If you want to improve your diet, you should first take a look at the most unhealthy foods to eat. Once you identify these foods, you can learn how to replace them with healthier options. Viewing foods through a “good” or “bad” lens, though, can make decisions harder. If only it were that easy! People probably wouldn’t eat certain foods if they could just identify their level of health in an instant. 

The majority of the most addictive and unhealthy foods are tempting because they contain fat and carbs. They usually contain added sugars, salt, and other things that keep you coming back bite after bite. When it comes to the worst foods, though, it is better not to forbid things. Instead, dietitians encourage people to eat more of certain things and decrease or replace the consumption of unhealthy foods. Fruits, veggies, nuts, seeds, legumes, whole grains, and lean proteins provide you with nutrients that make you not want to eat the other unhealthy stuff. 

When you understand how different foods impact your health, you can make healthier, informed food choices. Continue reading to learn more about the worst foods to eat, along with suggestions for healthier alternatives. 

Sodas

These sparkling, sugary beverages are hard to resist, and they can be a hard habit to break. Sodas and other sugary beverages increase the risk of tooth decay, type 2 diabetes, weight gain, and obesity. Rather than encouraging the switch from regular soda to diet soda, it is best to reduce your overall intake. You can also swap soda for water, seltzer water, or tea. Ideally, increase your water intake as much as possible, but don’t use those flavor packets!

French Fries

More often than not, French fries are usually fried in unhealthy oils, especially at fast-food restaurants. They are liberally seasoned with salt and are rich in saturated fats and calories. If you regularly consume fried foods, you can increase the risk of heart disease, obesity, and other chronic health conditions. You can still enjoy potatoes or sweet potatoes in fry form, but consider baking them or cooking them in an air fryer. Use olive oil or avocado oil on the potatoes to get them crispy. 

Donuts

When someone in the office brings a box of donuts, it is very difficult to resist the temptation. Everyone loves a good donut! The problem is that donuts do not offer a lot from a health standpoint. Donuts are deep fried in refined and processed oils and usually contain high levels of sugar, bleached white flour, and trans fats. The high sugar content can lead to a blood sugar spike that ends in an even bigger crash. If you are craving baked goods, a homemade muffin or scone is a better option. By baking your own treat, you can use better ingredients, such as whole grain flour, avocado oil, and reduce the sugar content, or replace it with applesauce, maple syrup, or dates. 

Processed Meats

Bacon, hot dogs, and cold cuts like bologna, ham, and turkey are rich in sodium, calories, and other processed ingredients. Consuming a lot of these foods can increase the risk of high blood pressure and high cholesterol, two risk factors for heart disease. Research indicates that processed meat has a more significant impact on the risk of heart disease than unprocessed red meat or chicken. Processed meats also contain cancer-causing chemicals, due to levels of carcinogens. Try to opt for lean protein sources, such as grilled chicken, wild caught fish, tempeh, or tofu, instead of processed meats. Those alternatives provide better protein without the harmful additives. 

White Bread

Some people may express concern about how much bread they eat, and occasionally make attempts to cut it out of their diets. White bread is good to avoid if you can because it is usually made with refined flour, which has been stripped of its fiber and nutrients during processing. That’s why eating white bread can lead to rapid spikes in blood sugar, and it may even lead to weight gain, insulin resistance, and other metabolic issues. Whole grain and multigrain breads are good alternatives because they usually contain more fiber, vitamins, minerals, and help stabilize blood sugar. 

Fast Food Burgers

If you regularly eat hamburgers from fast food establishments, you will have a difficult time overcoming health hurdles. These burgers are rich in saturated fat, salt, and added sugars. Over time, all of those ingredients can increase the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and obesity. If you want to enjoy a burger, swap out regularly ground beef for ground turkey or use wild caught fish. Avoid fast food altogether and don’t think that vegan meats or certain veggie patties are healthier. They are also rich in processed ingredients and sodium. 

