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Doctors and dietitians share the foods they refuse to eat due to pesticides, GMOs, and carcinogenic ingredients.
By The Editors Of Prevention
May 21, 2019
What's the one food you refuse to eat? Whatever it is, it's probably because you don't like the way it tastesnot because it contains ingredients that can be damaging to your health. Yet, there are still a lot of foods that fit this description on store shelves, and food industry insiders, who know what goes on behind the scenes, refuse to eat them.
We polled some of those insiderspeople who know the business and work daily to evict pesticides, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), animal cruelty, social injustice, and unhealthy foods from the food supplyto find out what they know about the dark side of "convenience" foods and what they will eat instead. Take note so you, too, can avoid the worst of what grocery stores have to offer.
Whole-wheat bread
The problem: Modern wheat is nothing like the grain your mother or grandmother consumed. Today, wheat barely resembles its original form, thanks to extensive genetic manipulations during the 1960s and 1970s to increase the grain's yields. "You cannot change the basic characteristics of a plant without changing its genetics, its biochemistry, and its effects on humans who consume it," says William Davis, MD, creator of Wheat Belly 10-Day Detox.
Davis makes the case that modern-day wheat is triggering all sorts of health problems, everything from digestive diseases like celiac and inflammatory bowel disease to acid reflux, obesity, asthma, and skin disorders.
The solution: Try eliminating wheat altogether from your diet for a few weeks to see if you note health improvements. But be prepared for the wheat withdrawal syndrome of nausea, headache, fatigue, depression, and a host of other strange side effects.
More at the link.
https://www.prevention.com/food-nutrition/g20498199/50-foods-you-should-never-eat/
pangaia
(24,324 posts)hlthe2b
(106,577 posts)I just figure the benefits of strawberries has to somewhat abate the risk. And I hope the company producing them has some means of washing that removes at least some of the residue.
And, truthfully, even if I could pay the cost of organic strawberries, I've yet to find any that are even remotely edible. They are small, usually hard and fairly tasteless AND costly!
Faux pas
(15,395 posts)Thanks for sharing amazingly, wheat is my only constant sin, potato chips only every 3-4 months and McD's maybe twice a year.
Mosby
(17,567 posts)Faux pas
(15,395 posts)I do know that wheat now days basically has no nutritional value. Read the article, thanks!
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)are coming to the medical understanding that chronic illnesses are NOT at all natural as a part of aging and are induced largely by diet. Look up Blue Zones to get more insight into that. People can actually reverse heart disease and other diseases by a strict diet for that and this is not a fad or a particular book promoter thing. I am talking medical doctors who are now using that approach.
Anyway, after I look into this about food, as healthy and practical as it is...screw it, I am coming back as a rabbit. Eating right these days is getting way too complicated You really have to cut out so much. Maybe young folks will have an easier time with it if they learn about it. I do recall that it was easier for me to become a lacto-vegetarian in my early twenties and I maintained it for many years.
JDC
(10,512 posts)margarine. no.
Do i really need an organic potato? c'mon
dweller
(25,155 posts)but then they recommend a celery peanut butter and bacon mashup,
and further on say no bacon 🙄
screw it, i'm eating what i want ... in sensible portions
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Mosby
(17,567 posts)littlemissmartypants
(25,738 posts)The McRib is back....
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/04/business/mcdonalds-mcribs-returns/index.html
Mosby
(17,567 posts)I had the cheesesteak, they are really good.
littlemissmartypants
(25,738 posts)I'll try to check them out. I recently got a mouth full of braces and eating certain foods can be a struggle but soup is getting old. Tonight I cooked chili and rice. It was pretty good.
murielm99
(31,480 posts)I don't eat anyway. I will continue to eat the criticized ones in small portions.