I created a cheatsheet to help me when I’m shopping. Please feel free to share any you may have.
Shopping Cheatsheet
Reading food labels
-If can’t pronounce, don’t buy, it’s a chemicals
-No MSG, makes you fat, increases appetite
-no aspartame (fat, hungry, depressed)
-If can’t pronounce, don’t buy, it’s a chemicals
-No MSG, makes you fat, increases appetite
-no aspartame (fat, hungry, depressed)
-no high fructose corn syrup
-no “ose”, fructose, sucrose
-no hydrogenated oil
-no sugar
-no natural or artificial flavors, preservatives
No homonogenized or pasteurized dairy
Eggs and milk-organic, antibiotic free, raw, free range chickens
Yogurt-contain live, active cultures, inulin is a plus
Grass fed beef
Organic red wine w/out sulfites, NSA (rich in antioxidants)
-no “ose”, fructose, sucrose
-no hydrogenated oil
-no sugar
-no natural or artificial flavors, preservatives
No homonogenized or pasteurized dairy
Eggs and milk-organic, antibiotic free, raw, free range chickens
Yogurt-contain live, active cultures, inulin is a plus
Grass fed beef
Organic red wine w/out sulfites, NSA (rich in antioxidants)
Superfoods Rx recommendations:
Juices
Minute Maid (100% Pure OJ)
Naked Juice
Odwalla
RW Krudsen
Tropicana 100% Pure OJ
(Look for 100% juice, no added sugar, preservatives, or articifial colors/flavors
Wheat crackers, bread, cereal, should have at least 3 grams fiber and start with
whole as first ingredient
Bottled water/containers
1-7
1 is best
Don’t buy 3, 6, 7
1 is best
Don’t buy 3, 6, 7
If a supplement says "d-alpha tocopherol" next to vitamin entry, it's incomplete, If it says "natural mixed tocopherols", it's good!
Garbage ingredients to avoid in your supplements:
artificial dyes, added sugar, grains (wheat, corn), dairy (whey, casein), soy, corn oil, soybean oil, soy lechithin, chemical sounding ingredients you don't recognize or can't pronounce. Manufacturer must disclose the "proprietary blend" if they have one.
Probiotics-saccharomyes boulardi (good if it contains this)
Garbage ingredients to avoid in your supplements:
artificial dyes, added sugar, grains (wheat, corn), dairy (whey, casein), soy, corn oil, soybean oil, soy lechithin, chemical sounding ingredients you don't recognize or can't pronounce. Manufacturer must disclose the "proprietary blend" if they have one.
Probiotics-saccharomyes boulardi (good if it contains this)
Digestive enzymes – get w/pancreatin, may prevent cancer
Fish oil (Orthomoleculars)
Purified marine triglyceride concentrate, vitamin E mixed tocopherols, gelatin,
glycerin, and purified water
Omega 3′s-DHA, ALA, EPA
(look up products on Environmental Working Group's website, www.cosmeticdatabase.com, it rates the levels of toxicity in your products)
Ingredients to avoid:
DMDM hydantoin and Imidazolidinyl urea (toxic contaminants)
Fragrance and dyes (allergies, cancer, nervous system)
Anything that starts with Methyl
Parabens (hormone effects)
"PEG" and "-eth" (toxic contaminants)
Sodium lauryl or laureth sulfate (skin damage, toxic contaminants)
Triclosan and triclocarban (thyroid concerns)
Triethanolamine (TEA) (toxic contaminants)
Products to avoid:
anti-aging creams with lactic, glycolic, AHA, and
BHA acids
lotions, shampoo, soaps with DEA
liquid hand soaps with triclosan, triclocarban
nail polish removers with formaldehyde
*Avoid sprays and the ingredient oxybenzone
*Use 7% or higher zinc oxide or titanium dioxide
*Avoid added bug screen
Badger and Mexitan are two of the best brands for non-toxic sunscreens!
