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9 Ways That Processed Foods Are Slowly Killing People

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Processed foods are bad.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They are the main reason why people all over the world are getting fat and sick.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How do we know?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every time a population adopts a “Western” diet high in processed foods, they get sick.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It happens within a few years. Their genes don’t change, their <strong>food</strong> does.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Real vs Processed Food</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The word “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_processing" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">processed</a>” often causes some confusion, so let me clarify what I mean.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Obviously, most foods we eat are processed in some way. Apples are cut from trees, ground beef has been ground in a machine and <a href="http://authoritynutrition.com/7-reasons-why-butter-is-good-for-you/" style="text-decoration: none;">butter</a> is cream that has been separated from the milk and churned.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But there is a difference between mechanical processing and <em>chemical</em> processing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If it’s a single ingredient food with no added chemicals, then it doesn’t matter if it’s been ground or put into a jar. <strong>It’s still real food.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However… foods that have been <em>chemically</em> processed and made solely from refined ingredients and artificial substances, are what is generally known as “processed food.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are 9 ways that processed foods are bad for your health.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">1. Processed Foods Are Usually High in Sugar and High Fructose Corn Syrup</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Processed foods are usually loaded with <a href="http://authoritynutrition.com/10-disturbing-reasons-why-sugar-is-bad/" style="text-decoration: none;">added sugar</a>… or its evil twin, High Fructose Corn Syrup.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is well known that sugar, when consumed in excess, is seriously harmful.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we all know, sugar is “empty” calories – it has no essential nutrients, but a large amount of energy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But empty calories are really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the harmful effects of sugar…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many studies show that sugar can have <strong>devastating</strong> effects on metabolism that go way beyond its calorie content (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23594708" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">1</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It can lead to insulin resistance, high triglycerides, increased levels of the harmful cholesterol and increased fat accumulation in the liver and abdominal cavity (<a href="http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/2/1/5" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">2</a>, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2673878/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">3</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not surprisingly, sugar consumption is strongly associated with some of the world’s leading killers… including heart disease, diabetes, obesity and cancer (<a href="http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=199317" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">4</a>, <a href="http://www.medpagetoday.com/upload/2013/3/1/journal.pone.0057873.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">5</a>, <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673600040411" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">6</a>, <a href="http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/4/899.short" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">7</a>, <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0306987783900956" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">8</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most people aren’t putting massive amounts of sugar in their <a href="http://authoritynutrition.com/top-13-evidence-based-health-benefits-of-coffee/" style="text-decoration: none;">coffee</a> or on top of their cereal, they’re getting it from <strong>processed</strong> foods and sugar-sweetened beverages.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Bottom Line:</strong> Processed foods and beverages are the biggest sources of added sugar (and HFCS) in the diet. Sugar is very unhealthy and can have serious adverse effects on metabolism when consumed in excess.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">2. Processed Foods Are “Hyper Rewarding” and Lead to Overconsumption</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We all want to eat good food. That’s just human nature.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evolution provided us with taste buds that are supposed to help us navigate the natural food environment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our appetite gravitates towards foods that are sweet, <a href="http://authoritynutrition.com/how-much-sodium-per-day/" style="text-decoration: none;">salty</a> and fatty, because we know such foods contain energy and nutrients that we need for survival.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Obviously, if a food manufacturer wants to succeed and get people to buy their product, it has to taste good.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But today, the competition is <strong>fierce</strong>. There are many different food manufacturers, all competing with each other.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For this reason, massive resources are spent on making foods as <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?_r=0" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">desirable</a> as possible.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many processed foods have been engineered to be so incredibly “rewarding” to the brain, that they overpower anything we might have come across in nature.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have complicated mechanisms in our bodies and brains that are supposed to regulate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_balance_(biology)" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">energy balance</a> (how much we eat and how much we burn) – which, until very recently in evolutionary history, worked to keep us at a healthy weight.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is quite a lot of <a href="http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2012/03/food-reward-approaching-scientific.