ALERT!!! Monsanto Package Admits Seeds Treated with Poison

 

Monsanto package admits seeds treated with 'poison,' advises against human consumption

 



Images are surfacing across the internet that illustrate the true dangers associated with genetically modified (GM) seeds, as admitted by the seeds' manufacturers. The Food Warrior Network recently posted a photo of a seed package distributed by Monsanto India Limited, for instance, that warns users not to consume the seeds or use them as food, oil or animal feed, because they are poisonous.

This shocking photo is sparking controversy among many health advocates, particularly as the biotechnology industry ramps up the propaganda machine to reassure the public that GMOs are safe and no different from natural organisms. On the contrary, GM seeds are admittedly dangerous and not safe for human consumption, which means the widespread industry claim that they are substantially identical to natural seeds is wholly false.

"Caution: Seeds treated with poison," reads the package warning accompanying the seeds. "Do not use for food, feed or oil purpose."

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Many commercial seeds treated with health-destroying poisons

As it turns out, all sorts of commercial seeds, including some non-GM conventional seeds, bear similar toxicity warnings that the average consumer will never see. A seed treatment known as Axcess, produced by chemical giant BASF, comes with a warning that clearly prohibits using treated seeds and even plant greens from treated seeds as any type of food, either for humans or animals.

"Rapeseed [canola] greens and seed grown or harvested from Axcess-treated seed must not be used for feed or human consumption," reads the warning pamphlet for Axcess, which outlines emergency procedures for how to handle accidental consumption. "Rapeseed grown and harvested from Axcess-treated seed is only for industrial use and cannot be used for edible oil or any other human/feed consumption."

This BASF warning label can be viewed here:
http://www.agproducts.basf.us.

As you will notice, this same warning label contains restrictions on allowing animals to graze fields growing Axcess-treated crops. Wheat, barley, oats, rye, triticale, sorghum and millet crops treated with Axcess are so dangerous that they must be quarantined from animal access for at least 45 days after planting.
 

GMOs admittedly a threat to the environment, endangered species

If the general public had the chance to read these and similar warnings on package inserts for commercial seeds, it might cause more people to think twice about consuming all these transgenic derivatives that the chemical companies insist are safe. GMO labeling also suddenly becomes a whole lot more prudent in light of these revelations.

Even worse is the fact that using these chemical-treated seeds threatens both the environment and native species, including endangered species protected by federal statues. A package insert for seed treated with SIGNET 480 FS, for instance, which is manufactured by a company called Nufarm, explains that the treatment is harmful to fish, birds, endangered species and the environment.

"This chemical is toxic to fish, aquatic invertebrates, birds, oysters and shrimp," reads the insert, referencing a chemical known as "Thiram: Tetramethylthiuram Disulfide." "This product may have effects on federally listed threatened or endangered species or their critical habitat in some [U.S.] counties," it adds.

You can read the SIGNET 480 FS Seed Treatment package insert here:
http://www.nufarm.com.

So everything that real food advocates have been saying for years about the toxicity of GMOs and chemical-treated conventional seed crops appears to be true, based on these warnings. Humans, animals and the environment are all threatened by the use of GM seed technologies that involve deliberately tampering with seed structures, which in this case involves coating and treating them with harmful chemicals that destroy everything with which they come into contact.

 

Hidden GMO: Look for GM Additives in Ingredient List to Ensure Optimal Health

 

 

By now, many are familiar with the existence of genetically modified organism, or GMO. But besides the most talked about genetically modified crops (corn, cotton, canola and soy for the highest on the list), do you know about genetically modified additives that hide into your favorite processed packaged foods?

They may hide low on the ingredient list, but in most cases should be given serious thought: trials have shown that each exposure to such substances add up,  eventually possibly creating health risks.
Genetically modified additives are used in processed food to:

• Improve color
• Improve taste and texture
• Stabilize
• Preserve, hence lengthen shelf life

They come in many shapes and forms:

Maltodextrin: Used as a thickener for processed soups, candy and soda, it is a starch that adds flavor, stabilizes and can even be used as a fat substitute.

