In your opinion, what food (or "food product") symbolizes or represents all that is wrong with the Neolothic Diet? A question was asked previously about the worst neolithic ingredient, but I'm curious about what food item that non-paleo folks eat on a regular basis you consider the most heinous.
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Little Debbie snack cakes. All of them. |
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Velveeta. It's not even cheese. It's labeled as a processed food product. heinous. |
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Donuts deep-fried in 1 day old, continuously heated partially hydrogenated soybean oil, with a thick layer of high fructose corn syrup coating. Extra points if it has a fake strawberry fruit filling with additional HCFS and FD&C red 40 aluminum lake. Hits all the bases: Gluten, fructose, oxidized PUFA's, AGE's, and a possibly carcinogenic food additive for good measure. IT EXISTS SOMEWHERE. |
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Store-bought sheet cakes. Yes, even Costco and Sam's Club cakes. They have:
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I'd vote for Atkins Bars ...
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Any Neo food that tries to pass itself off as healthy. I hate finding the words "All Natural" only to find a long list of junk ingredients. I think stuff like Sun Chips, Power Bars, Snack Wells, 100 cal snacks, Sugar Free Candy, Gluten Free waffles should be banned for false advertising. My new pet peeve is Veggie Chips. It's a potato chip that is flavored and colored to immitate a vegetable. My friend was buying them thinking she was making a healthy choice until I read the ingredients to her. Don't get me started on all natural ice creams. GRR. |
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Probably twinkies since they could survive a nuclear holocaust |
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That nacho cheese sauce that is pumped out of an oil drum at a convenience store. |
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CINNABUN-REFINED GRAIN-GLUTEN, VEGETABLE OIL-PUFA, TONS OF SUGAR AND SADLY DELICIOUS |
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All great answers so far... But I'm torn between diet coke and anything else made with artificial sweeteners... BLECH. |
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Hot Pockets are nasty. |
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Olive Garden is what is wrong with everything and everyone. |
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I'm torn between donuts and Coke. |
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removing all grain bread products from society (breads, cookies, cakes, cereals, muffins, bagels, etc.) would probably be the biggest bang for your buck if you could only choose one type of neolithic food. |
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peanut butter; its like a siren in a jar :( |
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Hostess Donettes, covered with powdered sugar, which I was APPALLED to see in the vending machine this afternoon at my Kaiser hospital facility (next to candy, chips, cookies, etc.). They're going to get more than a "suggestion box" letter from me. |
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Deep fried cokacola, funnel cakes, and cotton candy. Welcome to the county fair, where they serve this stuff just down the lane from the livestock, which you'd he better off eating! |
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Fat Free Half & Half. skim milk and HFC. |
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Little Debbie Snack Cakes are kind of scary. Here are the ingredients in their vanilla snack cakes: "Sugar, Corn Syrup, Enriched Bleached Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1)Riboflavin (Vitamin B2)Folic Acid)Water, Interesterified Palm and Palm Kernel Oil, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean and Cottonseed Oil with TBHQ to Preserve Flavor, Dextrose, Soybean Oil, Toppers (Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Cottonseed and Soybean Oils, Corn Starch, Dextrin, Soy Lecithin, Confectioners Glaze, Red 40 Lake, Yellow 5 Lake, Carnauba Wax, Blue 1 Lake, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Yellow 6 Lake)Egg Whites, Whey (Milk)Emulsifiers (Mono and Diglycerides, Sorbitan Monostearate, Soy Lecithin, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Propylene Glycol Monostearate, Polysorbate 60, Polysorbate 80, Polyglycerol Esters of Fatty Acid)Leavening (Baking Soda, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate)Salt, Corn Starch, Sorbic Acid (to Retain Freshness)Colors (Titanium Dioxide, Turmeric, Annatto Extract)Natural and Artificial Flavors." http://www.grocerycouponnetwork.com/foodproducts/products.php?Id=42384 |
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anything from McDonalds |
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Protein Bars! Most junk foods don't try to claim to be healthy. Its not the junk foods that are killing us as much as the "health" foods are in my opinion. |
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When I visited Scotland in college I came across a deep fried Mars bar. Pretty sure that has every non-paleo NAD in one bite. |
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It's a tie between ready-to-eat frozen hamburgers and deep fried diet coke. |
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vegetable oils (Remember olive is technically a fruit! |
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Egg substitutes. Whole, natural eggs are mother nature's gift to mankind yet we decide to strip all that is good from them and package the result in a convenient little carton so that a fat-fearing populace can feel "healthy". To think I was one of them just a short while ago... :-O |
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Anything I can't pronounce.
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All-purpose Bleached Flour I heard that before the flour refining process was invented, cancer was nearly unheard of. |
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Anything wheat touches. |
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Girl Scout Cookies. |
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