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 It is my hope that consumers will now recognize the dangers of these oils and boycott all food companies that continue to use them.
Food companies that knowingly put this poison into foods should be heavily fined. Better yet, hydrogenated oils should just be banned like the World Health Organization advised in 1978. |
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 For years, food companies fought hard against the listing of trans fatty acids, too, and it was only after a massive public health outcry by consumer health groups that the FDA finally forced food companies to include trans fats on the label.)
Manipulating serving sizes
Food companies have also figured out how to manipulate the serving size of foods in order to make it appear that their products are devoid of harmful ingredients like trans fatty acids. The FDA, you see, created a loophole for reporting trans fatty acids on the label: Any food containing 0. |
| It's all nonsense, of course, since food companies primarily want to keep consumers ignorant of what's really in their products. That's why there is still no requirement to list various chemical contaminants, pesticides, heavy metals and other substances that have a direct and substantial impact on the health of consumers. (For years, food companies fought hard against the listing of trans fatty acids, too, and it was only after a massive public health outcry by consumer health groups that the FDA finally forced food companies to include trans fats on the label. |
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 This chemical not only contributes to nationwide obesity, it also helps food companies boost repeat business. See articles on MSG.
3. MSG is routinely hidden in foods in these ingredients: yeast extract, torula yeast, hydrolyzed vegetable protein and autolyzed yeast. Thousands of common grocery products contain one or more of these chemical taste enhancers, including nearly all "vegetarian" foods such as veggie burgers (read labels to check). See Food manufacturers hide dangerous ingredients in everyday foods by using confusing terms on the label.
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| For years, food companies fought hard against the listing of trans fatty acids, too, and it was only after a massive public health outcry by consumer health groups that the FDA finally forced food companies to include trans fats on the label.)
Manipulating serving sizes
Food companies have also figured out how to manipulate the serving size of foods in order to make it appear that their products are devoid of harmful ingredients like trans fatty acids. The FDA, you see, created a loophole for reporting trans fatty acids on the label: Any food containing 0. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I believe there is justification for a global class action lawsuit against food companies that insist on using this ingredient even after scientific proof leaves no doubt that it causes harm, and even death, when consumed over a long period of time. This is not simply a question of consumer choice, as the food industry attempts to claim. No manufacturer has the right to put poisons into their food products and then blame the consumer by saying he or she had a choice of whether or not to purchase that product. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 How much financial sense does it make to allow food companies to poison the population, and then have to foot the bill for treating all the resulting diseases from that poison? This financial burden really belongs with the food companies. Perhaps food companies should be required to pay the health care costs for all the consumers they harm. |
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| This all adds up to higher profits for food companies. The real costs of using this ingredient, however, are shifted to consumers (a process called externalizing costs). Those include the starkly increased risk of a number of degenerative chronic diseases including heart disease, diabetes, birth defects, cancer, malabsorption of healthy oils and the universal breakdown of cell wall structures throughout all organs and tissues of the body, including nervous system tissues (eyes, brain, spinal cord, etc.). |
| And if the FDA keeps hydrogenated oils legal, the food companies will continue to use them in their foods, regardless of the degree of harm caused by such ingredients.
Blatant FDA complicity
The FDA, of course, keeps this ingredient perfectly legal, only requiring companies to list the amount of poison found in its food. This failure to ban hydrogenated oils by the FDA -- the only agency that currently has the authority to do so -- is unconscionable and further demonstrates the pro-industry loyalty of this corrupt regulatory body. |
| There is a fundamental responsibility by food companies to produce foods that do not contain poisonous ingredients, and hydrogenated oils are essentially slow-acting poisons that directly threaten human health.
Companies that put poison into their food bear full responsibility for the health results that emerge as a result of the widespread consumption of those poisons. Federal regulators, whose job it is to police these industries, are criminally negligent in allowing the ongoing use of toxic ingredients in consumer products of all kinds. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 U.S. food companies put poisons right into the foods; cities drip poisonous fluoride into the water supply; pharmacies hand out poisonous medications to 40% of the population; chemical companies sell poisonous detergents, pesticides, fabric softeners, soaps and personal care products to virtually every household in America. And don't even get me started about cosmetics companies, pet food companies and infant formula manufacturers.
