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Originally Posted by senior citizen
http://www.sixstepstobetterhealth.com/processed.html
Continue to scroll all the way down........
Mind boggling , isn't it?
6 Reasons to Avoid Processed Foods and get back to cooking from scratch........This small list is only the tip of the iceberg.
Pre 1965 , for the most part, people ate meals prepared at home from natural ingredients. Slowly, the fast food rage grew to the point where many folks drive through the drive up window for their breakfast, or lunches, or suppers; sometimes all three. Cooking from scratch has become a lost art.
Even chain restaurants use processed foods/frozen foods that they "nuke".
The only way to make sure your food does not have all of this junk in it is to prepare it yourself.....from natural ingredients......or as natural as you can find. Obviously, sometimes one has to rely on convenience.....
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In some cases, it's even worse than was stated in your link. Take Cheerios, for example, it mentioned all the many ingredients but didn't say what they do to process "whole grain oats". They first take the whole grain and grind it into an oat flour. Then, somehow, they form it into a circle to look like a miniature donut. This is all part of the processing that makes it bad for your health. When you grind any whole grain into flour, it gets absorbed into your system faster and has a whole different effect, as far as raising your blood sugar and insulin. It's one of the reasons why processed foods can lead to diabetes. Just remember,
when you take whole grain and grind it into flour, it's not whole anymore. And yet, manufacturers are allowed to state on their labels that their product is "100% whole grain" because it was whole grain before they ground it into flour. 100% whole grain, in this case, means that it's all there; nothing has been subtracted.
Therefore, I have a problem with homemade bread that was made with love by mother. When mothers made bread, they made it with white flour. No amount of love will make it healthy when it's made with white flour. Ditto for other home baked goods.