Dextrose: Usually derived from corn, it is used in sodas, sport drinks, processed baked goods, and High Fructose Corn Syrup (along with other additives like glucose) to sweeten products.
Sorbitol: With a low level of sweetness, it is used in sugar free products (chocolate), candies and bakery items (processed pastries); it holds moisture in tack and preserves freshness in most shelf items.

Citric Acid: Usually derived from GM crops and consistently under the spotlight because many organic products are using it as a preservative. Organic certifiers require that enzymes used to convert starch into sugar must derive from non GM micro-organisms.

Lecithin: Lecithin is soy and most soy is not only sprayed pesticides, but genetically modified. Lecithin is extremely processed: it is a byproduct of soybean oil, bleached with hydrogen peroxide then dried, and used as an emulsifier. It can be found in processed puddings, chocolates, corn oils, soy oils and vegetable oils. It is the ingredient that allows nut butters to spread. Organic soy lecithin is available, but since organic goods need to be 95% organic, the remaining 5% open the door to GM additives.

Many countries strongly oppose genetically modified food. The European Union has strict regulations against GM crops and even in the US, 87% of Americans agree that GM products must be labeled.

Danger in Your Energy Drink?

Hidden ingredients can spell disaster

 

 

Remember when Jessie Spano on Saved by the Bell went off the deep end on caffeine pills? One minute she was “so excited,” the next she was crying, passing out, and missing her big break for filming a trampoline-laden music video.

If SBTB were still filming today (hey, Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Mario Lopez still look good), Jessie might have swapped her pills for a super-sized energy drink. Only this time, energy drinks are actually sending people to the hospital — more than 20,000 emergency room visits were due in some part to energy drink consumption in 2011, according to The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Energy drinks contain anywhere from 80mg of caffeine (Red Bull) to 208mg (5-Hour Energy). Your tall Starbucks coffee has about 260mg. Energy drinks pack a larger punch because they contain guarana, a caffeine-like substance that stimulates the body more than caffeine.
Overdoing it on energy drinks has been associated with the following symptoms, according to the American College of Medical Toxicology:

• anxiety
• dehydration
• heart palpitations
• seizures (though rare, cases have been documented)

A big concern for the over-21 set is that caffeine and guarana in energy drinks can mask intoxication. This makes reckless behavior and bad decisions more likely to happen than if you were just drinking alcohol. You may feel like you can drive home, but trust us, you can’t.

All this is not to say you can’t crack open a Monster every once in a while. Caffeine affects people differently, and some people may not experience energy-boosting or negative effects at all while some people could drink weak tea and not sleep for days. Moderation is the key — plus avoiding Jäger bombs or any other cocktail combo of alcohol and energy drinks. Sorry, Real World cast members.

The Grapefruit Paloma: A drink that is tasty and good for you.



Hidden Ingredients in Vitamins: What’s in Your One-a-Day?

 

 

If you wash down a multi-vitamin with your juice each morning, then you probably think you’re doing something good for your body. You may be, if the vitamins in the formula are obtained from naturally occurring sources. On the other hand, if they are synthetically derived, you could be supplementing with components of chlorinated hydrocarbons (PCBs), petroleum by-products and even sewage sludge. Before you pop another, find out what may be lurking in your vitamins…

Just like your automobile requires gasoline (or electricity) in order for the engine to spin the wheels, your body needs nutrients so that all of its power systems can run efficiently. Every time you take a bite of food, your digestive system breaks down fats and proteins to release essential nutrients, which are transported to various organs and cells via the bloodstream like mail delivery from a postal truck. But, the thing is, these nutrients are not isolated components assigned to a specific destination address. Instead, they taxi along the bloodstream bundled with enzyme-driven co-factors to enhance absorption where needed during the ride up town, so to speak. But if the body is presented with chemical copies of isolated nutrients, the cells fail to recognize them as anything useful because there are no co-factors to make the necessary introductions. Worse, the body treats these imposters like you might address junk mail; only instead of sending them to the curb for recycling they end up going out with rest of the biological trash in what some health experts call “expensive urine.” In other words, the body responds to synthetic vitamins by eliminating them as toxic waste. The skip to my “loo” treatment only applies to water-soluble vitamins that are readily flushed out of the body. Some vitamins, namely A, D, E and K, are fat-soluble, which means they hang around and accumulate in adipose (fat) tissue and in the liver. Natural fat-soluble vitamins don’t pose any threat because the body knows how to metabolize them since they are equipped with enzymatic co-factors. This is not the case with synthetic vitamins, however, which suggests that taking high doses of these vitamins could lead to toxicity.


