{"id":98134,"date":"2018-04-10T14:23:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T18:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=98134\/"},"modified":"2018-04-10T14:23:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T18:23:28","slug":"what-not-to-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/ro\/journal\/what-not-to-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"What NOT to Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join Dr. Mark Hyman<\/a> at Wellspring<\/a> this October!<\/em><\/p>\n

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For the most part, we all understand how to cook with real food. We typically don\u2019t add non-food ingredients into our home-cooked meals. Our avocados<\/a> aren\u2019t made with green dye. We don\u2019t sprinkle stearoyl lactylate into our soups and breads. The problem isn\u2019t typically home cooked meals using fresh ingredients; the problem is the food-like substances, chemicals, food additives, preservatives, food dyes, and artificial sweeteners that food companies add to their food. But if you don\u2019t have stearoyl lactylate in your cupboard, then you probably shouldn\u2019t eat it in the food that you buy either.<\/p>\n

For so long, most people were unaware of the chemicals added to our foods and how the hormones, plastics, and toxins that we congest on a day to day basis are harming our bodies. Now, many of us conscious consumers have learned to avoid breads containing yoga mats and french fries with\u00a0Silly Putty\u00a0<\/a>in them. But sometimes processed foods still find their way into our kitchens.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying that ALL processed and packaged foods are all bad.\u00a0People have been processing food virtually from day one. Until refrigeration, it was the only way we had of preserving perishables to eat later. Cooking is a form of processing, so are curing, drying, smoking, fermenting<\/a>\u2014the list goes on and on. Whole foods processed using traditional methods and ingredients are\u00a0not\u00a0<\/i>something we need to avoid. Some processing actually improves food by making its nutrients more available or potent. We just have to understand which processed foods we can safely eat and which ones we should avoid.<\/p>\n

I want to walk you through what processed foods to avoid so that when you do find yourself deciding on whether or not to buy that box of goodies you can make better choices.<\/p>\n

Avoid the following\u2026<\/p>\n