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The empty calories from foods that are high in calories but low in healthy nutrients. Examples of foods filled with empty calories are the fries served in fast food, donuts, sugary soft drinks.

Most of the time, people crowded into their schedules tend to overeat these foods full of empty calories, especially if they go to fast food. The problem with these foods calorically dense but nutritionally poor is that they grow while providing very (too) few useful nutrients.

2 ways to eat fewer calories empty

1) Watch what you drink
Most people make hundreds of empty calories and unhealthy every day with what they drink. The average soft drink cans sweetened provides 105 calories and 40 grams of sugar (which is huge) with no nutritional value to compensate.

But it’s not just empty calories that interfere in sugary soft drinks. The sugar content in these cans of corn syrup is rich in fructose, a sweetener that increases the risk of type 2 diabetes and obesity. Here’s some extra incentive, if you’re used to drinking 2 cans of soda per day, and if you replace them with water or a sugarless drink, you lose 500 grams every 2 weeks without doing anything other. Furthermore, alcohol is another source of empty calories to avoid.

2) Monitor your breakfast cereal
Have you read the back of a cereal box for breakfast recently? Most of these cereal boxes are loaded in sugar and poor nutritionally speaking. Even the cereal so-called “healthy” have their flaws. A bowl of cereal healthy version of the Kellogg’s brand provides 230 calories and 17 grams of sugar per serving.

Instead of sugar-laden cereal, try oatmeal or other healthy whole grain such as quinoa in a crock pot and cook all night. You can eat hot cereals without sugar and healthier the next morning.