What is healthy food is often considered to be everything in your local health food store. Now, this would be the biggest myth there is in a healthy eating diet plan.

Health food stores buy their products. If the buyer is uneducated in the area of food additives, he could be sold anything and hinder your efforts at eating healthy foods.

For example, I recently went into a health food store that had a sign over the ketchup promoting the ingredient HFCS instead of sugar.

High Fructose Corn Syrup is a man made food additive. It is linked to obesity and diabetes. This is an ingredient that should be avoided and not used instead of sugar. HFCS is not part of eating healthy foods.

Another example is aspartame. This chemical is permitted to be used in supplements even though it is linked to neurological disease. Just this one ingredient has 92 possible different side effects reported to the FDA. This additive is often found in children vitamins. So, read the labels and avoid this ingredient in your healthy eating diet plan. Read the rest of this entry »