The 2 foods to be avoided may come as a surprise to you. You may even find it hard to believe. The common belief would be that they are fine to have as part of a controlled diet. It comes as a big surprise for most people, to learn that they should ditch them.
It is a reasonably well known fact that when dieting, trans fats are to be avoided, and also to be avoided is the high-fructose corn syrup. I am sure you are aware of this. I’m not going to go there – I am not talking about either of these.
The first food (or type of food) that is to be avoided is wheat products ” that is, all types of bread, bagels, pasta and cereals (I would even include whole wheat cereals in this list of foods to be avoided).
The reasons why wheat is to be avoided are twofold. First, a high proportion of the population is actually allergic to the gluten contained in wheat and other grains. But more importantly than this, we were never meant to have such a high proportion of wheat in our diet. Our digestive system never did adjust to it.
Wheat has only appeared in the human diet in the last couple of thousand years or so, and has NEVER been such a large part of our diet until the last 80 to 100 years! Previous to that, we had a much healthier diet which consisted mainly of a mixture of of vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds.
When somebody is trying to lose weight, if they will cut wheat out of their diet for 2 to 3 weeks, they will get results. Not only will they lose weight and feel better as a result of having more energy, but in some cases it has resulted in curing headaches and indigestion that had persisted for years.
The second food that should be eliminated from your diet, will come as a shock to most people – fruit juice. It is generally regarded as a very healthy choice and would probably be included in most calorie controlled diets.
I am not an anti-carbohydrate campaigner. I believe that most fruits are very healthy ” when they are taken as nature intended. When you separate the juice from the other beneficial parts of the fruit like fiber, that is when you run into problems. You are left with a high-calorie, sugary mixture.
If you only drink the fruit juice, you are missing the fiber. Apples and oranges are two of the best examples of this problem. You will only end up craving more carbohydrates. Fiber in fruit helps to quell hunger, and unlike the fruit juice, it slows down the response of the blood sugar.
The bottom line is that consuming too much fruit juice makes you fat. But consuming the whole fruit is an important part of a balanced diet, and supplies your body with a high level of nutrients. This also depends on you having unprocessed foods in the rest of your diet also.
