There’s a new term floating around the food world. It’s designed to help you identify the processed foods it’s OK to eat, and the ones to avoid.
It is ultra-processed foods. This is a category of packaged foods that have been through the most changes from their original state.
Ultra-processed foods generally contain additives, preservatives and other substances extracted from foods. They’ve been linked to cancer and heart...

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Your body works hard to keep the sugar in your blood at a safe level. As soon as you eat that cookie or bowl of pasta, your pancreas starts putting out the hormone insulin to process the sugar you’ve taken in.
Too much sugar in your blood makes it thick and syrupy, which is not good. Imagine how much extra work that is for your heart as it tries to pump goopy blood around your body.
In the short term, a spike in your blood...

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If you’re trying to eat healthy, you probably don’t go a day without thinking about sugar. Avoiding sugar is hard because it’s in most foods...