As spoke about under the weight loss section of this site, while we still have sugar in our diets we will struggle to break down the unwanted body fat.

So if we are going to try and ditch the sugar to ditch the pounds then surly it is important that we understand where the sugar appears in our day-to-day living?

Just because people don’t add sugar to their hot drinks is far from saying they don;t have sugar in their diet!

The dangers of sugar have been well documented in recent years and many consumers are more aware of the sugar content of certain foods, especially those who train with us!  Excess sugar intake has been associated with problems from tooth decay, diabetes, obesity, gout, elevated cholesterol, heart disease, chronic fatigue. Unfortunately these problems normally all come from lifestyles!

With this ever growing list of health problems manufacturers have sought other ways of trying to provide sweetness to food without adding refined sugar and therefore  don’t need to identify sugar on the ingredients list. Some are even bold enough to replace sugar with other ingredients and THEN identify on the label that they have reduced the sugar levels!

Sugar and the wide variety of sugar alternatives are in many cases mildly addictive, contain empty calories, vitamin & mineral deficient and will upset the blood plasma chemistry!

Some of the ways that sugar can be covered up in the ingredients list is listed below, these are the bad guys that are not going to help you on a fat loss journey but maybe more importantly are not good for your health. Once you start your lifestyle changes with us at bSimply Health & Fitness we will go out of our way to expose any of the cover up’s that will work against you as you work to achieving your goals!

Sweetners:

Suagr (white, brown, unrefined or demerera)

Dextrose (variation of glucose)

Glucose Syrup

Inverted Sugar Syrup (golden syrup)

High Fructose Corn Starch

Mannitol

Xylitol

Sorbitol

Maltodextin