of Contents INTRODUCTION ..............................................................................................................5 THE DANGER OF PROCESSED FOODS ......................................................................8 REFINED SUGAR IS POISON ......................................................................................12 THE TRUTH ABOUT FAT .............................................................................................27 WHY YOU SHOULD AVOID HIGH FRUCTOSE
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purchase protein. With the wrong ingredients protein shakes and bars can make you feel hungry, bloated, crave sugar and completely stall your weightloss. Heres why: Dirty Protein Secret Number 1: Added Sugar Many Protein supplements are packed full of added sugar. Sugar is the number one enemy when it comes to getting into shape. When you body digests sugar your body converts sugar into fat. Sugar also creates crazy cravings, so even though you are trying to do the right thing by having a protein shake
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Carbohydrates Doina Golub DeVry University Stevia Stevia is a sweetener and sugar substitute extracted from the leaves of the plant species Stevia Rebaudiana. Stevia was discovered about 1500 years ago by the people of Paraguay, South America, when they used to crush a few of the sweet leaves for their hot mate tea. In 1887, Dr. Moises Santiago Bertoni started studying the “very strange plant” as described by the locals. Dr. Bertoni named the plant Stevia Rebaudiana in honor of a chemist Rebaudi
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you will need to start are tools and ingredients. The tools you will need to make the dough of the cookies are the bowl, mixer, and the measuring spoon. You will need half a stick of butter that melts well; sugar which is sweet enough for you, but not too sweet. You will also need brown sugar and salt. Those ingredients can often be used for other dishes, so you can just get whatever you use the most. Also, it is best to use two fresh eggs with your cookies; you will need vanilla, and flour. Oh,
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South America (specifically Paraguay) that has been used as a natural sweetener for at least 1500 years. The leaves of the stevia rebaudiana plant have zero calories, carbs and a zero glycemic index. It is also about 30 times sweeter than table sugar. Studies have shown that these leaves also contain other nutrients such as protein, fiber, carbs, iron, phosphorus, calcium, potassium, magnesium, zinc, vitamins A and C, and other oils as well. The sweet glycosides in the leaves do not break down
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our body because the amount of sugar that is being dumped in the food, they will stop eating that kind of food and start to eat healthy fresh organic food. The food that we eat on a daily basis will affect our long-term health specially the students; also, the food industry does not care about people’s health instead it cares only for money. In this paper, I will show that food industry is destroying people’s health on one hand by putting an enormous amount of sugar and on the other hand making low-fat
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a meal chart that excludes all items in the first set is also bad nutrition. How much sugar is good for me? As part of a healthy balanced diet, you should eat foods and drinks high in sugars in small amounts. Sugary foods and drinks can cause tooth decay, especially if you have them between meals. Many foods that contain added sugars also contain lots of calories, but often have few other nutrients. Eating these foods often can contribute to you becoming overweight. Being overweight can increase
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A documentary released by the BBC titled “Sugar VS Fat”, starred by Alexander Van Tulleken and Chris Van Tulleken. This program studies whether it is sugar that is less healthy or fat that is intoxicating us. To emphasize the severity of this issue, the performances introduced themselves into the experiment – Chris with high sugar, low fat mean; while Alexander with a high fat and low sugar diet for a month (Sugar vs Fat). High sugar diet includes bread, bagel, pasta, rice, potatoes, any prescription
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back on the amount of sugar in your diet. But despite your best efforts, you just can't stay away. That is because your brain reacts to sugar the same way that it does to powerful narcotics like cocaine and heroin. So if you are having a hard time trimming sugar out of your daily routine, give yourself a break. This does not mean that you are a weak-willed person with no self-control. It just means it is going to be difficult. If you practice the following 10 tips to cut sugar out of your diet on
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useful manufacturing properties. All of these reasons directly benefits the food companies, but are causing body damage and metabolic diseases for the consumers. Even though the corn lobby is trying to prove that HFCS is nearly similar to regular sugar, this is not true. HFCS is high in fructose (55%-72% fructose and 45%-28% glucose) citation needed for these statistics. that is bad for our health. It is so ubiquitous in processed foods and so over-consumed by the average American that many experts
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