Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Other food ingredients that affect brain function include artificial colors. These have been known to cause attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). They can alter moods, greatly impair cognitive function and should be avoided by anyone wanting to have a good, healthy brain. Lastly, you should avoid refined carbohydrates and added sugars. These are also a form of brain poison, because they alter the availability of blood sugar in your bloodstream, and your brain operates on blood sugar. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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® Indoor Tanning Lotion ($9.39 for 8 ounces) is recommended for those who prefer to use tanning beds or booths, and is a very basic lotion that's wholly incapable of protecting skin from the up-close, concentrated doses of UVA radiation used in tanning parlors. Using this would be like smoking while receiving radiation treatments for lung cancer.
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Mike Adams
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| We will wonder why we were poisoning ourselves and our families and each other with food ingredients that outright promote chronic disease and obesity.
The fact is good nutrition is well within your reach. And it's not as expensive as you might think. In fact, it'll save you a ton of money compared to the medical costs you would endure from avoiding good nutrition. They say, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." I say, "A penny's worth of prevention is worth a hundred dollars worth of medical treatment in a hospital, dosed up with
] prescription drugs. |
| As a result, consumers are right now eating massive quantities of foods and food ingredients that directly promote disease. And as a result, we're a nation with the highest rates of chronic disease ever witnessed in the entire known history of humanity. No population has been more diseased, more obese, and more financially enslaved by a domineering system of synthetic chemicals (drugs) and surgery. |
| In other words, if you start feeding your dog foods and food ingredients that promote disease and cause nutritional deficiencies (i.e. most human food), your dog will start to show symptoms of those deficiencies seven times more quickly than a human being would.
So one of the reasons that human beings don't catch on to the links between nutrition and disease is because it happens so slowly. It can sometimes take years or even decades for a disease to show up that has been caused by a dietary habit. Yet, in animals, you can quickly see this appearing far more quickly. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 ADHD in children is caused almost entirely by the consumption of processed food ingredients such as artificial colors and refined carbohydrates. Eighty percent of so-called ADHD children who are taken off processed foods are cured of ADHD in two weeks. See articles on ADHD.
5. The chemical sweetener aspartame, when exposed to warm temperatures for only a few hours, begins to break down into chemicals like formaldehyde and formic acid. Formaldehyde is a potent nerve toxin and causes damage to the eyes, brain and entire nervous system. |
Mike Adams
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 Those are precisely the food ingredients that are rarely used in foods intended for human consumption. In other words, most cows get better nutrition than most people. And, remarkably, this is a system that was designed by people!
It's all about profit, not health
Knowing all of this, you might ask yourself, "Why is this the case? Why do the food manufacturers strip out everything that's good for you and produce a disease-promoting substance for use in human foods?" There are two answers to this: consumer demand and shelf life. And both answers come down to one common answer: profits. |
Mike Adams
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| The problem, as has been discussed in detail in this book, is that we are consuming foods and food ingredients that have no good nutrition. So now disease is malnutrition, but in a different sense. It's eating too much food without nutritive qualities.
So in order to make changes in the United States, we have to look at the fundamental cause of obesity and chronic disease. And, as I've stated here, that is nutrition. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The dark side of food corporations
The big question that comes to mind, then, is: "Would for-profit corporations really allow toxic food ingredients to be routinely used in their foods where they will poison expectant mothers, newborns, children, adults and seniors?" The answer is obvious. Of course they would. Why? Because profits and power are simply more important to them than the health of the public.
When it comes down to a decision between doing what is right and doing what is profitable, food and beverage corporations will choose the profits every time. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It was achieved by making positive health changes in diet and exercise, as well as by avoiding dangerous substances (such as harmful food ingredients) and prescription drugs. Essentially, the readers who reported these results are the kind of people who always want to be healthier. They want to improve their results, so they took the initiative, taught themselves this information and applied it in a smart way that boosted their work results. This was not something that was forced upon them. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| Food ingredients can also either increase or decrease the body's ability to get rid of a drug, thereby either increasing or decreasing its effectiveness and toxicity. Table E.l summarizes some specific food-drug interactions. The key point that we want to make here is that if you are taking any prescription medication it is essential to ask muv physician or pharmacist about food-drug nteractions.
