There 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,
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French Fries (and Nearly All Commercially Fried Foods)
Do you know that most French fries and potato chips contain insane levels of acrylamide? Acrylamide is a chemical substance and is *known* to be a carcinogen and neurotoxin, which is formed in foods during high temperature processes such as frying, baking, roasting and extrusion.
According to some studies, in foods like French fries and potato chips, acrylamide is present to the tune of about 300 times more than the *safe* limits recommended by WHO (World Health Organization)
High in calories, sodium and fat french fries contribute to obesity, high cholesterol and heart disease. These are foods to avoid if you care about your health.
For persons who are trying, with difficulty, to maintain a healthy weight, fries are pure gasoline on the fire.
* Chips
Most commercial chips, and this includes corn chips, potato chips, tortilla chips, you name it, are high in trans fat.
Fortunately, some companies have caught on to the recent media blitz about the dangers of trans fat and have started to produce chips without trans fat.
However, the high temperatures used to cook them will potentially cause the formation of carcinogenic substances like acrylamide, and this risk remains even if the trans fat is removed.
* Fried Non-Fish Seafood
Fried shrimp, clams, oysters, lobsters, and so on have all the issues of trans fat and acrylamide mentioned above, plus an added risk of mercury.
Eating these foods gives you a quadruple dose of toxins–trans fat, acrylamide, mercury and possibly parasites or viruses–with every bite.
If you have a taste for seafood, there’s an easy solution.Bake or broil the fish on an elevated rack that allows fats to drain to the pan below; do not fry in a pan.
After cooking, discard all liquids. Do not reuse for soup or sauces.
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Yours truly, Polly – Organic Gardener
