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If you have included margarine in your diet thinking it’s healthy, then it’s time for you to take a step back from it! Used as alternative to butter, this huge chunk is packed with loads of trans fat which causes heart diseases and speeds up the process of ageing.

Trans fat increases your skin’s vulnerability to UV rays, making it damaged, age faster and develop more wrinkles! 

They are packed with harmful chemicals, bad additives and scary preservatives. Loaded with calories and zero nutritional value, these diet sodas increases your blood sugar levels leading to inflammation of blood vessels, kidney damage, heart disease and gives you belly fat! Say no to these sodas and go for fresh lemon juice instead.

White breads are made with highly refined carbs and is stripped off all the fiber content. They are packed with carbs which increases blood sugar and insulin levels resulting in unhealthy weight gainWomen with PCOS must avoid eating refined carbs because high levels of insulin causes multitude of problems. Women with PCOS are resistant to insulin, leading to high blood sugar levels and unhealthy weight gain.

All these drinks are pumped with twice the amount of sugar you should be consuming per day.

If you are trying to get pregnant, then quitting any forms of red meat like bacon and steak would be the best thing to do.

Studies have found out that women who consume red meat on daily basis are at greater risk of being infertile, where, women who ate plant based protein are found to be at the safer side.

Sushi prepared with high mercury containing fish such as sword fish, tuna and shark is bad for pregnant women as it may cause developmental deformities and brain damage in fetus. 

Rice is naturally packed with carbs, which when eaten breaks down into sugar, thus increasing your blood sugar level. And in sushi, a single roll contains at most one cup of rice!

Alcohol increases the development of deep wrinkles! It is a diuretic, meaning it sucks all the moisture out of our skin and leaves it dehydrated. Skin with no moisture looses it’s elasticity, resulting in wrinkles.

PRegular drinking is also associated with atrophy in hippocampus and faster ageing of brain leading to memory loss, depression and Alzheimer’s disease.

Alcohol makes you anxious, makes you looks old, gives you memory loss, makes your brain shrink, gives night sweats, cancer and finally death. These are more than enough reason for why you must seriously consider quitting alcohol.

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