ZUMBA - Jeanee Duval

Read your labels!

Read the ingredients listed after or near the “Nutrition Facts.” If these three things are in the 1st five ingredients please reconsider. These things are bad for you!

1. hydrogenated oils
Hydrogenation is the process that changes liquid vegetable oils into a more solid form in order to lengthen their shelf life. It removes essential fatty acids and creates trans fatty acids in processed foods. Hydrogenated oils contributes to the development of diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

2. high-fructose corn syrup
High-fructose corn syrup promotes diabetes and obesity.
New research published in the United States that followed 50,000 U.S. nurses reveals those who drank just one serving of soda or fruit punch a day gained weight more quickly than those who drank less than one soda a month. Those who drank more also had an 80% increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. This risk, by the way, was associated with those who drank drinks sweetened with either sugar or high-fructose corn syrup.


3. the refining of whole-grain flour into unhealthful white,
bleached flour
Refined white flour strips the body of essential nutrition, leaving it deficient in B vitamins as well as minerals like magnesium and zinc. These are precisely the minerals that children need in order to build healthy nervous systems and avoid behavioral disorders later in life. These are also the same nutrients that pregnant women need to be able to give birth to babies that don't have birth defects.

HOW TO READ A NUTRITION FACTS LABEL
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