{"id":1264,"date":"2023-06-01T11:06:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T15:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2023-06-01T11:06:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T15:06:50","slug":"processed-foods-and-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Processed Foods and Health<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The industrial techniques used to make processed foods not only add unhealthy ingredients but also change the foods themselves and therefore how they interact with our bodies.&nbsp; In Western countries half the food consumed is processed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over one hundred scientific studies have all shown that diets high in processed foods lead to earlier death, more cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, obesity, dementia, stroke, diabetes and heart attack.&nbsp; Such diets also compromise immune function.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not the fat, salt and sugar that are most problematic but rather the removal of fiber, micronutrients and the added chemicals, especially emulsifiers, that cause the greatest harm.&nbsp; The fiber and micronutrients are essential to a healthy microbiome, which in turn is critical for most of the physiologic processes in our bodies and especially our immune systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is well documented that emulsifiers harm the gut.&nbsp; Emulsifiers are chemicals that bond fat to water.&nbsp; Soap is an emulsifier which is why it helps us cleanse oil and grease from our hands.&nbsp; Our intestines are covered in a layer of mucus which is the nesting ground for all our healthy microbiomes, scrubbing this mucus away with emulsifiers severely disrupts the bacteria.&nbsp; This in turn can lead to greater gut permeability (leaky gut) and local inflammation.&nbsp; Carboxymethyl cellulose is one of the worst of the emulsifiers and is found in thousands of processed foods.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other chemical additives turn off our normal satiety hormones which tell us we\u2019ve eaten enough and thus leads to overeating.&nbsp; Curiously, this includes artificial sweeteners.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The industrial techniques used to make processed foods not only add unhealthy ingredients but also change the foods themselves and therefore how they interact with our bodies.&nbsp; In Western countries half the food consumed is processed.&nbsp; Over one hundred scientific studies have all shown that diets high in processed foods lead to earlier death, more cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, obesity, dementia, stroke, diabetes and heart attack.&nbsp; Such diets also compromise immune function.&nbsp; It\u2019s not the fat, salt and sugar that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1264\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[613],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-processed-foods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}