What you Eat – You Are
Most of us are aware that junk food will make us sick if we eat enough of it, but some people continue having their favourite junk foods regardless of the threat to their health. The problem is that junk food contains additives that are addictive, and it becomes a matter of craving rather than choice. It is not easy to break the cycle, and unless there is a determined mind to do so, it will not happen.
However, not only do the obvious junk foods have additives, but also prepared, packeted and tinned foods. The additives are often in words we do not understand, and or different names for the same additive, at least 1520 of them.
MSG is an additive, and an excitotoxin. This means it stimulates the sensory nerves. Monosodium Glutamic Acid is in food naturally, but in small amounts and appropriately dispersed in the plant. When it is taken out of the food, it becomes a concentrate, and problems occur, especially with the glutamate, as it fuels cancer.
As MSG is a processing agent common in many food products, it does not require labelling. There are 27 other names that can be used for MSG, including ones
we would think are healthy, such as yeast variants, textured protein, soy and whey protein, magnesium glutamate. https://lifespa.com/sneaky-names-for-msg-check-your-labels/
There are also 18 others that often contain it, and 12 suspected ones, which serve as MSG-reaction triggers in highly sensitive people. If you had MSG in one product, it would not do any harm, but when it is in so many, it becomes a health hazard. At times numbers are used and we have no idea what they stand for. MSG’s numbers are E620 to E625 inclusive.
According to a brother who has just returned from China, Chinese chefs use three big containers of white powder – sugar, salt and MSG – in everything.
Another ingredient placed in packaged foods is sugar. If you are a label-reader, you will be appalled at how much sugar is in our foods. Sugar is concentrated because it has been separated from the sugar cane.
There is much evidence to show that sugar is causing serious illnesses, such as diabetes and obesity, which lead to serious complications. http://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/too-much-can-make-us-sick/#.XF-MrDMzbcs
There are 56 names for sugar. The one we know best is sucrose from sugar cane. Another is fructose (levulose), the sugar in fruit, although fruit also contains sucrose and glucose in varying amounts. When these are extracted from the food, they become concentrates.
If you read labels, sometimes you will see sugar and fructose. Some products even have ‘natural cane sugar, fructose, glucose, honey, and barley malt’. This is far too much sugar. www.healthline.com/nutrition/56-different-names-for-sugar. Most sugar in US products is from sugar beets, which are GM modified.
Other sugars extracted from plants are, rice syrup, coconut sugar, grape sugar, corn syrup, maple syrup, sorghum sugar, barley malt, sugar beets and agava.
For some people, especially those with cancer, any sugar is too much as cancer is fuelled and fed with sugar/glucose. They go on a Ketogenic Diet eliminating all sugars, most fruit and certain vegetables.
Some of the names of sugar are dextrin, dextrose (made from corn), diastatic malt, ethyl maltol, lactose, maltodextrin, maltose, galactose. The following are cane sugar, invert sugar (combination cane sugar and fructose), muscovado/Barbados (raw sugar), turbinado, castor sugar, molasses, treacle, golden syrup and others.
Almost everyone knows too much sugar is not good for our health, so they choose artificial sweeteners, the main one being aspartame. This sweetener is said to be dangerous to health. Some of the symptoms are seizures, headaches, depression, diabetes, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dizziness, weight gain, birth defects, lupus, blindness, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS) and cancer. https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/08/29/aspartame-health-risks.aspx
Aspartame is also called NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, Equal-Measure and others. If you look into the subject, you will find a number of approving organisations, but you need research deeper for alternate views.
Many overweight people use artificially sweetened products, sweetened with aspartame, such as Diet Coke, diet soda, sugar-free cream, reduced-calorie fruit juice, sugarless gum, low-sugar yoghurt, sugarless candy, flavoured water, etc. When you look at the label on Diet Coke, it does not say aspartame. Instead it says E951, but this is aspartame.
Ten years ago, there were 5000 products containing aspartame. Today there are thousands more, in fact, it is in almost everything sweet, such as jams, cereals and baby food. It is also in medications.
