
Answer:
1.) Eat food. Not edible food-like substances
2.) Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. Your body starts craving the additive corn syrup therefore wanting more sweetness, fats and salts. Food processing induces us to eat more than is good for us.
3.) Avoid food products containing ingredients that no ordinary human would keep in their pantry. ~ethoxylated diglycerides ~cellulose ~xanthan gum ~calcium propionate ~ammonium sulfate
4.) Avoid HFCS. A highly processed food product. Is a sugar substitute. Still counts as sugar.
5.) Avoid foods that have some form of sugar listed in the top three ingredients. The ingredients on a label are listed according to heaviest weight. Sugar is sugar even if it’s a sweetener. Even if it’s organic, its still sugar…stay off top three.
6.) Avoid food products that contain more than 5 ingredients (this doesn’t include a recipe). However, chips are chips and ice cream is still ice cream. They may have 5 ingredients or less but lets use common sense and avoid these types of foods. (Pick your own healthy number. I shoot for 5)
7.) Keep ingredients simple. Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third grader cannot pronounce.
8.) Avoid food products that make healthy claims. They’re usually packaged anyway and more than likely processed.
9.) Avoid food products with the wordoid “lite” or the term “low-fat” or “non-fat” in their names. Sugar and salt amounts are usually boosted to make up for lost flavor. Therefore, the carbs are increased and can contribute to weight gain. Americans have been eating more than 500 additional calories per day since the 70’s campaign of “low-fat”, most of them in the form of refined carbs like sugar.
10.) Avoid foods that pretend to be something they are not. ~Margarine ~non-fat cream cheese (missing either cream or cheese which means added processed ingredients!) ~ soy based meats ~ artificial sweeteners ~fake fats and starches
11.) Avoid foods that you see advertised on television. These are healthy marketing ploys. Advertisers tend to be part of the rich, corporate America looking to sell cheap food-products. These food products are usually highly processed for shipping purposes and long shelf lives.
12.) Shop the peripheries of the Supermarket only and stay out of the middle. These outer perimeters usually contain produce, meats and fish, and dairy. Only get whole foods.
13.) Eat foods that will eventually rot. Processing extends the shelf life. Exception…honey. Don’t eat immortal foods.
14.) Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature. This will keep chemicals and food-like substances out of your diet.
15.) Get out of the Supermarket when you can. There is no HFCS at the local farmers market; no unpronounceable ingredients, no old food that’s been shipped in from far, far away sprayed with preservatives. What you will find is fresh, harvested foods picked at its nutritional peak. The kind that is alive and will eventually rot.
16.) Buy your snacks at the farmers market. ~fresh dried fruits and nuts, not chips and sweets.
17.) Eat only foods that have been cooked by humans. Corporations tend to use too much salt, fats, sugars…preservatives, colorings, and other biological novelties. Also, they tend to aim for immortality…that’s including restaurants.
18.) No foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap. Think about it…
19.) If it came from a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, don’t.
20.) It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car.
21.) If it’s called the same name in every language, don’t eat it. ~Big Mac, Cheetos, Pringles, etc.
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