Weight Loss Diet: Hot Dog vs. Bun
What is the worst part of this picture? Is it the expression on the guy eating the hot dog? Or maybe the slightly scruffy Elvis wannabe in the background? No folks, we’re talking about the food here. Let’s get the contenders in their corners.
What’s Bad: In the carbohydrate corner is the bun, made almost entirely of refined white flour and weighing in at 21 grams of pure carb. When he and enough of his friends get together, his knockout punch is spiking your insulin level high enough that your body is incapable of utilizing its fat stores.
If you are trying to restrict your carbohydrates (technically, less than 120g per day) to the point that your body can start using those stores (which are really like your body’s rechargeable batteries), then the bun is not your friend. Furthermore, on pure taste you should kick it to the curb since it is dry and tasteless.
What’s Good: Representing fat and protein is the hot dog. Often vilified in the press for causing a host of diseases, this bit of extruded meat product is actually quiet and unassuming. The only part of this product not to have been in the human diet since the dawn of time are some corn and soy oils added in the processing. It’s pretty easy to see how you can get oil out of olives (just squeeze) but corn?
The standard production hot dog also has the meat so finely chopped that it is like eating something tasteless and pre-digested. Anyway, despite the taste downsides, this is still the better of the two opponents. Although, in any fight a Polish sausage with no added sugar or vegetable oils would rock both of their worlds.
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