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Of course, nobody would eat strawberry yogurt if the ingredients listed, "Insect-based red food coloring" on the label, so instead, they just call it "carmine."
Similarly, yeast extract sounds like a perfect safe food ingredient, too, but it's actually a trick used to hide monosodium glutamate (MSG, a chemical taste enhancer used to excite the flavors of overly-processed foods) without having to list MSG on the label. Lots of ingredients contain hidden MSG, and I've written extensively about them on this site. Virtually all hydrolyzed or autolyzed ingredients contain some amount of hidden MSG. |
| Carmine sounds like an innocent food coloring, but it's actually made from the smashed bodies of red cochineal beetles. Of course, nobody would eat strawberry yogurt if the ingredients listed, "Insect-based red food coloring" on the label, so instead, they just call it "carmine."
Similarly, yeast extract sounds like a perfect safe food ingredient, too, but it's actually a trick used to hide monosodium glutamate (MSG, a chemical taste enhancer used to excite the flavors of overly-processed foods) without having to list MSG on the label. |
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From their own website, you'll find this promo text:
Salsa Reds - Take those red Corn Tortilla Chips developed especially for Garden of Eatin'® from the red corn of the Mexican Highlands. And then add salsa ingredients: tomato, onion, garlic, green & red bell peppers and spices. And voilá! You've got Reds with zip. Salsa Reds!
See? No mention of yeast extract. Sounds like the company isn't exactly proud of that ingredient. You have to read the fine print to discover it. |
Jeffrey M. Smith See book keywords and concepts |
For the sake of comparison, sheep that grazed on Bt cotton plants had nasal discharge, reddish and erosive mouth lesions, cough, bloat and diarrhea, and occasional red colored urine. They were also described as dull and depressed.
Allergies are on the rise
It is difficult to confirm that GM crops are contributing to allergies among the GMO-eating United Station population. |
| According to the doctor, the symptoms "begin with itching in all parts of body, followed by red patches, redness of eyes, [and] swelling of [the] face and hands."
All reactions to Bt cotton plants were reported to have occurred after the cotton had emerged from the bolls. |
Dr. Arthur Janov See book keywords and concepts |
However, the fetus can only communicate in the language that its brain has the capacity for at this given time: writhing, grunting, turning, twisting, butting against an obstacle, spitting up, and turning red. Along with these are the vital signs triggered at the time, a fast heart rate and high body temperature, for example.
In a Primal session, patients may regress to relive an experience that happened during their gestation or birth. |
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Look at all the red wires! It must be a bomb!" (And then they would think they got the bomb from an email virus, too.)
Here's an actual quote from a news story about the incident: Authorities said some of the objects looked like circuit boards or had wires hanging from them. Really? Wires? The authorities figured this out all by themselves without even having to Google the phrase "red wires flashy thingy with batteries?" Thank goodness our tax dollars are hard at work in the Boston law enforcement community, keeping the citizenry safe from battery-powered red flashy thingies with wires. |
Dr. Arthur Janov See book keywords and concepts |
The patient will turn red because at that moment he is lacking oxygen, a sensation that his brain has stored as a memory. (Our research, discussed on page 63, at the UCLA Pulmonary Laboratory confirms this.) Because the lack of oxygen skewed the system, the reliving can now resolve the trauma and reverse the deviations caused by the original experience (often causing breathing problems or shortness of breath). We have all seen children who, under stress, will hold their breaths for an inordinate amount of time, which is often an indication of oxygen deprivation at birth. |
Jay Joseph See book keywords and concepts |
Perhaps a group of Manhattan-based researchers could perform a linkage study in New England to determine whether they can identify chromosomal regions harboring suspected pathological red Sox rooter genes. Like psychiatric disorders, computer models would test for chromosomal regions on the basis if several postulated modes of genetic transmission. A critic of psychiatric linkage research might predict that, if enough studies were performed, the Manhattan research team would detect chromosomal regions with high LOD scores for a red Sox allegiance gene.
2. Bentall, 2003. |
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In short, if you avoid red meat you will also be doing yourself a huge favor in terms of avoiding environmental toxins. red meat consumption also promotes colon cancer.
