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Looking Hard at the Nutritional Values of Common Foods Today
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Sad to say, but equally true to say, the nutritional values of common foods today are...well, sometimes, seemingly non-existent. In this article we examine what we commonly eat ... by David Brant, who became a successful althlete in high school, has studied health and nutritional issues for over 15 years and personally uses many fitness ideas and supplements that he writes about.. |
The nutritional values of common foods in today's advanced societies, especially, leave much to be desired. Why, they even leave out things we desperately need.
Who Chooses what we eat?
With all of our obviously and truly advanced science and technology,
how can we be allowing ourselves to consume a lot of the things we
consume on a regular basis? I don't think there is any one snappy
answer to this profound question. But I do think that a good answer, to
give a thumbnail sketch of the problem, is: our technology has outpaced
our wisdom, and we have become lazy-minded and complacent. We have
started allowing others who set themselves up as "experts" make our
dietary and health decisions for us. More often than not, these
"experts" work for the government and have less than salubrious
motivations.
At least a lot of the time, we would not need the expensive and side-effect-heavy pharmaceuticals prescribed so liberally to us if we only followed some basic, elemental practices about what we bought at the grocery store. The debilitating effects of aging that really start to pile up after age 60 would not be so prominent, and certainly they would not be considered inevitable, at least not at such a relatively young age. Our lives would be longer and of greater quality.
Given the poor nutritional values of common foods today due to factors like sometimes incompetent agricultural methods, use of cheap and unhealthy ingredients, and too much processing and refinement, what should you watch out for when you are doing your grocery shopping? For the sake of spatial limitations here, I want to take a look at a list of food products that you just should not waste your money on. This is not really for the sake of your wallet, but rather for the sake of your health and your quality of life, however.
Keep in mind that at first this might be very difficult for you...especially if you are raising children.
Avoid Buying These
- Bread. Bread is the most commonly eaten food in the entire world.
Sadly, most modern bread is rubbish. Don't think so? Check the labels
sometime. You might feel the compunction to go back to chemistry class
before you consider buying it again. But here is a far better
experiment to try:
- for just 10 days, avoid bread and bread-related
products. (Soft tortilla shells are okay.) See if it does not make a
huge difference in your general health and well-being. (I want to make
one note here: whole GRAIN breads and products are fine.) So, for
instance, if you want a bacon cheeseburger tonight for dinner, that's
fine. Make it and eat it without any bun. If you insist on bread in the
future, make it sourdough, rye, or pumpernickel if not Whole Grain.
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Soda. If you want soda, buy it STRICTLY from a health food store or
grocery health food section. Sodas sold there have been made with
unrefined cane sugar, and you won't find one drop of high fructose
death syrup in them.
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Lettuce. Lettuce is a filler, and a worthless one. It kills taste and
offers no nutritional value of any significance. It won't kill you, but
it's a complete money-waster, and it fills you up where you could be
filled up with a green that actually is good for you, like spinach or
turnip greens.
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Corn-fed beef. Now, this is likely to be the hardest one of all for you
to follow. Good beef is extremely healthy for you and should be in your
diet. However, cattle are not supposed to eat corn. They are supposed
to eat grass. Corn fed cattle are sick. Thus, they are given strong
pharmaceuticals, which you consume when you consume their meat. Corn is
starchy and can cause weight problems; but grass can't. Eat grass-fed
beef and be strict about it. It's far more expensive than corn-fed,
which is one reason why it could be so difficult for you to switch. But
remember, the more something is bought en masse the lower its price
becomes.
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Pre-packaged deli meats. Have you ever paid attention to how much
sodium and processing chemicals are in that junk? Unless you go to your
butcher and get that deli meat made up fresh, avoid it like the plague.
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Margarines. If it's not real butter, it's rubbish. And, it's going to
kill you. Eat and cook with butter.
- Vegetable oils. Throw out the Crisco. Use coconut, flax seed, or olive oils.
The nutritional values of common foods today are, all too often,
deplorably low. This is not some conspiracy theory, and it's not crazy
talk. Research more about the nutritional values of common foods and
you'll get very disturbed. But there is one thing, besides starting to
buy groceries more judiciously, that you can do to remedy the
situation.
Start using dietary supplements religiously! Nutritional Supplements
has discovered the Total Balance line from Xtend-Life offers special
formulas especially for Children, Men and
Women.
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