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Trying to Lose Weight? Here are 5 Nigerian Foods You Should Eliminate From Your Diet
From as early as primary school, Nigerian teachers teach children the importance of eating a healthy, balanced diet that contains the main food components including carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals. However, when looking to lose weight, you may need to disregard that advice and go on a diet that either excludes some of these main food nutrients or allows them in very minute quantities. This is because some of these nutrients, carbohydrates to be precise, make you more likely to gain weight than others, as they are usually high in calories. Carbohydrates include simple carbohydrates(sugar) and complex carbohydrates (starch). Simple carbohydrate which is found in natural food sources such as fruits, vegetables, and milk as well as processed food are actually bad as they are digested and absorbed very quickly. They introduce a large amount of calories to your system over a very short period of time, which if not burned off as soon as possible, will be stored as f...
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