Mike Adams
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| But if they aren't warned, then it's the fault of the food producers for not telling the truth about their products and for not giving consumers the information they need to make honest food choices.
Let nutritional supplement makers tell the truth
Yet another excellent suggestion for transitioning to a healthy nation is to allow nutritional supplement manufacturers to tell the truth about what their supplements do for your health. This is something the FDA has disallowed for decades. |
| The food producers loved this message as well. Using this strategy, people were told to eat more meat, eat more eggs, drink more milk, eat more butter, and basically get more food into their bodies.
At that time, this made a lot of sense because people weren't getting enough food. The population suffered from stunted growth. They didn't have fully developed skeletal systems. Their muscle mass was less than it could have been. And even their brain function must have been impaired by a lack of nutrients caused by scarcity of food. |
| That's because, as discussed earlier, ranchers and animal food producers know that nutrition is critical for raising healthy animals. If the human beings of this world don't want this nutrition, let's feed it to the cows, pigs and chickens. That's where much of it goes.
So we have a system operating today where we take whole grain foods out of the earth, we dissect them into two piles, and then we take the unhealthiest parts of those grains and feed them to the human population! |
| But it certainly has served its original purpose which was of course, to promote the financial interests of various farmers and food producers in the United States. And that's how this Food Guide Pyramid should be looked upon by intelligent consumers: pure marketing propaganda.
Poor soils lead to nutritionally depleted foods
There are many other reasons why three balanced meals a day won't provide you with optimum nutrition. One of those reasons is that foods are grown in nutritionally depleted soils. |
| It promotes the dairy industry, the grain farmers, meat producers and various food producers. But the number one recommendation by the USDA is of course the grains. And most people think that a slice of white bread is a healthy grain because it is recommended by the USDA.
The USDA offers deadly nutritional advice
They think pancakes count as grains. They think corn chips count as grains as well. The fact is that the USDA Food Guide Pyramid is not only heavily influenced by politics of food industries; it is also a provider of terrible nutritional advice. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Keep in mind, most food producers want you to crave their food and eat more. That's how they make more money. So the bottom line is, the food from the health food store, generally speaking, will have more nutrition, nothing energetically destroyed, taste better, and have virtually no toxins in it. So let's go through some products and I'll show you side-by-side differences on the labels.
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| The food has not been processed so it has not been stripped of all its nutritional value, and it has not been energetically destroyed in the processing plants of the major food producers. 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. |
Marion Nestle
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 That in itself might not be a problem, but for decades, food producers, USDA staff, and members of the House and Senate agriculture committees constituted what was universally understood to be the "agricultural establishment." These groups firmly controlled farm policy through seniority appointments to agriculture committees that appeared to grant lifetime tenure. The classic example was that of Representative Jamie Whitten (Dem-MS), who chaired House agricultural appropriations committees for so long (1949 to 1992.) that he was known as the "permanent USDA Secretary. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Of course today we know that the hysteria surrounding fat was just that -- nothing but poorly justified fear resulting from major mistakes by medical researchers, combined with a huge marketing push on the part of food producers who discovered that selling people sugar was a lot easier, and a lot more profitable, than selling fat.
So what does all of this have to do with stopping the clogging of your arteries? It's simple, actually. There are healthy, good fats that you must get into your diet if you wish to unclog your arteries. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
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 Even some food producers in the United States are beginning to show some concern.
• In May 2001, the federal United States regulators cleared the use of genetically modified beet sugar but some candy manufacturers refused to buy it.34
• The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released modified rice for use in famine relief, but in Brazoria County where it was produced, they buried 4.75 million pounds in a landfill. They feared it was potentially unsafe for humans. Why would we want to give it to starving people? Why not give them safe food products? |
Kevin Trudeau
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| Like farmers and other food producers, the meat industry needs to create a lot of product cheaply and quickly, and sell it for as high a profit as possible. |
Marion Nestle
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| We will see how food producers repeatedly deny responsibility for foodborne illness, invoke science to promote self-interest and divert public attention from harm caused by their products, and express outright hostility to federal oversight. From the standpoint of consumer advocacy, an additional theme bears on the ways in which food safety relates to much broader societal concerns. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
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 We can, as Paul Rice says, "buycott" to protect the environment and ensure that food producers have decent incomes.
