Processed-Free America

Never underestimate the power of an apple. This fruit’s anti-inflammatory properties make it a top pick when you’re faced with practically any illness. Encephalitis (brain inflammation), IBS (intestinal inflammation), and viral infection (which can result in nerve inflammation) are just a few conditions in which apples can play the critical nutritional role of calming your system by reducing viral and bacterial loads that create inflammation.
The phytochemicals in apples make them a true brain food, feeding neurons and increasing electrical activity. Apples with red skin contain anthocyanins and even traces of malvidin (a type of anthocyanidin), which are partially responsible for the red color. These pigments have anti-obesity properties and compounds that increase digestive strength, encouraging weight loss. Apples also have traces of flavonoids, rutin, and quercidin—phytochemicals that are responsible for heavy metal and radiation detoxification—as well as the amino acids glutamine and serine, which help detoxify the brain of MSG. This fruit helps cleanse and purify the organs, improve circulation in your lymphatic system, repair damaged skin, and regulate blood sugar.
Apples are the ultimate colon cleanser. As the pectin from an apple moves through your gut, it collects and rids your body of microbes such as bacteria, viruses, yeast, and mold. It also gathers and expels putrefied, impacted protein and debris that’s been hiding in intestinal pockets and feeding colonies of harmful bacteria such as E. coli and C. difficile. This makes apples an excellent antiproliferative for healing SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth) and other digestive disorders. Apples are also hydrating on a deep, cellular level. They provide precious trace minerals such as manganese and molybdenum, as well as electrolytes and critical mineral salts that help the body rehydrate after exercise or stress of any kind!

Sugar ages you. How come? Want to live longer? Here is the skinny with Julia Bradbury & Dr.Lustig :

Sugar Is Ageing You | Dr Robert Lustig How much sugar are we really consuming, and what might it be doing ...

People don't normally think of cancer, autoimmune disease, dementia, and psychiatric disease as food-related. In fact, they are processed food-related.

All of them are increasing in prevalence...

My favorite quote is from an unknown author who wrote "And the day came when the desire to remain the same was more painful than the risk to grow". If you want to get healthy, you must have a strong desire to change. You have to become more committed to your change than you are to staying the same. That means that you have to stick with your process, even if results are slow, and even if you stray from it temporarily.
Imagine leaving your house to go out for a walk. You get three blocks away from home and you trip on a crack in the sidewalk and fall to the ground. What will you do? Will you stay down for years and blame to crack in the sidewalk for your slip? Will you get up and go all the way back home and start your walk over, negating the three blocks of progress you have already made? Or, will you pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and continue on your committed path with the understanding that "slips happen" and it is your healthy response to those slips that empower you to continue on from where you are?
I recommend the latter. It is this healthy form of "never-start-over" commitment that has allowed me to keep my weight off for over two decades. I have had my share of "slips", but I have never allowed them to completely derail me from my commitment, and neither should you.

Research shared this week points to some key differences with early-onset colon cancer. UPFs are involved.

https://www.businessinsider.com/young-colon-cancer-rising-new-research-food-gut-health-2026-6?fbclid=IwY2xjawUcLzxwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR62fOsscuawc4NvbJvSb3wUFZyGLuNjHdlFu47D_3uw4UwrykLlNxVd3eelPw_aem_z1XORQsViSBXEotTzxKK-A

Young colon cancer linked to specific fats in ultra-processed foods Young colon cancer may not be not the same disease doctors are used to treating. Researchers are discovering new links to modern diets and gut toxins.

Dee's Wholesome White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies

https://processedfreeamerica.org/wholesome-white-chocolate-macadamia-nut-cookies/

🌱 Fiber might be one of the most underrated parts of a healthy diet.

It feeds your gut, helps keep you full, supports healthy cholesterol and blood sugar, and keeps things moving. 💪

Eat more plants. Feed your gut. Get your fiber. 🥦🫘🍓

Processed food is engineered to survive on a shelf—not to help you thrive. The more your food is altered in a factory, the less it resembles what your body was built to eat!

Metabolism is only as efficient as its fuel.

Avocado Black Bean Veggie Wrap

https://processedfreeamerica.org/avocado-black-bean-veggie-wrap/