Lots of the pre-packaged pre-made food is high in saturated and trans fats and cholesterol. They are usually high calorie (empty calories) with high amounts of either sodium or sugar. These manufactured and processed goods are often low in nutrients. Processing the foods have been altered from their natural state, usually for safety reasons and convenience. As well as for profit driven reasons, reducing costs and increasing shelflife. Methods for processing include canning, freezing, refrigeration, dehydration and aseptic processing. The foods with purely natural methods of processing are still good for you. Trans fat is man-made, manufacturers hydrogenate oil to make it solid. Look for Mono and poly unsaturated fats. This fat is healthy and important source of calories. Avoid fat free
Balance out processed foods with salad, vegetables, and some whole-grain bread. Pay attention to serving size also.
Hot dogs are one of the worst processed foods. They are high in nitrates as preservative, also high in other sodium and unhealthy saturated fat, cholesterol, corn syrup, and food coloring. Hot dogs usually come from cow and pig skeletal muscle and by products. Paying more for natural or organic, or eating turkey or chicken ones aren't any better. A very few companies are making low-fat, without nitrates and corn syrup. Ways to make healthier, have with leafy greens, whole-grain bun, use condiments mustard (tumeric) ketchup (lycopene) sauerkraut and relish
refined white flour (often bleach) also known as enriched wheat flour or wheat flour is missing the two most nutritious and fiber rich parts of the seed. There removal gets rid of almost all vitamins E. It is bleached using different chemical bleaches (oxide of nitrogen, chlorine, chloride, nitrosy, benzoyl peroxide, along with various chemicals salts. Chlorine oxides combined with proteins left behind produce alloxan. Alloxan is a poison which destroys the wheat germ oil and short shelflife. In the process good unsaturated fatty acids are lost. But that is not the whole story as to the loss of nutrients. About 50% of all calcium, 70% of phosphorus, 80% iron, 98% magnesium, 75% manganese, 50% potassium, and 65% of copper is destroyed. If that is not bad enough, about 80% thiamin, 60% of riboflavin, 75% of niacin, 50% of pantothenic acid, and about 50% of Pyridoxine is also lost.
Extra salt, fat and sugar are considered additives but there are many others. Additives are put into processed foods to make them look and taste better. The side effects of additives include food allergies, increased waist size, decreased absorption of minerals and vitamins, cancer and more. The biggest others to avoid are;
artificial sweeteners, aspartame, saccharin, Acesulfame-potassium, HFCS high fructose corn syrup, refined sugar,
refined salt, sodium nitrite, nitrates, potassium benzoate and nitrate, sodium sulphite and metabisulphite, Benzoic acid (preservative), calcium benzoate and sulfite
stannous chloride (color retention, antioxidant), MSG monosodium glutamate, artificial colors, BHA and BHT (fat preservative), sulfites or sulfur dioxide (fruit preservative), Olestra (Olean, fat substitute), BVO brominated vegetable oil (emulsifier), partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, propyl gallate (antioxidant), potassium bromate (to improve flour), Propylene Glycol (preservative), Homogenized products, phosphoric acid (drink fizz), caffeine, Hydrochloride (sympathetic vitamin B) anything hydrochloride, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Thiamin Hydrochloride,
Even the packaging may be dangerous for your health such as with
BPA (Bisphenol-A) - A hormone mimicking chemical found in nearly all food packaging plastics. Active in just parts per billion, BPA promotes cancer, infertility and hormone disorders. It also "feminizes" males, promoting male breast growth and hormone disruption.
Sugar - bleached, nutritionally-deficient byproduct of cane processing. During sugar cane processing, nearly all the minerals and vitamins end up in the blackstrap molasses. (Blackstrap molasses is actually the "good" part of sugar cane juice.) Molasses is often fed to farm animals because every rancher knows that farm animals need good nutrition. Sugar when consumed greatly in promotes diabetes, obesity, mood disorders and nutritional deficiencies.
High Fructose Corn Syrup also Glucose Fructose Syrup - highly processed liquid sugar extracted with the chemical solvent glutaraldehyde and frequently contaminated with mercury. It's linked to diabetes, obesity and mood disorders. It is used as a sweetener in the place of sugar.
Sucralose - An artificial chemical sweetener sold as Splenda. The sucralose molecule contains a chlorine atom. Researchers have repeatedly found that artificial sweeteners make people fat by actually promoting weight gain
Aspartame - Chemical sweetener that causes neurological disorders, seizures, blurred vision and migraine headaches.
Sodium (Salt) - processed white salt lacking in trace minerals, it promotes disease and death. Real salt, on the other hand, such as "dirty" sea salt or pink Himalayan salt, is loaded with the trace minerals that prevent disease, such as selenium (cancer), chromium (diabetes) and zinc (infectious disease).
Sodium Nitrite or Nitrates - red coloring chemical preservative used to make meats look fresh added to cold cuts and cured meats, bacon, hot dogs, sausage, beef jerky, ham, lunch meats (corned beef, pastrami, bologne), pepperoni, nearly all processed meats and some smoke fish. Strongly linked to brain tumors, pancreatic cancers and colon cancers. The USDA once tried to ban it from the food supply but was out-maneuvered by the meat industry. Meet that contains it which are overcooked form carcinogenic cancer-causing nitrosamines, also formed during the curing process, and reacting with acid such as in the stomach.
Most of these meets are also are high in calories, saturated fats, and sodium.
