Since changing my diet this past year I have learned so much about the American diet. I now read the ingredients of everything that I buy and have discovered that most of the foods we eat are REALLY bad for us.  Take for example enriched flour; do you know what that really means? It means that the flour has been processed so much that they have stripped out the good stuff and had to then enrich or add back to it the quality nutrients. Yuck!

Another example of a common ingredient in a lot of our food is corn syrup.  Have any ideas of what corn syrup does to your body? You have sensors in your body that tell you when you are hungry and when you are full. Well, corn syrup stops the sensors from telling you that you are full which results in you eating more.  Corn syrup will also spike your glucose levels which in return will cause the glucose levels to go down fast, crash, resulting in you wanting eat more.

Milk, wow I can’t say enough. The milk you buy at the grocery has been possessed so much that there really is nothing left that is good for you. Not to mention the antibiotics and hormones that goes into the cows.  YUCK!! Now if you love milk then I recommend finding a good source that doesn’t give there cows all the hormones and antibiotics. My kids can’t drink it and I don’t really like it either. Most of the time we use almond milk as a substitute which has as much calcium in it as regular milk and almonds are REALLY good for you too.

One last example of a bad ingredient that is commonly found in a lot of the foods we eat is Trans fat or hydrogenated fats.  These fats have to be one of the worst things for your body!  One of the major side effects of Trans fats is that your body can’t recognize it so it stores it in your arteries.

Make sure that you read all your labels when buying groceries.  You will be amazed at the amount of junk that is included in most of the products you buy.