3 Foods to never eat

No single food in isolation is going to make you sick or fat. What is really matter is how individual foods fit into your overall pattern of eating. Nothing happens to you if once in a while you eat a sandwich with smoked cold cuts. Because many factors are in play when we eat every day; many unhealthy, semi-healthy and healthy patterns for eating are possible. The most important thing is to find a pattern that works for you.

Registered dietitian Luke Corey, who works with Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, says: “The worst foods to eat are those that are high in calories, but low in healthy macro nutrients and essential vitamins and minerals.”

3 Foods to never eat

The list of foods that you should avoid is long enough, but these 3 foods are the worst.

Regular soda and other soft drinks

In the 1970s it was discovered that High-Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) was not only far cheaper to produce, but is also about 20% sweeter than table sugar. Since then the food industry began switching their sweeteners from table sugar to high-fructose corn syrup. Today, over 50% of sweeteners used by food and beverage manufactures are made from corn, and the number one source of calories is soda.

In our food, sugar can hide in thousands of forms under thousands of names. But fructose, in form of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) or in crystalline fructose, is the worst of the worst! Many scientific studies indicate that consuming high-fructose corn syrup is the fastest way to destroy your health.

However, don’t take us wrong: fructose itself is not potassium cyanide; it is the GIGANTIC AMOUNT of it we consume on regular basis with soft drinks that makes it dangerous.

Excessive fructose consumption is a major contributor to insulin resistance and obesity, early stages of diabetes and heart disease, high blood pressure and elevated levels of “bad” cholesterol, non-alcoholic fatty liver and cardiovascular disease, depletion of vitamins and minerals, and even gout.

It has been known for years that cancer seems to have a sweet tooth. Back in 1931, the Nobel laureate in medicine, German Otto Warburg, first discovered that tumors and cancers both use sugars to “feed” themselves and/or to increase in size. In order to proliferate, cancer cells seem to prefer feeding on fructose-rich sweeteners like high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS); the reason is that HFCS is being metabolized by cancer cells most quickly and easily. Obviously, high-fructose corn syrup is considered the main culprit.

Processed meats

Foods such as bacon, sausages and some deli meats are not only high in calories and sodium, but also in saturated fat as well as some nitrates and nitrites. This can contribute to various health conditions and disease.

Meat which has been modified in order either to improve its taste or extend its shelf life by salting, curing, fermentation, smoking or other methods is called processed meat. The list of processed meats is long and includes bacon, ham, hotdogs, sausages, salami, corned beef, beef jerky, canned meat and meat-based sauces. All of those meats are treated with nitrates. Nitrates are converted to nitrites in the stomach, and nitrites contribute to the formation of cancer-causing N-nitroso compounds. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at the World Health Organization classifies processed meat as a Group 1, carcinogenic to humans, since it has found sufficient evidence that consumption of processed meat by humans causes colorectal cancer.

Farmed Salmon

It is also important that you avoid farmed salmon, which contains only about half of the omega-3 levels of wild salmon. Do you know that over 60% of the salmon consumed in the USA is farm raised? Farmed salmon is fed unnatural artificial diets and is contaminated with environmental pollutants, harmful metabolic by-products, antibiotics, pesticides, cancer causing dioxins, agrichemical residues of GMO corn- and soy-based feed, and other harmful substances. Moreover, special chemicals are added to the “menu” to make salmon meat that reddish pink colour that should occur naturally but doesn’t because of the diet of chicken litter that they are fed. Due to the fact that fish live in very crowded conditions, it could have 30 times the number of sea lice than wild salmon. While buying salmon, look for labels marked “wild salmon”.

Fish and marine animals healthy choices are: wild-caught Alaskan salmon, shrimps, Pollock, catfish, cod, and small fish like sardines are. Go for a pollution-free and highly sustainable source – krill oil, which appears to work at a lower dose resulting in significant money savings.