Daily Archives: August 21, 2016

4 Ingredients In 80 Percent of Processed Foods Are Decimating Immunity, Causing Cancer And Many Other Diseases

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80% of processed food is made up of just four ingredients — corn, wheat, soy and meat

4 Ingredients In 80 Percent of Processed Foods Are Decimating Immunity, Causing Cancer And Many Other Diseases Image Credits: Luke Chan / Flickr

Mae Chan | Prevent Disease

It’s not just the high fat, salt or sugar content of processed foods that is driving obesity and diet-related illnesses — the lack of food diversity is killing our gut flora, claims one researcher. If we exclude sugar, approximately 80 percent of all calories in processed foods come from a combination of four ingredients.

Drawing upon evidence from multiple studies, Professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London and author of The Diet Myth, Tim Spector said the restrictive nature of highly processed diets which use just a few ingredients is responsible for reducing our microbe diversity – and is making us ill.

“That junk food is bad for you is not news — the combination of saturated fat, calories, sugar, chemicals…

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These 5 Common Foods Could Be Making You Fat

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These 5 Common Foods Could Be Making You FatAre your ‘healthy’ food choices actually making you store body fat?

Anthony Gucciardi
Infowars.com

Are your ‘healthy’ food choices actually making you fat and going against your entire diet and exercise regimen? Chances are, you may unknowingly be consuming a number of food items that should in fact be on your ‘food hazard’ list.

Looking at the research and the opinions of top nutrition experts, here are the 5 foods that are making people fat (and no one probably even knows they’re eating them):

1. Foods with the Popular Plastic Chemical BPA

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While not technically a ‘food’, you are most likely taking in the plastic chemical known as bisphenol-A as if it were a staple food in your diet. This chemical, found in numerous items which I will list for you, disrupts what’s known as your body’s endocrine system — which encompasses key biological systems like your pineal gland and reproductive glands.

Numerous studies…

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