Why eat more organic whole foods anyway? What is the benefit to me? To answer that you need to know the difference in how your body reacts to raw whole foods as opposed to how it reacts to cooked or processed foods.
If you eat 51% of your food or more as whole uncooked food your body sets to work on digesting it normally. There is no adverse reactions at all. If you eat mostly cooked or processed foods your body has a white cell reaction to the food which causes an inflammatory reaction in the body which takes places before digestion can take place.
What that means is that your body sets it's attention to killing what it feels is a toxin in your system instead of immediately breaking the food you ate into nutrition and feeding the body. That is why you can eat all of the processed food you can and never get the nutrition you need. Your body is too busy fighting off the inflammatory aspects of the stuff to take what it can in nutrition from the stuff.
There is a ton of talk out there on anti-inflammatory diets and their benefit on stopping and curing chronic diseases like cancer, arthritis, diabetes and auto-immune disorders. To simplify the whole thing look at it this way. You need to eat more than half of your food without cooking it. Fresh organic vegetables and fruits don't need our help anyway. They taste great!
Hit your local Farmer's Market or plant your own garden and get used to eating stuff as if grows - without cooking it. The extra micro-nutrients and phytochemicals you ingest are invaluable in properly feeding your body.
Now for some ugly examples of NON-FOOD items from our fast food friends:
From Burger King: Calories Fat Sat Fat Sodium
Chicken Carolina BBQ 630 28 9 2230
Chicken Texas BBQ 430 10 3.5 1690
Carolina BBQ Burger 760 42 16 1620
Texas BBQ Burger 520 21 9 1010
Memphis Pulled Pork 470 16 4.5 1420
Double Whopper 900 57 19 1050
DW hold the Mayo 740 39 16 910
From McDonald's:
Angus Bacon Cheese 790 39 2070
Angus Deluxe 750 39 1700
Big Mac 550 29 1000
Premium Grilled Chicken 350 9 820
Crispy Chicken Club 620 29 1200
Grilled Chicken Club 460 16 1030
And From Wendy's:
Hot & Juicy Single 580 33 14 1240
Hot & Juicy Double 800 48 21 1530
Baconator 970 63 27 2020
Son Of Baconator 700 43 18 1760
Asiago Chicken Club 740 38 12 1780
Ultimate Chicken Grill 390 10 3.5 880
McDonald's doesn't publish their saturated fat amounts on their web site.
You could almost make a case for dome of the grilled chicken choices except for the 800+ milligram sodium counts which is more than half of what you should eat in a day. That also doesn't mention the fact that the chicken is factory farmed which means the animals are fed tons of antibiotics, and in many cases arsenic and live and die in great stress. The sodium is no doubt due to the fact that the chicken is raised so quickly that it has no real flavor of it's own so they salt the crap out of it.
I hope you all spotted that if you hold the mayo on your Double Whopper you also hold 160 calories, 18 grams of fat, 3 grams of saturated fat and 140 milligrams of sodium. WOW!
Eat at home. You use calories preparing a meal. It can be a great family time. You can teach your kids stuff they can use the rest of their lives. And you get to control the quality of the end product.
Be well and more soon.....
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