What's wrong with processed food?

Wrapping my mind around why it was important to cut back on processed food, was something the article below helped me understand better. First of all I am not perfect at cutting out all processed food, but something that this article explains is the difference between processed and chemically processed foods. I try to avoid the chemically processed. These are foods that have had a lot of non food, artificial, or chemicals added to them. I'm learning to look at labels more to see what I'm actually eating. A lot of foods that I thought were healthy are actually not. For example I still use frozen and canned vegetables, these foods have been minimally processed but nothing has been added to them. One rule I've been told is that if you look at the ingredients and see things you don't recognize your best bet is to put it back (if only my husband and kids would agree!). The hardest thing for me to find that fits the clean eating lifestyle is bread and crackers. And yes I know I could make these myself, and some weeks I do try to make my own bread, but in reality most weeks it doesn't happen. So what I do is try to pick the healthier options the store offers by getting 100% whole wheat or whole grain and looking at the ingredients. If any of you have harpers whole wheat bread at your store, I've heard that one is considered clean :) In my opinion, the best thing to do is eat whole real foods as much as possible, but if you're not ready to make everything from scratch, raise your own chickens, livestock, milk cow, and grow all your own produce, don't worry you can still eat healthy by just looking for the healthiest options your store offers. When I first started looking into clean eating I thought it was impossible because I thought I would have to do all those things, and I was not ready to change my life that much! But after reading a few articles/blogs I realized most people who consider themselves to eat clean are not perfect at it either. Everyone is just trying to do the best they can in their own circumstances. Hopefully some of this made sense :) If you have questions please ask http://authoritynutrition.com/9-ways-that-processed-foods-are-killing-people/