Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Colorful Science
Giving food the right color is also a science. color additives make food more appealing. They are more prevalent in common foods than you think, too. At the major fast food chains, color additives are added to soft drinks, salad dressings, cookies, condiments, chicken dishes, and sandwich buns. But the fast food industry isn't solely to blame, as food additives are found in just about everything these days. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If they didn't add these chemicals, they would look kind of a putrid gray color.
Ben: Orange gray. I've seen uncolored meat before straight from the cow, and it is not visually exciting at all.
Mike: No, and people wouldn't buy it if it wasn't red.
Ben: And that's the ultimate idea behind coloring these foods.
Mike: From the food manufacturer's point of view, yes. They color the foods with artificial colors to fool our senses, to make their foods look appealing and look fresh when they are not. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| Colorful Science
Giving food the right color is also a science. color additives make food more appealing. They are more prevalent in common foods than you think, too. At the major fast food chains, color additives are added to soft drinks, salad dressings, cookies, condiments, chicken dishes, and sandwich buns. But the fast food industry isn't solely to blame, as food additives are found in just about everything these days. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Mike: From the food manufacturer's point of view, yes. They color the foods with artificial colors to fool our senses, to make their foods look appealing and look fresh when they are not. They can be on the shelf for months and still have these same neon red colors, and something from nature doesn't last that long, so it's a pretty good hint that something artificial is going on there.
Speaking of food colors, if you look at the foods people consume around the world -- the cultural diets -- those cultures that have the healthiest diets make great use of colors in their foods. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 Brighter and clearer color paints tended to be made up from toxic metals such as mercury, cadmium, arsenic, lead, antimony, tin, cobalt, manganese, and chromium, whereas the earth colors tended to contain less toxic ingredients, such as harmless iron and carbon compounds.
Analysis of the areas of various colors in randomly selected paintings by these artists compared to "control" artists (contemporary painters without rheumatic disease) suggests that Rubens and Renoir used significantly more bright and clear colors based on toxic metals and fewer earth colors. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There's also another bonus: the color stands up under fluorescent lighting. Carmine (and most other food colorings) tend to fade under fluorescent lights, reducing their shelf life.
Plus, we all know just how powerful grape skins are at lowering LDL cholesterol and promoting cardiovascular health. A food coloring ingredient made from grape skins would, if widely consumed, help protect the health of the public. It would probably give you all the health benefits of drinking wine, but without the alcohol.
You can learn more at http://www.cwine.com/ournews/MegaNatural. |
Joseph Campbell
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| He wears a garland of eight thousand rays, in which is seen fully reflected a state of perfect beauty. The color of his body is purple gold. His palms have the mixed color of five hundred lotuses, while each finger tip has eighty-four thousand signet-marks, and each mark eighty-four thousand colors; each color has eighty-four thousand rays which are soft and mild and shine over all things that exist. With these jewel hands he draws and embraces all beings. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| With the beetles, at least the color comes from nature, not a chemical plant. In fact, South American cultures (the Aztecs and Incas, namely) have used carmine as coloring for thousands of years (although it's not clear whether they used it in foods). Technically speaking, you could almost call carmine a "natural" product.
Keep your eyes open for yogurt with a label that reads, "colored with all-natural, organic ground-up red beetles from Peru! |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Why 5 A Day the color Way." http://www.5aday.org/html/ colorway/colorway_home.php. Robbins, John. The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World.
Berkeley: Conari Press, 2001. Rozin, P., et al. "The Ecology of Eating: Smaller Portion Sizes in France than in the United States Helps
Explain the French Paradox." Psychological Science 14, no. 5 (2003). Ruskin, Gary. "Commercial Alert Criticizes National PTA over Coke Sponsorship." Wednesday, June 4,
2003. http://www.commercialalert.Org/index.php/category_id/5/subcategory_id/72/article_id/187. -. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Carmine adds this vibrancy and color to foods, making them more appealing to consumers. In other words, if it looks good, we are more apt to buy it.
