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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Food To Avoid To Lose Weight

Food To Avoid To Lose Weight

By : dve smit
Submitted 2010-10-26

There is a number of ways that the foods we eat can affect your body and your health. Being overweight can potentially lead to a number of serious health problems. There's some food to avoid to lose weight and be healthy.

Most people are aware that saturated fat and trans fatty acids can lead to potentially serious problems with your cardiovascular health or other health conditions. Heart disease, plaque build up, cancer, etc. The food you eat at fast food restaurants tend to be high in both saturated fat and trans fatty acids. If you must eat there stick to the salads (low fat or no fat dressings) and broiled chicken.

You should also try and avoid refined and processed foods as they tend to help making weight loss more difficult and often times leads to weight gain and poor nutrition instead. Refined foods such as white rice, white flour, bleached flour, etc. have had the vitamins and nutrients bleached out and the body doesn't work as hard to digest it, meaning you'll tend to gain more weight, if that's not bad enough you're also filling up with empty calories. The fiber in unrefined foods help to move the excess food you eat out of the body before it turns to fat and help lose weight.

Also avoid sugary foods and high glycemic foods. For example, certain types of refined carbohydrate (those with a high-GI value) is absorbed by the body to quickly and raises the blood sugar levels causing a "sugar spike". This sometimes causes your body to overreact which helps to produce excess insulin which removes the sugar from your bloodstream resulting in low blood sugar which can eventually result in health problems. Thus resulting in mood and appetite swings from this yo-yo effect from the high and low blood sugar swings.

Eating low glycemic food results in more consistent blood sugar levels. Low glycemic foods includes apples, plums, cherries, yogurt, skim milk, etc. High sugary foods should also be avoided. Fruit contain sugars so if possible eat the entire fruit as it contains fiber, as opposed to just drinking the juice, the fiber will help to minimize the spike in your blood sugar.

Other foods to avoid to lose weight are hydrogenated oil, partially hydrogenated oil, vegetable shortening, high fructose corn syrup, corn oil, margerine, food preservatives.

And another great weight loss tip is to eat smaller and more frequent meals and snacks. Rather then three large meals a day spread out your meals and snacks more evenly throughout the day. This produces a more consistent blood sugar level and you'll have less mood swings and be less likely to "binge".
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