The article sparked my interest. What foods made his list? Hot dogs? Brats? How about a chocolate sundae? When compiling a worst food list, several criteria could be considered. Calorie density, the number of fat grams, the level of saturated fat or trans fats, grams of sugar, lack of fiber, or overall lack of nutritional value.
I wondered if there were other lists out there with similar bad food lists. If I could find the same items on 3 or 4 different lists, I figure they must be really bad! Without peeking, can you guess Dr. Mercolas Top 5 Worst Foods, or is it Bottom 5?
1. Doughnuts: Fried, loaded with trans fats, lots of sugar, white flour, no fiber, vitamins or minerals. What more could you ask from a worst food?
2. Soda: Plenty of sugar, caffeine, artificial colors, and sulfites. All stuff that you do not need. Dr. Mercola thinks the artificial sweeteners in diet varieties arent much better.
3. French Fries: Fried potatoes are loaded with trans fats.
4. Chips: Just like their cousin French-fries, chips are made from potatoes, both with plenty of fat added during processing. Chips and fries contain ample levels of something called acrylamide, a compound suspected to be a possible cause of some cancers.
5. Fried, Non-fish seafood like shrimp, lobster, clams, oysters contain trans fats, acrylamide, mercury, and according to Dr. Mercola, perhaps parasites or viruses.
There are other worst food lists. Charles Booras, M.D. has one with soda listed #1, which he eloquently describes as the epitome of nutritional bankruptcy. Other foods that made his list include French fries, bacon, granola bars, and doughnuts.
Doughnuts, deep-fried foods, fast food hamburgers, high-fat ice cream, latte with real whipped cream, and soda are at the top of a 101 Worst Foods List put out by ediets. The usual suspects like sausage, most pizzas, most candy bars, onion rings, gravies, macaroni and cheese, egg rolls, and frosted breakfast cereals also made the ediets list.
Its hardly practical to stop eating these foods completely. When you think about it, most Americans eat something off of the worst food list just about every day, if not every meal.
What you can do is always keep fruit or cut vegetables handy for snacks, then increase portions of vegetables at every meal. Substitute rice or baked potatoes for french fries, and never go shopping when you are hungry and tempted. If you dont buy the stuff, its going to be much more difficult to eat it.
I suspect that there are other worst foods out there, and you know what your favorites are. If you want to lose weight or improve your health, you also know what needs to be done. Fortunately, I didnt find beer on any of the lists.
I kid of course, but one of the annoying side effects of ?stopsmokeitis? is an insatiable appetite. French fries have gone a long way in quenching this desire along with other killers like sodas, doughnuts and potato chips.
If twenty years of smoking doesn't get me with the big C, my questionable choices in diet will no doubt either stop my heart, give me a stroke, bring on a raging case of diabetes and yea? there's still the big C in all the other parts of my body.
It isn't fair!
Here's a list of the five worst possible foods for a human to eat:
* Doughnuts
* Chips
* French fries
* Fried Non-Fish Seafood
* Soda
Can you believe it? At least chocolate is not on the list, I'd of just gone ahead and called it quits.
Did you know that one can of soda has ten teaspoons of sugar, thirty to fifty five mg of caffeine, 150 calories and lots and lots of artificial food colors and sulphites? Uh, what's that? Oh, sulphites. Hold on a minute, I'll be right back?
Okay, you can either spell it as I did or it's more commonly spelled without the h. Since I'm a lazy typist, I'll use the abbreviated version from here on out. Anyway, sulfites are a kind of food preservative. They can harm you if your Sulfite Oxidase enzyme (a chemical that converts one chemical to another chemical) is low.
When things are in the proper proportion, Sulfite Oxidase converts sulfites into sulfates, which are harmless. The problem arises when your levels are low and the sulfite just swims around, unconverted in your blood and inhibits other enzymes from doing their assigned jobs such as the synthesis of Dopamine and the conversion of said Dopamine to Noradrenaline. I'm not going to go into brain chemistry here as one of the effects of this enzyme impairment is neurological fatigue and after my third soda of the morning, my brain is not only tired, it's fast asleep.
So what causes your Sulfite Oxidase enzyme to be low? Such things as heavy metals and Sulfa Drugs, inherited genetic damage, vitamin B-12 deficiency, asthmatic inhalants and many antibiotics, etc.
Tell you what. If you experience any of these symptoms after eating or drinking anything with sulfites in it, you may want to switch to water, not tap water though, that's a whole other story:
* If you become tired after consuming one of these products
* If you cough after ingesting sulfites, due to impairment of lung ATP energy.
Enough already, this is an article lamenting the fact that I can't eat anything that taste worth a darn anymore!
It's pretty crazy that potatoes, even in their raw form are just terrible for you. Their simple sugars quickly convert to glucose that raises insulin levels and basically ruin your health. Cook them in hot oil full of trans fats and you have produced another nasty cancer causing substance called acrylamide. For a great book on trans fat and ?edible oil? secrets, visit my website at the end of this article.
I'm not even going to talk about fried shrimp, oysters, clams and other delectable under sea goodies just full of mercury and parasites, It's just to depressing.
Sorry about the gloom and doom. I'm getting older and need to start taking better care of myself. The ?Golden Years? my foot! Take me back to the days when I could eat ice cream plopped right in a big ol? glass of root beer and not worry about a thing. Ah, the good old days of our ignorant youth.
Anyway, I've compiled a list of more than thirty health books covering a broad range of pesky ailments and afflictions I'm sure to come across through my journey into old age. Check them out at my website when you get a chance, they could save your life! Here's to your health?What's that? You say alcohol is bad for me to? You have got to be kidding me!!
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