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8 of the Worst Foods for Your Body

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8 of the Worst Foods for Your Body

 

Many people think of healthy eating as consuming a certain number of calories per day. But the truth is, it’s not just about how much you eat but the quality of the food you eat, and how safely it’s been produced. Click through to check out some of the worst foods you can put in your body — you’ll certainly be surprised by a few!

See Also: Top 10 Foods Most Likely to Make You Sick

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Katie Waldeck

Katie is a freelance writer focused on pets, food and women’s issues. A Chicago native and longtime resident of the Pacific Northwest, Katie now lives in Oakland, California.

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5:36PM PDT on Jun 19, 2013

Organic is not grown everywhere, so choose your poison wisely. Margarine: Next step up is a plastic bucket!

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't
want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not".
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens [Mark Twain] (1835-1910)

8:37PM PDT on Jun 17, 2013

Always don't be afraid to wash with a dab of dish detergent and rinse good. The fruit, veg, onions, lettuce, apples,peaches,plums etc. even if it is organic it has been handled and shipped & put on the shelf!! You will be glad you did.
Thank You

2:58PM PDT on Jun 17, 2013

Scary stuff but I wonder how much of each foodstuff you would have to eat to affect your health?

2:37PM PDT on Jun 17, 2013

So interesting!

6:38AM PDT on Jun 15, 2013

oops nothing new to me, but thanks for sharing

4:58AM PDT on Jun 15, 2013

Interesting.

2:03AM PDT on Jun 15, 2013

my heart nearly stopped when I saw the picture of popcorn....fortunately, we do it the old fashioned way...phew!.....and I am also addicted in a way to apples.....always make sure "organic" appears somewhere, the celery will have me looking more at tentatively though...did NOT know that.....

good info that we all can use...thanks

10:12AM PDT on Jun 14, 2013

Consumers definitely need to be aware of a number of issues regarding the food they eat, but I for one am getting really, really sick reading articles here that are more about shock value than the truth. NEVER eat apples unless they're organic?? Come ON!!! I'd rather see consumers giving their kids an apple from the supermarket that they have rinsed off in the sink than a bag of Doritos or potato chips, which is what they are eating now. By scaring people into avoiding healthy foods you are accomplishing the EXACT opposite of what this country needs...which is intelligent discourse and a healthy portion of COMMON SENSE!! Most people can't afford organic produce and grass fed beef and your shock journalism will not change that fact!
I am unsubscribing from this newsletter and encourage everyone with a functioning brain to do the same. These articles are full of pseudoscience, unsubstantiated "facts" and studies that --in many cases--were later debunked.

3:43AM PDT on Jun 13, 2013

The lining of the microwave popcorn bags will certainly keep me from eating it. I don't really eat it to begin with so no big loss there. but the canned tomatoes! That shocked me! I try to do fresh as much as possible but I keep a few cans in supply. You know who will be replacing them with the tetrapak kind now!

1:59AM PDT on Jun 13, 2013

Yikes!! I always thought that margarine was healthier - well, back to butter I go....

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