Coke and Nestle both are making claims that if you drink three cans of Enviga you will burn 60 to 100 extra calories; could it be that the caffiene in the Enviga just makes you so jittery the shaking of your body burns the extra calories.
Before you add this beverage to your weight loss plan read this article found at Health Castle.com http://www.healthcastle.com/enviga.shtml
Kellogg’s Smart Start Cereal boast that it has ingredients that can lower both your blood pressure and cholesterol; the problem is Smart Start Cereal also contains ingredients that can put you at a high risk for diabetes and heart disease.
In the ingredients is listed high fructose corn syrup and palm kernel oil.
High fructose corn syrup: used by manufacturers because it is cheap to use and makes the food sweeter, tempting you to go back for more.
High fructose corn syrup increases your risk for diabetes; diabetes increases your risk for heart diseases.
If you are gaining weight eating diet food check the ingredients for high fructose corn syrup, this may be the cause.
Palm kernel oil: extracted from the pit of the palm fruit using a gasoline-like hydrocarbon solvent. Here again used by manufactures because it is cheap to use.
Palm kernel oil is high in saturated fat increasing your risk for heart disease.
Not very heart smart.
This has to be a trick question because if a food is fat-free how can there be any fat? This is really not a trick question just what is better known as a label loop hole. A product can be labeled as fat-free as long as there is .05 grams or less per serving; if you have more than one serving in a day the food is no longer fat-free.
French Vanilla fat-free Coffee-Mate
Serving size = 4 tsps.
The teaspoon used here is a proper measuring teaspoon such as you would use in baking; the creamer is a level tsp. not heaping.
First two ingredients
Sugar and corn syrup solids (sugar)
Corn syrup does not have to be listed as sugar in the nutrition facts; translated this means there is more sugar in the food than listed. Look for the amount of carbohydrates; every 4 grams equals a tsp. of sugar. Products labeled as sugar free may contain corn syrup.
A diet abundant in this type of sugar leads to type two diabetes and heart disease.
Third Ingredient
Partially hydrogenated coconut or palm kernel oil (trans-fat). Your body does not know how to use this type of fat so it is stored in your arteries and results in heart disease.
Suggestion
When making a pot of coffee add a tsp. to tblsp. of pure vanilla extract to the grounds and let set about 5 minutes before you brew the pot of coffee. For your creamer use non-fat dry milk. If you want sugar use a little of the real thing.
Disease is 30% genetics and 70% lifestyle.
Children’s taste in food changes daily, his or her favorite food today will be on their list of most hated foods tomorrow. To make sure that your child gets all their needed vitamins you may give them a daily multivitamin, this is not a bad thing but there is one word of caution here.
Keep vitamins out of the reach of your children!
It is possible to get too much of a good thing and vitamins in supplement form are no exception, especially if they contain iron. There are several brands of children’s vitamins avaliable today that your child may think is candy. When your child sneaks what they may think is a sweet treat their body may see it as poison.
The following warning is on a popular children’s vitamin
Accidental overdose of iron-containing products is a leading cause of fatal poisoning in children under 6. Keep this product out of reach of children. In case of accidental overdose, call a doctor or poison control center immediately.
There is now Yogurt Burst and Fruity Cheerios
Cheerios, first introduced in 1941, a cereal you have come to trust for its nutritional value. Add yogurt and fruit juice and it can only make a great product better, right?
What are you really eating?
Naturally flavored yogurt coating
Legal definition of naturally flavored:
Must be from an extract oil or derivative of a spice, herb, root, leaf or other natural source and still can contain artificial flavoring. There is no way to know just what was used to flavor the yogurt coating.
Dried nonfat yogurt:
If a food contains the beneficial active cultures from yogurt the words “active or live cultures” must be in the list of ingredients. Live are active cultures are not listed.
Palm kernel oil: 80% saturated fat.
Even though the following ingredients are simple sugars in both the “Yogurt Burst and Fruity Cheerios they do not have to be listed as sugar.
Corn starch, corn syrup, brown sugar syrup, dextrose and orange juice, this type of simple sugar behaves as fat once in your body.
This adds up to 2 to 3 tablespoons of sugar per 3/4 cup of cereal.
Chromium is an essential trace mineral necessary for the breakdown of fats, proteins and carbohydrates. Your best food sources for chromium are whole grains, ready-top-eat bran cereals, seafood, green beans, broccoli, prunes, nuts, peanut butter and potatoes.
Commercially chromium is found in several forms including chromium nicotinate, chromium picolinate, chromium-enriched yeast, and chromium chloride; the most popular form is chromium picolinate. There are many sites singing the praises of chromium picolinate as a weight loss supplement. It is also said to promote muscle growth, lower cholesterol, and reverse diabetes. Two decades of testing chromium picolinate has only led to controversy, confusion and concerns that health problems are created rather than prevented. The research on chromium metabolism has determined that even though picolinate is well absorbed by your body, it is not effectively metabolized or incorporated into the tissues.
If you are considering a chromium supplement it is important to understand that not all supplements are made using the same process. Picolinate is made by a chemical process using four different chemical techniques; GTF (glucose tolerance factor) is made by fermenting nutritional yeast with chromium.
Chromium GTF appears to be a much safer form but there are some factors to be considered before taking even this form of chromium.
Supplements should be beneficial not detrimental to your health.
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Greek yogurt has 1/2 the sugar of American unsweeten non-fat yogurt.
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