as health is personal, so are food and your food choices.

Healthy.  It might not be...


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