7 Health Foods To Avoid
Of course, we don’t mean all healthy foods. Instead, recent studies by food industry experts have targeted a few foods that, while they certainly have healthier reputations, are potentially hazardous to those trying to lose weight, because of the ways they are raised, grown and sold.
Below is listed seven of the potentially worst offenders, as well as some healthier alternatives.
1. Canned Tomatoes: The linings of the tin cans used for canned tomatoes contain a synthetic estrogen linked to ailments ranging from heart disease to obesity.
Easy alternative: Choose tomatoes in glass bottles. You can also get several types in Tetra Pak boxes at stores such as Trader Joe’s.
2. Corn-Fed Beef: Farmers today feed their animals corn and soybeans, which fatten up the animals faster for slaughter.
Easy alternative: Buy grass-fed beef, which can be found at specialty grocers, farmers’ markets and Whole Foods.
3. Microwave Popcorn: The microwaving process causes the chemicals in the lining of any given popcorn bag to vaporize and migrate into your popcorn.
Easy alternative: Pop natural kernels the old-fashioned way: in a skillet or a pot on the stove.
4. Nonorganic Potatoes: Root vegetables, like potatoes, absorb herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides that wind up in soil. They are then sprayed with herbicides to kill off the fibrous vines before harvesting.
Easy alternative: Buy organic potatoes. Washing isn’t good enough if you’re trying to remove chemicals that have been absorbed into the flesh.
5. Farmed Salmon: Farmed salmon is lower in vitamin D and higher in contaminants, due to being fed with the likes of soy, poultry litter and hydrolyzed chicken feather. As if all this wasn’t bad enough, there is also concern about the high level of antibiotics and pesticides used to treat these fish.
Easy alternative: Switch to wild-caught Alaska salmon. If the package says fresh Atlantic, it’s farmed.
6. Milk Produced with Artificial Hormones: Most milk producers treat their dairy cattle with growth hormone to boost milk production.
Easy alternative: Check labels for products that are produced without artificial hormones, or buy organic milk.
7. Conventional Apples: They are individually descended (or grafted) from a single tree, so that each variety maintains its distinctive flavor. Because of this, apples don’t develop resistance to pests and are sprayed frequently.
Easy alternative: Buy organic apples. But if your wallet just can’t quite manage that, just be sure to not only wash them carefully, but peel them as well.
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