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">evidence</a> that the reward value of foods can bypass the innate defense mechanism and make us start eating much more than we need, so much that it starts to compromise our health (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22011680" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">9</a>, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22016109" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">10</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is also known as the “food reward hypothesis of obesity.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The truth is, processed foods are so <strong>incredibly</strong> rewarding to our brains that they affect our thoughts and behavior, making us eat more and more until eventually we become sick.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Good food is good, but foods that are engineered to be <em>hyper rewarding</em>, effectively short circuiting our innate brakes against overconsumption, are NOT good.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Bottom Line:</strong> Food manufacturers spend massive amounts of resources on making their foods as “rewarding” as possible to the brain, which leads to overconsumption.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">3. Processed Foods Contain All Sorts of Artificial Ingredients</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you look at the ingredients label for a processed, packaged food, chances are that you won’t have a clue what some of the ingredients are.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That’s because many of the ingredients in there aren’t actual food… they are artificial chemicals that are added for various purposes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is an example of a processed food, an <a href="http://www.atkins.com/AtkinsDotCom/media/Master/Products/Red/ADV-MEAL_choc-peanut-butter.png" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Atkins Advantage bar</a>, which is actually marketed as a low-carb friendly health food.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don’t know what this is, but it most certainly isn’t <em>food</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Highly processed foods often contain:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Keep in mind that processed foods can contain dozens of additional chemicals that aren’t even listed on the label.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For example, “artificial flavor” is a proprietary blend. Manufacturers don’t have to disclose exactly what it means and it is usually a combination of chemicals.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For this reason, if you see “artificial flavor” on an ingredients list, it could mean that there are 10 or more <em>additional</em> <a href="http://authoritynutrition.com/junk-foods-chemical-engineers/" style="text-decoration: none;">chemicals</a> that are blended in to give a specific flavor.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course, most of these chemicals have allegedly been tested for safety. But given that the regulatory authorities still think that sugar and <a href="http://authoritynutrition.com/are-vegetable-and-seed-oils-bad/" style="text-decoration: none;">vegetable oils</a> are safe, I personally take their “stamp of approval” with a grain of salt.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Bottom Line:</strong> Most highly processed foods are loaded with artificial chemicals, including flavorants, texturants, colorants and preservatives.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">4. Many People Can Literally Become Addicted to Processed Junk Foods</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The “hyper rewarding” nature of processed foods can have serious consequences for some people.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some people can literally become <strong>addicted</strong> to this stuff and completely lose control over their consumption.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although <a href="http://authoritynutrition.com/how-food-addiction-works/" style="text-decoration: none;">food addiction</a> is something that most people don’t know about, I am personally convinced that it is a huge problem in society today.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is the main reason why some people just <em>can’t</em> stop eating these foods, no matter how hard they try.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They’ve had their brain biochemistry <a href="http://authoritynutrition.com/how-sugar-makes-you-addicted/" style="text-decoration: none;">hijacked</a> by the intense dopamine release that occurs in the brain when they eat these foods (<a href="http://www.hindawi.com/isrn/obesity/2013/435027/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">11</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is actually supported by many studies. Sugar and highly rewarding junk foods activate the same areas in the brain as drugs of abuse like cocaine (<a href="http://journals.lww.com/co-clinicalnutrition/Abstract/2010/07000/Neurobiology_of_food_addiction.3.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">12</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Bottom Line:</strong> For many people, junk foods can hijack the biochemistry of the brain, leading to downright addiction and cause them to lose control over their consumption.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">5. Processed Foods Are Often High in Refined Carbohydrates</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a lot of controversy regarding <a href="http://authoritynutrition.com/how-many-carbs-per-day-to-lose-weight/" style="text-decoration: none;">carbohydrates</a> in the diet.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some people think that the majority of our energy intake should be from carbs, while others think they should be avoided like the plague.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But one thing that almost everyone <a href="http://authoritynutrition.com/top-10-nutrition-facts/" style="text-decoration: none;">agrees on</a>, is that carbohydrates from whole foods are much better than refined carbohydrates.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Processed foods are often high in carbs, but it is usually the refined variety.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the main problems is that refined, “simple” carbohydrates are quickly broken down in the digestive tract, leading to rapid spikes in blood sugar and insulin levels.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This can lead to carb <a href="http://authoritynutrition.com/3-step-plan-to-stop-sugar-cravings/" style="text-decoration: none;">cravings</a> a few hours later when blood sugar levels go down again. This phenomenon is also called the “blood sugar roller coaster” – which many people who have been on a high-carb diet can relate to.