Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They think it's all okay because that's what has been made standard by the marketing and advertising of the food industry.
Overall, people have a very bizarre idea of what is normal, and you hear this in another common myth, which is that all foods, even ones that are bad for you, can be eaten in moderation. The food industry claims that all foods can be part of a healthy diet. You usually hear this from companies that are selling you the most disease-causing food and beverage products in the entire food supply. |
Michele Simon
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 CCF's name-calling is clearly designed to marginalize her viewpoints, which are often critical of the food industry. Nestle notes that CCF staffers have even gone so far as to stalk her at her lectures, in a frantic effort to appropriate material for their own propagandistic ends: "For a while, they were going to every talk I gave and quoting me out of context. I think their tactics are sleazy and any food company that supports them should be deeply ashamed. |
| Myth: People can simply choose to eat healthy foods
An important tenet of the food industry's personal responsibility argument is that options for "healthier" eating are virtually limitless, especially since food companies are now hard at work churning out more and more "alternatives" just waiting to be gobbled up. Really, it's all up to you. As the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) self-righteously inveighs: "Providing a wide variety of nutritious foods and beverages, and helping parents make the right choices for their families, is our industry's top priority. |
| Connecting the concepts of personal responsibility and freedom of choice is the key tactic of the Center for Consumer
Freedom (CCF), the food industry's master front group and spin-maker. Its mission is to "promote personal responsibility and protect consumer choices."4 Because CCF's main strategy is to deny the problem of obesity altogether, it is less concerned with blaming the victim than other industry groups. Rather, CCF is more invested in depicting government regulation as a threat to the very notion of personal responsibility. |
| But despite the increased media attention, not everyone fully understands the scope of the food industry's role in creating such problems. And how could they, given that so much of the relevant information is distorted or kept hidden by food manufacturers and government agencies alike? For example, restaurant chains are refusing to provide even with the most basic nutrition information to help people exercise more personal responsibility. There are numerous examples of how food-industry lobbyists control and manipulate the discourse on food and food policy. |
| New Mexico: After a hard-fought battle in 2005 in the state legislature, pediatricians, school food directors and nutritionists gained approval to appoint an expert committee with the authority to establish nutrition standards for schools, with just one catch: the compromise legislation required the committee to include representatives of the beverage and food industry. At the first committee meeting, Danielle Greenburg, a doctor and obesity researcher, said that banning soft drinks in schools isn't the solution; rather, students need to be educated on how to balance what they eat. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| That's how the food industry, the FDA, the USDA and all the other organizations that are colluding to misinform people, have managed to turn the truth upside down. They've managed to convince people that true is false and false is true; that normal is extreme and that extreme is normal, and they've done a very good job of it.
Now what happens if you eat natural food for which your body was designed? If you return to a lifestyle of foods from nature in their uncooked form, you will find yourself moving rapidly towards a state of perfect human health. It's no exaggeration. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Follow the reaction of the food industry to the hot topic of the day, be it obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, depression, high cholesterol, etc. If you are the "victim" of one of these hot topics, consider yourself a target. Both the pharmaceutical industry and the food industry have you clearly in their sights. Consider this example of targeting: besides the use of cholesterol-lowering pharmaceutical products, the food industry jumped into the fray of the high-cholesterol brouhaha with their contention that eating oatmeal lowered cholesterol. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's amazing what is considered "meat" in the food industry these days. Astonishingly, most consumers think eating a hot dog is "normal" but eating raw okra is weird. |
| Overall, people have a very bizarre idea of what is normal, and you hear this in another common myth, which is that all foods, even ones that are bad for you, can be eaten in moderation. The food industry claims that all foods can be part of a healthy diet. You usually hear this from companies that are selling you the most disease-causing food and beverage products in the entire food supply. Soft drink companies, for example, say that soft drinks can be part of a healthy diet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's probably because the vast majority of the people actually writing these dietary guidelines have financial ties to the very food industry groups that would be financially harmed by any advice telling Americans to eat less of anything. It resembles the situation at the FDA, where many of the people making the decisions on which drugs get approved are, themselves, bankrolled by pharmaceutical companies. Can you spell C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N? To learn more about how all this really works behind the scenes of the food industry, read the book Food Politics by Marion Nestle. |
| The message from the USDA has always been "eat more," precisely because that's the message that benefits the food industry lobby. Any ideas why this is the case? It's probably because the vast majority of the people actually writing these dietary guidelines have financial ties to the very food industry groups that would be financially harmed by any advice telling Americans to eat less of anything. It resembles the situation at the FDA, where many of the people making the decisions on which drugs get approved are, themselves, bankrolled by pharmaceutical companies. |
Michele Simon
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| Myth: Marketing has little impact on food choices
What also often gets lost in the personal responsibility discussion is the fact that the food industry spend upwards of $36 billion annually to market its products. The food business is extremely competitive. While most of us like to think we're immune to advertising, the truth is that corporations do not keep spending that kind of cash without expecting a handsome return on their investment.
