Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What are the dangerous chemicals in processed meats?
Sodium nitrite is one of the most dangerous chemicals added to processed meats. Please be aware:
You MUST read the ingredients list to find the sodium nitrite! Meat product companies do not list this ingredient on the front of the package.
Even ORGANIC meat products and NATURAL meat products can still contain sodium nitrite. So read the labels to be sure, and avoid buying any meat product made with sodium nitrite.
Be especially careful of food for kids! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If they're buying food or beverages under the same roof as a store that sells garden pesticides, toxic air fresheners, chemical-soaked dryer sheets or other products containing dangerous chemicals, then they're buying chemically contaminated food!
It's yet another reason to buy from local farmers' markets or co-op stores. Support Community-Supported Agriculture organizations (CSAs) and grow what you can yourself, in your own back yard, where the food goes from your garden to your plate, without being subjected to toxic chemicals in the air. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There's nothing they won't do to win approval for their dangerous chemicals, including committing blatant scientific fraud.
Modern pharmaceutical medicine, you see, is no longer about good science. It's all about good marketing. The science is gone, and it's been replaced with a profit agenda. It makes you wonder how any intelligent person can really trust pharmaceuticals, doesn't it?
The truth, of course, is that intelligent people don't take pharmaceuticals anymore. |
Stacy Malkan
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 The second reform asked "Why does agriculture have to use so many toxic, synthetic, persistent, dangerous chemicals? Do we really need all that?" This led to the organic food standards. "In the third reform, we asked the same questions about skin care, cosmetics and body care products. Why do these products have to have so many objectionable ingredients? And that takes us to Consciousness in Cosmetics."
The phrase refers to his company's recent efforts to reformulate products in response to the Compact for Safe Cosmetics. Morris explained the history of Avalon's change of consciousness. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Passing toxic waste products and dangerous chemicals out of your body is not a fun experience. Many people experience temporary side effects such as weakness or moodiness. Cleansing effects vary widely based on your current health status and how much toxic gunk you have to get rid of. But that's where Jon Barron's FAQs are so incredibly helpful! Check them out at http://www.jonbarron.org/detox_center/faq/faq.php
You'll find answers to virtually every detox question you can think of. Literally millions of people have gone through a nutritional detox, so you're not alone in this experience. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| But the smart consumers (who represent the real future of human civilization, by the way) are wising up and increasingly opting for healthier foods made without dangerous chemicals.
There are people in society today who exhibit a strong desire to commit nutritional suicide. 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. |
| You can learn more about dangerous chemicals in the food supply in my book, Grocery Warning, available from Truth Publishing.
Or you can download my free Honest Food Guide from www.HonestFoodGuide.org which reveals the true health dangers of numerous chemicals added to processed foods. The Honest Food Guide has now been downloaded by over one million people.
Protect yourself and your family
Processed meats promote cancer. |
| Sodium nitrite is one of the most dangerous chemicals added to processed meats. Please be aware:
You MUST read the ingredients list to find the sodium nitrite! Meat product companies do not list this ingredient on the front of the package.
Even ORGANIC meat products and NATURAL meat products can still contain sodium nitrite. So read the labels to be sure, and avoid buying any meat product made with sodium nitrite.
Be especially careful of food for kids! Virtually all packaged food products containing meat and marketed to children contain sodium nitrite! |
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| Are artificial sweeteners smart low-calorie alternatives to sugar or dangerous chemicals?
Here is a closer look at the controversies about common foods...
FISH
Fish is a wonderful source of protein, vitamins, minerals and omega-3 fatty acids. However, the nutritional benefits of omega-3 fatty acids fall short of their hype. Some scientists claim that they are great for the heart as well as for improving children's ability to learn, but all we can say for sure is that omega-3s may be beneficial. with state health or wildlife officials. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Instead, Maryland health and school authorities are using Gestapo-like tactics, threatening to charge the parents with child truancy violations, criminalizing them for daring to protect their children from the dangerous chemicals found in vaccines (including thimerosal, a chemical additive containing a neurotoxic form of mercury). |
Michael Pollan
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 In this way antioxidants help detoxify dangerous chemicals, including carcinogens, and the more kinds of antioxidants in the diet, the more kinds of toxins the body can disarm. This is one reason why it's important to eat as many different kinds of plants as possible: They all have different antioxidants and so help the body eliminate different kinds of toxins. (It stands to reason that the more toxins there are in the environment, the more plants you should be eating.)
