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'Healthy' Foods That Are Actually Ruining Your Diet

A nutritionist shares the health food impostors to avoid in order to keep your diet on track.

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Health Food Impostors

Your intentions are healthy, but your choices may not be. Prevent diet sabotage by smartening up about these seemingly-nutritious foods.

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Fat-Free Salad Dressing

Keeping oil out of the bottle means your dressing is mostly water, salt, sugar and thickeners to give it some body. You and your salad would benefit from the healthy fats in olive oil so make your own or shop for a vinaigrette with a simple ingredient list.

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Canned Soup

Opening a can of soup at the end of a busy day may not be the healthy option you bargained for. In addition to the ghastly amounts of sodium that canned soups are famous for there are also plenty of thickeners, coloring agents and other chemicals sealed in those cans. Some brands offer lower sodium varieties that still manage to pack in one-third of your daily dose of salt per serving. Add some fresh veggies and leftover chicken to a low sodium boxed chicken or vegetable broth instead.

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Enhanced Waters

Whether they are spiked with supplemental vitamins, artificial sweeteners, other questionable additives, or all of the above, there are clearly better ways to stay hydrated. Check ingredient labels carefully as many of these beverages are more processed than they seem.

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