Scientists Officially Link Processed Foods To Autoimmune Disease

Interesting article:
www.trueactivist.com/scientists-officially-link-processed-foods-to-autoimmune-disease/
Time to put down the doughnuts and soda...

no problem Babe. salt, sugar, fat -all to be avoided to stay well it seems. But I'm sure we already knew that.

Processed foods are those that are made with a bunch of garbage chemicals, tons of added salt/sugar which also help preserve shelf life and often carrageenan which is another terrible food additive to aid with texture (thickening agent) all of which means processed foods generally contain too much of this and more crap which are not healthy and often cause many health issues with the heart, obesity, the list goes on...refined sugar is linked to a lot of health issues as well, but some don't want to believe it because they don't want to give up their ding dongs and pop.

There are people who eat processed foods in absolute extremes and others who have it occasionally, in conjunction with a very balanced and healthy diet etc.

If we're predisposed and our bodies don't have a chance to recuperate or gain strength...I can see that it wouldn't take long for autoimmune to kick in.

Food intake is important, and I totally agree that there are many things in food items that absolutely do NOT need to be there.

But, it's solely driven by the buzz words of the day...I more so blame the artificial sweeteners, trans fats and high salt.
The food industry is changing things to suit the needs of the public. The better suited to what people imagine they can consume in larger quantities, the more they'll purchase. That's the enticement.
0 calories, 0 this and that....all bullcrap. Health bars, foods, etc...they're the first ingredients that should be scrutinised.

At least we now have labeling for ingredients, % and additives...

To purchase is in our hands, but the voice of the purchasers has to be much louder. It's turning out to be the manufacturers who dictate what we need. They're now going to make beef that's higher in omega 3....that'll cause a problem depending on the source...they already do it for eggs..fishy eggs for breakfast, yummy

Why can't we just eat a variety to fulfill our needs instead of it being forced upon us?  Because everything has become bad for us according to the beliefs and surveys and the tests of the day.

Nothing is simple anymore....even the basics.

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I don't really want to have an opinion on this but it struck me wierd that they started out talking about "processed" foods and then only seemed to talk about salt afterward. So, was the study actually about "processed" foods or about high salt intake? Just for the record though, I must say that if one day I ate potato chips and the other day I ate raw carrots, my UC would hate the carrot day and would be ok with the potato chip day. Now I'm not trying to say which one is healthier than the other.............

garylouisville...but you do know the potato chips are causing you harm, short/long term and the carrot is the nutrient your body needs to function properly...try eating the carrot cooked/soft, see if that makes a difference. When our systems are inflamed, it's only natural that fiber can feel irritating depending on what kind of fiber and how the fiber is prepared can make a world of difference...but the excess salt and sugar deteriorates your health for sure. It's strongly suspected that refined sugar and eating a lot of it can very well lead to leaky gut syndrome...carrots won't.

LOL gary, eating unhealthy isn't good for anyone, IBD or not. IBDers can definitely eat healthy foods only and cut out anything junky/processed and still have better overall health as a result, if they choose to do so, it's not impossible by any means...portion size is key with having IBD, probably the second biggest mistake many make is eating large meals and eating too late in the evening...it takes time (even longer for IBDers) for the GI tract to digest as it is...eating large meals makes more work and on an inflamed tract, that just adds to the tragedy.

healthy for one person is unhealthy for the next -

none of us (except twins - that's another subject altogether) are the same on the outside - what makes sense about thinking we're all the same on the inside - and that we would all require the same exact things food wise to be healthy ?

beatUC said...
Interesting article:
www.trueactivist.com/scientists-officially-link-processed-foods-to-autoimmune-disease/
Time to put down the doughnuts and soda...

whatever the ills of processed food (and they may be many), this article was about refined salts. the title was misleading because the word "official" made it sound like it was more then a research report, and it also would have been better to put "salt" in the title.

Processed food its too broad a category, and lets people project. FOr example, you mention "soda", yet most say right on the can "VERY LOW SODIUM" (may be other problems with sodas). But you were right on with donughts, packaged is the worst, but even dunking donuts does not have one less than hundreds of mg.

salt is very pro-inflammatory. I have been using salt substitute for years.

here is a link to the unbiased press release: www.nature.com/news/salt-linked-to-autoimmune-diseases-1.12555

I agree many processed foods and many fast foods are crazy high in salt, but why change the title, and why inappropriately use the word "official"

Post Edited (DBwithUC) : 3/9/2013 10:49:59 PM (GMT-7)

Yes soystud, but there's an abundance of healthy foods out there, it's just a matter of finding the ones that work for each individual is all I'm basically saying. What would everyone do if all the sudden there were no more fast-foods/processed foods? They wouldn't likely die from pain (from eating only healthy foods) or starvation, they'd simply use trial and error (just as they do with junky foods) to find what agrees and what doesn't with their IBD.

I dont think UC is caused by intake of refined salt. Our ancestors back in the old days they ate processed food in a cured form, such as ham, dried fish, cured pork...etc. from non-industrialized and not mass produced ingredients. They used grass-fed beef, and not the beef fed with corns/flour/grains, which caused cows to get sick without any anti-biotic (they get sick cows out of grain fed beef because their intestines are not made to be fed with grains, and their intestine get screwed up needing anti-biotic.) Same thing for chickens. Normal chickens from supermarket loaded with antibiotics. Good and old days they never used antibiotics for chickens. Wheat is GMO and loaded with pesticides in industrialized nations, so are our veggies. People in industrialized nations they are only interested in one thing and one thing only: make profit, not enough but tones of it, hence feeding animals we consume the stuff the are not supposed to consume, making sick animals. Our lifestyle is complicated, getting less sleep and more work and more stress.

So not just salt. Not just our meats, or veggies or just wheats. The gov. has to change the way we live so that we can eat our food safely.

I have no idea when we started paying so much more money for grass-fed beef (I cant get grass-fed beef anymore in where I live...), free-range chicken...my grandma never had to pay so much money to feed herself and her family the safe/normal food back in days, no industrialized food.

Doctors call Ulcerative Colitis a disease of industrialized nations, go figure....

London Lurker, I didn't find the article to imply it was purely salt that causes IBD, but that it plays some role in the development of it just like many other things they suspect like BC pills, toothpaste, high refined sugar diet, (smoking specifically for CD).

IBD has been around for more than 100 yrs, our diet/lifestyle has changed (for the worse IMO) compared to over 100 yrs ago.

Even if they found a specific cause like salt for example, it still wouldn't likely explain why everyone doesn't have an IBD...I've never been a "salt shaker" myself, but I'm sure I've ingested more than my body needed when I ate a lot of processed and fast foods.