Chips

How addictive and amazing are potato chips? Well, potato chips are empty calories because they lack sufficient nutritional value. Chips are rich in fat and low in protein and fiber. Instead of snacking on potato chips, opt for snacks with higher nutritional values, such as roasted chickpeas, nuts and seeds, or seaweed crisps. There are more snack options than bags of potato chips. 

Alcohol

Alcohol is a tricky one because a lot of people can overdo it. Avoiding alcohol is also a constant struggle for people with addiction issues. Alcohol, much like potato chips, is empty calories and excessive alcohol intake can increase the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, cognitive decline, and stroke. Mocktails, sparkling water, or freshly made juices are healthier options for your body, not just your liver and pancreas.

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Among developed countries, the United States has the highest obesity rates in the world. The percentage of obese adult males in the US is a whopping 36.47%. This is due to various factors including dietary habits, sedentary lifestyles, access to health care and more.

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Recent studies suggest that junk food accounts for about 50% of the average American’s daily caloric intake. Junk food is the umbrella term that describes ultra-processed foods and drinks, such as fast food, soda, candy, packaged cookies, and salty snack foods. Although there is nothing wrong with enjoying ice cream, chips, or baked goods from time to time, junk food should not be a regular part of your diet. Consuming too much of it can be detrimental to your mental and physical health. 

People who consume more junk food have a higher risk of obesity, fatty liver, depression, high blood pressure, heart disease, and certain cancers. You may understand this reality, but the problem is that junk food is so appealing. The brain encourages you to seek pleasurable experiences, such as enjoying tasty food. This natural encouragement is the brain’s “reward” system. When you eat tasty food, including junk food, you activate that reward system and the brain releases dopamine. This rush of pleasure causes the brain to create more receptors to respond to that dopamine rush. Ultimately, you care more about junk food the more you eat it because you have that reward system in place. 

If you currently eat a lot of junk food and want to kick your habit, the methods in this article may be effective for you. The following tips are evidence-based, so experiment with them to see which ones work for you. 

Fuel Your Body Regularly

You may think that depriving your body of calories or being overly restrictive with food will lead to weight loss. This tactic can actually have the opposite effect, causing you to ravenously eat foods, many of which are unhealthy. There is a complex relationship between calorie restriction and the cravings you have. The research, however, shows that skipping meals or depriving the body of certain foods can increase cravings and snacking. Everyone has different caloric needs, but you should aim to fuel your body with fiber-rich, protein-rich, and nutrient-dense meals and snacks. When you provide your body with these types of foods, you will reduce your cravings for junk food. 

Get Enough Sleep

Whether you want to believe it or not, insufficient sleep can cause you to make poor food choices. Additionally, lack of sleep increases your desire for junk food because it is quick, easy, and highly accessible. Studies confirm that lack of sleep, or irregular sleep patterns, can increase your caloric intake, snacking, and cravings for high-fat, high-sugar foods. In fact, just one night of poor sleep can affect your food choices the next day. A 2019 study found that reducing sleep time by 33% (two to three hours of sleep) caused increased hunger cravings, compared to a normal night of sleep. To protect your food choices, get between seven to nine hours of sleep per night. 

Consider Taking Inventory Of Your Pantry

If you have junk food in your house, especially if you know where to find it, you will likely gravitate towards it. Consider swapping out ultra-processed food products with more nutritious options. Junk food that is palatable and addictive is dangerous to have in your house. The research shows that just looking at tempting foods can stimulate the striatum, an area in the brain that regulates appetite and reward from food intake. Looking at cookies, candy, or chips may lead to snacking, overeating, and eating even if you are not hungry. Do a pantry overhaul to see which foods need to go. Stock your counter with fresh fruit instead of keeping candy in your pantry!

Cook More Meals At Home

Not only does cooking at home save you money, but it can also help you cut back on junk food. Stopping at a fast food establishment, although convenient, is not conducive to your health journey. Cooking at home, especially if you meal prep, can help you decrease your reliance on convenience foods. Additionally, meal prepping is a great way to ensure that you always have healthy food options. Many studies indicate that people who cook more have better quality diets, enjoying more servings of fruits and vegetables per day. They also eat less food than people who dine out often. 