High-Risk Patients and Drug Interactions
The problem of food-drug interactions increases significantly in certain patient populations, especially the elderly. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 SOURCE: Evaluation of the health aspects of soy protein isolates as food ingredients, 1979. SCOGS-101. Prepared for Bureau of Foods, Food and Drug Administration by the Life Sciences Research Office, FASEB. and thin, bound with edible binders such as starch, dextrins, gums, albumen and cellulose, and coated with fat, flavor, color and other substances. The idea is to attain the fibrous "bite" of animal muscle meats. |
| A study of 91 parents of children allergic to peanuts, milk, egg, soy, and/or wheat revealed that most parents failed to correctly identify allergenic food ingredients, and that milk and soy presented the most problems. Only 22 percent of the parents with soy allergies correctly identified soy protein in seven products. The researchers concluded: "These results strongly support the need for improved labeling with plain-English terminology and allergen warnings as well as the need for diligent education of patients reading labels. |
Mike Adams
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| As you are devising a strategy to achieve a high state of nutrition in your own body, make sure you pay attention to which foods, food ingredients and chemicals you need to avoid in order to maintain that nutrition in your body.
Natural sunlight is essential nutrition
There's one more thing that people generally don't think of as nutrition, but it is now emerging as a very important source of nutrients for the human body. And even though this might not sound like nutrition, it's actually critical for human health: natural sunlight. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This ingredient is hidden in lots of other food ingredients such as yeast extract, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, autolyzed vegetable protein and so on. This chemical interferes with the normal healthy function of your endocrine system. That's the system that regulates appetite in your body. When this system isn't functioning correctly, your body never knows when you've eaten enough, so it never turns off your appetite and you continue to eat and eat and eat.
Weight loss can be achieved quite easily through the re-mineralization of your body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The difference is, when I go shopping, I'm buying food ingredients, not packaged food, so I'm buying quinoa by the pound. A pound of quinoa is only a couple of bucks, and that's 25 meals of quinoa. You add something else in it that you buy by the pound, like onions or eggs, and that's very inexpensive. That's a meal the Incas have traditionally eaten in the Andes Mountains, by the way: Boiled quinoa with onions and eggs. It's a wonderful meal. It's a delicious dish. Vegetables are not expensive either. Fruits are not that expensive. |
Committee on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer, Assembly of Life Sciences National Research Council
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 Not included are approximately 500 food ingredients termed GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) substances; about 100 other "unpublished GRAS substances;" approximately 1,650 flavoring agents, most of which are classified as GRAS; prior-sanctioned food ingredients, consisting of about 100 substances approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) or the FDA prior to 1958; and approximately 30 color additives (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1980). It would be difficult to prepare a list of all the compounds in these categories. |
Walter Last
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 What happens in our body depends mainly on the quality of our digestive system and on the quantity and digestibility of the questionable food and its interaction with other food ingredients.
It may be that we react differently to cooked foods and raw foods. Sprouted seeds appear to be more acceptable and possibly beneficial even if the same seeds should be avoided in cooked form. If all is well, then the potentially harmful lectins are broken down to amino acids and are harmless; if not, then we must improve conditions or avoid these foods. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 The food from the health food store also tastes better because it is made with whole food ingredients. When you eat it you do not feel bad, you do not get constipation, bloating, or gas. Most people eat less because of the incredible increase in nutrition and, because it is assimilated into the body so much easier, you don't crave as much. Keep in mind, most food producers want you to crave their food and eat more. That's how they make more money. |
Committee on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer, Assembly of Life Sciences National Research Council
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| Not included are approximately 500 food ingredients termed GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) substances; about 100 other "unpublished GRAS substances;" approximately 1,650 flavoring agents, most of which are classified as GRAS; prior-sanctioned food ingredients, consisting of about 100 substances approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) or the FDA prior to 1958; and approximately 30 color additives (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1980). It would be difficult to prepare a list of all the compounds in these categories. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Most of the foods in your local grocery store are now contaminated with GM food ingredients, without your knowledge or consent. As many have said, we are now in the middle of the largest feeding experiment in history and we human beings are the guinea pigs.
