Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  During the 1950s, fast foods (such as McDonald's) and convenience foods (then TV dinners, now microwave meals) grew in popularity. And by the 1970s and 1980s, large numbers of people were eating processed and refined foods, purchased either at the supermarket or in fast-food restaurants.
During the 1980s, food companies began to use high-fructose corn syrup to sweeten soft drinks, ice cream, and other foods. High-fructose corn syrup appears to be worse than plain old sugar in terms of its health effects. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  McDonald's and Burger King) and convenience foods (e.g., microwave meals, breakfast bars) has grown at an astonishing rate, supplanting home-cooked meals. Only about one-third of all dinners are now completely homemade, and 7 percent of these meals are nothing more than sandwiches. One-fourth of home meals are actually purchased frozen or prepared at a restaurant or a market, and the number of take-out meals from restaurants has increased by two-thirds over the last twenty years. We suffer serious neuronutritional consequences because of our poor eating habits. | | The cause, in large part, is related to the worldwide distribution and consumption of
American junk foods, from soft drinks to burgers and fries. Such convenience foods displace more nutritious foods.
In the United States, three-fourths of Americans do not consume the extremely minute yet required daily amount of folic acid, a key B vitamin that is involved in maintaining good moods. Similarly, almost half of us don't get enough vitamin C, about one-third don't consume enough vitamin B6, and almost a third don't have enough vitamin B12 in their diets. | | Part of the reason is our growing consumption of fast foods, convenience foods, soft drinks, and other junk foods, which are typically high in sugars and sugarlike carbs and low in protein, fiber, and vitamins. At the very least, junk foods displace healthier and more nutritious foods that contain lots of neuronutrients; however, junk foods also interfere with how the body uses essential nutrients.
We've been told that nutritional deficiencies are prevalent in developing and poor nations, and we believe that they are rare in modern Western nations. | | Y/N
I like convenience foods because I don't have time to eat a regular meal. Y/N
My usual breakfast includes a breakfast bar, an energy bar, cereal, or something sweet. Y/N
I eat at fast-food restaurants (e.g., McDonald's or Burger
King) at least twice a week. Y/N
A lot of the foods I eat at home come in a box, a bottle, or ajar. Y/N
I drink sugary (nondiet) soft drinks on a regular basis. Y/N
I drink more than two cups of coffee on most days. Y/N
I like eating fries. Y/N
I really enjoy and eat a lot of bread, pasta, or pizza. |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts |  Avoid salty snacks such as potato chips, pretzels, salted nuts, and processed and convenience foods. Remember that bread, breakfast cereals, and tinned vegetables can also contain a lot of salt.
Supplements: Magnesium supplements, taken at 1,000 mg a day, may relieve the tinnitus associated with Meniere's disease and protect the ears from resulting damage. The B vitamins may be beneficial to those with hearing loss. A high-potency complete B-complex vitamin is recommended. Alternatively, take 500 mg of vitamin B1, 250 mg of B6, and 500 meg of B12. | | Also avoid "instant," convenience foods that call for water to be added. These are often a rich source of chemical additives in the form of preservatives and flavorings.
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Osteoarthritis treatments that include eliminating food allergies, supplementing deficient vitamins, minerals, and amino acids, stretching and strengthening joints, and herbal approaches tend to be the most successful. | | Simple helpful steps include avoiding alcohol, tea and coffee, and convenience foods that are packed with chemical additives. Eat immunity-boosting foods that are a rich source of antioxidant nutrients, such as tomatoes, strawberries, peppers, citrus fruit, blueberries, and broccoli.
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Natrum mur: If warts have a tendency to develop on the palms of the hands, this remedy may be a possible choice. Additional symptoms include a tendency to develop very dry, sensitive skin that cracks easily in cold weather. |
Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts |  They concluded that the widespread availability of cheap convenience foods could explain most of the twelve-pound increase in the weight of the average American since the early 1960s. They point out that in 1980 less than 10 percent of Americans owned a microwave; by 1999 that figure had reached 83 percent of households. As technology reduces the time cost of food, we tend to eat more of it.*
My guess is that the converse still holds true, and that paying more for food—in every sense—will reduce the amount of it we eat. Several of the rules offered below are aimed in that direction. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts | | Foods that are high in sugars and refined carbohydrates, such as most fast-food meals, convenience foods, and sweets, lead to a rapid and extreme rise in glucose, followed by a surge in insulin levels. During the time that the glucose is elevated (before the insulin has a chance to act), people can lose their ability to concentrate.
