No wonder you can’t lose weight! Check the food you eat to see if it contains a lot of refined sugar and trans fat.

In addition to being obesogenic, processed foods also contain ingredients that increase your risk of disease. Ninety percent of the ingredients are refined sugars that reduce nutrients such as dietary fiber, vitamins, and minerals. The remaining one becomes "trans fatty acids".

When "refined sugar" enters the body, blood sugar will rise rapidly.

This is not what the body wants, but the brain will feel pleasure as if it is suddenly full of energy and will remember this feeling. Then, it will send out the message of sugar deficiency again, making you want to eat sweet things. "When you feel tired or stressed, you want to eat sweets" - this is actually a natural reaction of the body. This is because the body's response to fatigue and stress is to consume sugars that stimulate a rapid rise in blood sugar.

However, when blood sugar rises suddenly and rapidly, it activates the action of insulin, which then causes blood sugar to drop rapidly. At

Yes, because you want to increase your blood sugar, which means you want to consume more sugar. Therefore, refined sugar, which makes you happy when you eat it, is highly addictive. In other words, cakes made with large amounts of refined sugars such as white sugar and white flour are the so-called "Comfort Food" (food that makes you happy and healed after eating it).

"Trans fatty acids" exist in small amounts in beef and mutton fats, but the trans fatty acids in processed foods are produced by artificially changing the molecular structure of vegetable oils. If the ingredients on the packaging are labeled "Fat Spread", "Shortening" or "Hydrogenated Oil", they are trans fatty acids.

Compared to natural vegetable oils, trans fatty acids can be produced in large quantities at a low price and have a long shelf life, which makes it possible to mass-produce processed foods and keep them "fluffy and crispy at all times". In other words, trans fatty acids are the “magic ingredient” and therefore are found in almost all processed foods.

However, trans fatty acids can cause inflammation and increase the risk of heart disease and obesity, so they are substances that must be avoided. Therefore, the true identity of "Comfort Food" is: "90% of the main ingredients are refined sugars that increase blood sugar, and 10% are trans fatty acids that are obesity factors. It does not contain the high-quality protein, fat, and dietary fiber that the body needs. At the same time, it is a processed food that contains a large amount of artificial sweeteners, spices, antioxidants and other obesity-causing factors."

Let me reiterate that "Comfort Food" is almost always harmful food containing sugar and trans fatty acids. People who are unaware just pay to eat these things every day.

In supermarkets, fresh foods are displayed along the walls, while processed foods are placed in the center of the store. The products displayed in the center of the supermarket are "Comfort Food" - please remember this first.

When you want to eat sweets, can you eat fruit instead? Also, buy fruits that are certified organic or have a production history, and peel them yourself. I hope you can regain your normal sense of taste. When you feel that the natural sweetness of fruit is "very delicious", it means that your sense of taste has returned to normal.

This article is from the book "No wonder you can't lose weight: cut off environmental hormone toxins, improve intestinal and brain detoxification, and lose weight correctly from now on" by New Naturalism