Family makes decision to stop eating foods with added sugar, results are impressive

I read there is more sugar in paste sauce than here is in ice cream . My daughter and I where talking about there being no needs to add sugar to fruit juices or apples sauce . I read the labels to see if how much sugar is in a food. I made food for my baby so I would not be feeding her so much added sugar and salt.
 
I was dumbfounded to find it in ALOT of things. I look at some labels and notice a miniscule amount (read here as sugar, not total carbs since other complex carbs are separately accounted for). I guess that little is fine until it apptoaches 5+ grams of sugar per serving? If this family's experience pans out, then I will assume something is so wrong with the food industry.
 
femme Fatale said:
I was dumbfounded to find it in ALOT of things. I look at some labels and notice a miniscule amount (read here as sugar, not total carbs since other complex carbs are separately accounted for). I guess that little is fine until it apptoaches 5+ grams of sugar per serving? If this family's experience pans out, then I will assume something is so wrong with the food industry.
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Check out the bottle ice teas , some of the have 3 kind of sugars in them and the breakfast bars are loaded with sugars. They're called granola bars so people think they're good for you. I made my own granola for my daughter and only used a little honey . It's easy to make and you can add any kind of nuts or dried fruits. My daughter was so healthy she did not miss one day of school two years in a row. And that was on a vegetarian diet with no sugary food. I would joke with all the sugar there is in some cereals people myth as well add some bananas and milk to the sugar bowl and eat that for their breastfast.
 
Good idea, can't trust what is advertised on the label, the ingredients list says it all. I looked up different types of sugars and found the health industry makes out high fructose corn syrup to contribute to all kinds of health problems. Seems processed sugars are worse than natural things like honey. These claims are confirmed all over the net, crazy.
 
that's why my husband and I cook everything from scratch but it is hard because my roommate likes to buy processed foods and my son would end up eating that junk. I have restricted access to it for my son and told him that he is not permitted to eat that stuff everyday.
 
shel90 said:
that's why my husband and I cook everything from scratch but it is hard because my roommate likes to buy processed foods and my son would end up eating that junk. I have restricted access to it for my son and told him that he is not permitted to eat that stuff everyday.
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I use to made all my pasta sauce from scratch and there was no sugar in it
and people loved my pasta, they did not miss all the sugar . I used garlic ,extra virgin olive oil and canned plum tomatoes and spices . And let it cook slowly . Damn , I just had dinner and I am getting hungry again!
 
whatdidyousay! said:
i use to made all my pasta sauce from scratch and there was no sugar in it
and people loved my pasta, they did not miss all the sugar . I used garlic ,extra virgin olive oil and canned plum tomatoes and spices . And let it cook slowly . Damn , i just had dinner and i am getting hungry again!
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:p
 
It is definitely true. I used to eat tons of sweets, drink a lot of soda and all that. Once I cut all that out and started just water and natural foods ( fruit ect ect ) I lost a butt load of weight, hardly ever get sick and feel tons better! ( How else could I work and go to school as much as I do! :P I hardly ever get sick. Though, I do crave sweet things around my monthly visitor... :twisted: I rarely eat anything sweet... and when I do, it's very little, no matter how badly I may go on about wanting it. :P It does make you sick to eat too much of it. Not saying I'm all sugar free, but I'm definitely mostly sugar free myself. Right now, I'm just food free for the most part... *eats like a bird* :laugh2:
 
Mewtilation said:
It is definitely true. I used to eat tons of sweets, drink a lot of soda and all that. Once I cut all that out and started just water and natural foods ( fruit ect ect ) I lost a butt load of weight, hardly ever get sick and feel tons better! ( How else could I work and go to school as much as I do! :P I hardly ever get sick. Though, I do crave sweet things around my monthly visitor... :twisted: I rarely eat anything sweet... and when I do, it's very little, no matter how badly I may go on about wanting it. :P It does make you sick to eat too much of it. Not saying I'm all sugar free, but I'm definitely mostly sugar free myself. Right now, I'm just food free for the most part... *eats like a bird* :laugh2:
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Sounds familiar! :P
 
bugatti said:
I read there is more sugar in paste sauce than here is in ice cream .
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That is just highly terribly incorrect and..... dense. While there is a lot of sugar in pasta sauce ( around 10 G ) Ice cream ( depending on the kind of course will vary Cookies and Cream is bound to be far more loaded up than plain vanilla ect. ect. ) has an average of 17 - 20 G per serving. Everything also is dependent on where you get it, the brand, who makes it, blah blah. If you make your pasta sauce at home from scratch it's going to be a lot healthier for you and contain less processed stuff and sugar than if you buy it from a store in a can.

The only way I could see pasta sauce more sugar than ice cream is if you were comparing something like Soy or rice ice cream ( rice dream ) to regular pasta sauce or something like that. Even then, Rice dream sadly has 16 G of sugar in it still... :doh:

Though Blue Bunny offers a line of low fat ice cream with no sugar added that has around 5 G of sugar per serving... But now you're talking about ice cream specifically made to be less fatty, not ice cream in general.

( Clearly, I know my low sugar and calorie foods ) * I admit to being a bit of a health freak, I don't care * :D
 
I am starting to eat smaller and smaller these days. However, yesterday, at my son's soccer game I was so unbearably hungry even after eating a light dinner, I got myself a small order of fries. I played 30 mins of hard basketball at work that day so I don't know if my body was screaming for fuel later on.
 
I've switched to Splenda for coffee or tea. It's not the best choice but it is something. I only do pastry and high sugar deserts during a holiday.

I've found that processed high sodium food effects my Meniere's so I try to cut that out by mostly avoiding processed foods(cook my own). I will buy low sodium soup. And, I do add salt to guac or a salad, but my intake is a lot lower than it used to be.

I drink decaf coffee. I should kick that as well.
 
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