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nt's avatar

Metabolical, by DR Lustig was eye-opening to me !!

I had no idea a Cliff bar had 17 grams of ADDED sugar ! 🙈

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

If you read the ingredients on the packaging of all of the ‘health bars’, you’ll see they’re all junk food.

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Jeff C's avatar

Yes but they are marketed as healthy. Most advertising is seriously bad-faith as its goal is to deceive people to act in someone else's interest (i.e. lie to people that the food is healthy so you'll give them money). Once you see this you'll realize it's everywhere and never view advertising, or public relations which is the same thing, in the same light again.

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nt's avatar

💯

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Penny North's avatar

Doing the conversion, that is 4 teaspoons of sugar!

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nt's avatar

Yes! Exactly!! Clearly should NOT be breakfast!! 😳

Which is why after reading that book, I went off added sugar June 17th last year !! 🙌

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Oregon Kathy's avatar

Really, you must read labels for snack bars.

Most are truly just sugar snacks while a few have enough nutrition to tide you over.

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nt's avatar

Right !? Not quite sure how I’ve survived 5 decades of life without knowing that …🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤣

I am “fit” …so I think nothing obvious to make me think about it …

Now I know …

Packaged food is NOT REAL FOOD! 😄 lol

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Jeff C's avatar

And Lustig is a proud lib, he lives in SF of all places. But on this one he was exactly right.

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nt's avatar

I know !!! I was so disappointed he teamed up with (Pepsi?) on a new weight loss drug 🤦‍♀️

But I really appreciate his Eat Real campaign for schools and his book was VERY helpful to me , in the fact that you can be a normal weight and metabolically unhealthy! So for that I’m grateful 🙏

I’ve eaten (for breakfast alone) over 15lbs less sugar since June 17th last year !! Just breakfast!!!

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ConcernedGrammy's avatar

Be sure to check all the labels on foods now - "Made from Bio-Engineered Ingredients" is getting quite common.

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