14 Diet Foods to Avoid Improve your weight loss plan by avoiding these health diet disasters By Alyssa Shaffer

• Diet Foods That Make You Fat
• Sneaky Salt
• >Fast Food Chicken Caesar Salad
• >Frozen Chicken and Pasta Dinner
• >Boxed Rice Pilaf
• >Fat-Free Cottage Cheese
• Sneaky Sugar
• >Regular Jarred Tomato Sauce
• >Fruit Juice Cocktails
• >Low-Fat Ice Cream
• >Fat-Free Salad Dressing
• Sneaky Fat
• >Baked Veggie Chips
• >Greek Yogurt
• >Movie Theater Popcorn
• >Poultry Sausage
• >Frozen Meatless Indian Dinners

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Diet Foods That Make You Fat

Thanks to confusing labels and unearned reputations, it�s difficult to know what�s good for you

If you�re reading Prevention.com, you�re probably interested in buying the healthiest foods. Just like us, you may even reach automatically for items with a �health halo,� such as spaghetti sauce (love that lycopene!), or labels like reduced fat!, low sodium!, and whole grain! But unless you�re a supersavvy shopper, be warned: Your diet may conceal some nasty surprises. That low-fat cottage cheese you love? It could be higher in sodium than potato chips. And the low-fat dressing you drizzle on your salad? It could contain nearly as much sugar as two chocolate chip cookies.

The truth is that no manufacturer wants to compromise on flavor, so even healthy-sounding products can contain appalling levels of sugar, salt, and bad fats. To save you time, we�ve flushed out some of the most surprising diet food offenders�and found some truly healthy alternatives.

From veggie chips to Greek yogurt, here are 14 �healthy� foods that really aren�t.

See Prevention�s best ready-to-eat food picks.