I am a compulsive label reader, have been for decades.
Some of the things I look for most often are MSG; high in sodium; HFCS; and long strings of unintelligible additives. If I can’t pronounce it then I don’t want to eat it.
We are now eating more fresh vegetables, salads, brown rice, and broiled, poached, or grilled beef, chicken, and fish - all cooked sodium free with little or no added fat. I use canola or olive oil and we rarely drink hard liguor, instead sipping a small glass of wine with our evening meal.
I suspect we’ll all live longer. Now, if I can only get my teenager away from fried bean burritos!
It's a good practice to NOT add salt when cooking. I've always cooked that was as well, and don't miss it at all. There is enough salt present naturally in foods to meet your bodies needs.
As far as cooking oil goes, even olive oil in excess isn't good for you, and can be just as bad as any other cooking oil if heated.
It is the over heating of cooking oils which turns them into saturated trans fats, so even though canola oil says it's trans fat acid free, soon as you turn your deep fryer on and heat it up to 375 to cook those fries or chicken, you begin changing it into a trans fatty acid chain. Change your deep fryer oil after every use if you really want to minimize your trans fat intake on those occasional deep fried foods. They more you use it, the higher in transfatty acid it becomes.
corn, vegetable and peanut oil is really the best oil to use in a deep fryer, but it's more expensive, especially if you change it after every use.
There's nothing tastier than a deep fried turkey in peanut oil, but it will cost you.
Everything in moderation, and you'll live a long time.
I see so many parents handing out goldfish crackers and the like to their babies, thinking that they are giving them some kind of food/snack, and not absolute poison.
99% of crackers, soups, packaged rice dishes, etc. contain it.
Here is a link giving some of the most known euphemisms, as MSG hides under MANY names. http://www.truthinlabeling.org/hiddensources.html
From Dr. Blaylock:
The worst diet is one high in N-6 fats, because it suppresses natural, cell mediated immunity while dramatically increasing inflammation. Americans eat 50 times the amount of these harmful fats as needed for health, mainly at the recommendation of the same government and medical geniuses who force vaccination programs on us.
Inflammation “boosters”
N-6 or omega-6 fats, including corn, safflower, sunflower, canola, peanut and soybean oils
high meat diets, which are high in iron and glutamate
soybean products
trans-fats
Inflammation “busters”
omega-3 oils (N-3 oils), found in fish and flaxseed
some white meats like chicken and turkey
a high intake of vegetables and some fruits
The following supplements help reduce inflammation:
curcumin
quercetin
hesperidin
ferulic acid
silymarin
magnesium
omega-3 (low EPA and high DHA)
vitamin C.
N-acetyl–L cysteine (NAC)
natural vitamin E (with high gammatocopherol)
Read more about the healthful effects of omega-3 oils in my special report “Omega-3: Nature’s Miracle Panacea” by going here.
Me too. My wife used to suffer from MSG migraines, and now suffers from a painful condition brought on by additives with potassium. We read every label. At least she no longer suffers from the migraines since she found MSG Buster.