Be careful when a product says, NO SUGAR or SUGAR-FREE.
Stevia is a good natural sweetener, but again watch because aspartame is sometimes put with the stevia! Be cautious when a product is made in a Third World country as there is no way to check the ingredients.
Salt is also controversial. Most of the salt added to foodis table salt, sodium chloride. Some table salt has iodine added. Table salt has the minerals removed and is therefore more concentrated. Celtic salt, sea salt, Himalayan pink salt, or rock salt, have approxi-mately 80 minerals.
GM foods are another controversial subject. Most of the genetically modified crops go into animal feed, especially on factory farms.
In countries where GM foods have to be labelled, meat, eggs, dairy products from GM-fed animals are exempt from labelling. Is this justifiable? It is claimed that GM molecules -- DNA and proteins – are broken down and “not detectable in the final food product.” http://earthopensource.org Search - GMO.
However, these claims have been falsified and published. “GM DNA was detected in milk sold on the Italian market. It was detected in meat and fish. GM DNA from soy was detected in the blood, organs, and milk of goats.
http://earthopensource.org/gmomythandtruths/sample-page/3-health-hazards-gm-foods/3-10-myth-gm-animal-feed-poses-risks-animal-human-health/
Jonathan Lathan did not have GMO concerns when he began as a biologist, but now, twenty years later he has great concerns. “Many GMO plants are engineered to contain their own insecticides…They are called Bt plants as they incorporate a transgene that makes a protein-based toxin, and many Bt crops are ‘stacked’…
One toxin is bacillus thuringiensis which is all but indis- tinguishable from the well known anthrax bacterium… A third reason for concern is that the mode of action of Bt proteins is not understood…
Another concern…crops become resistant, which is an invitation for farmers to spray large quantities of herbicides, and many do.” https://nutritionstudies.org/gmo- dangers-facts-you-need-to-know/
Nine GM crops are currently being sold in the United States – corn (88%), soy beans (93%), canola (90%), cotton (94%), sugar beets (90%), alfalfa, Hawaiian papaya (75%), green apples, zucchini and yellow squash.
These crops are continually being modified to resist various diseases, drought, salinity, fungus and cold.
Other GM crops are planned for the future. Monsanto, DuPont and Syngenta control 53% of the global commercial seed market. www.huffingtonpost.com
There are many concerns that GM crops will affect conventionally-grown crops, related wild species, and organically grown crops.
Organic crops can become contaminated by pollen blowing in the wind. Farmers have been sued for having Monsanto crops in their paddock, when they have only planted organic.
“If Monsanto can patent seeds for financial gain, they should be forced to pay for contaminating a farmer’s field, not be allowed to sue them”, said David Murphy, founder and executive director of Food Democracy Now. www.rt.com/usa/monsanto-patents-sue-farmers-547/
Farmers are under the control of seed manufacturers, such as Monsanto and others, and must pay royalties.
Grain website says, “Trade and investment agreements are a weapon of choice to impose seed laws where they did not exist before or to make existing laws more favourable to trans-national corporations. The end goal is clear: to prevent farmers from saving seeds so they must buy corporate seeds on the market instead…
“Along with these patents comes the involvement of the International Treaty on Plant Genetics for Food and Agriculture that paves the way for the privatisation of all seeds seized from all farmers’ fields around the world, which they are saving in large worldwide seed banks.”
https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5142-seed-laws-that-criminalise-farmers-resistance-and-fightback
Under the Treaty, there are plans to digitize and publish online all genetic sequences of all of these seeds – which will facilitate patenting by multi-nationals.
Today it is said at least 70% of processed foods in supermarkets contain genetically modified ingredients, and we have no way of finding out.
Are we being deceived?
Dr. Martha R Herbert, Pediatric Neurologist wrote regarding GM foods, “As a medical doctor, I can assure you that no one in the medical profession would attempt to perform experiments on human subjects without their consent. Such conduct is illegal and unethical. Yet manufacturers of genetically altered foods are exposing us to one of the largest uncontrolled experiments in modern history.” Chicago Tribune. 9/3/00. Dr Martha R Herbert. Pediatric neurologist.
