Avoid GMO's easy by avoiding harmful foods and drinks....

Today's Post:  Tuesday, 11-13-2012

Most of our healthcare costs -- both for you as an individual and for all of us over our lifetimes -- now goes for almost completely preventable diseases!

Modern doctors and medical care have found out how to tell if you are headed for these diseases but don’t know much yet about how to prevent them or reverse them.

Although being sedentary and doing no exercise and sitting too much for many too many hours each week are part of the problem, eating and drinking things that cause these diseases is clearly an even more important cause.

Our bodies are evolved to eat what people ate over 10,000 years ago.  And, we have added some things since that are actually good for you, such as red wine and dark beer in moderation and extra virgin olive oil and beans and lentils.

Then we began eating grains -- and although this began to harm health, for most people who ate only foods made from whole grains and got a lot of exercise and activity, having enough to eat was better for you than any problems caused.

As author Michael Pollan says it, NOW, "most of what we're consuming today is not food."

And, even many of  the real foods have been made less healthful.

Most teens and too many adults now think of packaged snacks and packaged desserts and foods made from refined grains -- and soft drinks -- not only as real food but completely normal and safe.

They are in fact, neither of these things!

Even if these nonfoods were made from crops grown without any GMO’s, they would still make you sick and fatten you if you ingest them at all often! 

To put it mildly, to do so more than 3 or 4 times a week total is harmful.  And, doing so more than 5 times every single day is emergency room dangerous if you keep doing it for decades!

By the way, virtually all of this stuff is fattening too.   So managing to no longer eat or drink these things is a super easy way to be less fat.  For people who have been ingesting a lot of this stuff that can be 40 pounds of fat and up!!

But, it gets worse!  Guess which foods are almost entirely made from GMO crops?

This exact same stuff is made almost entirely from GMO crops!

So they took the money they made from selling this stuff to put enough disinformation out to prevent us in California and beyond from passing Proposition 37 did they?

They didn’t want to get us thinking that the stuff they were selling us might be harmful.

But the way to avoid GMO foods easy is to avoid the nonfoods and artificial drinks that GMO crops are made into!

Even better, you don’t have to guess or know if the GMO grown crops in these nonfoods are harmful or not. 

Those nonfoods ARE extremely harmful for other reasons!!

So, if you learn to avoid them completely, your intake of GMO crops drops like a stone into a well!

AND, you will be far less fat within months with no added hunger.  You’ll gain less fat as you get older too.

You will be less likely to get type 2 diabetes, heart disease, PAD, ED, strokes, high blood pressure, gout, arthritis, vascular dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease besides!

Here’s a list of the bad ingredients that are almost all GMO foods:

1.  Refined grain foods are harmful & mostly made from GMO wheat and from GMO corn.

Instead:

a) Eat brewers yeast or egg yolks from pasture raised chickens for the B complex vitamins that were once in whole grains. 

b) Eat nonstarchy vegetables or beans or raw nuts for the fiber that used to be in whole grains. 

c) And, if you want foods made from grains, lean towards grains other than wheat and corn and rice -- most of which also have no gluten.  Buckwheat and other grains work. 

But the champ is quinoa!  (I understand it’s said ‘Keen wa” instead of “kwin O ah.” 

Quinoa has a better quality, more complete protein than wheat and nearly as much protein! 

Even better, where wheat, even 100% whole wheat, has a glycemic rating of about 100 – 50% HIGHER than sugar, quinoa has a glycemic index rating of 35!  (Sugar rates about 65.)

Best of all, quinoa likely never will be a GMO crop! Quinoa does not NEED to be.  It has its own natural insecticide that tastes too bitter to want to insects but which people can remove by soaking in water.  So the insect repellent is removable -- unlike GMO foods where it’s in the food and then in you if you eat them!

Turning down refined grain wheat bread in sandwiches when eating out and “free” bread served before meals in restaurants is challenging.  But the health benefits and reduced fat on your body make it well worth doing.

Note that these refined grains also are high in omega 6 oils which are harmful.  See number 3 below.

2.  HFCS, high fructose corn syrup, is made from GMO corn.  It often contains mercury because of one of the processes used to make it.  And, though it doesn’t have a lot more fructose, the fructose it does have is not bonded to the glucose as it is in real sugar.  Worse, it tastes sweeter and is more addicting than real sugar.

Instead:  Eat and drink WAY less sweetened things – 7 times a week or less instead of 7 times or more a day AND use only real sugar when you do.

Always read labels and NEVER buy a food containing HFCS.  You’ll be less fat, you’ll protect your health, and you’ll avoid a lot of GMO crops.

2.  Oils high in omega 6 oils are very harmful to your health in the kind of excessive intake many people now think of as normal.  They are almost 100% made from GMO corn, soy, and canola. (That helps make soy oil, corn oil, and canola oil cheap and used in hundreds of foods in every grocery store.)

But even if you could get these oils from sources that were 100% nonGMO, these oils cause high chronic inflammation which we now know causes:  Heart and other vascular diseases, osteoarthritis, and helps cause many cancers!

