In your daily diet, be wary of fake or subpar health foods or foods that appear healthy, as they may contain very high calories. Some of these are obvious, while others are so hidden that you can't even tell they contain high calories after eating them. It is these foods that cause you to consume a large number of calories. The following are typical examples of such foods. Soup
People often think of soup as a low-calorie, filling food. Your planned lunch might be crisp crackers with a delicious fat-free salad (Warning! See below) and a healthy soup. But unfortunately, the calories and fat in such a soup can be as much as in New England clam chowder or cream of broccoli soup.
Morse: Most soups are healthy, but soups made with a milk or cream base contain a lot of fat, with an average of over 300 calories per 8-12 ounces.
Sugar-free Cookies
Sugar-free cookies are often considered fat-free foods. People often think that by removing bad ingredients like sugar and fat from a food recipe, the food becomes low-calorie or even calorie-free.
In other words, people give themselves a license to eat all the cookies because they are calorie-free. This idea is completely wrong, because sugar-free does not mean it is good for your health.
Morse: You can discover this fact by carefully checking the outer packaging. The calories in foods labeled "fat-free" or "sugar-free" are not much different from those in their more flavorful, full-fat counterparts in the same product line.
Pork
Is this the new white meat?
Whether the pork in front of you is as low in calories as chicken or as high in fat as a hot dog depends entirely on where it was cut from. Even if the meat is pure lean, the seasonings and cheese added to make it more tender will still cause its calorie count to soar.
Morse: What determines whether pork is healthy is only which part of the pig it comes from, not anything else. But whether the lean cuts from the pork loin and sirloin are a healthy food or a fat bomb depends on how it is cooked. Coffee
A morning without coffee is unimaginable, and you'd like to hear that coffee is a healthy food.
Morse: Plain coffee is indeed low in calories, but it is the seemingly innocent addition of coffee creamer that leads you away from the low-calorie path. Some coffee drinks or coffee with certain flavorings can contain a large number of calories. I have seen one coffee drink that contains over 1000 calories per 16 ounces.
Salad Dressing
This seemingly healthy food, salad dressing, has been proven to hide a large number of calories.
Hall: Some studies have shown that for women who eat large amounts of salad, 60% of their total daily fat intake comes from salad dressing.
Add some cheese, or a few pieces of bacon, or some croutons, and your lunch becomes less healthy, undermining your dietary structure.
Breakfast Stand
Don't be fooled by the packaging
Hall: Some breakfast stands look healthy, even with health logos on the packaging, but just look at the extra sugar and actual calories in the ingredients of these foods, and you'll find they really contain a lot of calories. You can expose the lies on the packaging by looking at what's listed first in the ingredients list. If the first two or three ingredients are high in fructose, you should be wary that they are high in calories. And the food offered at breakfast stands is exactly like this.
Orange Juice and Soda
In the morning you drank a bottle of orange juice, and in the afternoon you drank a bottle of soda. Do you know that you have already consumed over 400 calories from these drinks?
Lewisky: People often think of orange juice and soda just as drinks and don't consider their calorie content at all. But they do increase people's calorie intake. There is no drink with fewer calories than water. You might think that this extra food and drink every day won't add many calories, but think about the long-term consequences?
Low-Calorie, Low-Fat Foods
Lewisky: People think a piece of cake labeled "low-calorie" has no calories, and then they eat the whole thing. But in reality, low-fat or low-calorie does not mean you can eat the entire cake. You must pay attention to its calorie content, because low-calorie does not mean calorie-free. Dried Fruits and Cereal
Foods like raisins, dried apples, and dried apricots look healthy on the surface, but they actually hide more calories than they should contain.
Lewisky: Dried fruits contain no water, which makes their calorie concentration very high. Eating a handful is fine, but if you think they are low-calorie and can sit down and eat a whole bag of dried fruit, you are wrong. The same goes for cereal. Cereal sounds great, but it actually contains a lot of calories, and you must be careful about how much you eat.
Nuts
Lewisky: Overall, nuts are healthy; they are rich in protein and vitamins. But it's worth noting that nuts are only healthy when you eat a small serving. However, most people don't stop after eating a small bowl of peanuts; once you start eating peanuts, it's not easy to stop. Nuts are high in calories, so if you're eating a large bag of nuts, be careful.