NaturalPedia > Processed Food

Quotes about Processed Food from the world's top natural health / natural living authors

 Email this page to a friend   |  Click here for FREE email alerts

page 1 of 8 | Next ->

"Eating processed food can give us extra saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium, but a serious problem in processed food can also be the trans fat or hydrogenated oils. Ignore the percentage recommendations because they are overly permissive. Eating according to those can take 20 or 30 years off your life from a heart attack or a stroke. Avoid processed foods that are high in sodium, meaning they contain over 300 mg of sodium per serving. o_ | Dietary Fiber 0g 0% | Most Americans don't get Vitamin A 4% Vitamin C 2% Calcium 20% Iron 4% ............." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.)

"Pottenger reported the underlying nutritional factor had to be a substance that was destroyed by the heat used in the cooking and pasteurization processes; the raw foods not exposed to this processing maintained this substance (enzymes), while the cooked and processed food did not. (See Francis Portenger, Jr, "The Effect of Heat-Processed Foods and Metabolized Vitamin D Milk on the Dentofacial Structures of Experimenral Animals," American Journal of Orthodontics and Oral Surgery, vol. 32, no." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Unlabeled genetically engineered ingredients are currently found in more than 70 percent of the processed food on U.S. market shelves. Most of the GMO commodities are dumped on unwary U.S. consumers in the form of processed foods, milk, and meat. Millions of U.S. consumers buy processed foods with GMO ingredients today without knowing that they are doing so. The advertisers claim that the GMO food is the same as any other food. They claim that transgenic food is safe, and that it is cheap. Those are all lies. Tomatoes with rat genes are not the same as heirloom tomatoes. Drs." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Any other processed food. Processed foods are anything not produced in nature: quick or instant grains, meals in a package, box, or can, factory-produced breads, dinner mixes, frozen meals. And look out for snack foods, even ones that claim they are healthy and sugar-free. After you have gone through this list, take a final sweep." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Processed food" basically means any food that you can buy in a can, jar, packet, or bottle that has been produced in some kind of factory as part of a bulk manufacturing process. Most processed foods would quickly spoil if kept on a shelf for very long. In order to make sure that won't happen, raw food ingredients are processed at very high heats. This causes grains, fruits, and vegetables to lose most of their vitamins, minerals, and fiber, as well as other nutrients." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"But salt is even more essential for the processed food industry. Adding >M^^Sm^^^B^mlB^&WS^ salt to processed foods constitutes an I f you eat snack foods at all, it will not "eat more" strategy all on its own; it I take long for you to eat more salt than makes foods taste better because it is healthy, and often much more than is heightens flavors, reduces bitterness, good for you. and enhances sweetness. Salt is per- wmWWmwMmWmWmmmm^ feet for processed foods. It is cheap. It keeps foods from becoming discolored, and it extends shelf life." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Gordon, clinical professor at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, tells his patients to start with an experiment: "Cut out the processed food, cut out the sugar, cut out the additives and in some cases, cut out certain foods that may be likely to cause food sensitivities—wheat and milk and milk products, maybe corn. See what happens. In many cases, a kid's behavior has turned around almost 180 degrees." This needs to be a part of our collective consciousness. Dr. Gordon believes it hasn't been so because "we keep the focus on that magic bullet." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "If you eat a whole food diet and then eat a processed food, there are significant effects on intestinal functioning. If the intestine is not functioning well, you are not going to be taking in the nutrients, even if the food is decent. "Eliminate all of the sugar. A natural honey or rice syrup is fine, but not the nine teaspoons of sugar in every Coke and other sweet carbonated beverages. Cut out the caffeine. Watch for food sensitivities, which are not full-fledged food allergies. The most common culprits are milk and milk products, beef, yeast, wheat, citrus, corn, soy." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"He discovered that he could buy the most calories per dollar in the middle aisles of the supermarket, among the towering canyons of processed food and soft drinks. Drewnowski found that a dollar could buy 1,200 calories of cookies or potato chips, but only 250 calories of carrots; that his dollar bought 875 calories of soda but only 170 calories of orange juice.3 This is a potential insight into why people of low economic means have the highest rates of diabetes in Western cultures." