The 2 fattening foods that I’m going to speak about in this article may truly floor you… These two foods are regularly mistaken by many people to be wholesome for you. People are usually taken back whenever I tell them to stop consuming these two foods.
Everybody these days knows how awful trans fats and high fructose corn syrup are for you, so I figured I’d save you yet another talk on those… continue reading to find out about a couple foods that may be packing on the fat, you just might be surprised.
Wheat products, commonly thought to be healthy, is the first food type… including most cereals, bagels, breads, crackers etc. And yes, I am including “whole wheat” in the kind of this fattening food.
First of all, a big percentage of the population has some rate of intolerance to the gluten in wheat and a number of additional grains. The most sensitive to it are full blown celiacs, however, what most people don’t realize is that we were never meant to consume large amounts of wheat. The human digestive system has never adapted to enormous amounts of wheat in the diet.
Wheat has been introduced into the human diet only recently, over the last couple thousand years, and it has not been consumed in such abundance until the last 80-100 years. This is a tight time frame compared to the traditional diet that the human digestive system developed over several hundred thousand years eating a hunter-gatherer diet of meats, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds.
Oftentimes, when people take the advice and stop eating wheat for a few weeks they start to feel better and begin to lose weight. Many times, they not only start losing body fat much more rapidly, but they also finally get rid of headaches and indigestion that has plagued them for years. In addition, once eliminating wheat from the diet, skin problems have been known to lessen.
Fruit juice is one of the next worst fattening foods that many people believe is “good for you” – this tends to shock people as well.
Don’t take that the wrong way…I’m not saying I don’t agree with consuming carbs… I actually think most fruits are very wholesome for us. However, we were NOT meant to squeeze the juice from the rest of the fruit and only drink the high calorie sugary mixture and leave behind the fiber and other beneficial components of the fruit.
Your body doesn’t get the full effect of fiber from the fruit when you squeeze all the juice from it (apple and orange juice are the worst for this) – as a result, your body wants more carbs. Also, the fiber in whole fruit helps to slow the blood sugar response when consuming whole fruit compared to fruit juice.
Bottom line… too much fruit juices makes you fat. On the other hand, eating whole fruits including all of the fiber helps you maintain a healthy balanced diet and high nutrient density (as long as the rest of your diet is whole unprocessed foods as well).
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results, see what this little adjustment does for you.
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