You are bombarded by TV (and other) advertising with millions of positive impressions about unhealthy foods every day.

Your local grocery and fast food stores are stocked with thousands of items you should NEVER EAT!

In fact, other than in ads and commercials, who's telling you these highly processed products are good for you? Ever read the labels? If not, perhaps you should!

Processed foods are not real human food, you know, the products that come in boxes, cans and bags, at best they are treats and at worst, they clog your insides and rob you of energy, your health and leave you with symptoms like weight, fatigue, headaches and so much more. Of course this is good for the folks that produce pharmaceuticals.

If you shopped the perimeter of the market (and you should) in the fresh produce and wellness sections looking for natural grains (NOT Wheat), legumes, dairy (NOT Milk) and free range meats and avoided the isles containing processed and packaged foods which happens to be all the isles, you would eat food your body actually could process and utilize and you would look, feel much healthier.

But we are a fast food nation.
Look at what a health hazard North Americas favourite foods products present to their population?

1. Hamburgers
Considered a "high risk" food because of the poor health standards under which they are manufactured. The time consuming process for making processed meats creates high bacteria counts and putrefaction of the meat which need to be treated with chemicals. Putrefaction causes meat to turn green which is then dyed with red chemicals to appear fresh. Unless marked otherwise, hamburger will always contain red dyes.

Because burger parts all come from the animal, "pure beef" can be used on the label! Most hamburger contain the flavour enhancer, MSG (monosodium glutamate) which causes headaches, allergic reactions and more. MSG is a chemical used to fatten up laboratory animals and evidence suggests it will ultimately make you fat when consumed.

The beef industry is the largest user of antibiotics in the world to offset the dangerous bacteria housed in its meats. This has resulted in the growing resistance to antibiotics. Ground beef is more likely to harbour life-threatening E-coli than any other food. Hamburgers are the single biggest food item that inflicts the most damage on the American diet "Billions served" billions spent on doctor visits and hospital bills.

The hormones fed to cattle can make you fat through meat consumption.

A Cheeseburger contains more than 100% of your TOTAL daily recommended fat intake! Burger condiments like pickle, lettuce, tomato, etc. are all treated with cancer causing chemical sulfites that are used to maintain a false freshness in the vegetables. Most burgers contain 1090 mg of sodium! (45% of daily recommended Daily Value) and can promote water retention.

2. Hot Dogs
Like hamburgers, hot dogs are considered a "high risk" food because of the poor health standards under which they are manufactured. The time consuming process for making processed meats creates high bacteria counts and putrefaction in the meat which need to be treated with chemicals. Putrefaction makes meat turn green which is then dyed with red chemicals to appear fresh.

Because hot dog parts all come from the animal, "pure beef" or "100% turkey" can be used on the label! All hot dogs contain the flavour enhancer, MSG (monosodium glutamate) which causes headaches and allergic reactions. MSG is a chemical used to fatten up laboratory animals and will ultimately make you fat when consumed.

Hot dogs have nitrites which are thought to cause stomach cancer, leukemia, brain tumours, and bladder cancer. Fillers and non-meat binders used to hold hot dog meat together can be anything from cereal, non-fat dry milk, or soy which adds more carbohydrates and processed ingredients) Synthetic collagen casings are used to form the hot dogs. Highly carcinogenic. Contains up to 40% of its content in undisclosed saturated fats.

3. French Fries
French fries are very toxic. In order to make French fries, they must be cooked at high temperatures which cause the chemical, acrylimide to be released. Acrylimides are a known cancer causing agent that also causes nerve damage.

Potatoes are grown in the ground and have a higher pesticide absorption level than almost any other food product. Fries are cooked in oxidized oil that is re-used for weeks at a time!

Potatoes have a very high glycemic index meaning it turns to sugar very quickly in the body. Eating a baked potato (or equivalent quantity of French fries) is the sugar equivalent of a large piece of chocolate cake!

