Know your food so you can #noyourfood

Is losing weight and gaining health the same thing to your or are they different?

If they’re the same thing to you, than teaching yourself to read labels is crucial.

Being able to differentiate between slick marketing that tells you something is good for and being able to flip over the product and read the label and find out for yourself is empowering.

A rule of thumb to follow is that the first 3 ingredients listed = the bulk of the product.

The 2nd ingredient for this product is fructose.

There is a pretty good article about fructose on google: "Is Fructose Bad for You? The Surprising Truth."

The summary of the short article is: "Fructose is a type of sugar that makes up around 50% of table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup. Scientists are concerned that excessive intake may cause metabolic disorders."

And: "Many scientists believe that excess fructose consumption may be a key driver of many of the most serious diseases of today. These include obesity, type II diabetes, heart disease and even cancer."

You’ll also notice the 5th ingredient is sucralose, which is an artificial sweetener and artificial sweeteners are something that only you can decide for yourself whether or not you want to put in your body, so before you consume products with it, google has all the information you need.

I will leave you with this thought: if you think of all the cells in your body and the foods/nutrients you eat as locks and keys that go together naturally and anything that is artificial, man-made or an extract or component from something “natural” is not a lock or a key, and that it’s more like a burglar trying to jimmy the lock with a blunt instrument, then you'll get a better image of whether it's good for your body or not. And if you remember that you’re body will consider those burglars as foreign body that it needs to evict from your body and that it will do that either through your urine or faeces.

But sometimes it can’t get rid of those burglars for various reasons and so it clubs it and tries to hide the foreign body, and those hidden foreign bodies can become things in your body you don’t want, such as cysts.

Think health when you think about weight loss. The whole point of losing weight is so you can do more and live a happy life.

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