A list of foods that are really harmful for health causing obesity, lower bone density and many other diseases. This presentation includes why they are bad with references And also their alternatives.

1. 12 Foods That Are
Really Bad For
Your Health
Foods to avoid like the plague
Saad Al-din Sifat

2. If you want to lose weight
and avoid chronic disease,
then you shouldn't eat much
of these foods.
The best choice is to avoid
them completely

3. 1. Sugary Drinks
When people drink sugar calories, the brain doesn't "register" them as food.
So, people eat more and increase their calorie content.
Large sugar consumption causes:
• Insulin resistance in the body
• type 2 diabetes and heart disease (4, 5, 6).
• fat gain and obesity (7, 8, 9).
Alternatives: Drink water, Lemon water,
coffee or tea instead.

4. 2. White Bread
Bread is generally made from wheat, which contains the protein gluten.
For this reason, all wheat-based breads are a bad idea for people who
have celiac disease or gluten sensitivity.
Most commercial breads are unhealthy
cause:
• Refined wheat which are void of essential
nutrients
• Nothing but empty calories
• leads to rapid spikes in blood sugar (10).
Alternatives: For people who can tolerate gluten, ezekiel bread (Gluten free)
is an excellent choice.
Whole grain bread is also definitely better (or "less bad") than white bread.

5. 3. Most Pizzas and
Burgers
Commercial Pizzas and burgers are seriously unhealthy and extremely
high in Calorie content.
The dough is made from highly
refined wheat flour and meat is
highly processed.
Also contains lots of refined fats
leading to obesity.

6. 4. Most Fruit Juices
Many fruit juices are actually little more than fruit-flavored sugar water.
It is true that the juice contains some antioxidants
and vitamin C,
But this must be weighed against the large
amount of liquid sugar.
In fact, fruit juice contains just as much sugar
as a sugary drink like Coke or Dew,
and sometimes even more (11).
Alternatives:
• Drink water instead
• Home made juice

7. 5. Industrial Vegetable
OilsThere’s a Drastic increase in the consumption of refined vegetable oils,
such as soybean oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil and canola oil.
These oils are very high in omega-6 fatty
acids, which humans never consumed in
such large amounts before.
There are many serious concerns with
these oils:
• They are highly sensitive to oxidation
• cause increased oxidative stress in the body.
• They have also been linked to increased
risk of cancer (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19).
Alternatives:
• Coconut oil
• Sunflower oil
• Extra virgin olive oil

8. 6. Margarine
Margarine is a highly processed pseudo-food that has been engineered to
look and taste like butter.
It is loaded with artificial ingredients,
and is usually made with industrial
vegetable oils that have been
hydrogenated to make them more solid.
This increases their trans fat content
significantly.
Alternatives:
• Use real butter instead, preferably from grass-fed cows.

9. 7. Pastries, Cookies and
Cakes
Most pastries, cookies and cakes are extremely unhealthy.
• Made with refined sugar, refined wheat flour.
• Added fats - unhealthy fats like
shortening (high in trans fats).
• Almost no essential nutrients, but tons of calories
and unhealthy ingredients.
These tasty treats are literally some of the worst
things that you can put into your body.

10. 8. French Fries and Potato
Chips
Whole, white potatoes are very healthy.
But, the same can NOT be said of the products that are made from them,
such as French fries and potato chips.
These foods are:
• Very high in calories
• May cause to weight gain (20, 21).
• May also contain large amounts of
acrylamides, carcinogenic substances
that form when potatoes are fried,
baked or roasted (22, 23).
Alternatives:
• Potatoes are best consumed boiled, not fried.

11. 9. Ice Cream
Ice cream is one of the most delicious foods on the planet.
Unfortunately, it is also one of the unhealthiest.
Most commercial ice creams are:
• Loaded with sugar.
• Also high in calories
• May contain artificial color, flavor, sweetener .
Alternatives:
• Making own ice-cream with healthy ingredients and less sugar.

12. 10. Candy Bars
Candy bars are incredibly unhealthy.
They are-
• high in sugar
• refined wheat flour and processed fats
• very low in essential nutrients.
• engineered to be super tasty
(so you eat more)
Alternatives:
• Eat a piece of fruit instead,
• real high-cocoa dark chocolate.

13. 11. Anything That is High
in Sugar, Refined Grains
and Vegetable Oils
One of the most important things you can do to eat healthier, is to read labels.
It is important to avoid (or at least minimize) foods that contain:
• Added sugar (and high fructose corn syrup).
• Refined grains like white flour.
• Industrial vegetable oils.
• Artificial trans fats.
These are some of the unhealthiest (and most common) ingredients in the
modern diet.
The importance of reading labels can not be overstated, and this applies to all foods.

14. 12. Most Highly
Processed Foods
By far the simplest way to eat healthy and lose weight,
Is to avoid processed foods as much as possible.
Put simply, if it looks like it was made in a factory,
then it's probably bad for you.

15. On final thought
A good rule to remember, is that real food doesn't need an
ingredients list.
Because real
food IS the
ingredient.