Blame China? Give me a break. |
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| This financial burden really belongs with the food companies. Perhaps food companies should be required to pay the health care costs for all the consumers they harm.
#9 End censorship for nutritional supplement manufacturers
Did you know that if you're a nutritional supplement manufacturer and you actually tell the truth about your product, either on the packaging or your website, you will likely get threatened by the FDA and possibly have your warehouse raided at gunpoint? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It means whatever the food companies want it to mean. It can mean, for example, that all the chemicals found in the product simply aren't listed on the label. (There's no requirement for food companies to list chemical contaminants found in their foods.) A food labeled "all natural" can contain pesticides, herbicides, toxic heavy metals, trace amounts of PCBs, toxic fluoride, hidden MSG, high-temperature cooking byproducts, synthetic chemical vitamins and dozens of other non-natural substances. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Folks, it's not just the big mainstream food companies that are deceptive in their marketing. Sadly, it's also a bunch of "natural" food companies who have jumped on the health hype bandwagon and are using what I consider to be deceptive product claims and positioning statements that deceive consumers. If you actually believe what the food labels claim, you're gullible. You have to read the ingredients and learn to know the difference between natural ingredients vs. chemical additives like "autolyzed yeast extract" or "hydrolyzed vegetable protein. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Since it's not very palatable in its natural, sticky state, it's inevitable that food companies will attempt to make it taste better. If history is any guide, it will wind up losing much of its effectiveness in the process. Either develop a taste for the real thing— highly recommended—or go for high-quality supplements of nattokinase.
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 Naturally, they have a mandate to increase sales, but that goal runs completely counter to the health of our nation's citizens.
"Food companies grow by selling more food, not less," observes renowned nutritionist Marion Nestle, Ph.D., M.P.H., who formerly headed the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University.
"They aren't sitting around trying to figure out, 'How can we make Americans fatter?' They're trying to do well in a competitive economy," adds Dr. |
| Sure, this so-called value marketing helps food companies turn a profit, but all it does for the consumer is widen his or her waistline.
Americans Go Low Fat and Fat Free but Consume
More Carbs
Another movement that has no doubt contributed to obesity is our pursuit of foods that are low in fat, but that end up being high in refined grains and/or sugar. Indeed, as mentioned earlier, beginning in the late 1970s, many Americans, assuming they were making the correct dietary choices, began to follow the U.S.-government-sanctioned recommendation that we eat less fat and more carbs. |
| There's no restraint from the food companies.
"If you can link misleading advertising to childhood disease, you've got yourself not only a lawsuit, but a movement," continues the founder of
Coale Cooley, a Washington, D.C.-based mass tort law firm. "We're not bringing down the food industry next Tuesday, but there are legitimate legal issues here."
Companies Unveil Antiobesity Programs As Threats of Legal Action Loom Large
Despite the fact that food sellers publicly proclaim such lawsuits "frivolous," they appear to be taking the risk of litigation very seriously. |
| They've already had a huge effect in making food companies examine their food products. All big companies are carefully looking at their product mixes and their marketing practices to children."
Moreover, Banzhaf argues, plaintiffs wouldn't even have to prove all of their arguments conclusively in order to win. "If you have enough reputable evidence in major scientific, peer-reviewed journals, that could be enough," he speculates, noting that damaging the reputation of a company—or threatening to harm it—could prompt changes from the food industry. |
| Enter a grocery store today, and you'll see cereals galore trumpeting— usually in big, bold lettering—that they contain "whole grains." Often, they even feature the American Heart Association seal of approval. This begs the question: Are they healthy?
"This is one of the biggest labeling scams out there," charges Michele Simon, author of Appetite for Profit and founder/director of the Center for
Informed Food Choice (CIFC). "The federal government said to eat more whole grains but these processed-food companies are just adding a little whole grain and then slapping big labels on the box. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Again, it's just another example of how food companies use Nutrition Facts and ingredients lists to deceive, not inform, consumers.
