Finding Out Something You Were Eating and Thought Was Healthy and it turns out IT ISN'T

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My daughter and I both love ice cream but it's loaded with calories, fat, etc so we searched for an alternative to have as our evening snack. She found these Keto Salted Caramel Almond ice cream bars that were less calories than regular bars and had no sugar. Since she has to watch her sugar we thought these would be perfect. I know I mentioned that she was meeting with a nutritionist and one thing the nutritionist told her was to stop eating these Keto bars. She said they might look heathy but have too much saturated fat (from coconut oil) which will raise bad cholesterol and triglycerides. We were both eating one almost every night as our after dinner snack. So, when the nutritionist told her to stop eating these or at best only have them once in awhile my daughter was mad. I have to say these ice cream bars taste good and certainly what we thought was a good alternative. I recently had my bloodwork done and my cholesterol was a bit higher than last time I had it done but the doctor didn't think it went up enough to be concerned. Here's the kicker....my daughters bloodwork came back with higher cholesterol too. We can both only assume it's the Keto bars that made the spike in our bloodwork and that the nutritionist wasn't really off base when she said they weren't healthy. Makes me wonder how many other things I assume are healthy choices really aren't.