Get into any huge food market and you will be treated to a sensory blitz. You will be overwhelmed by the display of eye catching packaged edibles intended to set your tummy craving. Blazoned on each of the packages ranging from boxes, bags to bottles are a whole host of enticing nutritional claims. The truth is, those words are far from what they claim to stand for. They are marketing hype, which you should not be bought into believing especially as you grow older. Old age calls for more discernment and judgment whenever shopping or else you will end up consuming foods with high sugar content or additives that will cost your health heavily.
You need to learn these packaging tricks that mislead you into believing that the food you are purchasing is healthy, and yet its basically junk food. Gain knowledge of how to decipher the labels to figure out the bad from good. You will not only remain healthy, but will also save some of your hard-earned money. Figures can be misleading. You will find products that claim to contain fewer amounts of fat per gram. What you forget is what the word stands for. Yes, it this does not sound much. Producers make it even look more appealing by replacing that one gram with three grams of refined flour and sugar. Is this any substitution?
Healthy logos today have lost meaning. They are purchased and not earned. A variety of imported brands are now saturating the market. Products decorated with the Heart association seal similar to badge of honor are not necessarily sugar free. Some contain huge amounts of it. Look closely at the fine print below the logo and you will know that these products only meet the food criteria for saturated fat and cholesterol. That means, even if it contained excessive amounts of sugar, they still meet the standards. You are probably puzzled by this fact. Yes, manufacturers can now buy whatever logo they want and plant on their products. Opt for the unsweetened alternatives of whatever food you buy. If you want sweet, simply add cinnamon or honey.
There are those that claim to come from reliable sources. Be careful not to fall into such claims by getting the necessary facts. Some bear labels touting foods as good sources of vitamins and minerals. Just 10 percent of the recommended daily value of a specific nutrient is all a serving needs to qualify. At times, one piece is less this. That means you have to eat 10 servings, the entire box to meet your days requirements. Consuming dozens of cookies just to meet your daily requirements means you need to work very hard on your calcium needs. You can avert all this by just adhering to natures multivitamins made up of fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy and lean meats. With fortified cookies, the calcium comes with only sugar. You can get a healthy dose of fat-burning, muscle-making protein by consuming lots of milk and cheese.
Quite often, health benefits are just hyperbolized. You therefore need to keep your sense alert at all times. Even bottled green teas may not always contain the free-radical killers. You can increase your catechin levels by brewing your own tea. Give it not less than five minutes to steep.