There are also technical reasons why carmine is a useful food coloring. If you're curious about what the food manufacturers say about carmine, read: http://www.foodproductdesign.com/archive/1998/0398AP.html
HOW IS CARMINE MADE / WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?
Most carmine used in the United States is imported from Peru and the Canary Islands. They are harvested as follows (Quoted from: www2.labs.agilent.com/botany/cacti_etc/html/news7. |
Joseph Campbell
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| His palms have the mixed color of five hundred lotuses, while each finger tip has eighty-four thousand signet-marks, and each mark eighty-four thousand colors; each color has eighty-four thousand rays which are soft and mild and shine over all things that exist. With these jewel hands he draws and embraces all beings. The halo surrounding his head is studded with five hundred Buddhas, miraculously transformed, each attended by five hundred Bodhisattvas, who are attended, in turn, by numberless gods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In my wash, the small cotton bag holding the soap nuts got wrapped up in the sheet, and the soap nuts soaked the sheet with a slight soap nut color (sort of rust colored). This color came out in the next wash, because it's not a permanent stain or anything, but it taught me that for the soap nuts to be really effective, they needed to be able to circulate freely in the laundry and not get caught in a large bedsheet.
Aside from the bedsheet incident, everything else came out of the wash sqeaky clean! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Mike: Very true. The color in meat is added with an ingredient called sodium nitrate, which is a cancer-causing chemical. That's how they make these meats look red on the shelf. If they didn't add these chemicals, they would look kind of a putrid gray color.
Ben: Orange gray. I've seen uncolored meat before straight from the cow, and it is not visually exciting at all.
Mike: No, and people wouldn't buy it if it wasn't red.
Ben: And that's the ultimate idea behind coloring these foods.
Mike: From the food manufacturer's point of view, yes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's usually packaged in simple wrappers, with no fancy logos or color printing.
Processed meat has many ingredients and is usually packaged for long-term shelf life. These products almost always contain sodium nitrite, the cancer-causing chemical additive that meat companies use as a color fixer to turn their meat products a bright red "fresh-looking" color. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| They will be labeled as FD&C or D&C, followed by a color and a number. Example: FD&C Red No. 6 / D&C Green No. 6. Many synthetic colors can be carcinogenic. If a cosmetic contains them, don't use it.
Synthetic fragrances: The synthetic fragrances used in cosmetics can have hundreds of ingredients. There is no way to know what the chemicals are, since on the label it will simply read "fragrance." Some problems caused by these chemicals include headaches, dizziness, rash, hyperpigmentation, violent coughing, vomiting, skin irritation—the list goes on. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 Light is normally composed of photons of many wavelengths, like colors in a rainbow, but photons in a laser have a high degree of coherence, a situation akin to a single coherent wave, like one intense color.12 These single wavelengths of water molecules appear to become 'informed' in the presence of other molecules - that is, they tend to polarize around any charged molecule - storing and carrying its frequency so that it may be read at a distance. This would mean that water is like a tape recorder, imprinting and carrying information whether the original molecule is still there or not. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Yet somehow, these 100 doctors and health experts in the Chicago task force could not even rise to the level of an eight grade student when it comes to reporting on these concepts: There's no mention of vitamin D, sunlight, skin color or even information about how geographical locations alter breast cancer risk due to variations in sunlight intensity!
(Click here to see the map of the United States shaded by breast cancer rates. Once you see this map, you'll instantly understand the link between sunlight, geographic latitude, skin color, vitamin D and breast cancer. |
Melody Petersen
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 Then the doctor asked him questions like "What color is the sky?" The answers were written in inks of varied colors, including the correct answer to the sky question, blue, which was written in yellow ink. Once again he succeeded. But the tests were only getting started. The doctor next read him a story for thirty seconds and asked him to repeat it. Hurley did well. In the test that followed, he listened to a tape-recorded voice recite a long list of numerals in a monotone. He was asked to count how many times he heard a certain number like 8. This was easy for him. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 It is the Tree of the South, the direction of the Land of the Dead, associated with the color red, the color of blood. At the top of the tree is a macaw bird, the symbol of the hot lands from which cacao came; while to one side of the tree stands Mictlantecuhtli, the Lord of the Land of the Dead.
