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Lifetime Wellness Chiropractic

Health Robbing Foods to Avoid

  • Refined sugars 
  • White refined flour
  • Refined salt
  • Bad fats
  • Nitrates
  • Monosodium glutamate (msg)
  • Artificial sweeteners
  • Artificial colourings, flavourings and preservatives
  • Hormones, pesticides, herbicides and antibiotics
  • Genetically modified organisms (GMOs)

 
Refined Sugars
Found in most processed foods these sugars are simple carbohydrates lacking in fibre and nutrients and actually deplete your body of vitamins, minerals and enzymes.

What is a refined sugar: read the labels of your foods, any of the following is a toxic refined sugar; sucrose, high- fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, dextrose, invert sugar syrup, glucose fructose syrup, glucose, fructose and maltose.

Regularly fuelling your body with these sugars has been associated with CANCER, TYPE 2 DIABETES, OBESITY, HEART DISEASE, OSTEOPORSIS, FATIGUE, ALLERGIES, PMS, DIGESTIVE/BOWEL PROBLEMS, DEPRESSION, INSOMMINA, ASTHMA, HYPERACTIVITY, LEARNING DISORDERS, ARTHRITIS and more.

So how much do you love refined sugars now?
 
Refined Flour
Similar to refined sugars it will deplete your body of nutrients and raises your blood sugar levels quickly.  It is found in breads and cakes. Also check the ingredients list of supposed “rich in whole grain” or “made with natural whole grain” as taking a closer look may reveal unbleached flour/refined flour/enriched wheat flour. All are best avoided.
 
Refined Salt
It has been heated to high temperature so most of the trace minerals have been removed.  Refined table salt has 99% sodium chloride plus toxic additives. Refined salt can cause electrolyte imbalance and prevents nutrients from being transported to the cells of the body, which can cause water retention and inflammation. Switching to unrefined sea salt, which has 84 essential minerals including iodine - which helps nutrients reach cells and does not cause water retention, inflammation or cravings, has health benefits.
 
Bad Fats
Trans fatty acids/hydrogenated fats are man made fats that have been heated at high temperatures, which alters their chemical make-up to extend their shelf life.

They can be found in: Margarine, some vegetables oils, peanut butter, roasted nuts, crisps, tortilla chips, cookies, crackers, pastries, icings, salads, processed/packaged cakes and biscuits.

Poor quality fats are related to CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, OBESITY, IMPAIRED IMMUNITY, INCREASED FREE RADICAL PRODUCTION, INFERTILITY, DIABETES and CANCER. In addition they inhibit the body’s ability to utilize good fats and are a major cause of digestive disturbance.

 

Nitrates
Nasty toxins in processed meats used as colour fixatives. But also can be found in soil that has been fertilised with nitrates so it can also contaminate vegetables.

Usually found packaged meats, bacon, sausages, corned beef, pate, hot dogs, meat spreads and smoked cured tuna and salmon.

Its biggest problem is when it combines with stomach saliva and food substances it creates nitrosamines, which are powerful CANCER causing agents. As well as this these carcinogens can cause IRRITIBILITY, HEADACHES OR FATIGUE.
 
Sulfites
Are a preservative and a colour fixative. FDA estimates 1/100 people are sulfite sensitive.

Found in dried fruits – bright orange apricots contain sulfites so it is best to opt for the darker more shriveled apricots. Look out for sulfites, sulfur dioxide, sodium bisulfate, sodium/potassium metabisulfite in baked goods, condiments, dried/glaced fruit, jam, gravy, dehydrated or precut potatoes, molasses, soup mixes.

Reactions can be acute especially in those that are sulphite sensitive. Asthmatics are particularly at risk, symptoms range from mild to severe including asthma attack, loss of consciousness, anaphylactic shock, diarrhoea, nausea, brain fog, muscle ache, headaches and extreme fatigue.
 
Artificial Sweeteners
In short these are very bad for you so why take the chance on them as there are so many safer natural sweeteners. The artificial ones are related to seizures, headaches, asthma attacks as well as liver and kidney damage.

Some of these sweeteners contain mercury and some are toxic to your nervous system. Aspartame added to diet drinks has actually been shown to cause you to gain more weight because it is an additive neurotoxin that induces cravings for snack-foods and more artificially sweetened foods and drinks!
 
Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
Is an additive neurotoxin that accumulates in tissues and causes weight gain and a whole host of other problems. It can be found regularly in poor quality chinese foods, some soya sauces, gelatin, crisps and other snack foods, some processed sauces. 
 
Artificial colourings, flavourings and preservatives
Have been proven to cause CANCER, HYPERACTIVITY, ADHD, ALLERGIC REACTIONS.  So why feed these to your children.  

They can be found in some vitamins, over the counter drugs, including cold and cough syrups, toothpaste and even skin care products. These additives are also added to a lot of the junk processed foods geared towards your children. Even things like corn flakes and dairy milk have these additives. 
 
Hormones/pesticides/herbicides/antibiotics
All too commonly these are being used in agriculture so they enter our food chain by way of dairy and meat produce.

These toxic chemicals are linked to allergies food intolerances, candida, learning disabilities PMS to name but a few but on a more serious scale the manmade hormone disrupting chemicals have been linked with the worldwide increase in precocious puberty, breast and prostate cancers, infertility, low sperm count, auto immune diseases and even osteoporosis.

The only way to avoid these is to eat certified organic animal produce and products.
 
GMOs
These are not always listed in your ingredients. The consequences of eating GMO foods are too numerous to list, however they have the potential to have devastating effects on our eco system. With their introduction farmers are noting that the pesticides the bio-tech companies are selling them to go along with their GM crops are not working so they are using old more toxic chemicals.

It is more prevalent in the US with big companies forcing farmers to purchase their patent GM seeds year after year, but activities like this are starting to become more widespread.
If you would like more information on any of the above or if you would like to see any research papers please let us know.

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