Top 10 Reasons to Stop Eating Processed Foods - Part2!

6 - Get your taste buds back! After years of eating processed foods loaded with sugar, salt, chemicals, additives, preservatives etc.. your taste buds have become desensitized to all the unnatural stimulations and are no longer sensitive to all the amazing and natural flavours of whole foods. You have become accustomed and addicted to the artificial sweet and salty flavours that our bodies crave. Thankfully your taste buds only last around two weeks, so after this time you will start to notice the awesome natural saltiness and sweetness of the fresh fruit and vegetables that you should be eating!

7 - Sugar =  
*Agave
*Amazake
*Barley Malt
*Birch Syrup
*Blanco Directo
*Brown Rice Syrup
*Buttered Syrup
*Cane juice
*Caramel Coloring
*Caramelized Foods
*Carbitol
*Carob Powder
*Caster/Castor
*Corn Syrup
*Custard powder
*Date Paste
*Demerara
*Dextrin/Dextrose
*Diglycerides
*Disaccharides

*Diastatic Malt
*Diatase
*D -Tagalose
*Ethyl Maltol
*Evaporated Cane Juce
*Falernum
*Florida Crystals
*FOS
*Fruit Juice Concentrate
*Fructooligosaccharides
*Fructose
*Glucose
*Glycerine/Glycerides
*Glycol/Glycerol
*Golden Syrup
*Grenadine
*Gur
*Hexitol
*Hickory Syrup
*High Fructose Corn Syrup

*Honey
*Hydrolysed Starch
*Inversol
*Isomalt
*Jaggery
*Jallab
*Jiaogulan
*Jus de canne
*Karo Syrup
*Lactose
*Levulose
*Licorice Root
*Malitol
*Malt Dextrin
*Malted Barley
*Malt Syrup
*Maltodextrin
*Maltose
*Mannitol/Mannose
*Maple Syrup

*Marshmallow
*Misri
*Mizumi
*Molasses
*Monoglycerides
*Monosaccarides
*Muscovado
*Muscovy
*Nectars
*Neotame
*Orgeat
*Palm Syrup
*Panela
*Panocha
*Peckmez
*Pentose
*Pine Syrup
*Polydextrose
*Polyglycerides
*Poplar Syrup

*Raisin Paste
*Refiner's Syrup
*Resin
*Rice Syrup
*Rub Syrup
*Sacchaides
*Saccharose
*Sorbitol
*Sorghum
*Sucanat/Sucanet
*Sucrose
*Tequila Agave
*Treacle
*Trisaccharides
*Turbinado
*Yacon Syrup
*Xylitol
*Xylose
*Zuckerhutetc
*Zylose

That's 100 different names for sugar!! 

8 - It will save you time and money... So many people argue that they don't have the time or money to eat healthy. Firstly I spend the same, if not less, on my groceries each week as most people I know. Secondly, there are resources, recipes, tips and tools out there that will save you time and make it easier for you to eat well. Thirdly, think of all the time that you will gain on your extended life expectancy, money you will save on medical bills! Possibly the greatest benefit of all.

9 - It is comparable to taking drugs, smoking and alcoholism. 

In the film "Super Size Me" Morgan comments that after eating McDonald's he would feel good and happy but after a while he would become withdrawn and depressed. He would not feel better again until he had some more McDonald's. Ever felt like this before? It seems like an exaggeration, but have you ever tried to stop eating a certain type of food? After a few days you start craving it, you cant stop thinking about it, you get headaches, mood swings and tiredness that you feel will not go away unless you eat the food that you've removed. For me its Potato Chips, for you it might be chocolate, sugar, bread, baking. Luckily, just like any other drug, you can move past the harmful and addictive effects! 

  

10 - Your food will be made with love! My favourite reason. There is nothing more satisfying than cooking or eating a meal that is prepared from scratch, cooked out of passion and shared with friends.

I absolutely love sharing my cooking. I love demonstrating the simplicity and effectiveness of the food I eat. It isn't always amazing.. but it is always made with a passion for good whole foods, risk-taking and exciting tastes and flavours.