6. Commercial Salad Dressings Vegetables are very healthy. They’re loaded with nutrients, antioxidants, soluble fibre and various goodies. For this reason, salads are usually very healthy meals. However, a lot of people don’t like the bland taste of vegetables, so they add dressing to their salads. The problem with most commercial dressings is that they’re made with nasty ingredients like soybean oil and high fructose corn syrup. It is much better to make your own dressing. Something with extra virgin olive oil, vinegar and some spices is a much healthier option. Obviously, salad dressings can also be very high in calories and it is easy to consume a lot of them, which can be a major problem. Bottom Line: Most commercial salad dressings contain unhealthy ingredients like high fructose corn syrup and soybean oil. It is much better to make your own. 7. Fruit Juices Fruit juice is often perceived as healthy… it comes from fruit, right? Well, not always. Sometimes “fruit juice” is actually just fruit flavored sugar water. There may not even be any actual fruit in there… it may just be water, sugar and some chemicals that taste like fruit. But even IF you can get your hands on real, 100% fruit juice, you still shouldn’t be drinking it (or at least not much). The problem with fruit juice, is that it’s like fruit except with all of the good stuff taken out. Whole fruits do contain some sugar, but it is bound within the fibrous cell walls, which slows down the release of the sugar into the bloodstream. But fruit juice is different… there’s no fibre, no chewing resistance and nothing to stop you from downing massive amounts of sugar in a matter of seconds. One cup of orange juice contains almost as much sugar as two whole oranges. The sugar content of fruit juice is actually very similar to sugar-sweetened beverages like Coca Cola. So… eat whole fruit, but avoid fruit juice if you’re trying to lose weight. Bottom Line: Fruit juice is high in sugar, but has no fibre. It is very easy to consume massive amounts of sugar from fruit juice.
Posted on: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 08:27:07 +0000
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