Seven Foods To Stay Away From

Food experts have access to information that the rest of us peons don’t. So you have to interview them to pick their brains. Someone on the website called Shine did exactly that, and found that these experts won’t touch certain foods with very good reasons. The first example is canned tomatoes. Apparently tin cans are lined with a substance that is a synthetic estrogen, and the acid in the tomatoes causes the chemical to leach into the tomatoes. A similar situation exists with microwave popcorn bags. The chemicals in the lining are vaporized and end up in the popcorn.

Non-organic potatoes are not healthy for a very different reason. They absorb anything that the soil has to offer – herbicides and other -icides, including one that are sprayed on the potatoes to keep them from getting damaged during the growing season. Did you know these potatoes won’t even start to sprout in the grocery store, the way they used to? Potato farmers have a separate section of their fields for the potatoes that THEY are going to eat. Time to head to Trader Joe’s for potatoes!

Other foods to avoid are farmed salmon, I think we all know about this nowadays, corn-fed beef, artificial hormone milk and apples. Ok, I didn’t know about apples. They are completely soaked in pesticides. If you can’t afford organic apples, then soak the ones you buy and be sure to peel them.

Here is the whole article: http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/the-7-foods-experts-wont-eat-547963/