Some seemingly healthy foods can actually make you gain weight. Here are three popular culprits.
Dried Fruits:
Dodge them! These dehydrated treats are concentrated calorie bombs. Check the difference, a cup of raisins has 460 calories while a cup of grapes has 60! 1 cup dried apricots has 313 calories, while 1 cup of fresh sliced apricots has 79! Choose fresh or frozen fruit instead.
*Tip: Forget fruit juice, one glass of orange juice contains the equivalent of 10 teaspoons of sugar! Get your vitamin C from real oranges!
Granola:
Get rid of it! Just 1 cup of Granola contain 600 calories and 30 grams of fat.When you want something crunchy, try reaching for something like a bowl of cheerios, 1 cup boasts 110 calories and 2 grams of fat.
Sweeten Yogurt!
Skip it! Yogurt does provide a host of heath benefits- but you lose the waist-friendly benefits if you choose the sweetened kind! The average 4-oz serving has 3 tsp of added sugar added! Twice the calories of the plain variety!
It always comes down to reading the labels and making weight friendly choices.
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