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"In the United States and the Western world in general, the reduction in iodine consumption may be because more people are avoiding dairy, seafood, processed food, and iodized salt, all food substances high in iodine. Vegetarians, depending on the strictness of their practice, are largely deficient in iodine. Symptoms of iodine deficiency include mental fatigue, coordination problems, and stunted growth in children as well as goiter. The Thyroid Connection Low iodine levels contribute greatly to hypothyroidism (low thyroid hormones)." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Several past cluster outbreaks of autoimmune disease still haunt scientists because of the rapid and insidious way in which thousands of individuals were struck ill with autoimmune reactions seemingly overnight, not from contact with unseen chemicals but from impurities in the processed food products, drugs, and supplements they consumed. In May 1981, for instance, food product salesmen in Spain sold a rapeseed oil to stores that, unbeknownst to them, contained trace ingredients derived from an oil diverted from industrial use." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Those that didn't ate processed food from publicly traded corporations at least three times or more per week! People disagree with my conclusions, but it seems to be pretty obvious to me. Eating fast food and eating processed food sold by publicly traded corporations causes disease. How bad is fast food? How could they say their processing methods are sanitary? It's impossible. Did you know that even the government in reviewing the safety and sanitary regulations at fast food restaurants find violations EVERY SINGLE TIME AN INSPECTION IS DONE!" - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Refined, processed food contributes to food reactions. When fiber and other natural factors are removed from foods during processing, the foods can then congest the GI system and contribute to constipation, and also to food reactions. Furthermore, refined foods are far more likely than whole foods to contain artificial substances, which may cause adverse reactions. Poor eating habits are the final nutritional force that can contribute to food reactions. One bad habit is eating too narrow a range of foods. Another is eating too quickly, because this can overwhelm the digestive processes." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"E4 people must watch their diet, limiting high-saturated fats such as butter and lard and trans fats (the hydrogenated oils in processed food). Lowering blood pressure and exercising regularly are important. We recommend a total inflammatory risk profile for patients with this allele because they must make stringent lifestyle changes that support healing. Having two APO E4 alleles, along with a high mercury concentration and a deficiency in the mineral magnesium, represents a heightened risk factor combination for Alzheimer's disease." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Yet the beauty of a processed food like margarine is that it can be endlessly reengineered to overcome even the most embarrassing about-face in nutritional thinking—including the real wincer that its main ingredient might cause heart attacks and cancer. So now the trans fats are gone, and margarine marches on, unfazed and apparently unkillable. Too bad the same cannot be said of an unknown number of margarine eaters." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "And you're better off eating whole fresh foods rather than processed food products. That's what I mean by the recommendation to "eat food," which is not quite as simple as it sounds. For while it used to be that food was all you could eat, today there are thousands of other edible foodlike substances in the supermarket. These novel products of food science often come in packages elaborately festooned with health claims, which brings me to another, somewhat counterintuitive, piece of advice: If you're concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why?" - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Then look for fresh, whole food—organic when possible—not processed food filled with additives and chemicals. Eat lots of wild-caught fish. Once or twice a week replace beef with beans. Take a walk in the sunshine (vitamin D) every day for at least thirty minutes. Don't drink beverages with added sugar. Specific diets may promote weight loss as well as good health. The Mediterranean diet is healthy and nutritious, lowers cholesterol, reduces heart attacks, lengthens your life, and tastes good." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"By elevating those scientific principles and "disdaining the proof of the palate," Shapiro writes, "they made it possible for American cooking to accept a flood of damaging innovations for years to come"—low-fat processed food products prominent among them. So scientific eating is an old and venerable tradition in America." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Because fiber takes up space in food but provides no calories, simply increasing your fiber consumption could help turn down your appetite—yet our highly processed food supply does just the opposite. Processed foods have been stripped of their fiber! The overprocessing and increasing energy density of the American diet is one of the leading causes of epidemic obesity. Energy-dense foods make it easy to squeeze too many calories into your stomach within a small amount of time and space. There is very little obesity seen in societies that rely on energy-dilute foods." - David L. Katz, Catherine S. Katz, Dr. David Katz's Flavor-Full Diet: Use Your Tastebuds to Lose Pounds and Inches with this Scientifically Proven Plan (Get the book.)

