Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: A lot of people mistakenly assume that any food product purchased at a health food store is automatically good for you. They think it must be natural and contain no chemical additives or taste enhancers. This simply isn't true. There are hundreds of products sold at health food stores and grocery stores that do contain these chemical additives, and the worst offender of all is an ingredient called yeast extract.
This ingredient has only one purpose in foods: To deliver free glutamic acid, or free glutamate, to your tongue. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 In America, soy is aggressively marketed as an upscale "health food" that can prevent heart disease and cancer, build healthy bones and stop menopausal symptoms. Despite a lack of any real proof for these claims, soy foods are one of the fastest growing sectors in the food industry with retail sales growing from $0,852 billion in 1992 to $4 billion in 2003. Retail sales grew 21.1 percent in 2000 with the strongest increases in sales of soymilk, energy bars, meat analogues and cold cereals, with an increase of 26.8 percent in mainstream supermarkets, 11. |
| Inositol hexaphosphate—a ten-dollar word for phytic acid, the active ingredient of phytates—is a hot new over-the-counter health food store supplement said to reduce cell proliferation, increase differentiation of malignant cells and induce their return to normal.
Such products may have valid pharmaceutical applications, but should never be used casually or for long periods of time. Researchers who have compared purified phytates to phytates in foods such as bran or beans have found that the foods do not have the same beneficial effects.82 As A.M. Shamsuddin, Ph.D. |
| The higher prices have led to higher profits because soy suddenly fits the image of an upscale health food.
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
Not everyone agrees that the fake foods compete with the real thing. And some of them still taste pretty lousy. Staff reporters at U.S. News and World Reports reported an informal taste test in which they decried the color and taste of soy pastrami as "vile," likened barbecue-flavored tofu to "overcooked scrambled eggs," and played with a soy hot dog after someone discovered that the rubbery concoction could bounce. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Shamai: In health food stores. If they don't see them, they can ask for them. They are in general distribution to health food stores in the Western United States. In the East it's a little bit harder, although they can certainly get them. There is distribution to health food stores in the East. But in the West, they're readily available through the mainstream health food distributors.
Mike: For those who can't find them locally, can they go to your website?
Shamai: They can. And I supply from the website as well. Of course, I try to not undermine the retailers and the distributors. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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| Glossy magazines like Vegetarian Times, Health and Self transferred the pro-soy message from health food stores infused with the odor of vitamins to upscale markets, and a raft of books by health professionals encouraged avoidance of meat and dairy as the answer to the rising rates of disease caused by imitation foods. |
| Upscale consumers pay dearly for the supposedly beneficial soy protein products in health food and gourmet stores. The masses, meanwhile, get the soy oil in the form of the deadly hydrogenated oils lurking in nearly every fast food or packaged product—from crackers, cookies and other baked goods to canned foods, frozen French fries and TV dinners.
Upscale soy products are trickling down as the word "soy" becomes associated in the popular mind with "healthy. |
| Thus, calcium-enriched soy infant formulas and soy milks sold in supermarkets and health food stores might worsen the health of people who already have marginal zinc status. However, researchers at the Fomon Infant Nutrition Unit at Iowa State University disagree, positing that high levels of added calcium will keep the phytates sufficiently distracted so that some of the zinc can be absorbed.45
CALCIUM AND OTHER MINERALS
Phytates take their toll on other minerals as well, as shown by a study of breastfeeding mothers in the Kathmandu region of Nepal. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| There are hundreds of products sold at health food stores and grocery stores that do contain these chemical additives, and the worst offender of all is an ingredient called yeast extract.
This ingredient has only one purpose in foods: To deliver free glutamic acid, or free glutamate, to your tongue. The idea is to mimic the chemistry and function of monosodium glutamate, or MSG, an ingredient that has been classified as an excitotoxin. |
| This ingredient is so common in the natural health industry that it's difficult to actually find what I call "clean natural foods" in the frozen food section of any health food store in this country. One food after another contains yeast extract that functions almost like monosodium glutamate. That is its only purpose in these foods. I personally, have a very sensitive glutamate detector in my body. If I eat any food containing high levels of glutamate, I immediately get a piercing headache that lasts for hours, so I can always tell when a manufacturer is hiding this ingredient in its foods. |
| You can find the foods made by Amy's Kitchen in distribution in upper-scale grocery stores and health food stores all across the United States and around the world. Their web site is www.Amyskitchen.com.
