A Lion needs to avoid anything that has any of the following labels on it: Low Fat, Fat Free, Reduced Fat, Low Sodium, Low Sugar, and Sugar Free. Of course as Lions you need to be buying foods that don’t have a lot of sugar anyways, but that means naturally low in sugar, not a modified product.

As for the fat there are there a couple of reasons why you should avoid those products. First, as a Lion you can have the fat. A large portion of your daily calories are suppose to come from fat. You can actually add butter and sour cream to your food without feeling guilty about it. Just watch the portions.

The second reason to avoid any foods with these labels is that they are most likely highly processed. Buying organic, natural foods would be preferred do to the chemical processing that is involved in non-organic foods. However, if you are not eating organic for one reason or another then try to stay with foods that are in their most natural state. When foods have a “low fat” or “sugar free” version, they have been even further processed. The producers of the food have taken something out, which also means that they have put something in. The added components of these foods tend to be artificial colors, artificial flavors, artificial sweeteners, or even modified fats. In short they are adding food chemicals. When you’re trying to be healthy, chemicals are not what you should be putting in your body!