Let us suppose that you are trying to stay lean and so, for lunch, you plan to eat a lunch of about 350 calories (one of 6 of your meals for the day).
Which meal is the better choice? Meal Option A Meal Option B Food Cals Food Cals Chicken nuggets - 270 Grilled nuggets - 140 Small Coca Cola - 120 Superfood Side - 140 Fruit Cup - 70 Unsweet Tea - 0 Total - 390 Total - 350 |
As you can see, Meal Option B is going to fill you up more and has less calories than Meal Option A.
When you are making food choices you have to think about the kinds of food you are putting in your body. You want to choose option that are "cleaner" (more whole foods that do not have added chemicals) as they are going to nourish your body better. It is always good to remember that the shorter the shelf life normally means that it is better for you.
Read food labels and know what you are eating!! At the bottom of this page you can see an image of how the new nutrition label will look and see an explanation of what each part means. We love that companies will now be required to tell you how much EXTRA sugar they have added to a food. Hopefully, consumers will see this and stop purchasing items with added sugar thereby forcing the companies to get rid of added sugar so they can continue to sell their products.
When you are making food choices you have to think about the kinds of food you are putting in your body. You want to choose option that are "cleaner" (more whole foods that do not have added chemicals) as they are going to nourish your body better. It is always good to remember that the shorter the shelf life normally means that it is better for you.
Read food labels and know what you are eating!! At the bottom of this page you can see an image of how the new nutrition label will look and see an explanation of what each part means. We love that companies will now be required to tell you how much EXTRA sugar they have added to a food. Hopefully, consumers will see this and stop purchasing items with added sugar thereby forcing the companies to get rid of added sugar so they can continue to sell their products.
Speaking of sugar...a sugar by any other name is still a SUGAR!
Here are a list of sugar "code words" to help you avoid it.
According to the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, added sugars show up
on food and drink labels under the following names:
Anhydrous dextrose, brown sugar, cane crystals, cane sugar, corn sweetener, corn
syrup, corn syrup solids, crystal dextrose, evaporated cane juice, fructose
sweetener, fruit juice concentrates, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, liquid fructose, malt syrup, maple syrup,
molasses, pancake syrup, raw sugar, sugar, syrup and white sugar. Other types of sugar you might commonly see
on ingredient lists are fructose, lactose and maltose. Fructose is sugar derived from fruit and vegetables; lactose is
milk sugar; and maltose is sugar that comes from grain.
Some of the less apparent sugar names include carbitol, concentrated fruit juice, corn sweetener, diglycerides,
disaccharides, evaporated cane juice, erythritol, Florida crystals, fructooligosaccharides, galactose, glucitol,
glucoamine, hexitol, inversol, isomalt, maltodextrin, malted barley, malts, mannitol, nectars, pentose, raisin syrup,
ribose rice syrup, rice malt, rice syrup solids, sorbitol, sorghum, sucanat, sucanet, xylitol and zylose.
WHAT?!?! All of those words mean SUGAR??? Yes and this is why it is so difficult to monitor our sugar intake.
So, what kinds of things does too much sugar do to you? Check out the videos below.
Here are a list of sugar "code words" to help you avoid it.
According to the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, added sugars show up
on food and drink labels under the following names:
Anhydrous dextrose, brown sugar, cane crystals, cane sugar, corn sweetener, corn
syrup, corn syrup solids, crystal dextrose, evaporated cane juice, fructose
sweetener, fruit juice concentrates, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, liquid fructose, malt syrup, maple syrup,
molasses, pancake syrup, raw sugar, sugar, syrup and white sugar. Other types of sugar you might commonly see
on ingredient lists are fructose, lactose and maltose. Fructose is sugar derived from fruit and vegetables; lactose is
milk sugar; and maltose is sugar that comes from grain.
Some of the less apparent sugar names include carbitol, concentrated fruit juice, corn sweetener, diglycerides,
disaccharides, evaporated cane juice, erythritol, Florida crystals, fructooligosaccharides, galactose, glucitol,
glucoamine, hexitol, inversol, isomalt, maltodextrin, malted barley, malts, mannitol, nectars, pentose, raisin syrup,
ribose rice syrup, rice malt, rice syrup solids, sorbitol, sorghum, sucanat, sucanet, xylitol and zylose.
WHAT?!?! All of those words mean SUGAR??? Yes and this is why it is so difficult to monitor our sugar intake.
So, what kinds of things does too much sugar do to you? Check out the videos below.
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