What I Relearned Today ~ Tip Tuesday

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Mankind has progressed a long way in the last two centuries. We are more enlightened, more educated, and we have the good fortune to live in an age where we are more technologically advanced. Yet perhaps our future generations will think of us as back-woods-people, same as we currently do when we think about people who lived in the year 1837. None the less there have been some discoveries, inventions or manmade creations that we should not embrace.

Cutting to the chase I am specifically talking about our food and the unnatural modifications that we ingest more times a day than we know about, and the addition of some form of sugar to EVERYTHING!

What I relearned today is that there are some foods on the grocery store shelves and in refrigerators that we should avoid if we want to live a healthier life. Three of them, according to *Dr. Amy Lee, on the top of the list of must read the label before you purchase are yogurt, wheat bread, and cereal bars. More importantly what you need to avoid is the sugar content that these seemingly healthy, good for you foods are hiding in their ingredients list or are plainly stated as one of the main ingredients.

All yogurt and bread labels should be read closely, and as for the yogurt, according to Dr. Amy Lee, more than 13 grams of sugar per a 6 ounce serving size is too much sugar. As for the cereal bars, according to me, do not purchase them to eat for breakfast or for what you think is a healthy snack, because they are not healthy. They should only be eaten in the same manner you or your family eat candy bars, as in NEVER! Okay well once in a blue moon would not do you any harm, but these foods should be eaten in strict moderation.

There are a few yogurts and kefirs on the shelves that have a lower sugar content that can be found in the health food aisle of the grocery stores, but the best choice is to make it yourself.

What I relearned today is that sugar in large quantiles is not good for your long-term health and that modified sugars are hiding in prepackaged foods. We must be diligent and read the packaging labels on the food we purchase.

Here is a list of some of the names for sugar to be on the lookout for: corn sweetener, corn syrup, dextrose, fructose, fruit juice concentrates, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup, invert sugar, lactose, maltose, malt syrup, raw sugar, sucrose, sugar syrup, cane crystals, cane sugar, crystalline fructose, evaporated cane juice, corn syrup solids, oligofructose, tagatose.

I found this web site that you also might find useful. Sugar-and Sweetener-Guide.

Enjoy your day sweetened with love and not sugar!

*Note - I am not promoting what they are selling from the Nucific web site but good advice about health is good advice.