Healthy foods and slimming and detox recipes that are the protagonists of our diets and of our personal “experiments”. We consume them to stay fit, stay healthy, fill up with precious substances, including antioxidants and micronutrients.
Still, don’t overdo it with the fixation on healthy eating, which often becomes a stressful and counterproductive obsession.

In fact, it is one thing to eat healthily, it is another to crucify yourself if one day we ate a croissant at the bar, or to develop anxieties about particular healthy foods in fashion, for example focusing only on quinoa or chia seeds or goji berries.

But without considering that we can stay healthy and fit without even these things.
In short, it is better to treat yourself well and consider food as nourishment, but do not overdo it.

For example, do you know that there are 11 healthful foods that nutrition experts avoid? This is what Time reveals.
Let’s see what they are.

11 healthful foods nutrition experts avoid

1. The smoothies. 
   With the term “smoothie” we often find recipes with as many calories as those of a hamburger. You will tell me that they are not the same thing, but it depends on which smoothie you prefer. If homemade, with 350 calories of vegetables, fruit, yogurt, a few nuts and a little honey, or bought, with 300/400 calories of sugar, thickeners, milk powder, dehydrated or freeze-dried fruit.
   I talk about it here in my Meal Replacement Diet. 
2. Agave nectar or syrup.
   Widely used in the organic industry to sweeten many products, passed off as natural sugar, when a good Italian honey beats any existing agave syrup.
   It is true that it has a lower glycemic index than sugar, but it is not particularly nutritious or safe, and the juice undergoes a refining process to be extracted from the root.
   Find out here what natural sweeteners are. 
3. Foods with added fiber (for example inulin): fruit, vegetables, legumes, nuts, whole grains. Our need for fiber can be naturally covered very well by foods rich in fiber, without resorting to foods to which the fibers are artificially added, such as inulin or chicory root, which can instead cause gas, constipation and other intestinal problems. reducing the absorption of micronutrients.
4. The vegetable chips: they attracted me too, I swear. They are sold in organic shops and even in pharmacies or in some markets. These are vegetable chips, made with dehydrated and salted slices of pumpkin, purple potato, onion, carrot, green beans. They are often a salt bomb to which low quality oil is added. They have almost the same calories as french fries and from the point of view of health they do not bring anything extra, but aesthetically they are colorful …
5. Protein bars.
   Another thing that can be done in a healthier way at home with whole grains, skimmed milk powder, nuts, egg whites to bind and a little honey. Those on the market generally have soy proteins (of dubious origin), additives and sweeteners that not only harm our metabolism, but can cause bloating and intestinal discomfort.
6. Gluten- free products: the gluten-free industry is becoming an even worse danger than the traditional one.
   Many gluten-free foods are loaded with refined rice and corn flours, glucose and fructose syrup, additives. If you are celiac, find better alternatives. The same if you suspect gluten sensitivity. While, for all those who think that gluten makes you fat, avoid jumping from the pan to the grill by buying products that can make you fat twice.
7. Cereal and fruit bars.
   The fact that they are less than 100 calories doesn’t mean they are suitable for your diet. Often they are full of sugar even in different forms, of puffed cereals that have nothing wholemeal, of dehydrated fruit that has been covered with partially hydrogenated oil to ensure their conservation.
8. Low-fat condiments.
   Light mayonnaise, margarine that is present in many vegan products, low-calorie sauces that are sold online, spray oils. All these low-fat products have a high content of additives, dozens and dozens of ingredients with indecipherable names that our intestine does not welcome with exultation, of very low quality vegetable oils that go rancid in our intestine and then go directly to the heart.
   In short, the low fat content does not mean that the fats used will be of quality, nor that the product poor in nutrients but full of chemistry is really light.
9. Salad dressings: see point 8.
10. Vegetable Seed or Nut Butter: From peanut to almond butter, vegetable butter made by shredding oil seeds and nuts is having a golden time. Pay attention to the label. A pinch of salt is fine, but the only ingredient should be the raw material (the peanuts for the peanut butter) and not the canola or sunflower oil and sugar that make a tasty product not so healthy.
11. Yogurt: here many of us have experienced the classic blow to the heart. But how, yogurt? Yes, if it’s not white (whole is fine too). Yes, yogurt can hide sugar by the spoonful if it is fruit or drink. Pay attention to the label.
    Here’s how to recognize, for example , a good Greek yogurt.