Why should you eliminate processed foods from your life? What is wrong with them? Processed foods are full of harmful fats, avoidable chemicals, refined starch, and white sugar and so on. More than 6000 chemicals, some of them possessing cancer-producing properties, are used in the processed-food industry. Many processed foods are produced through procedures involving overcooking under high heat, undermining their nutritional value in the process. When toxic agents, food additives and other foreign ingredients enter the body, the human immune system tries hard to throw them out. If the task is too difficult, the immune system suffers, leading to several complications for health.

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Trans fat is an artificially manufactured fat used in food processing because it’s cheaper and significantly prolongs the shelf life of foods. It is also used in restaurants, mass produced bakery items, and fast food restaurants because of its longer shelf life. If you’re familiar with margarine then you’re familiar with trans fat.

Trans fat has been clinically proven to cause weight gain, even when the participants were consuming a diet that didn’t include enough calories to maintain their weight. Trans fat not only triggers weight gain but it causes fat stored throughout the body to be transferred to the abdominal region.

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