Eliminating Health-Destroying Food Products is Key to Good Nutrition and Eating Healthy

Welcome to my blog. Today I'm going to share about some more food products that you should never eat or even have in your kitchen. One of the keys to eating healthy is to avoid these kinds of man-made refined food additives. If good nutrition is important to you, please be pro-active and remove these health-destroyers from your diet.

First, never eat food products that contain MSG (monosodium glutamate). MSG is an excitotoxin, is dangerous to your health, makes you fat, increases your appetite, and causes all kinds of physical and medical problems. Check out the book, Excitotoxins, the Taste that Kills, or the book, In Bad Taste, The MSG Complex. Do your own research on "the dangers of MSG." The food processing companies are putting this dangerous poison into many of our foods under different names in order to deceive the public. Don't be deceived; read labels carefully. Some of the hidden sources of MSG that show up on food labels include: glutamate, glutamic acid, gelatin, calcium caseinate, textured protein, monopotassium glutamate, sodium caseinate, yeast nutrient, yeast extract, yeast food, autolyzed yeast, hydrolyzed protein, hydrolyzed corn gluten, natrium glutamate. Go to www.truthinlabeling.org and copy down the long list of other ingredients that often contain MSG or create MSG during processing. It's surprising to learn that soy sauce and teriyaki sauce create MSG during processing.

Second, eliminate all food products that contain high-fructose corn syrup, fructose, corn syrup, sucrose, multidextrin, corn syrup solids, dextrose, and white sugar. These additives are very unhealthy and will make you fat. These are all hidden sources of sugar in food products. In order to deceive you into thinking that sugar isn't the number one ingredient in a product, the food manufacturers will use a variety of sweeteners (as mentioned above) to divide up the sugar under separate names. In this way, wheat, for example, may appear to be the first ingredient (making up the largest ingredient on the label), but the truth is that when you add up all of the separate sweeteners, the sugar content is really the number one ingredient. Warning: food companies are putting high-fructose corn syrup in everything today because it is very inexpensive and because it makes you fatter than other sweeteners. You need to understand - the food industry wants you to be fat because fat people eat more food, thus increasing the sales and profits of the food companies. Become an expert at reading labels and avoiding this health-destroying poison.

Third, avoid all products containing hydrogenated oil (trans fat), partially hydrogenated oils, margarine, margarine-like products, shortening, Crisco, cottonseed oil, and palm oil. These are all man-made products that are actually toxic poisons. These fats attack the artery walls and cause heart problems. They also attack the intestine, kidneys, liver, spleen, and gallbladder, causing untold damage. The bad news is that these oils are virtually in every food product you buy today in the supermarket. Products containing high levels of trans fats include popular products such as Jif and Skippy peanut butter, prepackaged cake icings, candy bars, and almost anything that produces the "smooth mouth feel" on the tongue. These oils and margarine are as close as you can get to eating plastic. Despite what television ads try to say, butter is actually better for you than margarine. The main problem with all of these oils/fats is that we have taken natural foods and altered them into man-made toxic substances that the body cannot handle. One last word, avoid all products with cottonseed oil and palm oil, which are very unhealthy. Cotton is not even a food; it's what we make clothing out of. Why would you want to eat it? In summary, never eat anything that has hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils, margarine, cottonseed oil, or palm oil in them. They are simply toxic and deadly to the body.

Daily Quote: "Men do not die, they kill themselves." - Seneca

More Keys to Eating Good Healthy Nutrition

Yesterday we talked about the three most important health-building food groups that we should be eating from every day. The three key nutrition groups were grains, legumes, beans, seeds, and nuts; fresh vegetables; and fresh fruit. Today I would like to discuss some complementary foods that can be added to your diet if used in moderation.

1. COLD-PRESSED VEGETABLE OILS - Most commercial supermarket oils should be avoided because they are produced either with the use of extremely high temperatures or with the process known as chemical extraction (cold-processed). Both of these methods result in a processed, filtered, refined, bleached, deodorized, and unnatural toxic oil. Avoid these popular oils which are often inexpensive compared with the truly healthy oils. You want to look for high-quality, cold-pressed, fresh, unrefined, unprocessed, and unheated oils. Sure, they will cost more than the toxic oil, but they are good for your body in moderation. In my opinion, the three best oils are extra virgin olive oil, extra virgin coconut oil, and sesame seed oil. Keep these three oils on hand, in metal containers or dark bottles preferably. Don't keep them stored in plastic bottles. Refrigerate your oils because natural oils can turn rancid very quickly. And remember that the best way to get the needed saturated and unsaturated fats in your diet is by eating natural fat-containing foods such as nuts, seeds, grains, avocados, raw milk, etc.

2. RAW HONEY - Raw, natural, unheated, unfiltered, and unprocessed pollen-rich honey is one of the best sweeteners to include in your diet. Honey has always been the ancient natural sweetener used by the healthiest people in the world. For example, most centenarians in Russia and Bulgaria use honey as their only sweetener. In fact, a high percentage of these centenarians are actually bee farmers who eat the darkest, cloudiest, unfiltered raw honey they collect. Honey is known the world over to have medicinal-type properties and almost miraculous nutritional properties. One word of caution: use honey in moderation (1-2 teaspoons a day). Using too much honey (or any sweetener) may adversely affect the pancreas, liver, and adrenals, and cause blood sugar problems. One final warning: avoid at all costs white processed sugar, white artificial sweeteners such as Aspartame, Nutra-sweet, Sucrulose, Splenda, and Saacharin. These man-made highly processed artificial sweeteners are toxic to your body and are causing a whole array of major health problems in our country.

3. RAW MILK - Raw milk is an excellent food for those who are milk tolerant and a poison for those who are not. If you are milk tolerant, you can supplement your diet with high-quality, uncontaminated, raw milk from healthy animals that are grass fed or fed organic food. The best way to consume milk is in its cultured sour form such as yogurt, kefir, acidophilus milk, or regular buttermilk. This soured form is better for you because it is in a predigested form and is easily assimilated. In addition, it helps to maintain a healthy intestinal flora and can prevent intestinal putrefaction and constipation. Goat's milk is better than cow's milk for people of every age. A word of caution: today's pasteurized and homogenized supermarket milk is loaded with toxic and dangerous drugs, chemicals, and residues of herbicides, pesticides, and detergents, and is not fit for human consumption. If you're going to drink or eat milk products, make sure they are made from raw milk from healthy animals. If you are concerned about good nutrition and eating healthy, consider adding these three foods to your diet in moderation.

Daily Quote: "The chemistry of the food a person eats becomes his own body chemistry."