Archive for Foods To Avoid
You may be ingesting 67 pesticides if you’re eating non-organic celery , according to a new report from the Environmental Working Group. The group suggests limiting consumption of pesticides by purchasing organic for the 12 fruits and vegetables.
Of the 12 most contaminated foods, 7 are fruits: peaches, strawberries, apples, domestic blueberries, nectarines, cherries and imported grapes.
Celery, sweet bell peppers, spinach, kale, collard greens and potatoes are the vegetables most likely to retain pesticide contamination:
1. Celery
2. Peaches
3. Strawberries
4. Apples
5. Domestic blueberries
6. Nectarines
7. Sweet bell peppers
8. Spinach, kale and collard greens
9. Cherries
10. Potatoes
11. Imported grapes
12. Lettuce Read More→
In The Garden With The Carrots!
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Have you ever had really good, juicy carrots? Not the kind that’s all white and dehydrated like your skin in the winter.
I mean a plump, bursting balloon of sweetness, with a few wisps of fuzzy roots and wrinkles, maybe, but a thin skin that betrays its more-orange-than-an-orange flesh?
Thankfully, I have. And it’ll never be forgotten. Granted, I can eat carrots any way, shape or form: raw, cooked, juiced, shredded or mashed — and yes, wispy and dry as my skin right now, too. But it’s a whole other level of enjoyment when the ingredient is at its prime.
It’s easy to see why carrots are such champions.They have more carotene than any fruit or vegetable. (Carotene is what the body converts to vitamin A).
And carrots are an excellent source of vitamins B, C, D, E and K, as well as calcium pectate. Calcium pectate is an extraordinary pectin fiber that has cholesterol-lowering properties.
Carrot nutritional benefits contribute to speed healing when used in raw juices. The juice contains powerful antioxidants that are extremely useful in treating illness, like cancer, anemia, high blood pressure and depression.
Carrot juice promotes the desire to eat and helps in the digestion of food.. A carrot a day keeps diarrhea away.
So the carrots and I have some good times in my garden. I simply choose short-rooted varieties, and I get a bumper crop of great looking carrots every time. Read More→
Health Warning:Neurotoxin In Veggie Burgers
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Do you love veggie burgers? Many vegetarians swear by veggie burgers, most of which are made by soy, because they believe the fake meat is healthier than animal meat.
Think you’re being healthy by choosing a veggie burger instead of red meat? Think again.
In an effort to make their products as low-fat as possible, many veggie burger manufacturers are turning to a potentially harmful chemical, according to an investigation by the non-profit Cornucopia Institute. It revealed in a recent report that most non-organic veggie burger brands contain a chemical called hexane, which is an EPA-registered air pollutant and neurotoxin.
This lovely chemical is traditionally reserved for shoe glue, leather products and roofing. And now food manufacturers have decided that it would be a cheap and easy thing to use in our veggie burgers as well. Oh, and did I mention that hexane is a bi-product of gasoline?
So why do they use it? Well, they figure that people who buy veggie burgers are generally more health conscious. And, they figure that people who are health conscious won’t want a lot of fat in their food.
So, they soak soybeans in hexane so they can separate the fat from the protein.
According to the Cornucopia Institute’s report, “if a non-organic product contains a soy protein isolate, soy protein concentrate, or texturized vegetable protein, you can be pretty sure it was made using soy beans that were made with hexane.”
That is the horror of non-organic nutrition labels, they may tell you what the ingredient is, but they don’t tell you the chemical process they went through to create it. And, Read More→
Alert: Toxic Plants In Your Garden
Posted by: | CommentsWe often live side -by- side with toxic plants and are ignorant that many common plants we use for food, decorate our homes or add value to the landscape are poisonous.
You may be surprised to find out the incredibly lethal plants often hanging around the neighborhood park – or gracing your tabletop in the form of a centerpiece.
We have poisonous plants in our own private gardens, on sale at garden centers, on show in gardens open to the public; including many public parks that are totally unsupervised..
Surprisingly, there is more than one plant that could be in your home that is a potential killer.
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One, is the Daffodil. The bulbs of a daffodil can be deadly. If consumed they can cause vomiting and diarrhea.
Include with the bulbs of a Daffodil, the bulbs of a Hyacinth and the bulbs of a Narcissus. Both cause the same symptoms as a Daffodil and both can also cause death.
Daffodils are deer- and vermin-resistant, and no wonder — they have a poisonous numbing effect.
* Oleander : Oleander is a common garden plant, but ingesting any part of it can be deadly. Even the smoke from a burning oleander can kill you.
It is the most deadly plant in the world. It is also tremendously popular as a decorative shrub. Just one leaf can kill an adult, and fatal poisonings have resulted from minimal exposure to the twigs, blooms and berries.
Once ingested, oleander goes to work simultaneously on the nervous system, the cardiovascular system, and the digestive tract.
* Apples: The apples on the tree are, as we know, not only good to eat but also good for us. But not the seeds. They, as well as the seeds of apricots and the pits of peaches contain cyanogenic glycosides. If you eat enough of the seeds, you could very well die.
If you cut up apples for your children or prefer to eat whole apples down to the core, make sure you remove those seeds.
* The rosary pea may sound sweet and downright pious, but it’s actually one of the most toxic plants on earth. Its seeds contain a particular lectin known as abrin.
If chewed and swallowed, death will follow shortly. The seeds are easily identified with their distinctive bright red jacket and single black dot (almost like a reverse Black Widow spider And, Read More→
Foods To Avoid: These Foods Can Spike Obesity, Cancer, Heart Disease
Posted by: | CommentsThere are no foods to avoid, right? There are simply foods that you are trying to avoid to do your waistline a favor.
Well, not really. The following foods are so bad for your body that I really can’t see any reason to eat them.
Not only do they have zero nutritional value, but they also give your body a healthy dose of toxins, which should make the idea of eating them really hard to swallow.
The best option of course is to grow your own food organically and eat it fresh from the garden.
* Doughnuts
If you’ve ever had a doughnut hot out of the fryer, you know what this irresistible food is made of: sugarcoated white flour fried in trans-fat-laden oil.
Store-bought doughnuts are made up of about 35 percent to 40 percent trans fat. An average doughnut will give you about 200 to 300 calories, mostly from sugar and few other nutrients (gums and artificial flavor)
High consumption of trans fat is a significant risk factor for coronary heart disease.
* Soda
One can of soda has about 10 teaspoons of sugar, 150 calories, 30 to 55 mg of caffeine, and is loaded with artificial food colors and sulfites.
Drinking a single 330 ml can a day of sugary drinks translates to more than 1lb of weight gain every month.
Studies have linked soda to osteoporosis, obesity, tooth decay and heart disease, yet the average American drinks an estimated 57 gallons of soft drinks each year.
Soda, no matter who makes it, is the most acidic beverage you can buy, with a pH of about 2.51, about the same as vinegar, but the sugar content disguises the acidity. To put that into perspective, consider that battery acid has a pH of 1 and pure water has a pH level of 7. And, Read More→