Recent research has found that brain chemicals called orexins are responsible for mental alertness. Orexin activity is suppressed by high levels of glucose, leading to poor concentration and sleepiness. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts | | Part of the problem is that the fast foods, the convenience foods, and the junk foods contain large amounts of "high-glycemic" carbohydrates— another way to describe sugar and sugarlike refined carbohydrates. High-glycemic foods trigger a quick spike in blood sugar, followed by a surge of insulin, which causes blood sugar to fall lower than where it was before you ate. This means you get hungrier a little while after eating. | | They have grown up eating large quantities of junk foods, such as fast foods and microwave convenience foods. People who dine at fast-food restaurants two or more times a week are far more likely to gain weight and develop prediabetes, compared with those who rarely eat fast foods.
On a typical day, about one-third of U.S. children eat at fast-food restaurants. Fast-food restaurants form clusters around schools, and, unfortunately, school cafeterias and vending machines aren't much better, nutritionally. |
Dr Ron Roberts
See book keywords and concepts |  The type of seaweed called carrageen is much used as a substitute for gelatine and is added to many convenience foods. Kelp is also used in a diverse collection of foods, including ice cream, salad dressings and desserts.
Supplementing Your Diet
The substances needed by the human body to grow and be healthy are contained in the food we eat, the liquids we drink and the air we breathe. |
Ann N. Martin
See book keywords and concepts |  In The Complete Guide to Vegetarian convenience foods, author Gail Davis explains, "Bentonite is a clay formed by rhe decomposition of volcanic ash that has the ability to absorb large quantities of water and to expand to several times its normal volume."6
Clumping kitty litter also contains silica dust, a known cancer-causing agent. Davis notes, "When poured into your cat's litter box, and kicked up by your cat, silica dust rises into the air posing the risk of bronchial and respiratory infections. | | Some excellent alternative products available on the market are listed in The Complete Guide to Vegetarian convenience foods. The author researched products that are safe for animals as well as environmentally friendly. Some of these products can be found in stores and some purchased through mail order.
If you are concerned about the odor from some of the biodegradable litters, you can sprinkle about a teaspoon of baking soda in with the litter. Baking soda works better than the deodorizers in clumping litters, plus it is safer. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
See book keywords and concepts |  A number of factors account for the increasing trend in eating out, including a growing number of working women (75% of women 25-50 years old are in the workforce), more two-earner households, higher incomes, a desire for convenience foods because of busy lifestyles and little time for preparing meals, more fast-food outlets offering affordable food, smaller families, and increased advertising and promotion by large food-service chains and fast-food outlets [191].
The trend toward eating away from home more frequently has also been observed among adolescents and young adults [196]. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
See book keywords and concepts |  That said, 150 calories from a chocolate bar or donut is not a healthy op-
TIPS FOR EATING HEALTHY WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE TIME TO COOK A MEAL
When you don't have time to prepare a meal or are preparing different foods for your family to eat, it's all right to have healthy convenience foods; just make sure that you add PGX to your meal.
Tip #1
Look for frozen entrees that are less than 350 calories and contain less than 10 grams of fat. Add a garden salad, vegetables, and fruit, to your healthy frozen entrees for a balanced meal. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
See book keywords and concepts |  It's critical that the brain has a steady supply of glucose so when we are eating excessive convenience foods or refined carbohydrates we have a seesaw of blood sugar. That has a direct impact on the brain but then it further imbalances the stress hormone that I was mentioning. With regard to adrenaline, the blood sugar drops, the adrenaline goes up, and it's interesting that adrenaline when oversecreted over a period of time reduces the brain's production of dopamine. Dopamine is one of the neurotransmitters that has been found to be low in children with ADHD. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
See book keywords and concepts | | As is the case with most convenience foods, what I was eating regularly was very high in both calories and fat. The only thing really keeping my weight in check was the variety of sports I was playing throughout the year, but as I entered adulthood, I was playing fewer organized sports, and an athletic 210 pounds became a pudgy 240 pounds.
Every once in a while, I would decide that I needed to lose weight, and would start myself on some sort of exercise program. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Virtually all prepared foods in this country, whether they're restaurant foods or convenience foods, are made with such outrageous levels of salt, sugar and MSG that they can only be called extreme foods suffering from taste inflation.
