Super Healthy or Super Trendy?
By Linda Vongkhamchanh
8 Super Foods & Products
"Super" is the new trend, but is it just that—a trend? Our health editor-at-large, Madelyn Fernstrom, Ph.D., CNS, weighs in on popular foods and products to tell you if the added “super” ingredients make your purchase worth the money.
“It’s great to have yogurt, but it’s more important that it’s lower in fat and lower in sugar than if it has acai or blueberries in it,” she says. Read your ingredients—blueberries and acai aren’t in the top five for Yoplait’s Yo-Plus Acai Blueberry yogurt, so you probably won’t benefit from them.
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Comments
Date: 02/09/2010 - 08:48 am
I have been taking the latest craze of acai berry it a supplement form and I am really enjoying the results so far I think it works great as a detox and it is helping boost my weight loss. I really believe in super fruits. I try to buy an innocent smoothie as well but I recently heard they had a lot of sugar in?
Date: 09/18/2009 - 02:51 pm
Thanks for your article.