Hi Friends,
This is generally a very informative article regarding food additives, and provides some motivation for not buying and eating the kinds of foods with the additives listed here. However, like the Martha Stewart post I forwarded, I've added my own comments, and try to raise the standards.
One of the problems with these kinds of articles is that there is a lot of sophistry and authors often find ways to mitigate (see link below for definition) the problems of the toxins, rationalizing how and why it's ok to eat some of them, or other products, which are often as bad or worse, because the author has not yet investigated these subjects. Hey, we each can't know every detail. However, I do have some great friends, also on this list, who use applied kinesiology to muscle test pretty much everything they get at the grocery store. This is pretty smart... and I'm doing it more and more and with different, non-food related issues as well. After all, this is one of the most powerful tools now available to us. Don't expect to learn about it on Oprah or the Nightly News--the full implications could easily make the current death doctrine profiteers obsolete, practically overnight! :)
Don't worry, the real thing, the truth and more truly healthy "alternatives" will fill that space. We have ALL the answers.
Love to all,
Ronni
From Lab to Lunch: Chemicals They Call Food
By: Brie Cadman (Little_personView Profile)
The other day I was snacking on some bright orange “nacho” flavored tortilla chips when I decided to do something very stupid. I flipped the bag over and read the ingredient list. Given the color, I wasn’t expecting to find nature, distilled, but the double-digit list of ingredients, many of which I hadn’t seen since working in a lab, was still disconcerting. In fact, some of the chemicals were the same ones that drove me out of the lab. (You can only read “extreme neurotoxin” and “mutagenic” so many times before pondering a career change.). What were they doing in my chips?
A tortilla chip seems so simple (corn, oil, salt) but the intersection of synthetic chemistry and food manufacturing has taken us far away from simple and much closer to complex. Instead of nacho cheese, we eat synthesized substances meant to approximate the flavor or texture of cheese, no milk products involved. Preservation, emulsification, hydrogenation, distillation, and esterification has resulted in some good things (like reduced spoilage and food borne diseases), but has also resulted in some questionable food additives like the compounds below.
[You can also preserve food by drying it, adding lemon juice or even natural sugar (mitigation), canning it yourself, or sealing already dry goods into air tight containers like canning jars. Freezing is also there, sometimes done in combination with sealing in air tight containers. If we have a nice garden or greenhouse, we can eat most of the years fresh foods and not worry about it].
I Can’t Believe It’s Not—Diacetyl!
Diacetyl is the chemical that gives microwave popcorn that delicious buttery flavor without the use of any butter. Unfortunately, extensive exposure to diacetyl can lead to a serious, irreversible, and rare condition known as bronchiolitis obliterans. First seen in workers at a microwave popcorn packaging plant, the condition is commonly known as “popcorn lung.” One consumer (who, somewhat freakishly, ate around four bags of microwaved popcorn a day) has developed the disease, and researchers recently discovered that small amounts of diacetyl can cause lung and airway damage in mice.
The Alternative? OSHA didn’t do crap to protect workers, but lawsuits and negative publicity scared some manufacturers into removing the compound from their packaged kernels. However, diacetyl abounds in packaged foods with fake butter flavor, often under the guise of “natural and artificial flavoring.” As for popcorn, pop your own and use the real golden stuff. Butter=good; popcorn lung=bad.
[I think if you are going to eat grain, yes, pop your own, preferably organic. My husband is addicted to popcorn, so that's what I do. And I have him put coconut oil on it. Add to the corn subject the general reality that most non-organic corn is GMO corn now, and that GMO foods are now being said to be at the root of the Morgellons outbreak, due to the combining of bacteria genes with virus genes. GMO food is also widespread in grocery stores, and should be reconsidered for it's toxic effects because of these kinds of effects. We can stop this if we stop eating this kind of junk, like microwaved ANYTHING, let alone popcorn. Microwaves have probably caused a lot more deaths than we realize, due to the mass ignorance about it--many are broken and leak microwaves into the rooms, but they also destroy all the nutritional value, and even blow out the natural crystalline nature of pure water. All for convenience and speed? Speed to die for, then. If you try to grow seeds in microwaved water, they die. Try it. It's a kind of terratology, but then, that is the nature of all of this altered food issue in the first place. Here's the definition of "teratology": http://www.yourdictionary.com/teratology For more information with the problems with Grain, get "Dangerous Grains" --it explains a lot about many different manifestations of eating grain, which people never imagine.]
Would You Like Diet or Regular Benzene?
