It is always best to
avoid packaged items with a long list of ingredients, those with hard to pronounce names, additives and ones with sugar at the top of the list.
Not exact matches
When you eat whole foods rather than
packaged, processed food
items, you
avoid all of those chemicals, preservatives, and additives found in processed foods.
To keep inflammation at bay, I always encourage my patients to stick to a whole - foods diet with little to no
packaged food
items to
avoid any added ingredients and to keep their sugar intake to a minimum.
The food industry has countered people's attempt at
avoiding high glycemic
items by offering highly processed, artificial low glycemic
packaged foods (often found in so - called health food stores).
Often times protocols like the Clean Program and Whole30 will eliminate other irritants like alcohol, caffeine, and sugar from the mix and advise that you
avoid fried
items, cheapo vegetable oils, gums and additives in
packaged foods.
Avoid sugar and high fructose corn syrup based products, dairy (butter can be an exception), trans fat, artificial sweeteners, processed foods like bakery
items, or other
packaged foods.
It means having the discipline to
avoid packaged foods when shopping, as well as most
items in restaurants and at parties.
of
items are wastefully
packaged, how these almost - empty big boxes take up more space than necessary in shipping trucks, forcing them to make more trips for the same amount of cargo... It all adds up to a huge waste of materials and energy that could fairly easily be
avoided without much negative consequences.»
It's gotten harder and harder over the years to
avoid excess
packaging when shopping for everyday
items, but plans are in the works for a store in Austin (also the home of Whole Foods) that will specialize in local and organic
Today's proposed action is: Consume only unprocessed foods today in order to cut down on the energy used to process and
package; and, similar to what you focused on a few weeks ago when we addressed plastics:
avoid items that are heavily
packaged.
2) Be sure to have all
items packaged properly to
avoid shipping damage.