Low fat & fat free food controversy on the Bear Diet

The Right "Bear" Food is not necessarily labeled "Low Fat"
A lot of patients have a hard time picking out the “right” foods at the grocery store. To a certain extent the definition of what the right foods are can change person to person, or more so Diet Type to Diet Type. One thing to avoid is buying anything that has any of the following labels on it: Low Fat, Fat Free, Reduced Fat, Low Sodium, Low Sugar, and Sugar Free.

As a Bear you can a have a little bit of everything, so having a cupboard full of fat free and sugar free products is not necessary.

You need to be cautious about going overboard on both fat and sugar, but purchasing these altered versions of regular food is not the way to go about it. Instead use portion control!

The second reason to avoid any foods with these labels is that they are most likely highly processed. Buying organic, natural foods would be preferred do to the chemical processing that is involved in non-organic foods. However, if you are not eating organic for one reason or another then try to stay with foods that are in their most natural state.

When foods have a "low fat" or "sugar free" version, they have been even further processed. The producers of the food have taken something out, which also means that they have put something in. The added components of these foods tend to be artificial colors, artificial flavors, artificial sweeteners, or even modified fats. In short they are adding food chemicals. When you’re trying to be healthy, chemicals are not what you should be putting in your body!

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