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not surprisingly, eating a lot of refined carbohydrates is associated with negative health effects and many chronic diseases (<a href="http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/76/1/266S.short" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">13</a>, <a href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/103/3/e26.short" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">14</a>, <a href="http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/91/6/1541.short" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">15</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do NOT be fooled by labels like “whole grains” that are often plastered on processed food packages, including breakfast cereals.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are usually whole grains that have been pulverized into very fine flour and are just as harmful as their refined counterparts.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you’re going to eat carbs, get them from whole, single ingredient foods, not processed junk foods.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Bottom Line:</strong> The carbohydrates you find in processed foods are usually refined, “simple” carbohydrates. These lead to rapid spikes in blood sugar and insulin levels and cause negative health effects.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">6. Most Processed Foods Are Low in Nutrients</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Processed foods are extremely low in essential nutrients compared to whole, unprocessed foods.</span></div>
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<img alt="Junk Food With Yellow Caution Tape" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3141" data-lazy-loaded="true" height="298" src="http://authoritynutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/junk-food-caution.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 10px; max-width: 100%;" width="500" /></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In some cases, synthetic vitamins and minerals are added to the foods to compensate for what was lost during processing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, synthetic nutrients are NOT a good replacement for the nutrients found in whole foods.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also, let’s not forget that real foods contain much more than just the standard vitamins and minerals that we’re all familiar with.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Real foods… like plants and <a href="http://authoritynutrition.com/5-brain-nutrients-in-meat-fish-eggs/" style="text-decoration: none;">animals</a>, contain thousands of other trace nutrients that science is just beginning to grasp.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maybe one day we will invent a chemical blend that can replace all these nutrients, but until that happens… the <strong>only</strong> way to get them in your diet is to eat whole, unprocessed foods.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The more you eat of processed foods, the less you will get of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and various trace nutrients.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Bottom Line:</strong> There are many nutrients found in whole foods that are not found in processed foods. The more processed foods you eat, the less you will get of these nutrients.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">7. Processed Foods Tend to be Low in Fiber</span></h2>
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<img alt="Junk Food" class="alignright size-full wp-image-738" data-lazy-loaded="true" height="152" src="http://authoritynutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/junk-food.jpg" style="display: block; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px 15px; max-width: 100%;" width="280" /></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://authoritynutrition.com/why-is-fiber-good-for-you/" style="text-decoration: none;">Fiber</a>, especially soluble, fermentable fiber, has various benefits.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the main ones is that it functions as a<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prebiotic_(nutrition)" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">prebiotic</a>, feeding the friendly bacteria in the intestine (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16918875" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">16</a>, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22555633" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">17</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is also evidence that fiber can slow down the absorption of carbohydrates and help us feel more satisfied with fewer calories (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18287346" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">18</a>, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11396693" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">19</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Soluble fiber can also help treat many cases of constipation, which is a very common problem today (<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2036.2011.04602.x/pdf" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">20</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The fiber that is found naturally in foods is often lost during processing, or intentionally removed. Therefore, most processed foods are very low in fiber.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Bottom Line:</strong> Soluble, fermentable fiber has various important health benefits, but most processed foods are very low in fiber because it is lost or intentionally removed during processing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">8. It Requires Less Energy and Time to Digest Processed Foods</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Food manufacturers want their processed food products to have a long shelf life.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They also want each batch of the product to have a similar consistency and they want their foods to be easily consumed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Given the way foods are processed, they are often very easy to chew and swallow. Sometimes, it’s almost as if they melt in your mouth.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of the fiber has been taken out and the ingredients are refined, isolated nutrients that don’t resemble the whole foods they came from.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One consequence of this is that it takes less energy to eat and digest processed foods.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We can eat more of them in a shorter amount of time (more <a href="http://authoritynutrition.com/debunking-the-calorie-myth/" style="text-decoration: none;">calories</a> in) and we also burn less energy (fewer calories out) digesting them than we would if they were unprocessed, whole foods.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One study in 17 healthy men and women compared the difference in energy expenditure after consuming a processed vs a whole foods-based meal (<a href="http://www.foodandnutritionresearch.net/index.php/fnr/article/view/5144" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">21</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They ate a sandwich, either with multi-grain bread and cheddar cheese (whole foods) or with white bread and processed cheese (processed foods).