Play The Great Atkins Sugar Hunt
Have you seen the latest contest our friends at Atkins.com have created to help spread the word about all the hidden sugars found in the so-called health foods on grocery market shelves today? It's called "The Great Atkins Sugar Hunt" and the winners get a free eDiets membership for Atkins counseling! WOO HOO!!! Wouldn't that be a great thing to have if you're just starting out livin' la vida low-carb?!
There are so many products on supermarket shelves today that claim to be healthy, but are anything but that because of the excessive amount of sugar contained in them. This includes virtually all of the "low-fat" foods, energy protein bars and even some allegedly "low-carb" foods.
Did you know a chocolate peanut butter Powerbar Performance bar has 20 grams of sugar because of the high fructose corn syrup and juice concentrate additives? That is double the amount of sugar that is in a Krispy Kreme doughnut!!!
On a low-carb lifestyle, sugar is one of your primary enemies and I address and entire chapter in my upcoming book to this subject. I think you'll like the name of the chapter I came up with. But more on that when the book comes out.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the average American consumes 158 pounds of various sugars annually. WOW! That's a lot a sugar clogging the inside of our bodies. What's most disturbing to me is that the average is probably a lot higher than that for a lot of people since people doing low-carb consume little to no sugar at all. That means there are some people out there eating upwards of 300 pounds of sugar in a year! Do these people keep a sugar-IV on them or what?!
It is a known fact that sugar is one of the primary reasons we have an obesity problem in the United States today and is likely the culprit in the rapid increase in diabetes and other health ailments. But even when you are doing the low-carb lifestyle, you have to be careful about the hidden sugars manufacturers don't want you to notice on the "healthy" versions of their products.
This new contest will help you understand the importance of reading food labels and recognizing when there are hidden sugars found in so-called healthy foods. You need to hurry because they are only giving the free three-month eDiets.com subscription to the first 1000 people who can identify no more than 10 food or beverage products that make claims like "low-fat," "low-carb" or "healthy" and add up to at least 50 grams of sugars (based on a per-serving count) in total.
If you get stuck and need some assistance with this endeavor, you can visit Atkins University to study a course in "Reading Labels" to educate yourself further about how to do this.
I would like to personally thank Atkins Nutritionals for providing this reminder that we need to constantly be on guard when we are shopping for foods we can eat while engaging in a low-carb lifestyle. Hidden sugars are a detriment to your ultimate goal of losing weight and keeping it off. Take advantage of this opportunity to educate yourself and win a great prize that will help you along the way! If you are one of the winners, then post a comment here and let us know!
There are so many products on supermarket shelves today that claim to be healthy, but are anything but that because of the excessive amount of sugar contained in them. This includes virtually all of the "low-fat" foods, energy protein bars and even some allegedly "low-carb" foods.
Did you know a chocolate peanut butter Powerbar Performance bar has 20 grams of sugar because of the high fructose corn syrup and juice concentrate additives? That is double the amount of sugar that is in a Krispy Kreme doughnut!!!
On a low-carb lifestyle, sugar is one of your primary enemies and I address and entire chapter in my upcoming book to this subject. I think you'll like the name of the chapter I came up with. But more on that when the book comes out.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the average American consumes 158 pounds of various sugars annually. WOW! That's a lot a sugar clogging the inside of our bodies. What's most disturbing to me is that the average is probably a lot higher than that for a lot of people since people doing low-carb consume little to no sugar at all. That means there are some people out there eating upwards of 300 pounds of sugar in a year! Do these people keep a sugar-IV on them or what?!
It is a known fact that sugar is one of the primary reasons we have an obesity problem in the United States today and is likely the culprit in the rapid increase in diabetes and other health ailments. But even when you are doing the low-carb lifestyle, you have to be careful about the hidden sugars manufacturers don't want you to notice on the "healthy" versions of their products.
This new contest will help you understand the importance of reading food labels and recognizing when there are hidden sugars found in so-called healthy foods. You need to hurry because they are only giving the free three-month eDiets.com subscription to the first 1000 people who can identify no more than 10 food or beverage products that make claims like "low-fat," "low-carb" or "healthy" and add up to at least 50 grams of sugars (based on a per-serving count) in total.
If you get stuck and need some assistance with this endeavor, you can visit Atkins University to study a course in "Reading Labels" to educate yourself further about how to do this.
I would like to personally thank Atkins Nutritionals for providing this reminder that we need to constantly be on guard when we are shopping for foods we can eat while engaging in a low-carb lifestyle. Hidden sugars are a detriment to your ultimate goal of losing weight and keeping it off. Take advantage of this opportunity to educate yourself and win a great prize that will help you along the way! If you are one of the winners, then post a comment here and let us know!
Labels: Atkins, Atkins Nutritionals, food, hidden sugars, labels, low-carb, low-fat, sugar
posted by Jimmy Moore at
4/26/2005 01:30:00 PM
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