4. Oreo Cookies: THE NUMBER ONE COOKIE
(6 cookies = serving size)

Predominantly made up of 23 grams of straight-line sugar.

Chocolate is LAST ingredient listed which means chocolate is the least of the ingredients. 370 empty calories with almost no nutritional benefits, you could eat 2 whole chicken breasts for the same amount of calories! 6 cookies have 12 grams of fat, 2.5 grams of saturated fat and 40 carbs, more than 50% of your daily carbohydrate allowance in only 6 cookies.

Oreo cookies will set you up for craving more sugar within 3 hours or less. "Natural flavours" are manufactured chemicals to make Oreos taste like great chocolate cookies.

Highly processed foods have these flavour enhancers which are nothing more than carcinogenic chemicals with no natural flavours of their own. High sugar content. Sugar depletes our immune system, creates lots of inflammation and free radicals in the body.

5. Pizza
Commercial pizzas are made exclusively of 5 genetically modified foods: Cheese "food" (Contains only 10% cheese - it cannot even be called real cheese) Enriched white flour which has been bleached of natural vitamins and minerals but has been "enriched" by adding back a minuscule amount of synthetic vitamins. Tomato sauce made from tomato-like substances that produce their own pesticides, IN YOU

Wheat in the pizza crust is genetically modified. Contains cottonseed oil. Cotton is not a "food", therefore it can be sprayed with anything farmers want. The seed carries most of the poison of the cotton plant.

Pizza is baked at such a high temperature; the crust will form acrylimides which is a known cancer causing agent that can also cause nerve damage. Pepperoni & sausage toppings are "high risk" processed meats which add lots of nitrites, chemicals, preservatives, and saturated fats.

6. Soda - Soft Drinks - Pop
The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. On the Ph scale, it is very acidic and can dissolve a nail in about 4 days. High acid content in the body makes it very difficult to lose weight. Soda will leach the calcium out of your bones and promote osteoporosis.

There are 10-12 teaspoons of empty calorie sugar in one can of soda. Diet sodas with artificial sweeteners will promote sugar cravings because sweeteners are "sweeter" than sugar. Colorings used in sodas are cancer-causing.

Soda is called "liquid candy" because of the high sugar content. Like drinking a candy bar! High fructose corn syrup, a major ingredient: Is stored in the body as fat.

7. Chicken Tenders
(Usual serving size is 6)

Made from unusable chicken parts, rarely made from whole white meat. A typical 340 calorie serving is typically 50% fat. Heavily breaded for substance. Very high carbohydrate content.

Carcinogenic acrylimides are released in the high temperature frying. Can cause nerve damage and cancer. Contains the flavor enhancer, MSG (monosodium glutamate) which causes headaches and allergic reactions.

MSG is a chemical used to fatten up laboratory animals and will ultimately make you fat when consumed. Contains phosphates which make the body acidic, making it impossible to burn fat properly. You will store fat and not lose weight. Some chicken nuggets contain aluminum which is toxic to the brain and poisons the metabolism.

Deep fried in oxidized oil that is re-used for weeks at a time!

8. Ice cream
High in fat content. 1 serving (usually 4 ounces!) can provide as much as 50% of your recommended fat for the day. High in carbohydrates. 1 serving is almost 40% of your total recommended carb intake for the day.

High in sugar which promotes sugar cravings and causes skin to wrinkle. Full of hydrogenated and trans-fats which are unnatural and elevate cholesterol clog arteries create free radicals (which may cause cancer)

Hormones put into cows to increase milk production will slow your metabolism, and can cause breast and ovarian tumours, cysts and cancer.

9. Donuts
The average donut contains approximately 300 calories.

One donut provides more than 50% of your recommended daily carbohydrate intake.

High in salt content which will promote water retention.

Donuts are deep fried in oxidized oil that is re-used for weeks at a time! Oils at high temperatures developed rancidity and free radicals which can poison and slow your metabolism, seriously threaten your health and has high sugar content which promotes sugar cravings and ages skin.

