Haven't Tried Stevia Yet .... CoCoa Protein Pudding

Easy !
No Cooking !
A Really Great Snack When you Just want something good!


Minimal Ingredients:

• 1 Tub Fat Free Cottage Cheese
• Two Eye Dropper squeezes of Liquid Stevia
• 1 tsp Cocoa powder
• 2 TBSP Fat Free Yogurt or Even Better Fat Free Greek Yogurt (for even more protein!)

Method:
Put ingredients in Blender
Blend till smooth
use rubber spatula to empty back into Cottage cheese Tub
Rinse blender
Eat Chocolate Pudding that will make you a muscle girl/ muscle man

So that is the Recipe 

Now here is the Rant If you dare to read it 

To Start lets just say it 

Sugar makes you Fat 

wonder if that got your attention

FAT FREE PUDDING has sugar in it 

NOW

Look at how many grams of sugar are in what you are eating

 (on the nutritional Label).  

Now Multiply grams of sugar by 4 because there are four calories per gram of sugar. 

Chocolate Pudding
 Regular Pudding (99g)
 Sugars, total:  16g
 Calories, total:  130 
 Calories from sugar: 64
 

 Low Fat Pudding  (99g) 
 Sugars, total:  15g
 Calories, total:  80 
 Calories from sugar: 60

  That's how much pure sugar you are consuming.  Yikes right?

Sugar makes you fat ...and FAT FREE food isn't really free of fat

So This leaves us wanting to know 

HOW the HECK does sugar make us fat if there isn't any fat in it ? !

First lets be clear.  Sugar isnt all evil.  Your body uses sugar to provide you with energy necessary for life.  Many Foods such as fruit for example, are broken down into sugar in the body.

However sugar can sabotage your body and cause fat storage.

Excess glucose is the problem. 

 Easy to explain.  Any time you have filled your body with more fuel than it actually needs (SO easy to do when you eat foods with high sugar content) your liver's sugar storage capacity is exceeded.  When the liver is at its max, it then coverts the sugar into fatty acids ...yep just plain old Fat and sends it right back into the blood stream where it is taken throughout your body to be stored as fat

As a terrible added bonus these fatty acids are also ushered for storage into the organs like the heart, liver, and kidneys.  This in turn reduces organ function, raises blood pressure, decreases metabolism, and weakens the immune system.

Read the labels of the food you eat 

Is sugar in it ?

Remember Ingredients are listed in order of quantity 

so if SUGAR  is First, second, or third on the list.... you can bet that food includes a lot of it  

Stevia by the way folks has actually been proven to LOWER blood Sugar 

FOOT NOTE

If you want to look at the label on your 'fat' free cottage cheese or yogurt included in the above recipe..there are grams of sugar in both...food is food and nobody is perfect 

I guess the idea is to do our best and stay away from sugar when we can 

Eating whole foods is always the best answer 

but you also have to be a human that sometimes wants to eat chocolate pudding too!

trying to find a good balance is all you can do 

Be happy ...eat good food