• Diet soda: Isaac Eliaz, MD, integrative health expert and founder of The Amitabha Medical Clinic and Healing Center in Sebastopol, California, advises you to stay away from any diet soda or foods, sugar-free candies, and gum containing artificial sweeteners such as sucralose, aspartame, acesulfame K, and neotame, among others.

• “The safety data on these sweeteners is shrouded in controversy and conflicts of interest with the manufacturers of these chemical compounds,” Dr. Eliaz warns.

• Independent research strongly suggests that when metabolised in the body, these sweeteners can cause health-related issues and problems related to metabolism and weight gain, neurological diseases, joint pain, digestive problems, headaches, depression, inflammatory bowel disease, chemical toxicity, and cancer, among others.

• Fast foods: Fast foods, typically, are loaded with all sorts of ingredients, including genetically engineered corn, food dyes, artificial sweeteners, and other bad actors in the food supply. The type of farming that supports this type of food business relies on harmful chemicals that not only threaten human health, but also soil health.

• Canned tomatoes: Frederick vom Saal, PhD, professor of biological sciences at the University of Missouri, says the resin linings of tin cans contain bisphenol-A, or BPA, a synthetic oestrogen that has been linked to ailments ranging from reproductive problems to heart disease, diabetes, and obesity.

• Studies show that the BPA in most people’s bodies exceeds the amount that suppresses sperm production or causes chromosomal damage to the eggs of animals.

• “You can get 50 micrograms of BPA per litre out of a tomato can, and that’s a level that is going to impact people, particularly the young,” says vom Saal. “I won’t go near canned tomatoes.”

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Source: rodale.com