The 2 Foods Most Likely to Make You Fat
You may actually be surprised to learn about the two foods in this article…most people falsely believe these 2 foods are “healthy”. In all of my years as a Certified Nutrition Specialist, this usually surprises people when I recommend they eliminate these foods from their diet.
Everybody these days knows how dangerous trans fats and high fructose corn syrup are, so I will spare you another lecture about those. Instead, read on to learn about a couple of foods that may shock you to learn that they may be packing on the fat.
The first type of food that is often wrongly believed to be healthy is wheat products…this includes most breads, cereals, bagels, muffins, pasta, crackers, etc. And I am also including all “whole wheat” products in the category of this 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. People with Celiac disease are the most sensitive to it, but what most people don’t understand is that the majority of the population was never meant to consume large quantities of wheat. 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 within the last 2,000 years, and it was NEVER consumed in such large quantities until the last 80-100 years. This is a very short time-frame compared to the diet that the human digestive system developed over several hundred thousand years eating a hunter-gatherer diet of meats, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds.
From my experience with many of my clients, when they try eliminating wheat from their diet for a few weeks to see if they start to lose weight and feel better, it 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 indigestion that has 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 should NEVER separate the juice and only drink the high calorie sugary mixture leaving 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 in the western diet), you are not getting the appetite satisfying effect of the fiber in the fruit, and you’re left craving more carbs. Also when eating whole fruit the fiber helps to moderate the change in blood sugar.
The final word is…drinking too much fruit juice makes you fat. On the other hand, eating whole fruits helps you maintain a balanced diet and high nutrient density (if the rest of your diet consists of whole unprocessed foods as well).
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