Do you know what’s in your foods? Label reading is key for healthy eating, and we believe in it so much we made it a key part of our books, Unjunk Your Junk Food (Gallery Books) and Label Lessons: Your Guide to a Healthy Shopping Cart. If you’re just starting to read labels, we want to make it easy for you to recognize the worst of the worst offenders. Over the course of the three years it took us to write our books, we identified a group of seven ingredients we know cause harm to our bodies. We called them: “THE SCARY SEVEN™.” They are:
1. High-Fructose Corn Syrup