Animals can synthesize some of their own antioxidants, including, once upon a time, vitamin C. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Reporting the truth about dangerous chemicals, heavy metals and other threats to children is extremely selective. The public never hears the real truth about what's dangerous -- they only hear what the media want them to think is dangerous!
But I've had it with popular media distortions. Here, I'm going to reveal the top 20 things that are more dangerous to children than the lead paint in Mattel toys. Interestingly, most of these are things that parents intentionally give their children (or feed to them!). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Where is the call to protect the public from these dangerous chemicals that are causing casualty numbers resembling a world war?
Where is the effort to protect the public from all the dangerous cancer-causing food additives like sodium nitrite? Hydrogenated oils? Chemical preservatives and sweeteners? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Packed in eye-catching boxes and scented with artificial fragrance chemicals, these synthetic detergents are literally scooped up by tens of millions of consumers who have no idea they're bathing their clothes in cancer-causing chemicals while destroying the environment by flushing dangerous chemicals downstream.
Until now, there have been few options for eco-conscious consumers. |
| I still haven't figured out why so many people actually wash their clothes in these dangerous chemicals and then wear them around all day, allowing the chemicals in the clothes to penetrate their skin and enter their bloodstream where they cause serious harm.
Even worse, all those toxic chemicals get flushed downstream where they contribute to the mass killing of fish and ocean ecosystems, including all the various life forms that depend on the fish (such as birds). We're offering a rediscovered natural product -- "Soap Nuts!" -- right now at www.BetterLifeGoods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Those nations that reject western foods and pass laws to protect their populations from dangerous chemicals in foods, beverages and consumer products.
Those nations that reject American intellectual property guidelines and ban corporations or private individuals from "owning" patents on medicines, seeds and genes.
Those nations that invest in education, energy efficiency and environmental cleanup in order to create a better future for their children. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Even mainstream cereal companies are going whole-grain, and more and more food and beverage companies are releasing nutritious products that lack the dangerous chemicals we've covered here on NewsTarget. (Heck, even Coca-Cola is coming out with a new product called Diet Coke Plus, which is made with -- get this -- aspartame and supplemental vitamins and minerals. After you stop laughing, consider how powerful the natural health movement must be to get a company like Coca-Cola to try adding minerals to a nutritionally worthless beverage like Diet Coke... |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But in America today, nobody even blinks an eye (not even the one good eye they still have left) at the routine practice of poisoning customers with dangerous chemicals. And every day, consumers who don't know any better apply these cancer-causing products to their hair, skin, fingernails and hands.
#12 Launch public service ad campaigns that teach consumers how to tell the difference between healthy vs. unhealthy food and grocery products
This strategy would cost money, but it would save the nation many times its cost in reduced health care costs. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Not only did he become hooked, his nasal troubles worsened. dangerous chemicals or environmental toxins. While smell loss from these culprits can be permanent, prompt treatment may be able to restore your ability to smell.
If you've recently had nasal surgery, a diminished sense of smell can alert you to the fact that something went awry during the procedure. It can also be a reaction to radiation therapy or chemotherapy, as well as to certain drugs such as decongestants and medications for hyperthyroidism. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| This results in the criminalization of parents who refuse to subject their children to these dangerous chemicals.
In effect, Big Pharma is hoping to turn natural health followers into criminals.
The FDA has already criminalized nutritional supplement companies who dare to tell the truth about the health benefits of their supplements. (Read the true history of armed FDA raids on vitamin companies here: http://www.newstarget.com/021791. |
David Steinman
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 If a factory farm operation in North Carolina or a manufacturing plant in Louisiana is polluting the groundwater with dangerous chemicals and everybody knows it, rhat farm or plant ought to pay a tax, instead of shifting the burden ro consumers.
