You step on your weighing scales every day, and cannot help groaning out loudly. Why? Because you are trying everything in the book yet you don’t seem to drop a single pound. You have joined your local gym, eating right, and even stopped staying up late to watch your favorite TV show and ignored the constant beeping of your smartphone, to make sure you are snoozing right as well. Then what seems to be wrong? Guessing it’s your sugar intake? Well, you’re right in that case. Sugar is the main culprit behind stagnating your weight loss journey and this article helps you to find the hidden sugar content from your daily diet.
Abs are made in Kitchen:
Yes, you have heard the saying right. Your fitness is seventy percent dependent on the diet and thirty percent dependent on exercises. So that coerces us to give another dekko to our diet plan. What seems to be wrong? You are having cornflakes in the morning and seem to be pretty kicked about the fact that you have started the day and started it on a healthy note.
But have you really checked the label of the food packet which you tossed it out without giving it a thought? Your food packet can reveal tonnes of things which you are putting into your mouth. Not to forget that the low fat cookie you had in the evening contained a huge amount of sugar to make up for the diminishing amount of fat content in your so-called “healthy” food stuff.
More Sugar in your Bread:
Yes, even in harmless foodstuff like bread you are having more sugar than the requisite amount. Even in food like peanut butter, there is a huge amount of sugar hiding behind a façade of healthy food. Yes, you don’t add sugar to your beverage and you take healthy beverages like green tea to melt the fat which seems to sit pretty on your waist. But have you eliminated bread or biscuits from your diet? That’s what stumps you right? All along you went about thinking that bread was supposed to be healthy.
Okay, you even switched to the brown bread version, that’s whole wheat shouldn’t be bad? But chances are the so-called brown version of your bread has some really high sugar content also. That bamboozles you right? so let’s find out what are the packaged foods should you put under the scanner and think twice before putting it right into your mouth.
Drinking food juice:
Downing gallons of fruit juice makes you think that it’s the healthy stuff you are consuming fruit sugar content in the juice is alarmingly high. Yes, more than the required amount that would be deemed healthy for you. While eating a whole fruit it would contain therequired amount of fibre and you would chew the fruit filling your stomach and satiating but same does not hold true for the juices, which has a nominal amount of fruit pulp and the rest of the drink is spiked with a lot of sugar and water.
More additives are added to the drink impersonating as the fruit content. So why should you consume such a huge amount of sugar when you know that it can play havoc with your blood sugar levels? What’s more, you are losing the all-important fibre content of the fruits as well.
Not to mention the vitamins and minerals which get washed away with so much of processing. So if you are avoiding the sugar content of foods and abhorring fizzy colas. You must know this for sure that the fruit juice you are so unabashedly consuming is sometimes worse than your cold drinks. That means you should read the labels twice and look for other things which mask the sugar content and masquerade as the healthier stuff like corn syrup.
So before you toss that fruit juice into the basket in the supermarket, stop and read the labels. Chances are that you might not buy that juice again, if you are really worried about the sugar content in foods, that is.
Not reading the labels:
Are you guilty of that crime, not reading labels? Yes, it can be regarded as a crime because you are unknowingly influx your body with a lot of sugar, which is harmful to the body as it increases your risk for diabetes hypertension and other lifestyle diseases. You not only have to read the label but have to read between the lines as well. Now how would you do that?
When you read wholewheat or that the food contains omega3 you are kicked about the idea that it contains those healthy ingredients that constitute a healthy diet. But have you given it a thought that it only contains a tiny amount of that and the rest is loaded with all kinds of unhealthy stuff? Hidden sugar refined wheat and a lot of additives which may be summed up as unhealthy and at its worst.
Eating whole wheat:
As we have discussed before that whole wheat is considered healthy but the kind of whole wheat that we consume in our packaged food are pulverised into very fine flour which is as good or as worse refined flour. We seldom get the unprocessed flour that is good for our health, like millets. There’s a rise of celiac disease today and it is largely due to gluten sensitivity.
Gluten is a kind of protein and consuming large amounts of gluten can give rise to many diseases like irritable bowel syndrome, pain, fatigue etc. So nutritionists today are suggesting to have a gluten free diet which would not only be beneficial to your health but would help you to shed the unwanted fat with ease.
Yoghurt:
Yogurt is largely considered healthy but the yoghurt we buy from the store contains huge amounts of high fructose corn syrup which not only adds to the hidden sources of sugar, but also lots of other preservatives which is detrimental to your health, and gives rise to central obesity. If it is low on sugar it must be containing artificial sweeteners which are a worse offender.
Ketchup:
We seldom bother about the sugar content of ketchup. As we are more bothered about the packaged food sugar content. Well, ketchup should also feature as a food which you should avoid. As even the most popular ketchup contain high levels of corn syrup. So avoid it like the plague. The next time you reach out for your french fries forgets, the ketchup as it is going to make it unhealthier still.
Cereals:
There are a plethora of all kinds of cereals available in the market like muesli, cornflakes, rice crispies and so on. Why do you think it tastes divine without having to add the extra sugar. Because it contains a huge amount of sugar, yes the food sugar content is unquestionably very high and you have to think twice before you reach out for your trusted cereals.
