Are the Healthier Choices on Your Menu Really Healthy?
Most people can relate to starting a new fitness regimen or diet with positive expectations only to be told by a friend “oh my, that’s the worst thing you can do!” If you have two doctors even they may disagree on what’s healthy and what’s not healthy. When consumers go out to eat they look at choices on the menu that have calorie counts or other information that will help them eat according to their particular needs and goals, but often the information is not entirely accurate. What to do? Defining the word “healthy” is even a debatable issue because everyone has their own idea. Some consumers have interpreted “healthy” to mean made or grown without toxic chemicals. Others defined it as naturally growing in the world and minimally processed by humans before being sold. Some even suggested that healthy means absolutely no preservatives of any kind, while others simply think of it as low fat, low salt, or low sugar — or some combination of the above. People today are running a...