So avoid the bad health results and the GMO sources in one pass.  Never buy these oils or do so very, very seldom.

Instead:  Use extra virgin olive oil or eat raw nuts or avocados.  Olive oil and the Mediterranean diet they are in have proven health benefits!  AND, olive oil is very low in both saturated fats AND omega 3 oils.

(Unfortunately, at this time, even at Whole Foods, if you want premade salad dressings with only olive oil or real mayonnaise made with egg yolks and olive oil only, you are out of luck.  The cheaper omega 6 oils have all the shelf space.)

3.  Hydrogenated oils are heart attack starter.  They cause excess inflammation and make your LDL into tiny particles that stick into the chinks in your blood vessels walls.  These oils are as bad for your heart and circulatory health as heavy smoking!

Then, it gets even worse! 

Eating less is no protection because it takes your body weeks to get rid of half of what you eat. 
That means that if you eat even small amounts of hydrogenated oils on most days, you WILL have enough heart attack starter in your blood to harm you every day!

But guess what?  These heart attack starter hydrogenated oils are the same oils high in omega 6 that are virtually all from GMO foods!  Corn oil, soy oil, and cotton seed oil are commonly used to make hydrogenated oils.

And, unlike GMO foods at this time, labels like partially hydrogenated, hydrogenated, and amounts of the related trans fats greater than zero ARE mandated to be on food labels.

So, always read labels!  Never ever buy or eat foods with ANY hydrogenated oils.

True these things do NOT yet reveal they are from GMO crops.  BUT they are! And avoiding hydrogenated oils can save your life!

Instead, go nonfat or use extra virgin olive oil or use small amounts of real butter occasionally from cows fed only grass! Coconut oil is a mixed review but may also be OK on occasion.

4.  Then guess what? 

The commercial baked goods, and fast food, and packaged snacks, and packaged desserts, and even some frozen dinners and entrees and some spices are all high in MSG which is harmful to some people, addicting, and always fattening.

And what are these foods or nonfoods if you prefer made out of otherwise?  Almost all their other ingredients are listed above!

Instead:

Do the very best you can to use one ingredient spices and no blends o condiments that list “spices” as an ingredient.

Stop buying and eating commercial baked goods, and fast food, and packaged snacks, and packaged desserts, and most frozen dinners and entrees.

When they have labels, read the labels and if any of the above ingredients are listed at all, do not buy or eat that food.

What companies make these?  The list of companies that gave money to stop Proposition 37 contains virtually all of them!

So, not only are these foods harmful for these other reasons, you can be virtually guaranteed they all are made from GMO crops!

5.  Another problem with these foods is that most of them contain excessive amounts of salt that you hardly taste in many cases.

BUT, a very high intake of salt causes inflammation of the insides of your blood vessels which then causes heart and other vascular disease, high blood pressure, AND gout, it was recently found!

Instead:

Stop buying and eating commercial baked goods, and fast food, and packaged snacks, and packaged desserts, and most frozen dinners and entrees.

Also check all canned foods for sodium content too.

When they have labels, read the labels and if any of the above ingredients are listed at all, do not buy or eat that food.

Check the serving size and calculate how many servings you’d eat in a day if you bought that food.  Then check how many grams of sodium you’d ingest if you did that.  If it comes to over 1,000 grams or you’d total much over 1500 grams of sodium in a day, take a pass and do not buy or eat that food.

6.  Soft drinks are in a class by themselves.

Regular soft drinks contain HFCS mostly and when you drink them you get the double fattening effect:  you take in calories but reduce your hunger by nothing at all!  But part two is even worse, then you get rebound hunger later for sugary foods. 

Yes, that DOES mean if you simply stop drinking regular soft drinks entirely when you have been drinking several a day, guess what happens?!

You gradually become less fat and in some cases tens of pounds less fat AND you become LESS hungry!

Most soft drinks contain phosphoric acid which is an effective cause of osteoporosis.

AND the HFCS is made from GMO corn.

Diet soft drinks have no calories directly.  But they produce the rebound hunger for sugary foods as if they did have the sugar their taste causes your body to expect. 

THAT means that diet soft drinks are a drug like drink that causes sugar cravings.  Tests on rats even show this. And studies on both people and rats fed artificial sweeteners or diet soft drinks tend to show that ingesting this stuff fattens nearly as well and regular soft drinks AND causes as many diseases.

No, diet soft drinks do not contain GMO corn.  But the same companies that bring you the regular soft drinks that do make them!

Instead, drink water , green tea, black tea oolong tea, or coffee but without nondairy creamer!!

All this means that escaping most GMO foods is easy even when the things they are in are not yet so labeled.

Simple.

Just avoid the things in the list above that fatten you and harm your health!  To help do so, always read labels!

They harm your health and most of them fatten you – for other reasons -- AND to make them more profitable they are almost entirely made from GMO crops.

Protect your health and be less fat.  Pass on ALL this stuff.