{"id":12228,"date":"2025-07-17T15:17:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blessfeed.com\/?p=12228"},"modified":"2025-07-17T15:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:17:52","slug":"enemies-at-your-table-deadliest-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blessfeed.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/enemies-at-your-table-deadliest-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"Enemies at Your Table: Deadliest Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Food: four letters and an entire world behind it. Our lives rotate around what we eat, what we would like to taste and what we\u2019d better eliminate from our diet. Food works as a cultural glue, bringing together families, friends or creating moments of sharing. At the same time, food could be our worst enemy: we\u2019re not simply talking about the boundaries and extreme consequence of eating disorders, it\u2019s more about having a sense of awareness when we approach a charcuterie platter.\n\n\n\n
Some of the \u201ceveryday foods\u201d we eat hide some deadly features, which most people ignore.\n\n\n\n
We take a look at some of the slow death being served to you!\n\n\n\n
Margarine has been inserted in this list because of its high percentage of trans-fat, which are often related to heart diseases. Other harmful consequences than heart-attacks may be linked to breastfeeding: in fact, the trans-fats present in margarine lowers the quality of milk you\u2019re giving to your newborn, in addition to increasing your insulin levels which increase with even a small amount of this product. We know that margarine is delicious when cooking, just consider both taste and risks before over-using it!\n\n\n\n
Carbonated water, flavoring and sweeteners are the top 3 ingredients of this globally popular drink. Plus, there are numerous other additives that transform soda from an innocent alternative to water to one of our prime deadliest \u201cfoods\u201d. Why? It\u2019s easy. Your brain cannot be satisfied by sugary soda drinks, so you\u2019ll keep on adding empty calories to your daily total, without any positive effect for your health. The high-amount of unneeded sugars like fructose are converted by your liver into glucose, and then your body stores it as fat. Yes, we know you like soda drinks, thanks to the dopamin is surely a cause of your love for them!\n\n\n\n
You\u2019re tired and you still have to face a physical or mental stress, so what a better friend than an energy drink to overcome the effort?\u00a0Energy drinks are useful if used with awareness of the risks of drinking them. Most contain \u201cenergy blends\u201d such as caffeine, taurine, guarana, B vitamins and glucuronolactone in quantities that may not be safe in multiple-drink quantities. The combination of these additives is harmful if taken in high-doses, with effects that resemble the ones from several other illegal drugs, smoking and alcohol consumption.\n\n\n\n
Even when labelled as 100% fruit origin, fruit juices aren\u2019t as healthy as advertising lets you think. After squeezing the fruit, food and beverage manufacturers usually store the juice in massive oxygen-depleted holding tanks for up to a year before they package it. This process leaves the juice almost flavor-free. So, where does the flavor come from when we taste our beloved \u201cnatural\u201d drinks? Well, flavor packs added in a second step are what make the taste.\n\n\n\n
Even when labelled as 100% fruit origin, fruit juices aren\u2019t as healthy as advertising lets you think. After squeezing the fruit, food and beverage manufacturers usually store the juice in massive oxygen-depleted holding tanks for up to a year before they package it. This process leaves the juice almost flavor-free. So, where does the flavor come from when we taste our beloved \u201cnatural\u201d drinks? Well, flavor packs added in a second step are what make the taste.\n\n\n\n
White bread is poorer in fiber and protein than other\u00a0\u00a0bread\u00a0alternatives (wholewheat, rye bread are just two of the many examples we could give you). Fiber helps our body to understand when it has eaten enough. The sensation of fullness is important if we don\u2019t want an extra-consumption of calories. Moreover, an insulin spike risk is on its way! An excess of insulin in the system is countered by the body by releasing hormones which shouldn\u2019t be continuously active in a healthy person.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Raw honey doesn\u2019t go through the pasteurization process in which harmful toxins are killed. As a result, this \u201cready-to-eat\u201d product often contains grayanotoxin, which can cause dizziness, weakness, excessive sweating and nausea for the next 24-hours.\n\n\n\n