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It turned out that they burned <strong>twice as many calories</strong> digesting the unprocessed meal.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermic_effect_of_food" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Thermic Effect of Food</a> (TEF) is a measure of how much different foods stimulate energy expenditure after eating. It totals about 10% of total energy expenditure (metabolic rate) in the average person.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to this study, people who eat processed food will cut their TEF in half, effectively reducing the amount of calories they burn throughout the day.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Bottom Line:</strong> We only burn half as many calories digesting and metabolizing processed foods compared to whole foods.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">9. Processed Foods Are Often High in Trans Fats or Processed Vegetable Oils</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Processed foods are often high in unhealthy fats.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They usually contain cheap fats, refined seed- and vegetable oils (like soybean oil) that are often hydrogenated… which turns them into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">trans fats</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vegetable oils are extremely unhealthy and most people are eating way too much of them already.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These fats contain excessive amounts of <a href="http://authoritynutrition.com/optimize-omega-6-omega-3-ratio/" style="text-decoration: none;">Omega-6 fatty acids</a>, which can drive oxidation and inflammation in the body (<a href="http://ajpheart.physiology.org/content/293/5/H2919" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">22</a>, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19022225" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">23</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Several studies show that when people eat more of these oils, they have a significantly increased risk of heart disease, which is the most common cause of death in Western countries today (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16387724" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">24</a>, <a href="http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=662108" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">25</a>, <a href="http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4684-0967-3_18" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">26</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If the fats are hydrogenated, that makes them even worse. Hydrogenated (trans) fats are among the nastiest, unhealthiest substances you can put into your body (<a href="http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/66/4/1006S.short" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">27</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The best way to avoid seed oils and trans fats is to avoid processed foods. Eat real fats like butter, <a href="http://authoritynutrition.com/top-10-evidence-based-health-benefits-of-coconut-oil/" style="text-decoration: none;">coconut oil</a> and olive oil instead.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Just Eat Real Food!</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When we replace real, traditional foods like butter, meat and vegetables with crappy, processed junk foods, we get fat and sick.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Real food is the key to good health, processed food is not. Period.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Source:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 25px;">http://authoritynutrition.com/9-ways-that-processed-foods-are-killing-people/</span></span></div>
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9 Ways That Processed Foods Are Slowly Killing People

Processed foods are bad. They are the main reason why people all over the world are getting fat and sick. How do we know? Every time...

10 Things the Processed Food Industry Does Not Want You to Know

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<div style="background-color: white; color: #3b5436; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Processed foods are typically loaded with excess sugar, salt, unhealthful fats, preservatives and other additives.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3b5436; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But you probably know this already. What you may not know about processed foods is the extent of the havoc they can wreak on your body, a closely guarded secret that the processed food industry doesn’t want you to know.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3b5436; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1bA90qflcNEZy3WVYJx-EgEyzrXhsy-RUG60K-YD0O_ZpQEmomTbq9nkVGXXuYsUpX7W-EV5kMm1O9d9JWm9wzv8_EuXSLaQb6BwFVS4sTUrzLgS_KMEDjiLxjqfbBWJ5GjpktI-RhKCM/s1600/burger.jpg" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3b5436; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In short, though they may taste good and be easy to prepare, when you eat processed foods you’re exchanging convenience for your health.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3b5436; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the featured article,<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/07/15/processed-food-secrets.aspx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #f06a1d; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">1</a> Donna Gates, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401935435/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1401935435&linkCode=as2&tag=wakitime09-20" style="color: #f06a1d; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>The Body Ecology Diet</em></a>, explains 10 reasons why you might want to think twice the next time you’re tempted to eat processed foods.</span></div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1. They’re Addictive and May Cause You to Overeat</span></strong></h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #3b5436; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Processing modifies or removes important components of food, like fiber, water and nutrients, changing the way they are digested and assimilated in your body.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3b5436; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unlike whole foods, which contain a mix of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, fiber and water to help you feel satisfied, processed foods stimulate dopamine, a feel-good neurotransmitter, making you feel good even though the food lacks nutrients and fiber. This artificial dopamine stimulation can lead to excessive food cravings and, ultimately, food addiction.</span></div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2. They’re Linked to Obesity</span></strong></h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #3b5436; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Processed foods are virtually guaranteed to contain additives that are linked to obesity. This includes monosodium glutamate (MSG), high-fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners and more. Plus, refined carbohydrates like breakfast cereals, bagels, waffles, pretzels, and most other processed foods quickly break down to sugar.,</span></div>

