"Top 11 Biggest Lies of Mainstream Nutrition"

This is an excellent article that I found on Facebook, thanks to a friend. It is really worth a thorough read. It helps dispel a lot of the misinformation that a lot of us were brought up believing.  I can also attest, through personal eating experience and experimentation, that when I eat (for the most part) as this article suggests, I feel SO MUCH BETTER!! My personal struggle is with number 10.

The entire article can be found right here at "AuthorityNutrition.com"

A brief synopsis can be found below:

1. Eggs Are Unhealthy        

Bottom Line: Eggs do not cause heart disease and are among the most nutritious foods on the planet. Eggs for breakfast can help you lose weight.

2. Saturated Fat is Bad For You

Bottom Line: Newer studies have proven that saturated fat does not cause heart disease. Natural foods that are high in saturated fat are good for you.  

3. Everybody Should be Eating Grains

Bottom Line: Grains are relatively low in nutrients compared to other real foods like vegetables. The gluten grains in particular may lead to a variety of health problems. 

4. Eating a Lot of Protein is Bad For Your Bones and Kidneys

Bottom Line: Eating a high protein diet is associated with improved bone health and a lower risk of fracture. High protein also lowers blood pressure and improves diabetes symptoms, which should lower the risk of kidney failure.

5. Low-Fat Foods Are Good For You

Bottom Line: Low-fat foods are usually highly processed products loaded with sugar, corn syrup or artificial sweeteners. They are extremely unhealthy.

7. Carbs Should Be Your Biggest Source of Calories

Bottom Line: The low-fat, high-carb diet is a miserable failure and has been proven repeatedly to be vastly inferior to lower-carb, higher-fat diets.

8. High Omega-6 Seed and Vegetable Oils Are Good For You

Bottom Line: Humans need to get Omega-6 and Omega-3 fats in a certain ratio. Eating excess Omega-6 from seed oils raises your risk of disease.

9. Low Carb Diets Are Dangerous

Bottom Line: Low-carb diets are the healthiest, easiest and most effective way to lose weight and reverse metabolic disease. It is a scientific fact.

10. Sugar is Unhealthy Because it Contains “Empty” Calories

Bottom Line: The harmful effects of sugar go way beyond empty calories. Sugar wreaks havoc on our metabolism and sets us up for weight gain and many serious diseases.

11. High Fat Foods Will Make You Fat

In fact, diets that are high in fat (and low in carbs) cause much greater fat loss than diets that are low in fat

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Meat Glue, Pink Slime,Cancer Causing Fish-Do You Know What You Are Eating?

     It has become increasingly more difficult to feed ourselves and our kids healthy choices when we go to the supermarket. Deceptive food preparation practices and the manner in which our food is raised and grown has been exposed as generally unhealthy for the animals and as a result unhealthy and unsafe for us when we consume it. 
     Many of us find it difficult to shell out the big bucks when buying grass fed beef or free range chickens or wild caught fish.  With all the information that has been exposed in the last few months it seems that tough choices need to be made when buying our food.

MEAT GLUE
"If you were disturbed to hear about 'pink slime' in your burger, you'll want to know about 'meat glue,' because a fat, rare-cooked filet mignon may not be what it seems," ABC News' Bay Area affiliate gasped last week."                  
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/05/meat-glue-gross-it-sounds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN8sDS-yBLo 

PINK SLIME 
 Processed beef trimmings and recovered materials from meat carcasses, like fat and connective tissue. Trimmings are heated to 100°F and spun inside a centrifuge to separate the meat from the fat. After the fat is removed, the remaining beef bits are treated with ammonia hydroxide to kill bacteria such as E. coli or salmonella. They are then ground up, frozen into blocks and added to other beef products.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/pink-slime-15873068


CHICKEN FARMS                                     

ORGANIC EGGS

• Rodents on egg conveyor belts
• Rotting corpses in cages with hens laying eggs for human consumption
• Hens stuck by their heads, legs and wings in cage wires
• Mummified hen carcasses in cages
• Overcrowding of hens in cages that only provide 54-58 square inches [less than 8 inches by eight inches] of living space per hen (well below the national average for egg-laying hens)
• Flies in barns so thick that the investigator had to scrape off his boots after walking down each aisle
• Piles of dead hens on floors of barns
• Dead flies in hens’ feeding troughs
• Barns so dark that workers needed head lamps and flashlights
• Ammonia levels so high that workers often had to wear masks
• Manure and eggs from some barns tested positive for salmonella
• Each worker is tasked with overseeing more than 100,000 animals.
 http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/04/things-are-grosser-pink-slime

FARM RAISED FISH DANGERS

WILD CAUGHT FISH

"There are several health related issues with farm raised salmon which can be found in your local grocery stores and restaurants. We will discuss how farm raised salmon differs from wild ocean caught salmon and the biggest issues that surround the farm raised type."  
http://www.shapefit.com/salmon-farmed-wild.html
http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/healthquest/the-dangers-of-farm-raised-tilapia-from-china










http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/05/meat-glue-gross-it-sounds

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