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Sixteen most wanted Public Enemies (of Health) Some enemies of health are well known like alcohol, tobacco and drugs. So they are known devils, not as dangerous as the unknown devils and insidious enemies to our health. These are more dangerous since we do not know and recognize them as enemies, everybody is consuming them and hence we think its OK.. This page is meant to be a whistle blowers on these enemies of health.. This is Page 2. Click here to go to Page 1 6. Salt Here are some surprising facts about salt: - Common salt or sodium chloride (NaCl) is an inorganic salt that cannot be digested by the body. Each gram of salt that you eat has to be excreted! What salt the body needs are organic salts that are found in foods such as vegetables! - The Chinese use salt to commit suicide they drink a saturated salt solution. How this works is that the salt leaches out the water from living cells, killing them. If you sprinkle salt on a cucumber, it sucks all the water out of the cucumber cells and it wilts. This is what salt does to your body as well sucks the water out of the cells no wonder you feel thirsty after eating anything salty. - The body retains water to cope with the excess salt. This can make you overweight - It is an important contributing factor to High Blood pressure, stroke, osteoporosis, - One more danger of processed food is the salt it contains. We consume ten to twenty times more salt than we need and ¾ of this comes hidden in processed food another good reason to avoid it.. Substitutes: This is a tough one. Celery, and dulse (sea weed) can be used. If you must use salt, use rock salt or sea salt instead. And go easy on it. The only way I know to go off salt is to get off the taste of salt itself by going on a long fast and then on a 100% raw diet. 7. Tea, Coffee Tea and Coffee are "socially acceptable drugs". But drugs they are - tea contains tannin, coffee contains caffeeine and hundreds if not thousands of other chemicals. Tea and coffee are repulsive to the unperverted taste buds of infants that indicates that they are really not right for humans. The "kick" or "high" you get from your cup of tea or coffee is as a result of the stimulant effect of these drugs on your nervous system. It is the equivalent of whipping a tired horse to make it run faster. It will run faster, but eventually collapse. Another indicator of the fact that these are drugs is that when you stop their consumption you get headaches and other "withdrawal symptoms" similar (but milder) than when you go off "hard drugs". The tea and coffee habit is less than 200-300 years old and humans have existed for thousands of years longer so it is not something you cannot do without. What should you drink in the morning then? Nothing. Or if you must, some fruit juice or tender coconut water. If you feel the need for something hot, drink hot water, maybe with a twist of lime in it. If you really want it, you can add some honey to it. Worst case, you can have some "herbal tea" or "green tea" but avoid the regular tea and coffee as far as possible, especially in India where these are served with milk and sugar (enemies #3 and 4). So your body actually gets a triple whammy (tea/coffee + milk + sugar). For more details on the adverse effects of stimulants, read http://www.healthcreation.net/stimulants.html Also check out our page on water and other fluids. Substitutes: Nothing (the best), or hot water with lemon (optional) and honey (optional) or herbal tea. 8. Soft drinks I am talking about "soda" as they are called in the US- stuff like Coke, Pepsi and other soft drinks. These are anything but soft on the body. For starters, they contain either about nine teaspoons of sugar (enemy #4) or even more harmful sugar substitutes like aspartame. This makes them highly acidic a tooth immersed in a can of a soft drink will literally dissolve in a few days. To prevent the bubbles from going flat, they also contain phosphoric acid made by treating phosphorus with sulphuric acid. This is normally used to etch glass! Finally, they have little or no nutritional value just empty calories. For more details, on visit http://www.chetday.com/softdrinkdangers.htm. To aoid the sugar in soft drinks people for "diet sodas" or diet soft drinks. If anything, these are worse..- read http://www.afpafitness.com/NUTRA.HTM Another excellent article on the impact of soft drinks on health is here. New!!: A scientist in BARC in India found further problems with soft drinks in India since they are transported unrefrigerated at high temperatures The scientist has found abnormally high levels of Hydroxy Methyl Furfural (HMF) in cold drinks stored for long periods at summer temperatures. HMF is neurotoxic, genotoxic, cytotoxic and tumorgenic. Translated for the lay man, it is bit of a horror cold drinks with a high HMF content affects nerves, genes and cells and may even encourage growth of tumours. Sustained intake can reduce the strength of limbs, affect eyesight, kill cells and even alter genetic characteristics. Read this article for details.. Substitutes : Plain water, Fresh Fruit Juice, Tender coconut water (Narial Pani, Daab or Elaineeru) 9. Maida (white flour), White Bread Two problems with this. Firstly it is refined and processed, so all the nutrients in the wheat have been taken out. Secondly, the gluten in the wheat. So you basically get the calories and the gluten and little else. Substitutes: So its best to have whole wheat bread. Or also you get corn bread, millet bread or even rice bread. 