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The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith See book keywords and concepts

Our diets and health are unfortunately largely controlled by three giant sectors and driving forces of the economy: food and agricultural corporations, including processed food giants; pharmaceutical companies; and the chemical and manufacturing industry, which aims to create unnaturally occurring products that may be superior in some ways to naturally occurring ones, yet incredibly harmful to humans in other ways.

Now that corporate food giants such as Dole, General Mills, Kraft, and ConAgra have gotten into the "organic" game, they have, as part of an industry-wide group, lobbied hard to change the rules about what it means to be "organic." If they win at getting synthetic chemicals like ripening agents and thickeners added to the list of allowable ingredients, or even genetic engineering to pass muster, then "organic" will move further and further away from "pure." In 1996, the two houses of Congress unanimously enacted the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA).

How food manufacturers trick consumers with deceptive ingredients lists Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

These are just gimmicks used by food giants to fool consumers into paying more for manufactured food products. 8. Watch out for deceptively small serving sizes. Food manufacturers use this trick to reduce the number of calories, grams of sugar or grams of fat believed to be in the food by consumers. Many serving sizes are arbitrary and have no basis in reality. 9. Want to know how to really shop for foods? Download our free Honest Food Guide, the honest reference to foods that has now been downloaded by over 800,000 people.

If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C. See book keywords and concepts

Without your knowledge or consent, they control what you eat, when you eat, how much you eat, even the way you think of food. The food giants have done everything they can to keep you from finding out. They've warped your food consciousness to make you a willing participant in your own demise. Paul A. Stitt Fighting the food giants very cheap ....food is cheaper. In 1950 U.S. families spent 21 % of their disposable personal income on food. In 2000 it was 11%. The price of food in stores has fallen and the price of eating out has fallen.

Too Profitable to Cure Brent Hoadley, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

He has allowed food giants to make unsubstantiated health claims. He has also been vocal in criticizing Canada, Germany, and other countries for providing their citizens with controlled drug prices. Such criticism does not bode well for his vision for American citizens. Whose interest is served by not controlling the cost of drugs? Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Many "natural" foods contain questionable taste additives like yeast extract Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I believe that food companies, especially the food giants, would put any chemical in their foods no matter how harmful, as long as it helps sell their products. The food industry has used hydrogenated oils for decades, and continues to use them in many foods, despite the fact that the scientific evidence has, for decades, demonstrated hydrogenated oils to be extremely harmful to human health. The food industry continues to use grains and products that have been stripped of as much as 98 percent of their original nutrition; and then they claim that food has no relationship to health.

The inside scoop: Natural Health Products Expo West industry event Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We don't want this industry to be taken over by the big food giants and pharmaceutical giants. If I listed the number of companies out there making nutritional supplements that have pharmaceutical companies as their investors, you would fall over in shock. But it's true; these pharmaceutical companies invest money in many of the nutritional supplement companies out there, and they put people on their board of directors. The small companies that resist that kind of influence, like Dr.

Soy cheese products deceive consumers, violate vegans Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

If they can call that natural, and if the food giants can call their deep-fried potato chips natural, and if soy cheese manufacturers can put cow's milk products in their soy products and call them natural, then there's really no meaning to the term. Technically speaking, I could dig up some mercury, lead, arsenic and other toxic substances from the soil, stuff them into a tofu recipe, and sell it as a "100% natural" product. Why? Because it's all derived from the Earth! It's natural, see? That's why the word "natural" is, essentially, a marketing term for suckers.

If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C. See book keywords and concepts

Stitt Fighting the food giants very cheap ....food is cheaper. In 1950 U.S. families spent 21 % of their disposable personal income on food. In 2000 it was 11%. The price of food in stores has fallen and the price of eating out has fallen. very abundant The average number of products carried by a typical supermarket has more than tripled since 1980, from 15,000 to 50,000. In 1998 alone, manufacturers introduced more than 11,000 new foods.

The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

In other words, the pyramid was not designed as a way to improve the health of Americans but rather to promote the USDA agenda of supporting multinational food giants. The Optimal Health Food Pyramid We do like the concept of graphically illustrating what constitutes a healthful diet, so we are offering our version of the Eating Right Pyramid: the Optimal Health Food Pyramid. The Optimal Health Food Pyramid incorporates the best aspects from two of the most healthful diets ever studied: the traditional Mediterranean diet and the traditional Asian diet.

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