Poor-quality sugar refers to any food that contains high-fructose corn syrup, fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, white sugar, glucose, or any artificial sweetener. read product lavels to reveal these ingredients. The various forms of corn syrup are commonly found in soft drinks, juice drinks, sweet candies, and packaged snack foods and cookies, and even so-called “healthy” protein bars. As best you can, eliminate products with these ingredients from your home. Let them be an occasional exception on your menu rather than the rule.
Replace commercial sodas and soft drinks with fresh squeezed juices, herbal ice teas, and water. Replace all “reward foods” with higher quality health-food-store versions that use quality sweeteners such as the following:
Raw Honey: The jar must say “raw” or “unheated” on the label. Raw honey is in enzymes and phytochemicals. It is traditionally used as both medicine and food. It is not suitable for infants.
Pure Maple Syrup: High in mineral and phytochemicals.
Barley Malt: Less sweet than the other sweeteners; good for baking
Stevia: All-natural herbal sweetener w/ medicinal properties
America’s diet is top-heavy with an excess of poor-quality sweeteners, and we suffer the consequences – obesity, heart disease, diabetes, etc. By the way, you might think that diet sodas and artificial sweeteners would help us lose weight because they contain no calories and no sugar to spike our insulin. However, this isn’t the case. After forty ears of exposure to fake chemical sweeteners, no a single study has ever shown an even mildly convincing association between sugar substitutes and weight loss.
Instead, researchers are now discovering that artificial sweeteners – fake pleasure – may actually cause us to gain weight. As fate would have it, the artificial sweetener molecule is so crafty that it convinces the brain that its real sugar, so the body releases insulin to help metabolize the artificial sugar. Since there is not real sugar present, the excess insulin, with nothing to do, performs its other task, which is to signal the body to store fat. As well, there is significant evidence that aspartame is a significant neurotoxin. So, my professional advice to you is this: Throw them out!!!!
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