10. Potato Chips: The # 1 Snack Food
North Americans today consume more potato chips than any other people in the world. As a world food, potatoes are second in human consumption only to rice. It takes 4 pounds of potatoes to make 1 pound of potato chips. Very calorie dense where a small 2 oz. bag has over 300 calories.

Potato chips are deep fried in oxidized oil that is re-used for weeks at a time! Deep fried at high temperatures which cause the chemical, acrylimide to be released. Acrylimides are a known cancer causing agent that also causes nerve damage.

When you eat 1 single serving bag of potato chips you may be eating up to 500 times more acrylamide than the maximum level allowed in drinking water. High in hidden saturated fats. High sodium/salt content promotes water retention.

Healthy chips? Like those containing olestra can be more dangerous to your health than regular chips.

每天，你都會被無數(shù)鼓吹不健康食品有多么好的電視廣告或其他各式廣告狂轟濫炸。

家門口的食雜店和快餐店里的食品，有上千種是絕對不該吃的。

事實上除了廣告和其他商業(yè)宣傳外，有沒有其他人告訴你這些經(jīng)過專業(yè)加工的產(chǎn)品對你有好處呢？你是否看過產(chǎn)品標(biāo)簽？如果還沒有，那你應(yīng)該先看看！

加工食品并不是真正的人類食品。這些放在盒子，罐子或袋子里的產(chǎn)品，最多也就是讓人飽飽口福，但在最壞的情況下，它們會使你身體運行不暢，使人精力不濟(jì)，剝奪你的健康，使你出現(xiàn)諸如肥胖，疲勞，頭痛或其他很多癥狀。當(dāng)然這能給一些制藥公司帶來好處。

如果你在市場購物時，愿意（當(dāng)然這是完全應(yīng)該的）到位于角落里的，販賣生鮮農(nóng)產(chǎn)品的攤位尋找天然谷類（并非指小麥），豆類，奶制品（并非指牛奶）和自由放養(yǎng)牲畜的新鮮肉類，而不去曾經(jīng)充斥市場的，販賣加工，包裝過的食品的攤位，那么吃下去的將會是身體可以處理和利用的食物，你看上去會更健康，感覺會好的多。

但我們卻是崇尚快餐的國家。

看看美國人最喜歡的食品給他們帶來了怎樣的危險吧。

1.漢堡包

生產(chǎn)漢堡包遵循的低劣健康標(biāo)準(zhǔn)使其被認(rèn)為是“高危險”食品。加工時間太長使肉類滋生大量細(xì)菌并使肉類腐敗，而該過程正需要經(jīng)過化學(xué)制品的處理。由于腐敗過程使肉類變綠，為了看上去更新鮮，它們又被化學(xué)染料染成紅色。除非有特別說明，漢堡包肯定含有紅色染料。

漢堡包的各部分來自動物，于是“純牛肉”被印在了標(biāo)簽上！多數(shù)漢堡包含有味精，即MSG（谷氨酸鈉）。它能引起頭痛，過敏反應(yīng)和其他癥狀。MSG是一種被用來催肥實驗動物的化學(xué)物質(zhì)，有證據(jù)證明其被食用后最終會導(dǎo)致肥胖。

牛肉加工業(yè)是世界上抗生素的最大使用者，通過使用抗生素來消除肉類所含細(xì)菌。這導(dǎo)致了越來越嚴(yán)重的抗生素耐藥性。放在地上的牛肉比其他食物更有可能藏匿危及生命的大腸桿菌。漢堡包是美國銷量最大的食物。而漢堡包"銷量幾十億"也同時帶來了幾十億的出診費用和醫(yī)院賬單。

