Wean Yourself Off Processed Foods in 7 Steps

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I was at the store and could smell the strawberries and had to have them. Came home, cleaned and cut them up, red all the way through. Then I ate some and there was NO TASTE! I have not had a tree ripened nectarine in over a decade. The same with veggies. It's hard to go healthy when healthy is longer healthy. :O(

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Dr. Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D. of NY 7:23PM February 04, 2013

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Khang J lee of CA 8:23PM March 12, 2012

Pretty solid article here on processed foods: http://bulletpointhealth.weebly.com/1/post/2011/12/process-this-why-over-processed-foods-are-no-good-and-why-you-should-jerf.html

Ben Hirshberg of WA 9:01PM December 25, 2011

i thought it was telling to get off all processing?
here it's like.. processing ok... um.. sometimes there's thing called fresh veggie like you can find it on ground and
chew and poop.
?
yeh, ok.. i don't consume much processed crap ... maybe the soymilk... but i ain't got the machines or the time to make it straight from the bean/nut.
but my tomato sauce is coming from tomatoes.. not a can dear.

imadumbass of VA 7:19AM April 11, 2011

Wisdom in eating is now an essential part of my life since I'm 60+. I will keep eating bacon and eggs for breakfast,
but I will add two days per week of switching to Oatmeal+skim milk+raisins this season and then, next season make that three days per week of grainy type cereals or oatmeal for breakfast and like it. Vegetables are 2x per day event in my life now and I don't like it. However, I'll learn to like it and live 10 years past my old man who died at 78.
I now have had to stop visiting my closest friends who smoke nicotine inside their home. ( I only meet them now in public places where they must yield to MY PREFERENCES FOR A CHANGE and I LIKE THAT VERY MUCH!) NO NICOTINE PLEASE IS NOW MY BELIEF, MY VALUE AND MY ATTITUDE.
Changes like these are do-able and, since I want to feel good at 75 AND 80 yrs old, It's my practice. I do like living even though my closest friends could care less about living a long life. I could care less about the fact that I told them YEARS ago to quit the nicotine. I'll simply wind up being their (tearless) pall bearers.

Bob R. of NY 3:35PM September 08, 2010

Our Nanny, who was the best cook in the world. She drank black coffee, ate sweet rolls, and things she baked, with relsih.
She was overwieght when we brought her to the nursing facility, because of deminsha. The demensia began just around 90. She was five feet tall, and always overwieght.She wieghed in at her first day at the nursing home, at 185=LBS.
Gee, she had very heavy legs. At five feet, she always wore high heels throught her job as a factory forlady for 45 years.. She was always complimented on her atire.
She only began to wear slacks, when she turned eighty.
She loved to eat.
We used to bring her amilk shake. We brought her the cookies, and stuff she loved.
She ate the meals at the nursing home.
She never had diabetis, only High plood pressure, took pills for that. Yet loved her bacon and eggs.Sweets. and never was ill with heart problems. Had a hysterectomy.
She was the light of our lives. Wanna know something.? Ask Nanny.
She passed in her sleep, one month before her 99TH birthday.
I am now 63, and in good control with blood sugars.
I have spinal osteo arthritis.
I have Glaucoma. I have always gone to my primary physician, eye doctor, podiatrist, and I eat right.
All of my blood tests that I have every three months, are excellant.
Instead of the red meat that I quit 25 yers ago, I consume broiled fish, of different varities.And now and then, we cook a turkey breast.
My husband six feet two, and trim, had to have a pace maker put in last year.He drank too much, and smoked from early teens.
He eats very healthy.
All we can do, in my humble opinion is our best, in this year 2010.
Too much takk about what and how to eat, and what to eat.
Well, blessings to all who took the time to read this.
Abby

Carole of IL 5:50PM August 15, 2010

The Discussions about Americans who travel and those who do not travel is taking a bit of uncivil tone. Like most topics in America of late we tend to formulate the discussions with very strong opinions. Working for the Cooperative Extension Service I fully appreciate how opinionated people are when it comes to the foods we grow, cook and eat. It is most helpful to look at diet from a broader view of balanced nutrition. Fat is ok in moderation, processed food is ok in moderation, no one is going to die tomorrow from a hot dog or a Twinkie. While Americans do consume a good quantity of processed foods the intake for families and individuals is frequently based on cost and availability in their community. Foreign countries have also adopted our fast food, processed food models. However, let's not polarize people over food. Let's encourage people to increase vegetable consumption and not panic if it is from frozen, canned, organic or from the local farmer.

Debbie Cox of NC 4:38PM July 12, 2010

I love America. Good, bad, ugly. This is the very best place in the world to live. For an outsider who lived here for a few years to condemn how we eat is unacceptable to me. It smacks of arrogance. I say go home and eat your unprocessed food. But don't kick us as you walk out the door. How ungracious.

AM in RI of RI 10:13AM July 08, 2010

@AM in RI, there are many ways to live... and believe it or not, the roughly 330 million people in America, pale in comparison to billions in the rest of the world. I have traveled the world extensively, and I've found that most people - no offense - would not trade passports with Americans. Believe it or not, not every one in the world thinks America is the best place to live. Otherwise they'd all be here.
Those foreigners who come here aren't coming for the tasty, processed foods - they're coming in for the huge, overinflated paychecks we all earn. Inevitably, after a few years living the "American Dream," many of them become fat, lazy and diseased just like us.
I get the feeling you haven't traveled much. If you ever do manage to get to Europe (or are you too American to bother), take a look around. Notice that most of the people are thin, in shape and healthy looking. That's no mistake. Europe has been around for several thousand more years than the US. Did it ever cross your mind, that they may actually have some wisdom in the world?
I myself am an American, and I love the freedom and liberty I enjoy as such. But our way of life is all leading to one place - down the toilet. If you haven't noticed, pretty much nothing in this country is what it claims to be. Nor does it work. We're falling apart. I am proud to be an American, except when some closed-minded jerk who has never seen the world talks about how great America is.
Tell that to the Chinese - who own most of what we have these days, in case you didn't know.

Marc of PA 12:27PM July 02, 2010