Processed Foods to Avoid: Processed food Increase the risk of getting Cancer

Processed foods have been altered from their natural state for safety reasons and for convenience. The methods used for processing foods include canning, freezing, refrigeration, dehydration and aseptic processing.

I is not all processed foods are not bad for your health. For example, milk would be considered a processed food because it's pasteurized to kill bacteria and homogenized to keep fats from separating. Some people prefer raw milk, but it can lead to food-borne illness, so we're happy to consume the healthy "processed" milk we find in our grocery stores.

Another example of good food processing is frozen vegetables. Freezing vegetables preserves vitamins and minerals and makes them convenient to cook and eat all year around. Fruit and vegetable juice is also an example of a healthy processed food. In fact, some orange juice is fortified with calcium to make it even more nutritious. Oatmeal, frozen fish, frozen berries and 100% whole-grain bread are also processed foods that are good.

Of course, there are a lot of processed foods that aren't good for you. Many processed foods are made with trans-fats, saturated fats, and large amounts of sodium and sugar. These types of foods should be avoided, or at least eaten sparingly especially when fortified with raw foods especially fruits and vegetable.

Processed foods that may be bad for your diet:

* Canned foods with large amounts of sodium or fat
* Breads and pastas made with refined white flour instead of whole grains
* Packaged high-calorie snack foods such as chips and candies
* Frozen fish sticks and frozen dinners that are high in sodium
* Packaged cakes and cookies
* Boxed meal mixes that are high in fat and sodium
* Sugary breakfast cereals
* Processed meats

Eating processed meats may increase your risk of colorectal, kidney and stomach cancer. Processed meats include hot dogs, bologna, sausage, ham and other packaged lunch meats. These meats are frequently high in calories, saturated fats and sodium.

These processed foods and prepackaged meals are very convenient and popular. If you do shop for these foods, be sure to look for products that are made with whole grains, low in sodium and calories, low in saturated fat and free of trans fats. Make sure you pay attention to serving size, too, and balance out the processed foods you eat with a salad, vegetables, and some whole grain bread.

Natural foods, Live Enzymes, Vitamins and Minerals

Natural foods contain live enzymes, vitamins and minerals. Live enzymes are not like vitamins and minerals, but they are the catalysts to get those nutrients into the cells. They are keys that open the door to the cell and let the vitamins and minerals in to do their work. Live enzymes are the active chemicals in the digestive juices which cause the chemical breakdown of foods, combinations of amino acids that are capable of inducing chemical changes in other substances. The importance of live enzymes in nutrition cannot be overstated; virtually nothing happens in the body without the help of enzymes. For the body to function at full potential, experts agree it is a good idea to load up on nutrition for athletes with live enzymes.
While there are 1,300 different kinds of live enzymes that help your body function, the most familiar are digestive enzymes. If your body does not have enough of these then the organs change functions. The liver and the pancreas switch from making metabolic enzymes, so tasks like converting fat into energy are given a lower priority. That is not good for athletes requiring nutrition to burn fat and generates energy. Live enzymes help provide essential nutrition for athletes to most effectively burn fat and create energy. Because the pancreas and liver need energy to produce enzymes, the resulting drain renders the organs temporarily unable to perform their functions of detoxification, blood sugar control and fat burning“.
Fortunately, live enzymes are abundant in whole foods (healthy or natural foods) that provide perfectly natural nutrition for athletes. Now, it is easier than ever to find concentrated nutrients with live enzymes from whole food sources. Some of the best natural foods and health drinks have a strong regenerating effect on the liver and pancreas, as well as the adrenals, reproductive glands, nervous system and kidneys.
To get the right digestive juices for turning nutrients into energy, discover nutrition for athletes with live enzymes. Look for natural foods and health drinks that are made from whole food ingredients like real fruits and herbs. Feed your body the nutrients it is crying out for along with the live enzymes to absorb those nutrients more effectively and it will perform better for you over the long term.

Healthy foods, Toxicology of foods.

We do NOT need endless tail of food additives, especially foreign ones (bio-chemically useless or even disruptive, anti-nutritional), to be attached to our vital nutrients. All those additives serve solely commercial goals of the food industry, not us. Therefore:

A healthy food must be a NUTRITIONAL food. This is the QUALITY requirement for our diet.