I have been purchasing and consuming Amy's Kitchen food items for about two years now, and I have never had a monosodium glutamate incident from their products. |
| So, Amy's Kitchen earns my recommendation for avoiding this ingredient and delivering honest, clean food that you can find at health food stores and even some grocery stores.
Remember, I earn no commission, kickbacks or revenues of any kind from Amy's Kitchen for doing these reviews. It's funny that every time I contact a company and offer to do an interview, they always ask me, "Is there a fee involved?" I'm asked this every single time, and it's quite shocking to hear this over and over again. Of course there's no fee involved, because I'm practicing honest journalism here. |
Byron J. Richards
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 Watch Yourself in a health food Store
Health food stores and co-ops, while generally carrying more organic foods, also carry a lot of junk food masquerading as health food. Just because it says organic does not mean you can indiscriminately eat that food in any amount. Many packaged or canned organic foods are fortified with natural cane sugar or some other sugar to get sweet-addicted consumers to buy them. Look at the label and look at the amount of sugar in the product. Don't buy products with added sugar. Then, possibly, the organic industry will quit making them. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Right now, we're selling it to health food stores.
Steve: Do you have any health food stores that people might check out right now?
Goodry: Yes, if you go to any of your main health food stores in the area, and the food co-op's, you'll probably find the product. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 I'm really very angry with the health food industry for putting 'organic cane juice' in so many products and calling them 'health foods,' " Dr. Fuchs says. "It causes the same stimulating effect on insulin as refined sugars even if it does contain tiny amounts of trace minerals."
Hnw Can I Squash My Sugar Cravings? and Other Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
It seems that everyone who embarks upon a program to kick sweeteners asks many of the same questions. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The health food store raids
In 1993, the war against health freedom reached its peak in Texas, where combined forces of the FDA, DEA, IRS, U.S. Customs, and U.S. Postal Services conducted commando-style raids on nearly 40 different health food stores, vitamin companies, and natural health clinics from May through September. The homes of company owners and employees were also raided, and some raids were conducted with SWAT teams brandishing assault weapons and flak jackets. |
| The Texas vitamin store raids
In 1992, the FDA prompted the Texas Department of Health (TDH) and the Texas Department of Food and Drug to conduct raids on more than 12 health food stores. Agents seized flaxseed oil, aloe vera, zinc supplements, vitamin C, and even Sleepytime Tea. One health food store owner was reportedly threatened by TDH with, "Don't talk to the press, or we'll come down on you twice as hard!"
None of the confiscated products were ever returned to the store owners, no charges were filed, and no reason for the raids was ever given. |
Byron J. Richards
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| Watch Yourself in a health food Store
Health food stores and co-ops, while generally carrying more organic foods, also carry a lot of junk food masquerading as health food. Just because it says organic does not mean you can indiscriminately eat that food in any amount. Many packaged or canned organic foods are fortified with natural cane sugar or some other sugar to get sweet-addicted consumers to buy them. Look at the label and look at the amount of sugar in the product. Don't buy products with added sugar. Then, possibly, the organic industry will quit making them. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: In terms of being able to find this product at local health food stores, where can people locate it?
Kunin: We're at all the major health food stores -- from Whole Foods, Wild Oats and Vitamin Shops to your local mom and pop health food store.
Mike: So, if people just remember "Drink Your Vitamins," that's your trademark.
Kunin: Drinkyourvitamins.com, that'll get you to where you need to go.
Mike: Okay, Greg, perfect. Thank you so much for taking the time to describe your product and philosophy.
Kunin: It's been my pleasure. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Add 2 tablespoons of organic Apple Cider Vinegar (Available at most grocery stores or health food stores.) Shake the ACV well before adding
4. Add 2 ounces of R PUR Aloe International® 18X Concentrate or organic Aloe juice from your local health food store
5. Add the juice of Vt lemon
6. Mix well and keep refrigerated
Why is Organic Apple Cider Vinegar in the Intestinal Cleanser?
