50 Foods You Should Never Eat, According to Health Experts
Doctors and dietitians share the foods they refuse to eat due to pesticides, GMOs, and carcinogenic ingredients.

By The Editors Of Prevention
May 21, 2019

What's the one food you refuse to eat? Whatever it is, it's probably because you don't like the way it tastes—not because it contains ingredients that can be damaging to your health. Yet, there are still a lot of foods that fit this description on store shelves, and food industry insiders, who know what goes on behind the scenes, refuse to eat them.

We polled some of those insiders—people who know the business and work daily to evict pesticides, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), animal cruelty, social injustice, and unhealthy foods from the food supply—to find out what they know about the dark side of "convenience" foods and what they will eat instead. Take note so you, too, can avoid the worst of what grocery stores have to offer.

Whole-wheat bread


The problem: Modern wheat is nothing like the grain your mother or grandmother consumed. Today, wheat barely resembles its original form, thanks to extensive genetic manipulations during the 1960s and 1970s to increase the grain's yields. "You cannot change the basic characteristics of a plant without changing its genetics, its biochemistry, and its effects on humans who consume it," says William Davis, MD, creator of Wheat Belly 10-Day Detox.

Davis makes the case that modern-day wheat is triggering all sorts of health problems, everything from digestive diseases like celiac and inflammatory bowel disease to acid reflux, obesity, asthma, and skin disorders.

The solution: Try eliminating wheat altogether from your diet for a few weeks to see if you note health improvements. But be prepared for the wheat withdrawal syndrome of nausea, headache, fatigue, depression, and a host of other strange side effects.

More at the link.

https://www.prevention.com/food-nutrition/g20498199/50-foods-you-should-never-eat/

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AIRED MAY 28, 2019
Rachel Carson
SHE SET OUT TO SAVE A SPECIES… US.
FROM THE COLLECTION: THE ENVIRONMENT

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/rachel-carson/#part01

When Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published in 1962, the book became a phenomenon. A passionate and eloquent warning about the long-term dangers of pesticides, the book unleashed an extraordinary national debate and was greeted by vigorous attacks from the chemical industry. But it would also inspire President John F. Kennedy to launch the first-ever investigation into the public health effects of pesticides — an investigation that would eventually result in new laws governing the regulation of these deadly agents.

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