Herbalist Dr MziziMkavu
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The 25 Unhealthiest Junk Food Items
Drive down the street of any town in America, and chances are you'll run across multiple fast food restaurants. In fact, there are around a shocking 160,000 fast food restaurants across the country, and the number grows daily. Americans eat out an average of four to five times a week, and a significant portion of those meals come from fast food restaurant chains ranging from McDonald's to Applebee's. Families choose these restaurants because they are fast, cheap, and convenient… but at what cost?Here's my list of the unhealthiest fast food items and substitutions you can make.
1. Soda
Acidifying, chemical-laden, and loaded with either HFCS or artificial sweeteners (diet varieties), avoid all sodas at all costs. Instead, have some plain water or bring your own.
2. Fried chicken
Made from conventional chicken laden with hormones and antibiotics, covered with gluten-containing breading and chemicals like MSG and salt, and fried in cheap, rancid oils, fried chicken is high in calories, fat, and other chemicals that can make you sick. Skip it altogether. Please, please just never eat fried chicken.
3. Egg and sausage sandwich
Hormones, salt, antibiotics and dairy make that breakfast sandwich a non-healthful choice. Instead, start your day with a Glowing Green Smoothie. You can make several and keep them in your freezer so you can always defrost one and still have one in a bind.
4. Bacon cheeseburger
Where do I begin? Fat, calories, and cholesterol are only part of the problem with bacon cheeseburgers, which also contain HFCS (in the buns and condiments), dairy, salt, hormones, and antibiotics. It's just plain nasty. Instead, opt for a veggie burger or an avocado sandwich.
5. French fries
Fries are simply salty unhealthy fat bombs fried in the worst possible rancid oil. Many fast food places now offer alternatives to fries such as a side salad (no dressing!) .
6. Milk shake
Loaded with saturated fat, sugar, conventional dairy, and often chemicals for flavoring, milkshakes can leave you feeling sluggish and sick. Skip them and try one of the smoothie recipes in The Beauty Detox Solution,instead.
7. Deep fried cheese sticks
Take cheese (loaded with fat, salt, hormones and antibiotics), bread it, and deep fry it. How does that even sound as if it might be "food"? Skip them and have some veggie sticks with hummus, instead.
8. Fish and chips
Many people select this as a "healthy" alternative in fast food, but it is anything but that. Fish serves as a sponge that mops up all of the toxic chemicals from the sea. Bread it in wheat flour (gluten) and fry it up, and you're looking at an unhealthy meal. Avoid fish unless you know where it comes from, and opt for a salad instead.
9. Pepperoni pizza
Cheese and white flour combined with nitrosamine-containing salty processed meats, pizza is toxic and unhealthy. Why not try some brown rice or quinoa pasta with tomato sauce instead?
10. Tuna melt
Tuna contains mercury, while other additions to the sandwich contain HFCS, dairy, salt, and gluten. Combined with the processed bread it comes on and possibly cheese throw in the mix, it truly is a toxic horror. How about a veggie wrap, instead?
11. Caesar salad
The salad part is okay – it's everything else, the dressing, cheese, and croutons that are a problem. Caesar salad dressing likely contains salt, HFCS, eggs, and lots of fat. Instead, opt for a naked salad and add a squeeze of lemon and some tomato and mashed avocado for dressing.
12. Hamburger chili
The main concern with hamburger chili is the beef, which is very likely laden with hormones and antibiotics. Fast food hamburger may also contain E. coli and some pretty gross ingredients including artificial color. Instead, have some vegetarian chili or vegetable soup.
Hivi vyakula vya kutengeneza mimi huwa naviita vyakula feki au kwa kiingereza wanaviita (junk food) sio vyakula vizuri kwa afya zetu havifai kwa mwili wa binadamu Vinanenepesha kupita kiasi na kutia maradhi mwilini tujiepushe navyo Waungwana nawausieni....
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1. Soda
2. Fried chicken
3. Egg and sausage sandwich
4. Bacon cheeseburger
5. French fries
6. Milk shake
7. Deep fried cheese sticks
8. Fish and chips
9. Pepperoni pizza
10. Tuna melt
11. Caesar salad
12. Hamburger chili
Hivi vyakula vya kutengeneza mimi huwa naviita vyakula feki au kwa kiingereza wanaviita (junk food) sio vyakula vizuri kwa afya zetu havifai kwa mwili wa binadamu Vinanenepesha kupita kiasi na kutia maradhi mwilini tujiepushe navyo Waungwana nawausieni....