15 'health foods' you're better off avoiding

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We're all familiar with them - foods we think are healthy because we heard about them on the news or from a health-conscious friend. And no matter how much we may dislike them, we keep buying them because we think they're good for us.

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Take swapping dairy milk for almond milk. Is liquid from nuts really nutritionally superior to milk from a cow?

Or splurging on Himalayan sea salt. Healthy habit or a bit of nonsense?

To answer some of those questions, we asked Andy Bellatti, a registered dietitian and the co-founder of the group Dietitians for Professional Integrity, for advice on which "health foods" are actually not worth eating.