The QUANTITY of a healthy food eaten is equally important. The problem is that we tend to overeat and that the moderate amount varies greatly from a person to person and, therefore, cannot be of the same quantity for everyone. However understanding the basic principles of toxicology may provide us with some guidance. All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison. In other words, the core principle of Toxicology says: Everything has its toxic quantity.

This is a very strong statement which has a critically important application in our diet:

Even the healthiest food can be TOXIC if eaten in large excess. While a toxicity threshold may be different for different people, the more you eat the higher are chances that you approach, reach or exceed YOUR toxic dose. This means ihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gift is NOT safe to regularly eat out no matter how nutritional and safe is the food.

So the toxicity of a food is a matter of the amount of food or beverage we consumed. Water intoxication is a bright evidence of that principle in operation. Of course, the toxic amount (dose) of “junk food,” or alcoholic beverages are even smaller. Therefore, the second condition for a person trying to switch for a healthy diet is to practice MODERATION:

A healthy diet is a NUTRITIONAL food eaten in MODERATION.

An important hint to eating in moderation is to balance the energy intake with the energy expenditure. What is normal for a hard-working man may be way too much for a procrastinator.

A healthy life style is the one based on a NUTRITIONAL food eaten in MODERATION balanced with enough of physical and mental work.


While human biochemistry is flexible enough so we can handle tremendous variations and deviations in our food, diet and the lifestyle without getting badly ill for a long time, on one day we will be forced to make a “healthy” decision, if we want to keep enjoying the life for longer.

Here is an important conclusion which may be of use for many:
No healthy diet can be designed based on foods that contain FOREIGN (anti-nutritional) food additives. Hence, for instance, most of the “diet” and “zero calories” soft drinks cannot be a part of a healthy diet. They do introduce foreign food additives like sugar substitutes, preservatives and/or food dyes . So, elimination of all the anti-nutritional food additives from our diet is a very important first step towards a healthy diet.

How to live a healthy long life

We are continuing from our last post

3. Moderation: There are foods you must not eat too much and things you must not do too much. Too much of every thing kills. In-fact too much of everything is a toxicant.

What are the things to put moderation in order to have a stable health?

* Stress: never stress yourself too much. Any thing you use such as your body and your organ and you dont allow to rest will start to malfunction. Stress lead to chronic effect on your system. This will result into disorder or disease as a result of not giving your body rest (stress) over a long period of time.

* Amount of cook food you eat: Eat 50% raw food and 50% cooked food. Certain nutrient are denatured by heat. Vitamins are thermosensitive. 97% of water soluble vitamins are destroyed at 100C while 44% are destroyed at 100C. Therefore we must make sure we eat fresh fruits and vegetables to get this nutrients at 100%

Healthy Recipes and Healthy Living.

You can manage your health through the food you eat. You must however know that not all the food you eat are good for your health as explained in the last post (i.e. junk food). Only 4% of the food you eat is useful for your body.

Diseases are caused most of the time by diet and lifestyle. Stress or not giving yourself enough rest is one of the major cause of disease.

The following are the things to do towards healthy living:

1. The principle of education: Educate yourself about health matters. What you don't know might be killing you. Ignorance is the greatest disease. Read, search and seek for knowledge especially how to live long. The fact that you are reading this post shows that you are planning and living your life towards sound health.
The following are the things you should educate yourself about.
-Have the knowledge of your human body. You must desire to know how your body works. Have a good knowledge of the liver (for detoxification), heart, kidney, brain etc. This will be explained better in the coming post.
-Know your foods. Carbohydrates, proteins, fat and oil, minerals and vitamins are good examples of what to know in your food. you must also know what they do.
-Knowledge about the impact of your environment on your health. Due to the increase technology which result to release of some gases that are toxic to your body, you must therefore be sensitive to your environment.
-Also have the knowledge of God and your enemy the devil trying to attack your health.

2.Abstention: This is abstaining from certain things. It requires a lot of discipline. For example, you should stop taking MILK at the age of 60years. This is because, it is believed that lactase an enzyme responsible for the digestion of lactose the carbohydrate in milk to glucose and galactose will no longer be produced at age 4years. Therefore gradual accumulation of lactose over the years might result to disorder at age 60yaer in anyone addicted to milk.

lactose
lactose _______________ Glucose + Galactose

Wash out for the next post very soon! More recipes for healthy living will come in this next post.