Benzene is an industrial solvent and a known carcinogen, so food companies generally try to keep it out of their products. However, two chemicals found in soda, sodium benzoate (a preservative) and ascorbic acid (vitamin C), can react to form benzene, especially in the presence of heat or light. In 2007, Coca-Cola and Pepsi agreed to settle lawsuits brought against them after benzene was detected in their products. The suit alleged that Pepsi’s Diet Wild Cherry drink had benzene levels nearly four times the maximum level set by the Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water. Oopsy. Both companies agreed to reformulate; however, thousands of soft drinks containing benzoate and citric acids are still on the market.
The Alternative? Probably most Coke and Pepsi products are “safe” (who knows what’ll turn up next!), but it’s a good idea to check the label.
[Most Coke and Pepsi products are NOT "safe," or safe, or kinda maybe--they are death food. If you want to have something sweet to drink, have some tea and put some Stevia in it. Yes, you can have food like this for awhile, but for me, one week on restaurant food will give me a variety of digestive problems...none of which are "fun" enough to justify eating the foods that caused them].
Gone Fishin’—For Silly Puddy
The sticky texture of Silly Puddy is due, in part, to a widely used silicone-based polymer called polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). In addition to Silly Puddy, it is also found in caulks, adhesives, cosmetics, silicone grease, knuckle replacements, silicone breast implants, and … in McDonald’s Fish Filet Patties. They add it as an “antifoaming agent.” I had to look this one up (why is the fish foaming?) and as it turns out, foam, produced when vats of liquids are mixed or agitated, is a big problem for large scale food manufacturers. Lots of foam means frying vats can’t be filled to capacity, meaning fast food restaurants can’t fry as many fish (potatoes, apple crisps, whatever) as mechanically possible. Hence the need for silicone oils like PDMS.
The Alternative? The FDA allows up to ten parts per million of anti-foaming agents to be used in food products; they’re found in many processed foods. Though not harmful at these levels, their use does increase the amount of acrylamide (a naturally occurring but nasty chemical) that is formed during frying.
[Oh boy! Fried foods! Processed foods! 
Not. Yes, they do "taste great." But there are other real alternatives that may not be so bad, though you never want to overheat any oil, as it does turn into these nasty things. Coconut oil is ok along with EVOO and a few other oils (and butter fat) to put in the frying pan, but don't turn it up high and scorch and burn it--this home processing is highly carcinogenic, as is the "char" on the fried burgers and other foods, especially on the BBQ grill.
Home deep fryers are not too good, though I think it may be possible to fry some fish in coconut oil with lesser evil effects. Eat only 10% or 20% of non-raw foods and you may be able to cleanse a lot of the ill effects of these foods, but I wouldn't bank on it. Toxins have a way of setting up shop in the tissues, blocking energy flows and making us feel crappy. Then we wonder how come we feel bad, forgetting to remember the foods we ate. How can we kill them, let me count the ways, THEY ask... It so happens that mitigation is a good way to flim flam a lot of people, for our own good, or the "good of the economy" or some other lie..]
Ahhh, Olestra
Only in America would an indigestible molecule that inhibits the absorption of vitamins and minerals, causes abdominal cramping, loose stools, and gas take in over $400 million in its first year. Only in America would a chemical most closely associated with two words—anal leakage—still have a chance in the food market. (Saw it yesterday in a can of Pringles Light, giving new meaning to the “once you pop, you can’t stop” slogan.) Interestingly, Olestra was first filed with the FDA as a drug, not a food product. What a tangled web we weave…
The Alternative? Lick some raw chicken to get your anal leakage fix.
[??? I don't know what this means..but it sounds whacky--licking a chicken? I guess it's a joke. She can lick some raw chicken if she wants. I don't think I'll be doing that. Maybe she is hoping that we should drink soda in place of water too? Olestra is now being taken out of the movie popcorn in some theaters, and some are returning to a butter type product. I can't say what that would be, but it may or may not be an improvement in terms of health. Their game is the bottom line, so whatever it is, including hydrogenated butter oils, it isn't going to decrease their bottom line.
I don't like eating movie popcorn anymore because now I bring two or three pieces of fruit with me to the movie with a little towel, peel the orange or cut up the apple, etc., throwing the peels and core into a small ziplock in my purse. If people laugh at me, the last laugh will be on them, as they won't last long eating toxic foods. To the "establishment" that prohibits your bringing your own food into the theater and "unfairly" competing with their death food at the concession stand, I would say: maybe you would like to take ME on in court. I can make the case for the fact that you and the companies products you sell, are trying to kill me."
I think they would shut up and go find something else to do. By now, many young people are not going to play that game at the wage they make. Some of those guys in suits at movie theaters are control freaks. But they wouldn't mess with me. I can stare them down any day. I also would threaten them with media exposure of any kind. Then their pocket books start to sting, or their job security alarm goes off. If you go to the low-income movie theater, they ignore you. Plus, you can watch all the same movies at home and make your own movie food.
