So you’re at the grocery store and you pick up a box of some food item. Whatever it is, let’s pretend like it’s a pre-made soup. So you look at the front of the can. It says, “All Natural!” “Low Sodium” “Healthy for your heart!” with a picture of big, fresh green beans on the front.

It’s gotta be healthy for you, right? It says so on the box! “Healthy for your heart” means it will protect you from heart disease… right? Right?? No! Not even close.

In fact, from my limited experience shopping in grocery stores and coaching people on nutrition and making healthier food choices, the more a packaged food product says it’s good for you on the front of the box, the more unhealthy it tends to be!

Often, the unhealthiest foods are those that pretend to be healthy. Food companies do this for many reasons. First of all, if everyone actually knew how bad their products were for people to eat, no one would buy them! And secondly, food companies want to portray a “good image” to society and so they want to pretend like the food they make is actually helping families and children get healthier, when in fact they are often the cause of so many health problems!

Here are some of the top tricks food companies use to make people think they’re healthy when they’re really not!

1. “All Natural”

All natural, unfortunately, no longer has anything to do with natural. I saw “All Natural” chicken nuggets the other day in the grocery store. I’m no rocket scientist, but last time I checked chickens don’t lay nuggets.

Oftentimes, “all natural” is really just a trick to get you to make a split-second decision to purchase a product without investigating the ingredients list. ALWAYS read the ingredients list!

2. Low Fat

“Low Fat” does not mean healthy! First of all, there is NOTHING wrong with eating fat. You MUST eat fat, and plenty of it, to survive and live a healthy life. Every single cell in your body makes its cell wall (called a Lipid Bi-layer which means a double layer of fat). Without fat, you would die!

Just because a product says “low fat” does not mean it is healthy! In fact, it’s often a sign that the product is very unhealthy for you. Oftentimes, these products contain added sugars, food dyes and artificial flavorings to make up for the fact that they took out the fat by some disgusting chemical process. Avoid anything that says “low fat.”

3. Low Sodium

Again, another trick! Salt is not actually bad for you. Processed, bleached table salt IS bad for you. Any product with a small amount of healthy sea salt will be great for you – these natural sea salts contain hundreds of minerals and nutrients not found in processed table salts. Oftentimes, foods that say “low sodium” are processed foods with other bad chemicals in them.

4. Low Calorie

“Low Calorie” is perhaps the biggest misdirection campaign ever pulled off by the human race. Calories are such a poor marker for nutrition that they are almost completely inconsequential when it comes to determining your health. By teaching people to pay attention to counting calories, food companies have been able to feed the public more and more unhealthy foods simply by manipulating chemical ingredients and serving sizes and talking about the “benefits” of “low calorie” foods.

I’ve never seen a “low calorie” food that didn’t contain one of the following harmful ingredients:

(Processed) Sugar, (Processed) salt, MSG, food dyes, artificial flavors, (Processed) white flour or hydrogenated vegetable oils (Trans Fats).

These ingredients are the real hazards to your health! Not calories.

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