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Processed Foods by Mercola
Do you always crave French Fries or a Bagel? Or perhaps a fast food Hamburger or Hotdog? These foods are, convenient, easy to prepare, and can be found almost anywhere. However, they all have one thing in common: they’re highly processed, engineered to appeal to your taste buds and therefore extremely addictive. Worse, they can hardly even be considered real food!
Processed Foods Screw Up Your Bodily Processes
The truth is, processed foods are far from natural and have lost much of their nutritional value. Manufacturers add artificial ingredients, including high-fructose corn syrup (which is all GMO), the single greatest source of calories in the United States, as well as monosodium glutamate (MSG) and artificial sweeteners. On top of that, these foods undergo a number of unnatural processes, including pasteurization, hydrogenation, and deodorization – destroying any naturally occurring nutrients and producing toxic chemical byproducts.
So what happens when you consume such foods on a regular basis?
•Your body is overburdened by toxins, which accumulate in your tissues.
•Because these foods are devoid of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and enzymes, they overwork your pancreas and other organs, which may consequently damage them.
•Your body produces more waste material, possibly causing congestion and clogging in your body.
•Processed foods may introduce pathogenic organisms, such as bacteria, which may disrupt your gut flora and result in digestive dysfunction.
•They are a one-way ticket to chronic diseases, from obesity, arthritis, cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Given these grave health consequences (and the high social, environmental, and ethical costs of current food production systems), the logical step is to break free from processed foods and to replace these poor-quality products with a whole foods diet. But how to go about breaking the bad habit, is not all that easy, best to go slowly, switching to a healthful food one at a time and make it your new habit, so you can stick to it for good?
What's everyone's situation? We all eat something not good for us and have issues because of it. So start a new habit for the good, it will actually kick a bad habit goodbye. Then continue to strive for the permanent results in the long term. For instance, have a fresh salad from a quality salad bar several times a week for lunch. It's filling and satisfying.
