Top Five Bad Foods to Avoid

Even if you don't follow a precise meal plan, knowing what kind of foods to avoid is the key to a successful weight loss . I have been talking about what kind of foods to eat, now let's see for a change what not to eat. The ability to avoid these bad foods can make an important difference for your belly fat and even more, for your overall health.

1. Trans Fats

Check the labels for vegetable fat, hydrogenated vegetable fat, hydrogenated oil. Coronary artery diseases, diabetes, cholesterol and obesity are only few of the effects of consuming trans fats. Avoid them as much as you can, ideally give them up completely.

2.White Sugar

We all love sweets. We love them up to the point of addiction. The average American consume about 150 lbs. of white sugar per year; for many of us it means that we eat our own weight in sugar. Besides the many harmful things that white sugar does to our body, is estimated to be the main cause of obesity. Excess glucose produced by sugar is changed to fatty acids, the kind of fat that clog arteries, then triglycerides, then stored as adipose tissue.

Is not easy to give up white sugar, as it is presents not only in sweets, but hidden in almost every kind of food like ketchup, salad dressing, processed meats, baby food, condiments, cereals, bread and so on. Is also known that white sugar is addictive; one more reason to avoid it as much as you can.

3.Artificial Sweeteners

Obviously, trying to avoid white sugar the first thing we can think of is to replace it with artificial sweeteners, like aspartame. Don't do that. Artificial sweeteners have been proven even more harmful to human body than white sugar. There is such an immense amount of information about side effects of aspartame that suddenly being overweight seems like the healthier choice. One of the best things you can do for your health is to completely avoid artificial sweeteners.

4.White Flour

White flour, even if it was intended once to be a basic kind of food, today is so heavily processed that it has no nutritional value left whatsoever. On the other side because of being a carbohydrate the body treats it like a sugar, storing it almost in entirety. With an average of 50lbs of white bread consumption per year, not to mention the pizzas, cakes, cookies and other white flour products, no wonder that overweight rate is constantly increasing. A healthy alternative to white flour is whole wheat products.

5.Milk And Dairies

There is almost an unanimity of opinions that milk and his derivatives are the number one allergen today. Is not the fat in the milk that we have to worry, like most dietitians will preach you, but the inability to break down pasteurized milk products. I do intend to follow up with a complete article about milk side effects and the body's allergic reactions to it, but for now remember that except for raw probiotics diaries, you should avoid milk and milk products as much as you can.