Also, regarding movie food, I had some organic candied ginger that I sliced up real thin and took with me for a "sweet." You could even put your own snack into one of their boxes. (Underground Resistance...) It is sugary, but you only need a tiny piece, and ginger aids digestion and a lot of other good things. Then you can have your taste thrill and not eat the other junk they charge an arm and leg for at the concession. They don't seem to need a gun to rob (or kill us) us at the concession stand, hum?]
Too Sweet to Be True
Artificial sweeteners are generally considered safe (save for saccharin, which has that pesky “has been shown to cause cancer in lab rats” warning). However, two studies indicate they may not exactly be as guilt-free as once imagined.
[Pesky? Pesky? Hum. She hasn't met Donald Rumsfeld or studied the history of saccharin and aspartame, or read Dr. Blaylocks' The Taste That Kills. Methinks she is talking out of the side of her neck, here...and what artificial sweeteners is she speaking about? Splenda? Just as bad.]
The first study showed that, compared with those who drank no soda, people who consumed one or more sodas a day—diet or regular—had a 50 percent higher risk of metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors characterized by excessive abdominal fat, high blood pressure, and high glucose. Soda companies balked—how can diet beverages cause these things when they contain no calories? Logic would side with them, except for study number two, done in rats. It showed that rats fed with foods containing artificial sweeteners were more likely to overeat compared with those rats fed food containing real sugar. Reason? Sugar triggers our innate system to recognize sweet calories and restrict further food consumption; fake chemicals don’t trigger the “eat less” mechanism.
[Pesky? These are some pretty "pesky" studies too, and real. She seems to be trying to find a way to have one's addictive behavioral habit cake and eat it too. What is "pesky" is our attempt to mitigate stupid decisions, once we know the truth about them.
What about Logic is not good? People hardly know how to think, and "logic" is used as a form of propaganda or sophistry all the time. A funny account of this is in the movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail--the scene where they manage to "logically" determine that if "Witches are made of wood, and wood floats then if we throw this woman into the water and she floats, she MUST be a WITCH!" or similar nonsense. Hey, the media have people thinking all kinds of crazy stuff--it's our job to tell them where to go. This is called a non sequitur].
The Alternative? Calorie free sodas don’t add on weight, excess food does. However, if you’re drinking lots of diet soda and still loosening up the belt, you may want to rethink the diet approach. (Also, see benzene above.)
[What is a calorie free soda? Sounds like the flavored water products, which are full of high fructose corn syrup, a starch, which does cause you to gain weight and causes other problems too... I'll take a 1/2 dozen of these and trade them for 3 dozen of those "foods"... Remember that the fizz in soda pop is acid-forming and is a big part of the gall stone problem too, as is the fructose corn syrup (but not gall stones, as far as I know). Just have some nice juice, or drink a glass of water. Just because everyone else is having one doesn't mean you have to. I told this to some of my son's friends the other day: "who is the bigger fool, the fool or the fool who follows the fool?" I think anyone who saw Star Wars had figured this out by now...maybe not. ]
Hydrogenation Station
Oils are liquid at room temperature, while fats, like butter and lard, are solid. One way to make vegetable oil into a semi-solid compound, perfect for use in long-lifed packaged foods, is to hydrogenate it. Partial hydrogenation gets rid of some of the good unsaturated fats and also creates trans fats, the black sheep of the fat world, thought to be more deleterious to the old ticker than lard.
[Saturated fats aren't bad--the liver turns all the unsaturated fats into saturated fats so the body can use them. But there are toxins in meats and their fats that are grown in feed lots and other bad conditions. I don't know about lard, but I think coconut oil is available, if people want to buy a gallon over at Glory Bee. Too much fat of any kind is not needed anyway. And readers of this e-letter know that canola oil is a toxic oil, where is that info here?].
The Alternative? Bad press and labeling requirements have caused many food companies to remove trans fats from their products; check labels. (Kraft Fat Free Singles, for instance, contain no saturated fat, but do contain partially hydrogenated oils.) Regular, unsaturated vegetable oil is the perfect alternative for frying, yet restaurants can still use the partially hydrogenated stuff, unless the FDA, which still labels the oil as “generally recognized as safe,” steps up and bans it.
[Someone banned hydrogenated fats in restaurants in NY (Probably Gov. Spitzer , but I haven't heard anything more about it since that story came out. The "generally recognized as safe rules, are pretty strange. My husband has that one down pat, but isn't here right now to consult. It has to do with how much of a substance it takes to kill you. If it kills you off just a little, ok, it's worth it, they say, and of course you can't prove that accumulated effects are from the toxin in question.
