The 2 Most Fattening Foods – One May Shock You
ByYou may actually be shocked when you read about the two foods in this article...most people wrongly believe that these two foods are "healthy". In all of my years working as a Certified Nutrition Specialist, this usually surprises people when I suggest they consider eliminating these foods from their diet.
Everybody these days knows how bad trans fats and high fructose corn syrup are for you, so I figured I'd spare you yet another lecture on those. Instead, read on to learn about a couple of foods that may shock you to learn how they may be making it hard to lose weight.
The first type of food that is often falsely believed to be healthy is wheat products...this includes nearly all breads, cereals, bagels, muffins, pasta, crackers, pretzels, etc. And yes, I am also including all "whole wheat" products in the category of this most fattening food.
First of all, the majority of the population has some sensitivity to the gluten that is in wheat as well as some other grains. Celiac disease sufferers are the most sensitive to it, but what most people don't understand is that most of us were never meant to consume wheat as a large part of our diet. The digestive system is just not suited to processing the large quantities of wheat in most of our diets.
The addition of wheat into the human diet has only been in the last two thousand years, and it has NEVER been in our diets in such large quantities until the last 80-100 years. This is a very short time-frame compared to the diet that our digestive systems developed over hundreds of thousands of years eating a hunter-gatherer diet of meats, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds.
From my experience with many of my clients, when they heed my advice and eliminate wheat from their diet for 2-3 weeks to see if they start to lose weight and feel better, this almost always makes a HUGE difference. Many times, they not only start losing body fat much faster, but they also finally get rid of headaches and digestion problems that have plagued them for years. Sometimes when eliminating wheat from the diet even skin problems go away.
The 2nd example of the worst fattening foods that shocks many people because it is thought to be "healthy" is -- fruit juice.
I'm not an anti-carb advocate per se, so don't get me wrong...I do think most fruits are some of the healthiest foods available. However, we were NOT meant to separate 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.
When you only drink the juice of fruits (apple juice and orange juice being 2 of the worst culprits), you don't get the stomach filling effect of the fiber in the fruit, and the only result will be craving more carbs. Also when eating whole fruit the fiber helps to slow the blood sugar response.
The final word is...drinking too much fruit juice will make you fat. However, eating the entire fruit helps you maintain a well-balanced diet and high nutrient density (if the rest of your diet consists of whole unprocessed foods as well).
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