Dr Ron Roberts
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 Non-specific, non-allergic irritants: such as exercise, emotions, atmosphere, pollution, chemicals, food additives and infection.
Allergic Triggers
Allergic triggers are often very small particles: small enough to be mistaken by the body for viruses or bacteria (which are not as large as human cells).
DUST MITES
The most common allergic trigger is dust mite populations. The mite is too tiny to be seen, but it is still too large for the human body to have an allergic reaction to it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They simply need honest nutrition, responsible parenting and to be kept away from refined sugars, petrochemical food additives and processed foods.
Ritalin / Adderall addicts snort the meds like cocaine
Here's a Q&A from GoAskAlice (http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/3703.html) that explains, in more detail, the ways in which Ritalin and Adderall are, in fact, dangerous street drugs:
Dear Alice,
Recently I have started snorting Ritalin and Adderall (not at the same time though). I have found that the effects closely resemble that of snorting cocaine, but are not quite as intense. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 For example, food additives called nitrites, found in processed meats such as bacon and bologna, are converted in the body to potent carcinogens called nitrosamines. Other dietary mutagens include anatoxin (a natural substance produced by a mold that forms on improperly stored peanuts); heavy metals, such as lead; polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); and pesticides, such as malathion and DDT. Alcohol does not initiate cancer, but it promotes the growth of a pre-existing abnormal cell. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 People carry within their bodies a chemical cocktail of industrial chemicals, pesticides, food additives, heavy metals, and the residues of conventional pharmaceutical drugs, as well as legal drugs like alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine and illegal drugs such as marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine, and heroin.
Today people are exposed to chemicals in far greater concentrations than previous generations were. For example, over 158 million Americans live in areas that exceed smog standards.1 It's estimated that 20% of the U.S. |
| Toxins That Can Poison the Liver
¦ Pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides
¦ Antibiotics and growth hormones used in agriculture
¦ Vaccinations
¦ food additives and preservatives
¦ Prescription drugs * Auto exhaust
¦ Fluoride
¦ Household cleaning fluids
¦ Mercury amalgam fillings
¦ Recreational drugs
¦ Electromagnetic fields
¦ X-rays
¦ Alcohol
¦ Tobacco
¦ Coffee
* Hydrogenated fats
¦ Fried foods
¦ Cosmetics12
The Yeast Connection
Yeast is a type of single-celled fungus found throughout nature—in the soil, on vegetables and fruits, and in the human body. |
Mark Schapiro
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 The FDA provides oversight and monitoring of over-the-counter and prescription drugs, as well as food additives, but it has minimal authority to regulate the ingredients in cosmetics.
"Women believe that the government which they think is there is actually there," comments Charlotte Brody, a registered nurse and executive director of Commonweal, an environmental-health organization. "But it's not there. |
| Back in 1938, when the mandate of the Food and Drug Administration was expanded by Congress to give it authority over drugs and food additives, industry lobbying succeeded in blocking the agency from requiring testing of cosmetics. That hasn't changed for seventy years. Procter & Gamble and other industry giants —like Revlon, Unilever, Estee Lauder, and others—have successfully opposed every effort to broaden the FDA's mandate to include cosmetics. |
Jack Challem
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 A New Fat That's Worse Than Trans Fats
Just when we thought that trans fats were the most dangerous of all food additives, a new type of fat concoction started to gain momentum in restaurants and packaged foods in early 2007. These fats are called inter-esterified fats, and food companies and restaurants have looked to them as a replacement for trans fats. But according to a study in the journal Nutrition & Metabolism, they're even more dangerous than trans fats! |
Mark Schapiro
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| A Danish company, Danisco, one of the largest manufacturers of food additives in the world, introduced a phthalate alternative for toys and other products that has been approved for use in both Europe and the United States. In January 2006, the European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates participated in a conference, "Plasticisers 2006," that was specifically tailored to encourage the industry to develop phthalate alternatives in response to "increasingly stringent" legislative demands "and environmental awareness among the general population. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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| The most common allergens in our diet are dairy products, yeast products (bread, beer), eggs, chocolate and a number of food additives, particularly preservatives, colourings and monosodium glutamate.
Finally, drugs can cause asthma attacks in sensitive people. The types of drugs that have been implicated in these reactions are aspirin, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and beta-blockers.
Aspirin is found as an ingredient of many brands of cold and flu medications, and asthmatics should be careful to check the ingredients when buying them. |
Ruth Winter
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 A liquid with a strong, unpleasant odor used in the manufacture of food additives. Mild irritant to skin and mucous membranes.
