Farmed salmon
Your body needs the healthy Omega-3 fats in most fish, but farmed salmon is fed an unnatural diet full of pesticides, chemicals, antibiotics, and other known carcinogens. As a result, their meat is full of cancer-causing PCBs, mercury, and dioxins. Unfortunately, nearly 60% of salmon in the stores today is farmed.
To be safe, look for labels that specifically indicate wild-caught sockeye salmon.
Hydrogenated oils
Vegetable oil sounds like something that should be healthy, but the problem is that it cannot be extracted from its source naturally. The chemical extraction process is what makes it hydrogenated, and then the oil is further colorized and deodorized to make it look palatable to people.
Hydrogenated oils are found in a ton of processed foods to keep them fresher longer, but in the body they affect your cells’ structure and flexibility, which can cause cancer.
White flour
The refining process that makes white flour destroys most of the nutrients found naturally in the grains. And worse, mills then whiten the flour by bleaching it with chlorine gas, a chemical that is fatal in large amounts. The finished product has a very high glycemic rate that spikes blood sugar and insulin levels.
This state in the body is thought to feed cancer cells directly, as tumors thrive on sugars in the bloodstream.
GMO foods
Genetically modified foods are designed in a lab to be more resistant to pests and stand up to shipping intact. However, there have been no tests on how healthy (or not) these foods are for humans. We do know that in a recent study with rats, all of the participants developed pre-cancerous cell growths within the first 10 days of research.
In America, almost all grains (soybeans, wheat, and corn) are GMOs, but many countries in Europe have banned them.
High fructose corn syrup
Simply put, this sweetener is the favorite food of cancer cells. Consuming a lot of it may not cause cancer, but it does allow it to proliferate and grow quickly. Refined sugar in general and HFCS in particular is loaded into most packaged food at an unconscionable level.
Protect yourself by cooking and baking at home so that you can control the added sugar and replace it with healthier alternatives wherever possible.
