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 Consumers, it seems, are trying to shop for healthier foods, and they're easily fooled by "all natural" claims, even though the vast majority of food products sporting such claims are anything but natural.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not regulate claims of "all natural." They might claim to, but in reality, they don't. Food companies can get away with using all sorts of non-natural processes and chemical ingredients in a food product that they claim is all natural. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Keep your blood sugar stable to avoid being an all-you-can-eat buffet for cancer cells.
Eat foods high in natural vitamin C, a nutrient that deters the conversion of nitrite into nitrosamine and promotes healthy immune function. Make sure you get adequate amounts of cancer-fighting vitamin D through exposure to sunlight -- about 10 to 15 minutes each day if you have fair skin, or ten times as long if you have dark skin pigmentation. Stay well hydrated to ensure that your body rids itself of toxins. |
| What to avoid on the labels: high-fructose corn syrup, sugar, sucrose, enriched bleached flour, white rice, white pastas, white breads and other "white" foods.
The dangers of hydrogenated oils
Hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils -- another danger -- are developed from otherwise harmless, natural elements. To make them hydrogenated, oils are heated in the presence of hydrogen and metal catalysts. This process helps prolong shelf life but simultaneously creates trans fats, which only have to be disclosed on the label if the food contains more than 0.5 grams per serving. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Sure, you'll get some calories and some carbs, but the apple will fill you up for quite a while, and that will stop you from eating far more calorie-dense foods.
Let me explain why this is such an effective strategy. If you're crazy hungry, it's very easy to reach for some processed foods (bag of chips, for example) and start munching away until you've consumed 1000 calories or more. And that's about half the total calories you need for the entire day!
But I dare you to try to eat 1000 calories worth of apples. It's impossible. You'll fill up even before reaching 400 calories, probably. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Empowered foods also makes Chocolate Coated Durian Chunks, which is only good if you happen to like Durian. For those of you who don't know, Durian is an exotic rainforest fruit that has a very peculiar smell. (Some simply say it stinks, but that depends on your personal taste.) I remember flying into Malaysia a few years ago, and someone had actually stuffed a Durian fruit into the overhead compartment of the airplane. Every passenger on that plane was then treated to a three hour long "fragrance endurance test" by the Durian fruit. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Raw, fresh nuts are good to store, as well as dried foods in #10 cans. Avoid salty, sugary foods because they dehydrate you and suppress immune function. Stick to bland foods that provide nutrition, not entertainment. They key here is to store your food before the emergency hits and make sure you have enough water to rehydrate dried foods.
A source I recommend is www.BePrepared.com but avoid their pre-made food recipes. Stick with their freeze-dried fruits, vegetables and meats in #10 cans. And remember, none of it is organic. (That's too bad. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The truth is that most people give themselves cancer through the foods, drinks and products they choose to consume. In my opinion, over 90 percent of cancers are easily preventable.
By the way, don't you find it interesting that the cancer industry seems to have no interest whatsoever in urging people to avoid eating sodium nitrite, or to stop using cancer-causing skin care products, or to get more sunlight on their skin so they can prevent cancer with vitamin D? |
| Essentially, they're one of the worst cancer foods you can possibly eat. Reader's Digest calls doughnuts "disastrous" as a breakfast food, and many experts agree it's probably one of the worst ways to start the day.
French fries: Fries are made with hydrogenated oil and fried at high temperatures. Some chains even add sugar to their fry recipe to make them even more irresistible. Not only do they clog your arteries with saturated fat and trans fat, they also contain acrylamides. They should be called "cancer fries," not French fries. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 The precise mix of foods will help control your appetite and actually boost your brain function so you can stick with your goals. Your energy will improve.
You will lose inches, especially around your waist. 0 The appearance of your skin and hair will change within a week and you will look better than ever.
Wait a minute . . . look better than ever? How can you promise that?
