Food - All is Not What it Seems!
This Article is designed to address one of the greatest underlying problems with our society today, A problem that is not only making us Gain Weight, its shortening our lives, putting us a risk of a variety of diseases, increasing the risks of birth defects and decreasing our chances of reproducing.
When Most of us go shopping we look only at the basic macro nutrient profile of our foods (Fats, Protein, Carbs) we figure that if we adhere to what the majority of nutritional literature out there tells us to do, we will be healthy an in shape.
That is cut out Saturated and Trans Fats, sugars, and high glycemic carbs.
This is a good start but it is only scratching the surface.
Now unfortunately due to the lack of regulation in the food and supplement industry, people have to nearly be chemists to be able to make healthy buying decisions at the supermarket.
We are bombarded by products that we think are helping us stay healthy and they are doing the opposite.
Diet (zero Calorie) products that contain Asulfame K, Aspartame and sucralose may actually make us put on weight and increase our risk of inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, asthma.
They are also thought to mimic estrogen in the body and irritate the liver, causing weight gain.
Mono-sodium Glutamate, a flavor enhancer that is in a multitude of supermarket items from soups to fried chicken to beef jerky is injected into lab rats to make them obese for certain studies, and we eat products containing this compound of our own free will.
We are not even safe when we consume many fruits and vegetables that have been treated with pesticides that are endemic.
So how do we protect ourselves? Firstly education.
Unfortunately because governments and large corporations care more about the bottom line than the welfare of the public we must educate ourselves.
We can not rely on regulations to protect us; we must do our own research to learn how to avoid harming ourselves with what we eat.
We must also learn what foods protect us against some of the unavoidable dangers in the environment.
Eat organic, whole foods as much as possible, the fact that there is zero processing, and minimal exposure to chemicals such as pesticides.
It also means you are getting all the food enzymes that the body requires to function optimally, and ensures maximum nutritional benefit from the foods consumption (excess processing and cooking destroys many nutrients).
When Most of us go shopping we look only at the basic macro nutrient profile of our foods (Fats, Protein, Carbs) we figure that if we adhere to what the majority of nutritional literature out there tells us to do, we will be healthy an in shape.
That is cut out Saturated and Trans Fats, sugars, and high glycemic carbs.
This is a good start but it is only scratching the surface.
Now unfortunately due to the lack of regulation in the food and supplement industry, people have to nearly be chemists to be able to make healthy buying decisions at the supermarket.
We are bombarded by products that we think are helping us stay healthy and they are doing the opposite.
Diet (zero Calorie) products that contain Asulfame K, Aspartame and sucralose may actually make us put on weight and increase our risk of inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, asthma.
They are also thought to mimic estrogen in the body and irritate the liver, causing weight gain.
Mono-sodium Glutamate, a flavor enhancer that is in a multitude of supermarket items from soups to fried chicken to beef jerky is injected into lab rats to make them obese for certain studies, and we eat products containing this compound of our own free will.
We are not even safe when we consume many fruits and vegetables that have been treated with pesticides that are endemic.
So how do we protect ourselves? Firstly education.
Unfortunately because governments and large corporations care more about the bottom line than the welfare of the public we must educate ourselves.
We can not rely on regulations to protect us; we must do our own research to learn how to avoid harming ourselves with what we eat.
We must also learn what foods protect us against some of the unavoidable dangers in the environment.
Eat organic, whole foods as much as possible, the fact that there is zero processing, and minimal exposure to chemicals such as pesticides.
It also means you are getting all the food enzymes that the body requires to function optimally, and ensures maximum nutritional benefit from the foods consumption (excess processing and cooking destroys many nutrients).
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