why are processed foods bad for you. and some examples of processed foods please?!:)?

Answer 1

they have the vitamins taken out of them, then sugar and salt and other things added, often toxic chemicals too

doritos, oreos, butterfingers

its not usually that they are really bad for you, its that they don't have anything that is good for you.

Answer 2

they use a lot of isolated proteins instead of actual ingredients, they use a lot of dried/reconstituted ingredients instead of fresh, they use a lot more oils/salts/sugars than you'd use in cooking usually, they don't have to label anything unless it takes up 5% of the product. Which means a lot of additives aren't even labelled. So knowing the brands can make a big difference. Like say you have a company like Nestle. We know they're dodgy as, and they are able to put stuff in without labelling it. Do you think they would? Knowing what Nestle are like, it seems very likely. Companies working on getting a consumer base because of their ethics and commitment to natural food products are less likely to start using such tactics to essentially put poison in your food. The trouble with a lot of additives is that they keep finding out they do cause problems for people - although natural can be as problematic as unnatural. I've seen how processed food is developed and made. First a real chef makes a dish/product out of real food. The company tests it, and tries to replicate the flavor using as few actual ingredients as possible and as cheaply as possible, adding the preservatives to give it a shelf life so it can be sold, add colors to make it look right, and then continue to add more and more additives to try to recapture the original flavor. So what you're left with is basically a lot of concentrated extracts, some filler to make it look like food and smell like food and a whole lot of chemicals and extracts. The fat, salt and oils are generally pretty tame compared to what else can be in it. When food metabolizes in your body, concentrates and extracts are not the same as eating whole foods. Like soy is healthy and protects against cancer. But isolated soy proteins promote cancer. A carrot is healthy, but a beta-carotene pill causes cancers. Oh and for bread the idea is to sell as much air and water as possible. The salt would be balanced out with sugar to kill the excessive salty flavor. It's basically a filler more than being a preservative or a flavoring.

Answer 3

It's simply this, processed foods are foods that have been manufactured or tinned or bottled outside the home and have been jam packed full of preservatives, dyes, chemical flavourings and additives and a whole range of other e numbers to extend their shelf life and improve their processed appearance. That is why they are bad for you.

Some of the chemicals are banned in other countries due to health risks. An example of this would be aspartame, banned in the US, used to artificially sweeten food and drinks.

Examples of processed foods are ready frozen meals, tinned goods, cakes & biscuits, savoury or sweet packet mixes, jams, pickles and sauces.

Answer 4

Everything you ingest must be broken down in your body to make it usable for each cell. During this process, waste is created-things that your body cannot use must be disposed of. If there are chemicals or toxins in this waste, it is processed, and sometimes stored in your liver. Processed foods are full of these chemicals with very little substance your body can actually use. Your liver is only able to process/store a certain amount of toxins b4 it begins to not function well, then your other cells begin to store the waste. You then are a sponge, absorbing poisonous chemicals while your healthy cells begin to starve and wither away. The basic rule is, the closer a food is to its natural form, the healthier it is. Everyone "needs" a little junk sometimes, but try to balance it with lots of natural foods, and even more fresh, clean H2O.

Answer 5

Unprocessed food just has the natural amount of salt, sugars, fat and fibre that that foodstuff naturally comes with. They also have no artificial ingredients such as preservatives or colourings.

Processed food usually has higher levels of salt, sugars and fats to improve the flavour. It will also have many artificial ingredients such as preservatives and colourings, to make the food last longer and look more appealing. Lastly, it will have had much of the natural fibre removed from it.

The human body has not evolved since we were hunter-gatherers. The reason why so many peopple have lactate intolerances is because we are not naturally designed to consume dairy products. We are equally ill-equipped to process foods with high levels of salts, fats, sugars, artificial ingredients, and foods that have had all the fibre removed.

If we eat natural products, the body has to work to unlock the calories and nutrients and this is what the body is designed to do: we actually burn calories to release the calorific value of the food we are eating. With processed food, we can simply absorb the calories and harmful additives with little or no work.

Obesity and type-2 (age-onset) diabetes are direct result of consuming too many simple carbohydrates (sugars). High blood pressure is a direct consequence of consuming too much salt. Heart and circulatory diseases are direct results of consuming too many (saturated) fats. Bowel cancer is a direct result of consuming too little fibre. And many of the other cancers are now believed to have links with many of the artificial food additives.

In general, if something looks like a meal ready to eat, then it's processed - e.g. a microwave lasagne. If something looks like an ingredient that you have too do something with before you eat it, then it is unprocessed.

In general, we should all be aiming to minimise the amount of processed food we are eating, and maximising the amount of unprocessed/natural food we are eating. Our lives may depend on the choices of what we put in our mouths today!

