5 Most unhealthy foods to avoid

Feb 7, 2012 by Sarinkumar

Do you ever thought about the existence of a list of unhealthy foods to avoid? Are you aware about the nutritional qualities of the food you eat? Do you know about the effects produced by varies food stuffs in your body? If your answer to these questions is a ‘NO’, then you should read this article and find out which are the unhealthy foods to avoid from your diet.

As you know the nutritional quality of various foods you eat are not equal. Some foods are highly nutritious and better for our health. But some foods are poor in nutrition and bad for our health. Contradictorily unhealthy foods taste better than healthy foods in most occasions.  So people tend to eat more unhealthy foods and ends up in various illnesses. So it is very important to mark the unhealthy foods to avoid in your diet. What you eat is what you are.

Unhealthy foods to avoid

The following is the list of most unhealthy foods to avoid from your diet. Take this seriously and try to avoid these food stuffs, so that you can get a better health and prevent many diseases caused due to these unhealthy foods.

Oils and fat

Sure, some amount of oils and fats are needed by our body and it’s essential. But in excess amount oils and fats will do only harm to our body. Oils and fats contain fatty acids. Certain fatty acids, saturated fatty acids, increases the amount of bad cholesterol in the body and it will leads to many diseases like hypercholesterolemia, atherosclerosis, heart diseases, etc. So try to avoid food items fried in oil, high fat containing milk products, animal fat, chips, egg yolk, etc.

Also some studies showed that fried food in oil can cause cancer.

Refined sugar

Every one of us likes to eat sweets. We all add sugar to many of our foods and drinks. But there is a danger in using excess sugars, especially refined sugars. It’s proved that excess sugar intake have direct relation with development of Diabetes. Sugars induce obesity and that intern leads to diabetes. So try to avoid refined sugars from your diet. Instead of refined sugars, use sugar free sweetening agents.

Refined grains

Refined grain products are poor in nutritious quality than whole grain products. Also they are poor in fibers and other essential components. So refined grain products are inferior to whole grain products. But people still loves to eat more of refined grain, which is one of unhealthy foods to avoid. Please try to avoid refined grain foods and use whole grain foods. Avoid tea cake, cookies, certain biscuits, etc.

Meat and poultry

Most of the people think that meat and poultry are good for our health. But according to me they are one among the unhealthy foods to avoid. Eating meat and poultry once or twice in a week is okay. But more than that is not good. Especially when they are fried in oil. Ideally human body is designed to be vegetarians. It’s always better to stick to a vegetarian food.

Excess salt

A minimum amount of salt is required by our body per day. But if the amount of intake is more, then it adversely affects our body. Excess salt intake has direct relation with hypertension. So try to avoid salted chips, salted drinks, etc.

Diseases caused by unhealthy foods

The reason behind majority of lifestyle diseases is unhealthy foods and food habits. A considerable number of deaths are occurring worldwide due to these life style diseases. Some of the common diseases due to unhealthy eating habits include:

• Diabetes
• Obesity
• Hypertension
• Atherosclerosis and heart disease
• Hypercholesterolemia
• Arthritis
• Anemia
• Constipation

The list of diseases is lengthy. In order to prevent these life threatening diseases you find out the unhealthy foods to avoid and completely remove them from your diet. It sounds hard to avoid completely, I know because you might like those tastes, so at least reduce the intake. If you are eating them daily, go for once in a week. If you are eating it once in a week, make it once in a month. Remember “prevention is better than cure”. Hope you are clear about these unhealthy foods to avoid.