What do I mean by taste inflation? If you studied newborn babies and were able to analyze their chemical taste sensors, you'd find they were able to experience a broad range of various tastes – the bitters in green leafy vegetables, the natural fruit sugars in apples and berries, and even the sweetness in cashews or tomatoes. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  This particular type of vegetable oil is found in many margarines, salad dressings, vegetable shortening, breads, cookies, muffins, and literally thousands of prepackaged convenience foods, as well as in many fast foods.
Partially hydrogenated vegetable oils are manufactured by adding hydrogen atoms to vegetable oils, such as soybean oil, and they are rich in trans-fatty acids. Hydrogenation increases the manufacturability and shelf life of oils, but it has serious health consequences. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |  This fat could then be added to convenience foods, allowing them to be shipped in warm, humid weather and parked on the grocery shelf for months on end. By 1979, the American public was consuming an estimated 10 billion pounds of fat and oil per year, of which 60 percent was partially hydrogenated oil.
-Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D., The Omega Diet
This trend continued well into the 1980s and 1990s. In fact, it was only in the 1990s that the research about the dangers of trans fats started to gain some attention. Even then, it was only well known in certain research circles. | | The trap is that when you buy convenience foods, you may find yourself lacking a sufficient intake of all important phytonutrients (more commonly called "phytochemicals") that come from plant sources. The Standard American Diet is, in particular, lacking phytochemicals.
It's as if people are so focused on the immediate taste sensation they desire that they forget about their body's other health needs. This is an easy dietary trap to fall into, since so many manufactured foods contain no phytochemicals.
Meat, milk, and eggs for example, have no phytochemicals whatsoever. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts | | We can eat fast foods and convenience foods, which are built primarily on sugars, refined carbohydrates, and unhealthy fats. By doing so we set the stage for abnormal gene activity. Or we can consciously decide to resist unhealthy foods and instead opt for wholesome, nutrient-dense foods, such as fish and vegetables. This approach fosters normal, even optimal, gene activity.
Everything you do in life is a choice, and doing nothing or delaying a decision for another day is a choice as well. In Feed Your Genes Right, I have provided an explanation and a plan for enhancing your genes and health. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
See book keywords and concepts |  Convenience foods have made it easier for women to join the workforce and for both parents to hold down jobs. The nutrient quality of the food prepared for their children and themselves has deteriorated, however.
Dead, Stale, Toxic. . . |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  So, if you look at all of these ingredients together, you realize that this is quite simply one of the most healing convenience foods you could ever get your hands on. It is far and above healthier than just about any health bar on the market. In fact, I've never seen another bar with this recipe of healing ingredients. It is simply outstanding, and it shows the nutritional wisdom of those who have formulated this bar. Eating each bar gives you 4,000 mg of superfoods. That's like taking 4 large capsules of superfoods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  I can just continue with my unhealthy, sedentary lifestyle of junk foods and convenience foods, and still manage to lose weight with this Nastech product."
I'm sure the product won't be marketed that way. It will be marketed as an aid to help people who are making healthy lifestyle changes. But nevertheless, this is not the way most people will ultimately think about it, either consciously or unconsciously. People want the easiest pathway to solving their weight problem, and they're going to seek the path of least resistance. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Fractures are more common with osteoporosis—almost eight million yearly in the United States are related to this prevalent nutritional deficiency disease"
"High dietary phosphorus, as is found in a diet with meats, soft drinks, and other convenience foods, can readily affect calcium metabolism. Potential calcium deficiency symptoms may be more likely when the phosphorus intake is very high. A low calcium-to-phosphorus ratio in the diet increases the incidence of hypertension and the risk of colon-rectal cancer. |
Michele Simon
See book keywords and concepts |  This patronizing use of the term moms is quite popular among food-industry spokesmen and spokeswomen alike; apparentiy, for these executives, "dads" don't do any shopping or care about their children's health; and with all the time pressure that working mothers face these days, companies are happy to exploit this with fancy-labeled convenience foods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Fractures are more common with osteoporosis—almost eight million yearly in the United States are related to this prevalent nutritional deficiency disease"
"High dietary phosphorus, as is found in a diet with meats, soft drinks, and other convenience foods, can readily affect calcium metabolism. Potential calcium deficiency symptoms may be more likely when the phosphorus intake is very high. A low calcium-to-phosphorus ratio in the diet increases the incidence of hypertension and the risk of colon-rectal cancer. |
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