?Influence Behavior. Providing tax credits for conservation and renewable energy sources has had tremendously positive influences on consumer behavior and corporations. Many of society's leading-edge conservation projects today were initiated, in part, as a response to societal rewards via credits and deductions. |
Mark Sircus
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 Everyone is exposed to dangerous chemicals that penetrate and accumulate in the body. When our levels of magnesium, and other vital minerals and nutrients are low, the body just cannot handle the increasing toxicity. This is too simple for doctors addicted to the pharmaceutical companies that actually want you to increase the overall toxicity of your body by taking more of their toxic drugs.
If you still want to test for magnesium deficiency, there are other tests besides the blood serum test:
Total Red Cell Magnesium. |
| Scientists have known of the alloxan-diabetes connection for years yet there seems to be a conspiracy in efforts to maintain the appearance of integrity in the
FDA, which allows dangerous chemicals that can cause diabetes to be used in drugs and food.
Consumer Reports recently observed, "A growing body of research shows that pesticides and other contaminants are more prevalent in the foods we eat, in our bodies, and in the environment than we thought,"27 all confirming the chemical nightmare in progress. |
| Modern medicine and dentistry have themselves been involved in the gold rush to profit from the use of dangerous chemicals and have contributed greatly to the intense poisoning of our bodies. At the time of our greatest need, when public health has deteriorated especially among the young6 and elderly, our doctors, dentists and public health care officials have gone blind, deaf and dumb to the problem and refuse to help us in our need. Instead they continue to cling to their covenant with poisons and increase the flow of pollution to our cells. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Such materials release dangerous chemicals that are then inhaled. (Reminder: Refer to Chapter 9 for a complete "day in the life" tour of our toxin-filled homes and daily habits.)
Bathroom and Vanity-Take a good look in your main bathroom, where you probably spend several minutes each day getting ready for the day or bed. Take everything out of the cabinets, drawers, and cosmetic bags, and get rid of the old outdated stuff you think you might use one day but haven't for five years now! Look at the ingredients in your toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, soap, hair spray, and so on. |
| I once joked that we would someday be living in a "toxic soup" of dangerous chemicals, and now I realize how true those words were. As time has passed and the reports from health and governmental sources continue to corroborate my unintentional premonition, the future of our society's health has become disturbingly clear. The question is, What can we as individuals do to protect our own health and the health of our families in the coming years?
The purpose of this book is to provide information about the undeniable connection between environmental toxins and the health of the human body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 While mercury injections probably initiated the increase in autism, the toxic substance has been replaced with other dangerous chemicals that are continuing to increase the risk of autism.
Here's an example to explain this a bit more:
We all know that sodium nitrite in processed meat causes cancer, right? Well, let's say that for ten years, somebody feeds all the kids sodium nitrite and cancer rates skyrocket. Then, they take all the sodium nitrite out of the food and replace it with a different cancer-causing chemical that they keep feeding the kids. Guess what? |
David Steinman
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| I think you should be wary of ServiceMaster's alliance with Chem-Lawn, a company that I think uses some very dangerous chemicals, such as 2,4-D, which is linked with cancers among agricultural workers, on neighborhood lawns.)
Meanwhile, SC Johnson is trying to offset its petrochemical dependence. The company has come out with a line of Raid bug killers that uses plant chemicals from clove and other sources for their active ingredients, although it still contains some petroleum distillates. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 The human body is now forced to cope with constant health hazards in the form of water and air pollution, noise, stress, radiation and dangerous chemicals, forced upon us from factories, power stations, agriculture, mines and waste disposal.
Environmental pollution has brought about an alarming increase in respiratory diseases and this alone may well be the major cause of today's high incidence of asthma, particularly in industrial areas. |
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| The precautions we take with dangerous chemicals should also be applied to seemingly innocuous items, such as Tylenol, cold remedies and even vitamins," Katz says. "Pill vials should be securely closed, hidden away and stored at a height young children can't reach."
. . The Centers for Disease Control and Pre-— vention has more suggestions on how you can prevent poisoning at www.cdc.gov/ncipc/fact sheets/poisonprevention. htm.
Drug Expiration Dates: Take Them Seriously
Cynthia LaCivita, PharmD, director of clinical standards and quality, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. |
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