7 'healthy foods' that are making you fat
Running late to work, you grab a tetra-pack breakfast drink from the fridge to down on the train. You smugly turn down office birthday cake from Adriano Zumbo, and snack on a mini chocolate protein bar instead. Over a weekend catch up, you turn down bacon and eggs in favour of a "healthy start" smoothie. You're being good, you tell yourself.
Yep, food marketers have nailed the busy-but-healthy market, slapping buzz words such as "healthy", "organic" and "protein-packed" all over processed foods promising to help you beat the bulge. There's a reason why fruit, vegetables and nuts don't have fancy marketing campaigns. You may not make much money from a mandarin, but cover a chocolate-like bar with a shiny wrapper and feel-good phrases, and you have a nice little meal ticket.
Aside from robbing your wallet, those packaged foods, generally lurking in the health aisle of the supermarket or perched on the shelves of a natural foods store, are packed with artificial nasties and sugars, which affect your energy levels, metabolism and err, bottom line. In fact, they are probably contributing to that fetching winter coat some of us are prone to form.
We asked nutritionists to break down the worst offenders, so you can save your calories for food that actually taste good.
1. Low-fat flavoured yoghurt
