What kind of food and ingredients are dangerous to your health?

1. Canned Tom. Tomatoes Sauce. Canned tomato sauce is a killer in disguise. It’s a hidden source of sugar, and it would never even cross your mind that it could lead to an increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and even tooth decay.
2. Carbonated drinks or sodas are one of your worst enemies. They can mess up everything, from your skin, and blood sugar levels, to your hormones and mood.
3. Sugar is highly addictive, and apart from spiking your glucose levels and creating fat, it can lead to heart disease. This is called “The White Killer”
4. Deli Meats. Deli meats such as salami, ham, bologna, etc. are full of nitrates, sodium, preservatives, and additives. All these substances can increase the risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and even behavioral problems and learning difficulties in children.
5. Vegetable oils. Vegetable oils contain dangerous trans-fats that can trigger cardiovascular disease, obesity, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease. Some of them are GMO’s, refined, so if you think of using them steer clear of them as it contains free radicals that can help cancer growth, and speed up aging.
6. It’s one of the unhealthiest foods in your diet. So cut it out! Margarine is like a very lousy version of butter that’s made with hydrogenated vegetable oils, and it’s more unnatural than you think. So, what’s so bad about it? It’s the Trans fats that can damage your heart, and blood vessels, and mess up your cholesterol levels.
7. Hot Dogs aren’t barking. Have you ever seen in close how they even make them? Not? Oh boy, so the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine compared the effects of eating hot dogs to the effects of smoking cigarettes. If you’re not convinced yet, you should know that hot dogs are high in sodium and toxins that increase your risk of cancer.
8. Bottled Salad Dressing. Bottled salad dressings are full of sugar, artificial colors, and high fructose corn syrup. Once you drown your salad in this nutritional disaster. Avoid them immediately.
9. Artificial Sweeteners. Besides Stevia, Etylitol, and xylitol the rest of the sweeteners aren’t good for your health or diet. Artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, neotame, acesulfame potassium, etc. might contain fewer calories, but they can still increase the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, and metabolic syndrome.
10. Need I say more? Okay, okay…. It’s extremely high in calories and can cause dehydration, liver damage, weight gain, depression, and skin problems. Not to mention the bad decisions, you make when under the influence.

11. White bread, refined flours. Another white killer is in plain sight, but until we get to the dairy. White bread is made from refined flour. White flour is stripped of all the nutritional fiber, minerals, and vitamins, and all you get is grain waste mixed with chemicals to achieve nice white color. But behind it lies the risk of weight gain, thyroid damage, and organ damage. Go whole grain instead!

12. Oh, good old friend, Not! That is a devil incarnate. Dairy products are linked with low nutrient absorption, migraines, arthritis, cancer, allergies, and asthma. So again, forget about those clever marketing tricks. Switch to coconut milk or almond milk, it tastes great, and it won’t slowly kill you like cow milk. Want to know more about the risk of dairy products?

13. Barbecued Meat. The chemicals that enter the meat during the process are associated with the risk of pancreatic cancer and breast cancer.

14. Energy bars. Energy bars contain a lot of sugar (we discussed sugar before), high fructose corn syrup, preservatives, and can contain trans-fats. So, this is basically candy that’s full of calories, sugar, and artificial ingredients. In other words, it’s a ticking time bomb.

15. Fast food. It’s the same things that are slowly killing you: trans-fats, sugar, salt, preservatives, additives, dyes, and other chemicals that enhance the looks and the taste of this food. Fast food can affect your risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, mood disorders, weight gain, metabolic disorders, etc.

• Wheat contains a carbohydrate that suddenly and greatly increases your blood sugar levels. This triggers high insulin production and weight gain. Over time, your pancreas will become overworked, and you’ll become insulin resistant, and then you can get diabetes. And high blood sugar levels trigger the production of compounds that speed up the aging process and give you wrinkled skin.

17. Breakfast Cereals. They actually contain sugar, artificial coloring, preservatives, and GMO products, and they’re often stripped of the nutrients they had before processing. They are marketing it as healthy food, right?

18. Commercial Fruit Juice. They contain sugar, coloring, and preservatives.

19. Salt (refined, white). Salt plays a big role in regulating our blood pressure. If you eat too much salt, you’ll have high blood pressure and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, which is among the leading causes of death in the world. Use Himalaya Pink Salt instead.

20. They will spike your insulin levels to the roof. Once the worst carbohydrates choice on your meal plan.

21.  The stalks are yummy in a sweet pie or with a crumble topping, but the leaves of rhubarb are toxic and poisonous. Rhubarb leaves contain exilic acid, which can cause breathing problems, a burning sensation in your throat or mouth, nausea, stomach upsets, seizures, kidney stones, and coma.

22. Are you allergic to them? Well, you’re fucked. A severe anaphylactic reaction can result in someone’s airways being seriously restricted, chest tightness, loss of consciousness, and shock. Skin reactions can include itches, spots, and welts.

23. Stone fruits. Stone fruits such as cherries and plums are a sweet summer favorite, but always be careful to remove and not swallow the seeds or pips. Cherry and plum pits or stones contain a substance that produces cyanide. In small doses, cyanide can give you headaches, make you anxious, confused, and dizzy and lead to vomiting. In big doses, cyanide can be lethal.

24. Castor Oil. Eating only a few castor beans can kill a human. So, it’s important to make sure you buy castor oil that you know has been extracted and processed according to safety guidelines.

25. Unpasteurized Honey. Unpasteurized honey can contain alkaloids that cause headaches, vomiting, dizziness, and weakness. Too much, especially in young children, can kill you.

26. Bitter Almonds. There are two types of almonds, bitter and sweet. Bitter almonds, in their raw state, contain cyanide, which can be lethal. Bitter almonds must be heat treated under strict processing conditions before they are used or any by-products are extracted. Sweet almonds do not contain this poison.

27. Kidney & Lima Beans. Raw red kidney, green Lima beans, and other legumes contain lectins and linamarin. They must be soaked and drained before cooking and eating to remove these toxins. If not, they can kill the cells in your stomach and transform them into hydrogen cyanide.

28. Eating too much fish, or too much of certain types of fish can lead to mercury poisoning. Fish with high levels of mercury include tuna, king mackerel, marlin, sharks, and swordfish. Mercury poisoning affects people’s neurological system and can cause anxiety, memory problems, depression, nerve damage, coordination problems, high blood pressure, and vision changes.
29. Too much can result in psychotic behavior and may cause death. Nutmeg contains myristicin, which can cause hallucinations, disorientation, and other nasty side effects including nausea and nerve problems.
30. Apple seeds.  Apple seeds do contain cyanide that can make you vomit or your stomach churn. Even more so if they’re chewed or pulverized.

Author: Richard Lionheart