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FOOD RULES... 5 & 6

 

  

RULE #5

 

AVOID FOODS THAT HAVE SOME FORM OF SUGAR (OR SWEETENER) LISTED AMONG THE TOP THREE INGREDIENTS!

 

 

 

As Michael Pollan explains, labels list ingredients by weight, and any product that has more sugar than other ingredients has TOO much sugar. This isn't as easy as it seems since there are now forty types of sugar that can be used in processed food, including barley malt, beet sugar, brown rice syrup, cane juice, corn sweetener, dextrin, dextrose, fructo-oligosaccharides, fruit juice concentrate, glucose, sucrose, invert sugar, polydextrose, turbinado sugar, and so on. Other examples might include noncaloric sweeteners such as aspartame or Splenda, also need to be avoided, for reasons that cannot be explained, yet. Speculations say that they try to deceive the brain with the reward of sweetness, but it actually stimulates craving for even more sweetness, which could lead to weight gain rather than weight loss??

 

 

 

 

RULE #6

 

AVOID FOOD PRODUCTS THAT CONTAIN MORE THAN FIVE INGREDIENTS!

 

 

Mr. Pollan says that the specific number you adopt is arbitrary, but the more ingredients in a packaged food, the more highly processed it probably is.

 

NOTE 1: a long list of ingredients in a recipe is not the same thing; that's fine

NOTE 2: some products now boast, somewhat deceptively, about their short ingredient lists.

 

For example Mr. Pollan points out that Haagen Dazs has a line of ice cream called "five." That is great, but its still ice cream, same goes for the three ingredient Tostitos corn chips advertised by Frito Lay, but guess what they are still corn chips. More regarding these types of products are explained in rule 60, which covers treats and special occasions!!

 



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These rules should provide some guidance and help you find a way to reduce highly processed foods (that have minimal nutritional value) in your diet! Along with that they should also help you discover a more healthy, energetic, and consistent diet that will allow you to stay active and maintain that positive, FUN, and vibrant YOU!

 

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