I think you can get by in life simply eating meats, fruits, veggies, nuts, and some oil.
But I found a good article that goes over the effects of food additives and which food additives are the best to avoid. I'm not going to go over all of them but a few caught my eye to talk about a little more.
1. Artificial Sweeteners. Shockingly, I'm not horribly against these when taken in very LOW dosages. Granted, I guess i'm kind of biased since I have a one Diet Coke a day requirement an hour or so before my daily workout, just for the caffeine energy boast. Regular soda is bad and if I'd like to see any progress on decreasing the amount of regular soda and it meant people switching to diet soda and not water and just continuing to drink regular soda, I'll pick diet soda.
2. High Fructose Corn Syrup. Very simply, I hate HFCS. Don't see anything good about it and I hate the fact that at the same time our government talks about improving the health of Americans they are giving massive subsides to the farming communities to make more corn, to then be processed into High Fructose Corn Syrup, to then be turned into this fake sugar, that in turns is helping lead the way to larger American waistline.
3. Hydrogenated Oils. These are pretty much where the Trans Fats come from and thankfully the FDA now requires that food manufacturers actually list on the nutritional labels how much trans fat is in a product. Studies on trans fat pretty much show that it causes your LDL cholesterol (bad stuff) to increase and your HDL cholesterol (the good stuff) to decrease. So stay away when you see it listed on a food label.
The article gives some pretty good tips for how to evaluate the ingredients for the bad food additives and they're pretty simple.
1. Choose foods that don't have a lot of ingredients listed and the ones that are listed are recognizable.
2. If your grandmother wouldn't recognize the ingredient, then it's more than likely man-made so stay away from it.
3. Probably my favorite and one I always preach: if you can't pronounce it, then it's more than likely processed.
There's a lot of bad effects of food additives so be careful of what's inside the foods that you think are healthy but might not be. Read the labels using the above criteria and that should help you make healthier choices.
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