I recall a recent study that showed fire retardant chemicals in massive quantities are now being found in the animal fats in red meat. That's because these fire retardant chemicals tend to collect in the fat tissues. These chemicals are found throughout our environment now. Cows are essentially accumulators and concentrators of environmental toxins. They eat tons of grass, literally, throughout their lives. |
Dr. Arthur Janov See book keywords and concepts |
He turns red, lacks oxygen, chokes, and simply cannot continue with his childhood memories. Here the childhood memory— "I am all alone, I don't exist to them" (which can later lead to "I don't exist," otherwise known as low self-esteem)—dredged up the Primal aloneness right after birth when he was left alone for three days, with perfunctory care. There is no separation between levels of consciousness, so the patient feels overwhelmed all of the time. |
Jeffrey M. Smith See book keywords and concepts |
The skin became red and there were rashes and there was lot of itching." He said that an antihistamine (Tab Avil) relieved the symptoms.
Reactions are widespread
According to owners of a cotton gin factory, most of the laborers experienced skin-related problems due to Bt cotton. Symptoms included "itching, redness of eyes, watering of eyes, and cough." At another factory, itching throughout the body was reported as "very common among laborers who carry Bt cotton." Employees take antihistamines daily in order to continue to work there. |
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It's not that these red beetles are dangerous. Except for a few individuals who suffer severe allergic reactions to the beetles, most people do just fine eating carmine. Beetles are probably good for you, just like ants. High in protein, low in fat... you get the picture.
But there's a grossness factor that probably explains why products using this ingredient list "carmine" instead of "powdered red beetles" on the label. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has even petitioned the FDA to ban carmine(1), or, at the very least, require its clear labeling. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea See book keywords and concepts |
The light turned red.
"Because to state the obvious," she continued, ignoring my comment, "medicine is not going to vanish."
As fate would have it, at that very moment we drove by a church, a modest structure with a sign board in front that each week featured a new religious sound bite. ''''Imagination Can Be A Dangerous Thing," it proclaimed.
We shook our heads. Perhaps that's true, but I prefer the inestimable John Keats, who wrote about the "truth of imagination."
"What I'm hoping is that we can use the 'truth of imagination' to evaluate medicine's role in our health. |
Sandra Steingraber See book keywords and concepts |
What about the red rubber tops that capped the test tubes? Could chemical contaminants have migrated into the blood and marred the chemical analysis? (A speculative concern.)
For thirty years, three hundred stoppered test tubes stood at attention in the back of a freezer, waiting to be rediscovered. red blood. red caps. Some of the women whose blood lay frozen in those tubes are dead of breast cancer, others have died from other causes, and others are no doubt still alive. |
Dr. Arthur Janov See book keywords and concepts |
The patient may gasp, gag, and turn red in the reliving. She is reliving the need without speaking any words. That is sufficient. Pain won't let go until basic need is felt. So yes, we must feel pain but that is a way station to need. Feeling "Help me, Momma" over and over will stop the act-out of having women mother us. We cannot just feel it once and expect change; we must feel it often and with the strength of the deprivation at the time. To be clear, we relive pieces of the suffering a bit at a time so that it can be integrated. |
Elaine Magee See book keywords and concepts |
Vitamin E seems to have a nice synergistic relationship with lycopene, a phytonutrient found in red foods, including tomatoes, watermelon, pink
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8. Warm yourself up with a hearty lentil soup or lentil salad that includes any fish or meat... or enjoy the soup or salad with yogurt or a glass of milk (B12).
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Heat a large fry pan over medium-high heat, and add a little olive oil when it's hot. Next, add the onions and stir with a spatula to coat them with a little oil. After about 5 minutes, reduce the heat to low. Allow the onions to cook slowly and to soften, which may take 30 minutes (depending on the size of the pan and the thickness of the onions). When the onions are soft, add the sumac and stir it around. Remove the pan from the heat and serve.
