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There's wood in my food? Wood-derived ingredients common in processed food 10/4/2011 - Lately there have been rumors about sawdust used as fiber filling in processed foods. Well, not quite sawdust. The cellulose used in many foods is processed powder or pulp from virgin wood. It's becoming more common. Though not toxic, what good is it? Wood cellulose explainedSince the virgin wood...

Monsanto Nation: Taking Down Goliath 7/28/2011 - "If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it." - Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994 After two decades of biotech bullying and force-feeding unlabeled and hazardous...

Sweet Lies: How the Food Industry is Brainwashing the Public 10/17/2008 - False and misleading nutrition information is being sold to the unsuspecting public through convincing TV, radio, magazine and newspaper ads and brilliantly designed marketing campaigns. Chemical concoctions are being advertised as the latest and greatest new "healthy" foods. Synthetic food additives...

Cigarettes, Lies, and Pet Food Advertising 9/16/2008 - It's difficult to imagine that cigarettes and lies have any connection with pet food -- but when you look closely at the advertising tactics of some pet foods, look closely at the ingredients in those pet foods -- you'll find cigarettes, lies, and pet food fits perfectly together. To give you an...

HealthBookSummaries.com Releases Downloadable Summary of Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health 8/26/2008 - HealthBookSummaries.com Releases Downloadable Summary of Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health HealthBookSummaries.com, the downloadable health book summary service created by Mike Adams and Kevin Gianni, has just released its summary of the book Appetite for Profit: How...

Chemical Causes of Diabetes: Overeating Is Not the Only Problem 7/25/2008 - Medical science has discovered how sensitive the insulin receptor sites are to chemical poisoning. Metals such as cadmium, mercury, arsenic, lead, fluoride and possibly aluminum may play a role in the actual destruction of beta cells through stimulating an auto-immune reaction to them after they have...

How Media and the Food Industry Affect Your Health, by Rhio 6/2/2008 - This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Raw Summit which can be found at (http://rawsummitarchives.com) . In this excerpt, Rhio educates us regarding mainstream media, the food industry and how it affects your health. Raw Summit Excerpt with Rhio, author of Hooked on Raw, speaker, radio...

Fatal and Vital Foods - Popular Nutrition Myths Exposed 2/7/2008 - I often get asked to write down some basic rules of what to eat and what not to eat. There's a lot of information out there but it's often fragmented and, even worse, contradictory. All I can do is give you my vision on fatal and vital foods. I base this on nothing but common sense. Here goes. Sugars Avoid...

Industry-sponsored beverage studies yield frequent positive results; raise conflicts of interest 1/16/2007 - Studies of beverages such as juice, soda and milk that are sponsored by the beverage industry are four to eight times more likely return favorable results than studies funded by non-industry sponsors, according to new research appearing in the online journal PloS Medicine. Researchers from Children's...

From Processed Foods to Natural Wholesomeness 12/17/2006 - Appetite and diet are highly personal matters, and many people struggle with weight problems. Often, people feel harshly judged for their habits and choices. Diet, and the weight that comes and goes, is a lifelong struggle for most. In our upside-down world we are all highly susceptible to the massive...

Nanotech ingredients may expose food industry workers to unknown health risks 11/13/2006 - A study recently published by the British Occupational Hygiene Society suggests that workers who manufacture nanotech foods -- foods containing nanoparticles that are expected to behave in a specific manner -- may be exposed to unknown health risks. According to Andrew Maynard, article author and...

Nutrition journal failed to disclose ties to food industry for article on salt intake 10/3/2006 - The Center for Science in the Public Interest's weekly alert Science Watch says that the Journal of the American College of Nutrition published a special supplement on salt intake, but failed to inform readers it was written and edited by salt industry consultants. Also left out of the loop was the...

Food industry to fight trans fat ban with lawsuits 10/2/2006 - When New York City proposed its ban Tuesday against restaurants using harmful trans fats -- an ingredient shown to cause health issues from high cholesterol to cancer -- a legal hornets' nest over the safety of America's food supply may have been stirred up, legal experts said. The battle has been...

Many "natural" foods contain questionable taste additives like yeast extract 9/14/2006 - The food industry is always trying to come up with a new way to add chemical taste enhancers to their foods without alerting the consumers. They used to rely heavily on MSG (monosodium glutamate), but when the public began to learn about the dangers of MSG and how it causes extreme headaches, reproductive...

What is a "normal" diet? Consumers and food industry pundits have it all backwards 6/12/2006 - I was describing the raw foods diet to someone the other day, and they remarked, "Well I'm not sure I want to do that. I don't want to do something so extreme," and I said, "What do you mean extreme? You think the raw foods diet is extreme?" Then it hit me: Most people think that the processed food...

The true horrors of pet food revealed: Prepare to be shocked by what goes into dog food and cat food 10/21/2005 - If you check the labels on grocery store foods, you've probably already begun to see that the list of ingredients doesn't always tell the whole truth about what's in your food. The same goes for your pets' food. Behind innocent-sounding words like "meat byproducts" and "meat meal" are horrific manufacturing...

Disease-promoting ingredients in everyday foods and groceries are far more dangerous than terrorists 2/20/2005 - Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson resigned recently, and part of his outgoing statement included a warning to Americans that terrorists would strike the food supply. His words were "I can't believe terrorists haven't attacked the food supply yet." But who needs terrorists when we've...

Kraft sells avocado-free guacamole dip product made with hydrogenated oils 12/5/2004 - Kraft and other food manufacturers are currently selling guacamole dips that have no avocado in them, according to a report from the non-profit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). This is also obvious by simply visiting the grocery store and looking for guacamole products and checking...

Food industry giants had big hand in writing US dietary guidelines; nutrition experts bewildered by useless advice 11/2/2004 - It's all just another chapter in the history of food politics: food industry giants lobby government departments to make sure their health advice is so watered down as to be meaningless. The USDA, for example, doesn't even have the political courage to admit that drinking soft drinks causes diabetes...

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• Eli Manning: Superbowl Star Promotes Junk Food to Children

• Almond Growers Sue USDA to Halt Mandatory Chemical Fumigation of Raw Almonds

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