Do you know what you eat?
These days many of us are much more demanding about where our food comes from and whether it is good or bad for us and the environment. However, what you do not realize is that the food in supermarkets, but may not be 'fast food is still not necessarily healthy. If you has left the burgers and fries what he thought was the best "food costs" of health you may need to rethink if you buy food in a supermarket.
In his book, "What's this stuff?" Patricia Thomas shows how the products sold in supermarkets are a major source of pollutants in home. This exposure to toxins may be related to diseases such as cancer, allergies, respiratory problems and infertility. There are 70,000 chemicals used, with 1,000 new chemicals introduced each year. Some key issues to control toxic:
Meat malnourished Here in the West eat, averaging about 62 kg of meat, poultry, fish and shellfish per year. If you are a meat eater, then you are also consuming animals had eaten before it is slaughtered. It could be anything from feathers to chicken manure and bone meal. All these foods are allowed for Intensive livestock when they are high in protein. The protein ensures that the animal grows the correct weight quickly, but not necessarily healthy. In addition, in the mixture are plastic pellets and fiber industrial chemicals, antibiotics and hormones to promote growth with which the animals are fed farming intensive.
Animals Stressed animals are prone to stress, like us. If they have to stand on their ends is, the environment, temperature, humidity, light, sound, while the narrower All this causes stress. Besides having to consume the toxins in food when the animal is in extreme conditions that cause stress, then, like us, increased levels of stress hormones in your system, such as adrenaline and cortisone. The result is meat that has no color and sometimes dark or too thin and dry. animals under stress caused by the intensive cultivation of their weakened immune systems make them more likely to be fed antibiotics and other treatments. These, as well as toxins and pesticides end up being transmitted to us. Pesticides and additives you'll find the container, processed foods Modern also contain a series of unwanted contaminants, including pesticides. We are always told to eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables per day, but if you usually eat products grown, you can also take a mixture of harmful pesticides, insecticides, herbicides and more. These have been linked to damage nerves, cancer and many other effects that may take some time to appear. Although DDT and DDE, known to be dangerous pesticides have been banned for many years, remain in the soil and crops and livestock on land that DDT for several years means that the poison is still in the food chain.
A wide range of materials packaging in contact with food during their production, processing, packaging, storage and preparation. Most people are aware of how products chemicals in the container can get into food and cause health problems ranging from cancer to neurological disorders and rashes. But even if your diet is loose when you buy it, may have been "wrapped" in a different way to make it more attractive to supermarkets. Fruits, for example, is covered with waxes that may contain chemicals that trigger allergies and certain waxes are known to have harmful substances that may be carcinogens.
GM genetically modified food ingredients have been associated with an increased incidence of allergies, cancer and toxins in the body, and resistance antibiotics and the creation of super. The issues are complicated, but you should try to avoid GM tomato puree, soy and corn that have been approved for use in foods in the UK. Also note that many processed foods such as biscuits, cooking sauces and food coatings containing ingredients GM at a very low if they use soya or maize as an ingredient. As labeling laws mean that some genetically modified ingredients in flavors and dyes was recorded the best way to avoid GM produce is enough to eat fresh, not packaged.
Additives There are thousands of approved food additives in food, so it can consume a large amount of these artificial ingredients each year. Included in foods to prolong shelf life, are used as additives have flavors and natural colors for the product to look fresh and natural. They are also used as sugar substitutes so that when something is described as "sugar" is almost always full of artificial chemicals. Additives that add little or no nutritional value of food and at worst, can affect your health and wellbeing. Attention sulfites, aspartame and monosodium glutamate, which can cause reactions such as headaches, breathing difficulties and a general weakness in some people.
Nano-additives containing nano-additives or genetically modified foods atomically are on our shelves, even if research about the dangers have not been completed. No one knows how to regulate these technologies, since the goods are pharmaceutical, medical and biological expertise. The problem is that because of its size – a million can fit on a pinhead – They defy physics and can interact with the body in the whole new level. No of current safety tests designed to study the effects of this new technology so that no one can say with certainty whether they are safe to eat.
Recover nutrients from fruits and vegetables being rich in vitamins and minerals, but today most products are grown in soils depleted of nutrients, pesticides covered, stored, processed with more chemicals, stored and sold again before being eaten. The practice of placing some soil minerals has changed the contour nature of our food. Sweden, for example, now contain more than 100 percent of phosphorus in the past. Men who eat such modified foods may be differences in natural mineral profile of your own body and bone tissue that has implications for health.
luxury food long distance to eat food that comes from everyone has consequences in terms of destruction of our natural environment and an inability to understand where food comes from. The number of miles accumulated by most food foods we take for granted is huge. A typical Sunday meal could have traveled 49,000 miles release of 37 kg dioxide carbon and contribute to global warming. And it's not just kids who have no idea how, where and why their food is produced, few adults are contact how excessive use of oil palm junk food kills orangutans in the destruction of forests that are their natural habitat.
Much success to read labels is beyond the cloud of hyperbole. Remember that companies often use food labels and packaging of ads only products you have to deal with lists of contents with care and always examine the fine print. Be careful with the terms and coverage of "Pure" and "natural" – "Pure" means nothing, while 'natural chicken, "simply refers to a starting material, not the entire account process that occurs later. The same goes for "whole grain (how often is not indicated) and" enriched ", which is usually a termination and the food was so good in him had to put things to call food.
Avoid the trap of toxic
Returning to the good food is much easier than you think. Here are some tips:
Eat local food production has an important role in maintaining our bodies and communities. The use of farmers markets and delivery systems.
Eat organic foods contain higher levels organic high in vitamins and minerals and less nitrates. If you can not afford organic food, and wash non-organic vegetables and shell running water, and cut meat oily traditionally high, where the collected waste.
Eat well, do not be fooled by clever marketing, good food should be authentic and Delicious – The smell of food, taste and good looks?
Eat the best quality you can afford to avoid junk food and frozen, even if practical, containing little or no nutritional value and often contain artificial coloring and additives.
Eat freshly prepared in mind to remove the microwave oven in your kitchen. The nutrients and proteins are significantly altered after the microwave.
Eat natural case of a box, tub, pot or pan, or is a color not normally seen in nature, think twice before you put it in his mouth.
Eat a variety that can limit your exposure to additives – safer if there are health risks in the long term.
Eat seasonally, reducing exposure to chemicals commonly used antifungal and antibacterial to prolong life. It is also less expensive.
More: "What this kind of thing: The essential guide to what's really in the products you buy in the supermarket "by Patricia Thomas, Rodale, 2006
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