Personal Trainer Singapore – Coach Jonathan Wong

Once You See This - It's Probably Not Good For You

Almost everybody knows that sugar is bad for you. And my personal training and fitness boot camp clients certainly know this because we try our best to inform our clients about the negative effects of sugar consumption for their health. But the processed food manufacturers know that customers are becoming aware of this too! Customers are more informed and are getting better at reading food labels.

Here is one trick that you should be aware of…

Manufacturers sometimes “split up” the sugars among the ingredients. It is quite well known that the ingredient with the highest amount has to be listed first, so a food with sugar listed first may be very unpopular. But if a manufacturer seperates sugar into fructose, dextrose, maltodextrin, high fructose corn syrup, different sugar alcohols (malitol, xylitol etc) it becomes easier to hide and none of these individual ingredients ends up high on the list. But add them up and you have  sugar-fest that will make you tubby real quick so read labels carefully.

Even more so… don’t even buy many foods that have labels to be read! I mean a vegetable or piece of meat or a fruit has NO LABEL! These tend to be the best foods for you.

As someone who is concerned about health promotion in Singapore, I am concerned that there is always a big deal made in advertisements about how natural, healthy, low fat (ugh), or all around special a food is. Just take it this way, if it has a food label, especially one with lots of words on the ingredient list that you can’t pronounce easily…

It is probably bad for you.

REAL food doesn’t have labels.

Does an apple, a carrot, a stick of celery, a slice of fresh meat

If it has a food label stay healthy by staying away and keeping out of your nutrition or diet plan!