Foods doctors won’t eat and why

Good nutrition is key to a long and healthy life. Here, medical pros reveal what they forego when it comes to food.

Bacon: Bacon is full of fat and cholesterol, and the nutritional value is very minimal. It is probably one of the worst foods on the planet. When you look at its content, it is pure fat and cholesterol. It is a processed food, with no exact benefits, but carries with it all that is bad for a diet – chemicals, salt, and fat.

Breads or pasta: They both present three problems: They are high glycemic index, they are not whole foods (man-made), and they are tremendously addictive.

Boxed cereals: They are full of sugar and often unhealthy grains. Rather than having cereal for breakfast, a dose of healthy fats and protein will start your day off right. Have boiled or poached eggs with greens, sardines on gluten-free crisp breads, or half an avocado sprinkled with salt or spritzed with lemon.

Cotton candy: Or really any foods you could find at a carnival, especially those containing sugar. Carnival foods are almost all fried, covered with sugar, or made with chemical dyes. Cotton candy is an example; it’s pretty much all specially-treated dyed sugar, called ‘floss’ sugar. Food dyes have shown some issues in animal studies. Foods with high amounts of refined sugars are a no-go diet. Why? Refined sugars, while being terrible for your teeth, continue to wreak havoc with your body throughout long after they leave your mouth. The rapid breakdown of these simple sugars by your body result in huge blood sugar spikes, making your body store the extra energy as fat, and causing huge rises in your insulin levels, producing that ‘food coma’ feeling, which is a thorn in any busy person’s side.

Cheetos: This is not wholesome because of the blend of artificial colours used and the mono sodium glutamate, both of which can serve as excitatory neurotoxins. Also, any type of puffed corn product that goes through extruder process decreases most nutrients from the corn product and promotes inflammation.

Diet soda: It is no better than regular soda, but with all the chemicals in it to lead to the metabolic syndrome! No reason to add this one to your diet. A truly unhealthy choice. Poison. The zero-calorie sugar substitute (aspartame) may be linked to headaches, dizziness, digestive problems, mood changes, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and some cancers.