Nine foods you should never eat again
(NaturalNews) With so much misinformation out there about food and how it affects human health, making healthy food choices for you and your family can be difficult and confusing. There are a number of specific foods; however, that you will want to avoid in almost every circumstance because they provide virtually no health benefits while posing plenty of health risks. Here are nine foods you should never eat again if you care about preserving your long-term health:
1) White bread, refined flours. By definition, white bread and refined flours in general are toxic for your body because they have been stripped of virtually all vitamins, minerals, fiber, and other important nutrients. Because of this, the body does not know how to properly digest and assimilate these so-called foods, which can lead to health problems. Refined white flour has also been bleached with chlorine and brominated with bromide, two poisonous chemicals that have been linked to causing thyroid and organ damage. (http://drlwilson.com/ARTICLES/BREAD.htm)
2) Conventional frozen meals. Most conventionally-prepared frozen meals are loaded with preservatives, processed salt, hydrogenated oils and other artificial ingredients, not to mention the fact that most frozen meals have been heavily pre-cooked, rendering their nutrient content minimal at best (especially after getting microwaved again at home). With the exception of a few truly healthy frozen meal brands such as Amy’s and Organic Bistro, most frozen meals are little more than disease in a box, so avoid them in favor of fresh foods. (http://www.4us2be.com)
3) White rice. Like white bread, white rice has been stripped of most of its nutrients, and separated from the bran and germ, two natural components that make up rice in its brown form. Even so-called “fortified” white rice is nutritionally deficient, as the body still processes this refined food much differently than brown rice, which is absorbed more slowly and does not cause the same spike in blood sugar that white rice does. (http://globalnaturopath.com)
4) Microwaveable popcorn. This processed food is a favorite among moviegoers and regular snackers alike, but it is one of the unhealthiest foods you can eat. Practically every component of microwaveable popcorn, from the genetically-modified (GM) corn kernels to the processed salt and preservative chemicals used to enhance its flavor, is unhealthy and disease-promoting. On top of this, microwaveable popcorn contains a chemical known as diacetyl that can actually destroy your lungs. If you love popcorn, stick with organic kernels that you can pop yourself in a kettle and douse with healthy ingredients like coconut oil, grass-fed butter, and Himalayan pink salt. (http://www.naturalnews.com)
5) Cured meat products with nitrates, nitrites. Deli meats, summer sausage, hot dogs, bacon, and many other meats sold at the grocery store are often loaded with sodium nitrite and other chemical preservatives that have been linked to causing heart disease and cancer. If you eat meat, stick with uncured, nitrite and nitrate-free varieties, and preferably those that come from organic, grass-fed animals. (http://www.naturalnews.com/028824_processed_meat_heart_disease.html)
6) Most conventional protein, energy bars. By the way they are often marketed, it might seem as though protein and energy bars are a strong addition to a healthy diet. But more often than not, these meal replacements contain processed soy protein, refined sugar, hydrogenated fat, and other harmful additives that contribute to chronic illness. Not all protein and energy bars are bad, of course — Thunderbird Energetica, Organic Food Bar, Boku Superfood, Vega Sport, PROBAR, and Zing all make healthy protein and energy bars. Just be sure to read the ingredient labels and know what you are buying.
