12 Cancer Causing Food Substitutes

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5. Instead of Farmed Salmon

It’s a known fact that farmed salmon are nowhere near as healthy for you as wild salmon. Farmed salmon are fed chemicals to make their meat that reddish pink color that should occur naturally but doesn’t because of the diet of chicken litter that they are fed. Also, due to their diet, they have less of the healthy omega-3 that we think we are getting when we consume fish. Studies have also shown that farmed salmon contain high levels of PCB’s, mercury, and cancer causing dioxins.

With more than 80 percent of the salmon on the market today being farmed salmon it’s becoming more and more difficult to find wild salmon, not to mention more expensive. When looking for salmon in your supermarket, the fastest way to find wild salmon is to look at the price. If you find one filet that is smaller than the others but double the price, it’s wild. Also, most salmon in your market should be clearly marked as wild, if it is. Also, look for a label that says Alaskan salmon as opposed to North Western salmon.

You might also want to consider eating more canned salmon. For some reason, farmed salmon does not hold up to the canning process, so most of the salmon that is canned should be wild.

13 Comments

1. 

   Matt

   Jun 25, 2014 at 12:21 am

   Nice. Reminds me of your “Top 20 Dangerous Foods You Absolutely Must Avoid” article.
2. 

   Susan

   Jul 19, 2014 at 2:05 am

   Stevia was a good option. But Monsanto Food Czar, Michael Taylor, at the FDA allowed Neotame, worst than aspartame, to be added to stevia and other sweeteners or sweet products, with the consumers not needing to know.

   Neotame is highly toxic to the brain–central nervous system.

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3. 

   Nicki Savage

   Jul 30, 2014 at 9:40 pm

   You do fail to realize that 90% of the world cannot afford to eat this way, though. Or if you do realize it, article author, you evidently don’t care.

   How about avoiding something yourself, hmm? Like mentioning a family of four has to take out a second mortgage to eat for a year on your “recommendations”.
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     John Milton

     Sep 15, 2014 at 10:17 pm

     Gosh, we must live on different planets. So, in your world is instead of costing less to cook popcorn on the stovetop it costs more so you have to eat microwave popcorn instead? Sad. I would consider not eating popcorn at all.
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       Nicki Savage

       Feb 24, 2015 at 12:48 am

       Except, gosh, I don’t even eat popcorn. You’re irrelevant.
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     Maclise Jean

     Dec 1, 2014 at 3:53 pm

     I guess you rather die than to live healthy…soooo saaaad
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       Nicki Savage

       Feb 24, 2015 at 12:45 am

       I guess you know nothing about my diet, sooooo sad. Go back under your bridge.
4. 

   sssalvo

   Aug 15, 2014 at 6:58 am

   Nicki, your whole tone is snarky, snippy, tacky, attacking and inflammatory. What gives you the right to such bad behavior? This article was for YOU and ME and those who live in a society that offers these choices. Why would you bring issues here where that isn’t the focus, but rather YOUR good health is?

   Look and read before you make that verbal leap. So, you don’t like the advise, send your unwanted food to a starving family that is in that inflated 90% stat you tout.
   Give it a rest. This was not to cure the starving in countries whose governments rape the land, and oh, yes, the people. Get a fix on issue at hand, and take those well meaning sentiments to the proper forum, PLEASE.
   What’s wrong with DISCRETION when it’s useful? People today blather way too much, and I’m sad to say, your comments are precisely that. Context is everything to achieve an audience where you points will be valid.

   DISCRETION is the quality of having or showing discernment and good
   judgment. And your bologna about “You do fail to realize” is condescending, patronizing and abjectly ignorant. You can have no possible basis for assuming what this author does or does not know. Stop showing your assine mind set.
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     Nicki Savage

     Jun 10, 2015 at 9:15 pm

     I believe you meant “asinine”.

     And do be a lamb and use proper grammar if you want someone who graduated high school to attempt to translate your comments, would you?

     Bad behavior. I scoff at your own definition of such, when you’re really just being a cunt.
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       sssalvo

       Aug 2, 2015 at 4:49 am

       Darling, just because my spelling wasn’t perfect, and I’m so surprised you didn’t catch “advise” which should have been advice, doesn’t mean jack to me nor change my message. Nitpicking is just passive aggressive bs. I’m not surprised you resort to it. And neither does your opinion of my education level which is none of your business and a perfect example of your tactics. As for calling me names like cunt, well. There you go. And my grammar is far better than yours. *shakes head, shrugs shoulders*
5. 

   garland d kallam

   Feb 27, 2015 at 6:38 pm

   Bottom line !!,, thanks for the concern to the people, that are so thoughtful,, who are concern ! the lowest common denominator,live long and be fruitful, and thanks for the post i,ll save it and continue to share for the uninformed…they are out there !!!
6. 

   Zolicon

   Aug 8, 2015 at 3:02 am

   I eat what I want,When I want and I don’t fear any of the Diseases that have all of You running to the Doctor like scared little Sheep because they have You all terrified of Death.
   Everything You fear keeps the River of Cash flowing into Their over flowing Bank accounts.
7. 

   Marvin Zinn

   Sep 29, 2015 at 11:45 am

   This list of things to avoid I totally agree. I never eat anything it that fashion. The simple decision about what to eat is as close a you can find to how God created it. Any change is a defect.