Your fooling yourself

Sonia Jones ND from The Haven Spa and Alternative Treatment Clinic

Many people tell me they don’t have a sweet tooth. Declaring how they never add sugar to their tea or coffee. Often a case study and a closer look at their diet, reveals a different story. So you don’t actually go out and buy bags of sugar, but that doesn’t mean you are not consuming sugar, some a lot of sugar.

In just about every processed foods sugar hides like baked beans or most drinks. Of-course there is the obvious stuff like marmalade, jam, jelly etc  contain a whopping 60% of sugar. For every tablespoon of chocolate there is 2 teaspoons of sugar. Take crunchy nut cornflakes, the word nut makes it sound better than straight forward cornflakes, the difference is 6 times more sugar. A cans of sodas, canned fruits in syrup much more sugar than you would realize, or tomato ketchup, those little sachets contain between 1 and 2 teaspoons, just in that little bag.

Then there are is yogurt I always have natural plain yogurt with fresh fruit, if you eat those fruity yogurts that are so popular, contain loads of sugar.  Sweet and sour dishes are laden with sugar! Many products may contain a lot of sugar, even those that do not list sugar as it can be hidden, for instance  in the fruit concentrate of fruit juices.

Still convinced you don’t have a sweet tooth?

For lose weight success you need to start re-educating your taste bud

Forget the advertising hype – that sugar gives you energy and is pure. It is nutritionally void it contributes nothing but calories. You will get the energy (real long lasting healthy energy) from complex carbohydrates, that fill you up and provide nutrients and fiber.

Labels don’t always make things clear for instance you would never know from the label on a can of coke, that it contains about 12 or so spoons of sugar!

Think again you may have a sweet tooth and not realize it, all those extra empty, additive calories. Keep a diary, check the labels.