Unfortunately, not only are the GM foods ‘stacked’ with problems, but also non-organic fruits and vegetables are loaded with pesticides. The United States Department of Agriculture tests found 230 different pesticides and pesticide breakdown residues on thousands of produce samples analysed. The top fruit (of the top ten) was the strawberry. A single strawberry can harbour 22 different pesticides. Spinach, nectarines, apples, pears,peaches, cherries, grapes, celery, tomatoes, sweet bell peppers and potatoes all have many pesticides. https://drax.com/dirty-dozen/
Spinach had as much pesticide residue by weight than any other crop. Pears contain five pesticides. One is toxic to males; another was banned in Europe for links to cancer-causing nitrosamine during cooking or storage; and thirdly, a potent bee-killing chemical! Peeling does not always take away the toxins as the spraying begins before maturity, and the pesticide is ingrained. Ibid.
One of the pesticides is glyphosate, called a carcinogen by California’s Proposition 65 Registry of Chemicals. Monsanto has been sued by DeWayne Johnson (46 years) a school gardener, for contracting non-Hodgkins lymphoma from glyphosate in Round-up Ready. He was granted $78 million by the court. 4000 similar cases have sued Monsanto. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is “probably a carcinogen”, as does the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
www.theguardian.com/business/2018/may/22/monsanto-trial-cancer-weedkiller-roundup-dewayne-johnson Jury ruled to give $289 M, but it was reduced to $78 million.
Amazingly, grain crops are sprayed with glyphosate just before harvesting, not to kill pests, but to bring the crop to harvest, as quite often it is unevenly ripened. This kills the plant, but makes it easier to harvest!
www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/pre-harvest-roundup-crops-not-just-wheat/
In spite of the dangers, glyphosate is now being sprayed on everything that is not organic. According to tests, glyphosate has been detected in many foods, such as breakfast cereals, which is especially a danger to children.
Glyphosate causes health problems, such as Alzheimer’s, birth defects, autism, brain and breast cancer, celiac disease and gluten intolerance, chronic kidney disease, colitis, depression, diabetes, heart disease, leaky gut, liver disease, MS, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Parkinson’s, attention deficit disorder, reproductive problems, miscarriages, still births, infertility, obesity, respiratory illnesses. www.ecowatch.com/15-health-problems-linked-to-monsantos-roundup-1882002128.html
What about organic food?
It is still debatable. Many say organic farmers are permitted to spray with a non-natural herbicide once during the growing period, or if all natural means have failed and the crop could be lost, they can use a herbicide. Others say they use natural herbicides or pesticides, but that these are also harmful. A number of farmers were asked personally and they said, ‘No, we don’t use any at all.’ More research is needed on organic practises. Organic food is available, if you are able to afford them. www.ewg.org/childrenshealth/glyphosateincereal/#.W3Tryc5KiuX
www.downtoearth.org/environment/organic-vs-conventional-farming/dirty-dozen-most-heavily-sprayed-foods
There are organic bakeries that do not use any sprays on their crops. Check the flour of the organic bread you enjoy. www. healthybake.com.au
MACRO has a great range of organic produce and products. It supplies Woolworths stores, but it depends on the location of your closest store as to how much is available.
In 2017, court records revealed that officials of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have a close relationship with Monsanto, and that it appears an EPA official prevented a review of the chemical from taking place. In court the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) was heavily criticised for selectively ‘editing out’ data from its assessment, removing evidence that resulted in showing no link between glyphosate and cancer. https://newfoodeconomy.org/glyphosate-safety-debate/ Research food safety yourself.
China is the major exporter of glyphosate in the world. Over 80% of China-made glyphosate is exported, to account for over 60% of the global supply. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/research-report-on-chinas-glyphosate-industry-2018-2022-300689149.html
What can we do?
Well, we can grow our own! It is not something everyone can do of course. It is not an easy decision for any of us.
Compulsory Medication
Fluoride and chlorine are two controversial subjects. The sodium fluoride, sodium fluorosilicate, and fluoro silicic acid added to public water supplies are not natural organic fluoride, but the primary by-product of the phosphate fertiliser industry.
