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Mindell Dieting Tips

Before starting any diet, check with your physician. If you don’t feel that your family doctor understands your dieting needs, contact a bariatrician, who specialises in the field.

If you’re on a low- or no-carbohydrate diet, beware of artificially sweetened “sugarless” or “dietetic” gum or candy that has sorbitols, mannitols, or hexitols. These ingredients are metabolised in the system as carbohydrates, only more slowly.

If you’re on a diet that allows alcohol, a glass of wine before dinner stimulates the gastric juices and aids in proper digestion.

Watch out for such diet fallacies as:

Gelatin dessert is nonfattening.

Grapefruit causes you to lose weight.

Fruits have no calories.

High-protein foods have no calories. Read the rest of this entry »

First keep in mind the dangers of too much sugar and salt. And, in case you don’t think you eat too much sugar and salt let me remind you of the “invisible” sugar and salt you can be taking.

Kinds of Sugars

More than a hundred substances that qualify as sweet can be called sugars. The ones we come in contact with most often are fructose, a natural sugar found in fruit and honey; glucose, the body’s blood sugar and the simplest form of sugar in which a carbohydrate is assimilated; dextrose, made from cornstarch and chemically identical to glucose; lactose, milk sugar, maltose, the sugar formed from the starch by the action of yeast; and sucrose, the sugar that is obtained from sugar cane or beets and refined to the product that reaches us as granules. Read the rest of this entry »