The more colorful the better? Not always…

It all depends. Are you at your ideal weight? Do you think you may be Pre-Diabetic or a Type ll Diabetic? Are you having trouble losing weight? Do you think you have too much sugar in your diet?

I used to think that the more colorful the better. That is until I wanted to lose a few pounds and couldn’t seem to get those pounds off, even though I was eating a low enough calorie diet. I discovered that some of the vegetables I was eating were contributing to my relative hyperinsulinemia from too much sugar hidden in the food, and thus my body was not going to let go of stored fat since it had plenty of stored glucose (glucagon) to feed off of. Remember, no matter how organic, how sprouted, or how colorful a portion of food is, if it has a high carb count – even if it’s a “complex” carb — it turns into sugar. Four grams of any kind of carb that turns into sugar is metabolized the same way as one teaspoon of white sugar. Yuck!

Check out this list of nutrient values for vegetables and you may be as surprised as I was.