The truth about low fat and non fat foods

You would think that if you ate foods listed as low-fat and/or non-fat, it would be good for you. However, these foods all have extra sugar to make them taste just as good as the "regular" foods. For example, I was at Whole Foods the other day, buying yogurt. I of course wanted the non-fat yogurt. When I looked at the nutritional information, I saw that it contained more sugar than the regular plain yogurt.

I was talking about this to my best friend (a skinny bitch) who said that she'd rather have non-fat because fat is much worse than sugar. After some research, I found that she was wrong. Sugar, this is the white sugar, high fructose corn syrup (now known as corn sugar) and other man made sugars, is absorbed into our bodies very quickly. The process actually begins before the sugary food makes it to our stomach! Sugar and simple carbohydrates are turned into glucose and it spikes our blood sugar levels. It is possible that someone with a blood sugar reading of below 100 drinks a large grape soda, their new blood sugar could shoot over 200. A sugar reading of 200 or more means you're diabetic. Excessive glucose turns into fat regardless of the amount of calories you consume. The average American eats about two to three pounds of sugar a week.

This explains why I'm so fat. I used to eat a lot of sugary items. But even if I swore off all sugar, high corn fructose and other sugars are found in every processed food item. It's in our ketchup, our mustard, our spaghetti sauce.

So I try to stay away from sugar. I can't avoid it. I mean I'm not going to make my own spaghetti sauce because it's too time consuming. But I can limit the amount of sugar I eat. For example, I check all of the labels of non-whole foods to see how much sugar they contain. If it's more than 5 grams of sugar, I put it back. I stopped eating white rice and pasta made with enriched white flour. I'd rather go for the regular "full fat" items even if they contain more calories, as long as the item isn't hight in saturated or trans fat.