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“While you may be alright paying extra money for something you presume is serving your health, manufacturers are minting money on the pretext of robbing your body of the natural nutrients it needs to thrive.
The truth is the manufacturer’s have to use preservatives and artificial ingredients in your so called ‘health foods’ to make them tasty enough for you to be coming back for more. After all, the shelf life for natural foods (which is what you should be ideally eating) is no where close to their artificially healthy counterparts. Some of the commonly accepted trustworthy ‘health foods' are listed here:
#1. Brown bread
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A mistake most of the people make when they buy brown bread is that they think they are doing their health a favour. They are definitely not because brown bread is no better than normal white bread.
Experts say that brown bread is also made of what white bread is made of, just that it is coloured, making it rather worse. Some brands add caramel to the dough to make it appear dark brown. You may have noticed that despite it being a wheat bread, it is soft, however, whole wheat bread is not supposed to be that soft. This is because in brown bread, only one fourth of the proportion is of wheat. Rest, three parts out of four, are of refined flour (maida) only. So, either go for a whole wheat, whole grain or high fibre bread or you may as well buy white bread only.
One easy way to know if your brown bread is white bread in disguise, try to squeeze it and see if it breaks or crumbles. If it does, it means it has wheat content more and that’s good.
#2. Sugar-free products
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This is the biggest scam that the food industry has created. Many people who are suffering from diabetes think that sugar free is absolutely good and they can gorge sugar free chocolates, sugar free juices, sugar free carbonated drinks and what not. But beware because the foods that are said to be sugar free are actually high in another devil—fats. One should act smart and should moderate his intake of sugar instead of falling prey to the sugar free industry.
When sugar is removed, the fat content in the product is often made high. So, whenever you are opting for a sugar free product, make sure you compare it with a normal product. Read the content labels for both and compare their carbohydrate and fat content. Carbohydrate content is more likely to stay similar but the fat content will vary. Saturated fat, which is the worse type of fat than unsaturated fat, is higher in sugar free products.
#3. Multigrain biscuits
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With the kind of advertising we see for these biscuits, we are not in the wrong to assume they are unhealthy. Manufacturers are showing them as good enough to replace unhealthy snacking. But the fact is they are, if not more, equally bad. So, the next time you think that by dropping the plan to snack on khakra and having the multigrain biscuit instead you did your health a favour, you did not!
This is because when these super crunchy, super ‘healthy’ biscuits are made, manufacturers add sugar and fats to make sure that they are crunchy enough. So, the next time you are finishing them off in a jiffy, know that you are still consuming the share of fats and sugars that are bad for you.
Even when some biscuits are low in the sugar content, they must be high on the fat content to provide you with the crispiness. Now, we all know how bad fats can be. They are responsible for variety of ailments like heart problems, diabetes, cardiac deaths and many more problems.
Every time you reach out to the fibre rich biscuit, make sure that you read the label and also, understand which fats are bad for you. Trans fats are the biggest evils, followed by saturated fats.
#4. Fat free cereal
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Again, these belong to the category of products which are being marketed as healthy, good for weight loss and quick fixes as a meal replacement. This is all the generation of today wants as we all have shortage of time and a love for easy and quick recipes. But we make no bargains when it comes to taste and that’s where the scales begin to tip again.
Though the manufacturers are hitting where it hurts the most, by marketing them as fat free and hence, good for weight loss, they are highly processed with a lot of harmful additives. These products contain a lot of sugar in order to make for the taste. Other harmful additives include sodium. These help in making sure that the product does not lose its taste nor its texture.
Now, there are many ways in which the ingredient list of the cereal packet can be tampered with. We all know that sugar is unhealthy, so manufacturers do not put sugar in the list just like that; they use euphemisms. Ingredients like honey, malt syrup, sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup and the likes. Make no mistake, they all are sugars and equally bad.
When you eat less processed foods, they are better for you. This is because your body utilises more energy, hence more calories, to metabolise less processed foods. Hence, this means you burn more calories when you eat simpler foods, rather than highly processed foods like cereals.”
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