Welcome to the Get Fit Guys, quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Guy. And in today's episode, I'm going to tell you about

five foods that aren't as healthy as you'd think. Now, I have a master's degree in exercise physiology, a

certification in sports nutrition, and over a decade of follow-up studies, thousands of books read,

and ongoing continuing education units. Yet, I find it flabbergasting to see the same foods

get marketed over and over again as, unquote healthy foods for fit people. Foods

that I personally used and accepted as healthy for a very long period of time prior to finally

realizing that they weren't doing my body, brain, or biomarkers any favors at all.

Now, in no order of importance, here are five such foods that fit people get fooled into thinking

are healthy. Number one is nut butter. While peanut butter, which is technically a legume,

not a nut, is the biggest culprit and tends to be comprised of moldy, rancid peanuts, and high

amounts of sugar, salts, and vegetable oil, many fitness enthusiasts are

stuffing themselves full of hundreds of hidden calories from just about every other form of nut butter marketed as health food.

So think about it this way. If you had to shell each nut you ate, how many nuts would you eat?

Especially if weight loss or weight control is your goal, that might be a single handful.

Shelling can be exhausting. And that single handful, brace yourself, comes out to not much more than

a teaspoon of nut butter, and not the two to three tablespoons of almond, cashew, peanut, and other

nut butters so commonly consumed and so easy to consume in large amounts and shake, smoothies, and

straight out of the jar.

A healthy alternative would be maybe just a handful of soaked, sprouted, or raw almonds,

or a teaspoon of nut butter, not tablespoons and tablespoons in your smoothie.

Next is whole wheat bread.

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