Since the warmer weather is here, if you are anything like me, you love to enjoy ice cream from time to time. However, ice cream is one of the worst cheat foods you can eat. Ice cream can be dangerous to your waist line and sabotage a week's worth of hard work in the gym.
Ice cream is fully of heavy, fat storing creams along with chemicals you don't even want to know about. This deadly cocktail of fat and sugar is converted by your liver into fatty acids and returned back into the blood stream where it travels through the body and is stored around your belly, hips, and butt.
"Diet" ice cream can be even worse. With all the artificial sweeteners, diet ice cream can actually be worse and trigger explosive, fat storing insulin spikes.
Have you ever read the nutritional label of your typical quart of ice cream? The ingredients typical consist of much more than milk and sugar. Have you ever heard of Propylen glycol ... Diethyl Glucol ... Piperonal ... Ethyl Acetates Butyraldehyde ... Aldehyde C17 ... Xanthan Gum ... Guar Gum ... Aspartame ... Neotame... MSG?
Believe it or not, two of the chemicals above are actually used in the anti-freeze that you have in your car. These kinds of ice cream are not only some of the worst foods for weight loss, they're also terrible for your health in general.
I know it is hard not to indulge in ice cream in the summertime, especially when the temperature rises. But, if you must indulge, please watch your portions, read the nutritional labels and try to stick with ice cream that minimizes the use of chemicals.
Source: Shaun Hadsall's Get Lean
