Make healthy choices in the grocery aisle -

Resist the marketing deception connected with food

By Mike Geary Certified Personal Trainer

Standing in the grocery aisle the other day, I stopped shopping and found myself overcome with disgust at all the dishonest labels alleging the contents of the package are "healthy" when it's obvious that the food being advertised is not healthy at all.

Healthy foods in their natural state are being mimicked and processed into counterfeit varieties of these foods. These processed fakes are asserting their "healthy" properties and even claiming to be healthier than the organic version of they are imitating.

But in truth, the fakes are tremendously bad for your health. The original, organic versions of these foods are good for you, yet the counterfeit versions have the gall to assert that these processed junk food are healthier.

This is the worst possible food marketing lies.

First Example: Food alleging it is "better than peanut butter"

How ridiculous is this assertion? There is no possibility that this junk product is more beneficial to the body than natural peanut butter. Who would fall for that?

If you select a simple peanut butter--preferably organic--there are literally only two ingredients listed on the label. Literally, it's that simple: just salt and peanuts. What's even better? There is not even salt to cause the product to be excessively high in sodium.

Now, as a comparison, pick up a jar of this fake peanut butter and check out its label. Ignore the lies on the jar claiming that it is "better than peanut butter" and peruse the actual ingredients. One of the worst things they do is remove all the healthy, beneficial fats from the peanuts themselves. This is create a "low fat" product. The healthiest feature of peanut butter is the healthy fats within the peanuts. These satiate your appetite and help you manage cravings and stabilize your blood sugar levels.

As bad as it was to take out the healthy fats contained in the peanuts, they substituted not one, but two distinct varieties of sugary syrups in its place. They also included dehydrated cane juice (a fancy word for sugar) as well as refined starches.

Why would you take something as simple as natural peanut butter and altered it into nothing more than processed candy and junk. It's no longer peanut butter at all, but instead, it's a junk food. Yet the label maintains that it's "healthier than peanut butter." And somehow it's legal to make these false claims. How many people are actually fooled by this label? Avoid being the fool of these manufacturers.

Second example: Foods alleging they are "better than eggs."

This topic was discussed in detail in a separate newsletter, so I will refrain from fully explaining it again here.

Essentially, all this product entails is mere egg whites mixed with chemicals, like flavorings and colors. They also include fake "vitamins" and "supplements."

So we have yet another food that has been destroyed by someone taking out the healthiest part of the food, the egg's YOLKS! This is the healthiest piece of the entire egg, although many people do not know this. If someone says otherwise, they are merely demonstrating their own lack of knowledge about the topic. Whole eggs are organic. You should also look for "cage-free" eggs. These qualities indicate healthy eggs.

If you didn't get to read my previous discussion of eggs and egg whites, you can read it here:

Which Are Healthier: Egg Whites or Whole Eggs?

Third Example: A product alleging it is "better than butter."

I picked up a tub of gross margarine, which was cramped full of highly processed, trans fats, which are deadly to your overall health. And this product's label proclaimed it "better than butter."

Yeah, it's really not.

The lowest quality butter on the market is entirely healthier than any margarine you can purchase. Butter does have its issues. Pesticides and hormones injected from cows who are not raised the way they should be pollute the butter.

You want to select organic butter. You can look for labels that say "grass fed butter." Those products are healthy and good for you. But typical butter isn't. If you add some organic butter to your vegetables as you steam them, you help your body to take in even more of the minerals and vitamins of the vegetables than you would otherwise.

Saturated fats in butter really make butter the preferred oil to cook your vegetables with rather than processed oils and junk products. Products which contain high levels of polyunsaturated fats are terrible to ingest or cook with. These products are very unstable.

Saturated fat in butter is actually quite good for you to eat. We've previously discussed this so I hope this is a topic we can table in the future.

Mike Geary
Certified Nutrition Specialist
Certified Personal Trainer
Founder - TruthAboutAbs.com

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