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The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa See book keywords and concepts

Keeping track of the vast array of food additives in use by the food manufacturing industry today and making sure that they don't contain traces of harmful chemicals is a heady job. Food processing (for foods other than meat, poultry, and egg products) is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA. FDA inspectors are responsible for visiting between sixty and eighty thousand facilities in any given year.

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Such large numbers of ingredients reflect the needs of large-scale food manufacturing processes, which make products that can be cooked in huge quantities without clogging the equipment and can be divided, packaged, reheated, and still look good and taste fairly appetizing. In this respect, one of the worst examples we found was Stouffer's Lean Cuisine Chicken, Spinach, and Mushroom Panini, which contained more than a hundred ingredients, although a few are listed more than once.

Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food Ann N. Martin See book keywords and concepts

K. pet food manufacturing industry and is comprised of fifty-six member companies. Its role is to promote pet food products, responsible pet ownership, represent its members' views to United Kingdom and European Union government departments, and raise standards in the pet food industry. If you believe PFMAs literature, than the policies in the United Kingdom are much stricter than that of other countries. "Member companies only use materials from animal species which are generally accepted in the human food chain," states Alison Walker, spokesperson for PFMA.

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Partially hydrogenated vegetable oil has become the primary fat used in food manufacturing in the US. DANGERS OF TRANS FATS Trans fats make the coronary arteries more rigid and contribute to the formation of blood clots, which can lead to heart attack or stroke. Trans fats also reduce HDL ("good") cholesterol levels and increase LDL ("bad") cholesterol. According to a study by Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, approximately 30,000 premature heart disease deaths each year can be attributed to the consumption of trans fats.

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When we hear phrases such as "food manufacturing" or "food processing," few of us have a visual picture of what that really means or how many chemicals, preservatives, and additives work their way into the foods we eat as they're processed and packaged on manufacturing assembly lines. "Processed food" basically means any food that you can buy in a can, jar, packet, or bottle that has been produced in some kind of factory as part of a bulk manufacturing process. Most processed foods would quickly spoil if kept on a shelf for very long.

Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

With a token quantity of vitamins added back into the white flour, it is now called "enriched," and is bagged out and shipped off to food manufacturing companies to be used in cereals, crackers, pasta, cookies, breads, and other common foods. What you're eating, as a result, is the endosperm of grains, not the whole grain. The healthy ingredients are never intended for human consumption But what happened to all of the healthy minerals, vitamins and oils that were originally contained in the grain?

Bad Taste: The MSG Symptom Complex In this way, food manufacturing companies were economically addicted to MSG and couldn't let it go. Yet all this time, researchers were conducting animal experiments on MSG that were showing alarming toxicity effects. What began as a small set of research papers began to grow... The toxicity of MSG Within 15 to 30 minutes after being exposed to high doses of MSG, neurons suspended in tissue culture are seen to swell like balloons.

The health dangers of trans fats have been known for decades, yet food companies still poison customers with hydrogenated oils Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

REPPED: With new trans fat labeling laws now going into effect, which require food manufacturers to list the trans fat content right on the nutrition facts label, it's time to be brutally honest about the continued use of trans fat and hydrogenated oils in the food manufacturing industry. For decades, food manufacturers have known about the dangers to the health of consumers caused by hydrogenated oils, and yet, until recently, food manufacturers were able to claim innocence by saying that their ingredient was not really proven to be dangerous, or that it is perfectly legal to use.

Disease Economy: How the United States economy runs on "treating" chronic disease Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

A guy dying of cancer or suffering from heart disease, because of the products he has been consuming for years, believes he's doing well because he owns stock in large food manufacturing companies or large pharmaceutical companies. Maybe he owns stock in a new medical technology, or maybe he's a partner in a local medical clinic. His investments are doing great, but he's dying, and he's dying from preventable degenerative disease.

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But it does, actually, because you cannot know yourself when you lack clarity, and you cannot have clarity when you're poisoning your body and your nervous system, including your brain, with toxic food ingredients, processed foods, dead foods and animal products from our country's corporate farming and food manufacturing system. Clarity of mind is impossible on that diet.

