Real Food

100 Days of Real Food blogger Lisa Leake lists her 10 reasons to cut processed foods from your diet in her post Why Cut Processed Food?  After looking through the list, the reasons that resonate most for me are #s 1, 5, and 8.  These are:

Processed foods are an illusion, often appearing to be healthy (with claims like low fat, low carb, vitamin fortified, no trans fat, contains omega-3s, etc.) when these foods are in fact the very thing making a lot of Americans unhealthy, sick, and fat.

The food industry has proven that it is not very good at seasoning our foods by adding way too much salt, sugar, and/or oil to almost everything.

And, Cutting out processed foods could lead you to experience a variety of personal health benefits such as having more energy, losing weight, improving regularity, or just feeling healthier overall.

Check out her full list and see which ones make the most sense to you.