3 Foods To Stop Eating Now!

by Mike Geary, Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Nutrition Specialist
Author of the best-seller: The Truth About Six Pack Abs
I was reading a statistic in a nutrition book recently, and this is going to shock you…

Now before I tell you the statistic, let’s keep an important fact in mind… according to well renowned nutrition author Michael Pollan, and his amazing book called In Defense of Food, humankind has historically consumed approximately 80,000 different species of edible plants, animals, and fungi, and approximately 3,000 of those have been widespread foods of the human diet.

Now get ready for a shocking and appalling statistic…

Currently, the average adult in the US consumes approximately 67% of their total caloric intake from only 3 foods — CORN, SOY, AND WHEAT (and their derivatives).

What would be considered a reasonably healthy amount of corn, soy, and wheat in the human diet? Based on 10’s of thousands of years of human history, and what the natural diet of our ancestors was (indicating what our digestive systems are still programmed to process), this would probably be in the range of about 1% to 5% MAX of our total calories from corn, soy, and wheat.

Considering that modern humans are eating 67% of their total calories from corn, soy, wheat… you can see why we have massive problems in our health, and our weight!

It’s not a surprise that we have so many intolerances and allergies, specifically to soy and wheat (and gluten intolerance)… the human digestive system was simply never meant to consume these substances in such MASSIVE quantities.

Keep in mind that these massively high levels of corn, soy, and wheat in our modern human diet is a relatively new phenomenon that originated from the economics of the multi-billion dollar corn, soy, and wheat industries. It really HAS been all about the money… NOT about our health!

By “derivatives” of corn, soy, and wheat, this means the food additives such as:

high fructose corn syrup (HFCS)
corn oil
soybean oil (hydrogenated or plain refined)
soy protein
refined wheat flour
hundreds of other food additives such as maltodextrin, corn or wheat starch, soy lecithin, mono and diglycerides, etc, etc

There is more to this article. Go to http://www.truthaboutabs.com/3-foods-to-stop-eating.html to read the rest of the article. Be sure to do it now so that you don’t forget!!!

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January 8th, 2011 at · Reply

You can choose what to prepare and eat daily. You can grab the oppurtunity to cook what you want to serve every meal you want. It was discussed in this article that you should stop eating three foods which includes corn, soy and wheat. I’ll try to follow these advice but also you can eat these foods in a little or moderate amount if you crave for it. there is no hrm of trying things out.
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Judy

You are correct that eating a VERY small amount of these foods is not harmful. The goal is always a healthy eating plan. If you are trying to control a certain condition–weight, allergies, skin problems, etc.–then the suggestion is to eliminate these foods to determine the effect that can have on overall health. Eliminating them one at a time is often most helpful. Thanks for your comment.
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