7 foods to avoid forever

Often we eat foods, taking their usefulness at face value, without realizing that even these foods can be quite harmful to the body.

American nutritionist Joseph Mercola has named 7 harmful foods that should be avoided or replaced.

Fish

It would seem that what could be even healthier than fresh salmon, tuna, or just sea bass? Yes, but only really fresh, caught in the high seas, and not bought on the market counter, where the fish was brought from a fish farm where it is safely grown.

It's worth noting that fish on such farms live in poor conditions - dirty water and genetically modified feed, such as corn and soy.

But wild fish are not always harmless either. After all, the level of pollution in the world's oceans is increasing, hence the increase in the level of toxic substances, such as mercury in fish tissue.

Nutritionists still insist on eating fish, but only of wild origin.

Yogurts

Store-bought yogurts cannot be a priori healthy, as they contain stabilizers, dyes, lots of sugar, flavors and various harmful additives.

It's better to make your own homemade yogurt, and it's very easy and will definitely be very useful for the body. Natural yogurt is a storehouse of vitamins, calcium, healthy proteins, and probiotics. You can also add fresh fruit, honey, and nuts to it.

Pastries

It is better to make buns, bread, liver, pies yourself, because this is the only way you can control the composition of your baked goods and even home baking is better to refuse, not to mention the purchased ones. Since the use of such products leads to an increase in blood insulin levels. In general, even if we are not talking about the development of diabetes, regular consumption of foods with a high glycemic index accelerates the aging of the body.

But if you are still not ready to give up a delicious roll, then it is better to eat it for breakfast and try to simply find dietary bakery products.

Fruit juices

They are poison for the stomach in the morning because they have an excess of fructose.

Fruits also contain the same fructose, but they also contain fiber, which is rich in antioxidants and other substances that make them extremely healthy. It can even prevent blood sugar from rising.

However, studies have shown that people who regularly drank freshly squeezed juice were 20-30% more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those who simply ate whole fruit.

Ketchup

Nutritionists emphasize that most ketchups contain refined sugar. It contributes not only to obesity, but also increases the risk of diabetes and even cancer.

Also, ketchup contains many different harmful substances for thickness and flavor, which have a very bad effect on the pancreas and stomach. Therefore, if you really like ketchup, you can do it yourself.

Bacon

It's a cholesterol bomb, especially in the morning. It is high in fat and sodium nitrite, which is a source of nitrosamines and contributes to the development of cancer.

Nutritionists recommend that you completely abandon this product, replacing it with vegetables.

Soybeans

Undoubtedly, soybeans are healthy, but not all of them, only unfermented ones. This is because most soybeans are of genetically modified origin. And such a product contains phytoestrogens that can reproduce the effect that the female hormone estrogen has on the body. And in the female body, an excess of estrogen increases the chances of developing breast cancer. In addition, soybeans contain natural toxins that are harmless in small doses, but in large quantities they can disrupt the functioning of enzymes that the body needs to absorb proteins.