Here's a story that may surprise you as much as it surprised us. |
| They all tell you that you must follow a plan strictly for a few weeks, and then you can relax a bit, adding more foods and calories for a few more weeks, and then you go to "maintenance." You're typically left hanging with no plan save a few "tips" on what to do later when the goal is achieved. The problem is that the further you get from those initial weeks of commitment and success, the more the gimmick fades. In fact, the statistics on those who regain additional weight after trying to lose—yo-yo dieting—are utterly depressing. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Stanley Ewen, who identified the proliferative cell growth in the rats, says that if GM foods create such effects in humans, they might increase the incidence of digestive system ailments such as Barrett's esophagus and stomach and colorectal cancer. We don't know if commercialized GM crops have this effect (although a rat study on experimental GM peas did show "significantly enlarged"8 small and large intestines that might have resulted from excessive cell growth). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| And yet today, numerous "all natural" food companies continue to use hidden forms of MSG in their foods, hiding them under innocent-sounding ingredients like yeast extract, autolyzed or hydrolyzed proteins (all of which contain MSG). Even the companies you've grown to trust in the "natural" food business are engaged in the blatant hiding of MSG in their products. Pay special attention to vegetarian food products such as veggie burgers. Read the ingredients on everything you buy and you'll find that the largest "natural" food manufacturers still use hidden MSG. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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| Because of the calories in some of these foods, we need to keep a close eye on them. Pumpkin and its sidekick, sweet potato, are rather arbitrarily placed in this category, partly because of their nutrient profiles which include high levels of beta carotene and partly because they are consumed less frequently by most of us on a day to day basis. You need to get a serving of each of the three selections in Category 1 on most, if not all, days. That would mean, say, oatmeal for breakfast (or one of the recommended cereals of whole grain breads, etc. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Knowing about all these ingredients doesn't mean there is simply a "short list" of foods that should be avoided. You have to vigilant and read labels constantly. Here are the five worst offenders:
Hot dogs: The Cancer Prevention Coalition recommends that children should not eat more than 12 hot dogs per month because of the risk of cancer. If you must have your hot dog fix, look for those without sodium nitrite listed among the ingredients.
Processed meats and bacon: These meats almost always contain the same sodium nitrite found in hot dogs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| There's really no effort taken by the mainstream food industry to make foods healthy; there's only an effort to make them appear to be healthy. It's all about marketing. The same junk food crap that wasn't labeled with any health claims two years ago is now labeled "all natural" and positioned in the healthy food section of the grocery store. Same ingredients, new spin. It's all about positioning.
All this doesn't mean there aren't some genuinely natural products available in the marketplace today. There are, but they aren't manufactured by the big brand-name food companies. |
| Cable news stations, magazines, newspapers and other media giants are all too happy to take money from junk food manufacturers and run their advertisements claiming their foods are "all natural." There is absolutely no effort to determine whether such claims are really true or even partially credible. Media companies simply take the money and run the promotions, regardless of whether such promotions tell the truth. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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| When the article was published, my mom called me and said, "Wendy, it looks lovely but if I actually made those foods I'd need over 280 ingredients and I'd be shopping for a full day!" While the menus were what the editor wanted, I knew that they were not altogether practical. It was interesting reading, but the probable execution of the week was highly unlikely! And the execution of a plan is the key to success for achieving a healthy goal like losing weight. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Technically, productivity is being destroyed by these foods and medicines because they interfere with the healthy productivity of the American population and reduce lifespan.
So even though there's a whole lot of money changing hands, no net good is actually being achieved from any of this. But it sure does generate a lot of money. Most economists call this whole charade "economic productivity."
Seriously, is there any long-term gain from feeding an entire population foods and beverages that promote disease? I think not. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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| In contrast, regular planned intake of fiber-rich, nutrient-rich foods balance your brain function and encourage the feelings of energy and control that ensure good food choices.
