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Truth About Diet Foods

Just when you think you're being healthy and eating all the right foods, I hate to break the news, but the false marketing techniques and ambiguous labels might have you fooled.




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" think you're being healthy eating all the right for the tape to breaking news to you but the false marketing techniques and ambiguous labels might happen he fooled. Here to talk about the most misunderstood foods in America and separate fact from fiction in each one of them is contributing editor. Of the new eat this not that 2010 and a multi welcome back the idea you can see OK you're have to break it down -- every time you leave I aimed at changing everything that I -- because I can't run the the first thing we have to talk about his diet soda people feel like if I'm gonna drink soda out and diet that's extinct okay you're not taking -- any calories and sugar it's great but actually research has found that. The more sugary sweet things that you eat or drink whether it's artificial sugar not. Makes you wanna eat more sweet things that you drink a Diet Coke now. You're gonna wanna brownie leader so that's the truth about the -- that's right so we really want. What you're packing there's that you don't wanna take in any calories there's nothing better than just regular unsweetened coffee here unsweetened heat. It's gonna give me the biggest but it also is full of antioxidants ninety -- acquired taste the difference there but it doesn't everybody it's -- good okay now reduced fat peanut butter. Is that the better versed in -- there is nothing more depressing than reduced fat peanut lottery you know did nothing else says. -- not a kid anymore I could expect you know whether you think about ACC reduce that figure might be better for me in the regular version right right -- here's a thing they take up the fat and they put in. A very cheap empty car called -- Dexter and so you're saving on fat a little bit you're saving about ten calories which is not much. And you're taking a lot more antique arms so she would just be in regular. You see debates and anything can let me eat Turkey bacon because of better alternative to get support -- with just gotten really bad rap. Never heard anything to keep making snow ooh well here's the thing. In the food movement right now if -- there's pork and bacon everywhere and the reason for that is it's really did -- really achieve its full flavored. You know -- Turkey everywhere because it doesn't have much flavor right. So what they do when they make Turkey bacon to make it more flavorful as they add an all kinds of artificial ingredients and even more sodium. More sodium and that's -- it's kind of tough I mean -- can -- tough and -- you of this type -- here I mean it doesn't he's quite as good at Scott -- artificial ingredients it's really not that much lower in calories and fat so he's posted to. Go go with the war. Yeah absolutely -- shocking you know I don't eat thirty pieces of it but into the pig -- different on the bottom type yogurt everyone thinks okay the -- it man eating yogurt. I'm good to -- got to be great but actually what they do is they sweetened yogurt a time and they sort of drowned the fruits and high fructose corn syrup. So I'm you're not taking in as much protein is he would be you're just taking a ton of sugar. Got so what should we be doing instead one of our favorite things to do is -- Greek yogurt which is really dead it's creamy thank rich. And put in some blueberries. You're not gonna get as much sugar. And blueberries have actually been found some modeling to be great source of anti accidents but actually. An appetite -- as well okay right so at least provide some alternatives for -- if that faith of my had a good to see you here. And if you guys what I know -- truth about all the foods that your putting in your mouth has about you and get a little break daddy can make sure to pick up eat this not that 2010 which is available now."

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