Fresh, organic fruits and veggies are just about the healthiest foods you can eat.

10. Fried Catfish

Catfish are bottom feeders, which means they’re full of toxins like mercury and PCBs. It’s also fried, which means it contains acrylamide, a known carcinogen and neurotoxin that is formed when foods are baked or fried at high temperatures.

10. Wild-Caught Salmon

Salmon is rich in omega-3 fats, which make blood less likely to clot inside arteries and prevent cholesterol from becoming damaged or oxidized. Choose wild-caught salmon from pristine waters (instead of farm-raised) to avoid toxins.

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9. Canned Soups

Here we're talking about the traditional, canned soups you find in your grocery store. This may come as a surprise, but most canned (and packaged) soups have high levels of trans fats, sodium and artificial preservatives like MSG. Just one cup of canned soup can have almost 1,000 milligrams of salt (and most people eat more than one cup), which is tons considering dietary guidelines recommend consuming no more than 2,400 milligrams for the entire day.

Canned soups (and other canned foods) also contain bisphenol-A (BPA), a widely used industrial chemical that has been directly linked to reproductive abnormalities and an increased risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes and heart disease.

9. Homemade Soup

Homemade soup using fresh veggies and organic meats is a nutritious comfort food that you whole family will love. Once you get the hang of making soups at home, you’ll find it takes hardly any time at all to create a fresh, wholesome meal for your family.

You can also use the simple recipes in the cookbook “Alive in 5”: Raw Gourmet Meals in Five Minutes to create incredibly healthy and delicious soups using all raw ingredients!

8. Bacon

Bacon contains harmful preservatives called sodium nitrites, along with lots of bad fats and sodium.

8. Organic, Nitrate-free Turkey Sausage

There’s really no “healthy” version of bacon (though there are nitrate-free varieties available), but if you’re looking for a healthier breakfast meat look for organic, nitrate-free turkey sausage. You’ll want to look for an organic version because conventional meat is typically raised on corporate factory farms that are inhumane to animals and unhealthy for you.

Animals raised in mass factory farms are pumped full of antibiotics, hormones and other drugs (about 70 percent of all antibiotics and similar drugs produced in the United States are given to livestock and poultry), while being fed an unhealthy mix of pesticide-laden grains. Organic meats contain no pesticides, antibiotics or hormones.

7. Fast-food Hamburger

A typical fast-food hamburger contains loads of calories, sodium and sugar, and is pumped full of antibiotics and pesticides. Plus, “a single hamburger may contain meat from hundreds of animals," according to the CDC. Because so many products have been mingled together, the risk of contamination is higher than eating meat from just one animal. For instance, if any one animal out of the hundreds that were added to a large batch of ground beef is contaminated, the whole batch becomes contaminated.

7. Grass-fed Hamburger

If you’re looking for a healthier burger, go grass-fed. Grass-fed beef has been found to contain less fat and more omega-3 fatty acids, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and other beneficial compounds compared to grain-fed beef. Even better, look for organic and grass-fed beef from a small farmer that uses humane farming practices.

6. Snack Cakes and Other Baked Treats

This category actually includes all varieties of baked goods, including packaged cake and biscuit mixes. What makes these foods so bad is that they almost always contain high amounts of trans fats and a host of other unsavory additives including corn syrup, preservatives and artificial flavors and colors. In fact, commercial baked goods typically contain more trans fats than any other food because not only are they often made with hydrogenated oils, they're fried in them too.

6. Homemade Baked Goods

While certainly not “health” foods, if you're not ready to give up your morning treats and snack cakes just yet, opt for baked goods from your local bakery (which is less likely to use hydrogenated oil for a long shelf-life and is likely to use butter instead of margarine, which typically contains trans fat) or make them yourself.

5. Potato Chips

This popular snack food contains cancer-causing acrylamide, but that's not all. Potato chips also contain trans fats, the artery-clogging fat that's been linked to raising bad cholesterol (and lowering the good kind), and increasing the risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke and cancer.

5. Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes are loaded with antioxidants and contain an impressive array of nutrients such as vitamin A, vitamin C, manganese, copper, fiber, vitamin B6, potassium and iron. Animal studies also suggest that sweet potatoes help to stabilize your blood sugar levels and lower insulin resistance.

4. Hot Dogs and Lunch Meat

Processed meats like these (and others including sausages, bacon, pepperoni and other processed meats) contain a carcinogenic precursor ingredient known as sodium nitrite (sodium nitrate is closely related).

"Sodium nitrite is a dangerous, cancer-causing ingredient that has no place in the human food supply," says nutritionist Mike Adams, author of the Grocery Warning Manual.

And, according to a University of Hawaii study that followed nearly 200,000 people for seven years, people who consumed the most processed meats (hot dogs and sausage) showed a 67 percent increased risk of pancreatic cancer over those who consumed little or no meat products.

4. Nitrate-Free, Organic Hot Dogs and Lunch Meat

If you love hot dogs and lunch meat and are looking for a healthier alternative, opt for nitrate-free, organic varieties (available in health food stores and increasingly in regular supermarkets) that contain all meat, no byproducts and no artificial flavors, colors or preservatives.

Even better, ditch processed hot dogs altogether and cook an organic whole turkey breast at home, then slice it thinly for sandwiches.

3. French Fries

French fries are loaded with acrylamide and trans fats. When the Center for Science in the Public Interest conducted tests on some popular brands of French fries, they found that the acrylamide in a large order of fast food fries was at least 300 times the amount allowed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a glass of water.

3. Red Potatoes

There are plenty of healthier options than potatoes (like leafy greens, for instance), but a red potato is leaps and bounds healthier than an order of fries. Red potatoes contain healthy flavonoids that may protect against heart disease, respiratory problems and certain cancers. While the white Idaho potato is a high glycemic food, red is a medium glycemic food with more nutrition and less starch.

2. Doughnuts

Tasty, yes. But break a doughnut down and you'll find nothing more than refined sugar and flour, artificial flavors and partially hydrogenated oil that's loaded with trans fats. They have no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

2. Fresh Fruit

Swap your morning doughnut for a bowl of fresh fruit. You’ll get vitamins, enzymes and other healthy nutrients, along with the sweetness you’re craving. The cookbook “Alive in 5” also has some unique fresh fruit recipes that are to die for!

1. Soda

An average can of soda has 10 teaspoons of sugar, 150 calories, 30 to 55 mg of caffeine, artificial food colors and sulphites. Diet sodas have the even-more-unhealthy artificial sweeteners. A major part of the problem is that sodas have become a staple in many people's diets. A study in the journal Pediatrics found that 56 percent to 85 percent of children consume at least one soft drink a day, and 20 percent of adolescent males drink four or more sodas a day.

"Parents and health officials need to recognize soft drinks for what they are -- liquid candy -- and do everything they can to return those beverages to their former role as an occasional treat," says CSPI. CSPI has even petitioned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling for cigarette-style warnings on soft drinks to warn people of their potential health risks (weight gain, diabetes, tooth decay and more).

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