Obviously the emotional vulnerability that can result from less than optimum nutrient intake makes you far less likely to stick to your resolve and far more likely to munch a candy bar, down a coffee or grab any junk food that will instantly boost your blood sugar and "restore" your equilibrium. But the price of these "boosts" is increasing calories and increasing fat storage and ultimately a fatter body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Sodium nitrite (and nitrates)
Food companies add sodium nitrite into certain foods on purpose. This carcinogen is added to processed meats, hot dogs, bacon, and any other meat that needs a reddish color to look "fresh." Decades ago when meats were preserved, it was done with salt. But in the mid 20th century, food manufacturers started using sodium nitrite in commercial preservation. This chemical is responsible for the pinkish color in meat to which consumers have grown accustomed. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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| Unfortunately, these foods are like the Sirens luring Odysseus to the rocks: They're always calling out to us. Ice cream . . . chips . . . cookies! It's very hard to resist them, especially at those low points in the day when you're most vulnerable. You know yourself: Are you really going to ignore the doughnuts at 10:00 p.m. and you're in the mood for some mindless munching? |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 When I sent out a request to the best nutritionists, medical doctors, naturopaths, and researchers asking for their personal list of "top ten" healthy foods, it was almost a given that broccoli would be among the most frequently mentioned (and it was). No wonder. -This superstar vegetable has been lauded for its cancer-fighting power so many times that it's a celebrity in the nutrition world.
Broccoli is a member of the brassica family of cruciferous vegetables—the same vegetable royalty that includes bok choy, cabbage, kale, kohlrabi, and Swiss chard. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| Centre for Integrated Regarding Monsanto's high lysine corn: "The Authority must refrain from substituting Research on Biosafety unsupported speculation—such as 'expected to be,' 'not expected,' 'considered to be,' or 'not considered to be'—for hard scientific data____
"It is impossible without testing to conclude that cDHDPS [the GM protein], in corn cells and through processing of foods with corn content, is 'no more likely to form amyloid fibrils than any of the naturally occurring proteins in LY038.'... [see section 4.1. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| By the way, there's a special offer code for NewsTarget readers that gives you some extras when ordering from Empowered foods. You'll find it at the bottom of each day's email newsletter. Click here to sign up (it's free). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I thought it was the highest of all foods, and it probably is, but I just learned that nutritional yeast has about 6 percent RNA, which really blew my mind. Dr. Frank was using nutritional yeast and RNA derived from yeast, which has been in health food stores for years.
Dr. Frank found that when he had patients consume a combination of sardines and fish that were high in RNA, along with B complex vitamins and RNA from yeast, he could take almost anyone who was over 50 and in three or four weeks have them looking 10 or 15 years younger. |
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 It is a fascinating sign of the times when the authorities in charge of the food supply seem dead set on making foods as nutritionally worthless as possible.
Online resources for taking action
Organic Pastures www.OrganicPastures.com
160 acres of almonds, they can sell you raw almonds directly (and they're also into raw milk).
Good folks. Highly recommended. May be one of the few remaining sources of truly raw almonds in California.
Living Nuts www.LivingNutz.com
They have great information about raw almonds, plus an online petition. Sign their petition! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There are hundreds, actually thousands, of different phytonutrients found in foods and nutritional supplements. These are also very important to get into your body when you follow an intense physical exercise program. Eating raw nuts and seeds, I think, is also extremely important. It does not mean this has to be half of your diet, but it needs to be present in your diet at least once a day, if not more than once a day.
It is only through this superior supplementation that your body can adapt to the physical stresses you have placed upon it through exercise. |
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| The result is that mainstream food is less nutritious with each passing year, and that doesn't even consider the mass mineral depletion of the soils that further contributes to the nutritional deficiency of foods.
It all comes back to the same fundamentals: If you want to be a healthy person, you'll need to source real food grown by real people who live real close by. Buy local. Support Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) organizations (www.LocalHarvest.org). Visit local farmer co-ops, and grow what you can in your own garden. Buy organic, and research the companies you're buying from. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| The Environmental Working Group, a consumer advocate and protection nonprofit research organization, put broccoli on their 2003 list of twelve foods least contaminated with pesticides. Nice to know!
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Broccoli rabe is really only a very, very distant relative of broccoli, and is in fact a lot more related to the turnip (it's often called a "turnip green"). But from the point of view of taste, you might think of it as broccoli on steroids. |
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