Waging War on Our Body

There is so much more to nourishing your body than counting calories. In fact, calories have nothing to do with nourishing your body. Neither do carbs. Yes, these play a role in losing weight but low-calorie and low-carb foods can be void of necessary nutrients.

#JERF Just Eat Real Food

This should be our matra. Just eat real food.

The Standard American Diet, also known as SAD, is filled with starchy carbs like potatoes, corn, bread, pasta, sugar, processed foods such as sausage, bacon, snack cakes, donuts, crackers, coffee creamer, candy bars and the list goes on and on. These are foods that fill our bellies but leave us malnourished.

What is real food?

Real food is food that is unprocessed and is as close to its original state as possible. Real food should be the ingredients in the dishes you make at home or buy in restaurants.

What is the harm in eating processed foods?

Processed foods have chemically altered ingredients, preservatives, artificial flavors, artificial colors and "natural" ingredients you would not normally eat. These foods have been stripped of any real nutrients. They do not nourish the body but, instead, they are quite harmful to the body.

Read labels. Every label.

If you read the labels of the foods you buy, you will come across some of these ingredients. The list below is from Waking Times in an article called The Reality of Chemical Terrorism in Our Food.

Artificial Flavors and Colors

Artificial flavors and colors are made from a chemical derived in a lab with no nutritional value. They have a detrimental effect on health, including neurotoxicity, organ, developmental and reproductive toxicity and cancer.

Examples

• Glutamates

• MSG (monosodium glutamate)

• Maltodextrin

• Blue 1, Blue 2

• Yellow 5, Yellow 6

• Red 3, Red 40

Genetically Modified Foods

Genetically modified foods are known to cause allergies, organ damage, cancer, immunotoxicity and damaging transgenes that affect generations to come.

Examples

• Corn flour, corn meal, corn oil, corn syrup, corn gluten

• Corn sweeteners such as dextrose, fructose and glucose

• Modified food starch

• Soy flour, soy lechithin, soy protein, soy isolate, soy isoflavone

• Most vegetable oils and vegetable proteins

• Canola oil (aka rapeseed oil)

• Cottonseed oil

• Anything not listed as 100% cane sugar

Toxic Preservatives

Artificial preservatives are responsible for health problems involving the respiratory tract, heart, blood and other systems of the body. Some preservatives are very neurotoxic especially when combined with particular nutrients.

Examples

• Antimicrobials

• Sodium nitrates

• Sodium nitrites

• BHA

• BHT

• Sulfites

• Potassium Sorbate

• Benzoic Acid

• Propyl Gallate

• Sodium Benzoate

Toxic Emulsifiers

An emulsifier replaces surface protein and helps in forming the

network in specific food recipes. There are NO healthy, non-organic emulsifiers. They are ALL toxic causing infertility, digestive disorders and migraines.

Examples

• Polysorbate 80

• Mono-diglycerides

• Carrageenan

• Xanthan gum (non-organic)

• Soy Lecithin or soya lecithin

Toxic Sweeteners

Sweeteners such as Neotame are thousands of times sweeter than sugar. They are all very potent, neurotoxic, immunotoxic and excitotoxic.

Examples

• Aspartame

• High fructose corn syrup

• Neotame

• Sucralose

• Sodium cyclamate

• Acesulfame potassium or acesulfame-K

Toxic Adulterants

Food fraud and economically motivated food adulteration is highlighted by some very toxic substances which cause cancer, glaucoma, digestive and liver disorders. These are added to foods to increase their color, volume or weight.

Examples

• Metanil Yellow

• Potassium bromate

• Malachite green

• Tamarind seeds

• Washing powder

• Argemone seeds

Eating real, organic, non-GMO food will heal your body. Eliminating foods that are toxic and compromising to your health will allow your body to begin to heal from the damage caused by processed foods. It will heal your body and it will allow future generations to be healthy as well.

Do we really want to wage war on the only body we have?

Resources

Hovis, B. S. (n.d.). Nutrition and Food. Retrieved April 20, 2020, from https://trinityschool.instructure.com/courses/499/pages/week-1-lecture-1-nutrition-and-food

Acesulfame Potassium. (n.d.). Retrieved April 20, 2020, from https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/acesulfame-potassium

Torres, M. (2016, June 18). The Reality of Chemical Terrorism In Our Food. Retrieved April 20, 2020, from https://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/05/20/the-reality-of-chemical-terrorism-in-our-food/

Group, E. (2014, November 14). The 6 Most Dangerous Excitotoxins. Retrieved April 20, 2020, from https://globalhealing.com/natural-health/6-dangerous-excitotoxins/