Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Feeding hot dogs to children, in my opinion, is a form of child cruelty. Allowing these products to remain in the national food supply is, in my opinion, a form of mass chemical poisoning of the public.
I believe that most consumers who eat processed meat products do so blindly, without really thinking about what they're eating and where it came from. This macrophotography project is intended to show consumers exactly what they're really swallowing when they eat these processed meat products. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The conclusions are based in part on research conducted at the University of Hawaii that reveals a 67% increased risk of pancreatic cancer in people who consume large quantities of hot dogs, sausage and other processed meats, versus those who consume little or no processed meat. The study was led by Dr. Ute Nothlings and was announced at the annual gathering of the American Association for Cancer Research. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  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. You can find some without nitrites, but you'll have to look for them in natural grocers or health food stores. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  But of course, this is almost precisely how hot dog ingredients are processed, and people seem to have no problem whatsoever eating hot dogs. Why? Because they don't associate the food item with the source. They even gave it a name to make you forget it's from a cow. People think of hot dogs as food objects that are made that way automatically, like, say, a potato or carrot. But there's nothing natural about hot dogs, nor the way they're made. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Packaged meats like hot dogs would normally appear a putrid gray, but with enough sodium nitrite added, the meats can seem visually fresh even if they've been on the shelves for months.
"Food producers use sodium nitrite for marketing reasons," says Adams. "It makes their food products look visually appealing, even while that very same ingredient promotes cancer when consumed." The USDA once tried to ban sodium nitrite, but was unsuccessful due to political influence and lobbying efforts of meat processing companies. |
Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts |  The choices were corn, alfalfa sprouts, hot dogs, spinach, peaches, bananas, and milk chocolate.The most popular choice was bananas (42 percent), followed by spinach (27 percent), corn (12 percent), alfalfa sprouts (7 percent), peaches (5 percent), hot dogs (4 percent), and milk chocolate (3 percent). Only 7 percent of the participants chose one of the two foods that would in fact best support survival: hot dogs and milk chocolate.
Evidently some of the wreckage of the lipid hypothesis has washed up on Rozin's desert island. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Meat (how it is cooked) and childhood cancers In one report, high consumption of hot dogs was associated with an almost tenfold increase in the risk of childhood leukemia when compared with low consumption.28 In another report, maternal consumption of hot dogs and childhood consumption of hamburgers or hot dogs at least once per week were associated with a doubling of the risk of cancers in children.29 A review of nine studies found an association between consumption by pregnant women of cured meat and the risk of brain cancer in their offspring. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | People think of hot dogs as food objects that are made that way automatically, like, say, a potato or carrot. But there's nothing natural about hot dogs, nor the way they're made.
For the most part, consumers would just rather ignore the whole story about meat processing -- the slaughtering, the bleeding to death of the cow, the hanging of the carcass, the carving of cow flesh and the processing of that meat through beef factories and carcass squeezing machines. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | In another report, maternal consumption of hot dogs and childhood consumption of hamburgers or hot dogs at least once per week were associated with a doubling of the risk of cancers in children.29 A review of nine studies found an association between consumption by pregnant women of cured meat and the risk of brain cancer in their offspring.30 These associations do not yet constitute proof that eating hot dogs or hamburgers causes cancer in children, and evidence linking cured meat consumption to childhood cancers remains somewhat inconsistent. |
Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts | | The most popular choice was bananas (42 percent), followed by spinach (27 percent), corn (12 percent), alfalfa sprouts (7 percent), peaches (5 percent), hot dogs (4 percent), and milk chocolate (3 percent). Only 7 percent of the participants chose one of the two foods that would in fact best support survival: hot dogs and milk chocolate.
Evidently some of the wreckage of the lipid hypothesis has washed up on Rozin's desert island.
"Fat," he writes, "seems to have assumed, even at low levels, the role of a toxin" in our dietary imaginations. I wonder why. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  More and more consumers are suddenly aware that hot dogs promote cancer, or that bacon consumption is incredibly bad for your health. As awareness of this issue builds, there's going to be increasing political pressure to pass laws that protect the public by strictly limited or banning the use of sodium nitrite in processed meats.