7) Margarine. Hidden in all sorts of processed foods, margarine, a hydrogenated trans-fat oil, is something you will want to avoid at all costs for your health. Contrary to popular belief, butter and saturated fats in general are not unhealthy, especially when they are derived from pastured animals that feed on grass rather than corn and soy. And if animal-based fats are not for you, stick with extra-virgin coconut oil or olive oil rather than margarine. (http://www.naturalnews.com/027865_saturated_fat_health.html)
8) Soy milk and soy-based meat substitutes. One of the biggest health frauds of modern times, the soy craze is a fad that you will want to skip. Besides the fact that nearly all non-organic soy ingredients are of GM origin, most soy additives are processed using a toxic chemical known as hexane, which is linked to causing birth defects, reproductive problems, and cancer. Soy that has not been fermented is also highly estrogenic, which can throw your natural hormone balance out of whack. (http://www.naturalnews.com/026303_soy_protein_hexane.html)
9) “Diet” anything. Many so-called “diet” products on the market today contains artificial sweeteners like aspartame (Equal) and sucralose (Splenda), both of which are linked to causing neurological damage, gastrointestinal problems, and endocrine disruption. Many diet products also contain added chemical flavoring agents to take the place of fat and other natural components that have been removed to artificially reduce calorie content. Instead, stick with whole foods that are as close to nature as possible, including high-fat foods grown the way nature intended, and your body will respond surprisingly well. (http://www.naturalnews.com)
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Number 3 is false:
3) White rice. Like white bread, white rice has been stripped of most of its nutrients, and separated from the bran and germ, two natural components that make up rice in its brown form.”
“White rice” is a variety of rice. Go to any rice field that’s ready to harvest, pull a stalk and it’s easy to see. Brown, Red, Black, White: all of these are perfectly natural. White rice is NOT brown rice that’s had the “good stuff” taken off it, yet this myth has persisted in the non-rice growing countries for decades now.
Thank you: you are of course correct. The article should have said “polished rice,” and “precooked rice” (“minute rice”) not “white rice.” Some times white rice has its “germ” removed, but that is true of all other strains of rice no matter how it has been harvested.
Good point Jack, this whole article is full of holes, many diet dairy products have had fat removed and pose no health risk, in fact are better for you. Also GM crops even though they may be being produced by sinister food corporations like Monsanto, have yet to show any health risk. If you’re going to write an article exposing hidden dangers in our food, tell the truth, otherwise you’re only adding to the weight of the problem. If you want to spend your time telling lies, become an estate agent or banker. True Activist is the name of this website…so tell the truth!
did you just say GMO products have yet to pose any health risk? Why do people post comments about things they know NOTHING about? This article is fairly accurate. For gods sake though, if you defend GMOs you are misinformed. There’s more I’d like to call you, but i’ll be mature about this.
this is a really accurate post actually. GMO’s HAVE cause health problems, and its a FACT
http://laxcrossfit.com/2012/05/bt-toxi/
dont be ignorant
I’m fine on most of this but going to really struggle without the odd bacon butty! (It is on wholemeal bread – can you let me off?)
“Cuz we are Americans!” Love from Norway, Europe
Margarine: everything about the hydrogenated oils is true, however, there is good news. Conagra Foods is spending 20 million to upgrade its facility in Indianapolis to make margarine with non hydrogenated oils, they will be using healthier oils in products such as Fleischman’s, Parkay, and Move over Butter. Look for these coming soon
Who would trust Conagra? You must work for them.
“…. contains artificial sweeteners like aspartame (Equal) and sucralose (Splenda), both of which are linked to causing neurological damage, gastrointestinal problems, and endocrine disruption.” No, they have not been “linked” to any such things, except by the uneducated, ill-informed paranoid conspiracy nuts. There have been more than 200 studies of Aspartame, none of which show any adverse health effects.
http://www.naturalnews.com/035242_aspartame_side_effects_neurological.html
You are obviously a troll being paid by the BigAg/BigFood/BigPharma to come on here and spread your crappy corporate lies. F**k OFF.
To be safe, don’t eat anything, because nothing is healthy these days.
You’re welcome.
Not Funny … it’s pretty much true and getting worse by the day.
“With so much misinformation out there about food and how it affects human health….”
“… we have decided to repeat at least two falsehoods” the article should have stated. Aspartame is 100% safe; white rice is not “rice with the food missing.”
there are several studies which results are the oposite from what you say.
The studies from:
Soffritti (2010)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajim.20896/abstract;jsessionid=E4A978536554A5C7C5CF88B9497B0C7B.d04t02
Halldorsson (2010)
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/96/2/225
so what did you say there were no studies? and that is just an example, if you search a bit more you will find some more.
