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You May Think These Foods are Healthy But They Are Most Likely to Make You Fat

You may actually be shocked when you read about the two foods in this article…most people wrongly believe that these two foods are “healthy”. In all of my years working as a Certified Nutrition Specialist, this usually surprises people when I suggest they consider eliminating these foods from their diet.

Everybody these days knows how dangerous trans fats and high fructose corn syrup are, so I will spare you another lecture about those. Instead, read on to see a couple foods that may shock you that they may be packing on the blubber.

The first type of food that is often wrongly believed to be healthy is wheat products…including most breads, cereals, bagels, muffins, pasta, crackers, pretzels, and so on.  And yes, I am including “whole wheat” in the category of this fattening food.

First of all, a great many of us have some degree of sensitivity to the gluten that is in wheat as well as some other grains. People with Celiac disease are the most sensitive to it, but what most people don’t understand is that the majority of the population was never meant to consume large quantities of wheat. The digestive system is just not suited to processing the large quantities of wheat in most of our diets.

The introduction of wheat into the human diet has only been in the last couple thousand years, and it has NEVER been in such large quantities in the human diet until the last 80-100 years.  This is a small time frame compared to the traditional diet that the human digestive system developed over several hundred thousand years eating a hunter-gatherer diet of meats, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds.

From my experience with many of my clients, when they heed my advice and eliminate wheat from their diet for 2-3 weeks to see if they start to lose weight and feel better, this almost always makes a HUGE difference.  Many times, they not only start losing body fat much faster, but they also finally get rid of headaches and indigestion that has plagued them for years.  Sometimes even skin problems go away when eliminating wheat from the diet.

The 2nd example of the worst fattening foods that shocks many people because it is thought to be “healthy” is — fruit juice.

Please don’t get me wrong, I’m not anti-carbohydrates — all nutrient types are important…I do believe most fruits are some of the best foods we can eat. However, we should NEVER separate the juice and only drink the high calorie sugary mixture leaving behind the fiber and other beneficial components of the fruit.

When you only drink the juice of fruits (apple juice and orange juice being 2 of the worst culprits in the western diet), you are not getting the appetite satisfying effect of the fiber in the fruit, and you’re left craving more carbs. Also, the fiber helps to slow the blood sugar response when eating whole fruit compared to fruit juice.

Bottom line…drinking too much fruit juice will make you fat.  On the other hand, eating whole fruits including all of the fiber helps you maintain a healthy balanced diet and high nutrient density (as long as the rest of your diet is whole unprocessed foods as well).

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