The meat industry, of course, which seems to have absolutely no respect for human or animal life, will fight this every inch of the way. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  I was worried that a NewsTarget reader might spot me buying this garbage food, snap a camera photo, and I'd end up all over the internet holding a package of Oscar Mayer hot dogs with that deer-in-the-headlights look...
So -- get this -- I put on a hat and sunglasses and actually stealthed my way through the Wal-Mart store, trying to buy these processed meat products without getting noticed! | | It didn't take long before the sickening smell of hot dogs, sodium lactate, sodium nitrite, beef hearts and pork parts filled my kitchen. And as I started taking the photos, there were several times I felt like gagging. My appetite was diminished and I actually started feeling angry at the meat processed industry for the way they manufacture and market these sickening products. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | In the report studying the effects of eating hot dogs and hamburgers, the association between meat eating and leukemia was weakest among children who took vitamin supplements (page 559). Processed meats, such as hot dogs, contain nitrates and nitrites—precursors to carcinogens. Antioxidants (page 467) found in multivitamins keep nitrates and nitrites from converting into those carcinogens. Therefore, the association between vitamin consumption in children and protection against childhood cancers remains plausible, though unproven. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | But I intuitively felt this was an important documentary photo project and that the world needed to see these photos, so I continued on, tearing open the hot dogs, sausages and salami, arranging them for the camera, and searching for the most visually interesting elements to photograph.
Way beyond "point and shoot"
Macrophotography is a tricky thing. If you've ever tried it yourself, you probably know that you can't just stick a camera up close to something, snap a photo, and expect it to look good. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  As detailed in my book Grocery Warning, this ingredient causes brain tumors in children, not to mention leukemia, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer and other cancers. hot dogs are far more dangerous to a child's health than lead paint in my opinion, and yet parents keep feeding them to their children!
4. Antibacterial soap
How about a little nerve toxin in your soap? That's what's found in antibacterial soap. It's a toxic cocktail of chemicals designed to kill life. That's how it kills bacteria. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | For those people, there is beef jerky, hot dogs, frozen pizza, cigarettes and over-hyped "energy" drinks. The future of these people is easy to see: Cancer, diabetes, heart disease, chemotherapy, pharmaceuticals, pain, death and bankruptcy.
Thankfully, there are other people who believe in taking care of their health and in living informed lives with outstanding health. For these people, there are living foods, superfoods, raw cacao, sprouts, rainforest herbs, sunshine, juicing and joyful exercise. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
See book keywords and concepts | | Yet another toxin lurking in the meat supply is nitrate, which is used to process and cure meats such as bacon, pepperoni, and hot dogs. Nitrates aren't actually cancer-causing agents until they're in the body where they're converted to nitrites. Nitrites are extremely carcinogenic and can increase your risk of developing colon polyps (which, if they become malignant, can lead to cancer). Studies have found that eating processed meat could make you 1.5 to 2 times more likely to develop colorectal polyps and/or cancer. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | 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. Although today the use of refrigeration is largely what protects consumers from botulism and bacteria, manufacturers still add sodium nitrite to make the meat look pinkish and fresh. |
Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts | | Only 7 percent of the participants chose one of the two foods that would in fact best support survival: hot dogs and milk chocolate.
Evidently some of the wreckage of the lipid hypothesis has washed up on Rozin's desert island.
"Fat," he writes, "seems to have assumed, even at low levels, the role of a toxin" in our dietary imaginations. I wonder why. As Rozin points out, "Worrying so much about food can't be very good for your health." Indeed. Orthorexia nervosa is an eating disorder not yet recognized by the DSM-IV, but some psychologists have recently suggested that it's time it was. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
See book keywords and concepts | | This includes bacon, hot dogs, sandwich meat, etc.
