14 Foods You Should Cut From Your Diet

SusanMidori
SusanMidori Posts: 3
in Health and Weight Loss
Here's an article from Yahoo that I found interesting and worthy to share:

14 Foods You Should Cut From Your Diet: http://health.yahoo.net/articles/nutrition/photos/14-foods-you-should-cut-your-diet#0

This article specifically calls out foods you should avoid, why you should avoid them, and an alternative to consider.

Swordfish
Nonorganic Strawberries
Diet Soda
Anything from McDonald's
Canned Tomatoes
Bread
Industrially Produced Hamburger
Corn
White Chocolate
Artificial Sweeteners
Sprouts
Butter-Flavored Microwave Popcorn
Food Dyes
Chain Restaurant Ice Cream
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  • onyxgirl17
    onyxgirl17 Posts: 1,722 Member
    I love white chocolate... omg white chocolate.... *craves white chocolate*
  • samantha1242
    samantha1242 Posts: 816 Member
    This list is so random.
  • onyxgirl17
    onyxgirl17 Posts: 1,722 Member
    This list is so random.

    Probably because it's from yahoo
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    More scaremongering that has no basis in fact and completely disregards context and dosage.
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    LOL

    oh wait, are you being serious?
  • Lift_hard_eat_big
    Lift_hard_eat_big Posts: 2,278 Member
    I eat practically all of them. It doesn't prevent me from cutting, or from being fit.
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    Wow, in the last 4 minutes the list has gone from 5 to 4 to 14. Deja vu.

    Artificial trans-fat is the only food really worthy of that list. The rest are all fine within the context of a balanced diet and assuming no specific medical conditions that require specific diets.
  • Lyadeia
    Lyadeia Posts: 4,603 Member
    LOL

    oh wait, are you being serious?

    Exactly this.
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
    I eat:

    Nonorganic Strawberries
    Anything from McDonald's
    Canned Tomatoes
    Bread
    Industrially Produced Hamburger
    Corn
    Sprouts
    Butter-Flavored Microwave Popcorn
    Food Dyes
    Chain Restaurant Ice Cream

    Corn: how can it be bad when it comes OUT exactly how it went IN? (It's kinda miraculous... cuz even if you chew it... it comes out whole!)

    Popcorn: I heard all about that popcorn lung dude... I bought an air popper - but not cuz it's healthier... more cause I like to watch the popcorn kernals swirl around and jump and squeak when the first and last ones pop

    Food dye: They put food dye in my body wash... I drink that stuff in the morning... it's my daily cleanse. ;)

    and dayum I'm craving a big mac now
  • Trechechus
    Trechechus Posts: 2,819 Member
    Never eat foods you don't like, or endangered species because then the psycho eco -freaks (like me) will find you.
  • xprettyreckless
    xprettyreckless Posts: 297 Member
    i love popcorn i love popcorn i will never stop eating popcorn i love bread i love bread i will never stop eating bread and omg..
    white chocolate <3
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    What is up with these lists today? A list of food from an article with claims, taken out of context and without regard to dosage, that are not supported by any actual studies.

    1/10
  • ajourney2beme
    ajourney2beme Posts: 181 Member
    I love white chocolate... omg white chocolate.... *craves white chocolate*

    IKR! Those Lindt white chocolate truffles are to die for ... *puddles*
  • rotill
    rotill Posts: 244 Member
    An alternative list:
    Don't eat endangered species.
    Don't eat food that's been produced using child labour.
    Don't eat food that has been produced in the ashes of the rainforest.
    Try to cut down on food that's crossed continents to reach you.
    Try to cut down on food which can't be reproduced in your own kitchen, because they require industrial equipment and mysterious chemicals.

    I am sure there are several "food groups" I have forgotten, but except from what I am allergic to, these are the foods I really try to avoid.
  • jesz124
    jesz124 Posts: 1,004 Member
    Yeah thanks for that. It really rocked my world......:angry:
  • KeRAWRi
    KeRAWRi Posts: 79 Member
    Chain restaurant ice cream? But i love friendly's ice cream!!!! Nope, i will still have that from time to time. Lol
  • Oishii
    Oishii Posts: 2,675 Member
    I can think of an opposing health claim for about half of those!
  • gogoyubarino
    gogoyubarino Posts: 104 Member
    Canned tomatos?

    What rubbish.
  • QuietRain
    QuietRain Posts: 157
    Me and bread are homies.
    You can catch me sniffing the loaves in the bakery section, it's our 'hello, how you doin'?' thing.
  • trud72
    trud72 Posts: 1,912 Member
    LOL now since when are sproutrs bad for ya? :huh:

    next people will be saying ALL fruit and veg are bad! :noway:
  • TheConsciousFoody
    TheConsciousFoody Posts: 607 Member
    LOL now since when are sproutrs bad for ya? :huh:

    next people will be saying ALL fruit and veg are bad! :noway:

    And then perhaps water....and air
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
    Me and bread are homies.
    You can catch me sniffing the loaves in the bakery section, it's our 'hello, how you doin'?' thing.

    I am TOTALLY a fresh bread sniffer!!!
  • maryannville
    maryannville Posts: 11 Member
    Some of the foods on this list are not bad as in you will DIE if you eat them. But some things have unnecessary chemicals, potential strange bacteria and pesticides, etc. and potential for carrying bad things on them. Some of the other things on the list are either hard to digest, or are just very unknown that why would you want to put them into your body! I think it is a great list. Of course we will still eat some of them, but it is a good guide to follow I think. Thanks for sharing!
  • ElizaRoche
    ElizaRoche Posts: 2,005 Member
    I eat non-organic berries, diet soda, not mcdonalds but I eat in carls jr every now and then, burguers, corn, chocolate including white once i a while, wheat bread pretty much everyday, artificial sweeteners and microwave popcorn... I guess this diet wont make me lose weight damn it :sick:
  • xachooo
    xachooo Posts: 42
    I can at least think of some sort of reason for most of those things on the list (bread= refined, carbs, blah blah; swordfish and heavy metal; strawberries and antifungals and other shiz) but canned tomatoes????

    anyone with an answer as to how those are on this list??
  • AntWrig
    AntWrig Posts: 2,273 Member
    This list is so random.
    Kara Thrace <3

    To the OP: That list is full of absurdity.
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    I can at least think of some sort of reason for most of those things on the list (bread= refined, carbs, blah blah; swordfish and heavy metal; strawberries and antifungals and other shiz) but canned tomatoes????

    anyone with an answer as to how those are on this list??

    they're red
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    Oh, I know why canned tomatoes are on the list. It's because tomatoes are acidic and can linings have BPA in them.

    I'm not saying you shouldn't eat them, just answering the question.
  • Lincolnlady217
    Lincolnlady217 Posts: 49 Member
    What the heck did white chocolate do to get on this list? Sheesh! :(
  • chubbygirl253
    chubbygirl253 Posts: 1,309 Member
    This is so stupid. If you like it, eat it. Who cares? I eat most of those things. Whats next, the top 30 foods that will kill you?

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