Transcript General Signs of Synthetic Foods

Dan Saunders
Holistic Nutrition Workshop Attendees
 Fundamentals of Dieting
 Metabolic Typing
 Mistaken Foods and Nutrients
 Dangers in Food
 Supplementation
Food should be as NATURAL as possible!
Our body is not
manmade, so how would
manmade food support it
properly?
 Natural foods include plant foods
 Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, etc
 And animal products
 Meat, eggs, dairy, etc
 When these natural foods are chemically altered and heavily
processed they become less and less natural and more synthetic
General Signs of Synthetic Foods:
 Usually found in the center isles super markets and not in temperature
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controlled storage
Last months before going bad
Long list of ingredients on package
Ingredients that are near impossible to pronounce
High in sugar or salt
Foundation of
the human
diet
 Diets should consist mostly of meat and vegetables
 Vegetables contain many nutrients that meats do not and meats
contain many nutrients that vegetables do not
 The combination of the two provides a very well balanced diet
Other Foods
 Fruits are a great source of antioxidants but are also high in sugar
 In contrast to vegetables fruits should be limited
 Grains, nuts , and legumes are healthy if prepared properly
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most bread found in supermarkets are not
 Dairy in it’s raw state is full of nutrients
 Most of that is depleted when pasteurized
 Fermented foods provide healthy bacteria which support
digestive and immune system processes
 Fermented (sourdough) bread breaks down the gluten and other
anti-nutrients
 No person is exactly the same as another
 We all need different levels of nutrients and we all function
better on different foods
 Metabolic typing determines whether people function
better on low carb diets or higher carb diets
3 main metabolic types
Very low carbs (Atkins diet)
2. Higher carb intake (Majority of diet consists of plant
foods)
3. Mixture of both (around 150 grams of carbs per day)
1.
Saturated Fat
 Great source of energy
 Needed for cell membranes
 Assists hormone production
 Resistant to heat and
oxidation
 Faulty research from the
1950’s gave saturated fat its
bad name
 Current research has defied
those studies
Wheat
 Full of anti-nutrients
(lectins, gluten, phytates)
 Decreased mineral
absorption
 Digestive stress
 Additional health
problems for those with
low gluten tolerance
Tip: Buy Sprouted or
sourdough bread where
many of the anti-nutrients
are broken down
Cholesterol
 Cholesterol in the diet is
not actually related to
cholesterol in the blood
stream
 It is needed for
important body
functions such as
insulating neurons and
metabolizing fat soluble
vitamins
Salt
 Needed for proper
digestion in the stomach
 Supports hydration
 Makes vegetables more
enjoyable
Tip: Use unrefined salt
rather than conventional,
white powder table salt
Foods can have all sorts of dangerous substances in them
 Some are naturally occurring
 Free radicals
 Others are synthesized materials, usually used to
increase shelf life or to save money
 Chemicals
 Drugs
 Food can also be genetically altered in a lab, popularly
known as GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms)
Free Radicals
-these are dangerous food
chemicals and there are many
 Trans fats - Hydrogen is
added to unsaturated fats
 Found in most snack foods
 Oxidized Oils – oxygen
changes the form of fats of
they are subject to heat, light,
and air.
 Polyunsaturated fats are most
easily oxidized because of
their numerous double
bonds
Free Radicals
 Acrylamides – created by
heating carbs at very
high temperatures
 Examples: potato chips,
factory made cookies,
pie crust
 Heterocyclic Amines –
created by overcooking
meat
 Well done steak vs. Rare
It is most important to have a well
balanced diet, full of natural foods,
and devoid of harmful chemicals, but
for optimum health,
supplementation is absolutely
necessary.
Multivitamin/mineral
supplement
 Gives you what you may
have missed from your diet
 Today’s soil is not as
abundant in minerals as it
used to be so we need the
minerals that a good
supplement will provide
Fish Oil
 Omega 3 fatty acids
 Not found in most foods
 Make sure it is purified to
reduce mercury levels
Protein
 Depending on how much
exercise a high quality
protein supplement could
be beneficial, especially if
there is not enough animal
products in the diet
 The harder muscles are
worked, the more protein
they will need