Avoid These 5 'Healthy' Foods Secretly Filled with Sugar

Dr. Jeff Peng addresses a common misconception about "healthy" snacks in his video, highlighting that many popular health foods, including flavored yogurt, granola bars, and bottled smoothies, are actually laden with high amounts of added sugars. He emphasizes that these foods often exceed the recommended daily sugar intake, contributing to health issues like obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease. Dr. Peng uses examples like Dannon's fruit on the bottom yogurt and Clif bars to illustrate the hidden sugar content in these products. As alternatives, he suggests opting for plain yogurt and bars with minimal added sugars. He also critiques bottled green juices and health cereals for their high sugar content, using Naked Juice and Honey Nut Cheerios as examples, and recommends fresher, less processed options. The video aims to raise awareness about the importance of reading nutrition labels and making informed choices to improve overall health, leading into his next video about the varied impacts of different sugars on the body.
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[@avapilsen]

I'll never understand why yogurt was ever sweetened. People eat it unsweetened all over the world and love it. The American standard diet has driven us to prefer sweet foods; it gotten so bad that when we eat natural food such as cucumbers and broccoli, we think they're bland. It's so sad.

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Thank you for sharing this information 🙏🏽♥️

[@JeffreyPengMD]

You are so welcome!

[@itzzzsss]

I noticed something wrong in the morning coffee. I call it The Coffee Paradox. One who have diabetes or symptoms of diabetes try to avoid any form of sugar as much as possible, so when they buy a cup of coffee, they add a sweetener rather than granulated white sugar, and then add the second ingredient to their coffee, The Cream. The cream is dry Corn Syrup. I noticed that anything Corn related causes obesity and severes the symptoms of diabetes. So the person making the coffee thinks his drink is fine now without the real sugar that'll suppose lessen the symptoms of diabetes. But their intake of ingredients are the same because they are ingesting the dry floury corn syrup

[@PinkFlowers365]

thank you a ton

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[@fiddlerJohn]

My table salt has DEXTROSE ! Please READ the LABELS.

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Wow

[@avapilsen]

Wtf - that's just insane.

[@plumeria66]

Sugar also can cause bloating and cancer