Wife Consumes Her Body Weight in Jerky

Wife Consumes Her Body Weight in Jerky

Exposing and Evading Grocery Store Fat Traps

My wife recently consumed her body weight in beef jerky. What was supposed to be a light, healthy snack turned into an all out beef eating binge. Her ravenous consumption made me ponder that it must be an especially good brand. Rushing out of town, I bought it at my local health food store. That was where I messed up big time…Ignoring the label, I was ensnared by the number one grocery store fat trap – which was the cause of my wife’s abnormal and ravenous consumption of the beef.. If I can succumb to them, then everyone is susceptible to the fat traps lurking in grocery stores.

A grocery store fat trap is nothing more than a scheme designed by food manufacturers to make you eat more of something that you think is healthy – like beef jerky. You could think of these foods or food additives as fat fertilizer. They are great for a company’s bottom line but really bad for your “bottom.”

Right before she threw her head back to dump the remaining portion of food into her mouth, my wife turned the bag over to read the fine print ingredients – I think she had to stop for air. Instantly she gasped, “Why the hell did you buy this! It’s loaded with high-fructose corn syrup!” High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is fat fertilizer on steroids. And she knows it…One very fit Mom, she keeps a lean and muscular build by avoiding grocery store fat traps. Her eating came to a screeching halt.

HFCS transforms people into eating machines. Once consumed, it sets into motion a chemical cascade that begins with spiked insulin and ends with feel-good molecules known as endorphins. Intoxicated with artificial feel-good, our brains are unable to sense overeating and demand more, more, more. The excess calories get stored in your bottom – big time. Ultra-sensitive to the Frankenfood induced pig-out, I’ve even heard of kids accidentally taking bites out of their fingers when under the influence of HFCS. Worse yet, many children who over-indulge on products containing HFCS eventually become diabetic.

From beef jerky to bread and even spaghetti sauce, HFCS has infiltrated most foods and turned each one into a fat trap. Avoid it at all cost! But these are not the only traps that await you.

Fat free labels hoodwink millions of unsuspecting victims. They have been a gold mine for the food industry since 1993. The obese seek out this label in hopes of waking up skinny. It never happens, but this doesn’t stop them from getting ensnared over and over again. I can here the rational, “It just seems so plausible; I’m fat, I should eat fat free foods.” Wrong.

After the fat is removed, sugar is added. Sugar is great for a birthday party, that’s it. Like HFCS, it is nothing more than fat fertilizer and a heart attack waiting to happen. Look for it listed as sucrose, dextrose, or cane sugar on the labels of your favorite food. Then find something else, like an all-natural food high in healthy fat!

Healthy fat – which you can find in grass fed beef, seeds, nuts, avocados and eggs – is essential for proper growth, development, and maintenance of good health. It provides your body with vital energy without causing you to gain weight. In sharp contrast to carbohydrates, sugar, and trans fats, healthy fats tell your body to burn fat and makes you feel fuller quicker. Add them to your grocery list.

This trap gets most weekend warriors: sports bars, protein powders, and sugar free foods. Each and every one of them is loaded with drugs disguised as sweeteners, AKA artificial sweeteners. The belief that these nicely packaged foods and drinks are healthy for you is a perfect example of how marketing strategies supersede medical science and common sense.

When consumed, artificial sweeteners make your body lose its natural ability to count calories. If athletes cannot distinguish between proper eating and over eating caused by artificial flavors, then they will never reach their fat loss or muscle building goals, period. Exercise becomes a waste of time. Artificial flavors include sucralose (Splenda), aspartame, acesulfame K, saccharin, and neotame.

Beef, it’s what’s for dinner, along with the fat trap MSG (monosodium glutamate). MSG has several aliases you can be on the lookout for, including hydrolyzed vegetable protein, hydrolyzed protein, hydrolyzed plant protein, plant protein extract, sodium caseinate, calcium caseinate, yeast extract, textured protein, autolyzed yeast, and hydrolyzed oat flour.

The white, crystalline amino acid is made in a lab then added to meat products (and most canned or packaged foods) under the auspices of “enhancing flavor.” One small problem: It doesn’t have any flavor. It just enhances overeating. But anything that enhances the bottom line is labeled as enhancing flavor.

Once consumed, the fat fertilizer works by spiking insulin and lowering those hormones that ward off obesity, premature aging, and diabetes: IGF-1 and human growth hormone. And if that doesn’t scare you, it can be damaging to brain cells. Consider the shocking findings by German scientists who recently warned that Germany should abandon the use of MSG at once. Why? They found that pregnant mothers consuming this fat trap were giving birth to children who were insulin resistant.

Apparently, fetuses can be doomed to overeating for life thanks to neuronal damage caused by MSG being consumed by Mom. The damage was most prevalent among a specialized group of nerve cells in the medulla oblongata, thalamus, or hypothalamus of the brain. All of these areas control proper eating and metabolism. Once damaged, children are born metabolically handicapped, for life. This might explain the drastic increases in childhood obesity worldwide.

Some things are worth dying for. Fat traps are not. If you want to live thin and slim or just avoid eating your body weight in beef, be alert to these common grocery store fat traps. You might have to dedicate an extra 20 minutes to shopping. But after that, you’ll never fall victim to them again.