"Sugar-free" diet: fitness versions can hide excess calories

"Zero sugar" foods have taken over supermarket shelves. The promise of healthy food has dominated the stimulus for the consumption of such items as bars, yogurts, chocolates and even ice creams that promise the absence of sugar.

However, you also need to pay attention to other ingredients. According to Raphaela Zanella, nutritionist and postgraduate professor in Sports Nutrology at Afya Educação Médica São Paulo, when a food has no sugar, it does not mean that it allows weight loss or nutritional balance.

To go further and understand the composition, you need to analyze all the ingredients and pay attention to the amount of fat and sodium, for example.

Continue lendo

27/05/2026

Income Tax 2026: deadline ends this week and live program answered questions

Income Tax 2026: deadline ends this week and live program answered questions By next Friday, the Federal Revenue expec...

27/05/2026

River Plate x Blooming: time and where to watch the South American game

River Plate and Blooming face each other this Wednesday (27), at 9:30 pm (Brasília time), in a game valid for the sixt...

27/05/2026

Group urges US diplomats to leave countries amid Ebola outbreak

AFSA (American Foreign Service Association), which represents US diplomats, asked this Wednesday (27) that American fo...

"When "sugar-free" is associated with healthy, sugar-free foods become a farce of the food industry", explains the nutritionist.

According to her, sugar-free food may have excess fat to compensate for the lack of sweetener, increasing the calories of this food compared to the sugar product of the same brand.

This is because the food industry needs to compensate and maintain the flavor, texture and palatability of the item.

Top Cifras

Toque agora.

1 C Quest ce Que Ça Peut Ben Faire - Eric Lapointe

2 Q Não tem solidão Querendo Mais

3 Eram Três Cruzes Irmãs Falavinha

4 Sem Saber Pique Novo

Therefore, she explains that it is necessary to go further when analyzing the nutritional table.

"It is important to check whether the food contains nutrients such as vitamins and minerals, fiber, whether it has high or low caloric density. And also whether it is minimally processed, or ultra-processed", recommends Raphaela Zanella.

To avoid high sodium and fat consumption, you need to look for foods with fewer ingredients.

"The fewer ingredients and fewer processes, the healthier the food. And the longer the list of ingredients, especially with artificial names, the less healthy that item is. Therefore, it poses more risk to your health", she informs.

In addition, Raphaela Zanella recommends some tips for choosing foods:

- If you don't recognize most of the ingredients, it's a warning;
- If the list of ingredients is long, it's probably ultra-processed;
- Don't associate "fit", zero, light with the fact that the food is healthy, you need to analyze the whole;
- Choose products with a minimum of ingredients or minimally processed and prioritize fresh foods.

"The main risk is what we are experiencing today, with an epidemic of obesity and diabetes, including among children worldwide", he explains.

She also points out the paradox we are experiencing: "we have people with more body weight, but more malnourished from a nutritional point of view."

Consumption of ultra-processed products causes 6 deaths per hour in the country

Source: CNN