Avoid foods that have some form of sugar (or sweetner) listed among the top three ingredients.
Unless it's a special occasion.
Sugar has become so complicated, thanks to food science, there are now some forty types of sugar used in processed food, including barley malt, beet sugar, brown rice syrup, cane juice, corn sweetners, dextrin, dextrose, glucose, sucrose, invert sugar, polydextrose, sucrose, turbinado sugar, and so on. Bottom line: sugar is sugar. And organic sugar is sugar too. As for the noncaloric sweetners such as aspartame or Splenda, research (in both humans and animals) suggest that switching to artificial sweetners does not lead to weight loss, for reasons not yet well understood. But it may be that deceiving the brain with the reward of sweetness stimulates a craving for even more sweetners.
On special occasions have your treats or make them with agave syrup, xylitol, maple syrup or raw honey. But these are still treats.
Again, if you are craving something sweet....have a piece of fruit. It is the safest most natural treat around. But when fruit will not hit the spot and you really want a treat then enjoy it but don't live there!!
Eat fruit,
Melissa
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