在吃漢堡包的同時攝入喂給牲畜的激素，這也導(dǎo)致人們的肥胖。

一個干酪漢堡包所含的脂肪比你一天該攝入的脂肪總量還多！漢堡包佐料如酸黃瓜，生菜，西紅柿等在處理過程中都使用了能致癌的化學(xué)物質(zhì)亞硫酸鹽，它能使已不新鮮的蔬菜看起來更光鮮。大多數(shù)漢堡包含有1019毫克鈉�。�每日建議攝入量的45%）這會導(dǎo)致水潴留。

2. 熱狗

正如漢堡包一樣，熱狗被認(rèn)為是“高危險”食品是因為其生產(chǎn)所遵循的低劣健康標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。加工時間過長使肉類滋生大量細(xì)菌并使肉類腐敗，而該過程正需要經(jīng)過化學(xué)制品的處理。由于腐敗過程使肉類變綠，為了看上去新鮮，它們又被化學(xué)染料染成紅色。

因為熱狗的各部分來自動物，“純牛肉”或“100%烤雞肉”被印在了標(biāo)簽上！多數(shù)漢堡包含有味精，即MSG（谷氨酸鈉）。它能引起頭痛，過敏反應(yīng)和其他癥狀。MSG是一種被用來催肥實驗動物的化學(xué)物質(zhì)，有證據(jù)證明其被食用后最終會導(dǎo)致肥胖。

熱狗中所含有的亞硝酸鹽被認(rèn)為會導(dǎo)致胃癌，白血病，腦瘤及膀胱癌。填充劑和非肉類黏合劑等包裹肉類的材料可以來自任何谷物，脫脂奶粉，或大豆，它們提供了更多碳水化合物和加工過的成分。人造膠原也被用來制造熱狗。高致癌性。含有高達(dá)40%的不明不飽和脂肪酸。

3. 炸薯條

炸薯條的毒性很大。為了做出炸薯條，必須將土豆條在高溫下煎炸，這會釋放出酰亞胺類化學(xué)成分。眾所周之，致癌物質(zhì)酰亞胺還能導(dǎo)致神經(jīng)損傷。

土豆長在地里，因此農(nóng)藥吸收量幾乎高過其他任何食用產(chǎn)品。炸薯條的油被反復(fù)使用長達(dá)好幾個星期卻不更換。

土豆的血糖生成指數(shù)很高，意味著其在體內(nèi)可以快速轉(zhuǎn)化成糖類。吃下一個烤土豆（或等量的炸薯條）所攝入的糖分和吃一大塊巧克力所攝入的一樣多。

4. Oreo 餅干 排名第一的餅干

（以每六塊餅干計算）

含有23克直鏈糖類。

巧克力排在成分表最后說明它的含量最低。370卡路里卻沒有營養(yǎng)成分，相當(dāng)于吃兩整塊雞胸肉所含的能量了！6塊餅干含有12克脂肪，2.5克不飽和脂肪和40克碳水化合物，僅僅6塊餅干就占你每天應(yīng)攝入的碳水化合物總量的一半以上。

Oreo 餅干會讓你在三個小時內(nèi)渴望得到更多的甜食�；瘜W(xué)物質(zhì)賦予了這種餅干如美味的巧克力般的“天然香味”。

5. 披薩

披薩的組成僅僅是5種轉(zhuǎn)基因食品：奶酪“食品”（只含有5%的奶酪－甚至不能被稱為真正的奶酪）經(jīng)過漂白后由于維生素缺失又添加了極少量人工合成維生素的所謂“營養(yǎng)"白面粉。由外觀像番茄的物質(zhì)做成的番茄漿－它們會在你體內(nèi)生成自己的殺蟲劑。

披薩的面餅是由轉(zhuǎn)基因小麥做的，含有棉籽油。棉花不是食物，所以農(nóng)民可以對棉花噴灑任何東西。棉籽含有棉花植株中大多數(shù)的毒素。

披薩是在很高的溫度下生產(chǎn)的，披薩餅會生成酰亞胺，這種致癌物質(zhì)也能導(dǎo)致神經(jīng)損傷。各式香腸類是“高危險”加工過的肉類，加工過程中添加了很多亞硝酸鹽，其他化學(xué)制劑，防腐劑和不飽和脂肪。

