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littlemissmartypants

(25,738 posts)
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 09:21 PM Oct 2019

50 Foods You Should Never Eat, According to Health Experts

50 Foods You Should Never Eat, According to Health Experts
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 tastes—not 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 insiders—people who know the business and work daily to evict pesticides, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), animal cruelty, social injustice, and unhealthy foods from the food supply—to 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/

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50 Foods You Should Never Eat, According to Health Experts (Original Post) littlemissmartypants Oct 2019 OP
Hell, there's nothing left to eat. pangaia Oct 2019 #1
Frozen strawberries with their pesticides/fungicides will likely get me. I cnsume almost daily. hlthe2b Oct 2019 #2
Great find! Faux pas Oct 2019 #3
FYI - wheat belly is pseudoscientific bullshit. Mosby Oct 2019 #8
Never heard of wheat belly before, Faux pas Oct 2019 #10
More and more doctors Newest Reality Oct 2019 #4
I have, do and will continue is to eat many to most listed JDC Oct 2019 #5
#15 is a no brainer dweller Oct 2019 #6
Stupid list. Nt Mosby Oct 2019 #7
In other news... littlemissmartypants Oct 2019 #12
Never had one. But I did try those new sliders from subway Mosby Oct 2019 #13
Sliders are really popular these days. Subway is close by. littlemissmartypants Oct 2019 #14
A lot of those are things murielm99 Oct 2019 #9
I'll take this with a grain of salt k owing it came from Prevention sinkingfeeling Oct 2019 #11

hlthe2b

(106,577 posts)
2. Frozen strawberries with their pesticides/fungicides will likely get me. I cnsume almost daily.
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 09:35 PM
Oct 2019

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)
3. Great find!
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 09:44 PM
Oct 2019

Thanks for sharing amazingly, wheat is my only constant sin, potato chips only every 3-4 months and McD's maybe twice a year.

Faux pas

(15,395 posts)
10. Never heard of wheat belly before,
Sat Oct 5, 2019, 08:35 AM
Oct 2019

I do know that wheat now days basically has no nutritional value. Read the article, thanks!

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
4. More and more doctors
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 09:52 PM
Oct 2019

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)
5. I have, do and will continue is to eat many to most listed
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 10:42 PM
Oct 2019

margarine. no.

Do i really need an organic potato? c'mon

dweller

(25,155 posts)
6. #15 is a no brainer
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 10:58 PM
Oct 2019

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

✌🏼

Mosby

(17,567 posts)
13. Never had one. But I did try those new sliders from subway
Sat Oct 5, 2019, 04:25 PM
Oct 2019

I had the cheesesteak, they are really good.

littlemissmartypants

(25,738 posts)
14. Sliders are really popular these days. Subway is close by.
Sat Oct 5, 2019, 08:20 PM
Oct 2019

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)
9. A lot of those are things
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 11:54 PM
Oct 2019

I don't eat anyway. I will continue to eat the criticized ones in small portions.

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