Replace cow's milk with hemp milk, rice milk, almond milk, or raw goat's milk. Better yet, drink only purified water! My personal favorite is hemp milk. It is delicious with a slightly nutty flavor and provides essential and balanced nutrition. Hemp milk is a fantastic alternative to soymilk or cows' milk. For an easy recipe, see the Resources section.
Consume only organic cheese or goat cheese.
Whenever you eat meat, take an enzyme supplement to assist your body with proper digestion. |
Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts | | Aiming to do the same thing for pork and beef fat, the animal scientists are now at work genetically engineering omega-3 fatty acids into pigs and persuading cattle to lunch on flaxseed in the hope of introducing the blessed fish fat where it had never gone before: into hot dogs and hamburgers.
But these whole foods are the exceptions. The typical whole food has much more trouble competing under the rules of nutritionism, if only because something like a banana or an avocado can't quite as readily change its nutritional stripes. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
See book keywords and concepts | | Long-term consumption of three or more ounces of processed or "mystery" meat a day (such as hot dogs) increased the risk of developing colon cancer by a whopping 50 percent!
Hormones are naturally occurring chemical messengers produced by all _ plant and animal species to regulate growth. Synthetic hormone technology is applied to cattle farming to increase meat content and milk production. According to the Sierra Club of Canada, "Hormones are widely used in US agriculture: over 90% of US cattle producers use hor-h mone implants or add them to feed [termed fodder]. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Bacon
Most bacon and sausage are processed meat products made with sodium nitrite (like the hot dogs, above) and contaminated with various chemicals lodged in the animal fats. Conventionally-raised beef, pork and chicken products are, in my opinion, extremely toxic to the human body and contribute to colon cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer and many other diseases and disorders. If you make meat for your children, shop for 100% organic, free-range, antibiotic-free meats that have no nitrites or nitrates.
20. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  How about travelers carrying hot dogs? hot dogs are made from cow parts that I guarantee you are every bit as gross as a human head. Search Google for "Advanced Meat Recovery machine" to see what I mean, if you dare.
And how about fur coats? Isn't fur a body part? Shouldn't people who wear fur coats be arrested for WEARING body parts? At least the Haitian woman wasn't actually wearing the human head. That would have been really weird. Almost as weird as wearing the fur of another animal at a time in the history of civilization when, clearly, we have mastered the complex science of textiles. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
See book keywords and concepts |  Podell makes the following general observations:
• Foods with a higher glycemic rating, causing a higher insulin response, include white bread and other bread products made with white flour (such as bagels and English muffins), processed and sugary cereals, instant hot cereals, low-fat frozen desserts, raisins and other dried fruits, whole milk and whole-milk cheeses, peanuts and peanut butter, hot dogs, and luncheon meats. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Wienie-Pak packaging for skinless hot dogs.72
NIOSH inspectors reviewed multiple air samples that had been taken in the plant for carbon disulfide: one in twenty was over the legal limit, and the average concentration was five times higher than NIOSH's recommended safety level. Moreover, this may be a conservative estimate, because no air samples were taken before 1980, when exposures were probably even higher per the typical historical trend. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  For vegetarians, soy hot dogs and burgers, 5 ounces of tofu, or a serving of soy-based protein powder can give you the amount of protein needed per meal. Vegetarians need to be conscientious about combining grains, beans, rice, nuts, and seeds to keep their protein intake balanced. For detailed information about the protein content of commonly eaten foods, refer to the Harvard School of Public Health's website at www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/pro-tein.html, or purchase Annette B. Natow and Jo-Ann Heslin's book The Protein Counter (Pocket Books, 2003). |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Similarly, "meat eaters" can refer to people who dine exclusively on ballpark hot dogs and have never met a vegetable they didn't hate, or it can refer to small tribes of hunter-gatherers who dine on pasture-fed wild game—when they can catch it—and tons of wild fresh vegetables, fruits, and nuts.
See where I'm going with this?
I think, in America, we've made a huge mistake by trying to define the perfect diet in terms of protein, carbs, and fats. |
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