Eat More Filling Foods

Struggling with what to eat? It can be beneficial to learn more about how certain foods impact your body and hunger levels. That knowledge can help you devise a better plan of attack for your meals, and may help you cut back on your junk food intake as well. Most junk foods are high in calories, but they don’t fill you up. Ever notice how you can eat an entire bag of chips and still be hungry? That is why it benefits you to eat foods that are higher in protein, healthy fats, and fiber. Consider eating homemade overnight oats or chia pudding instead of grabbing a donut and coffee on your way to work. You can also opt for a fruit and vegetable smoothie to satiate you until lunch!

Grocery Shop Regularly

If you want to make more food at home and stop eating junk food, a well-stocked kitchen makes that task much more doable. Studies have shown that people who grocery shop regularly have better quality diets than people who don’t. Additionally, those people eat much less ultra-processed foods. When you go to the grocery store, make sure to take a grocery list and stick to it. Avoid going to the store when you are hungry because that will cause you to make impulse purchases that do nothing for your health.

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With the holiday celebrations in full swing, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. There are never-ending to-do lists, parties to attend, last-minute gifts to purchase, and activities to entertain the kids on holiday break. All of that running around creates the perfect storm to eat unhealthy fast food meals. Instead of resorting to fast food, especially in the mornings, make a quick nutritious smoothie to fuel you up with energy, antioxidants, fiber, and more. Plus, the great thing about this smoothie is that that boost of energy doesn’t come with a sugar crash later.

This smoothie only requires a handful of ingredients, and it comes together in minutes. The natural sweetness of the banana and maple syrup perfectly balance the tartness of the cranberries. A dash of cinnamon adds a nice spicy kick and a little winter coziness to your smoothie. Plus, that cinnamon pairs perfectly with the apple, banana, and cranberries. It almost makes this smoothie taste like a holiday dessert or treat.

Make sure to use fresh cranberries for your smoothie if you can find them! Cranberries are loaded with vitamin C, which is great to have during the winter when the common cold and flu are all too common. They are only in season for a short while, so some stores may or may not have them. If you cannot find fresh cranberries, frozen cranberries are perfectly acceptable to use, so long as they do not contain preservatives or added sugars.

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America is a fast food nation. All of the different fast food chains exist around the country and people are definitely not boycotting them. You saw those crazy lines at Popeye’s for the chicken sandwich, didn’t you? People continue to supersize meals and make combos, all the while raising cholesterol levels and impairing digestion. Fast food continues to be eaten because it is affordable, quick, and easy. Well, we have news for you. There are lots of healthy meals that are quick and easy to make.

We are changing the game on National Fast Food Day by avoiding fast food restaurants to make quick and easy meals that are delicious. These won’t be wrapped in paper or fried in grease; rather, they will be healthy, tasty, affordable, and easy to make! Most people don’t like to cook because it is time consuming. The prep work can take time if you aren’t used to cooking, which is why it may be beneficial to meal prep for the week. This isn’t necessary, but it can save you time when it comes to making food.

Another misconception about making your own meals is that it costs more. Cooking healthy food does not cost more. In fact, vegetarians can save more money than non-vegetarians! Here are several meals that take under ten minutes to make! And they are Full Body Cleanse approved!

Fall Into Flavor With This Arugula Persimmon Salad

Inspired by some of our favorite fall ingredients, this salad is vibrantly colored, full of flavor, easy to make, and truly one of a kind.

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Peach Persimmon Smoothie

This is probably one of the best entry points into the world of persimmons. Experience the unique flavor and then make more recipes!

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Zucchini Noodles With An Arugula Lime Pesto

Whip up this raw vegan entree in a matter of minutes. It is peppery, citrusy, and is pretty much the ideal dinner for cleansers.

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Thai Romaine Wraps For An Easy Entree

Fun, filling, and easy to make, these Thai romaine wraps are your next favorite entree to enjoy while cleansing. It’s love at first bite.

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2 Ingredient Chocolate Banana Ice Cream

This is the perfect guilt-free treat for warm summer days. No ice cream machine needed and it’s ready in under 5 minutes!