All of these developments remind us what is so easy to forget: Economic life is not about our relationships to things—like land or houses or hair dryers. It's about our relationships with each other; what norms and expectations we hold and honor.
What we see today—economic life as a distinct realm governed by the market—emerged in a blink of historical time. |
Marion Nestle
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| They also explain how government agencies attempted to deal with such crises in the face of resistance by food producers and processors. In chapter 4, I discuss some political alternatives for improving oversight of our food safety system.
For the most part, these chapters focus on the actions of producers and processors of meat—in this case, beef. Unlike the producers of most other foods, the beef industry makes little attempt to hide its self-interested political activities. |
| Although food safety experts have complained for years about the gap between hazards and oversight practices, attempts to give federal agencies the right to enforce food safety regulations have been blocked repeatedly by food producers and their supporters in Congress, sometimes joined by the agencies themselves, and more recently by the courts. Some progress has occurred, driven by the appearance in common foods of new and more deadly pathogens such as E. |
| In an environment of food overabundance, food producers must compete for shares of the consumer's food dollar. One way to do this is by taking advantage of a divided, inconsistent, and illogical federal regulatory system. Food companies owe their primary allegiance to stockholders, and their principal goal must be profit, not public health. Whenever safety measures raise costs or intrude on autonomy, the affected industries mobilize their considerable political power to block actions perceived as unfavorable—even when such measures are strongly supported by science (example: antibiotics). |
| In this chapter and the next, we will see how century-old laws affected government responses to incidents caused by newly emergent pathogens, and how food producers used those laws to avoid having to change their practices. Because food animals are the ultimate source of pathogens, these chapters focus on disputes over meat safety, particularly those that involve attempts by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to require the meat and poultry industries to control pathogens. |
James F. Balch, M.D.
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 Food producers intentionally add dyes, cyclamates, artificial sweeteners, nitrates, and many other potentially dangerous substances. There are many studies that link these additives to cancer, attention deficit disorders, and immune deficiency syndromes. Unintentional additives are by-products of storage and preparation of foods. Contaminants include: aflatoxin (a fungus found commonly in peanuts) and other fungi; parasites; E. |
Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., Lisa Y. Lefferts and Anne Witte Garland
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| The reason: consumers and food producers don't want it. In fact, General Foods, PepsiCo, Perdue Chicken, and other processors have all pledged not to sell irradiated foods, and a few states have passed temporary bans on the sale of irradiated foods.
Several decades of research on irradiation and irradiated foods have produced dozens of studies, but they haven't proved conclusively that irradiated food is safe—or unsafe. Irradiation does not cause food to be radioactive. But irradiation forms new chemical compounds in food called "unique radiolytic products. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 This crucial understanding has not been significantly appreciated by the commercial food producers or by most dietetic schools. We can no longer speak about a beet or a carrot as if they had a static nutritional content. The nutritional content of a food can vary tremendously, depending on the quality of the soil and the growing methods.
There are several other major problems with commercial growing. |
George R. Schwartz
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 Little did these enthusiastic food producers know that their "miracle substance" had a dark side that would eventually result in the MSG Symptom Complex.
Chapter Three No Laughing Matter
At first many people thought it was a joke when Dr. Ho Man Kwok wrote to the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968 reporting on his reaction to MSG.3 "The syndrome," he wrote, "which usually begins 15 or 20 minutes after I have eaten the first dish, lasts for two hours without any hangover effect. |
Francisco, M.D. Contreras
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| With no obstruction from the authorities, backed by major investors, encouraged by the flourishing business and unleashed by our ignorance, food producers force feed us with indecent, ever larger amounts of chemical preservatives. In the 60's Americans consumed about three pounds of these noxious chemicals, in the 70s about six pounds, and now in the 90s we are reaching the ten pound mark. |
Paul Pitchford
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 On the other hand, in most Western countries where sanitation is strongly enforced by law, food producers usually maintain nearly sterile shops. Even though cleanliness is of unquestionable value in food processing, its does halt the natural propagation of vitamin B12 in ferments.
