sam kwarteng posted:

Harmful Foods
And Foods To Avoid

Value your health, know what
foods to avoid, and understand why.

Just think, each time you consume
any of these harmful foods,
you slash a few hours off your life.
What Are We Eating?

Today's modern diet is so desperately lacking in nutrient compared to those of our ancestors' days. How so? With the advancement of technology, most of our foods are manufactured, genetically re-engineered, and processed. Being busy people, we start to rely heavily on instant meals. We spend lesser time preparing fresh foods.

Even the foods that we do prepare in our kitchen with all the sophisticated equipments, kill and destroy the nutrients and enzymes that our bodies so crave. Just what are we doing to our bodies?

As I did my own research, I was shocked with the many findings about the foods that I have been consuming in my first thirty years of life. By knowing the damages these foods are doing to my body, I started making conscious efforts to gradually change my eating habits. It doesn't happen overnight but it can be done.





Reduce on Eating Acid-Forming Foods

Basically, when we eat foods that are "acid-forming", they cause our blood to become more acidic. Acidic blood means "toxic" blood, means "thick blood", means "slow-moving" blood that prevents blood to carry out its function of carrying nutrients to every part of our body. Thick blood "hosts" a myriad harmful organisms (bacteria, virus, parasites, yeast, etc.). Over time, it begins to clog up the detox organs. See this page for an illustration on what happens when your liver gets clogged up.

So what are the acid-forming foods? Some examples: Animal protein, dairy products, deep-fried foods, cooked foods, junk/processed foods, oily foods, medication, flour and sugar products (e.g. pastries, cakes, biscuits, doughnuts, etc.), artificial food additives (e.g. emulsifiers, coloring, flavoring, preservatives, stabilizers). Plant proteins are also acid-forming but are more readily assimilated when compared to animal proteins.

I'm not saying don't eat these foods, I say eat them in smaller amounts, and eat the alkaline-forming foods more (fruits, vegetables, plant based foods). If you know that you have thick blood, you'll do well to begin taking 20% acid-forming foods and 80% alkaline-forming foods to begin to reverse your health problems.





What Are The Acid-Forming Foods?



I may not be able to cover everything here but I want to share with you, some of the basic common foods we all take without thinking of the damaging impact they have on our health. Some of which we have even regarded as "healthy". Read the truth:

Pasteurized Milk and Dairy Products

Soda/Carbonated Drinks

Prescription Drugs

Sugar

Salt

White Flour

Meat

Vegetable Oils

Fast (Fried) Food