EATING HOMEMADE MATTERS
Many people ask us why they should make their own bread, or juice their own juice or even just make their own meals. Our current lifestyles allow us just to go to the Supermarket and purchase already-made baked goods or packaged juices or even complete meals either frozen or preserved in some way that you just heat it and eat it. No wonder there are thousands of companies that produce this type of food that make millions of dollars on the convenience of it all. But is it healthy for us to continue to consume this type of food, day in and day out without suffering the consequences?
 With fast food restaurants on every corner and preserved meals easily available in the freezer, obesity and chronic disease rates are higher than ever. Fast foods and processed meals are generally sorely lacking in fresh fruits and vegetables, fiber and whole grains that contain vital nutrients essential to healthy living. Eating clean eliminates any extra additives that can be dangerous to your health. Also, making homemade gives you control because you know what your foods contains and where it’s been. With the help of our parent company website lchef.com we have some information about the food you eat and the many food additives that are used to produce it.
Food Additives
By making homemade you eliminate extra additives, preservatives, sugar, salt and fats that are added to processed foods to enhance texture, flavour or color appeal. Many of these additives can be dangerous to your health.
Fat - It is common to add fat to foods to enhance flavor and texture. However, be careful to what type of fat is shown on the nutrition label. Trans fat, commonly listed in the ingredients list as hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oil, is dangerous to your health. It dramatically increases your chance for heart disease and increases bad, LDL cholesterol while decreasing good, HDL cholesterol levels.
Sugar - Added sugar is found in many processed products including cereals, bread, crackers, and cookies. High sugar intake is linked to obesity, type-2 diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease.
Sodium - Unhealthy, processed foods are high in sodium. In fact, people consume up to three-fourths of their sodium by eating processed foods, such as canned soups and vegetables. Sodium plays a large role in increasing high blood pressure.
Common food additives also come in the form of chemicals and preservatives. Experience the flavor and texture of fresh foods rather than the additives used to make preserved foods look and taste fresh.
Food Colouring : Found in many processed products like gelatin and crackers. Artificial color is thought to cause increased hyperactivity in children, and Yellow No. 5 is considered to worsen asthma symptoms. Also, in the 70s the FDA banned Red Dye No. 2 after studies showed it could cause cancer in rats.
Sodium Benzoate : Used as a common food preservative. This additive is linked to an increased hyperactivity in children and when combined with vitamin C they create benzene, a carcinogen.
Sodium Nitrate : Used to cure meats, such as sausages or canned meats. Due to evidence, sodium nitrate has been thought to cause gastric cancer. In the early 1900s, people ate more cured meats because they had no form of modern refrigeration and gastric cancer levels were high during that time. However, after refrigeration people ate less cured meats and cancer levels dropped dramatically.
 Making homemade helps to keep track of what kind of ingredients and how much of them you are adding to your foods. I just like to know what I am eating and what I am feeding me family! Being aware of and eliminate the extra junk from your food is a great benefit of eating homemade. Processed foods are blamed for the high rates of chronic disease, such as diabetes and heart disease. In order to decrease your risk it is imperative to adopt a lifestyle of healthy, clean eating and exercise. Creating homemade foods at home gives you the power to eliminate the harmful additives commonly found in processed foods. Making homemade generates an environment for health and life to flourish. So bake your own bread (it is easy with our Bosch Kitchen Machines) and mill your own flours (regular or Gluten-Free with a Nutrimill grain mill ) or make your own juice witha good juicer and have the peace of mind that you deserve knowing that you and your family are getting less additives and more of the natural foods into your diets.
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With fast food restaurants on every corner and preserved meals easily available in the freezer, obesity and chronic disease rates are higher than ever. Fast foods and processed meals are generally sorely lacking in fresh fruits and vegetables, fiber and whole grains that contain vital nutrients essential to healthy living. Eating clean eliminates any extra additives that can be dangerous to your health. Also, making homemade gives you control because you know what your foods contains and where it’s been. With the help of our parent company website lchef.com we have some information about the food you eat and the many food additives that are used to produce it.
color is thought to cause increased hyperactivity in children, and Yellow No. 5 is considered to worsen asthma symptoms. Also, in the 70s the FDA banned Red Dye No. 2 after studies showed it could cause cancer in rats. 
Making homemade helps to keep track of what kind of ingredients and how much of them you are adding to your foods. I just like to know what I am eating and what I am feeding me family! Being aware of and eliminate the extra junk from your food is a great benefit of eating homemade. Processed foods are blamed for the high rates of chronic disease, such as diabetes and heart disease. In order to decrease your risk it is imperative to adopt a lifestyle of healthy, clean eating and exercise. Creating homemade foods at home gives you the power to eliminate the harmful additives commonly found in processed foods. Making homemade generates an environment for health and life to flourish. So bake your own bread (it is easy with 
