The degradation of our food supply - most foods we purchase from our grocers today are nutritionally deficient as a result
of modern food processing.
But with the introduction
of modern food processing (and our instinct to strip meats of skin, bones, and connective tissues before eating), we've nearly eliminated all forms of collagen that were once abundant, and so for us, supplementing our diet with a clean form of this vital nutrient is a smart move.
The Euro - Baltic fish processing centre is one of the success stories
of modern food processing.
Not exact matches
The idea
of «
processing» — from ancient techniques
of salting and curing to the
modern arsenal
of artificial preservatives — arose to make sure the
food we ate didn't make us sick.
Paleo experts took note
of our
modern - day behavior and thought, if obesity and disease rates are rising as quickly as
processed foods are flying off shelves, maybe we should go back to our roots and eat like our early ancestors did?
Excesses
of chemicals, sugar,
processed flours, herbicides and pesticides, preservatives and sweeteners found in
modern food supplies stress out the pancreas and liver, sometimes even leading to diseases like diabetes and cancer.
The SPX portfolio includes a wide range
of APV branded products, systems and technologies, such as heat transfer (aseptic and non-aseptic), membrane filtration, UHT treatment, cheese production systems, distillation, mixing and blending technologies designed to operate at maximum efficiencies in
modern processing lines within the dairy,
food, beverage and related industries around the world.
In addition, high efficiency and accurate control
of production
processes and compliance with
food handling regulations, such as
food safety and traceability, is a must in today's
modern plant.
I continue to test new products in my kitchen in a couple
of my original mason jars, so even though the business is now a
modern food manufacturing plant, my heart is still in the simplicity
of the
process of germination.»
We have a
modern plant & equipment for the automation
of the complete production
process of soy based
foods.
Modern - day infant formula is the ultimate refined
food, a product
of science, composed
of highly
processed ingredients such as sugar, nonfat dried milk, vegetable oils and a list
of synthetic nutrients.
WITH a glut
of headlines linking
processed foods to obesity and cancer, their status as
modern society's scourge seems assured.
Oil made from palm berries — a shelf - stable and cheap staple
of modern - day
processed food — has been found in ancient Egyptian tombs.
It is hard to argue that a simpler life with more exercise, fewer
processed foods, and closer contact with our children may well be good for us, but rather than renouncing
modern living for the sake
of our Stone Age genes, we need to understand how evolution has — and hasn't — suited us for the world we inhabit now.
Modern changes in dietary habits, particularly the consumption
of processed foods lacking fiber, are believed to affect microbiota and contribute to the increase
of chronic inflammatory disease, including metabolic syndrome.
The typical
modern processed -
food diet leaves many
of us low in omega - 3s, Bredesen says, so fish or krill oil from a trusted source is a good idea.
However, its amazing rise — from a common weed, to staple
food and cultural icon
of Native Americans, to
modern hybrid cultivar, to versatile and ubiquitous component
of processed food, to precursor
of clothing and motor fuels, to pharmaceutical factory — is little known to students or the general public.
Our
modern diet
of heavily
processed foods, added fats, sugars and salt clearly doesn't resemble the diet
of our cave - dwelling ancestors — or even grandma and grandpa.
With a
modern lifestyle that often includes
processed foods, irregular sleep schedules, artificial light and lack
of movement, hormone imbalance is a growing problem and cravings are a growing symptom.
In today's
modern world, overeating,
processed foods high in sugar and trans - fats, and lack
of physical activity have led to a rise in obesity, diabetes, other diseases, and metabolic inflexibility.
Ignoring the fact that we don't need to eat every 2 - 3 hours and that our
modern fascination with «snack
foods» is more a product
of a multi-billion dollar industry than our own hunger, these junks
foods are most often packed with refined sugar and
processed ingredients as well.
By «
modern diet» we point the diet used by the masses
of people in industrialized countries — the diet in which packaged
foods with a long shelf life and
processed foods are predominant.
Modern soy ingredients as found in packaged and processed food products are the most dangerous of all, including not only the plant estrogens and other risky components inherent in all soybeans, but the MSG, other additives and carcinogenic residues that result from modern, industrial, food processing me
Modern soy ingredients as found in packaged and
processed food products are the most dangerous
of all, including not only the plant estrogens and other risky components inherent in all soybeans, but the MSG, other additives and carcinogenic residues that result from
modern, industrial, food processing me
modern, industrial,
food processing methods.