I don’t like the misinformation that you are spreading..
AL PARECER POUEDE SER MAS FACIL SABER QUE NO DEBEMOS COMER QUE PREOCUPARSE DE QUE COMER
Okay here is a solution for everyone who eats – “starve yourself cause everything you eat is bad for you” …… enough said!!
there is no way i am giving up bacon
Yes, Luke. There are some things you just cant live without.
I am so with you on this!!!!! Bacon till I die!!
You can get nitrate free bacon and its better! Hormel has a great nitrate free bacon. And Trader Joes has a delicious applewood smoked nitrate free bacon.
“healthy ingredients like coconut oil, grass-fed butter, and Himalayan pink salt” Seriously? Himalayan pink salt is not from the Himalaya and not especially healthy. Mineralogists say that it differs from standard salt mainly by being more contaminated. Age of stupid, for real.
I agree with you. First off.. coconut oil has a lot of saturated fat, which is not so good for cholesterol levels and your arteries. I’m not saying it’s bad for you, just moderation is always best. Grass-fed butter makes no sense.. it’s still butter in the end and don’t get me started on himalayan pink salt! Finally… not all margarine is hydrogenated and it now comes trans-fat free.
lo que si es seguro es el pan blanco, al comerlo se crea como una bola de chicle dificil de digerir en el estomago.
Aspartame is recognised as one on the most harmful Neurotoxins known to man. It converts into Methanol after ingestion and then once in the blood stream again into Formaldehyde which gets past the blood brain barrier.
True, it breaks down to acetic acid and formaldehyde followed by methanol and formic acid. However, many foods also contain these and also break down into these products. Things such as tomatoes have more formic acid and methanol and other supposedly harmful ingredients in them than aspartame.
Aspartame is not recognized as a carcinogen nor is it recognized as a Neurotoxin. There is no legitimate medical research to back up that claim at all.
As far as claims of the government “hiding” this information, why would they keep a deadly toxin knowingly on the market and kill off their customers?
IF aspartame were known in the medical community to be toxic, don’t you think it would be in their best interest to market a new supposedly “safer” artificial sweetener to get everyone to buy it?
I assure you, I am not from some big company. I just know my chemistry.
“As far as claims of the government “hiding” this information, why would they keep a deadly toxin knowingly on the market and kill off their customers?”
Umm…Cigarettes…still on the market and proven to cause ailments and death.
Any meat, deary products, fish and eggs also.
ik vind t wat overtrokken allemaal..blijft er nog wat over..?
MiO is not on the list, so it’s ok, right?
If your favorite food consists of HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) artificial color and nothing else.
The hardest thing for most westerners to change in their diet from the above list is definitely white bread.
For most of us we grew up eating toast for breakfast and a sandwich for lunch. Plus freshly cooked bread smells and tastes delicious – but I know it’s really bad.
I find it easy to stop for a short period, but I haven’t been able to give it up completely (yet)
I Love the taste and smell of freshly baked white bead, but in truth, w have all probably lost the idea about eating. Firstly it has to be good and nourishing for you, and then if it tastes and smells good, that is secondary. Not the other way around
It’s a bit Hedonistic really.
My 2 year old ate dog poop today, he ate dirt yesterday. I’m glad to see these aren’t on the list.
I could not stop laughing, actually still smiling as I type this, after reading your comment. Every single day a new food is found to be either wanting , or totally bad for you. How about some moderation AND some common sense. The margarine bit, though, I would not take granted. I will not eat anything that has a shelf life as long as margarine does. I will still do the butter, thank you very much; in moderation, of course
All can say about this, is I lived through WWII , nearly starving for a few years. Now you are not going to tell me what I can eat and what I should not eat…
Oh my god! YOUR BODY MAKES FORMALDEHYDE, this is normal!!! For example ingestion of a single pear can equate to 12,000 micrograms of formaldehyde. Stop the scaremongering!!
Wow! I love preachy “journalists” armed with “facts”….
