Healthy Detox: Eat Cleaner to Get One Step Closer to Feeling Awesome This Spring

by Andrea Bartz



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You know nature didn't make the colors of those candy-hued foods. Skip 'em and this other...stuff.

* Sodium or Potassium Benzoate: Found in baked goods, they may break down into a carcinogen.

* Potassium Bromate: A flour additive banned in Europe and Canada for carcinogenic properties.

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* Phosphate: It lurks in frozen food and soda. HIgh amounts may mess with pH and lead to calcium loss from your bones.

* Partially Hydrogenated Oil: You know it as trans fat. Found in some spreads, it clogs circulation.


Source: Susan Blum, M.D., assistant clinical professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine

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