Some health food is not necessarily healthy.

Health food is readily available in many retail outlets. But health food such as whole-wheat breads, crackers, and pastas, for starters, might not even be available if it weren't for health food stores. No yogurt and soy milk, either. Not even brown rice, bulgur, herbal teas, or granola, for goodness' sake.

HHealth food such as this, and many others, are now available in the supermarket, but they got their start in health food stores. And health food stores are still the only places you can find foods that have yet to hit the mainstream. What's more, health food stores have the biggest stocks of organic foods, and many now carry a tantalizing selection of freshly cooked, out-of-this-world salads, soups, breads, and entrees, many of them made with top-quality whole foods.

But some "health food" found in health food stores, for all their merits, are anything but healthful. They may have "organic," "natural," and other virtuous-sounding claims splashed all over their designer packages, but what's inside is no better-and is sometimes worse-than what you might find in the supermarket.

When shopping for health food, be sure to check the labels for nutritional information. You may be surprised at the amount of fat, salt, "bleached" starches and calories contained in some items. Just because an item is sold in a health food store doesn't mean it does not deserve the same scrutiny as other mainstream products. It is safe to say that not all food sold in a health food store can be categorized, fairly, as health food.

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