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Worst Foods for Weight Loss

At any given time, thousands of people worldwide are on some form of diet in order to lose weight. There is a lot of controversy about which diet works the best, but there are some foods that just about every diet eliminates. These foods can be considered the worst foods for weight loss, typically because they are high in fat and empty calories.

  1. Doughnuts and Fried Foods

    • Lay off the doughnuts. There's a reason that the police officers who are stereotyped as eating doughnuts usually are portrayed as being overweight---doughnuts are weight-loss sin foods on two levels. First, they are pastries, which means they are full of carbohydrates that the body can store as fat. Secondly, they are prepared in vats of hot oil, which automatically increases the calorie count---doughnuts can be as much as 40 percent trans fat. These factors can have negative effects on insulin levels and increase the risk of diseases related to heart attack and stroke. Although doughnuts may be the worst fried food to eat while trying to lose weight, just about any fried food should be avoided, as frying a food in oil increases the amount of fat and extra calories the food will have.

    White Breads

    • Avoid white breads. White breads are breads that have been refined. This means that the flour from which the bread is made has had the bran (and sometimes the germ) removed. White breads also typically are bleached. The problem with this in terms of weight loss is that removing the bran and germ and bleaching removes essential nutrients and vitamins from the grain. This translates to eating a high carbohydrate food that is "empty"---you'll get calories from the bread, but unless it is enriched, you won't get other things your body needs to function well. Try to choose whole-grain breads instead to make sure the consumption of calories in the bread is worth it.

    Sodas

    • Eliminate sodas. These products are chock-full of sugar, which makes them high-calorie foods in most cases. They do not have the nutrients and vitamins that are essential to physical processes of the body, so by keeping these products in your diet as you try to lose weight, you increase the amount of sugar that can be converted to fat without giving your body anything to stay healthy. If you normally drink two or three cans of soda a day, try drinking water instead. This will eliminate hundreds of calories, help you to feel full, and provide your body with the water it needs to operate at its best.

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