Facts You Cannot Ignore about Refined Foods

We all find ourselves frequently giving in to the convenience of processed foods, in spite of its negative health effects. Yes, of course, refined food tastes good but it does not provide enough nutrition and can be bad for our health in the long term.

Many families today have become disconnected from unrefined food and the nourishment it provides. Our ancestors would eat only unrefined food and stay a lot healthier than us; we have now replaced unrefined food with deadly, depleted processed food. With these lifestyle changes we are not only losing our health we are also ending up popping any more pills.

Refined food is stripped of the vitamins, minerals, and fiber that were originally present before processing. Consuming large amounts of refined products places an extra burden on the body to supply the nutrients, specifically the B vitamins, chromium, magnesium, and zinc, needed to convert glucose (blood sugar) into energy.

Foods cannot be metabolized properly WITHOUT minerals and vitamins. The energy that these empty calorie foods provide becomes unavailable to our body and is stored as fat. In the meantime, we feel hungry and eat more. This too turns into fat. Because refined food lack fiber and bulk, it slows down intestinal activity.

They take up to five times longer to pass through the intestinal tract than the natural unrefined high fiber foods (75 hours compared to 15) and the body ABSORBS calories during the entire time of their constipated passage.

The more a grain is processed, the more it has lost its nutrients. Here is an example for you to get a fair idea — 100 g cooked long-grain white rice contains 0.5 g of fiber 100 g cooked long-grain brown rice contains 1.5 g of fiber. The removal of nutrients and almost all fibers from grains creates an unbalanced product.

The insulin overshoot causes LOW blood sugar will result in jitters, irritability, headache, hunger, and fatigue. The constant bombardment of blood sugar raises your risk of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, premature aging, and cancer. So apart from gaining weight, you are also inviting health hazards.

The brain requires just two bites to get the message that it has had enough. The trick is to eat it very slowly to get the “its enough” feeling. Dishes made from refined food should be consumed in moderation.

Make small changes in your cooking by replacing refined flour with wheat flour; Sugar with jaggery or honey and polished rice with brown rice. Eat healthy live healthy.

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