Sticker Shock?

The label on a food product should be read as closely as if you were buying a new car and looking for all of the options.  Or, in the case of weight loss, you're probably looking for something without some of the options.   Here's a few things to watch for to make sure your body runs at peak performance .

Don't eat anything that has these things as one of the top 5 ingredients:

1) Simple Sugars
2) Any grain but 100% whole grains including those buzz terms enriched, bleached, or refined.  These are often indicators that the nutrients have been stripped.
3)  Syrup: Those four letter words High Fructose Corn Syrup can be found in a lot of things
4) "Artificial" Sweeteners.  Poison I tell you.  You can do your homework for yourself, but I feel very strongly that these sweeteners are a bad idea.   I wrote a blog on Splenda and you can check it out in the BLOG archives.

Putting these things into your body is like dunking a cell phone into a glass of water.  It will cause all of your systems to short circuit and send confusing messages about energy levels to other parts of your body.  When typical and slightly overweight people eat sugar, they store 5 percent as "readily available" energy for use later.  They metabolize about 60%.  But, heres the kicker, they tend to store 35% as FAT that can be converted to energy later if there's a situation of restriction of food or water.

Stay Tuned!  More tips are coming to help you lose those 6 pounds in 6 weeks.

To your good health,
Dr. Sonja