While we take a good care of our diet and stress on eating nutritious and healthy, we seldom miss out on foods that can actually make us ill. Foods with chemicals, pesticides, and toxins can cause the most aggressive diseases. Here is a list of 8 food items you should stop eating to prevent cancer:

1. Canned Tomatoes

Tomatoes are counted among the best foods to prevent cancer, but canned tomatoes can damage your body to a great extent. All cans come lined with a toxic chemical, bisphenol-A, or BPA, which can cause cancer. Try opting fresh tomatoes for cooking. Avoid using canned food, ready made puries and tomato ketchup. 

2. Cured and Smoked Foods

The common chemicals used to preserve smoked and cured food from spoiling, nitrites and nitrates change into nitrosamines and nitrosamides when cooked. Various studies show that these N-nitroso compounds cause colon cancer.

3. Farmed Salmons

Salmon sounds like one of the healthiest foods possible. But farmed salmon doesn't come with similar health benefits. Farmed fishes are fed unnatural diets and are contaminated with chemicals, antibiotics, toxins, and other known carcinogens. They also have less amount of healthy omega-3 fatty acid and contain high levels of mercury and cancer causing dioxins.

 4. Hydrogenated Oils

Hydrogenated oils, also known as trans-fats, are altered in chemical structure to increase their shelf-life. Chemicals used to mask their smell and taste are found to double the risk of breast cancer.

5. Microwave Popcorn

A relatively healthy snack comes with a bag with another story. Many microwave popcorn bags are lined with chemicals which increase the risk of breast, lung, leukemia, bladder, kidney, prostate, thyroid, and lymphoma cancers.

6. Potato & other packed  Chips

A popular quick and tasty snack option, potato chips, are high on trans-fats and calories, but also come with acrylamide, a carcinogen commonly found in cigarettes. They are also known to cause high blood pressure and cholesterol in people.

7. Processed Meat

Bacons, hams, sausages, hot dogs, and other kind of processed meat contains excess amount of salt and sodium nitrate, the most common carcinogen found in food industry. The high amount of chemicals and preservatives also cause serious cardiovascular diseases.

8. Sodas

Weight gain, inflammation, and insulin resistance are the famous health disorders caused by popped sodas. The artificial coloring and chemicals in them increase a risk of pancreatic cancer.