Don't Be Tricked By Deceptive Food Marketing

If you buy a lot of packaged foods, but don't take much time to read the labels, chances are you're being duped by some of these products.

I recently came across a helpful video by Natural News TV, which does a pretty good job of exposing some of the practices of big companies like Kellogg and General Mills.

Pretty pictures of "whole" foods on the front of product packages may give the impression that those foods contain a good proportion of healthy ingredients. But, perhaps you wouldn't expect to find "blueberry bits" listed in the ingredients of a product displaying fresh blueberries on the front of the pack.

And, what exactly are blueberry bits anyway? Think, sugar, partially hydrogenated oils and artificial colors -- certainly not the healthy addition to your diet you may have thought you were making.

Investigative journalist Mike Adams for Natural News TV, exposes the unhealthy ingredients and dishonest marketing of big companies in the video below, using blueberry products as the example:

If you're unsure whether a product is a good option or not, just read the ingredients list. If the list is as long as your arm, you can be sure the food isn't a healthy choice. Also, if it contains ingredients like artificial colors, high fructose corn syrup, or hydrogenated fats, just give it a miss, and go for some fresh produce instead.

Anything which requires lots of marketing to sell itself probably isn't a good option -- you don't need to put a fancy label on an apple to tell people it's a great choice, do you?

Have you been duped by deceptive marketing in the past?

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