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Don’t go through the drive-thru today. Actually, try to avoid the drive-thru all the time. Your body will thank you when you feed it healthy foods. If you make any of these recipes, let us know how they turned out in the comments below.

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When you type in “fast food” on the Internet, the first results you get are a series of chain restaurants near you. In a world where our every day lives tend to be fast-paced we tend to rely on a type of food consumption that is just as fast. Unfortunately, fast food is less nutritionally valuable than whole plant-based foods, which you can prepare at home. Depending on where you live, plant-based restaurants may be more abundant than you realize.

As much as fast food may ease our hunger for a while and facilitate things when we are in a hurry, we should learn what is really behind the ingredients we consume. Here are 5 things you may want to know before you skip a nutritious meal and choose to step foot in a fast food establishment.

1. Are chicken nuggets really chicken? The short answer is yes, but researchers found that nuggets contain very little meat and, instead, are mostly leftover pieces of the bird, such as its bones, fat and tendons. Click here for more information on why it is beneficial to avoid chicken.
2. Fountain drinks are not only extremely fizzy and full of added sugar; 48 percent of soda fountains at fast food restaurants contain coliform bacteria—bacteria that commonly grow in feces. This study was done by a team of microbiologists at Hollins University, where they also reported that 11 percent of these fountains contained E. Coli, a bacterium responsible for intestinal sickness such as diarrhea, as well as urinary tract infections, respiratory illness, and pneumonia.
3. Fast food hamburgers contain meat from up to 100 different cows. After cattle are slaughtered, the cheaper bits are all tossed together into a machine for processing, where they are cut and mushed into pieces for sale, before given a pump of fat for good measure. Not to mention, burgers are flash frozen and contain preservatives to keep them from going bad.
4. Ever wondered why milkshakes at fast food chains taste so good? That is because they are pumped with chemicals aimed for a better look and a “better” artificial taste. These include artificial strawberry flavor, high fructose corn syrup, guar gum (also found as a thickening agent in lotions and creams), and sodium phosphate, (though seemingly harmless, getting too much phosphate from your diet could cause an imbalance between phosphorus and calcium in your body, increasing your risk for osteoporosis.)
5. A recent research study, focused on the egg-based breakfast sandwiches sold at some fast food places, has shown that they are made from a concoction of real eggs and what is called “premium egg blend.” This blend of preservatives and additives includes glycerin, a solvent found in soap and shaving cream, and calcium silicate, a solvent found in roofs and concrete.

Perhaps knowing what on goes behind the curtains of fast food chains will make us opt for healthier, more natural food choices that will benefit us in the long run.

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One increasingly popular trend of people now is to request a natural remedy for the result of unnatural thinking and ways of living (behavior, actions), and eating (diet).

This seems to create a paradox-why take something natural to combat the results from the unnatural activity? It would be much easier to just stop doing the unnatural thing as your remedy, but no, people do not want to have to renounce their unhealthy behaviors and beliefs.

Natural Healing

Natural healing is very popular. Holistic health has become a fad and trend for many individuals. It’s the cool thing now to take natural remedies in place of pharmaceutical drugs for most of our common diseases, maladies, and ailments.

However, why take a natural remedy in place of a chemical drug or pharmaceutical medicine when the so-called foods and beverages many people consume on a daily basis are saturated and heavily laced with chemical drugs?

With this present state of twisted thinking displayed in people in general, natural remedies (mainly herbal remedies) are taking the place of chemical drugs. Many are placing herbs in capsules and taking them the same way as we take drugs, transitioning the herbs into a drug state. Instead of not doing a thing or cutting a thing out completely, we’d rather do the thing and develop the disease, and take something to combat the problem. Health does not come from a bottle.

Dherbs is geared towards helping people become the best and healthiest that they can be. Food is your best medicine and food should be eaten raw and fresh, especially if you desire optimal health.

Most people’s desire for convenience means that they don’t eat food raw and fresh. They process and adulterate foods by dehydrating and pulverizing them, cooking them, destabilizing them at a molecular level by extracting their major constituent (alkaloid), etc.