Answer 6

because they take the more fatty (but cheaper) parts of animal and then use those in burgers. also there are lots of additives & sweeteners added this is why processed food is bad for you. eg. burgers, chiken nuggets, turkey twizlers, bassicly any cheap meat food, most ham has been prosceced & if your buying meat always buy it off the bone at your local deli

Answer 7

Set your pc alarm to ring hourly—stand up for 1 to 5 minutes whenever it goes off.

Answer 8

On breakfast, go ahead and drink orange juice. But throughout the rest of the day, focus on water as an alternative to juice or soda

Answer 9

When foods are processed, this means that they often "strip" it of its nutritional value, and/or add substances to it to make it last longer (preservatives) and taste better (sugar, salt) For instance, bleached white flour comes from wheat that has been stripped of all of the grains that have the most nutritional value. It isn't that they are bad for you as much as they are "empty". You are eating calories and fat that don't have the nutrition you need to accompany them.

Answer 10

Today, vegetables taste bland because of the lack of minerals in the soil. Then a lot of chemicals are added to make it taste good. Chemicals are also added to preserve it.

Additionally, the food that has been processed contains a lack of enzymes. Every metabolic function in our body and every chemical reaction that keeps us healthy is helped by enzymes. An enzyme is a catalyst, which makes something work more efficiently. The oil in your automobile engine is a catalyst. Although your engine runs on gasoline, how efficient would it run without oil? This is an example of a catalyst which helps reactions take place more efficiently.

Without enzymes there is no life. Enzymes run the body. Every day your body burns enzymes to run our organs like the heart, liver, kidneys, pancreas, as well as the trillions of individual cells that carry on life. Those enzymes need to be replaced as the body uses them up.

Your body re-supplies enzymes by manufacturing them or by receiving them from an outside source. They come from raw foods - vegetables, fruits, and even meat. They can be converted for bodily needs.

When there aren't enough enzymes available on a daily basis, your body begins to cut back from various bodily functions. For instance, hair may become dry, nails may crack and skin may become dry - giving the appearance of an older person. Then more critical, the liver will not be able to handle the excretion of waste products.

Fifty percent of all enzymes burned by the body are used in digesting our food. When insufficient enzymes are available for the digestion process the body steals them from other organs. Evidence, the high number of indigestion aids sold and the fact that you get sleepy after a meal. The body is stealing energy (enzymes) from other bodily functions. Without these enzymes, due to the lack of them in the food we eat, the average person only digests about 30 to 70% of what they eat.

Processed foods and most all packaged foods do not contain live enzymes. When any food is heated over 112 degrees Fahrenheit, the live enzyme activity is destroyed.

The bottom line is that when we put foods that are void of adequate nutrition and void of any enzymes into our body, we eventually run down.
The destruction of live enzymes does not permit our food to be thoroughly digested. Then our immune system becomes weakened, and we develop degenetive diseases. So, why is processed foods not good?

There are forty nutrients that cannot be made in the body. They are essential fatty acid, 15 vitamins, 14 minerals, and 10 amino acids. Collectively these forty nutrients are spoken of as the body's requirements. From these our bodies synthesized an estimated 10,000 different compounds essential to the maintenance of health. All the forty nutrients work together. Therefore, the lack of any one might result in the underproduction of hundreds of these essential compounds.

Processed foods contain refined sugar, extra salt, and other flavor enhancers.

Processed foods contains unhealthy fats

Unhealthy chemical additives are added to foods so that they stay fresh longer. Chemicals such as MSG is added.

Processed foods can increase your body's level of homocysteine. (By the way, Omega 3 essential fatty acids has also been shown to reduce the levels of homocysteine.)

Many processed foods are filled with strange parts and pieces. For example hot dogs contain "edible offal"???

Processing takes a lot of nutrients out of the nutrient rich foods.

Processed foods are fortified with synthetics. Most of the pantothenic acid, folic acid, biotin, cholin, inositol, vitamins B6 and E are discarded in the milling of breads and the refining of flour for cereals. To make up for the loss of nutrients during processing, synthetic vitamins and minerals are added. Although helpful, these synthetics are not as healthy as their natural counterparts. The amounts of vitamins returned in "enriched" flour are far less than the quantity that naturally occurs

Much of the goodness is cooked or processed out of our foods. We do not benefit from the enzymes and nutrients the foods normally contain. The missing nutrients which allow illnesses to develop have been discarded in processing and refining foods. Research shows that disease produced by combinations of deficiencies can be corrected when all nutrients are supplied.
Examples:1)Package lunch meat 2)Cheese spread 3)many kids lunch snacks etc and many many more. Hope this helps!!!

Answer 11

Pretty much anything that you get in a box is processed. It is anything that does not grow naturally, or that has preservatives added to it.