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McDonald’s Fruit and Maple Oatmeal packs 290 calories and 32 grams of sugar
Jamba Juice’s Berry Cherry Pecan Oatmeal has 340 calories and 27 grams of sugar.

Wendy’s, the Broccoli and Cheese Potato contains 330 calories, the “cheese” sauce, which is actually a blend of more than 20 ingredients, including food starch, sugar, fillers, and colors.

- Submitted by SUNSHINE6442 4/21/2011 in Weight Loss | 1 Comments

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Are You Going Bananas Trying to lose weight?

You might wan to omit bananas from your diet due to the high number of carbohydrates or sugars in the banana.Yellow or brown” bananas contains more sugar than green ones which have more fiber. It’s not that banana’s are ‘bad’ for you, it’s just that they’re not good for losing weight as they do contain a lot of simple sugars. Berries are better. If you are strictly monitoring sugar & caloric intake the biggest thing is glycemic spike with a banana. If you can't give them up, eat in moderation

- Submitted by SUNSHINE6442 4/21/2011 | 1 Comments | View Secret

Heart attack risk, Obesity, High Triglycerides and High Cholesterol,

Triglycerides are stored as fat in your system. Excess levels of triglycerides thicken your blood. The most important step to take is to lower your carbohydrate intake. Omit sugar which raises cholesterol. Omega 3 fatty acids and Vitamin C, combined with a low carbohydrate diet, can reduce your triglyceride levels

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Make sure you get your triglyceride levels checked as part of your next blood test. Eat fish, Ealnuts, Almonds and 1,000 MG of Vitamin C in the AM and PM.

- Submitted by SUNSHINE6442 4/21/2011 | 1 Comments | View Secret

Just Quit Cold Turkey

I needed to omit coca-cola from my life, so I just quit cold turkey 25 months ago. I never gave myself the option to cut back on the amount I drank per day or switching to diet coke. I just quit and never looked back.

- Submitted by SEESALLYRUN 4/21/2011 | 2 Comments | View Secret

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