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<h3 style="border: 0px; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">6. Processed Foods Encourage ‘Eating on the Run’</span></strong></h3><div style="color: #3b5436; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Processed foods are quick and easy, making them ‘perfect’ to grab when you’re on the go. But eating on the go, or while you’re multi-tasking, can cause you to lose touch with your body’s natural signals telling you you’re full, leading to overeating and weight gain. It’s also more difficult for your body to digest properly when you’re busily engaged in other tasks.</span></div><h3 style="border: 0px; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">7. Nutrition Labels Can be Misleading</span></strong></h3></div><div style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px;"><div style="color: #3b5436; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A processed food may be labeled ‘natural’ or ‘sugar-free,’ but that doesn’t make it healthful. For instance, the natural food label on a processed food has no standard definition and really no meaning at all. A “natural” product is meaningless as it can legally be genetically modified, full of pesticides or made with corn syrup, additives, preservatives and artificial ingredients.</span></div><div style="color: #3b5436; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also allows processed food manufacturers to use absurdly tiny serving sizes on their labels, which can lull you into a false sense of security when it comes to determining how much of each stated nutrient or toxin, like trans fat, you’re actually consuming.</span></div><h3 style="border: 0px; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">8. Processed Meats Are Linked to Cancer</span></strong></h3><div style="color: #3b5436; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Processed meats are those preserved by smoking, curing or salting, or the addition of chemical preservatives, which includes bacon, ham, pastrami, salami, pepperoni, hot dogs, some sausages and hamburgers (if they have been preserved with salt or chemical additives) and more. Particularly problematic are the nitrates that are added to these meats as a preservative, coloring and flavoring.</span></div><div style="color: #3b5436; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The nitrates found in processed meats are frequently converted into nitrosamines, which are clearly associated with an increased risk of certain cancers. Meat cooked at high temperatures, as many processed meats often are, can also contain as many as 20 different kinds of heterocyclic amines, or HCAs for short. These substances are also linked to cancer.</span></div><h3 style="border: 0px; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">9. Processed Foods May Increase Your Risk of Infertility and Malnutrition</span></strong></h3><div style="color: #3b5436; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because processed foods are stripped of nutrients your body needs, you could be eating a large number of calories but still become malnourished. In just three generations, a nutrient-deficient diet can lead to infertility, which is on the rise in the US.<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/07/15/processed-food-secrets.aspx#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color: #f06a1d; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">2</a> Plus, processed foods often contain genetically modified (GM) ingredients, which are also linked to reproductive problems.</span></div><h3 style="border: 0px; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">10. Processed Foods Lead to a Long Shelf Life, Not a Long Human Life</span></strong></h3><div style="color: #3b5436; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Processed foods can last a long time on the shelf without going bad, thanks to their chemical cocktails of preservatives and other additives. Unfortunately, their makers put a lot of money and time into strategies to increase shelf life and create attractive packaging, with little attention put on the foods’ nutrient value or how it will actually detract from lasting health.</span></div><h3 style="border: 0px; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What Are the Worst Processed Food Additives?</span></h3></div><div style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px;"><div style="color: #3b5436; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When foods are processed, not only are valuable nutrients lost and dietary fiber removed, but the textures and natural variation and flavors are also lost. After processing, what’s left behind is a bland, uninteresting “pseudo-food” that most people wouldn’t want to eat.</span></div><div style="color: #3b5436; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Additives are added back in not only to slow spoilage, prevent fats and oils from going rancid, prevent fruits from turning brown, and fortify or enrich the food with synthetic vitamins and minerals to replace the natural ones that were lost during processing, but also to improve taste, texture and appearance. When reading product packages, here are some of the worst offenders to avoid if you want to protect your health (many of these are already <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/02/27/us-food-products.aspx" style="color: #f06a1d; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">banned in other countries</a> due to health risks):</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #3b5436; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><tbody>
<tr style="background-color: whitesmoke;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ingredient</span></strong></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Found in</span></strong></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Health Hazards</span></strong></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: whitesmoke;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Coloring agents: blue 1, blue 2, yellow 5, and yellow 6</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cake, candy, macaroni and cheese, medicines, sport drinks, soda, pet food, and cheese</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most artificial colors are made from coal tar, which is a carcinogen</span></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: whitesmoke;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Olestra (aka Olean)</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fat-free potato chips</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Depletion of fat-soluble vitamins and carotenoids. Side effects include oily anal leakage</span></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: whitesmoke;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brominated vegetable oil (aka BVO)</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sports drinks and citrus-flavored