CRAP Foods to Avoid

CRAP food means unhealthy food. C-R-A-P stands for Carbonated junk foods, Refined Sugars, Artificial Shit and Processed foods. Such foods generate free radicals, increase inflammation and eventually lead to adverse health effects. Let us explore what it means as we read further.

Your DIET determines your overall health. This means the food that you choose – healthy and unhealthy food eaten long-term affects your health, disease and longevity. Hence, choose your foods wisely.

CRAP foods are enticing to many people; particularly young impressionable minds of children due to increasing exposure to Television and newspaper advertisements, leaflets and handouts heavily marketing their products with false health messages of “tandurusti” showing images of happy children with strong bones and so on. Peer pressure of seeing their friends eating those foods increases the desire to eat the same foods. This is a well-known fact. Such unhealthy foods are convenient and easily available outside, sweet or buttery and appealing to the taste needs of most people. Oftentimes, unhealthy CRAP foods are cheaply and easily available. For e.g. Chips, cold drinks and sugary or salty snacks

C-R-A-P foods are mostly sweet to taste, many times namkeen or salty, likely to have artificial food colors,  high in fats and trans fats. Although these are designed to look attractive or taste good, they are unhealthy foods because they are high in sugar, fat/oil, salt, artificial flavorings and colorings or all of these.