MSG - Monosodium glutamate, free glutamate, hydrolyzed proteins, autolyzed yeast, yeast extract (glutamic acid), caseinate, and “natural or artificial flavors”. Makes food more addicting, taste enhancer, connected to allergies
Yeast Extract - Hidden form of MSG that is used in many "natural" food products to claim "No MSG!" Yeast extract contains up to 14% free glutamate.
Autolyzed Proteins - Highly processed form of protein containing free glutamate and used to mimic MSG.
Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein - A highly processed form of (usually) soy protein that's processed to bring out the free glutamate.
Textured Vegetable Protein - Usually made of soy protein, extracted from soybeans and then processed using hexane, an explosive chemical solvent
Soy Protein - The No. 1 protein source used in "protein bars," including many bars widely consumed by bodybuilders. Soy protein is the "junk protein" of the food industry. It's made from soybeans and then subjected to hexane, a chemical solvent that can literally explode.
Artificial Colors are synthetic chemicals that do not occur in nature. Most are derived from coal tar and petroleum, and can contain aluminum, lead and arsenic and still be generally recognized as safe by the FDA. Artificial colors can cause allergic reactions, hyperactivity and ADD in children, may contribute to visual and learning disorders or cause nerve damage.
Partially Hydrogenated Oils - Oils that are modified using a chemical catalyst to make them stable at room temperature. This creates trans fatty acids and greatly increases the risk of blocked arteries. It also promotes thick, viscous blood that's hard to pump. This is usually diagnosed by doctors as "high blood pressure" and treated with blood-thinning medications that are technically the same chemicals as rat poison (warfarin)
Propyl Gallate - a whitish crystal lead powder with antioxidant properties preservative that prevents rancidity, possibly connected to cancer, stomach and liver problems, other side effects of stomach and skin irritability, allergic respiratory reactions. Often combined with BHA and BHT.
Propylene Glycol - A liquid used in the automotive industry to winterize RVs. It's also used to make the fake blueberries you see in blueberry muffins, bagels and breads. (Combined with artificial colors and corn syrup.)
Homogenized Milk - The fats in the milk are artificially modified to change them into smaller molecules that stay in suspension in the milk liquid (so the milk fat doesn't separate). While it makes milk look better on the shelf, it's also blamed for promoting heart disease and may contribute to milk allergies.
Phosphoric Acid - The acid used in sodas to dissolve the carbon dioxide and add to the overall fizzy-ness of the soda. Phosphoric acid will eat steel nails. It's also used by stone masons to etch rocks. The military uses it to clean the rust off battleships. In absolutely destroys tooth enamel
Hydrochloride - When you see anything hydrochloride, such as Pyridoxine Hydrochloride or Thiamin Hydrochloride, those are chemical forms of B vitamins that companies add to their products to be able to claim higher RDA values of vitamins. But these are synthetic, chemical forms of vitamins, not real vitamins from foods or plants. Nutritionally, they are near-useless and may actually be bad for you. Also watch out for niacinamide and cyanocobalamin (synthetic vitamin B-12).
Acrylamides - Toxic, cancer-causing chemicals formed in foods when carbohydrates are exposed to high heat (baking, frying, grilling). They're present in everything from bread crusts to snack chips, and because they aren't intentional ingredients, acrylamides do NOT have to be listed on labels.
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are plants or animals that have had their DNA modified. The majority of the corn, soybean, cotton, and canola crops are now genetically modified, and one or more of these can be found in nearly every processed food. The problem with this is that there is no mandatory safety testing done by the FDA on GMOs, and thus there is no clear proof that these foods are safe. Testing that selects the careless been done in the past has shown GMOs can increase food toxicity, allergy susceptibility, immune suppression, resistance to antibiotics, and the incidence of cancer. They're linked to severe infertility problems and may even cause the bacteria in your body to produce and release a pesticide in your own gut. If you're not eating organic corn, you're definitely eating GMO corn.
Pesticides - Every year more than two billion pounds of pesticides is applied to our food supply. Many, perhaps most, of the pesticides used throughout the world are carcinogenic. Yet only 10% of the pesticides approved for use on food have been adequately tested for use in humans. Pesticides are not only found in our food supply, however. They are sprayed on lawns, in gardens, in parks, and on playing fields. After it rains, these chemicals are carried through storm drains and sewers into creeks, rivers, and our oceans, where they account for more than 90 percent of water pollution.
Pesticides accumulate in our bodies as well. 99% of mothers’ milk in the United States, for example, contains dangerous levels of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). All of us also have measurable levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxin, heptachlor, chlordane, aldrin, dieldrin, and other pesticides in our bloodstream. And since our bodies cannot remove these chemicals, over time, they weaken our endocrine, reproductive, circulatory, immune, and central nervous systems. As a result, our likelihood of having heart disease, cancer, and allergies is greatly increased. Pesticide accumulation also undermines our ability to resist infectious organisms, may impair fertility, and contributes to miscarriages and birth defects.
Many foods are also less nutritious today because of genetic modification, pesticides, processing, and soil degradation.
The food supply can easily be used subvertly to manipulate people mentally and physically, and therefore emotionally. Not just negatively but what is seen by the elite as positive. Such as using fluoride to calm and minorly sedate the masses.
Some ways to buy honest food
- Shop are your local farmer's market, food co-op or CSA.
- Look for the USDA Organic label on foods.
- Read the ingredients labels! If you see names of chemicals you can't pronounce, don't buy it.
- Buy more unprocessed food ingredients and make your own meals rather than buying ready-to-eat.
- Grow some of your own food! The best food you can ever eat is food from your own garden.
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