The reality is that we are all influenced by advertising, whether we know it or not, or whether we care to admit it or not. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 This epidemic has been fueled by many factors, including the collusion between the food industry and the U.S. government. Without question, American baby boomers and the generations that have followed have been led to the trough of obesity and told to indulge with pleasure by the food industry as well as the policies of the U.S. government. Food companies and the fast-food industry have used marketing as well as the science of food technology to trigger wanton gluttony in a way that is eerily similar to the methods the tobacco companies employed to develop more addictive cigarettes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Society has been distorted by the food industry, which is why artificial foods are "normal" and vegetables are "extreme"
We have a very strange culture in America today. People think that processed, manufactured, artificial foods -- the foods with cancer-causing chemicals -- are completely normal. Yet, at the same time, they think that foods from nature, for which your body has a built-in blueprint of compatibility, are completely abnormal. That's how distorted our culture has become. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| To learn more about how all this really works behind the scenes of the food industry, read the book Food Politics by Marion Nestle. |
| REPPED: 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 and obesity (thanks to the lobbying efforts of the soft drink industry). |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| Food companies and the fast-food industry have used marketing as well as the science of food technology to trigger wanton gluttony in a way that is eerily similar to the methods the tobacco companies employed to develop more addictive cigarettes. The food industry, through lobbying, coercion, greed, and advertising, has influenced us to make dietary choices that fatten us up and harm our health. |
| Without question, American baby boomers and the generations that have followed have been led to the trough of obesity and told to indulge with pleasure by the food industry as well as the policies of the U.S. government. Food companies and the fast-food industry have used marketing as well as the science of food technology to trigger wanton gluttony in a way that is eerily similar to the methods the tobacco companies employed to develop more addictive cigarettes. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Both the pharmaceutical industry and the food industry have you clearly in their sights. Consider this example of targeting: besides the use of cholesterol-lowering pharmaceutical products, the food industry jumped into the fray of the high-cholesterol brouhaha with their contention that eating oatmeal lowered cholesterol. The rush to the marketplace with a plethora of oat-containing products could only be drowned out by the cha-ching of cash registers totaling up the sales of oat-containing products. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 The fast food industry is a multi-billion dollar business, and its goal is to make money on our addiction to unhealthy foods. If you have a weight problem, don't want one, or you just want to live a healthy non-toxic lifestyle, do not eat fast food. This food is processed, packaged and chemically altered. If you do not have a problem with your health or your weight and want to indulge from time to time, that is your choice. I've eaten a lot of fast food and all I can say is that whenever I ate a consistent amount of it over an extended period of time I gained weight and felt worse. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The campaign by the emerging food industry against natural oils and genuinely beneficial fats such as the very popular coconut oil became fueled by a massive media disinformation that blamed saturated fats for the wave of heart attacks that suddenly started to grip a large portion of the American population. For 30 or more years, coconut oil was nowhere to be found in grocery stores and has only recently re-emerged in health food stores. Coconut oil and other healthful oils were practically replaced by cheap junk oils, including soy oil, cottonseed oil and rapeseed oil. |
| Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization, Professor Piper said, "The food industry will say these compounds have been tested and they are completely safe. By the criteria of modern safety testing, the safety tests were inadequate. Like all things, safety testing moves forward and you can conduct a much more rigorous safety test than you could 50 years ago."
It is obvious that the government is not going to take a stand against the powerful food and beverage industry. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Food Politics: How the food industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle, Ph.D.
I don't agree with Nestle about everything, but she sure got it right in this terrific book. Dense, but important.
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| Also keep in mind that as natto becomes more popular it will probably be embraced, coopted, and therefore ruined by the food industry. 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. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Randall Fitzgerald, author of an expose on the food industry called The Hundred-Year Lie, begs to differ. The food sources of vitamins simply don't pack the same punch in terms of nutrients that we once thought. As a result of chemical additives and advanced methods for processing foods, the nutritional value of food just does not measure up anymore. According to Fitzgerald, "Numerous studies have shown that during the 20th century we lost about 85 percent of the nutrients in North America's crop soils. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Or would it be governmental regulation of cigarette smoking or the food industry? To the great detriment of each and all of us, our society focuses on the former. To understand why, we need to pose one final question:
CUI BONO
In the classic murder mystery, the detective solves the crime by asking the question: cui bono, who benefits?
In the final section of this book, we ask three questions: who makes money from our illnesses? Who spends money to keep us well? Who makes money from keeping us well?
The answer to the first question—who makes money? |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| When I joined my second fitness center during my Burger King days, I realized that my time in the fast food industry would be short. Soon after walking into a local fitness club I was filling out a form loaded with questions about what I wanted from a fitness program. After receiving a tour of the club from the sales manager, he outlined the enrollment options and before I knew it, I signed up for a membership.
On every visit I would see the sales manager touring people through the club selling them memberships. |
| As for the food industry, we have already discussed many of the deceitful things they have been doing for years that negatively impact our health. Here is another food deception that surprisingly many people still do not comprehend the magnitude of the danger of. I am talking about the problems associated with use of trans fatty acids (partially hydrogenated oil) and how they lead us down the road to a wide variety of health related problems. |
| The government's responsibility extends to the FDA that is supposed to be monitoring the food industry to protect the consumer and with legislation and programs that could promote healthier lifestyles.
There is no getting around the fact that the lack of personal responsibility is the number one cause of people getting fat. Poor food intake combined with the lack of physical activity to burn calories and fat are the primary reasons we are in such bad shape. Our bodies operate on fuel, which is the food we eat. |
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