Showing posts with label empty calories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label empty calories. Show all posts

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Added Sugars - The Seductive Killer

Recommend Limit: Do you follow it?
That soft chocolate chip cookie or the melt in the mouth doughnut are both full of one ingredient - Sugar, not natural, but the added kind.

Added sugars refer to sweeteners and syrups that are added to foods or beverages when they are processed or prepared to make food not just tasty but preserve them too. Meanwhile, foods in nature come with their own naturally occurring sweetness. Did you know that milk contains natural sugars and so do fruits? 

The biggest issue with added sugars is that they are biggest source of empty calories!

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Them Cunning Calories


Calories - a word that everybody knows they have to watch, they think they understand what it is, and yet it is totally misunderstood. Most people think that calories are unhealthy and that it makes people grow fat or gain those adipose tissues! 

Actually calorie is nothing but a simple unit of measure - not height, weight or length, but of a unit of energy. So lets get to the bones of these calories and find out what they really are: