Top 5 Ingredients To Avoid In Healthy Kids Meals
By Jeff
I’ve done a ton of research and found the top five ingredients to avoid in healthy kids meals and for that matter, all your meals.
Let’s take a look at bad ingredients. I’m going to go into detail for each one to explain why it’s so bad. If you have food items I haven’t listed and you’re not sure whether or not they’re good for your kids meals, look to see if they include any of these ingredients.
Avoid These If You Want Healthy Kids Meals
- MSG or Monosodium Glutamate. This beastly ingredient is an extremely harmful flavor enhancer. It is a neurotoxin and an excitotoxin that not only makes you addicted to foods, but also promotes cancer growth.Cancer cells exposed to MSG become more mobile and spread. The scary thing about MSG is that it’s well hidden. Most people look at an ingredient list, don’t see Monosodium Glutamate, and happily purchase the item, thinking it’s healthy. But MSG has many names. If you see any of these ingredients, you are consuming MSG.
- Natural flavorings
- Dextrose
- Guar Gum
- Soy Sauce
- Gelatin
- Autolyzed Yeast
- Yeast Extract
- Hydrolyzed Vegetable
- Protein (HVP)
- Glutamate
- Glutamic Acid
- Modified food starch
Have I gotten your attention yet? This is not even the full list! It’s hard to buy anything pre-made that doesn’t have MSG in it. But do not lose hope. There are a great many MSG-free foods and I will share those with you in another post. For the well-being of your child, you should purchase as many foods as possible that don’t have MSG.
- Corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup. This ingredient has been proven to increase risks of tooth decay, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, heart disease, anemia, and of course obesity.People might think corn syrup isn’t bad because it is made of corn. But corn itself is a grain, not a vegetable, and quickly metabolizes into sugar, skyrocketing blood pressure and straining the pancreas. Corn lacks nutrients the body needs and too much corn instead of other nutritious foods can cause deficiencies.
- Artificial sweeteners like Aspartame, sucralose, saccharin, NutraSweet, AminoSweet, Equal, and Splenda. Like MSG, artificial sweeteners are also excitotoxins that cause cancer cells to spread.More than 90 symptoms are connected with aspartame consumption, including headaches, dizziness, change in mood, diarrhea, vomiting, memory loss, seizures, numbness, blindness, etc.Aspartame can also trigger illnesses like Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, Attention Deficit Disorder, Lyme Disease, and Alzheimer’s Disease to name a few. It is a deadly ingredient that should be avoided at all cost.
It is much better to eat sugar than artificial sweeteners. Get them out of your house, now!
- Enriched flour. When something is enriched it means that natural nutrients have been removed during processing and then new, synthetic nutrients are added, such as metal shavings.Enriched flour is processed differently than normal flour. In the body, it is broken down too quickly and sends too much sugar to the blood stream at one time. Instead of using it as energy, it is stored as fat, causing weight gain.Enriched flour is found in many carbohydrates, including sandwich bread, crackers, cookies, and the breading on chicken nuggets.
- Soy. It may be surprising for you that I’ve included soy on this list. Soy beans in their purest form are not harmful. What makes soy products harmful is all the processing they endure.Most soy is genetically modified. Also, when processed, estrogen hormones are added to soy.These hormones can speed up a child’s growth progress, causing permanent damage to the endocrine system (which consists of the thyroid, pancreas, ovaries, testis, adrenal glands, pituitary gland, pineal gland, hypothalamus, and thymus gland).
Children who eat a lot of soy reach puberty earlier. Boys are at a greater risk of testicular cancer and girls are at a greater risk of breast cancer. The manganese in soy can cause brain damage in babies and too much soy can lead to ADHD or aggressive behavior. Are these enough reasons for you to avoid soy?
After seeing this list of ingredients which should be avoided in healthy kids meals, I now want to give you the ingredients of a McDonald’s Chicken McNugget. All of the bad ingredients I listed above are in bold along with a few others.
White boneless chicken, water, food starch-modified, salt, seasoning (autolyzed yeast extract, salt, wheat starch, natural flavoring (botanical source), safflower oil, dextrose, citric acid, rosemary), sodium phosphates, seasoning (canola oil, mono- and diglycerides, extractives of rosemary). Battered and breaded with: water, enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, food starchmodified, salt, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate), spices, wheat starch, whey, corn starch. Prepared in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness). Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent.
Even if something’s not highlighted above, that doesn’t mean it’s good to eat. Just five grams of the deadly chemical TBHQ will kill you. And Dimethylpolysiloxane is made of silicone and used in silly putty.
Healthy Kids Meals Are Possible
For your child to be healthy and lose weight, it is important that you have this knowledge about food. There is so much more evidence that supports why these foods and ingredients are bad for you. It could take years to compile all the information and
put it in book form.
At this time you may be wondering … Well, what is my family going to eat? It can be discouraging seeing the long list of harmful foods. But do not give up hope. With the problem, there is a solution and you will learn all about it from this blog.
I am here to help you. Improving your child’s health is a process. It’s just like cleaning out a closet. Before you can really organize and clean a closet, you first have to make a big mess. We’ve just made the big mess and now it’s time for clean up.
Preparing healthy kids meals is a great way to get started.
Learn more about this subject and more over at www.myfamilyexercise.com/help-your-child-lose-weight.
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