Speaking of Toxins…

There are simply no substitutes for certain things found in the natural world. Take B vitamins, for instance, a family of water-soluble nutrients consisting of eight compounds labeled as vitamin B 1 through 8 and collectively known as vitamin B complex. Each member of this family contributes to healthy metabolic functioning in humans and because they are water-soluble they must be replenished regularly. Natural dietary sources of B vitamins include beans, potatoes, whole grains, brewer’s yeast, tuna and turkey. In stark contrast, synthetic B vitamins are created in a lab from petroleum by-products, such as coal tar. The majority of vitamin B-12, also known as cyanocobalamin, is synthesized from hormone and pesticide-laden cow’s liver or – brace yourself — activated sewage sludge.


Similarly, although vitamin C is readily available from sun-drenched citrus fruits, the synthetic stuff that tumbles from a bottle was manufactured in a lab from sulfuric acid. It’s ironic that manufacturers often compete with each other by touting that their vitamin C product is more “potent” when 1) it’s incomplete ascorbic acid and gets passed out of the body through the urine and 2) it very likely came from the same source — Hoffman-LaRoche in Nutley, New Jersey, the company that cooks up 90% of synthetic vitamin C sold as (fractionated) ascorbic acid.

Are Synthetic Vitamins Harmful?

Aside from the fact that synthetic vitamins are virtually useless to your body because they are incomplete, they can cause health problems if taken over a long period of time, even if they appear to provide some benefit at first. For example, vitamin B-1 sold as synthetic thiamine may at first counter the symptoms of fatigue. At best, this is because the body has enough co-factors of the vitamin in storage that it can assimilate the isolated or fractured nutrient to the degree that it effectively relieves fatigue. After a while, though, this reserve is depleted and fatigue returns. Not only that, but because the body is tricked into producing more pyruvic acid to facilitate the production of energy to fuel cells, this substance accumulates and makes your muscles feel as though you engaged in sustained physical exercise. As a result, you will feel tired pretty much all of the time.

What Can You Do?

It should go without saying that the best source of natural vitamins is whole, unprocessed natural food. Basically, make a concerted effort to eat a lot of things that were organically grown in the ground or plucked off a tree that required water and sunlight to thrive. For most people, this is sufficient and makes the need to take vitamins moot in the first place. Still, if you must supplement your diet for whatever reason, there are a few things to know when shopping for vitamins.
Steer clear of the Big Name brands that are often owned by giant players in the pharmaceutical industry like Bayer, Pfizer or Eastman Kodak, to name a few. Likewise, avoid products that are made by the same drug companies and co-packaged for store brands designed to attract consumers with a cheap retail price. As the old saying goes, you get what you pay for – and when it comes to nutritional supplements, what you don’t.

Lastly but foremost, seek out reputable manufacturers of organically produced, natural, complete vitamins. Thanks to the efforts of watchdog organizations like the Organic Consumers Association, there’s a new manufacturing standard in place called the Naturally Occurring Standard (NOS). As the name implies, the criteria set to allow products to be labeled NOS not only ensures that they are organic and naturally occurring, but also fair trade certified and free of genetically modified (GMO) ingredients, synthetics and nanoparticles.



Dangerous Ingredients Lurking in 8 Popular Sushi Dishes

Do you love sushi?  Keep reading to find out why you may want to rethink your next sushi meal.

By Dr. Mercola

Most people regard sushi as a healthful choice when eating out, or even when looking for a quick take-out option, as ready-made sushi is now widely available in grocery stores.

Obviously, if you order certain sushi rolls that are deep-fried, you're probably already aware that not everything on the menu at your favorite Asian restaurant is actually healthy.

But what may come as a surprise -- even to the most health-conscious sushi lovers -- are the potentially dangerous ingredients hidden in even seemingly excellent choices -- like seaweed salad, wasabi, or sushi ginger.