DEFINITION pH: stands for potential Hydrogen and is a measure of acidity and alkalinity.
Mother: essentially, a structure of protein filaments clinging together that resembles a spider's web. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You might be saying, "Oh great, not another health food bar. I see all sorts of health food bars at the grocery store or health food store." Sure, there are a lot of them, and most of them, frankly, are garbage. Most of them are loaded with refined sugars, artificial ingredients, additives and fillers. A lot of so-called "nutrition bars" used to be good for you in their original formulation, but they've been dumbed down for the sugar-hungry American population, and are now little more than candy bars. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The health food industry
The fifth thing I really like about America is the health food industry. We have the best selection of health food stores and healthy grocery stores of any country in the world. Of course, it depends on what city you're in. If you are in St. Louis, you're not going to get a very good selection at the grocery store compared to what you might find in San Francisco, for example, or Seattle. But if you're in the right city and you're at the right store, you have a fantastic selection of fresh produce in this country. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Clair: Well, we've actually been doing this now for about 12 years, and, initially, some of our formulas were used just in practitioners' offices and not in health food stores. The founder of the company, Clyde St. Clair, who is actually my father, determined that this was something that should be, and certainly could be, in health food stores. Being a health food store owner as well, he decided to test market it in his store, and it's still carried there. Since then, it has really sprouted and taken off across the country as far as being in most independent shops. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Whole stevia leaf can be bought at health food stores or by mail order, or you can grow your own. Grind the whole leaf into a powder and add to food and teas for a sweet taste. You can also buy water-extracted stevia in liquid form from your local health food store in the supplements section. Avoid alcohol-extracted and refined forms of stevia. Unrefined stevia is dark green in color. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| They are in general distribution to health food stores in the Western United States. In the East it's a little bit harder, although they can certainly get them. There is distribution to health food stores in the East. But in the West, they're readily available through the mainstream health food distributors.
Mike: For those who can't find them locally, can they go to your website?
Shamai: They can. And I supply from the website as well. Of course, I try to not undermine the retailers and the distributors. So I prefer that. But I love it when people order on the internet. So feel free. |
Ron Garner
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 Wherever you go to purchase products at the grocery store, drug store, or health food store, the guideline for reading labels and selecting products is, as soon as you have found an ingredient that is a chemical or a word that you can't pronounce, put it back! Your health depends on it, and your body will thank you for it.
HEALTHY LIFESTYLE CHECKLIST
What to Consume
Natural whole foods—local, organically-grown when possible. Food that has not been genetically altered. Living, structured water. Green smoothies.
Freshly prepared fruit and vegetable juices. |
| Check health food stores and drug stores. Some networking companies also sell them.
The discussion and comments provided here are brief and a summary at best. Readers are urged to obtain a copy of Dr. M. T. Morter's booklet pH, Your Potential for Health, or other books on pH testing for more detail. It should be stressed that a person should not try to draw firm conclusions based on one day's readings. An average of pH numbers over several days is a more reliable indicator.
Generally speaking, the more the initial urine pH reading, after awakening, is below 6. |
Roberta Bivins
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 Walk into your local health food shop, cafe, or pick up the local paper. Chances are that you'll see ads for meditation, acupuncture, herbal supplements, and T'ai Chi classes, alongside the business cards of homeopaths and naturopaths, faith healers and Chinese herbalists. Prominent medical and scientific journals begrudge what they see as ill-considered enthusiasm for such 'heterodox' or 'alternative' therapies, and mourn the lost lustre of orthodox medicine. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Capsules are widely available at pharmacies and health food shops, where you may also find garlic combined with horseradish, which is one of the best safeguards against colds, influenza, asthma and respiratory problems.
ECHINACEA
A herb native to North America, echinacea is highly regarded as a traditional treatment for immune disorders and infections of the upper respiratory tract such as asthma, colds, flu, tonsillitis and catarrh. It is considered one of the most powerful alternative medicines because of its excellent antibiotic, antiviral and immune-system boosting properties. |
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