6.蘇打水等不含酒精的汽水

可樂中的有效成分是磷酸，它的酸性很強(qiáng)，可以在4天內(nèi)溶解一顆釘子。體內(nèi)酸度過高使體重很難下降。碳酸可以使骨骼中的鈣流失而導(dǎo)致骨質(zhì)疏松。

一罐汽水中含有10-12勺糖分。飲用添加了人造甜味劑的汽水會使人對糖類的需求增大。因為甜味劑比糖類更甜。汽水中使用的調(diào)色劑會致癌。

汽水之所以被稱為“液體糖果”是因為含糖量高。就像把一條糖果喝到了肚子里！汽水中的主成分高果糖漿以脂肪的形式儲存在體內(nèi)。

7.炸雞塊

(以通常一份6塊計)

炸雞塊很少以整塊雞肉烹制而成，而是由雞身沒有用的部位做的。一份含有340卡路里其中50%為脂肪。雞塊外面裹著厚厚的面包屑使它的碳水化合物含量很高。

雞塊在高溫的炸制過程中會產(chǎn)生酰亞胺，不僅能引起神經(jīng)損傷還能致癌。含有的味精，即MSG（谷氨酸鈉）能引起頭痛，過敏反應(yīng)和其他癥狀。

MSG是一種被用來催肥實驗動物的化學(xué)物質(zhì)，有證據(jù)證明其被食用后最終會導(dǎo)致肥胖。含有的磷酸鹽會讓體內(nèi)呈酸性而使脂肪不能適當(dāng)消耗。這就使脂肪堆積難以減肥。一些雞塊還含鋁，它會對腦產(chǎn)生毒性并影響新陳代謝。

炸雞塊的油被反復(fù)使用長達(dá)好幾個星期卻不更換！

8. 冰激凌

冰激凌脂肪含量高，一份（通常是4盎司）能提供高達(dá)身體每日所需50%的脂肪。碳水化合物含量高。一份幾乎含有40%人體每日所需碳水化合物攝入量。

含糖量高使身體對糖類需求的增加導(dǎo)致皮膚產(chǎn)生皺紋。大量非天然的氫化及反式脂肪使膽固醇升高，導(dǎo)致血管栓塞，產(chǎn)生氧自由基 （可能致癌）。

為使奶牛多產(chǎn)奶而用的激素會導(dǎo)致人類新陳代謝速度減慢并誘發(fā)乳腺瘤和卵巢瘤，囊腫及癌癥。

9. 炸面包圈

每個炸面包圈大約含有300卡路里熱量。

一個炸面包圈可以提供超過身體每日所需50%的碳水化合物。

炸面包圈含鹽量高導(dǎo)致水潴留。

面包圈在反復(fù)用了幾個星期的高度氧化油里炸制！油在高溫下會酸敗而產(chǎn)生自由基，損害并減緩新陳代謝，嚴(yán)重威脅身體健康。其高含糖量使糖類需求量增加并導(dǎo)致皮膚老化。

10． 炸薯片：頭號零食

現(xiàn)在美國消耗的炸薯片比世界上任何國家都多。作為一種世界性食品，土豆的消耗量僅次于大米，排名第二。4磅土豆才能生產(chǎn)出1磅薯片。熱量高到僅一小包2盎司的薯片就含有超過300卡的熱量。

薯片在反復(fù)用了幾個星期的高度氧化油里炸制！高溫炸制產(chǎn)生的酰亞胺，能引起神經(jīng)損傷及致癌。

當(dāng)你吃下一包薯片的同時，你也服下了500倍相當(dāng)于飲用水中所應(yīng)含有的最大量的酰亞胺。不飽和脂肪過高，鈉鹽含量過高導(dǎo)致了水潴留。

那么所謂的健康薯片呢？那些含有油脂替代物的薯片比通常的薯片對健康的威脅更大。