Shitty substatutes

[chris69]

What is in the crap i now eat to keep away from sugar and heavy creams ect.... salt subs.......I have (equal )instead of sugar, (coffe mate) instead of half/half...and salt substatutes instead of the sodium ! I hate to think what this man-made shit really is ! I need the flavor, I eat to get big ,but hell i need to enjoy somthing.............and can't get Bloated ect...catch my drift !

 

[Tatyana]

It is fantastic you are looking at your diet, however, some of the substitutes are worse than the 'real thing'.

I wouldn't use coffee mate, it is full of artificial fats, which are known to affect the cellular membranes, which can lead to insulin sensitivity.

If you are on a low carb diet, full fat cream or half and half is better, or use 2-4% fat milk (is that semi-skimmed in the US?)

I use artificial sweetners as well, I would recommend Stevia or Splenda over any of the aspartame or saccharin sweetners.

Salt has also been given a bad rep as well.

Too much bad quality salt, which is present in a lot of processed foods is something you really want to limit (Pizza hut meat feast has something like 9 g per slice or something ridiculous like that), but good QUALITY salt is essential, it has anabolic properties, and the sodium-ATPase pump is what helps to drive nutrients into your cells.


REAL salt is not pure white, it often has a yellowish or pinkish tint to it. I would recommend rock or sea salts, or a good macrobiotic quality 'soya' sauce such as tamari or shoyu, and other 'salt' products such as miso and umeboshi plum paste.

 

[chris69]

It is fantastic you are looking at your diet, however, some of the substitutes are worse than the 'real thing'.

I wouldn't use coffee mate, it is full of artificial fats, which are known to affect the cellular membranes, which can lead to insulin sensitivity.

If you are on a low carb diet, full fat cream or half and half is better, or use 2-4% fat milk (is that semi-skimmed in the US?)

I use artificial sweetners as well, I would recommend Stevia or Splenda over any of the aspartame or saccharin sweetners.

Salt has also been given a bad rep as well.

Too much bad quality salt, which is present in a lot of processed foods is something you really want to limit (Pizza hut meat feast has something like 9 g per slice or something ridiculous like that), but good QUALITY salt is essential, it has anabolic properties, and the sodium-ATPase pump is what helps to drive nutrients into your cells.


REAL salt is not pure white, it often has a yellowish or pinkish tint to it. I would recommend rock or sea salts, or a good macrobiotic quality 'soya' sauce such as tamari or shoyu, and other 'salt' products such as miso and umeboshi plum paste.

Thank you TAT, the coffee-mate i have is fat free, and the reason i was staying away from the Salt is because of the Bloat !( DBAL)...so atleast why im on ,i have to be careful...I somtimes worry that this artifisial crap is going to give us cancer or some shit in the long run, I hate Prossesed crap !

 

[Tatyana]

Thank you TAT, the coffee-mate i have is fat free, and the reason i was staying away from the Salt is because of the Bloat !( DBAL)...so atleast why im on ,i have to be careful...I somtimes worry that this artifisial crap is going to give us cancer or some shit in the long run, I hate Prossesed crap !

Read the ingredients carefully.

If it isn't something you can read or know what it is, don't eat it.

Trust your gut about disliking artificial crap

 

[the_alcatraz]

Trust your gut about disliking artificial crap

Great advice.

 

[STUNNAMAN]

Salt has also been given a bad rep as well.

Too much bad quality salt, which is present in a lot of processed foods is something you really want to limit (Pizza hut meat feast has something like 9 g per slice or something ridiculous like that), but good QUALITY salt is essential, it has anabolic properties, and the sodium-ATPase pump is what helps to drive nutrients into your cells.


REAL salt is not pure white, it often has a yellowish or pinkish tint to it. I would recommend rock or sea salts, or a good macrobiotic quality 'soya' sauce such as tamari or shoyu, and other 'salt' products such as miso and umeboshi plum paste.

agreed... switch your table salt for a balanced sea salt