Eating healthy is hard. If you ask the fittest person you know, even they are likely to tell you how hard it can be to stay on the straight and narrow and eat healthy consistently.
This is due in part to an enterprising food industry that wants people to eat more than they need.
The agriculture system in the United States produces twice as much food as we need, according to the USDA Research Service.
This abundance of food encourages creative marketing to unload excess food and maximize profits.
If the food manufacturers were out to boost our health more than profits, it might be a little easier to eat healthily.
But, like any business, they have to make money to stay alive.
So they package foods as "healthy," "smart," and "natural" as an easy way to make a quick buck.
Unfortunately, some of those "healthy" foods aren't any healthier than the foods you are trying to give up.
According to a study by Penn State in 2015, found that the more fitness-branded foods dieters bought, the more they ate and less they exercised.
If you're trying to eat a healthier diet, the first thing you need to do is read the nutrition label.
A general rule of thumb is the fewer ingredients a food has, the healthier it is.
Foods with only one ingredient are usually the best. So, lettuce, chicken, apples, other foods like this that don't need a nutrition label are the foods that you should gravitate towards.
And, we'll list six foods below that you should avoid at all costs.
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