10. Ice Cream Enemy#3 + Enemy#4 + Enemy#5 + Food processing chemicals. Substitute: Banana Icecream - made using frozen bananas- but you need a Champion Juicer. Or else make ice-cream using almond or coconut milk, dates, jaggery or maple syrup or sweeteners 11. Oil, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil Deep fried food Oil itself is bad, but hydrogenated vegetable oil (Dalda or Vanaspati) is much worse because they contain trans fatty acids that disrupt cellular function, and affect many enzymes such as the delta-6 desaturase and consequently interfere with the necessary conversions of both the omega-6 and the omega-3 essential fatty acids to their elongated forms and consequently escalate the adverse effects of essential fatty acid deficiency. There is a host of problems with trans fatty acids read http://www.afpafitness.com/TRANFAT.HTM. By the way, partially hydrogenated or just hydrogenated it makes no difference. Secondly, the high temperatures used for cooking using boiling oil (for deep frying things) alters the molecular structure of the foods being cooked and actually makes them carcinogenic (cancer causing!). Read the cancer center's viewpoint http://www.cancercenter.com/home/90/nutrition/nutri7.cfm. Frying and stir-frying are essentially the same thing--both add fat to foods at a high temperature and cause nutrients to be depleted and free radicals to be formed from the oils in or around the food. We all know how bad free radicals are. IF not, click here - . This also has some info on cooking oils. Additionally, high fat foods cause inflammation and immune suppression Thirdly, in India especially, the oils used for deep frying are re-used. This makes it much worse. For an excellent article on different kinds of oils used, methods of using cooking oils, effects on health etc read this article - So what do you do (1) You can read the book "Oil-less Cooking" by Aroona Reejhsinghani which shows you you can conjure up all kinds of dishes without a drop of oil (2) Avoid deep frying altogether (3) Avoid Hydrogenated Vegetable oils altogether. Instead use unsaturated oils like Olive oil, til (sesame seed) oil etc. Cold pressed oil is the best (4) Reduce the actual amount of oil to be used to spoonfuls Some tips are available on http://www.consciouschoice.com/healthconscious/healthconscious1307.html Click here to go to Page 3 of Enemies of Health Click here to go back to Page 1 |
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Sixteen most wanted Public Enemies (of Health) Some enemies of health are well known like alcohol, tobacco and drugs. So they are known devils, not as dangerous as the unknown devils and insidious enemies to our health. These are more dangerous since we do not know and recognize them as enemies, everybody is consuming them and hence we think its OK.. This page is meant to be a whistle blowers on these enemies of health.. This is Page 2. Click here to go to Page 1 6. Salt Here are some surprising facts about salt: - Common salt or sodium chloride (NaCl) is an inorganic salt that cannot be digested by the body. Each gram of salt that you eat has to be excreted! What salt the body needs are organic salts that are found in foods such as vegetables! - The Chinese use salt to commit suicide they drink a saturated salt solution. How this works is that the salt leaches out the water from living cells, killing them. If you sprinkle salt on a cucumber, it sucks all the water out of the cucumber cells and it wilts. This is what salt does to your body as well sucks the water out of the cells no wonder you feel thirsty after eating anything salty. - The body retains water to cope with the excess salt. This can make you overweight - It is an important contributing factor to High Blood pressure, stroke, osteoporosis, - One more danger of processed food is the salt it contains. We consume ten to twenty times more salt than we need and ¾ of this comes hidden in processed food another good reason to avoid it.. Substitutes: This is a tough one. Celery, and dulse (sea weed) can be used. If you must use salt, use rock salt or sea salt instead. And go easy on it. The only way I know to go off salt is to get off the taste of salt itself by going on a long fast and then on a 100% raw diet. 7. Tea, Coffee Tea and Coffee are "socially acceptable drugs". But drugs they are - tea contains tannin, coffee contains caffeeine and hundreds if not thousands of other chemicals. Tea and coffee are repulsive to the unperverted taste buds of infants that indicates that they are really not right for humans. The "kick" or "high" you get from your cup of tea or coffee is as a result of the stimulant effect of these drugs on your nervous system. It is the equivalent of whipping a tired horse to make it run faster. It will run faster, but eventually collapse. Another indicator of the fact that these are drugs is that when you stop their consumption you get headaches and other "withdrawal symptoms" similar (but milder) than when you go off "hard drugs". The tea and coffee habit is less than 200-300 years old and humans have existed for thousands of years longer