It is essential to a good, healthy diet for you to READ THE LABELS ON YOUR FOOD!
Cut high fructose corn syrup out of your diet completely. Yes it is made from corn but you won't find HFCS in nature and it's bad, bad, bad. It contributes to obesity, diabetes, hypertension, suppresses the chemical in our bodies that tell us we are full and more. Besides soda (which we have already talked about), it is found in many otherwise healthy foods like yogurt, whole wheat bread, food bars, vitamin water drinks and sports drinks. Condiments such as ketchup, BBQ sauce, pickle relish and most salad dressings. It is also in candy, and other "snack" foods, especially food marketed to children. Your body has a "cap" so to speak, for the amount of sucrose that it can take. The worst thing about HFCS, however, is that your body doesn't recognize it, so therefore it does not have that natural cap. That is why maybe one candy bar is enough, but you can have 5 sodas in a day.
Here are some other bad bad things to avoid. Hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils. Trans fat. Think shortening. Now imagine a big scoop of that in your children's peanut butter, a Costco muffin or chicken McNuggets (which we have also talked about. YUCK!). The food industry is doing better with this one, but check your chips, cookies anything fried, and of course, your peanut butter.
I am so glad that you put on here to aviod HFCS. Like you said that stuff is BAD for you......very, very, very unhealthy. I used to buy fruit snacks and yoplait yogurt for our family all the time. At around the beginning of the year I started looking at the ingredients and was suprised at the amount of food that had HFCS in it!! Two things that I switched is the fruit snacks and the yogurt. I now buy "Fruit Leather" which is all natural and I buy the "Tillamook Yogurt" We should really think about what we are putting into our bodies and what we are feeding are kids. A lot of the things we feed our kids is taking years off of their live and so many people don't realize it. I love your tips Brittany!!! Keep them coming ;]
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