Keep away from processed food

As we know, the quality of the food that one puts into his body has a direct correlation to the quality of health. Generally speaking, the food which is close to its original state of existence then the food is fit for your health. On the other hand, processed food is usually so far from its original state, so it’s unfit for your health. Let us learn of the reality of processed food, which is one that has been through any or all of the following: heating, adulteration, pulverization, reheating, denaturization or degrading. Do you think it safe to eat after these processes? Maybe not. Frankly speaking, the processed food would tend to be harmful because of three causes:

1. Chemicals are routinely added to the foods that we eat everyday, which are added for coloring, preserving, softening, hardening, thickening, and flavoring. It may help to create a longer lasting, better looking food, but it means we are ingesting toxins into our bodies. These toxins will have detrimental effects on us in the long term.

2. Processed food is dead and has very little nutritional value. For example, a raw carrot will give you loads of beta carotene and other important nutrients. But a carrot inside a frozen TV dinner will give you no nutrition at all because of its being chemically altered so it could stay fresh in the freezer for months.

3. The processed food is fattening and addictive. The chemicals that get added to the food make us crave more of it. Our body will take anything it can get to fill the lack of nutrition. It is also said that processed food is probably the number one reason why America has such a weight problem today.

So, stay away from processed food and you will live a healthy life.