Eating ultra-processed foods—made primarily from wheat, corn, and soy—increases your death rate by 75 percent. How’s that for a sobering statistic! Unfortunately, American grocery-store shelves are monopolized by foods that contain ingredients that you should never eat, like partially hydrogenated oils, high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, and more. These foods have been scientifically proven to cause disease and death, so why do we still keep reaching for them?
Avoid completely:
0:50 hydrogenated vegetable oils, such as Crisco
2:30 fructose
5:30 toxic additives
6:30 ultra processed food
7:50 artificial sweeteners
8:55 pesticides
Limit:
9:35 flour
10:15 sugar
10:35 seed and vegetable oils
11:05 GMO foods