10 Foods That Are Surprisingly Bad For You
Apr 3, 2009 by Jean-Luc Boissonneault
1. Rice Cakes - Bodybuilders use rice cakes 10 minutes before they get on stage. Do you know why? Because they enter the blood stream so quickly. And as I have talked about before sugar that enters the blood stream quickly raises that fat storing hormone insulin. A rice cake is like having a candy, it may not have a lot of calories but it is pure sugar.
2. Soups - I placed soup in my list because it surprised me one day when looking at those Campbell soups that the ingredients had MSG in it. You know the bad stuff that's in Chinese restaurant windows saying NO MSG. Well MSG is known as the slow poison and is added to food, not to preserve or for flavoring but to make the food addictive.
3. Granola Bars - There must be over a million brands of granola and granola bars. In a 24g bar from Quaker we find 17g of sugar and starch, 3g of fat and 1g of protein, 1g of fibre and filler. Not my idea of a healthy snack.
4. Fruit Yogurt - 1 Yoplait yogurt packs 28g of sugar. If you're going to have yogurt make sure it's plain and you can add your own berries to it.
5. Cereals - The cereal industry must employ some of the best marketers in the world. They always seem to have some kind of health benefit like preventing heart disease or even weight loss. The true fact is that 90% are filled with sugar, cheap ingredients and lack fibre.
6. Protein Bars - Many protein bars are worse than chocolate bars. They never used to be that bad but the more they try to mimic the "regular chocolate" the worse it has become. Using fillers, sweeteners and some have even super high amounts of sugar alcohol sending you to the bathroom after you finished the bar.
7. Lemon Juice - This one was also a surprised to me. Listen, actual lemon juice from lemons is very healthy but I'm talking about the brand called Real Lemon. It's has sulphites in it. Many people are allergic to sulphites and can get headaches, hives, heart palpitations, joint pain and more.
8. Ceasar Salad - This made the list because of the overall calories that it has. At 90 calories per tablespoon for Ceasar dressing and adding bacon bits and croutons you're looking at a salad with more than 350 calories.
9. Whole grain bread - Whole grain bread is just bad. It's high glycemic. Offers nothing in terms of health benefits yet it's advertised as the healthiest thing in the world.
10. Orange Juice - Filled with vitamin C. Who cares, so are cough drops. The point is that with orange juice they have taken out all the fibre to give you nothing but bad old sugar.
