5 “Health” Foods to Avoid

Five “Health Foods” to Avoid

If you started the day with what you thought was a healthy breakfast; wheat toast, orange juice & eggs cooked in vegetable oil, you just ate three of the five “health” foods to avoid! It can be difficult to know just what is healthy with all the information that we are bombarded with including all the old claims of what constitutes a healthy diet. But as you will read, you are much better without the following “healthy” foods.

Wheat bread: Wheat bread should not be considered a healthy or necessary part of the diet. Wheat is often contaminated with mycotoxins and no matter what the form, wheat, whole wheat, cracked wheat, sprouted wheat, etc., they will all be able of causing the same problems including: Celiac disease, Rheumatoid arthritis, Miscarriages, Headaches, Infertility, Developmental delay in children, Irritable bowel syndrome.

Intolerance to wheat is far more common than doctors recognize. Also, wheat, and nearly all other grains rapidly convert to sugar and rapidly accelerate aging and chronic illness in most of us.

Most of us would be best served by limiting or avoiding wheat altogether.

Vegetable oil: Polyunsaturated oils like corn, soy, safflower and canola, are the worst oils you can eat. Especially if heated in processing or cooking they tend to become oxidized or rancid, resulting in the formation of trans fat and difficult for the body to process.

Soy: Despite supporters claims that soy is an ideal source of protein, lower cholesterol, protection against heart disease, etc., numerous studies have found that soy products may;

• Increase the risk of breast cancer
• Contribute to thyroid disorders
• Promote kidney stones
• Weaken the immune system
• Cause severe, potentially fatal food allergies

Perhaps the most disturbing of soy’s ill effects has to do with its phytoestrogens that can mimic the effects of the female hormone estrogen. These phytoestrogens have been found to have adverse effects on various human tissues, and drinking even two glasses of soy milk daily for one month has enough of the chemical to alter a woman’s menstrual cycle. Soy is particularly problematic for infants, and soy infant formulas should be avoided, as they receive five birth control pills worth of estrogen every day!

Pasteurized dairy: Despite the widespread notion that milk is healthy, it is frequently associated with worsening health. If you are going to consume milk, some advocate using raw, unpasteurized milk. Some contend that the human body is not equipped to digest the milk of another animal.

But certainly, the pasteurization process creates many problems; it destroys enzymes, diminishes vitamin content, denatures milk proteins, destroys Vitamin B12 and B6, kills beneficial bacteria, promotes pathogens and is associated with allergies, osteoporosis, colic in infants, growth problems in children, the list goes on. Calves fed pasteurized mild die before maturity! Inspection of dairy herds for disease is not required for pasteurized milk.

All dairy is mucous forming and must eliminated for any regenerative regime.

Orange juice (and most fruit juice): Fruit juice has about eight full teaspoons of sugar per eight-ounce glass. This sugar is called fructose and is every bit as dangerous as regular table sugar since it will cause a major increase in insulin levels.

Further, many commercial orange juices are contaminated with mold from damaged fruit that are processed.  If you drink fruit juice, moderate the sweetness by diluting with pure water as much as possible.

from www.mercola.com