Ingredients to avoid

Looking at a label on our food can be intimidating. I always say if you have to ask yourself what is that, when reading the ingredients on a label, and then you should probably stay away from it. The truth is, our food is packed with artificial flavors, colors, emulsifiers, and sweeteners. Our food can be very toxic to us if we don’t stop consuming it.

Artificial flavors/colors- This is made from chemicals and is in all processed foods. You can find artificial flavors/colors in many of our food products. The truth is it will be hard to avoid unless you switch to organic products.

Hydrogenated/fractionated oils- these oils are not natural to the human system. The process of fractionated oils is that it separates the liquid from the oil, leaving concentrated unhealthy fat behind which is toxic for humans. Hydrogenated oils are made from healthy at the start, but once the oil under go processing (heating to one thousand degrees), they become poisonous to our bodies because its now a preservative. Hydrogenated oil is actually only one molecule off from being plastic.

Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) also called: natural flavoring, yeast extract, autolyzed yeast extract, disodium guanylate, disodium inosinate, caseinate, textured protein, hydrolyzed pea protein. MSG is not natural to the human body.

Unnatural sugars (not fruit or veggies) Sugar is one of the largest sources of calories for most Americans. Sugar is added to almost everything and can be hard to avoid. Sugar changes metabolism, raises blood pressure and can cause the altering of signaling hormones throughout the body.

High Fructose Corn Syrup is made from genetically modified corn. It causes insulin resistance, hypertension, and increased weight gain.

Potassium Benzoate/ Sodium Benzoate are both carcinogenic poison when combined with absorbic acid. Benzoate damages the DNA of cells known as the mitochondria, this poison when put directly onto a cell deactivate the cell. (Professor Peter Piper tested sodium benzoate on living yeast cells in his laboratory and found the discovery of benzoate deactivating cells.)

Sucralose also known as splenda which is chlorinated sugar. Sucralose is a common additive in protein mixes and drinks so what out for this!

Soy lecithin is literally in most processed food and is left over sludge from soy oil. The leftover product from the process degumming, makes soy lecithin. This is a toxic extraction process that is done with soybean oil. Stay away from it!!!!

Polysorbate 80 impacts the rate of maturing. You will find this in ice cream. Stay away from this! It causes infertility and causes change to the vagina, womb lining, hormones, and ovary deformities.

Canola oil or rapeseed oil is made from genetically modified plants and is designed to go through intensive breeding and genetic engineering techniques. It’s really hard to find products that don’t contil this oil. Going organic and reading labels will help.

Enriched wheat is when the wheat had additives (niacin, thiamine, riboflavin, folic acid, and iron) but other nutrients (fiber) are stripped out during the refining process. The grains that are usually enriched are wheat, rye, and rice. Enriched flour goes through the same process and even having nutrients re-added still doesn’t make up for what was taken out.

Sodium chloride is good in small amounts, but we tend to take in more than needed. This is our table salt but now it’s used to extend shelf life in our food. Go with rock or sea salt before using table salt. If you see sodium chloride listed in the ingredients avoid that food!