Lately I’ve been doing a lot of research on healthier options for eating, more whole foods and meals that are easy to cook, taste decent, and are filling. I’ve been looking at fiber rich, low glycemic index foods that fill you up from trusted sources of information like the government and universities.

But suddenly I’m now a prime target of the internet for the hawkers of diet foods. Much of which are anything but healthy – often high in added sugar, loaded with calories and heavily processed removing much of the nutritional value of the food.

Some examples of the advertising I’m seeing:

• “Low fat” fortified with vegetables snack crackers
• Fiber brownies
• Greek yogurt with built in fruit
• Microwave lean cuisine
• Meal services packed in styrofoam and plastic
• Vitamin pills of all sorts

All the kind of processed unhealthy foods you should be staying away from – often with a high mark up that uses up your money that could be spent on healthier foods.

Probably the only thing most of these health foods is healthy for is the burn barrel as all the plastic burns hot. But stay up wind of all that plastic and remember that a too hot of a fire will cause premature rust, just like eating too much processed foods will cause premature death.