Wean Yourself Off Processed Foods in 7 Steps – Step 2


Step 2: Read labels wisely.

You don’t need to spend an hour making your own marinara sauce (though the book provides a recipe using canned tomatoes, if you’re so inclined). You can also find “real” tomato sauce in the supermarket if you read labels carefully.

Those containing ingredients you can buy on your own, like tomatoes, olive oil, salt, garlic, and parmesan cheese, meet Weinstein’s criteria for a real food; those that have preservatives, like BHT, thickeners like guar gum, or artificial flavors, don’t. Ditto for store-bought breads, breakfast cereals, and pasta.

Excerpt from article by Deborah Kotz in US News and World Reports which I will cover this week in this blog.

A new book, Real Food Has Curves, written by Weinstein and his partner, Mark Scarbrough., has a plan to get you to enjoy food more and maybe lose weight

Posted: June 4, 2010 in: US News and World Reports …see more>

One Response to “Wean Yourself Off Processed Foods in 7 Steps – Step 2”

  1. koldjordjevic Says:
    July 19th, 2010 at 2:39 am

    it was very interesting to read.
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