The typical American eats 27.6 times more soybean oil than olive oil, and much of that comes from the generic bottles labeled as “vegetable oil.” Ban this oil from your life- its the main reason why our omega-6 to omega-3 ratios are so out of whack- and replace it with canola oil, which has near perfect 2:1 ratio of the two omegas, as well as olive oil.

Scanning a products ingredients list to see if it contains sugar is smart, but you may nerd to expand your vocabulary. Here are 20 aliases that the sweet stuff goes by- none of which include the word sugar.
(Barley malt, brown rice syrup, corn syrup, dextrose, evaporated cane juice invert syrup, fructose, fruit juice, galactose, glucose, granular fruit grape juice concentrate, high- fructose corn syrup, honey, lactose, maltodextrin, maple syrup, organic cane juice, sorghum, sucrose & turbinado)