Here are some additional tips for successfully decoding ingredients list labels:
Tips for reading ingredients labels
1. Remember that ingredients are listed in order of their proportion in the product. This means the first 3 ingredients matter far more than anything else. The top 3 ingredients are what you're primarily eating.
2. If the ingredients list contains long, chemical-sounding words that you can't pronounce, avoid that item. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| A spate of "natural cure" books have looked at some of the marketing practices of the drug companies, the power of the food companies and Big Pharma, and the porous influence of these huge conglomerates on agricultural policy and on the FDA, and these books and authors have concluded that it's all a great big government conspiracy to keep you from knowing what you need to get yourself well and to stay healthy and out of the medical system. That the big evil people in government and in power don't want you to know the truth. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And it's easier and cheaper for food companies to simply add synthetic chemicals to foods than to switch to something safe and natural.
But that doesn't mean you can't do this yourself! Soon, a pure aloe vera gel product (with no added flavors) will likely be made available at Good Cause Wellness (www.GoodCauseWellness.com) . You can simply mix some powder with purified water to make your own gel, then dip fruits and vegetables in the gel yourself. Apples, cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes, peaches, potatoes, grapes and many other food items can be preserved in this way. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This ingredient is used by all sorts of natural-sounding food companies to enhance the taste of their products without having to list "monosodium glutamate" on the label. Watch out for this hidden excitotoxin. It's in thousands of natural foods products, and many of them are sold at Whole Foods. The store describes itself as a "hydrogenated free zone" (meaning they don't carry products with hydrogenated oils, and that's a good thing), but there are plenty of other toxins found on its shelves.
That's just the beginning of the Whole Foods warnings. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Recently, the big food companies were only paying about 70 cents a pound to the Hawaiian farmers for their raw, unshelled macadamia nuts. That's 70 cents a pound for a nut that you might pay $15.00 a pound for at the grocery store (after it's shelled, of course). The farmer can't even make ends meet at that price, and in some years, that price plummets to 30 cents a pound, or even less than 10 cents a pound.
There is a great disparity between the prices that the farmers are paid for the nuts versus what consumers are paying for them. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Although some food companies now claim to avoid bad fats, there are still thousands of common foods that contain them. The fats and oils industry still wants you to believe that the saturated fats are the bad ones, and the unsaturated fats are the good ones. This is false information. There are many highly beneficial saturated fats, and just as many unhealthy unsaturated fats. The only distinction that should be made when judging the value of fats is whether they are left in their natural form or are engineered. |
| The suits allege that the food companies committed fraud and breach of warranty by marketing products to the public such as Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, sugar-free gum, Flintstone's vitamins, yogurt and children's aspirin with the full knowledge that aspartame, the sweetener in them, is neurotoxic. Although such lawsuits can last many years, they bring an increased awareness about the fraudulent practices of the pharma-medical and food industries to the unsuspecting population.
Aspartame is a drug masquerading as an additive. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The real mystery is how the food companies keep getting away with all the denial of the evidence linking processed foods and beverages to childrens' health problems. I guess it helps that they influence the government regulators and practically own the mainstream media. They also buy all the prime shelf space at grocery stores, sponsor the big sporting events, and have successfully infiltrated schools and hospitals with junk food restaurants and vending machines. Heck, there's still a McDonald's restaurant in the Cleveland Clinic where they perform heart surgery! |
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| Brand-name food companies make products like "Guacamole Dip" that contains no avocado! Instead, they're made with hydrogenated soybean oil and artificial green coloring chemicals. But gullible consumers keep on buying these products, thinking they're getting avocado dip when, in reality, they're buying green-colored, yummy-tasting dietary poison.
Food names can include words that describe ingredients not found in the food at all. A "cheese" cracker, for example, doesn't have to contain any cheese. A "creamy" something doesn't have to contain cream. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 Large food companies are behind most of the mainstream dietary information, with dietetics at most universities being funded by these and drug (pharmaceutical) companies. This in turn filters down to our schools where we are taught the food pyramid and how eating all things in moderation will stand us in good stead. Does anyone even know what "all things" or "moderation" means? And when will these food companies and dieticians finally accept that they are part of the problem? Probably never... unless forced to, like the cigarette industry. |
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