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Blog85: Avoid Eating these 5 "Health Food"

Hello Everyone.. It's been a long time I didn't post anything.. Hope you all doing good. So, today I'm talking about five food which are healthy (we think but they are not) but we should avoid these foods. Top of my list is: 1. Digestive Biscuits: Digestive biscuits means fibre, oats, ragi biscuits etc. These biscuits filled with sugar, refined flour (maida), fats, sodium because it's easy to produce in large scale from refined flour. As we all know work ability of refined flour is so good and it's easy to make refined flour's dough. If they (company) add wheat, the dough started breaking just because of fibre in it. So, they do add 15% or 10% of wheat/fibre and claim it's 100% healthy wheat biscuits, ragi biscuits, oats biscuits and so on. In short they are made up of hidden ingredients, unhealthy calories and highly processed. We still eating bunch of hidden sugar, fats, refined flour and sodium in the name of digestive or health biscuits. 2. Mues

Blog63: "Added Sugar" : tips to reduce intake of added sugar

Added  sugar can be found in even the most unexpected products.  From soda pop to fruit juices, candy bars to granola bars; there is sugar everywhere!  Added sugar not only add sweetness to foods, but manufacturers add them into products to serve various other functions: preservation, texture and mouth feel, volume, and rich colour resulting from caramelization. They can be found in: soda/pop drinks sweetened coffee or tea drinks  cocktails  energy or sport drinks fruit juice  many store bought cereals, soups, salad dressings, and oatmeal dairy-based desserts such as ice cream or pudding candies such as gummies or halloween candy commercially baked goods such as cookies, muffins, cakes etc. Why too much of sugar is bad for your health? Sugar consumption is a major cause of obesity and many chronic diseases, such as diabetes.  Here are some reasons why eating too much sugar is bad for your health: T ype 2 diabetes:   has been link to the habitual consumption of sug