Eating Healthy Myths DestroyedWritten by Dr. Jamie Fettig
All Refined Carbohydrates are Hazardous to Your Health. The average American eats over 300 pounds of sugars each year. Most of this is because of all sugar that is added to everyday foods most people eat. Sugars are refined carbohydrates include anything that ends in “ose.” Sucrose, fructose, glucose, lactose, maltose, dextrose, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup and sugar all count as sugar. An easy way to remember this is anything that rhymes with “gross.” I am not talking about sugar naturally found in fruits and other such sources. If nature put it there, it is usually fine. And again, how it affects you will depend more on you individually than type of fruit itself. Yes, sugar is natural, but it is not fresh. And when you add it to another food, other food is not pure either. Refined carbohydrates also come in form of grains and flours. Most pasta, bread, flour, and other grain-based products are refined, almost to point of sugar, and to point where refined carbohydrates respond in body same way sugar does. There are two big reasons why refined carbs and sugar are so bad, as well as hundreds of smaller reasons. The two big reasons are these: 1.Refined carbs and sugar have no vitamins, minerals, or anything else that is needed to operate and run a healthy body 2.Refined carbs and sugar cause blood sugar levels to be artificially raised and lead to all problems that come with high blood sugar levels. First, refining process takes away all vitamins and minerals that are naturally found in whatever plant is being refined. There is nothing left but pure carbohydrates. Why are vitamins and minerals so important for you anyway? Let me give you a little example of why vitamins and minerals are so important. If you want to build a brick house, what do you need? Well, you need bricks and mortar, and wood, and windows and doors. You need some basic stuff to build that house. What if you don’t have bricks, or mortar or windows or doors? How well do you think house will function after you are done “trying” to build it? Not very well.
| | Fat does Not Make You FatWritten by Dr. Jamie Fettig
Fat does Not Make You Fat. One of other huge myths is that fat makes you fat. It doesn’t. When you eat fat, your body has to break it down into its little building blocks and then absorb pieces. The fat you have in your body is not same as fat you eat. In fact, fat naturally found in whole foods is fat you actually need for your body to function properly. Essential Fatty Acids are name given to types of fat that you need to eat. This is why they are called essential. Your body cannot make them, you must eat them. And these essential fatty acids are only found with fat that naturally occurs in whole food. What are these essential fatty acids used for in your body? Well, literally everything. Every cell in your body is partly made up of these essential fatty acids. To breathe, to have your heart beat, to run, walk, think, to make hormones, to remember anything, you need essential fatty acids for all of these and basically, to live. And if you don’t eat them in food you eat, your body will not function properly. And only place you can find essential fatty acids is in food that has naturally occurring fat in them. So if you try and cut fat out of your body, you will actually be causing harm and not really be doing anything to get rid of fat already in your body. So what is one of main causes of being fat. Sugar and refined carbohydrates. NO, not again with sugar, you might be saying. Yes, Sugar and refined carbohydrates are really one of main causes in many problems we as humans face today. You can pretend it is not true, you can believe it is not true, but no matter how you try and avoid it, sugar and refined carbohydrates will still negatively impact you whether you want them to or not. And whether or not you believe they will or not.
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