The American diet has much to be desired. The food industries have wreaked havoc on our bodies in the name of profit. Foods now contain very few vitamins and minerals and a lot of salt and saturated and trans fats. The vitamins have been destroyed by processing. The minerals just aren't there in the fruits and vegetables you buy at the grocery store. Why is there essentially no minerals? The food industry figured out how to grow crops on the same soil year after year by using artificial fertilizers. Plants require only a few minerals to grow, so these fertilizers only provide those minerals. Humans, on the other hand, require a multitude of many minerals to survive and be in good health. Unfortunately, those minerals are not present in the vegetables and fruits at the grocery store. When you buy vegetables, buy only organically grown to get more of the minerals you need.
    The following ten foods are beyond hope. They contribute nothing to your health besides calories to live and a high percentage of those calories come in the form of harmful saturated and trans fats. Many of these foods contain a large amount of sodium. Sodium and saturated fat can be blamed for the heart disease problem in America and other countries. If all the saturated fat and much of the sodium was suddenly removed from our diets, the heart disease problem in America would simply vanish.
    We all know bodybuilding requires eating, eating, eating. The following foods are the top ten on the "do not eat" list. Don't eat these, in no particular order. 

#1 Quaker Harvest Crunch Original Blend Cereal 

-No doubt she'd prefer a low fat, low sugar, whole-grain cereal like Cheerios or any regular shredded wheat cereal. If you're stuck on granola (and sugar), at least choose a product like Health Valley No Fat Added Granola.



#2 Dunkin' Donuts Plain Cake Doughnut. 

You could turn down Dunkin' Donuts' Donuts' glazed, frosted, and "kreme" doughnuts and still end up with as much artery-clogging saturated fat as a Big Mac simply by eating a plain cake doughnut. Blame it on the trans fats in the shortening that Dunkin uses to fry (yes, all) its doughnuts. Try a toasted bagel with jam instead.



#3 Nissin Cup Noodles With Shrimp 

What could be wrong with a cup of steaming-hot, high-carbohydrate noodles? Let's just say you'd be better off with a small bag of 14-or-so potato chips. That's because, like the chips, the noodles are pre-fried and salted. And Nissin compounds the problem by frying in artery-clogging palm oil and dumping on 9 times more sodium (1,550 mg) than the chips. 


#4 Movie-Theatre Popcorn Popped in Coconut Oil. 

A large bucket (20 cups) of unbuttered popcorn at theatres that pop in coconut oil has almost three day of artery-clogging saturated fat! Add the fake "butter" and you'll boost the cholesterol-raising fat to almost four days' worth. That's like eating eight McDonalds Big Macs. Even a small bucket (7 cups) contains almost a days worth of saturated fat.



#5 Oscar Mayer Lunchables 

It would be hard to invent a worse food than these combos of heavily processed meat, artery-clogging cheese, and mostly-white-flour crackers. The line average 5 teaspoons of fat (that's 54% of calories).



#6 Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream 

Regular ice cream wasn't fatty enough? Haagen-Dazs has managed to squeeze in more than twice the fat of regular ice cream. Eat a cup of Butter Pecan and you've downed 48 grams of fat...about as much as half a stick of butter into your body. And a cup of Chocolate Chocolate Chip has as much artery-clogging saturated fat (24 grams) as three McDonalds Quarter Pounders! That's more than a whole day's quota. A cup of Ben & Jerry's No Fat Frozen Yogurt, on the other hand, tastes almost as rich as full-fat Haagen-Dazs, with none of the fat.



#7 Campbell's Regular Soups 

They're brimming with salt. Half a can averages 1,000mg of sodium. That's about half your ideal quota for an entire day. If you're looking for a soup with about half the sodium, check out Cambell's Healthy Request Soups.



#8 Rice-A-Roni Chicken & Vegetables 

One cup-a mere side dish- has 1,470 mg of sodium (more than half your day's limit). As for the vegetables, the two people who share the two-cup box will have to fight over the nine peas, teaspoon and a half of carrot slivers, teaspoon of tomato particles, and even less chicken. "Rice & Salt" would have been more a honest name. Marrakesh Express CousCous or Terrazza Pasta & Beans cuts out 90% of the sodium.



#9 Fettacini Alfredo 

An average dinner-size entree contains an amazing 97 grams of fat- or 22 teaspoons of fat. It is like sitting down and eating a entire stick of butter! If you want a lower-fat pasta meal, try spaghetti or linguini topped with a tomato sauce, red or white clam sauce, meat sauce, or meatballs. 



#10 Stick of Butter or Margarine 

Don't buy either butter or margarine if it is a stick. A tablespoon of stick butter has 7 grams of saturated fat, a third of a days worth. Margarines (or butter-margarine mixtures like Land O'Lakes Country Morning Blend stick) aren't much better. If you add their saturated plus trans fat, they can have up to 5 grams of artery-clogging fat. Instead of a stick, get a tub. Better yet, go for a low-fat tub margarine.