michael s
(Michael S)
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sugars every day. Most comes from soda, baked goods, breakfast
cereals, candy, fruit drinks, and sweetened dairy products like yogurt
and ice cream. The ingredients list for the product won’t help you much
if you don’t know the many pseudonyms for “sugar,” a word that might
not even appear on the label. To name a few: high-fructose corn syrup,
maltodextrin, barley malt, brown rice syrup, fructose, glucose, lactose,
molasses, organic cane juice, sucrose, and turbinado. It’s all bad for
your body.
NEW ABS DIET SHOPPING TIP #8:
Choose better bread.
Selecting the best sandwich bread takes a bit of recon work. Look for
the whole grain bread with the fewest ingredients, suggests David L.
Katz, MD, director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale University
School of Medicine.
A whole grain such as wheat, oats, corn, rye, amaranth, or spelt should
be the first ingredient listed.
Don’t trust the word multigrain. Some breads labeled as such contain
two or more refined flours (thus the “multi” moniker) but very little
whole grain. Also, ignore those flakes of grain stuck to the bread’s
crust. Whole grain bread doesn’t need to have visible grains.
The closer you can get to an ingredients list that reads just “whole
wheat flour, water, and yeast,” the better.
Check the weight per slice of bread. You can trim your carbohydrate
consumption by up to 60 percent simply by choosing loaves whose
slices weigh between 15 and 30 grams. Some slices top 45 grams of
carbs.
NEW ABS DIET SHOPPING TIP #9:
Avoid flavored yogurts.
They are loaded with sugar. See a pattern here? Pick up the plain
yogurts and sweeten them yourself with fresh or dried fruit or a
