Dear :
The 3 top most dangerous food additives are causing many health problems including: heart disease, migraines, obesity, food cravings, osteoporosis, diabetes and even birth defects.
These most dangerous food additives are:
1) Sodium nitrite -- causes cancer, found in processed meats like hot dogs, bacon, sausage. Used to make meats appear red (a color fixer chemical). Groceries stores now have the option for nitrate-free (or no preservative) sausages, hot dogs and even bacon. For those of you that live in the Pittsburgh area, Giant Eagle grocery stores have some of these options. So does Trader Joe and Whole Foods and a place called Right By Nature in the strip. Boy, the South Hills of Pittsburgh sure could use one of these stores, badly. I just can't run a natural health clinic and open a Trader Joes at the same time - anyone looking for a business idea? There you go.
2) Hydrogenated oils -- causes heart disease, nutritional deficiencies, general deterioration of cellular health, and much more. Found in cookies, crackers, margarine and many "manufactured" foods. Used to make oils stay in the food, extending shelf life. Sometimes also called "plastic fat."
3) Excitotoxins -- aspartame, monosodium glutamate and others (see below). These neurotoxic chemical additives directly harm nerve cells, over-exciting them to the point of cell death, according to Dr. Russell Blaylock. They're found in diet soda, canned soup, salad dressing, breakfast sausage and even many manufactured vegetarian foods. They're used to add flavor to over-processed, boring foods that have had the life cooked out of them.
DID YOU KNOW?????
**Feeding children hot dogs increases their risk of brain cancer by 300%? Might as well stick a cigarette in their mouths while you are at it! There are natural nitrate-free hot dogs out there that are pretty tasty.
Strawberry yogurt, fruit punch and other red-looking grocery products are often colored with dead, ground-up cochineal beetles? The ingredient is called "carmine," and it's made from insects. It's listed right on the label of many of your favorite foods.
Food companies now "hide" MSG in safe-sounding ingredients like yeast extract or torula yeast? Wonder if the local Chinese restaurants that say "No More MSG have added Yeast Extract"? (by the way, just because you shop at the local health food stores, doesn't mean that they are not hiding yeast extract in their products)
Many Florida oranges are actually dipped in an artificial orange dye in order to make them more visually appealing? It's the same dye that's been banned for use in foods because of cancer risk.
Girl Scout cookies are still made with hydrogenated oils that contain trans fatty acids?
Eating just one serving of processed meats each day increases your risk of pancreatic cancer by 67%?
The #1 ingredient in Slim Fast meal replacement shake (powder form) is sugar? Sugar feeds cancer (so does uncontrolled glucose levels) A safe sweetener to use is stevia.
Some guacamole dips don't even contain avocado? Instead, they're made with hydrogenated soybean oil and artificial colors.
The ingredient "carageenan" is found in some coffee creamers and in most ice creams - and you would be amazed at how many vitamin products (expensive ones, too!) have this ingredient. Be sure to check your favorite vitamin line (especially the ones that are vitamin-shake type ones). Carageenan has been shown to increase tumor growths, so bascially it is a cancer feeder. Read your labels, even in the health food stores.
The food industry has convinced an entire nation to eat disease-promoting margarine for decades, based on shoddy scientific evidence and political influence. Weight Watchers has been a big promoter of margarine. Margarine is a trans fat that leads to heart disease. Again, it is not about the calories - give me butter anytime!
Back to the "hidden" ingredients
So how do food companies manage to hide excitotoxins and taste additives to their foods? It's easy: They just keep changing the words to confuse consumers. Once customers learned to avoid MSG / monosodium glutamate, the food companies started using "yeast extract".
And now, once Natural Healthcare Professionals started sounding the alarm on yeast extract, many companies have switched to "torula yeast," which accomplishes the same thing. Other hidden names of MSG include:
· Autolyzed vegetable protein
· Hydrolyzed vegetable protein
· Calcium caseinate
· Sodium caseinate
· Textured protein
The ingredients "stacking" trick:
Food companies also use the ingredients stacking trick to intentionally leave you with the wrong impression about what's really in their food products.
For example, one company makes a nutrition bar that's absolutely loaded with sugar, but they way they've arranged the ingredients prevents sugar from appearing as the #1 ingredient. Instead, the first ingredient is rice. But looking down the label, you'll find all the following forms of sugar, all in the same nutrition bar:
· Sugar
· Sucrose
· High-fructose corn syrup
· Corn syrup solids
· Dextrose
Add all these up, and the #1 component in the bar is, indeed, sugar (or sugary substances). But the manufacturer has used ingredients stacking to make you think the top ingredient is actually rice.
It's a clever, dishonest technique used by food companies to lie with food labels.
Remember, the longer the ingredients label, the less healthy the food. It gets pretty confusing so it is good to start to familiarize yourself with some of these ingredients.
Keep in mind that processed grains turn into sugar as soon as they hit your mouth (bread should have about 3-4 grams of fiber per slice). It is not just about the calories.
Dr. Val's Wellness Letter
