8
'Health' Foods Secretly Filled with Sugar
Posted by Allison
Crawford - Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
I'm sure you don't need
me to tell you that sugar is bad for you. It's common knowledge that we should
be
avoiding highly
processed sugary foods like soda and candy; these
lead to raised insulin levels and contribute
to obesity as well as many other diseases.
The tricky part is
figuring out where all that sugar is hiding, because it can often be found in
even the
most unlikely places.
One of the problems is that sugar goes by many names, which allows
food manufacturers to hide the actual
amounts in their
ingredients lists, as each different type of sugar can be listed as a separate
ingredient. Sugar
can even hide under such
labels as “natural flavors” and “organic” which are designed to trick consumers
into
thinking a product is
healthier than it really is. The bottom line
is that all of these food manufacturers do not have
your
health interests in mind; they have your wallet in mind. It's a known fact that sugar makes food taste
better.
It's also cheap to
produce and lasts a long time in packaged foods that sit in warehouses and on
grocer's shelves
for months before they reach
your home.
Most of the foods you see on the grocery
stores' shelves is specifically designed to get you to buy more at the
lowest
possible cost to the company, regardless of what the product will do to your
health. This means that sugar
is put into practically everything to entice
you into buying more of it.
So how do we avoid the stuff when food companies are using every
available resource to hide it? The trick is in
really knowing what
you're eating, and identifying the tricks used by food companies to sell you
their sugar-filled
products. One of the
most common ways this is done is by marketing foods with high-sugar content as
healthy
snacks or alternatives
to known “junk foods.”
But these “healthy
alternatives” are often just as bad or worse than their famously formidable
counterparts.
Here are 8 of the most sugar-packed products marketed as health
foods:
2 comments:
John, the article is incomplete please could you rectify it. Thank you.
http://www.myhealthwire.com/news/diet-nutrition/394
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