People want to go out and get drunk and then treat themselves with natural medicine. Instead of taking aspirin for hangovers, they want a natural remedy for the headache because aspirin is a drug and dangerous (may thin the blood and burn a hole in your stomach). But is not the alcohol a drug and dangerous too? Of course it is, but people are blinded by their desires today. When it comes to having a good time, people don’t even consider danger they may be causing to their health.

People smoke cigarettes for 20-30 years have a strong likelihood of developing cancer and then say they don’t want to do chemotherapy and/or radiation but that they want to take something natural to fight the cancer. The cancer is nothing but the effect of the cause (smoking). How can a person be conscious of the harm of chemotherapy and radiation but not conscious of the harm from smoking and all the poisonous ingredients that go into cigarettes? Chemotherapy is no more poisonous than the cigarettes!

Consider the universal health maxim or adage: prevention is better than remedy.

You love eating fast food. You’re proud of it. But when you develop obesity, you’re humble. Now you’ll give up the fast food in a desperate attempt to regain your health. Why wait to remedy the situation until after it has already become a problem? It is easy and makes so much sense to do the right, beneficial, and natural thing.

There is no cure outside of yourself. There is no cure without your will to be cured! No other person can cure or heal you from anything. While others can help or assist you, only God and the human body can heal (or cure).

Before asking for natural remedies stemming from the result of doing unnatural things, consider the behavior that led to the request. Let your natural remedy be the prevention stemming from natural living.

Herbs and natural remedies are the exception and not the rule. The rule is natural living (to the best of your ability) in harmony with Divine and Universal Law.

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We all know fructose is some type of sweetener, we see it listed on so many food labels: ketchup, soft-drinks, energy drinks, cereals, cookies, breads, crackers, ice creams, canned soups, and more. And most of us think fructose has something to do with fruits. So in some way it’s okay; it’s just some sweetener thing derived from natural fruit sugar.

But it’s not. Well it’s half true. Fructose is one of the main sugars from fruits, the others being sucrose and glucose, so that’s true. But the fructose found in processed foods is an entirely different story.

Food manufacturers and producers are sweetening our food with high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) which does not come from fruits at all. It comes from a highly processed blend derived from corn, which many times can be genetically modified.

Too much HFCS in the diet means extra calories and can lead to unwanted weight gain. In addition to the unwanted pounds, weight gain can lead to health problems such as high blood pressure and diabetes.

The best way to reduce HFCS and other added sugars in your diet is check the products that you consume and look out for it on the labels. Added sugars are listed on ingredient labels as HFCS, fructose, sucrose, glucose, corn syrup, fruit juice concentrate, corn sweetener, honey and dextrose. Limit these as much as possible and try to get your sweet fix from whole fruit instead. Not only are you getting natural sugar this way, you are also getting much needed fiber and antioxidants.

The American Heart Association has specific guidelines for added sugar — no more than 100 calories a day from added sugar for most women and no more than 150 calories a day for most men. That’s about six teaspoons of added sugar for women and nine for men.

Just to put this in perspective, one 12-ounce soft drink or 1.5 fruit-flavored eight-ounce cups of yogurt has 10 teaspoons of added sugar, that’s already above the guidelines for the entire day!

Most Americans get more than 22 teaspoons — or 355 calories — of added sugar a day, which far exceeds both the USDA guidelines and American Heart Association recommendations.

Tips to reduce the added sugar in your diet

• Limit sugar-laden sodas.
• Limit candy high in added sugar.
• Limit the non-nutritious, sugary and frosted cereals.
• Check to see that your canned fruit is packed in water or natural juice, not syrup.
• Go easy on condiments like ketchup, BBQ sauce, and salad dressings.
• Avoid fast food – it’s usually high in HFCS.
• Have fresh fruit as a sweet treat.
• Snack on vegetables.
• Look for 100 percent organic labels, then it’s HFCS-free.

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• Full Body Cleanse
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• Sugar Buster Tea
• Euphoria Bath Drops
• Spiritio Bath Drops

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