Crap in Food

Healthydiner65

After watching Dr. Oz yesterday something clicked in my head.I usually think he's full of crap but not totally as I have found out. What he stated about sugar alcohols and diacetyl rang true so I did some research and what I found out scared the daylights out of me. To think that the popcorn I love and the "healthier" version of butter that I have been consuming could contribute to alzheimers made me want to scream! They have known about this since 2007 but it take a Dr. Oz show to get us the information. I have known that sugar alcohols(malititol) used to take the place of sugar in low and fat free foods make many people including myself, violently ill for about a year now but I didn't know that any ingredient with "itol" at the end is in fact sugar alcohol. I looked at my gum in my purse and sure enough it has one of the "itols" listed in it.

I am now on the hunt for any ingredients in my food that is artificial. I am eliminating all ingredients that it would take a scientist to figure out. No more low fat or fat free. No more butter substitute. My Mom had it right and we ate healthy all of our young lives.Fresh fish,pheasant chickens, vegetables and yes steak every saturday night. Everything was fresh and healthy. I am going to stop diet pepsi and if I am "jonesing" I will have half a regular one.

I need help from my MFP friends.So tell me how you have cleaned up your diet

wwk10

If it looks like food it ok to eat.
If it comes in a package its not.

I dont have any studies to back me up, thats just what I do.

Acg67

After watching Dr. Oz yesterday something clicked in my head.I usually think he's full of crap but not totally as I have found out. What he stated about sugar alcohols and diacetyl rang true so I did some research and what I found out scared the daylights out of me. To think that the popcorn I love and the "healthier" version of butter that I have been consuming could contribute to alzheimers made me want to scream! They have known about this since 2007 but it take a Dr. Oz show to get us the information. I have known that sugar alcohols(malititol) used to take the place of sugar in low and fat free foods make many people including myself, violently ill for about a year now but I didn't know that any ingredient with "itol" at the end is in fact sugar alcohol. I looked at my gum in my purse and sure enough it has one of the "itols" listed in it.

I am now on the hunt for any ingredients in my food that is artificial. I am eliminating all ingredients that it would take a scientist to figure out. No more low fat or fat free. No more butter substitute. My Mom had it right and we ate healthy all of our young lives.Fresh fish,pheasant chickens, vegetables and yes steak every saturday night. Everything was fresh and healthy. I am going to stop diet pepsi and if I am "jonesing" I will have half a regular one.

I need help from my MFP friends.So tell me how you have cleaned up your diet

Did you make sure to avoid confirmation bias while researching?

Rowan813

If you want to get really creeped out, start researcheing genetically modified food and what is being learned about those. I am getting pickier and pickier about my food choices.

avir8

Don't forget how dangerous Dihydrogen monoxide is also!!!!

drmerc

I don't eat any foods that have more than 2 vowels in them

jack3Dav3

Don't forget how dangerous Dihydrogen monoxide is also!!!!

^^ That stuff is no joke. Can be fatal if inhaled.

Fay84Vegan

I competely agree with you... well aside from the eating meat - I'm Vegan :happy:

A lot of producst are labelled 'Natural' ... when clearly they're not.

If it comes from a packet then i will read every ingredient contained in the product.

I'm sticking to as much home made fresh food as possible, so i know what is going into my body.

I recently convinced my husband to stop drinking diet drinks because of the nasty artifical sweeteners used in them.

belladonna786

if you can't read the ingredients don't eat it! Don't get me started on GMO'S research stuff it will scare you into eating well

jonward85

Don't forget how dangerous Dihydrogen monoxide is also!!!!

Dihydrogen Monoxide is amazingly dangerous...

1) breathing it will kill you
2) It's the #1 component in Acid Rain
3) accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals.
4) has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.

Why do we allow it!!!!!

AllonsYtotheTardis

If it looks like food it ok to eat.
If it comes in a package its not.

I dont have any studies to back me up, thats just what I do.

This is what I'm striving for as well. Not totally 'clean' yet, but each week a little more. I avoid foods that come in boxes.

pixiechick8321

If your ten year old can't pronounce it and your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize it, don't eat it.

I really like Michael Pollan's books - check out his food rules one (it's really short) and it'll help guide you.

I do try to eat minimal processing and local and what not - it can be more expensive to eat healthy though, so pick your battles.

Also, look at diaries of people who are clean eaters - for example, my day was:

Cottage cheese cakes and oj for breakfast (make the cakes - cottage cheese, flour, egg - the cheese was the least healthy)
celery, carrots, orange for snack
pasta (could have been healthier if made from scratch, but it's a busy month for my family), baby clams (in water originally, no added stuff), olives, capers, pasta sauce (again, we have scratch but I am using the last of a brand, it's still all pronounceable stuff)
greek yogurt for snack (here, you can do low fat or fat free, it's just the milk type, any ingredients that sound weird are just natural biotics in there to get the yogurt to culture, I like fage, it's thick)
no supper planned yet, but probably chicken (redbird) and veggie stir fry or perhaps catfish and avocado salad

So today for me was pretty clean - minimal packaged foods, recognizable foods, and no soda, candy, etc.

