Today, you’ll read about finding immune boosting substitutes for supposedly healthy foods that are in fact not. They are in the realms of fats and sweeteners.
**There are unhealthy foods that are sold as healthy**
Fortunately, the two foods that I’m going to focus on today, fats and sweeteners, have tastier and healthier alternatives. Advertising and hype have sold us on how healthy these foods are for you because they supposedly solve a problem. Both of these types of foods are manmade. It’s scary how much misinformation is out there to sell to you.
1. Unhealthy fat substitutions -The first surprising thing you’ll hear about is margarine. It was developed as a cheap alternative to butter and sold has a healthy food because it only contained vegetable oils and was devoid of saturated fats. Oils that have been heated to make it into a solid develops trans fats.
A U.S. government panel of scientists determined that man-made trans fats are unsafe at any level. They cause a worse buildup of plaque in arteries than butter ever did, disrupt liver function and cause inflammation.
Hydrogenated oils are also to be avoided: they take longer to go rancid. They are used in shelf food like crackers, potato and corn chips, mac and cheese. etc.
Rather opt for trans or hydrogenated fats, use healthy oils like olive, avocado, almond, macadamia, almond and walnut oil.
Canola Oil has often been sold as healthy because of its’ high monounsaturated acid content. It is heated to be extracted from GMO rapeseed. You’ll have noticed that a lot of the healthy snack companies are now moving to olive oil, avocado oil or macadamia nut oil.
You might ask why. Studies have found that up to 4.6% of canola oil has trans-fats in them. Besides chips, you’ll find canola oil in crackers, salad dressings, mayonnaise, and a host of other foods made with fats. Read your labels.
Rather opt for butter and the healthy oils named above. They are more delicate and need to be refrigerated but are tastier and healthier alternatives to canola oil and margarine.
**How to sweeten your food without poisoning yourself**
Using artificial sweeteners solves the issue of reducing your sugar or caloric intake, whether you are watching your weight or controlling your blood sugar. They are used in a huge array of products, some in unexpected places, like toothpaste, mouthwash, cough drops, instant tea and coffee mixes, sugar free candies, cough drops, liquid medicines, children’s chewable vitamins, etc. Read your labels and look for aspartame, sucralose, neotame, acesulfame potassium, and saccharine.
Studies have shown that these specific artificial sweeteners destroy your good bacteria in your gut very quickly. In fact, there are healthy bacteria that are needed to modulate your immune system, promote a healthy brain, and controls appetite and weight. Normally this ratio is 85% healthy to 15% unhealthy or pathogen like e. coli or staph.
You have more bacteria in and on your body than you have cells in your body. You are a symbiotic being with good bacteria being your buddies. They help produce your neurotransmitters and vitamins like vitamin B in your gut, they protect your gut lining, and keep the pathogens under control. They also keep your cholesterol under control and regulate your blood sugar.
But don’t worry! You don’t have to give up low calorie or low glycemic foods. Here are the sweeteners deemed safe to your all important bacteria: stevia (get the pure powder without fillers), inulin, xylitol and erythritol, if you can tolerate them.
To improve your good gut bacteria, use safe toothpaste and mouthwash (Burt’s Bees: Hello Oral Care: , eat fibrous whole organic produce, eat prebiotic foods (artichoke, green bananas, asparagus, apples) or supplements like Hyperbiotics powder ( or Ora tablets ( eat polyphenols, cacao powder, olive oil, green tea or roiboos tea
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