Healthy 4 Life: Dietary Guidelines from the Weston A. Price Foundation

This post is taken from Healthy 4 Life:  Dietary Guidelines from the Weston A Price Foundation for Cooking and Eating Healthy, Delicious, Traditional Whole Foods. 

These foods can cause many health problems including poor growth in children, learning disabilities and behavior problems, allergies, asthma, arthritis, heart disease, cancer and auto-immune problems.

Polyunsaturated and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils used in processed foods, chips, snack foods, cookies, pastries, for cooking oils and for friend foods, which science has shown to cause numerous serious health problems. 

Foods containing refined sweeteners such as candies, sodas, cookies, ice cream and cakes. 

White flour products such as pasta, white bread, rolls and bagels.

Processed foods and fast foods containing many additives, including MSG and hydrolyzed vegetable protein; these are poisonous to the nervous system and can cause weight gain.

Modern soy foods, such as soy protein, soy protein isolate, soy milk, tofu, and hydrolyzed vegetable protein, which can cause digestive problems hormone disruption and thyroid disease. 

Artificial sweeteners such as aspartame (Equal and Nutrasweet) and sucralose (Splenda), which are added to diet sodas and weight loss foods. These are toxic to the nervous system and may even cause weight gain.

Stimulating foods containing caffeine and caffeine-like substances, such as coffee, tea, sodas, energy drinks and chocolate.