In Seeds of Deception, Jeffrey Smith has laid out an extremely compelling case against GMOs in a comprehensive, well-argued manner. |
Steven G. Pratt, M.D. and Kathy Matthews
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 Prebiotics are nondigestible food ingredients that beneficially affect the gut by selectively stimulating the growth and/or activity of one or more beneficial bacteria in the colon, thus improving host health. Fruc-tooligosaccharides (FOS) are one of the many classes of prebiotics and they're found in legumes, vegetables, and cereals as well as yogurt. These nonabsorbed fibers inhibit potentially pathogenic organisms as well as increase the absorption of minerals such as calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc. |
Brenda Davis and Tom Barnard
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 Aspartame is considered one of the most highly tested food ingredients on the market. It is reported that prior to its approval, over one hundred scientific studies affirmed its safety. These studies were conducted in both animals and humans, including healthy adults and children, people with diabetes, and lactating women. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| Some typical applications for cheese powders include prepared dry mixes, sauces, and dips.
The amount and variety of cheese and cheese products consumed and manufactured in the United States have increased tremendously in recent years. Americans consumed nearly 2.5 times as much cheese in 1997 as they did in 1970. In fact, since 1970, per capita consumption of cheese has increased yearly. Today, more than one third of all cow's milk produced each year in the United States is used to make cheese. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
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 As a result of these provisions, dietary ingredients used in dietary supplements are no longer subject to the pre-market safety evaluations required of other new food ingredients or for new uses of old food ingredients. They must, however, meet the requirements of other safety provisions.
In Australia, herbal medicines are subject to federal legislation, defined by the Therapeutic Goods Act and Regulations, and State and Territories legislation reflected in the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons (SUSDP). |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Also on the horizon is a fat substitute made by combining starches and/or gums with small amounts of oil. Opta food ingredients Inc., received an exclusive license for such a process, called Fantesk, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). This fat replacement would give foods the taste and texture of regular fat but provides less than 0.5 grams of fat per serving.
Even with advances such as these, it is still best to consume small amounts of healthy natural fats as part of a balanced diet of nutritious whole foods.
Chapter Twenty-nine
Meat and Dairy Products
Cheese and salt meat... |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The way I see it, there are some foods that bring you into balance, and there are other foods and food ingredients that take you out of balance. Sugar is quite obviously one of the ingredients that takes you out of balance. Even one teaspoon of sugar a day or one teaspoon a week takes you out of balance from what would have otherwise been a perfectly healthy day or week. The sugar industry says there's no such thing an unhealthy food... |
H.J. Roberts, M.D.
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 Adverse Reactions to Food Ingredients
FDA has received approximately 6,000 complaints about adverse reactions to food ingredients since U began Us monitoring program in 1985. The artificial sweetener aspartame accounts by far for the largest number of complaints.
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Complaints received by the FDA were of particular interest. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
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| As a result of these provisions, dietary ingredients used in dietary supplements are no longer subject to the pre-market safety evaluations required of other new food ingredients or for new uses of old food ingredients. They must, however, meet the requirements of other safety provisions.
In Australia, herbal medicines are subject to federal legislation, defined by the Therapeutic Goods Act and Regulations, and State and Territories legislation reflected in the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons (SUSDP). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The next step in slashing the skyrocketing costs of health care is to outlaw foods and food ingredients that promote disease. It makes no sense that food companies should be able to sell products that directly promote obesity and chronic disease. One of the first things we can do in this area is ban the advertising of such foods. There shouldn't be soft drink ads on television or in magazines. It should be illegal. We should also ban vending machines, especially from public schools and work places when those vending machines offer junk foods that contain ingredients known to promote disease. |
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