Let’s talk about Nitrates and Nitrites.
What are they? Have you heard of them or noticed them on any of your foods?
Now go open up your fridge and pull out some lunch meat or pepperoni! Most likely you’ll find those words on your packages of processed meat.
Nitrates and Nitrites are close cousins. They happen to be a preservative’s that preserve the meats color. Studies also have showed that they may prevent botulism to some degree. Not sure what that means but okay. Regardless the other studies I have read show that Nitrates also cause cancer in high doses.
My question is this, who determines what high doses are for each individual. What is high for you may not be high for me. So I’ve decided to not eat them.
If you’re going to buy lunchmeat go to your deli counter and read the ingredients and have them slice it for you.
Now that we’ve gone over HFCS, Hydrogenated oils and nitrites how healthy is your child’s sandwich at lunch time? You may be looking for a new bread, peanut butter and lunchmeat and if so, YEAH FOR YOU! You are awesome! Changing diets one at a time!!
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