There are many foods to avoid because of carcinogens and many list circulate on the net. However, this list which came out of mainstream media, is certainly one that I agree with wholeheartedly in every respect.
It’s really too bad to say that we can no longer count on commercial foodgrowers to give us pure foods with no pesticide residues.
If you read my Are You Giving Your Baby Cancer? , you will know that even newborns are exposed to dietary contaminants and food additives through their mothers.
This next list provides you with a great starting point at cleaning up your diet and knowing why these staple foods loaded with carcinogens should be avoided or replaced with organically grown, biodynamic whole foods.
- Watch what’s in the can: first off canned foods aren’t the best route to good nutrition but certain canned foods, such as tomatoes, are the worse because of their acidity which breaks down the resin lining of tin cans which contain bisphenol-A. This synthetic estrogen has been linked to a wide range of ailments such as reproductive problems to heart disease, diabetes and obesity.
- Get the corn out of the beef! The cows I see around where I live, eat grass, not grains. But it’s much cheeper to feed animals corn and soybeans which make them fat, quick. Consider that corn and soy are first, genetically engineered and second, they are a grain. A recent study found that when you compare grain fed beef to grass fed beef , the grass fed beef was much higher in beta-carotene, vitamin E, omega-3s, CLA (conjugated linoleic acid and potassium.
- Don’t pop that corn: The bag used to pop our corn in is lined with chemicals, including perfluorooctanoic acid which may be lined to infertility in humans. Studies of tests on animals show damage to liver, testicular and pancreatic cancer. Why? Because the microwave causes the chemical to vaporize and leaches into the popcorn.
- Root it out: I love potatoes but I don’t love the fact that they absorb all the pesticides and fungicides that wind up in the soil. Potatoes are not only treated at the time of planting but during several occasions even when picked to stop germination.
- Free the salmon: Were you meant to grow up in a cage? well neither is salmon. Salmon are packed like sardines in pens and fed GMO soy, poultry litter and hydrolyzed chicken feathers. YUM! This results in a lower vitamin D content and a much higher contaminant content including PCBs, brominated flame retardants, pesticides, dioxin and DDT.
- Does Milk Do The Body Good? Not so much if it comes from dairy farms where farmers use recombinant bovine growth hormones to boost milk production. This hormone is known to increase udder infections which add pus into the milk. As an insulin-like growth ingredient, once it hits the body, it may contribute to breast, prostate and colon cancers.
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away: That may be true if the apple hasn’t be doused with pesticides. The apple wins the award for most doused fruit. These pesticides have been linked to Parkinson’s disease. You will have to make my daily apple, organic, thank you.
This list is by no means the end list of foods to avoid, but if you truly care to avoid the above un-organic renditions of these foods and throw out the cans while you’re at it, you are certainly way ahead of the uninformed crowd. And if you cleanse on a regular basis, then you are ensuring yourself that toxins won’t lead you to the grave.
Tags: carcinogens, DDT, dioxin, PCBx, pesticides, toxic foods, toxins
