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Top 4 Everyday Foods That Are Killing You
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We all know that some foods aren’t good for us, but you probably had no idea that some things you are most likely consuming every day, or at least on a regular basis, are more than just not good for you, they are literally killing you. Silently, slowly, giving you and your family heart disease and stroke, diabetes and cancer, making you sick and fat and look old before your time.
What are these killers? Bread (even whole wheat bread), sugar, vegetable oil, and fast food.
You often hear claims that “sugar is bad,” or “wheat is bad,” but you don’t often get details that really spell it out for you. So you keep eating it because, let’s be honest, you say to yourself, “how bad can it be?”
That’s why we are going to lay it on the line for you today so you can quit killing yourself with your excuses. We are going to show you how these foods are giving you cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes, to name a few.
Then you will be free to eat more of the things that are good for you and taste great such as avocados, butter, real cheese, coconut oil, and honest to goodness cream.
Keep reading to find out just how these foods are killing you, and why you should avoid them like the plague.
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1. How Wheat is Killing You
The short and sweet version is that wheat causes blood sugar disruption, increases weight gain, speeds up the aging process, and greatly increases your risk of diabetes.
There are ugly little compounds called AGEs that increase the aging process, giving you wrinkled skin, as well as causing damage to your organs and joints. What causes these AGEs to be produced inside the body? High blood sugar levels over long periods of time increase the amount of AGEs. This is why many diabetics look much older than their years.
Wheat actually contains a special type of carbohydrate that you won’t find in any other food called Amylopectin-A, which spikes blood sugar levels even higher than plain old white sugar. In fact, this carb will spike your blood sugar higher than almost any other food on the planet. This means common foods such as sandwich bread, bagels, cereal, muffins, and other baked goods cause much higher blood sugar levels.
Higher spikes in blood sugar also cause your body to produce more insulin, which causes you to pile on the pounds. Over time, these huge spikes in blood sugar literally wear out your pancreas, causing insulin resistance and, over time, diabetes.
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Wheat also contains compounds called phytates, which block the absorption of minerals such as iron, manganese, calcium, and zinc, when consumed over long periods of time. Think about how much wheat most people consume in an average day: cereal, bagels, or toast for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, pasta or bread with dinner. Over time, this can cause a serious mineral deficiency.
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2. How Sugar is Killing You
Although most people know sugar is bad, they keep eating it anyway. Why? Besides the fact that it’s addictive, most people don’t really understand exactly why it’s so bad. For example, most people think that if they indulge in a piece of pie at dinner, they can just “burn off” that sugar the next day at the gym with a few extra minutes of exercise.
If only it were that simple. Sugar raises your triglyceride levels to unbelievably dangerous levels, which can lead to heart disease. You can’t exercise heart disease away.
Eating sugar will cause diabetes because it stresses out the pancreas and creates insulin sensitivity, and you can’t exercise your pancreas and bring it back to health.
It also causes spikes in blood sugar, which increases those AGEs, much the same way wheat does, causing every single organ, cell, artery, and joint to age faster than ever. You also can’t exercise your way backwards through time.
Then there is all the usual stuff you probably already know; it causes weight gain, and has been linked to hundreds of diseases. Sugar also feeds cancer cells, and no one wants to give them a comfy kitchen to eat in! Remove as much sugar as possible from your diet for your health’s sake! Find ouyt how to give up sugar in 9 steps.
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3. How Vegetable Oil is Killing You
Although you might think that anything that includes the word “vegetable” is healthy, that is not the case with these oils. Many of these oils are based on GMO foods, which, in our book, aren’t really vegetables at all. Soybean oil, corn oil, canola oil, and cotton seed oil are all GMO, to start with.
They also all contain trans-fats. You have probably been hearing about the dangers of trans-fats your entire life, and guess what? They are all true! Trans-fats damage your body right down to your cells, and this leads to everything from heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, cancer, and Alzheimer’s.
When these vegetable oils are being refined, they create free radicals. Free radicals are something you don’t want in your body. Free radicals damage our DNA and drastically speed up the aging process. Free radicals also cause damage to the arteries in the body, which can lead to heart disease, or a heart attack.
Inflammation in the body is a major root cause of many diseases. Vegetable oils increase inflammation in the body because they have unnaturally high levels of omega-6 fatty acids, and almost none of the anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids. A healthy ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 is 2 to 1, or even 1 to 1. Vegetable oils make that ratio 20 to 1.
This outrageous ratio of omega-6 fatty acids means that every time you eat vegetable oils, or foods fried in vegetable oils, you are slowly increasing your chances of becoming obese, developing heart disease, and other types of degenerative disease that will cut your life short.
Use natural oils that have healthy attributes and healthy levels of omega-3s; oils such as avocado oil, olive oil, coconut oil, and grass-fed butter are all safe and natural alternatives.
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4. Why Fast Food is Killing You
Again, no one needs to spell it out for you: fast food is not healthy, everyone knows that. Why then do people keep eating it? Because they don’t see any immediate harm. If you were to feel symptoms of a heart attack, or if you could feel your arteries hardening, if you could somehow feel the cholesterol clogging up your blood or feel the strain your pancreas undergoes every single time you chow down on that burger, fries, and soda, you would probably never even drive near a fast food joint!
Unfortunately, this is a slow and steady death that creeps up on you. Why is fast food so bad? If you read the previous 3 killers, vegetable oil, sugar, and wheat, then you would know that fast food contains all of the above.
Bad habits are hard to break and food habits are no different. It’s hard to give up foods you might have eaten your entire life, foods you really love, but unless you are interested in spending a shortened life filled with disease, then you need to start changing your eating habits today.
Take baby steps and make changes gradually. You may not believe it now, but once you stop eating these four killers, you will feel so much better, lighter, cleaner, healthier than you ever imagined possible, that you will wonder why you waited so long to do it. Read more about top detrimental habits you should stop today if you want to get healthy.
Free yourself from the foods that are killing you and live the healthiest, longest life possible!
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