We think we’re being healthy but we’re getting tricked by extra calories and sugars.  A calorie is energy, and the amount of energy we burn up and use each day makes the difference of how our bodies turn out to be.

Professional athletes and body builders like to eat a lot, so that they have a lot of energy to burn, so in the end does it really matter of what is healthy and what’s not?

Whenever you get up and eat breakfast in the morning, are you really eating as healthy as you think?  A famous quick and grab breakfast is pop tarts.  Strawberry pop tarts may have actual strawberries in them, but the problem is it’s the ninth ingredient in the list, six slots below high-fructose corn syrup.

Or how about Kellogg’s Smart Start?  On the box it has so many healthy words and convinces you this is a healthy cereal.  Unfortunately, these oats are covered in an unsavory mix of sugar, canola oil with TBHQ (Tertiary-Butyl hydroquinone) and citric acid to preserve freshness, molasses, and honey.

Instead, a healthy choice to start your day off would be Frosted Mini-Wheats Bite Size.  Not only does it have three grams of protein, but it also has 45% of a child’s daily iron and a whole host of B vitamins.

We all know that fast food restaurants aren’t necessarily good for us.  For fun, let’s consider the average fast-food dinner of burger, fries and a soda has gone from a simple meal, to something ridiculous.

Since the 1970s the typical serving size for soft drinks has increased by 49 calories; for French fries by 68 calories; and for hamburgers by 97 calories.  Eating this standard fast-food meal once a week will give you 11,128 more calories a year or three pounds extra body weight than the same meal your parents ate when they were kids.

People nowadays don’t know what healthy is because healthy food tends to get pretty pricey and people find it more convenient just to get something unhealthy and fast food rather than taking the time and money to get a salad.