so it is not something you cannot do without. What should you drink in the morning then? Nothing. Or if you must, some fruit juice or tender coconut water. If you feel the need for something hot, drink hot water, maybe with a twist of lime in it. If you really want it, you can add some honey to it. Worst case, you can have some "herbal tea" or "green tea" but avoid the regular tea and coffee as far as possible, especially in India where these are served with milk and sugar (enemies #3 and 4). So your body actually gets a triple whammy (tea/coffee + milk + sugar). For more details on the adverse effects of stimulants, read http://www.healthcreation.net/stimulants.html Also check out our page on water and other fluids. Substitutes: Nothing (the best), or hot water with lemon (optional) and honey (optional) or herbal tea. 8. Soft drinks I am talking about "soda" as they are called in the US- stuff like Coke, Pepsi and other soft drinks. These are anything but soft on the body. For starters, they contain either about nine teaspoons of sugar (enemy #4) or even more harmful sugar substitutes like aspartame. This makes them highly acidic a tooth immersed in a can of a soft drink will literally dissolve in a few days. To prevent the bubbles from going flat, they also contain phosphoric acid made by treating phosphorus with sulphuric acid. This is normally used to etch glass! Finally, they have little or no nutritional value just empty calories. For more details, on visit http://www.chetday.com/softdrinkdangers.htm. To aoid the sugar in soft drinks people for "diet sodas" or diet soft drinks. If anything, these are worse..- read http://www.afpafitness.com/NUTRA.HTM Another excellent article on the impact of soft drinks on health is here. New!!: A scientist in BARC in India found further problems with soft drinks in India since they are transported unrefrigerated at high temperatures The scientist has found abnormally high levels of Hydroxy Methyl Furfural (HMF) in cold drinks stored for long periods at summer temperatures. HMF is neurotoxic, genotoxic, cytotoxic and tumorgenic. Translated for the lay man, it is bit of a horror cold drinks with a high HMF content affects nerves, genes and cells and may even encourage growth of tumours. Sustained intake can reduce the strength of limbs, affect eyesight, kill cells and even alter genetic characteristics. Read this article for details.. Substitutes : Plain water, Fresh Fruit Juice, Tender coconut water (Narial Pani, Daab or Elaineeru) 9. Maida (white flour), White Bread Two problems with this. Firstly it is refined and processed, so all the nutrients in the wheat have been taken out. Secondly, the gluten in the wheat. So you basically get the calories and the gluten and little else. Substitutes: So its best to have whole wheat bread. Or also you get corn bread, millet bread or even rice bread. 10. Ice Cream Enemy#3 + Enemy#4 + Enemy#5 + Food processing chemicals. Substitute: Banana Icecream - made using frozen bananas- but you need a Champion Juicer. Or else make ice-cream using almond or coconut milk, dates, jaggery or maple syrup or sweeteners 11. Oil, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil Deep fried food Oil itself is bad, but hydrogenated vegetable oil (Dalda or Vanaspati) is much worse because they contain trans fatty acids that disrupt cellular function, and affect many enzymes such as the delta-6 desaturase and consequently interfere with the necessary conversions of both the omega-6 and the omega-3 essential fatty acids to their elongated forms and consequently escalate the adverse effects of essential fatty acid deficiency. There is a host of problems with trans fatty acids read http://www.afpafitness.com/TRANFAT.HTM. By the way, partially hydrogenated or just hydrogenated it makes no difference. Secondly, the high temperatures used for cooking using boiling oil (for deep frying things) alters the molecular structure of the foods being cooked and actually makes them carcinogenic (cancer causing!). Read the cancer center's viewpoint http://www.cancercenter.com/home/90/nutrition/nutri7.cfm. Frying and stir-frying are essentially the same thing--both add fat to foods at a high temperature and cause nutrients to be depleted and free radicals to be formed from the oils in or around the food. We all know how bad free radicals are. IF not, click here - . This also has some info on cooking oils. Additionally, high fat foods cause inflammation and immune suppression Thirdly, in India especially, the oils used for deep frying are re-used. This makes it much worse. For an excellent article on different kinds of oils used, methods of using cooking oils, effects on health etc read this article - So what do you do (1) You can read the book "Oil-less Cooking" by Aroona Reejhsinghani which shows you you can conjure up all kinds of dishes without a drop of oil (2) Avoid deep frying altogether (3) Avoid Hydrogenated Vegetable oils altogether. Instead use unsaturated oils like Olive oil, til (sesame seed) oil etc. Cold pressed oil is the best (4) Reduce the actual amount of oil to be used to spoonfuls Some tips are available on http://www.consciouschoice.com/healthconscious/healthconscious1307.html Click here to go to Page 3 of Enemies of Health Click here to go back to Page 1 |
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