9 Ingredients to avoid in processed foods

An excellent, and surprisingly thorough, article on Shine listing out food additives to avoid in foods, including potential health side effects. Of course the list could have gone further: I would have included homogenized dairy products and any wheat products with processed, bleached flour, but all things considered, this was a good, comprehensive list.

Bravo to the author for including all of the variations of artificial sweetners as well. I would have liked to see all of the derrivatives of MSG listed, though, such as autolyzed yeast, yeast extract, etc.

I thought it ironic that the advertisement on the page featured an image of a cupcake that likely contained ingredients violating most of the ingredients listed in the article...

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Nourishing Traditions

I've just recently started reading "Nourishing Traditions" by Sally Fallon, and there is a wealth of information about preparing good, healthy recipes, many of which involve sprouted grains and fermentation. In fact, in a future post I'm going to show some steps I took recently to create curds and whey using raw cows milk (it was a fascinating experiment and the results were just great.) I've been trying to incorporate whey into recipes recently, and I'm going to post notes about that here as well.

The book is worth checking out, and will probably do a much better justice explaining things than I could here. It's worth picking up for the recipes alone.

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