Chocolate, candy, cookies, and table sugar are obvious. But raw sugar, brown sugar, refined honey, high-fructose corn syrup, fruit juice concentrates, date sugar, and turbinado sugar are just as bad..
So are fruit juices. Ounce for ounce, orange juice contains more sugar than Coca Cola. And sodas in general contain up to 10 teaspoons of sugar per serving. Why does sugar pile on body fat? Because its quick absorption into your blood stream causes an excess insulin burst from the pancreas. On reaching your liver, excess insulin (which is toxic) is converted to neutral triglycerides. Triglycerides are exactly the form of fats that are stored in all your adipose cells.
So sugar not only loads you with excess calories that eventually turn to fat, but also causes the body to make even more fat from its own insulin. Replace as much of the simple sugars in your diet as you can with complex carbohydrates. Essentially these are whole grains and vegetables, as little processed as possible..
So are fruit juices. Ounce for ounce, orange juice contains more sugar than Coca Cola. And sodas in general contain up to 10 teaspoons of sugar per serving. Why does sugar pile on body fat? Because its quick absorption into your blood stream causes an excess insulin burst from the pancreas. On reaching your liver, excess insulin (which is toxic) is converted to neutral triglycerides. Triglycerides are exactly the form of fats that are stored in all your adipose cells.
So sugar not only loads you with excess calories that eventually turn to fat, but also causes the body to make even more fat from its own insulin. Replace as much of the simple sugars in your diet as you can with complex carbohydrates. Essentially these are whole grains and vegetables, as little processed as possible..