PENTANOIC ACID • See Valeric Acid.
I-PENTANOL • Pentyl Alcohol. n-Amyl Alcohol. Liquid with a mild, pleasant odor, slightly soluble in water. Used as a solvent. Irritating to the eyes and respiratory passages, and absorption may cause a lack of oxygen in the blood. 2-PENTANONE • A synthetic flavoring that occurs naturally in apples. Used in fruit flavorings for beverages, ice cream, ices, candy, and baked goods. Moderately toxic by ingestion. |
Marshall Editions
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 NATUROPATHY
Diet: Eat whole foods that are low in refined sugars and food additives, [S^r\2f which can contribute to headaches. Headaches can also be linked to constipation, so eat foods that are high in fiber, such as fresh vegetables and fruits, beans, and whole grains, and drink 8-10 glasses of water a! day as a preventive measure. Consuming calcium and magnesium can also prevent against headaches. Good sources are green leafy vegetables, beans, almonds, walnuts, and wheat germ. Salmon and mackerel are high in omega-3 fatty acids, which may also help in preventing headaches. |
| Different chemicals and food additives can also trigger an episode. Stress is a big trigger of urticaria and treatment involves modifying stress response through meditation, breathing, and exercise. Creative visualization techniques can also be helpful.
Diet: An elimination diet excluding dairy, eggs, nightshade plants such as tomatoes, tobacco, white potatoes, and eggplant, nuts, and shellfish can be helpful. Yeast can also exacerbate urticaria.
Oral drugs: Oral antihistamines such as cetirizine (Zyrtec®) can be used to relieve itchiness. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Colon Toxins from Artificial Sweeteners
Carcinogen:
Any chemical, material, or other foreign substance known
Artificial sweeteners are food additives that mimic the flavor of sugar but contain virtually no useto cause cancer. ful energy. In the United States, the following five sugar substitutes are approved for consumer use: saccharin, neotame, acesulfame potassium, aspartame, and sucralose. We will focus on sucralose and aspartame as two of the most widespread and dangerous artificial sweeteners. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| This includes drugs, food additives, nutriceuticals, herbs, or anything else eaten, absorbed through the skin, injected, etc. What does your body consider "foreign"?
The other important question is: What is the common denominator between food and drugs? Answer: The regulatory agency known as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The source of information you use to protect yourself from charlatans and unscrupulous entrepreneurs is extremely important. |
Devra Davis
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 This notice neglects to mention that the FDA has, in fact, set standards for 1,4-dioxane, but those are only for residues of this chemical that could get into food additives and adhesives. It also does not explain that European children are not exposed to this risk at all, and that EU regulatory agencies have recalled products from their shelves that have been found to have levels of 1,4-dioxane that are legally allowed in America and Canada today.
Instead, the FDA is now telling consumers to read labels and decide for themselves. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Some ads were for food additives like phosphates, and others promoted things like, "Meals for Seniors" which are, no doubt, probably made of processed meats. Overall, I found the ads to be quite hilarious, and not really very useful to the topic. Here at NewsTarget, we constantly get complaints from readers about the Google ads, but that's because those people don't yet realize we don't choose those ads! Google does, and sometimes their ad selection algorithm produces bizarre results.
Coming next: Superfoods and plants! |
Ruth Winter
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| The Select Committee of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology advising on food additives recommended further study of this additive. The final report to the FDA of the Select Committee on GRAS
Substances stated in 1980 that while no evidence in the available information on it demonstrates a hazard to the public at current use levels, uncertainties exist, requiring that additional studies be conduced. GRAS status has continued since 1980 while tests were being completed and evaluated. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Keeping track of the vast array of food additives in use by the food manufacturing industry today and making sure that they don't contain traces of harmful chemicals is a heady job. Food processing (for foods other than meat, poultry, and egg products) is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA. FDA inspectors are responsible for visiting between sixty and eighty thousand facilities in any given year. |
Ruth Winter
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| PHENOL • Obtained from coal tar (see), it is used in the manufacture of many food additives and processing aids. Ingestion of even small amounts of phenol may cause nausea, vomiting, circulatory collapse, paralysis, convulsions, coma, respiratory failure, and cardiac arrest. It is an antiseptic and general disinfectant. PHENOL-FORMALDEHYDE • Used in treatment of food or potable water. See Formaldehyde and Phenol.
