Jenna Rizzo is a weight loss coach in Georgia, United States. Particularly followed on the networks (she has nearly 84,000 subscribers on TikTok), she has specialized for 6 years in weight loss for women. And in theone of his latest videosshe lists 3 foods that are among the best-sellers in her supermarket… but which she will never buy.
“I know that food should remain a pleasure but you will never find these 3 foods in my house!” she explains. “In my personal experience, these foods are generally not conducive to overall health and weight loss goals.”
No fruit juices or sodas
The first foods she never buys are hardly surprising: fruit juice and soda. “I think we can all agree that soda is not the healthiest thing, but fruit juice usually surprises a lot of people,” explains the weight loss coach. “They think they’re drinking something good and healthy. In reality, most fruit juices are just processed sugar that tastes like grapes or apples.”
Multiple studies have already shown the harmful effects of these sugary drinks and yet many of us still start the day with a glass of orange juice, for example, believing that we are stocking up on vitamins. However, “a glass of fruit juice contains as much sugar as a glass of coke” was recently recalled by the “glucose goddess” Jessie Inchauspé.
No to pre-packaged pastries
“These foods are on my no-go list because we know they don’t provide much nutritional value: they’re very high in saturated fat and very high in processed sugar,” says Jenna Rizzo. However, they contain neither vitamins nor fiber, and yet these ultra-processed foods represent a large part of our daily diet.
And that’s without taking into account the additives “which create damage to the heart, to bone mineralization and to the kidneys” recently underlined by a gastroenterologist. “A product like that only deserves the trash!” he added, thus joining the slimming coach in his list of foods to ban.
“When I want something sweet, I bake a cake myself or go to the pastry shop, but I don’t eat a food that has been so processed that it can last for a year in the cupboard! “
No to pre-packaged fake meats
Vegan versions of ham, nuggets and steaks are flourishing on supermarket shelves but they make the slimming coach grimace. “Consumers see the vegan label and automatically think it’s the healthiest option. But these fake meats with a list of ingredients literally longer than a receipt are not going to do anything for my health she says.
Worse: a recent study showed that these plant-based alternatives to meat could cause damage to the heart. The slimming coach, who recognizes that a vegan diet can help lose weight, advises instead to turn to natural products (fruits and vegetables, legumes, cereals, tofu, seitan, tempeh, etc.) and to ban products processed, even if they are vegan.
Source: www.topsante.com