7\/15 \u2013\u00a0TUNA\n\n\n\n The problem with\u00a0\u00a0tuna\u00a0consumption has not always existed but it has become a problem with the oceans\u2019 contamination.\u00a0\u00a0Tuna\u00a0absorbs large amounts of mercury, which \u2013 once processed by our body \u2013 passes through our kidneys or travels to our brain and other soft tissues. That\u2019s why we should all control the doses of tuna we insert in our diet weekly, maybe substituting this delicious food with some other alternatives, which are less exposed to mercury.\n\n\n\n What are processed meats? They are a different variety of foods, such as hot dogs, bacon, sausages, ham or salami, corned beef, smoked meats, beef jerky and all those meats that have been processed by salting, curing, canning, drying or smoking. Processed meats usually contribute to high-blood pressure and other even more severe health issues. The negative consequences of their consumption derive from the high temperatures used to process these meats which then form nitrosamines which are carcinogenic.\n\n\n\n \u00a0Breakfast cereals\u00a0fill out lots of shelves in every supermarket you get inside. They\u2019re one of the favorite foods for our first meal of the day, because they\u2019re simply delicious. What many people are not aware of is that these products are loaded with genetically modified organisms which affect our immune system. If you really can\u2019t separate yourselves from\u00a0 10\/15 \u2013 CHEESE\n\n\n\n Even though cheese is a valuable source of calcium \u2013 which strengthens our bones -, protein, phosphorus, riboflavin, zinc and some other vitamins (i.e., vitamin A, B12), we need to remind ourselves that cheese is a high-calorie food. All the positive nutrition factors that cheese has, may be destroyed in a second if we combine it with the wrong food partner. So, think twice before pouring it on your favourite nachos, \u201cbecause it\u2019s cheese, it \u00a0must be healthy!\u201d?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Though at first glance, fat free foods may look like the gold mine for a perfectly balanced and satisfying diet, the reality is widely different. Fat are essential for many body functions and for its healthy development. A fat-cut is not advisable, particularly when your workouts are regular. Plus, fat-free foods are usually high in processed\u00a0 12\/15 \u2013 FRENCH FRIES\n\n\n\n Speedy weight-gain, but guilty pleasure, this is for sure. French fries are usually deep-fried in hydrogenated\u00a0 13\/15 \u2013 CANNED GOODS\n\n\n\n Most of the times we resort to canned goods when we run out of time for meal preparation. Some canned-corn has never killed anybody, but don\u2019t let this laziness be a habit. Canning is a process that allows us to preserve foods for a longer period of time (from one up to five years, and sometimes even more), preserving certain nutrients. At the same time some other nutrients such as water-soluble vitamins can be damaged by the high-heat used in canning the goods. Plus, many industries add to the canned-products \u2013 particularly if they\u2019re low quality ones \u2013\u00a0\u00a0sugar\u00a0and\u00a0\u00a0salt\u00a0in large amounts.\n\n\n\n Shop-bought stock cubes contain both artificial ingredients and high-levels of salt. Particularly people affected by diabetes are more exposed to high-blood pressure, which makes them more vulnerable to heart and kidney disease. Homemade stocks are quick and easy to do, and they will enrich your recipes with a definite tastier flavour.\n\n\n\n 15\/15 \u2013 SALT\n\n\n\n Salty means tasty, we know. A diet high in salt can cause raised blood pressure that increases the risk of heart disease and stroke. What we all should do, is carefully monitor our salt intake and then let our palate get used to some less salty, but healthier meals. What if we add a pinch of salt instead of a handful?\n\n\n\n Food: four letters and an entire world behind it. Our lives rotate around what we eat, what we would like to taste and what we\u2019d better eliminate from our diet. Food works as a cultural glue, bringing together families, friends or creating moments of sharing. 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8\/15 \u2013 PROCESSED MEAT\n\n\n\n
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9\/15 \u2013\u00a0\u00a0BREAKFAST CEREALS\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0breakfast cereals, maybe you could start considering some organic breakfast cereal alternatives!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
11\/15 \u2013 FAT FREE FOODS\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0sugar: our mind-set usually tie to fat-free the word calorie-free, but that\u2019s not true at all.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0vegetable oils, that are often reheated causing damages to their polyunsaturated fats.\u00a0
\u00a0Oils\u00a0used to deep-fry are unequivocally damaging to our health, because they are overly rich in trans-fat!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
14\/15 \u2013 STOCK CUBE\n\n\n\n
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