More Killer Foods

Ouch, that bites - just the sound of it - killer foods... as we learned yesterday there's no good nutritional value in them because they're dead food and not living food so why do we eat them? Somewhere along the line we have been told they are good for us or it's the food we grew up with and it's a hard habit to break. Another reason is we believe what we're told and we don't read the labels! Somewhere along the line again someone got wise and said, 'let's put a nutritional label on our food,' for correctness to the public and they did and we trust "those" who say this and we trust the label being there so we don't read it. Our head says "they" know what they're talking about and we believe "them". Who are the "those", "they", and the "them"?

We hear so much and in regards to food we hear this is good for you and this is bad about the same foods; some say a little coffee or a little chocolate won't hurt you and others say it isn't good for you. No, it won't hurt you, you'll more than likely not feel any pain, but it could be killing you! I say you choose.

This is where our Biblical foundation we discussed earlier comes in. When you know the voice of the One in charge of your life you should listen to Him. Father does know best! So I say like I did with meat or any other animal product, eat it if you choose but whatever you are supposed to change or eliminate in your diet, do so. If you know that you eat too much sugar, stop it. If it's caffeine that keeps you going throughout your day, stop it or at least cut back. Choose to do the right thing to live a longer and healthier life. Just do something, start somewhere. You choose. Begin now, but do something to make a better lifestyle and healthier life for yourself in the remaining years you have beginning today... it's never too late to start!

Here's the rest of the story; our killer foods:

Processed foods - boxed, packaged, canned, jarred, and even frozen foods have been heated and treated and abused to where the nutrition value in those boxes, packages, cans, jars, and frozen foods are now dead food. They've been pre-cooked and now you're going to re-cook them! Dead food. Look at them as being embalmed; embalmed with chemicals, preservatives, flavor enhancers and other unknown compounds to give them a longer shelf life... but nutritional? That's questionable!

White Sugar - Sugar is one of the most popular dead and good-for-nothing killer foods. It does horrible things when eaten and digested through the body. Do you like your soda? Three sodas or more like one giant 32 oz today has the equivalent of 33 (or more) teaspoons of sugar! So go ahead, stop the sodas and just take your medicine early in the morning by the teaspoon full! Sugar is not only found in soda pop but in almost every product on the grocer's shelf today. Sugar enhances the flavor of products that have been manufactured and boxed, canned, packaged, jarred - you know - and we eat a ton of sugar daily! Literally I've found we eat on an average over 170 pounds a day of sugar per individual. Yes, we do. Try to stop eating sugar... it's hard. I have cut way back on my sugar but even to by a "box" of seasoning for a well-known salad dressing I simply enjoy having on my salads (and so I don't have to take the time to make my own salad dressing) I find it has sugar in it. Sugar contributes to an obese society, to heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, emotional problems, depression, ADD and ADHD, and numerous other ailments on the physical body.

White Table Salt - Also known as sodium chloride. This is used most often as an antiseptic and food preservative because salt is toxic to living things. It kills bacteria and anything else exposed to it. Great, right? So the problems is we've gotten use to using it and like the taste. Do you know your taste buds can change their likes and dislikes in 21 to 30 days? Go for it; try not using salt (or as much salt) and see if you don't make the change. Your taste buds will return to a natural state and true flavors of food will be a tastier treat for you. Here is why: we have simply developed an addiction to sodium, which causes food to seemingly be tasteless without it. Here's a little FYI (for your information): one teaspoon of salt contains approximately 2300mg - the recommended maximum daily intake for salt is 2400mg. Now hear this: one dill pickle has 1,428mgs of salt. I don't know about you, but I can eat three or four at a time. Processed cheese has 1,189mgs of sodium and a hot dog has 1,100mgs of salt in it!

Are you beginning to see the light? We need to check out the foods that are good for us and start putting them in our bodies and leave the dead ones alone. Let 'em rot!

More killer foods tomorrow.
Here's to your health!