sodas</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Competes with iodine for receptor sites in the body, which can lead to hypothyroidism, autoimmune disease, and cancer. The main ingredient, bromine, is a poisonous, corrosive chemical linked to major organ system damage, birth defects, growth problems, schizophrenia, and hearing loss</span></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: whitesmoke;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Potassium bromate (aka brominated flour)</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rolls, wraps, flatbread, bread crumbs, and bagel chips</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See bromine above. Associated with kidney and nervous system disorders, gastrointestinal discomfort</span></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: whitesmoke;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Azodicarbonamide</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Breads, frozen dinners, boxed pasta mixes, and packaged baked goods</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Linked to asthma</span></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: whitesmoke;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BHA and BHT</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cereal, nut mixes, gum, butter, meat, dehydrated potatoes, and beer</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BHA may be a human carcinogen, a cancer-causing agent. BHT can cause organ system toxicity</span></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: whitesmoke;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Synthetic hormones: rBGH and rBST</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Milk and dairy products</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Linked to breast, colon, and prostate cancers</span></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: whitesmoke;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Arsenic</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Poultry</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">EPA classifies inorganic arsenic as a “human carcinogen”</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><h3 style="border: 0px; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A Simple Step-by-Step Guide to Ditching Processed Foods</span></h3></div><div style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px;"><div style="color: #3b5436; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When it comes to staying healthy, avoiding processed foods and replacing them with fresh, whole foods is the “secret” you’ve been looking for. This might sound daunting, but if you take it step-by-step as described in my <a href="http://www.mercola.com/nutritionplan/index.htm" style="color: #f06a1d; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">nutrition plan</a> it’s quite possible, and manageable, to painlessly remove processed foods from your diet.</span></div><div style="color: #3b5436; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember, people have thrived on vegetables, meats, eggs, fruits and other whole foods for centuries, while processed foods were only recently invented. Many of the top executives and scientists at leading processed food companies actually<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/03/21/addictive-junk-food.aspx" style="color: #f06a1d; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">avoid their own foods</a> for a variety of health reasons!</span></div><div style="color: #3b5436; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I believe you, too, should spend 90 percent of your food budget on whole foods, and only 10 percent on processed foods (unfortunately most Americans currently do the opposite). This requires that you plan your meals in advance. Ideally, this will involve scouting out your local farmer’s markets for in-season produce that is priced to sell, and planning your meals accordingly, but you can also use this same premise with supermarket sales. You can generally plan a week of meals at a time, make sure you have all ingredients necessary on hand, and then do any prep work you can ahead of time so that dinner is easy to prepare if you’re short on time in the evenings (and you can use leftovers for lunches the next day).</span></div><div style="color: #3b5436; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Further, by cutting out these high-glycemic foods you can retrain your body to burn fat instead of sugar. However, it’s important to <em>replace</em> these foods with <em>healthy fats</em>, not protein—a fact that’s often not addressed. I believe most people may need between 50-70 percent of their daily calories in the form of healthful fats, which include:</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #3b5436; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><tbody>
<tr style="background-color: whitesmoke;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Olives and <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/10/30/rudi-moerck-on-cooking-oils.aspx" style="color: #f06a1d; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">olive oil</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Coconuts and <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/10/22/coconut-oil-and-saturated-fats-can-make-you-healthy.aspx" style="color: #f06a1d; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">coconut oil</a></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/12/07/why-is-butter-better.aspx" style="color: #f06a1d; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Butter</a> made from raw grass-fed organic milk</span></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: whitesmoke;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Organic raw nuts, especially macadamia nuts, which are low in protein and omega-6 fat</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Organic pastured egg yolks and pastured meats</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Avocados</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="color: #3b5436; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If cravings are a problem for you, please review my article about how to <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/07/01/wean-yourself-off-processed-foods-in-7-steps.aspx" style="color: #f06a1d; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">wean yourself off processed food</a> in seven easy steps. If you’re currently sustaining yourself on fast food and processed foods, this is one of the <em>most positive life changes you could ever make</em>.</span></div><div style="color: #3b5436; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Disclaimer:</b> This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of WakingTimes, Higher Perspective, or its staff.</span></div><div style="color: #3b5436; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source: Mercola</span></div><div style="color: #3b5436; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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10 Things the Processed Food Industry Does Not Want You to Know

Processed foods are typically loaded with excess sugar, salt, unhealthful fats, preservatives and other additives. But you probably know thi...

