3 "Healthy" Foods NOT to Eat

Written by Ryan Cote


There are three foods that are labeled "healthy," but forrepparttar reasons I'll outline below, you should stay away from.

Food #1: Fruit Juices like Orange Juice and Apple Juice

Sure they contain vitamin C and may come from real fruit, butrepparttar 135412 fact ofrepparttar 135413 matter is, they are loaded with sugar! Yes, it's natural sugar, but it's still sugar- and we all know sugar turns to fat. They now have fruit juices with halfrepparttar 135414 sugar- give them a try instead- they actually taste pretty good.

Food #2: Energy/Protein/Meal bars like Balance Bars

Some claim to haverepparttar 135415 perfect ratio of protein, fat and carbohydrates- and they do. Some just claim to be a good meal replacement bar because they contain fat and protein, and vitamins and minerals- and they do. But if you take a look atrepparttar 135416 label of most bars, you'll see high fructose corn syrup, sugar and in some bars fractionated oils. It's so self-defeating, it blows my mind. Go with bars that have healthy ingredients such as Clif bars, Luna Bars and Odwalla bars.

Does your Water Supply contain Drugs or Toxins

Written by Alfred Jones


Scientists have discovered Pharmaceutical Drugs and Toxins inrepparttar Water Supply, Are you drinking this potentially dangerous cocktail.

Water treatment plants are set up to eliminate certain types of waste materials, such as pesticides, herbicides and heavy metals fromrepparttar 135411 water supply. They cannot however cope, neither are they equipped to deal with pharmaceuticals, as you will probably know, up to 90% of drugs that are taken in to our bodies, is eliminated byrepparttar 135412 kidneys and urine, so whatever passes through our bodies, eventually end up back atrepparttar 135413 water treatment plant and then in to our water supply.

Pharmaceuticals are just one of a huge number of toxins and pollutants that are present inrepparttar 135414 water supply, they can even containrepparttar 135415 residue of DDT, which does not break down for a very long time. There can be drugs which could react adversely with drugs that you are currently taking,repparttar 135416 list of pollutants in water supplies seem to be growing allrepparttar 135417 time.

It was brought to light initially by scientists in Germany in 1997 and published inrepparttar 135418 Journal, Chemosphere, when it was found that there were pharmaceutical drugs inrepparttar 135419 water supply for Berlin.

A number of researchers agree thatrepparttar 135420 concentration of antibiotics in our water supply is currently 1000 times higher than it was in 1997, High enough to causerepparttar 135421 mutation of e-coli bacteria in to strains that are resistant torepparttar 135422 normal antibiotics, this has already occurred inrepparttar 135423 United States and elsewhere.

When e-coli was first found at water treatment plants, Time Magazine cover, portrayed e-coli running out of a kitchen tap or faucet, it has also been found in swimming pools.

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