Processed Foods, Making You Sicker and Fatter Each Day
- Processed foods are designed to inspire you to overeat.
- Create a powerful excessive brain-reward-response to keep you eating.
- Slogans say it all “bet you can’t eat just one,”
- You become addicted to processed foods
- They stimulate dopamine, making you feel good.
- Oreo’s were just found to be as addictive as morphine or cocaine!
- Lack nutrients, such as fiber and appropriate balance of protein, carbs, and fats which causes them to be empty calories.
- Processed foods are low in fiber
- Do you know how much fiber you need? Most people don’t, the average American needs between 20 and 30 grams of fiber daily.
- Food refining process removes fiber on purpose!
- Processed foods contain artificial ingredients
- Preservatives, artificial colors, Artificial flavors, and texturants (add texture)
- All of these affect the central nervous system in way leading to disease. For example artificial colors and dyes have been linked to health issues such as cancer and ADHD.
- Are high in refined carbohydrates
- Refined carbohydrates break down to sugars quickly inside your body. They have a similar response in your body and cause large insulin and leptin spikes, leading to resistance.
- Resistance to insulin and leptin are the primary underlying cause in just about every known chronic disease.
- Most are low in nutrient density
- The actual natural nutrients are removed purposefully, and are replaced with less effective artificial nutrients and much lower quantities.
- All of phytochemicals are destroyed, we don’t even know of all their benefits… don’t fool around nature got it right!
- Requires less time and calories to digest than real food
- These foods melt in your mouth and cause your brain to think it’s not consuming calories.
- This leads to eating faster and more.
- Less energy is needed to digest these foods means you keep more.
- Are high in sugar and high fructose corn syrup
- Read the label of just about anything processed, you’d be safe betting on high fructose corn syrup being there.
- Fructose is directly metabolized into fat.
- Known to lead to obesity, and its related disorders.