AllonsYtotheTardis

Oh, and for those who forgot how to use google:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax

UsedToBeHusky

Koldnomore

I don't eat anything with artificial sweeter - I use sugar, or honey or nothing at all. I don't drink my calories - ever. Water or black coffee. No 'diet' anything.
90% of the food I eat I cooked myself from raw ingredients, as many as possible purchased locally.
I try as much as possible also to avoid anything in a box.

Healthydiner65

Conagra, makers of Orville, Act II and Pop Secret removed diacetyl from their popcorn as of 2008 per consumer search.But I have been eating it longer than that!

Lift_hard_eat_big

Don't drink tap water unless you've got a high quality filter. It's full of pesticides other harmful compounds.

cmcollins001

Acg67

I don't eat anything with artificial sweeter - I use sugar, or honey or nothing at all. I don't drink my calories - ever. Water or black coffee. No 'diet' anything.
90% of the food I eat I cooked myself from raw ingredients, as many as possible purchased locally.
I try as much as possible also to avoid anything in a box.

Better ditch the coffee, you're drinking cals. Agree on the box thing though, i drank wine in a box once and felt like death afterwards

rjmwx81

I don't eat any foods that have more than 2 vowels in them

You must have a very strict diet. Wouldn't want to eat anything with those dangerous, dangerous vowels:

Bananas (3 vowels)
Broccoli (3)
Tomatoes (4)
Lettuce (3)
Cauliflower (5! No wonder it tastes so bad)
Cabbage (3)
Peanuts (3)

Healthydiner65

Don't drink tap water unless you've got a high quality filter. It's full of pesticides other harmful compounds.

The only time I use tap is when I am boiling it.Like when I make spaghetti. Do you think this is o.k. I live in an area that may have radon. Now that I think about it I better do some research with my water company!

benbrandwood

Just because it's got a long and scary sounding name doesn't mean it's not "natural"

From wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol

"Xylitol is found in the fibers of many fruits and vegetables, and can be extracted from various berries, oats, and mushrooms, as well as fibrous material such as corn husks and sugar cane bagasse, and birch."

OMG! It's a natural product. Sure, because it's a hydrogenated form of carbohydrate it can by synthesised. But one set of Hydrogen, Carbon and Oxygen molecules in the same arrangement is the same no matter the source.

Natural things can be good (Tomato) and bad (Nightshade) - same family, both natural. Whereas there are whole families of "synthetic" molecules which I'd quite happily eat stacks of.

Arrabindi

Don't drink tap water unless you've got a high quality filter. It's full of pesticides other harmful compounds.

That really depends on where you live!

Thomasm198

I prefer not to eat foods that have crap in them. I'm not into scatology.

Anything else? Who cares if I can pronounce it or not. I can't pronounce the names of the ingredients of a lot most medicines. Does that mean I shouldn't use them if I get sick?

opuntia

How does popcorn contribute to Alzheimers? It's one of my favourite snacks, so I need some hard evidence before I abandon it!

Jacwhite22

I competely agree with you... well aside from the eating meat - I'm Vegan :happy:

A lot of producst are labelled 'Natural' ... when clearly they're not.

If it comes from a packet then i will read every ingredient contained in the product.

I'm sticking to as much home made fresh food as possible, so i know what is going into my body.

I recently convinced my husband to stop drinking diet drinks because of the nasty artifical sweeteners used in them.

You are very pretty

LittleBallofFurr

Don't forget how dangerous Dihydrogen monoxide is also!!!!

LOL I love this

gruvkitty

You're going to get all kinds of responses on this, as food choice drives folks nuts.

Eat "real" food- not chemically altered crap. Eat small amounts of it- or the appropriate serving size. "Fat free" garbage and chemical sugar substitutes are disasters for our bodies and our health.

I think this approach annoys a lot of people b/c they don't want to have to think about what they eat, aside from calories and fat. Dr Oz is okay, but there's lots of good info out there about eating real, whole foods.

Healthydiner65

Just because it's got a long and scary sounding name doesn't mean it's not "natural"

From wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol

"Xylitol is found in the fibers of many fruits and vegetables, and can be extracted from various berries, oats, and mushrooms, as well as fibrous material such as corn husks and sugar cane bagasse, and birch."

OMG! It's a natural product. Sure, because it's a hydrogenated form of carbohydrate it can by synthesised. But one set of Hydrogen, Carbon and Oxygen molecules in the same arrangement is the same no matter the source.

Natural things can be good (Tomato) and bad (Nightshade) - same family, both natural. Whereas there are whole families of "synthetic" molecules which I'd quite happily eat stacks of.

The problem with the "itols" is that it makes alot of people ill with GI problems.That is why we don't eat it. disguising it in other names is misleading that is why we are starting to see it listed as sugar alcohol as a main ingredient.

kenazfehu

I stick as close to nature as I can afford, but I refuse to get myself in a knot over this stuff. Nobody lives forever, and I'm not going to lay there wondering why I'm dying of nothing.

wanderinggypsy

Better ditch the coffee, you're drinking cals. Agree on the box thing though, i drank wine in a box once and felt like death afterwards

Haha! Love this! Well done:)