What Not to Eat

Do not buy or eat foods with these ingredients (#1-4) or prepared/cooked this way (#5-7).

1. Hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated.
2. Nitrates/nitrites – in processed meat (bacon, sausage, deli meat, hot dogs, etc.)
3. White flour and processed grains.  If it doesn’t say “whole”, it is processed.  Ingredients to avoid: enriched flour, unbleached flour, wheat flour, white rice, etc.
4. Sugar.  Secret names of sugar: corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, brown sugar, cane sugar, cane syrup, cane juice and evaporated cane juice, turbinado sugar, barley malt, beet sugar, brown rice syrup, corn sweetener, dextrin, fructo-oligosaccharides, fruit juice concentrate, invert sugar, and the words ending in “-ose” – dextrose, glucose, sucrose, maltose, and fructose, polydextrose, etc.  Note: It is difficult to avoid all forms of sugar.  At a minimum, do not purchase a product that has a sugar ingredient is in the top 3 ingredients.  Remember tenet #2 (eat food with 5 ingredients or less) and tenet #3 (read labels).  Note #2: I also avoid artificial sweeteners.
5. Fried foods
6. Soda (including diet) and sugar drinks.  Don’t drink sugar.  Eliminate soda (diet soda, too), sugar drinks (lemonade, Gatorade types, etc), juice, etc.
7. Fast Food

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