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Processed Foods You Could Do Without

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Eating processed food can cost you more than you think, in terms of money and your own health. There’s a special beauty in cooking your meals, and the benefits from it can led you to a healthier and happier existence. If you don’t take good care of yourself, nobody else will. Companies that offer you processed food are running businesses. And, to do so, they aren’t interested in your health; they only care about how to make these products more sugary, salty and saturated with savory fat.

Eating less processed food has definitely become a popular trend for the past few years. Michael Pollan, author of Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food, and Food Rules, has a lot to do with this, especially because of his most important food rule: "If it came from a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, don’t."

Processed food, (defined by the US Food and Drig Administration as any food other than a raw agricultural commodity that has been subject to processing, such as canning, cooking, freezing, dehydration or milling), is more recurrent nowadays, and the key to enjoy of a healthy lifestyle is to detect and avoid the ones you could do without.

What to do?

1) To begin, pick the processed food that is your favorite, the one you think you definitely can’t live without, and put it on a list. Try to not go over 5 foods.

2) Then, subtract from your diet the biggest "no no’s", such as frosted cereal, cookies, hotdogs, potato chips, pickles and frozen dinners.

3) Find healthy food your palate will enjoy. Remember that healthy can also be tasty.

4) Finally, create a balanced diet of non-processed food mixed with (if totally necessary) processed food you can’t live without.
And keep this in mind: choose foods with less than five ingredients in their ingredient list.

At first this change might come as challenge, but after a while you won’t miss these big amounts of processed food at all. With time you’ll be surprised at how tasty whole foods can be. Eating healthy, Whole foods such as fruit, vegetables and nuts (among many other options), are authentically flavorful, have vibrant colors, and rich textures. Moreover, they are full of the micronutrient vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytochemicals, and fiber.

If you forget about fast food restaurants and start cooking at home, you will skip sodium, hydrogenated fat, added sugars (regardless of the type), dyes, and preservatives; ingredients you most certainly can live without and that your body will appreciate loosing. Build the base to a nice and long life. Start with what you eat. And as always, be in good health.


 

Robin Baradarian, MD, FACG, serves as an assistant professor of medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and concurrently serves as chief of gastroenterology and director of interventional endoscopy at Beth Israel Medical Center, Kings Highway. Dr. Baradarian also serves as co-director of The Greater New York Ambulatory Surgical Center. You can learn more about Dr. Baradarian here: www.nygicare.com/physicians/robin-baradarian

 


 

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