Brain Scans Show High-Glycemic and Processed Foods are Addictive

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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Most Americans, despite their consistent consumption, are aware that processed foods are unhealthy. Studies, including the most recent one, are showing that the reason why many people can’t put down that bag of Doritos or can of soda is because processed foods, particularly high-glycemic foods, which are fast-digesting carbohydrates that cause blood sugar spikes and crashes, are addicting.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Junk-Food1" height="352" src="http://thestateweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Junk-Food1-300x265.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In March, <a href="http://thestateweekly.com/the-organic-review-junk-food-truths-infertility-problems-and-addiction/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; border: 0px; color: #14094d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s; vertical-align: baseline;">TSW reported</a> on the author of<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us</i>, Michael Moss, explaining how sensory-specific satiety is how the processed food industry has remained a thriving one. <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The biggest hits – be they Coca-Cola or Doritos – owe their success to complex formulas that pique the taste buds enough to be alluring but don’t have a distinct, overriding single flavor that tells the brain to stop eating,” </i>Moss wrote, clearly indicating that junk food might be addictive.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <a href="http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2013/06/26/ajcn.113.064113.abstract" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; border: 0px; color: #14094d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s; vertical-align: baseline;">most recent study</a>, titled “Effects of dietary glycemic index on brain regions related to reward and craving in men”, though, provides solid evidence with brain scans showing that high-glycemic foods actually are addictive. Researchers at the Boston Children’s Hospital fed male patients either a high glycemic meal or a low glycemic meal before analyzing their brain activity afterwards. Results of the brain scans were astonishing.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Compared with an isocaloric low-GI meal, a high-GI meal decreased plasma glucose, increased hunger, and selectively stimulated brain regions associated with reward and craving in the late postprandial period, which is a time with special significance to eating behavior at the next meal</i>,” reads the study’s conclusion.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Interestingly, not only do processed junk foods trigger addiction, but they also have an impact on how the eater will behave when they go to eat their next meal. Such an addiction might cause the eater to consume more high-glycemic foods each time they eat in order to stimulate the reward and craving brain regions.</div>

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Most Americans, despite their consistent consumption, are aware that processed foods are unhealthy. Studies, including the most recent one,...

Scientists Officially Link Processed Foods To Autoimmune Disease

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<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The modern diet of processed foods, takeaways and microwave meals could be to blame for a sharp increase in autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, including alopecia, asthma and eczema. A team of scientists from Yale University in the U.S and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, in Germany, say junk food diets could be partly to blame.</div><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">'This study is the first to indicate that excess refined and processed salt may be one of the environmental factors driving the increased incidence of autoimmune diseases,' they said.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <img alt="Scientists Officially Link Processed Foods To Autoimmune Disease" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqYp0OPfk-EYMzIWv3a2q-W6REDZVOnmjNShRCP2EXgvo3RpVIRSNI6b1TIglGNsAxbwbwq9w9z_8tjYQTXf_ujFjB_h7KrX7np3I3i0eJr45mIznF8iw6q77kkpQqV1lGUenRM_YfugL0/s1600/Scientists+Officially+Link+Processed+Foods+To+Autoimmune+Disease.jpg" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #555555; float: left; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" title="Scientists Officially Link Processed Foods To Autoimmune Disease" width="300" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">Junk foods at fast food restaurants as well as processed foods at grocery retailers represent the largest sources of sodium intake from refined salts.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">The Canadian Medical Association Journal </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/05/10/beware-hidden-fast-food-salt-traps/" style="background-color: white; color: #3b59bb; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">sent out an international team of researchers</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"> to compare the salt content of 2,124 items from fast food establishments such as Burger King, Domino's Pizza, Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald's, Pizza Hut and Subway. They found that the average salt content varied between companies and between the same products sold in different countries. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">U.S. fast foods are often more than twice as salt-laden as those of other countries. While government-led public health campaigns and legislation efforts have reduced refined salt levels in many countries, the U.S. government has been reluctant to press the issue. That’s left fast-food companies free to go salt crazy, says Norm Campbell, M.D., one of the study authors and a blood-pressure specialist at the University of Calgary.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">Many low-fat foods rely on salt--and lots of it--for their flavor. One packet of KFC’s Marzetti Light Italian Dressing might only have 15 calories and 0.5 grams fat, but it also has 510 mg sodium--about 1.5 times as much as one Original Recipe chicken drumstick. (Feel like you’re having too much of a good thing? You probably are.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">Bread is the No. 1 source of refined salt consumption in the American diet, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Just one 6-inch Roasted Garlic loaf from Subway--just the bread, no meat, no cheeses, no nothing--has 1,260 mg sodium, about as much as 14 strips of bacon.</span><br />

