Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Closely inspect package labels!

Have you ever checked the sugar content in your low-fat yogurt? It's huge! How about your bacon, tomato sauce, mayonnaise, or ketchup? Sugar is also
in peanut butter, sandwich bread, wine, milk, orange juice and dozens of other commonly consumed products.

Which is more fattening, sugar or fat? Blogger and author Eve O. Schaub writes,
"We had these studies in the 1960s and '70s that said fat was bad. So we removed fat from everything. But then how do you make it taste good? Let's put sugar in it. And it turns out that may have been the exact wrong thing to do."

Special K, promoted as a diet-friendly cereal, has three teaspoons of added sugar per 100 grams.

Go here to read why glucose is okay for you, while fructose is not.

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