PHENOXYACETIC ACID • A synthetic fruit and honey flavoring agent for beverages, ice cream, ices, candy, and baked goods. Used to soften calluses and corns and other hard surfaces. |
| The FAO-WHO Expert Committee on food additives said in 1993 that new data about potassium bromate showed long-term toxicity and carcinogenicity including kidney tumors, tumors of the lining of the stomach, and thyroid tumors in rats and slightly increased kidney tumors in hamsters. On the basis of the new safety data and the new data on residual bromate in bread, the Committee concluded the use of potassium bromate, as a flour treatment agent was not appropriate. The previous acceptable level of treatment of flours for bread-making was therefore withdrawn. |
| Used in food additives to form epoxy resins.
QUERCITRON • The inner bark of a species of oak tree common in North
America. Its active ingredient, isoquercitrin, is used in forming resins and in dark brown hair-dye shades mainly for dyeing artificial hairpieces. Allergic reactions have been reported. See Rutin.
QUERCUS ALBA • See Oak Bark Extract.
QUICK GRASS • Triticum. See Dog Grass Extract.
QUILLAIA • China Bark Extract Soap Bark. See Quillaja Extract.
QUILLAJA EXTRACT • Soapbark. Quillay Bark. Panama Bark. China Bark. |
| It is used in the manufacture of food additives. RHATANY ROOT • A flavoring. The dried root of Krameria triandra R. from Peru and Brazil. A flavoring additive. Used as a cosmetic astringent. See Krameria
Extract. There is reported use of the chemical; it has not yet been assigned for toxicology literature.
RHIZOPUS ORYZAE • An enzyme used in production of dextrose (sugar) from starch.
RHODENAL • See Citronellal.
RHODINOL • A synthetic flavoring agent isolated from geranium rose oil (see). It has the strong odor of rose and consists essentially of geraniol and citronellol (see both). |
Michael Pollan
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 You then have to go to great lengths to preserve the body or creamy texture by working in all kinds of food additives. In the case of low-fat or skim milk, that usually means adding powdered milk. But powdered milk contains oxidized cholesterol, which scientists believe is much worse for your arteries than ordinary cholesterol, so food makers sometimes compensate by adding antioxidants, further complicating what had been a simple one-ingredient whole food. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Avoid food additives, coloring agents, pesticides, and herbicides.
• Reduce salt and alcohol intake.
• Reduce or avoid almonds, cashews, sunflower seeds, and peanuts. and increases high-lysine foods has become quite popular. This concept arose out of two findings. First, we know that the replication of the herpes simplex virus requires the manufacture of proteins rich in arginine, and arginine itself may be a stimulator of HSV replication. |
Devra Davis
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| It refers to an independent evaluation by the European Food Safety Authority Scientific Panel on food additives, Flavorings, Processing Aids, and Materials in Contact with Food. In fact, many members of this "independent" panel work directly for the same industry. They suggest that the findings of this three-year study are completely without merit because there were unusual patterns of cancer in these animals that have not generally occurred in other studies.
Let's look at what the Ramazzini Foundation did. Soffritti's team studied more than 1,800 animals for a period of three years. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Furthermore, organic foods are free of food additives such as MSG, hydrogenated fats, and artificial sweeteners and coloring agents, which have been associated with a risk of asthma, headaches, growth retardation, and hyperactivity in children. As the U.K. report further pointed out, these additives have been linked to the development of allergies.
Another advantage of organic food is that it is free of genetically modified (GM) organisms. The report notes that only ten studies of GM foods have been conducted so far. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You have to get the sugar out of their diets, you have to take the food additives and the hydrogenated oils and the high-fructose corn syrup out of their diets. When you do that, 80% of these children that have been diagnosed with ADHD become non-ADHD children in two weeks or less. 80%. All you've got to do is take these food additives out of their diet, and all of a sudden they're normal, wonderful children who can learn and focus. They don't need drugs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Nutritional research has shown that the symptoms of ADHD can be completely reversed in 80 percent of children in just two weeks by eliminating processed foods and chemical food additives from their diets. The so-called "disease" of ADHD is really just an expression of behavior caused by extreme dietary imbalances. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You still have to avoid all the toxic food additives, dangerous personal care product chemicals and other unhealthful exposures, but cleansing your liver, kidneys, gallbladder, colon and blood is the single most important step to creating a whole new you in 2008. You'll feel so good afterwards that exercise will seem easy! And that can unleash a whole new program of exercise that leads to healthy weight loss, increased bone density, more lean body mass and many other benefits. |
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