Modern diets high in
processed grains and low in nutrient dense fats and minerals may increase the likelihood
of nutrient absorption problems and make it even more important to reduce phytic acid levels in
food.
The majority
of modern day salt intake (in the US) comes from
processed foods.
Unfortunately, with hybridized, highly sprayed and highly
processed modern grains, there isn't an easy answer and even these traditional methods may not be enough to reduce all
of the harmful properties in these
foods.
The real story behind the
modern epidemic
of excess flab on our bodies comes from consuming so many
processed and refined
foods — they are EVERYWHERE in today's
modern Western diet, and they dull the body's natural feedback loop that tells us when we're full.
While the ongoing
process of research into vitamin A and its effects is a boon to children and adults throughout the world,
modern agriculture and
food processing conglomerates gain nothing from this knowledge.
The rise in the prevalence
of all
of these conditions parallels the arrival
of modern and
processed foods, such as refined carbohydrate, in the human diet.
«The
modern diet, with an overabundance
of refined grains,
processed foods, and sugars, contains very little magnesium.
Modern life, with the stressors
of money, traffic, social isolation, pollution,
processed food, etc can tax the body and, in turn, take your hormones for a nose dive before they should go down that way.
In contrast to these robustly healthy people, those who had switched to a more «civilized» diet
of processed foods, sodas, and other westernized products soon began to manifest
modern diseases and produce offspring with narrow jaws and crowded teeth, and more narrow faces.
Modern day life lends itself to sitting and eating
processed foods — the twin pillars
of gut dysfunction.
Research indicates that it is our
modern diet, full
of processed foods, refined grains, trans fats and sugar, that is at the root cause
of degenerative diseases such as obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune disease, Alzheimer's, depression and infertility.
Unfortunately, sweet and anabolic
foods are available in abundance in the
modern developed world in the form
of processed foods.
With
modern kids so used to the taste
of processed food, school lunch programs have given in to serving it because that's what the kids will eat.
But, we abuse our bodies through the consumption
of modern,
processed, sugary, salty, refined
foods and through our
modern lifestyles (stress, not enough sleep, etc).
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PROCESSED FOODS: These present a quadruple nutritional assault upon a brain suffering the ravages
of the
modern diet: they are usually high in refined carbohydrate; high in rancid, easily oxidized vegetable oils; low in antioxidants; and low in vitamins and minerals.
The average person eating a
modern western diet
of processed food consumes a LARGE quantity
of fructose without even thinking about it from all
of the soft drinks (high fructose corn syrup typically), sweetened juice drinks, orange juice,
processed junk
foods such as cakes and candies, as well as the HFCS that's added to store - bought salad dressings, breads and cereals, and even condiments like ketchup.
Unfortunately, the Standard American Diet
of processed foods, an overload
of environmental toxins and chronic stress - harbingers
of the
modern world - have created an epidemic
of unhealthy inner ecosystems.
Many
modern Japanese have abandoned their traditional ways
of eating in favor
of processed foods, caffeine, and sugar.
On the contrary,
modern day diets
of processed foods and excessive sugar, combined with sedentary lifestyles have pushed our physiologies dangerously far from their adapted environments.
Food abundance and a high level
of processed, carb - dense
foods, has led to
modern eating patterns that contribute to blood sugar dysregulation and insulin resistance.
While we may consider ourselves to be at the pinnacle
of human development, our
modern food manufacturing
processes have not created a race
of super-humans in possession
of great health and longevity.
Modern processed soy
foods contain high levels
of MSG, fluoride and aluminum, all
of which are toxic to the nervous system.
A growing body
of scientific evidence supports a Paleo - style diet based on the
foods eaten by our ancestors — free
of processed and refined ingredients and other by - products
of modern food production.
Nowadays everything is so readily available, we've invented new sources
of sugar and put it in almost all
modern day
processed foods.
Avoiding «
foods of modern commerce» such as
processed foods with additives, soy
foods (unless traditionally fermented), and refined sugar
From this perspective, grains probably never accounted for more than 1 - 3 %
of our historical calorie intake... and as you know from one
of my recent articles, currently our
modern processed diet that the average person eats consists
of 67 %
of total calories from grains such as corn, soy, and wheat and their derivatives... now THAT»S a shocking revelation in why our entire
food supply is backwards, and how that affects your waistline!
Perhaps the abundance
of gluten in our
modern day
processed food diet is to blame?