"Quick Tip 1: Manufacturers love to put sugar in processed food. It's cheap and it makes food taste better. Sugar is an added ingredient in many processed foods, health bars and health drinks. But it's not always easy to identify the sugar ingredients. The easier ones are sucrose, fructose, maple syrup and molasses. The trickier ones to look for are dextrose, turbinado, amazake, sorbitol, carob powder and high fructose corn syrup. Quick Tip 2: How much sugar is in your food? To determine how much sugar is in a serving of any food, check the nutrition label; sugar is listed in grams." - Jan Lovejoy, Get Balanced-the Natural Way to Better Health with Superfoods (Get the book.)

"Frozen processed food transported from other countries is simply not as healthy as the diet of previous generations." Many children are overnourished and yet deficient in most essential vitamins and minerals. "They're deficient," said Dr. Kenneth Bock, "in multiple nutrients—zinc, selenium, magnesium, essential fatty acids, and so many of the fat-soluble vitamins, like the vitamin A." "Rather paradoxically," Dr. Phil Landrigan said, "you have the problem of overnutrition, or terrible nutrition. All the fast foods that people eat—the fatty foods, the sodas that kids drink by the gallon?" - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Edward Howell of Chicago was questioning the use of cooked and processed food for human consumption. He found that heating food to 118?F for more than fifteen minutes destroyed all of the enzymes that naturally occur in raw food. In 1940, Dr. Howell began to investigate whether or not chronic degenerative disease was a matter of a severe enzyme deficiency. Dr. Howell wrote two books reporting his life's work: Food Enzymes for Health and Longevity and Enzyme Nutrition." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Harmful chemicals can be found in daily-use items such as packaged and processed food, household cleaners, cosmetics, and fragrances. Volumes could be written on this subject alone, but a few of the more widely-used chemicals and their common sources are covered here so that readers can take precautions to minimize exposure to them. Chlorine Chlorine is used as a bactericide in drinking water, and as a bleaching and cleaning agent. In small concentrations it is supposed to be non-toxic, or perhaps is apparently so. In strong solutions or as a pure gas, it is a deadly poison." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "There is a clear relationship between changes in the consumption of processed food and the increase in degenerative diseases. The contradictory statistics of more disease in the presence of apparently "better" healthcare are baffling. What are we doing wrong? What are we missing? Are there any answers to this dilemma? Or, are we just meant to get sick and suffer more as we grow older, as well as watch our children suffer with diseases? Why is there this contradiction?" - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "The bottom line on processed food products, cleaning agents, or personal hygiene items that come in contact with our bodies, is: if it isn't natural, the body cannot use it for health. Further, it may be outright harmful. Wherever you go to purchase products at the grocery store, drug store, or health food store, the guideline for reading labels and selecting products is, as soon as you have found an ingredient that is a chemical or a word that you can't pronounce, put it back! Your health depends on it, and your body will thank you for it." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Disease conditions result, over time, from eating a diet of mostly cooked and processed food. Disease conditions and genetic weaknesses occur earlier in each succeeding generation. Physical, emotional, skeletal, sexual, and behavioral changes become more pronounced and prevalent with each generation. The only solution for vibrant, disease-free health is to revert to a diet of raw, or mostly raw, food. Difference between Cats and Humans Later studies have found that heating destroys taurine, an essential amino acid for cats which they must have to remain healthy." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"However, it can become overtaxed because of the enormous load of chemicals from the highly processed food we tend to ingest, pesticides and other toxins to which we are constantly exposed, and the many other assaults of modern living. The consequences of a bioenergetically compromised liver may be enormous, for your liver is involved in filtration processes that directly impact your immune system. What's more, it plays a primary role in blood clotting, regulating your body's acid-alkaline balance (pH level), and blood sugar regulation, among other critical physiological and metabolic functions." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Modern processed food and animal products are "bad" for you because they're "good" for your genes. þModern foods, particularly ground-up grain products, rapidly enter your blood stream as sugar and activate the "Store Fat for Winter" computer program. þModern fats are primarily composed of omega-6s, which stimulate inflammation and depression. Part Two DIET EVOLUTION Chapter 4 THE DIET AT A GLANCE Welcome to the Diet Evolution program." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Much of the sodium consumed is hidden in processed food. Chloride Chlorine (chemical symbol CI) is a poisonous, greenish-yellow gas in the halogen family of elements. Chlorine is used to disinfect water and is used as bleach. Chlorine combines easily with sodium, hydrogen, and many other elements. When combined with sodium or hydrogen, chlorine forms a stable ion called chloride (C7~). The chloride ion has a single negative charge. Table salt is sodium chloride. Chloride is an essential nutrient. Chloride is the principal anion (negatively charged ion) in the extracellular fluid." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

page 1 of 8 | Next ->

FAIR USE NOTICE: The research quoted here is provided under the protection of Fair Use provisions and published by the 501(c)3 non-profit Consumer Wellness Center for the purposes of public comment and education. Authors / publishers may submit books for consideration of inclusion here.

TERMS OF USE: Read full terms of use. Citations of text from NaturalPedia must include: 1) Full credit to the original author and book title. 2) Secondary credit to the Natural News Naturalpedia as a research resource and a link to www.NaturalPedia.com

This unique compilation of research is copyright (c) 2008, 2009 by the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center.

ABOUT THE CREATOR OF NATURALPEDIA: Mike Adams, the creator of NaturalPedia, is the editor of NaturalNews.com, the internet's top natural health news site, creator of the Honest Food Guide (www.HonestFoodGuide.org), a free downloadable consumer food guide based on natural health principles, author of Grocery Warning, The 7 Laws of Nutrition, Natural Health Solutions, and many other books available at www.TruthPublishing.com, creator of the earth-friendly EcoLEDs company (www.EcoLEDs.com) that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting products, founder of Arial Software (www.ArialSoftware.com), a permission e-mail technology company, creator of the CounterThink Cartoon series (www.NaturalNews.com/index-cartoons.html) and author of over 1,500 articles, interviews, special reports and reference guides available at www.NaturalNews.com. Adams' personal philosophy and health statistics are available at www.HealthRanger.org.