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Updated August 22, 2014.

This is an updated version of an article published on my blog in March 2013

One great thing about a low carb diet is that it is in so-called "processed foods" naturally low. Moreover, it is quite possible to find foods low in processed carbohydrates, or they can at a moderate carbohydrate diet.

We all know that "processed food is bad for you" in a kind of abstract sense., Can the cereal aisle or a fast food restaurant think if we "transformed" by thinking. Eat It turns out that most of the foods in the supermarket have ingredients that are each produced in remote areas of the earth, and that the food companies are carefully combined to (they are really "food"?) Ever could make in your kitchen Home. Worse, these products have been carefully developed our brain wants to hang over them.

I read two fascinating books on the Rights of processed foods now: Pandora Lunchbox by Melanie Warner, and salt, sugar, fat by Michael Moss.

Warner opens his book with an anecdote: My husband bought some "fresh" in the grocery store at the local store guacamole. Now Warner writes about the food, and had a few ingredients that they did not know of guacamole. She put the bowl in the refrigerator to investigate with the intention, and quickly forgotten ... until nine months later, when his mother found him, opened it, and dug in! Ewwwww! But here's the kicker: you never know, the things that was so long, and his mother lived to tell! You might be thinking, "Great guacamole! With a duration of months" ... or you might suspect, as Warner. (If the food does not rot, we should all be suspicious.)

It turns out that it tested thousands of food additives that are not well tested, or at all. You should get to improve stability and durability, the mouthfeel to manipulate adding "crisis" and our taste buds and brain improves, so hopefully Addict. They often take standard ingredients separately, sometimes at the molecular level, and restored along in manufactured "food" to exact specifications. The ingredients often sound good, but if you look under the hood, are not what you think they are. The resulting edible substances are often not the food that someone would recognize live 150 years ago, but "Products" fully normalized.

It turns out that one of the U-boats U-Bahn (chicken with sweet onions Terriaki) has ... guess how many ingredients? 20? 50? 80? I will not. 100? Closer! 105 ingredients.

It turns out that if a cereal box proclaims, "rich in vitamin D," that vitamin D from the wool of sheep that had been sent from New Zealand to China, probably came. Oils are rich wool vitamin D, and this is where most of the vitamin D added to foods.

The book by Michael Moss (salt, sugar, fat) examines how food to "hook" formulated us. In researching the food industry, there was much talk of "bliss points" and how flavors hit the tongue (and brain) that somehow makes you want more. You need to have the right amount of "crisis" and "chew," also in the future for the bag of chips or cookies. Actually, it turns out that these foods (they "hyperpalatable" called) the reward centers in the brain actually trigger in a similar way to addictive substances.

In a related article in the New York Times ("The extraordinary science Junk Food Addictive"), Moss at a meeting of leaders of the food industry in 1999, it was designed to deal with the fact that contributed in terms obesity epidemic and one day could be sentenced. But she ended up thinking that his job is to sell food, not worry about diet was.

Of course, most of these foods are not only in sugar and other refined carbohydrates, but soybean oil and other oils rich in omega-6 seed, the high chronic disease that can contribute through increased inflammation. These oils in large quantities are new to the human race.

It is therefore important to understand what we are in our body. I really recommend these books if you want to know more. Both authors were interviewed for this episode of Good Food Show, starting around the 25 minute mark (you can download the episode and then come back to this point if desired).

Interested in books?

Pandora Lunchbox by Melanie Warner

Salt, sugar, fat by Michael Moss

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