Fluoride advocates say its purpose is to improve the dental health in children, which makes it a medication. If so, it is given without consent. And ‘one size’ size does not fit all. This is morally wrong. www.endfluoridetoronto.com/mass-medication-without-informed-consent-is-illegal/
Fluoridation is not about ‘children’s teeth’, it is about industry getting rid of its hazardous waste at a profit, instead of having to pay a fortune to dispose of it.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/u-s-water-fluoridation-a-forced-experiment-that-needs-to-end/
The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Water Deputy Administrator, Rebecca Hanmer stated, "In regard to the use of fluosilicic (fluorosilicic) acid as a source of fluoride for fluoridation, this agency regards such use as an ideal environmental solution to a long-standing problem. By recovering by-product fluosilicic acid from fertilizer manufacturing, water and air pollution are minimized, and water utilities have a low-cost source of fluoride available to them.” www.purewatergazette.net/fluorideandphosphate.htm
The Oral Medicine and Toxicology website states, “Fluoride is known to impact the cardiovascular, central nervous, digestive, endocrine, immune, renal, Integu-mentary, respiratory and skeletal systems… It is linked to Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, infertility and many other adverse health outcomes, including fluoride toxicity.”
www.westonapric.org/?s=Fluoride
Chlorine in drinking water is unhealthful. “The cancer risk to people who drink chlorinated water is 93% higher than those who don’t.” US Council of Environ-mental Quality statement. Chlorine is also taken in through open pores in the skin, especially when washing and showering in hot water. The Benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar. Patricia Bragg. p100-102.
Vaccination is another very controversial subject.
Vaccines are indiscriminately administered to children without regard to individuality. From birth to 15 months, a baby receives 70 doses of 16 vaccines, twice as many as in the 1980s. www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/02/12/how-did-babies-survive-in-the-1980s-with-half-the-doses-of-only-7-vaccines/#4fd92cae30e3
Many scientists have found that vaccinations can have disturbing and lasting effects on the health of susceptible individuals, but no one knows who is susceptible until it is too late.
The ingredients in a vaccine are the virus, both dead ones and ‘half’ alive ones, Thiomersal (mercury-containing preservative), adjuvants (aluminium-based), pork gelatine, human serum albumin, formaldehyde (embalming fluid) and antibiotics. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/vaccine-ingredients/
The flu shot has similar ingredients. It has been reported that people are getting mercury poisoning from taking the flu shot consistently, and having amalgams in their mouth. Mercury accumulates in the pituitary gland, which is called the ‘master gland’ as it affects so much. TritonX-100-split, an industrial-grade detergent, is added to some flu vaccines at different stages of its development. ‘It is safe’, they say. Is it?
Who is responsible for vaccinations? Drug companies who come under the umbrella of the Big Pharmaceut-icals, or Big Pharma as they are coined.
In the United States, President Trump said, ”The populist Left and Right have long been sceptical of the pharmaceutical industry, and for good reason. Due to a myriad of patent laws, federal mandates, subsidies, loopholes in the Hatch-Waxman Act, and a chronic lack of transparency in drug quality and pricing between brand names and generics, the pharmaceutical industry resembles a cartel more than a free market.” Washington Examiner Magazine. Dec 21. 2018
In case you are not sure of the true meaning of cartel, here are three definitions.
1. A written agreement between belligerent nations; a combination of independent commercial or industrial enterprises designed to limit competition or fix prices. Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
2. An agreement between two or more merchants to create or control a monopoly, to lessen or prevent competition. Duhaime’s Law Dictionary.
3. Members of a cartel generally agree to avoid various competitive practices, especially price reductions. Members also often agree on production quotas to keep supply levels down and prices up. These agreements recognise that competitive behaviour would be harmful to the industry. The
Financial Dictionary.
Big Pharma is certainly an industry.
The pharmaceutical industry generates higher profit margins than any other industry, followed by the banks, the car industry, gas and oil, and media. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-28212223
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