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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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