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Foods to NEVER Eat: Processed Meats
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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6. Processed Meats: What falls under the category of processed meats? Hot dogs, sausage, jerky, bacon, certain lunch meats and meats used in canned soup products. Almost all processed meats have sodium nitrite added as a preservative.A study conducted at the University of Hawaii found that sodium nitrite can act as "a precursor to highly carcinogenic nitrosamines -- potent cancer-causing chemicals that accelerate the formation and growth of cancer cells throughout the body."
The next time you're shopping for groceries, check food labels before sticking anything into your cart. Eliminate these meats from your diet before they eliminate you!
Labels: bad foods, dieting, foods to never eat, healthy eating, Nutrition
1 Comments - Health News Blog: Foods to NEVER Eat: Processed Meats
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said... - November 29, 2009 7:21 AM
Nitrites are added to give a reddish look to the meat, or else it would be gray. The preserving is done by the salt. there are more nitrites naturally occurring in spinach. The question is how much bacon would you have to consume before it is detrimental to your self...way more than you could or would eat at a sitting.
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