Hi everybody,

Research shows that one of the key reasons as to why many people are getting sick with “modern-day” diseases like heart disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes is their reliance on processed food as their primary form of nutrition.

In America alone, ninety percent of foods purchased every year are processed foods, and food marketers are doing a masterful job at making it seem like fast foods and junk foods are the obvious choice.

Yet nutritionists will state the these processed foods are dead and devoid of any natural nutrition. The fact that they taste good is the culmination of a profitable science of artificial flavours and additives, without which most processed food would taste and look like cardboard.

This is really disturbing when you consider the high proportion of society who relie on processed foods.

But what the food industry neglects to tell you is that there is a heavy price for consuming this terrible diet. For the sake of convenience or good taste now, you are trading one of the most valuable assets that you have, your health.

One of the “side effects” of eating a largely processed food diet is that you’re also consuming foods that are loaded with high-fructose corn syrup.

Research is showing that high-fructose corn syrup is becoming the single greatest source of calories in people’s diets.

Some nutritionists believe that this food ingredient alone is enough to completely wreck your health, and it is only one of the dangerous ingredients in processed foods.

So, are you addicted to a deadly diet?

Processed foods are typically chemically altered to increase the appeal to your taste buds, so they can override your body’s signals that would otherwise tell you it’s time to stop eating.

These foods are pumped full of unnatural amounts of sugar, corn syrup, salt, MSG and many others, which radically increases the likelihood of becoming addicted to them.

Understand now why it is difficult to get our kids to like something healthy?

Breaking the chains that enslave us to processed foods requires commitment to making informed decisions to alter what we eat.

In one study, when rats were fed a diet containing 25 percent sugar, they became anxious when the sugar was removed — displaying symptoms similar to people going through drug withdrawals, such as chattering teeth and the shakes.

So what effect is a high sugar diet having on us?

Think of it like this. Refined sugar, which is in nearly every processed food out there, because it is inexpensive and improves the flavour of the food, has been proven to be more addictive than cocaine!

This is why, if you regularly eat a diet of processed foods, whole foods seem to lack flavour. You have become conditioned to think that these chemically altered foods are the norm, when in fact the opposite is true.

The unfortunate reality is that when you eat a processed food diet, it leads to an avalanche of negative changes in your body. One of these is elevated insulin levels, and ultimately insulin resistance.

Ideally you’ll want to eat as many foods as possible in their unprocessed state; typically organic foods that have been grown locally, and are therefore in season.

To achieve this, switch to more raw foods gradually.

Many people feel that if they can’t eat their favourite junk foods, they are being deprived. In reality, the sooner you switch your eating habits, the sooner you’ll enjoy increased energy, normalized weight, a better mood and improved health overall.

Knowing this, many initially succeed at implementing an improved diet, but then fall back into old habits… and therefore, the “old” body.

To avoid this, you make the changes to your diet gradually, starting with making one meal a day raw, then increasing from there.

Don’t forget to use my ‘Evaluate your Progress’ form daily to assist you with your efforts.

Have a great week!

Bye for now

James
http://jamestansell.com