Master rule if you really wan to be healthy, stay away from refined food. Refined foods are highly processed foods that have been stripped of their original nutrient content and fiber, like refined white flour, white pasta, and white sugar.
Let's take an example of loaf of sliced white bread. First, the wheat is stripped of bran and fiber, and then it's pulverized into the finest white flour. The baking process puffs it up into light, airy slices of bread. A slice of white bread hits your bloodstream with the same jerk you'd get by eating a tablespoon of sugar. Now do you want to have white bread?
Even if we speak about whole-wheat or whole-grain bread, the coarse, chewy kind with a thick crust and visible pieces of grain puts your stomach to work. It too is made of wheat, but the grains haven't been processed completely. It contains starches, which are just chains of sugars, but they are bound up with the fiber, this is the reason digestion takes time. Thus, the sugars are released gradually into the bloodstream. If there's no sudden rush in blood sugar, your pancreas won't produce as much insulin, and you won't get the inflated hunger and cravings for more sugary bites.
So now onwards just avoid these food items:
- White bread
- Crackers
- Cookies
- Instant oatmeal
- Rice cakes
- White pasta
- White rice