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This, too, is happening today, with food manufacturing practices and the FDA looking the other way on toxic food ingredients. Our population is being poisoned with artificial chemical sweeteners. Let's take a look at these. Aspartame is a sweetener that was never proven safe; in fact, the original safety recommendation panel at the FDA recommended that aspartame be denied approval as a safe food ingredient. It was none other than Donald Rumsfeld at the time who helped push aspartame through the FDA to get it legalized as a food additive.

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Thus, it is also in the financial interests of food manufacturing companies to create ingredients that don't go rancid. The FDA actually banned vitamin-enriched sugar Decades ago, some millers actually attempted to improve the nutritional value of their refined white sugar products by enriching them with essential vitamins and minerals. These were called "enriched" sugar products.

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Hydrogenated oils don't go bad, which means they save money for the food manufacturing companies, because their foods don't go bad on the shelves. And how do you make hydrogenated oils? Well, you don't find them anywhere in nature -- you have to have a chemical processing facility to make hydrogenated oils. And you do it by bubbling hydrogen gas through liquid soybean oil or other types of oils, using a catalyst (in most cases the catalyst is nickel).

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The most interesting part in all this, though, was in learning that even the employees who work at food manufacturing companies have no clue what's really in their foods. They've been told their products are 100 percent natural, and they just parrot that line to the world, even though it is technically a deception. So, which veggie burger manufacturer am I talking about? Take your pick: I haven't found a single veggie burger yet that doesn't contain MSG. They're all made with chemical taste enhancers. So much for "100 percent natural," huh?

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If a big food manufacturing company has a brand new product with a nice, colorful box and lots of artificial ingredients, run that as front page news (or, better yet, give them an award!). Here's what else you do: in between stories about new drugs, foods and cosmetic products, keep people's attention by running stories about celebrity trials, murder, mayhem, disasters or anything involving explosions and death. And of course, censor out any and all content that's critical of popular food products, and never allow articles that are critical of drug companies to see the light of day.

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

Regardless of technological advances in food manufacturing, the human body was never designed to eat processed, chemical-laden fake foods. It was designed to eat the pure food that Mother Nature provides. That's not to say that some day the human body may not have evolved to accommodate overly processed, chemical-laden foods high in sugar, fat, and salt without negative consequences. However, this clearly has not happened yet. While the wisdom of the ages gives us a general layout for what is nourishing, the wisdom of our bodies gives us messages as to the specifics.

The resultant combination of agribusiness, processed food manufacturing and the fast-food industry has completely adulterated food Although many additives are used in very small amounts, it has been estimated that the average American consumes about five pounds of food additives per year. If you include sugar - the food industry's most used additive - the number jumps to 135 pounds a year. Prescription for Nutritional Healing 70% of all antibiotic drugs in the U.S.

Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back Michele Simon See book keywords and concepts

As mentioned previously, industrial food manufacturing involves appropriating raw materials from nature and turning them into profitable commodities. That perfectly describes what happens when Kellogg takes whole corn, strips it of almost all naturally occurring nutrients, adds sugar, salt, and chemical additives to maximize flavor, stability, and shelf life, and puts the ingredients through a complex manufacturing process. Out pop Corn Pops.

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And all of this, again, is for the convenience of the food manufacturing companies. Food manufactures don't care what happens to your health, their job is just to sell food products. If you have a health problem as a result, that's your problem, not theirs. You won't find food companies offering to pay for your medical bills if you have a heart attack from eating hydrogenated oils. They are basically passing the buck and demanding that you pay for the health consequences caused by their foods.

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And thankfully, many food manufacturing companies are adding stevia to their products despite the status of the herb held by the FDA. I'll talk more about stevia later, but for now I want to bring you back to the main point of this section: that too many consumers frequently turn to products sweetened with chemical sweeteners, and as a result, they are turning themselves into human guinea pigs and consuming chemicals that have never been proven safe for long-term consumption.

So when you look at the big picture here, you can't blame the food manufacturing companies for creating products that consumers demand. It's a consumer-driven marketplace, after all, and the only way to alter the manufacturing practices of these companies is to educate people and shift demand. The other answer is that refined carbohydrates have a much longer shelf life than the whole-grain products because whole-grain products contain oils that very quickly go rancid on the shelf.

