7 foods you may think are healthy
By Lizzy
@lizzyt2007 (1312)
Craig, Alaska
December 1, 2007 11:44am CST
Wow I can't believe what I learned from this news article. What do you think? the top 7 are- Granola bars, Tea drinks, Pretzels, muffins, Rice cakes, Fruit-Flavored snacks (gummies), Frozen Yogurt. Its interesting what we don't know about food. I knew some of these were bad for your health and some just shocked me. One of the foods here I enjoy is rice cakes and I thought for sure that they were cood for you considering they made out of rice. Also Granola bars I knew most store brands are loaded with sugar its hard to find the actually healthy ones. All ese fails I guess it would be healthy to make them yourself I guess. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22027686/
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@fortunebee (509)
• Philippines
1 Dec 07
This is a very informative discussion. Just a few days ago, I was suggesting to a friend to try and eat granola bars because it will keep you healthy and basing on the ingredients that it's made of, but reading the article, I was wrong and it has a point. I love to cook myself but we don't have the space to cook, we don't have a kitchen to cook. We rent a room without a kitchen and it would be great if I can prepare our food from scratch. I know and feel the difference if you fully rely on the premade/preservative full type of food as oppose to food that can be prepared from scratch or altered with fresh ingredients. Thank you for the information!
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@lizzyt2007 (1312)
• Craig, Alaska
2 Dec 07
no problem. I know how you feel missing a kitchen to cook in. I used to live in a room with a bathroom, and I bought a microwave and that was my stove in the bathroom. It was nice of someone to put a huge cupboard in the bathroom cause that was my food pantry. That was 4 years ago and I hope never to live like that again. I hated it. thankfully at the time I had no kids to take care of. but now I have a kitchen in my appartment I am still learning to cook the basics by scratch. I never done this before. All my years living by myself I always bought microve food and oven food and stove top food to cook. You know the stuff that takes maybe a 1hr or less.
@wooitsmolly (3613)
• United States
1 Dec 07
It seems like very rarely are foods healthy anymore and you have to read labels very carefully to figure out what exactly you are eating. I had been eating some really yummy whole wheat bagels for months thinking they were good for me until I read the ingredients one day and saw that high fructose corn syrup was the number two ingredient. Needless to say I don't eat those anymore. I love pretzels and I always thought they were healthy, but I also get reduced sodium ones because the regular ones are just too salty for me. I wish I was a good cook then I would make a lot of my own foods, but really I am the worst cook ever and every time I try a recipe I mess it up somehow.. so I have to stick with what I find at the store. I try to buy mostly fruits and vegetables though.
@lizzyt2007 (1312)
• Craig, Alaska
2 Dec 07
I know what you mean when it comes to food I think is healthy, I try to remember before buying to read the ingredients and I try to buy food that is low in calories and low in sodium and sugar. I try to feed my son food that don't have any partial hydrogenated anything, and thats hard to do. I found the only cookies I can buy for house is Oreo cookies. thats the only one with out partial hydrogenated oils. Yes it has fructose corn syrup, I don't know much about the ingredient all I know is its high in sugar. When you mention cooking I am still learning to cook. I can most of the time not mess up on recipes. I am working on that still, cause I hate buying pre made food its to expensive.
@happythoughts (4109)
• United States
2 Dec 07
Healthy foods are getting harder and harder to find. We are getting so used to being able to go to the store and buy a dinner that is just a few minutes away from our table and take little or no work from us. It is even gettinghard to find the foods and supplys you need to create a home cooked meal. Epidemic.
@lizzyt2007 (1312)
• Craig, Alaska
3 Dec 07
I know what you mean. I don't know much about cooking from scratch I am learning. I do notice though its hard to find certain ingredients I hate that. So I just try to find very simple recipes that have ingredients I can find. I want to eventually make those meals that you see as tv dinners but mine will be from scratch and healther I hope. I want my son to eat better then those. I don't even buy those unhealthy meals.
@sophylline (1041)
• Philippines
2 Dec 07
Hi lizzyt. I have been aware of some of these foods that are actually unhealthy, though generally may be seen healthy by most people. What I have not really been aware of are pretzels and rice cakes. I've always thought of them as healthy. But then I guess, it really is important to read the labels. I'm glad you have posted this for others' awareness. I have read also that most frozen yoghurts do not anymore contain the live and good bacteria because they get killed once they are frozen.
@lizzyt2007 (1312)
• Craig, Alaska
3 Dec 07
I am glad to help others learn more about health. I know what you mean the rice cakes and the pretzols shocked me too. I have eatten rice cakes for years thinking since their made out of rice they got to be good for you, But I guess I'll just read more food labels before making the judge this is really healthy to eat.