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<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">How Refined Salt Causes Autoimmune Disease</h3><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">The team from Yale University studied the role of T helper cells in the body. These activate and 'help' other cells to fight dangerous pathogens such as bacteria or viruses and battle infections.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">Previous research suggests that a subset of these cells - known as Th17 cells - also play an important role in the development of autoimmune diseases. In the latest study, scientists discovered that exposing these cells in a lab to a table salt solution made them act more 'aggressively.'</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">They found that mice fed a diet high in refined salts saw a dramatic increase in the number of Th17 cells in their nervous systems that promoted inflammation. They were also more likely to develop a severe form of a disease associated with multiple sclerosis in humans.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">The scientists then conducted a closer examination of these effects at a molecular level. Laboratory tests revealed that salt exposure increased the levels of cytokines released by Th17 cells 10 times more than usual. Cytokines are proteins used to pass messages between cells.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">Study co-author Ralf Linker, from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, said: </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">'These findings are an important contribution to the understanding of multiple sclerosis and may offer new targets for a better treatment of the disease, for which at present there is no cure.'</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"> It develops when the immune system mistakes the myelin that surrounds the nerve fibres in the brain and spinal cord for a foreign body. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">It strips the myelin off the nerves fibres, which disrupts messages passed between the brain and body causing problems with speech, vision and balance.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">Another of the study's authors, Professor David Hafler, from Yale University, said that nature had clearly not intended for the immune system to attack its host body, so he expected that an external factor was playing a part.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">He said: </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">'These are not diseases of bad genes alone or diseases caused by the environment, but diseases of a bad interaction between genes and the environment.</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">'</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">Humans were genetically selected for conditions in sub-Saharan Africa, where there was no salt. It's one of the reasons that having a particular gene may make </span><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990326061953.htm" style="background-color: white; color: #3b59bb; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">African Americans much more sensitive to salt</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <i style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">'Today, Western diets all have high salt content and that has led to increase in hypertension and perhaps autoimmune disease as well.'</i><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">The team next plan to study the role that Th17 cells play in autoimmune conditions that affect the skin.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <i style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">'It would be interesting to find out if patients with psoriasis can alleviate their symptoms by reducing their salt intake,'</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"> they said.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <i style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">'However, the development of autoimmune diseases is a very complex process which depends on many genetic and environmental factors.'</i><br />
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<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Stick to Good Salts</h3><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">Refined, processed and bleached salts are the problem. Salt is critical to our health and is the most readily available nonmetallic mineral in the world. Our bodies are not designed to processed refined sodium chloride since it has no nutritional value. However, when a salt is filled with dozens of minerals such as in rose-coloured crystals of Himalayan rock salt or the grey texture of Celtic salt, our bodies benefit tremendously for their incorporation into our diet.</span><br />

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<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <i style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">"These mineral salts are identical to the elements of which our bodies have been built and were originally found in the primal ocean from where life originated,"</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"> argues Dr Barbara Hendel, researcher and co-author of Water & Salt, The Essence of Life. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">"We have salty tears and salty perspiration. The chemical and mineral composition of our blood and body fluids are similar to sea water. From the beginning of life, as unborn babies, we are encased in a sack of salty fluid."</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"> </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <i style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">"In water, salt dissolves into mineral ions,"</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"> explains Dr Hendel. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">"These conduct electrical nerve impulses that drive muscle movement and thought processes. Just the simple act of drinking a glass of water requires millions of instructions that come from mineral ions. They're also needed to balance PH levels in the body."</i><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">Mineral salts, she says, are healthy because they give your body the variety of mineral ions needed to balance its functions, remain healthy and heal. These healing properties have long been recognised in central Europe. At Wieliczka in Poland, a hospital has been carved in a salt mountain. Asthmatics and patients with lung disease and allergies find that breathing air in the saline underground chambers helps improve symptoms in 90 per cent of cases.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">Dr Hendel believes too few minerals, rather than too much salt, may be to blame for health problems. It's a view that is echoed by other academics such as David McCarron, of Oregon Health Sciences University in the US. He says salt has always been part of the human diet, but what has changed is the mineral content of our food. Instead of eating food high in minerals, such as nuts, fruit and vegetables, people are filling themselves up with "mineral empty" processed food and fizzy drinks. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <b style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Study Source:</b><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">This is the result of a study conducted by Dr. Markus Kleinewietfeld, Prof. David Hafler (both Yale University, New Haven and the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, and Harvard University, USA), PD Dr. Ralf Linker (Dept. of Neurology, University Hospital Erlangen), Professor Jens Titze (Vanderbilt University and Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, FAU, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Professor Dominik N. Muller (Experimental and Clinical Research Center, ECRC, a joint cooperation between the Max-Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, MDC, Berlin, and the Charite -- Universitatsmedizin Berlin and FAU) (Nature, doi: </span><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11868" style="background-color: white; color: #3b59bb; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11868</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">)*. In autoimmune diseases, the immune system attacks healthy tissue instead of fighting pathogens.</span><br />
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