The real problem with this article is that it’s rife with rhetoric—not lies, rhetoric, they are different things. For example, “most frozen meals are little more than disease in a box”. If that were true, I mean really, actually true, it wouldn’t be economically viable to produce them for the class-action suits that would be raining on these companies. There is almost certainly a grain of truth in that claim (and many or most of the wildly rhetorical claims made in this article), but since this claim is obviously hyperbole, as a reader, I’m left wondering where I’m supposed to draw the line between fact and fear.
Worse, the sources cited are, ubiquitously, second-or-third hand tellings of the original studies; it’s rhetoric citing the rhetoric of authors who are citing studies they often don’t really understand (and I work in academia, I publish with major journals, this *isn’t* just rhetoric). It took me better than an hour to go and find the original sources for a lot of these claims, and I can tell you, the pass-the-secret-message phenomenon is very pronounced in this particular article; many of the original findings are so twisted by the time they’ve arrived here that I highly, highly doubt the original academics responsible for these studies would want their work associated with the claims above.
To the author of this article: do you see how conflicted your audience is? What have you really achieved here, except to ramp up the fear, vitriol and emotionality around food? If what you pen does little more than engender uncertainty (because your audience isn’t able to trust what you’ve written), I sincerely believe you end up contributing to, rather than alleviating, the problem of socio-economically wise food consumption. By obfuscating the real problem(s) with language that a) convinces some without having to really inform them, and b) repels others who might otherwise have benefitted from your writing, you divide those who, without unity, will continue to be beholden to a corporate agenda.
This reply has more truth than the article and exposes the article’s lies, which are nothing more than mindless platitudes. It reminds me of when I was on a health and weight loss program for myself: the people who were the self-proclaimed experts and gave me all sorts of advice were almost always overweight and unhealthy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5s2rfmb7X0
Cornell Waters
As land dwelling animals, we roamed the earth for millennia consuming what the earth provides naturally. Obviously, our physical forms were not designed to take in grains like birds with gizzards do, because we have to manipulate wheat kernals to such a high degree just to eat them. The general rule here is to avoid denatured products, and move back toward wholesome ingredients. We can get all mental about it and discuss what we think is admissible or not, but the proof is in your own bodies. If you suffer from any number of diseases, a high percentage of them are due to your diets. Consume more fresh, living, unpoisoned fruits, veggies, and seeds, and witness for yourself, how much better you look and feel. Why trust others’ studies when your own intelligent body will tell you? Do your own controlled studies and go a year or more without the above mentioned ingredients, and then see how much better you look and feel. That’s proof in and of itself. Not willing to change? You’re entering the lottery to find out which disease(s) you’ll end up with. If certain products propose any risk, why bet your health and life on it? Are the rewards of fleeting taste more valuable to you to your own health and life? If so, then there’s no point in trying to convince you of anything. You’ll have to learn for yourself, when the harm has accumulated to the point where you have to either change your diet or suffer and die sooner than you wanted.
Just think of your children or grandchildren consuming this poison!!
The reality hits home, thirty plus years ago i neverheard of a child that had cancer,
But now its so common, and I don’t think its down to the type of shoes they wear!!!
this is how a free market works… clearly the current inexpensive methods will give way to profitable methods determined by demand. keep getting your voices out there, but ultimately improvements to these foods are going to happen as has been happening over the last couple of decades. Nutrition has become less of a luxury good and is now demanded by more of the lower middle class and even those under 400% of the poverty line than ever before.
Whether it be healthy food, a couple manufacturing plants reopening in America so that corporations can profit off of the advertising, lowering pollution due to increased demand from claims about global warming, and concurrent high gas prices with extremely wealthy corporations on both sides; corporations have everybody on a path. Nothing that anybody reads is spread through the masses in any way other than through somebody profiting, you can ultimately only control your own life, but humanity as a whole will always be controlled by corporations. There is literally no other option, a revolution isn’t going to happen and people need to quit kidding themselves about it.