Hi there!  I’m Dr. Lisa Schwartz and today I would like to discuss what is probably the single most important dietary change you can make for your health.  And that is cutting out processed food.  So in this short video I am going to teach you how to recognize processed food, and you’ll find out why you want to avoid it.

So let’s start with what is meant by “processed food”.  Well, it will probably help to contrast processed foods with what I consider to be their opposite.  And that is a whole food.  Whole foods are things like fruits and vegetables that you find in the produce aisle, whole meats without added sauces, flavoring, or chopped up into something that doesn’t look like it came from nature at all like bologna or hot dogs.

If you do any grocery shopping at all, you will see that grocery stores are laid out with fresh meats and produce on the outer edges of the store.  That’s generally...