The intelligentsia—the priests, poets, and philosophers—liked to speak in metaphors composed of two words or phrases which, when uttered in sequence, had a third, hidden meaning. One of these metaphors was yollotl, eztli, "heart, blood," an esoteric figure of speech for chocolate. |
| While this "Dutching," as it came to be known, improved the powder's miscibility (not, as some believed, its solubility) in warm water, it made the chocolate datket in color and milder in flavor Even today, many people ptefer "Dutch" chocolate, thinking it to be stronger in taste, when it is ony the difference in color that makes it seem so.
At any rate, in the year 1828, the age-old, thick and foamy drink was dethroned by easily-prepared, more easily digestible cocoa. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Cones are the ones that provide color sensitivity, and most of them are located in the central area of the retina in a structure called the macula. So when the macula "degenerates," you're in trouble—color vision and vision sharpness both deteriorate significantly, and in the worst case scenario, you can be looking at blindness (excuse the pun!).
The cause of macular degeneration is not really known, but it's believed that there is an insufficient disposal of waste materials from the cells. Cell waste is normally carried off, but in this case some is left behind and it blocks the light. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| These products almost always contain sodium nitrite, the cancer-causing chemical additive that meat companies use as a color fixer to turn their meat products a bright red "fresh-looking" color. Processed meat products include:
Bacon
Sausage
Pepperoni
Beef jerky
Deli slices
Hot dogs
Sandwich meat (including those served at restaurants)
Ham
Meat "gift" products like Christmas sausages
Meat used in canned soups
Meat used in frozen pizza
Meat used in kid's lunch products
Meat used in ravioli, spaghetti or Italian pasta products
... and many more meat products. |
Dawson Church
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 Each pixel is a different color. Researchers can note which pixels change color when exposed to a sample, and are thus able to "read" the gene chip to find out which molecules have been able to bond with a counterpart in the sample. This sophisticated technology allows researchers to identify DNA states, and changes in DNA, in a variety of conditions.
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Portion of a visual map derived from a gene chip, shnitrino the. |
John A. McDougall
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 Sure, these fecal "boats" produced as a result of eating pulverized oak tree toast would float in the toilet—but they were definitely not normal.
The color of stool produced by someone eating a plant-based diet is light yellow to brown. However, various vegetables can impart distinct colors. For example, beets will turn the stool dark red. The American diet loaded with iron-laden meats imparts the more familiar darker brown color to the stool. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's certainly better for you than any synthetic color, such as FD&C No. 40, which is derived from coal tar.
Would you rather be eating a pigment created by insects, or one derived through the refining of fossil fuels? Personally, I'd rather eat the insect pigment.
And although there are no studies that demonstrate health benefits of carmine, I wouldn't be surprised to hear of some in the coming years.
ARE THERE ALTERNATIVES TO CARMINE?
Yes. One company, Canandaigua Wine, introduced a substitute product derived from grape skins. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Gift baskets may vary in color and shapes.
Greeting cards are of neutral color, tree-free, and recycled paper stock.
Enjoy these unique, health-giving gifts! I can't think of a better way to let someone know you're thinking about them than giving them these health-enhancing superfoods for Christmas, a birthday or a thank-you occasion. And here's one thing you can be sure of: The quality of the foods from Transition Nutrition is simply outstanding. The recipient of your gift will be astounded at the quality of the foods their tasting.
Enjoy! |
Melody Petersen
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| According to industry consultants at IMS Health, AstraZeneca was one of the first drug companies to give their medicines unique shades to strengthen the value of their brand and public identity, just as Coca-Cola had done with the color red and the United Parcel Service with brown. Marketers were giving the pill a personality.
"Pink is perceived as calming, and may be suitable for heart drugs or tranquilizers, while bold colors such as red suggest rapid action and stimulation, and may therefore be appropriate for a painkiller or antidepressant," the IMS consultants wrote in an article in 2001. |
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