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Processed Foods in Your Diet Destroy Enzyme Production

Did you know that processed foods in your diet destroy enzyme production? Your diet consisting of foods that go through processing is nearly depleting the enzymes you need for good digestion. That’s why an all natural diet keeps your body operating at peak performance.

Your diet of too much processed foods can destroy enzyme production causing your body to stop production of these beneficial, digestive aids. Enzymes are essential for proper digestion. They allow absorption of nutrients from you food to your body and they help break down fat.

Although your body produces enzymes to help with proper digestion and nutrient absorption, foods that are processed are usually void of these enzymes, causes an additional strain on your body to create the higher levels of the necessary enzymes for good digestion.

Why are the processed foods you eat lacking the proper enzymes? When foods are processed, the heat and chemical preservatives used in the process depletes them. What enzymes aren’t destroyed by the chemicals during processing, the heat eliminates.

Unfortunately, the excess burden on your body to produce all the enzymes, both metabolic and digestive, may cause a burn out of the body’s enzyme producing capabilities.

It is estimated that 50% of Americans, who are 40 years of age and older, have low stomach acid and diminished enzyme producing capabilities resulting in poor digestion. When your body doesn’t produce enzymes and there are none in the processed foods, this can cause excessive levels of undigested fats to flow through your bloodstream.

Autointoxication, the technical term for these high levels of undigested fats, can lead to serious heart problems.

So if your diet of processed foods can destroy the enzyme production your body produces, you need to address the problem by eating healthy. You can buy all natural supplements that can help add enzymes to your diet. Regardless of whether you take all natural supplements or start eating all natural products, you need to address the problem. Eat healthy my friends.

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Hypertension Sufferer’s Diet – What Are the Processed Foods to Avoid

Unknown to many, unprocessed, or natural foods already contain sodium chloride sufficient enough for our body’s needs, hence, obtaining salt through natural food is not a problem. It is with the intake of processed foods that our body gets to encounter sodium chloride content that causes high blood pressure problems.

Returning to natural diets is one of the effective solutions in treating or preventing high blood pressure attacks. Accordingly, natural foods would mean anything derived from natural food sources grown from the soil, from trees, or derived from animals without need to add sauces or coatings.

In purchasing food supplies from supermarkets, reading the labels of low-sodium foods can help us determine the processed foods to avoid. An example would be a low-sodium salad dressing that contains 2 milligrams (mg) of sodium and 32 mg of potassium.

If this were to be analyzed further regarding the balance of sodium to potassium content, or in determining its K-factor, the resulting proportion would be 1 mg of salt for every 16 mg of potassium. The prescribed ideal K-factor ratio is 1 mg salt for every 3 mg potassium.

Experts suggest that rather than buy foods with potassium chloride, check the labels for other substitutes like potassium gluconate and potassium bitartrate. Better yet, you can opt for natural or unprocessed foods and use salt substitutes like seasonings from spices and herbs.

Here are some of the processed foods to avoid and why they should be avoided:

1. Cooked cereals with added salt content.

2. Ready-to-eat cereals may have some moderation in sodium but are low in potassium content, hence, the addition of milk, increases the sodium level resulting to further disparity between their ratio. Occasionally, this type of food can be a part of a hypertension sufferer’s diet but other low sodium, high potassium foods should be eaten in order to compensate.

3. Juice drinks that have minimal content as far real juice is concerned. Check the label for artificial flavors and colors as well as its sugary ingredients.

4. Processed meats use high proportions of salt in their preparation. Specifically, avoid processed beef foods like corned beef, beef burgundy, breakfast strips, frozen meatloaf, and frozen or canned sliced beef, Salisbury steak and chipped beef.

Processed pork to avoid includes cured bacon and ham, bacon bits, ham loaf, bacon bits, sweet and sour pork, ham steaks and sausages. Special preparations like frozen veal parmigiana should also be avoided. You should also consider excluding spreads, luncheon meats, franks, bologna, corned beef loaf, barbecue loaf, salami, mortadella, sandwich spreads, Vienna sausage and turkey ham.

5. Seafood are too high in sodium content although some may be eaten occasionally and with caution. Processed seafood however are best avoided since their preparation uses additional salt for processing.

Examples of these processed seafood are deviled crab, crab cakes, crab imperial, canned crab, fish fillets, fillet almondine, fish sticks, canned fish, lobster paste, Newburg lobster, oysters, mussels, clams, sardines and shrimps whether breaded or French fried.

6. Canned soups are definitely processed foods to avoid since most of them contain more than one gram of sodium chloride and less than the desirable level of potassium content. Do not be misled by such information as “no salt content” or “homemade”; such information does not relieve them of their high level of sodium ingredient.

7. Food flavorings with salt. Contain mostly salt blended with other ingredients.

As part of dietary measures that can prevent high blood pressure, it is recommended that the hypertension sufferer’s diet should take into consideration these processed foods to avoid.

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Health Benefits of a Whole Foods Diet – No Processed Food!

In this day and age it’s a bit sad how many people are subsisting on a diet of processed food. They are tired and they look bad. Even at the peak of their day, they lack the energy really necessary to engage life to its fullest. And the only thing that they know to do to get more energy is eat more sugar and drink more caffeine. It’s an endless loop of energy highs and lows. This is why I recommend a whole foods diet to anyone who is looking to reinvigorate their life. It will put lightness and energy back into your everyday routine.

Just in case you don’t know, the term “whole foods” refers to eating food that is closer to its original form than much of the food we see being advertised and on the shelves nowadays. It is in fact sort of a return to the way things used to be. Whole foods are foods that know where they came from. For example, if a vegetable still look exactly like it did when it was picked, then it’s a whole food. If it comes in a can with an ingredient label, it’s not quite so whole anymore.

Another example is mayonnaise. Mayonnaise is a processed food. The whole foods that make up mayonnaise are eggs, lemon juice, and oil. And the oil isn’t really a whole food itself since it originally came from corn, rapeseed, or olives.

I know it’s not always easy to quickly turn your back on a lifetime of eating processed foods. You will probably have to learn how to cook, if you don’t already know. However, you can eat really great-tasting meals on a whole foods diet and you’ll feel better after  you eat. Whole foods generally have more fiber than processed foods, so you may even find that you lose weight as the fiber causes you to fill up faster.

The modern diet has been thoroughly tested and continues to fail. When you turn to a whole foods diet, you will receive many health benefits. Words don’t even really do it justice. But I will try: experts believe you will be less likely to get certain diseases and you will feel a much more vibrant life flowing through your veins. It’s almost like being a kid again.

Frances Somerset teaches and blogs about health living and the cooking skills you need to eat healthfully. To read about her juicing experiments with the Jack LaLanne’s Power Juicer visit http://www.powerjuicertrial.com