Diet Foods You Should Avoid Over 50 (Not Why You Think)

Diet foods you should avoid over 50

The advantage of eating a diet food is it’s supposed to help us lose weight. The concept of eating more of a food to lose weight seems counterintuitive. Especially when we have had it drilled into our heads our whole lives, we need to eat less to lose weight.

How much food we eat does matter, but the more of the right types of food we eat and less of the wrong ones, the better.

Coconut oil is credited with a lot of health benefits, including aiding in weight loss. It's been used for centuries in Southeast Asian countries along with root vegetables, fruit and fish, a style of eating very different from our typical western diet, which is high in saturated fats.

Coconut oil is also high in saturated fats, with 80% being this type of fat considerably more than butter which only has about 65%.

We need saturated fats in our diet, but overconsuming these fats can lead to cardiovascular and heart disease.

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So, where do these weight-loss claims come from? It comes from the thought that coconut oil and MCT oil are the same thing, with companies often using MCT oil studies to support their claims.

Coconut oil contains about 14% MCT oil or medium-chain-triglycerides which is a type of saturated fat, but its makeup is very different. MCT oil is primarily caprylic ca-pril-ick and caproic ca-pro-ick acid. Where Coconut oil has mainly Lauric acid and has very little of the other acids, this causes it to act differently.

I mentioned earlier 80% of coconut oil is fat. If only 14% is MCT oil, what is the rest? It's Long-chain-triglycerides, the type of saturated fat that causes heart disease. In addition to this, lauric acid acts more like a Long-chain-triglyceride than an MCT when it comes to digestion and absorption.

If you’re a meat-eater like myself you're already are taking in a lot of saturated fat. Adding coconut oil to your diet will set you up for an increased risk of cardiovascular and heart disease. This is something we want to avoid.

The American Heart Association recommends only having 5 to 6 percent of our daily calories being saturated fats.

On the other hand, if you’re a vegan or vegetarian, this may be a good way to include the required amount of saturated fats into your diet.

Foods that contain added sugar are a great way to sabotage your fat loss plan. In the United States, people consume more added sugars from soft drinks and sugar-sweetened beverages than any other source.

Not all diet soft drinks contain zero calories, but they all have zero nutrition unless the manufacturer added in some vitamins and minerals so they could market their product as a healthier option.

Next is artificial sweeteners; this is where the controversy starts. When I looked at the studies on diet soft drinks, I found two groups. Observational studies that looked at overweight people, those who had diabetes or other health conditions and found they tend to drink more diet drinks than those without these conditions.

But does that mean diet soft drinks contributed these conditions? Or does it mean The people who have these conditions turned to diet soft drinks to try and control their calorie intake?

The second group of studies I would call better, some were clinical trials where they had people drink sweetened beverages to see how the body reacts to them. All the ones I could find were funded by beverage companies. Leading to a potential conflict of interest.

In the end, what we find is there’s no evidence that diet drinks directly over the short term harm the body or cause weight gain.

Regular users of non-calorie sweeteners receive less satisfaction from the sweet taste, and over time they hypothesize this could increase the odds of choosing a more sugary snack in an attempt to satisfy the brain’s reward centre.

Diet drinks should be enjoyed occasionally. But you should avoid them if you have a sweet tooth you're having trouble controlling.

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