At my house we call this, "non-point liability." The insurance companies are happy, the chemical companies are happy, and of course you are "happy," because you believed the whole thing as gospel. "Who cares if we are all going to die someday anyway? I can feel horrible for eating all of this but what the heck, 'somthin's got to kill me,' may as well burn the candle at both ends. Let's kill ourselves now and beat the retirement rush...there's not enough social security money anyway..." (Yea, they SPENT your social security money folks!) Anyway, this kind of "thinking" is exactly one of the goals of the Synarchy and eugenicists--kill them off when they are no longer useful to society as "human resources." And how useful is someone that dumb? Not too useful, even to themselves, methinks. This "save the world, kill yourself" stuff is for idiots and activists working for the Oligarchy].
Butylated Hydroxyanisol (BHA)
BHA is an antioxidant that prevents fats and oils from spoiling. BHA is added to packaged foods, baked goods, some cereals, and meats as a preservative. It has been found to cause cancer in laboratory rodents; however, it causes cancer in an organ that humans don’t have, so it’s hard to translate the research into human populations. The National Toxicology Program states that BHA is “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen based on sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals.” Funny, it’s still in our food chain.
[Linear, reductionist, and ridiculously worthless "science" anyone? Oh, Bruce Lipton has proved that most of the "science" we've been fed is more of a religion, a philosophy, than it is science. Common sense, if you have it, says, "If it is bad for you, don't eat it!!! Lipton is going to be fun to read after this].
The Alternative? Check labels and (if this hasn’t already become clear) avoid packaged foods that have a shelf life lasting longer than the average tenure of a Supreme Court Justice.
[Preservatives are very bad for the liver. Avoid them, period. This is a good subject to research.
Yea, those "Supreme" Court "Justices" happen to be the placed yes men for the big corporations who pay them to decide for the genocide programs in the first place. Justice? I like "Everyday" justice: don't do what crazy people tell you to do, even if it is an otherwise "trusted" teacher, lawyer (especially--Shakespeare said, "kill the lawyers first...), "doctor" ("doctor me up, Doc.), or other "player and stakeholder" run your life for you. In fact, run away from them. Tell them, "wake up, you may be dangerous to my health." Otherwise, you deserve whatever consequences that come from the willful ignorance in the first place. Sorry to be so honest--but that's what friends do--tell the truth--unlike the one that says, "Lets go have some toxic McDonalds burgers, it will taste really good, then you die. There's your new advertising slogan: "Tastes good, then you die." Has a nice "ring" to it, no?]
As with most chemicals, dose makes the poison; small amounts of the above chemicals ain’t going to kill you (at least according to the FDA). But neither would eating a piece of real cheese.
First published April 2008
[This is her "bottom line." Yes, "dose" does determine the legal level of poison. Make sense to you? Then go back and read the part about bio-accumulated toxins and non-point liability. Sounds like she might work for the dairy industry, but she was a former chemist it appears. notmilk.com is the antidote for that sophistry. If she still believes the FDA, she suffers from the above "trust" issue--not that she has trouble trusting people, but that she has sold her soul to keep her job by mitigating the ideas about how to "deal" with the mass poisoning of America and and the rest of the world of "useless eaters." Remember, this was a Club of Rome operation. Or, she could just be ignorant. There IS a lot of that.
Also, I'm not entirely opposed to mitigation, as long as we do it as a transitionary measure toward a real personal or public policy. Sometimes people need to withdraw from their favorite poisons. But using this technique to "soften" the problems we create in our bureaucracies and corporations is now destroying America and killing us. You can't have your cake and eat it to, friends, even if they say so! We need to stop believing the usual non sequitur double talk we are fed.
Also, "real cheese," can be just as bad, maybe worse, eaten every day. (Even mom used to say, "it will constipate you!" ) If you eat cheese, at least get non rBGH (recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone) dairy (Tilamook), and don't eat very much. Try to avoid it altogether and get used to doing without. The usual European cheeses are made from raw milk, but they tried to get rid of that too, in the name of "bacteria" being bad for you. Add some antibiotics and wham! "Looks good, then you die." After awhile foods that clog your taste buds don't taste good anymore. I've already spoken on that.
Maybe I'm weird, but I've taken up eating Gomicho, which is toasted sesame seeds (organic, I toast them) with some ground Celtic Sea Salt in place of other salty foods, as a good popcorn or "salty food" substitute. I think we eat those foods because we like the salt and sugar. But we do need salt, especially real mineral salt. Try it, let's be "weird" together. At least you will get the minerals from the Celtic salt, and calcium from the seeds, and they taste good. Maybe this is not the best either, but then I'm having to experiment on myself. That's how all good things get started...some "weirdo" like me tries something DIFFERENT.
Have fun, love God, and eat smarter, we will get through this period in history, at least if I have anything to say about it, and I obviously DO! Thanks for listening. Pass it forward.
RB]
