Six foods to avoid

I just wrote a blog on another of my blogs on six ways to have a healthy diet. So it is only fitting to write the reverse post on this blog. So here goes six food types to avoid:

1. The three white poison foods - sugar, white flour and too much salt. Note the body needs some salt and you will die if you don't get enough salt but in the modern diet there's way too much salt.
   
2. Red meat - contains saturated fats and is very bad for your heart.
   
3. Too much alcohol or caffeine (in moderation both appear to be good for you). Even if you have these in moderation remember to drink more water as they are both diuretics.
   
4. Any soda even diet. I used to say plain soda is OK - at least when added to whiskey but I discovered that even club soda leaches the calcium from your bones. As far as sugared and diet sodas are concerned these are poisonous for your body. They're just slow poisons.
5. Pesticides. Fruits and vegetables are great but some especially those grown outside of the USA or Europe have too much pesticides. If you can organic is best but otherwise wash your fruits and vegetables well in a little dish washing detergent and scrub well. Then of course wash the dish washing liquid off by rinsing real well. And even though the skin of fruits and vegetables have plenty of the goodness at times you may have to peel your apples and similar fruits.
6. Fish at top of the food chain such as sword fish or sharks. The heavy metal pollution in the oceans concentrates each time a bigger fish eats a smaller so that by the time you reach the top of the food chain there may be too much heavy metals like mercury for health.

Please use your gumption and notice I wrote avoid not to forbid. So for example my wife likes shark a lot so every now and then we eat some but we are eating way less than we did many years ago before we understood that too much was bad for you. Some though are best left alone whenever possible. Sodas are one of those. They are addictive and best left alone but if you can have a single can of Coke every six months, then that's OK too.

I just started a blog about the Jenny Craig diet

One of the pages on the Jenny Craig blog is, "How healthy is the Jenny Craig diet?"