- Sugar and high-fructose corn syrup.
- All Grains.
- Legumes like beans and lentils.
- Most Dairy, especially low-fat dairy.
- Some vegetable oils like soybean, sunflower, cottonseed, corn, grapeseed, safflower and other oils.
- Trans fats: "hydrogenated" or "partially hydrogenated" oils found in margarine and various processed foods.
- Artificial sweeteners: Aspartame, sucralose, cyclamates, saccharin, acesulfame potassium.
- Highly processed foods: Everything labeled "diet" or "low-fat" or that has many additives.
deepstash
Beta
Deepstash brings you key ideas from the most inspiring articles like this one:
Read more efficiently
Save what inspires you
Remember anything
Dark chocolate is now a health food. Here's how that happened.
A year after James Cadbury, the 30-something great-great-great-grandson of the British chocolatier John Cadbury, launched his luxury cocoa startup in 2016, he introduced an avocado chocolate bar. Cadbury Jr.'s newest confection loaded just about every buzzy health trend into a fresh green-and-white package: vegan, ethically sourced, organic dark chocolate and creamy, superfood avocado.
2
Key Ideas
Save all ideas
"Healthy: Dark Chocolate
Mars Inc. - the company that has brought us M&M's or Snickers - sponsored 140 peer-reviewed scientific papers starting from the 80s. Mars controlled the research agenda and only funded the positive research, to push chocolate bars as nutritious.
37 SAVES
Not really good for your health
The biggest health claim is that cocoa lowers blood pressure, but no study has proven that it reduces the risk of heart disease or attacks. And considering the added sugars it probably does more harm than good.
35 SAVES
SIMILAR ARTICLES & IDEAS:
The paleo diet is designed to resemble what human hunter-gatherer ancestors ate thousands of years ago. Although it's impossible to know exactly what human ancestors ate in different parts of the world, researchers believe their diets consisted of whole foods.
5
Key Ideas
The Paleo Diet
The basic concept of the paleo diet is to eat whole foods and avoid processed foods.
Studies suggest that this diet can lead to significant weight loss and major improveme...
A general guideline
There is no one "right" way to eat for everyone.
Some eat a low-carb diet high in animal foods, while others follow a high-carb diet with lots of plants.
Avoid these foods and ingredients:
At first, the cravings were like "a drug withdrawal," Jay Wortman recalls. Lying on a hotel bed in Ottawa one night, he'd had to white-knuckle his way out of eating Ferrero Rocher chocolates he'd spirited off a flight.
8
Key Ideas
The general Keto diet
The Keto diet is one of the biggest diet phenomenons today. It is the most Googled diet of 2018 and has surpassed Weight Watchers and other low-carb regimens, Atkins and Paleo.
The...
Keto is a no-carb diet
Carbohydrates account for about half the calories on average in the American diet. Rice, maize, and wheat provide 60 percent of the world's food energy intake, even though there are more than 50,000 edible plants.
Keto is practically no-carb, forbidding processed junk foods and severely limits grains, including whole grains, fruits, and legumes such as brown rice, apples, and lentils. Keto adherents think conventional nutritional wisdom is harmful.
Keto is a cultural identity
Keto is more than just a diet. It is a cultural identity.
The Keto diet changes how adherents think about medicine and nutrition. With the fake news that dominates the news cycle, it's not surprising that keto went viral. It's anti-establishment.
Nearly three decades ago, when I was an overweight teenager, I sometimes ate six pieces of sliced white toast in a row, each one slathered in butter or jam. I remember the spongy texture of the bread as I took it from its plastic bag.
5
Key Ideas
Ultra-Processed Foods
Ultra-processed foods like white bread, cereal, chips, and wafers are remarkably common, convenient, affordable, extremely profitable for the makers, come in strong flavors and are aggressively ma...
Our Everyday Foods
We consume ultra-processed foods every day without even realizing it.
- The morning cereal and flavored yogurt.
- The savory snacks and sweet baked goods.
- The vegan hotdog and the chicken nuggets available on the street.
- The doughnut or the premium protein bar we buy as a snack.
- The carton-packed almond milk put in our coffee or the diet coke we have.
More Light On Ultra-Processed Foods
Most cooked foods can be termed as 'processed foods', but ultra-processed foods are in a different domain, with few people having the clarity to differentiate.
A cooked carrot is processed food, but a bag of industrially-produced, carrot-flavored veggie puffs are ultra-processed and are still aimed at toddlers as a portion of natural food. Other examples include frozen peas or pasteurized milk.