Sauteed Spinach and Garlic (Serves2)
If you wish, pinch the stems off the spinach a few minutes before cooking. |
Elaine Magee See book keywords and concepts |
The ACS states that high-fat diets are associated with an increased risk of colon, rectal, prostate, and endometrial cancer and that the consumption of meat, especially red meat, has been linked to colon and prostate cancer as well. Saturated fat specifically has been found to promote cancer development in laboratory studies. And gram for gram, fat in food contains more than twice the calories as carbohydrate and protein, making it a potential weight-gain promoter when eaten in excessive amounts day after day. |
| Three times a week, replace red meat with beans (including soybean products), a source of folic acid (lentils, pinto beans), fiber, and assorted phytochemicals.
Enjoy whole grains. Include several servings of fiber-filled whole grain foods each day. Along the same lines, limit refined grains and sugary foods because they contain empty calories.
Focus on dietary fat. For cancer prevention, some fats may be worse than others. |
| Continue to watch the fish closely and remove it as soon as it is cooked throughoutnuts and a canola-oil dressing or a salad with red kidney beans and a canola-oil dressing, or finish the meal with a shot of fruit juice mixed with a tablespoon of ground flaxseed. And don't overlook other types of seafood: Crab in particular has all three B vitamins with synergy (folic acid, B6, and B12).
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| Quercetin, also found in onions, red wine, broccoli, tea, and ginkgo biloba, appears to influence some carcinogenic markers.
Savor the skins! In lab studies, researchers at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, found that apple extract given together with apple skin worked better to prevent substances that protect against a variety of conditions and chronic diseases, including cancer, coronary heart disease, and cataracts. These nutrients are literally powerhouses of protection. |
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There has not, however, been a thorough investigation and very little research has been done to follow-up on this significant red flag.
"M: ore than 20farm-, ers have complained over the last two years about sows that ate the corn developing pseudo pregnancy, exhibiting signs of pregnancy for full term without carrying afetus."
1. More than 20 farmers in North America report that pigs fed GM corn varieties had low conception rates, false pregnancies, or gave birth to bags of water.
2. Both male and female pigs became sterile.
3. Some farmers also report sterility among cows and bulls. |
| They stated, for example, that a 52% decrease in immature red blood cells (reticulocytes) was "attributable to normal biological variability," and a 10% increase in blood sugar levels was biologically insignificant. According to Arpad Pusztai, an allowance of 5% variability is the norm in food experiments and a 10% rise in blood sugar has serious ramifications, given the epidemics of obesity and diabetes. He said, "It is almost impossible to imagine that major lesions in important organs (kidneys, liver, etc.) or changes in blood parameters (lymphocytes, granulocytes, blood glucose, etc. |
| But if they are going to spend the time to educate, they can teach people to eat a red rice from India or brown rices, which contain more vitamin A than golden rice but without the risks. Or, as Michael Pollan asks is his New York Times Magazine article, "The Great Yellow Hype," why not instead teach "people how to grow green vegetables [that are rich in vitamin A and other nutrients] on the margins of their rice fields, and maybe even give them the seeds to do so? Or what about handing out vitamin-A supplements to children so severely malnourished their bodies can't metabolize beta-carotene? |
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Ounce for ounce, the total flavonol content of almonds is similar to what's in red onion, the kaempferol and quercetin amounts compare with broccoli, and the catechin content is between the amounts in brewed black and green tea.
Natural phytosterols in nuts and seeds. Phytosterols are plant-based fats with a chemical structure similar to cholesterol. You may have heard of phytosterols in margarines like Benecol or Take Control. Consumed in sufficient
Nut Butter Wisdom
When buying nut butter, look for brands that don't have any added sugar or fat. |
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And then add salsa ingredients: tomato, onion, garlic, green & red bell peppers and spices. And voilá! You've got Reds with zip. Salsa Reds!
See? No mention of yeast extract. Sounds like the company isn't exactly proud of that ingredient. You have to read the fine print to discover it.
The Garden of Eatin', by the way, was bought up by the Hain Celestial Group, a giant "natural" foods conglomerate that owns brands like Soy Dream, Rice Dream, Yves Veggie Cuisine and a long list of others. And guess what? Many of these products also use yeast extract or torula yeast. |