Food additives
By hersheyskiss
@hersheyskiss (761)
United States
5 responses
@avonrep1 (1862)
• United States
16 Feb 08
Oh yes food additives make people gain the weight. MSG and diet foods are the worst. Diet foods use sweetners that make you more hungry. That and salt, salt makes you retain water weight, that your body would naturally flush out. Anyone who wants to lose weight, can lose ten pounds in two weeks by doing this. Don't add salt to your food, instead of pop and coffee and other drinks, drink at least 8 glasses of water a day, you will lose about 10 pounds, if not more.
Alot of the problem, is people don't cook anymore and when they do, they eat too excess.
@hersheyskiss (761)
• United States
17 Feb 08
these were all great comments, but I know what you mean about us not cooking anymore because I am guilty of this myself its just easier sometimes.
@avonrep1 (1862)
• United States
25 Feb 08
Even when we do eat out we can eat healthier. Ordering smaller portions, not adding additional salt to your food, and ordering water instead of soft drinks, makes a big improvement also. I use to live on the road, because the company I worked for needed me in different states 51 weeks of the year, so I lived in hotels, a different one each week. I did not cook a meal for myself in almost three years, but because I like to stay healthy and informed, I knew by not adding salt and drink water instead of a coke, would help me keep the weight down. When I cook I cook meals, that are small in comparision of what my family members cook, but it fills everyone up. We hardly have left overs, so no worry about leftovers going bad. Or eating so much our stomaches hurt, because we don't want any leftovers.
I have watched family members and others that I love, eat to excess and their are some I worry deeply about, because I love them so much. I worry their weight, will eventually kill them and hope they will finally relieze, their life is on the line and do something about it. In one case, I am afraid, that surgery is the only way to save this person's life. But that person won't even consider it, but diets and other things don't seem to work.
I wonder, when is enough, enough.
@VAnnasamy (426)
• India
16 Feb 08
Yes. We should be choosy on food items. Even less quantity should make us healthy.
Food for thoughts may be more but thoughful food should be taken.
@deebomb (15304)
• United States
16 Feb 08
I do feel that all those food additives do help make us fat. The salt and sugar are getting way out of hand. Why does it cost more to buy a can of soup with less salt in it? Did you know that just about every thing had added sugar in it. Why do green beans need sugar? I also believes that all those additive are causing a lot of health problems. We need to do more fresh food cooking and not relying on fast food or prepared food from a box that has to have those additives to even taste half way decent.
@brimia (6581)
• United States
16 Feb 08
In the past year and a half, I've really been more diligent in reading food labels. It's amazing the amount of junk in our food. There's sugar or corn syrup in almost everything. So many food I used to buy are loaded with processed ingredients like enriched white flour, hydrogenated fats, sugars, MSG, artificial colors and flavors. All this crap builds up in our systems and causes all sorts of problems. They've shown that eliminated artificial ingredients from children's diets can help attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity. I'm sure all of this junk can be traced to cancer, obesity, and countless other health issues.
@tazpromote (965)
• United States
17 Feb 08
Food additives are mixed with food to make it color and to change the behavior of children and other people on it. I guess it is not fat but some cheap food additives have some bad health effect. Which are
Many colorings have been banned from use in food due to safety concerns, but there still remain some approved colorings that concern some people.
To give a few examples, it is thought that a small percentage (0.01%) of people may be allergic to Tartrazine (coal-tar derivative) and causes hives. Many of the artificial food colorings are suspected to cause reactions ranging from hyperactivity to depression to asthma-like symptoms in sensitive individuals especially children. Norway has banned all products containing coal tar and coal tar derivatives.