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For use in food manufacturing, xylitol is extracted from birch wood chips. Xylitol may be found in many foods labeled as "sugar-free," including hard candies, cookies, chewing gums, soft drinks, and throat lozenges. What is it? Zinc is an essential mineral that is a component of more than 300 enzymes (page 506) needed to repair wounds (page 319), maintain fertility in adults and growth in children, synthesize protein, help cells reproduce, preserve vision, boost immunity (page 255), and protect against free radicals (page 467), among other functions.

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Its customers are food manufacturing companies like Kraft or General Mills. These are companies that take rudimentary, processed ingredients like white flour and manipulate them in various ways to make products that people buy — like breakfast cereals, toaster pastries, candy bars, breads and so on. So this food processing facility needs to produce a product that commercial, brand-name food-manufacturing companies want to buy. In this case, that product is refined white flour.

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

In 1948 a meeting was held by the Quartermasters of the Armed Forces in conjunction with most of the major food manufacturing giants in America. The list of names of those attending this meeting reads like as who's-who of American food manufacturing, including such names as Pillsbury, Oscar Mayer, Libby, Stokley, Campbell Soups, Continental, General Foods, and Bordens. During these discussions it was concluded that this Japanese taste-enhancer did indeed have some remarkable properties.

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Sugar and sweeteners have so pervaded our food manufacturing and restaurant industries that it is almost impossible to find prepackaged products that are unsweetened. Most frequently used are both refined, high-calorie, non-nutrient sucrose and the corn syrup derivatives, mainly as high-fructose corn syrup. Consequently, the only way to avoid sweeteners is to avoid packaged products and recipes with sugar whenever possible.

Low-carb vs. low-fat diet debate distracts from the real weight loss solution Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The mainstream press depends on revenues from food manufacturing companies, including junk food companies and soft drink companies that sell products strongly correlated with the development of chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis and obesity. Thus, the business of selling disease-promoting, obesity-encouraging foods is extremely profitable to everyone in the industry. To openly discuss the strategy of moving away from processed, manufactured foods would alienate most advertisers who support these information publishers, and it would drain profits from grocery stores as well.

Kraft sells avocado-free guacamole dip product made with hydrogenated oils Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Someone has beaten me to the punch with this brilliant food manufacturing idea. Come to think of it, there are a lot of food products at the grocery store that really don't have any foods in them at all. They're basically just synthetic chemicals, colors, artificial flavors, fragrances, pretty packaging and hydrogenated or homogenized fats to give it some texture. That's what you're buying, folks. But thank goodness you're saving 25¢ on it because you clipped a coupon out of the local newspaper. Aren't we smart consumers!

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All chips are soaked in fat, great pools of often old stuff left over from other food manufacturing processes, before they're allowed to leave the factory. The fat congeals, goes rigid instead of limp, and the indispensable stiffness is ensured. Over small regions it approaches the stiffness of concrete. A finished chip is 40 to 60 per cent congealed fat by weight when you bite it, but with sufficiently strong flavorers, and a certain discretion in advertising disclaimers, there's no need for that to interfere with sales.

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating Jeffrey M. Smith See book keywords and concepts

In Europe, nearly the entire food manufacturing and retail industry has banned GM ingredients, and the majority of the world's population are covered by restrictions on the sale and use of GM crops.57 Because of the difficulty of segregating GM crops from non-GM crops, many overseas buyers have simply rejected all corn, soy, canola, and cotton from the U.S. and Canada. Since these four GM crops and their derivatives are found in most processed foods in the U.S., American-made packaged foods are also off-limits in many markets. U.S.

Herbs Against Cancer: History and Controversy Ralph W. Moss PhD See book keywords and concepts

Some years later he opened a large health food manufacturing operation in Amqui, Tennessee, from which he shipped his health food throughout North America. He created many new food products and herbal combinations. With Kloss, as with many of his type, the philosophy of health food was indistinguishable from missionary Protestantism. "He believed that God had placed in the earth remedies for human ills and aids to human health," wrote his daughter. "He took a keen, almost evangelical interest in [the] effort to improve the general health of the public" (232, 139).

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