Foods You Should Avoid

In staying active, there's some foods that you should stay away from because they slow you down and they do not help you to improve in your activities. Some of these foods may be delicious but they wont help your performance in activities at all. Some people just eat whatever they want whenever they want, but if you want to get in shape and stay in shape here are some foods that you should avoid:

Fast Foods:
Fast foods from fast food restaurants, like McDonald's, were created to taste good and always make you wanting more, but they are very bad for you. For example, a Big Mac from McDonald's has 52% of your daily value of fat, so if you eat two Big Mac's in a day you can't eat anymore fats for the rest of that day, if you want to stay in your limits.

















Doughnuts:
All there is in doughnuts is sugar, flour, artificial flavors, and partially hydrogenated oil that's loaded with trans fats.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Soda:
Many teenagers LOVE soda and drink it up to four times a day because  they don't know that it could effect their health. It doesn't only rot your teeth, in an average can of soda there are about 10 tsp. of sugar, 150 calories 30-50 mg of caffeine, artificial food colors, and sulphites. Soda is no more than "liquid candy." There are many health risk factors of soda, including weight gain, diabetes, tooth decay, and more.

Luncheon Meats/Hot Dogs:
Meats such as hot dogs contain an ingredient called sodium nitrate. Sodium nitrate is a dangerous, cancer-causing ingredient that has no place in the human food supply. People that eat luncheon meats and hot dogs a lot show a higher risk of pancreatic cancer compared to those who eat hot dogs rarely or never.














Now that you know about the foods you should avoid, you might have begun to lose hope. After all, these foods/food groups can be very tempting, and although they may taste delicious at the time, they aren't doing your body any good. But never fear! there are plenty of healthy food alternatives that taste just as good, and are better for you!


Chocolate: Milk chocolate is very sugary and hardly has any beneficial properties. So instead of milk chocolate, try DARK chocolate. Dark chocolate has gotten good press in recent years for having potent antioxidants that fight free radicals, which are destructive molecules that are connected to heart disease and other ailments.


White Bread: Instead of white bread, you should switch to whole wheat. White bread is made with bleached flour, which doesn't sound very appetizing in itself if you ask me. Plus, white bread has high fructose corn syrup in it, which is bad for you. Whole wheat bread is unprocessed, so your body uses more energy digesting it (burns more calories).


Dip: Drop the dip, and start using salsa. rather than having fatty, creamy, processed dips, try eating salsa with your chips. Salsa has Tomatoes, Cilantro, Onions, and healthier properties. Although chips aren't an IDEAL snack, when you want to indulge in them, salsa is the way to go.


Chips: While we're on the topic of chips, how's about an alternative to them? Popcorn. Most chips have 140 calories per serving while popcorn only has about 30 calories. Need I say more?

Pork & Beef: Bacon. We cannot resist it. But anyway you put it, turkey is better than pork, or beef. Turkey bacon has about 50 calories in 2 slices and 1 gram of saturated fat, where some regular pork versions can have 14 times the saturated fat and more than twice the calories. Plus, ground turkey is less fatty than using ground beef in cooking.


Soda: Instead of drinking soda, try Sparkling Water. You might be thinking that "Sparkling Water" isn't enough to sustain your thirst for soda, but with a few squeezes of lemon and lime, it's a refreshing alternative. Besides saving calories, you also avoid some of the other soda ingredients (sugar, phosphoric acid, potassium benzoate) that may cause long-term health issues.


http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/07/20/the-6-most-unhealthy-foods-you-should-avoid-at-all-costs.htm
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/foods-from-mcdonalds/6220/2
Posted By: Keau & La'a