Tempeh, a currently popular cultured soy product with origins in Indonesia, has some of the highest B12 content of any food (up to 15 micrograms of the vitamin in a 100-gram serving). |
Carol Simontacchi
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 CHILDREN'S DIVISION/FOURTH PLACE:
"Packaged" food producers, for producing the worst possible "food" products and marketing them directly to children.
MINERALS AND BRAIN HEALTH
One of the hottest trends in the supermarket industry includes packaged entrees such as Oscar Mayer Lunchables, Kraft Handi-Snacks, and Top Ramen soup mixes. Maruchan markets a series of dried soups, as does Nissen and other companies. Many supermarket chains have their own privare-label products that mirror the design of the well-known brands. |
The Complete Book of Alternative NutritionSelene Y. Craig, Jennifer Haigh, Sari Harrar and the Editors of PREVENTION Magazine Health Books
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| Kosher food producers make life easier for consumers by labeling kosher products with a kosher stamp. The most common seals are a bold K with a star or a circle around it and a bold U with a circle around it. Food is also labeled as meat or dairy. Another label, pareve, means it's neither meat nor dairy, or neutral.
Is Kosher Healthier?
Interestingly, only a fraction of the people who scan their foods for kosher seals are actually Jewish. Some are Muslims and Seventh-Day Ad-ventists—two other religious sects whose members don't eat "unclean" animals. |
John Robbins
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 At the same time, Japan's two largest breweries, the Kirin Brewery Company and Sapporo Breweries, were announcing that they would not use gene-altered corn in their beer.'1 food producers, beverage companies, and restaurants all over the world were going GMO-free.
While this was happening, thousands of organizations throughout the world, including the 115,000 physician-strong British Medical Association, were demanding a moratorium on all genetically engineered crops. In every nation, groups were adding their voices to the demand, including COAG, which represents 200,000 Spanish farmers. |
Ruth Winter
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 As of May 8, 1994, food producers have had to comply with most of the FDA's new labeling requirements. (Advertising is not covered by NLEA; the Federal Trade Commission, however, has indicated it may apply the same criteria to advertising that the FDA does to labels.)
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
While unique in content, this dictionary follows the format of most standard dictionaries. The following are sample entries with any explanatory notes that may be necessary.
MARJORAM, POT • Sweet Marjoram. The natural extract of the flowers and leaves of two varieties of the fragrant marjoram plant. |
Stephen Fried
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 While the drug safety community wondered how Kessler's actions would affect pharmacovigilance, no one had any doubt that the commissioner had been remarkably effective in one area: he had managed to create a powerful coalition against himself and, by default, against the FDA. food producers and medical device manufacturers rarely had much in common before Kessler went after orange juice, then spawned hundreds of lawsuits by banning breast implants. |
Marion Nestle
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 The most important change also was designed to appease food producers. The numbers of recommended servings had been moved outside the design and set in boldface type to suggest that the diet should include at least 2-3 servings of meat and dairy foods each day. This change implied an increase in servings from the Basic Four. Ironically, given who had registered the most complaints, the Pyramid had increased the upper range of the meat allowance. |
| In contrast, scientists and food producers, who might benefit from promoting research results, nutritional benefits, or safety, tend to view other-than-scientific points of view as inherently irrational. Debates about food issues that affect broad aspects of society often focus on scientific proof of safety whether or not safety constitutes the "real" issue, largely because alternative belief systems cannot be validated by scientific methods.28
The third theme constitutes this book's central thesis: diet is a political issue. |
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