13 'health' foods you're better off avoiding by Erin Brodwin on Mar 28, 2016, 10:52 AM Advertisement
 We're all familiar with them — foods we think are healthy because we heard them somewhere on the news or from a health-conscious friend. And no matter how much we may dislike them, we just keep buying them because we think they're good for us. Take swapping your dairy milk for almond milk. Is liquid from nuts really nutritionally superior to milk from a cow? Or splurging on pink Himalayan sea salt. Healthy habit or a little bit of nonsense We asked Andy Bellatti, a registered dietitian and the co-founder of the group Dietitians for Professional Integrity, for advice on what "health foods" are worth eating and which aren't. The answers to these questions might surprise you. Have some we missed? Send them along to science(at)businessinsider.com. SEE ALSO: What the author of 'Eat Fat, Get Thin' eats — and avoids — every day DON'T MISS: 11 common myths about the brain that need to be smashed Multivitamins  Close to half of American adults take vitamins every day. Yet decades' worth of research hasn't found any justification for our pill-popping habit. That isn't to say we don't need small amounts of vitamins to survive — without vitamins like A, C, and E, for example, we have a hard time turning food into energy and can develop conditions like rickets or scurvy. Here's the thing: Research shows we get more than enough of these substances from what we eat, so no need for a pill!
Almond butter  Everything from Gwyneth Paltrow's daily breakfast smoothie to the grocery store around the corner now seems to contain almond butter, but the stuff is incredibly pricey. So we asked Andy Bellatti, a registered dietitian and the co-founder of the group Dietitians for Professional Integrity, what the harm was in substituting almond butter for plain old peanut butter, which is roughly four times cheaper. "It can just be peanut butter!" says Bellatti. "If the only ingredients are peanuts and salt, that totally works. It's still going to have your protein, healthy fats, and vitamin E."
Juice  When you juice fresh fruits and veggies, you remove all of their fiber, the key ingredient that keeps you feeling full and satisfied until your next meal. What you keep is the sugar. In the short term, a high-sugar, low-protein diet means constant hunger pangs, mood swings, and low energy. In the long term, you can lose muscle mass since muscles rely on protein.
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