Tuna and Snapper Sushi Are Probably Not What You Think

When you factor in all of the additives found in many sushi dishes, it becomes clear that this potentially healthful food has succumbed to the processed food trap of artificial additives and fillers in lieu of real, quality ingredients. But there is more to the story than even this… When you eat tuna at your favorite sushi restaurant, there’s a good chance you’re not actually eating tuna. Instead, the majority of fish labeled “white tuna” may actually be escolar, a type of fish that can cause serious digestive effects, including oily anal leakage.

Oceana conducted DNA testing on more than 1,200 fish samples across the US and found that one-third were mislabeled. While red snapper had the highest mislabeling rates (87 percent of “red snapper” samples were not actually red snapper), tuna was a close second, with 59 percent mislabeled.

At sushi restaurants, however, 74 percent of fish samples were mislabeled. This included every single sushi restaurant from which samples were tested, even in major metropolitan areas like Chicago, Austin, New York and Washington DC. In many cases, the mislabeled fish had been substituted for cheaper, less desirable and/or more readily available fish varieties. More than 90 percent of the seafood consumed in the US is imported, yet only 1 percent of imports are inspected for fraud, which may explain this clearly out-of-control situation.

Sushi Tuna Is Typically High in Mercury

Most major waterways in the world are contaminated with mercury, heavy metals, and chemicals like dioxins, PCBs, and other agricultural chemicals that wind up in the environment. Fish has always been the best source for the animal-based omega-3 fats EPA and DHA, but as levels of pollution have increased, this health treasure of a food has become less and less viable as a primary source of beneficial fats.

This is particularly true for tuna, which tends to be a higher mercury fish. One study from the U.S. Geological Survey found that ALL tuna tested contained fairly high amounts of mercury. The contamination may be even worse in restaurants, again confirming that eating restaurant tuna is a risky proposition.

Further, according to a separate study, toxicological testing revealed that tuna sold in restaurants actually contained higher amounts of mercury than the store-bought variety. The reason is that restaurants tend to favor certain species of tuna, such as bluefin akami and bigeye tuna, which had significantly higher levels of mercury than bluefin toro and yellowfin tuna. Unfortunately, mercury tends to accumulate to a greater degree in muscle than in fat, rendering these highly prized, leaner species of tuna more susceptible to high contamination.

Can You Still Enjoy the Sushi You Love?

If you love sushi, and want to enjoy it without adding unnecessary health risks, try making it at home. You can purchase a whole, low-mercury fish, such as wild-caught Alaskan sockeye salmon, and use natural versions of ginger and wasabi for condiments. If this sounds daunting, there are many tutorials on how to make your own sushi simply at home available online.

Additionally, whenever I consume fish, I make sure to also take chlorella tablets. The chlorella is a potent mercury binder and, if taken with the fish, will help bind the mercury before you are able to absorb it, so it can be safely excreted in your stool.

If you want to eat out, search around for a higher end restaurant that makes its own dishes, like seaweed salad, and will be upfront about disclosing ingredients. Steer clear of tuna due to its mercury content in favor of lower mercury wild-caught salmon, and consider bringing your own natural versions of wasabi or pickled ginger (available in some health food stores) from home. You can also try some of the all-vegetable options and forgo the seafood entirely, if you’re in doubt about its variety or purity.

Be sure to avoid any sushi made from farmed fish. Remember, fish farms are the aquatic version of a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO), and just like land-based cattle and chicken farms, fish farms breed disease due to crowding too many fish together in a small space. They also produce toxic waste, and fish of inferior quality. These fish are further contaminated by drugs and genetically modified corn and soy meal feed, and in the case of salmon, synthetic astaxanthin, which is made from petrochemicals that are not approved for human consumption.


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The Shocking Ingredients in Beer

Beer, especially American beer, is made with all sorts of ingredients beyond the basic hops, malt and yeast. There are numerous other ingredients used to clarify, stabilize, preserve, enhance the color and flavor of beer.

When you drink beer, there is almost a 100% chance that you don’t know what you are drinking (unless you quizzed the beer companies like I did). The ingredients in beer are not required by law to be listed anywhere on the label and manufacturers have no legal obligation to disclose the ingredients. For regular beer, calorie levels and percent alcohol are optional and for light beer calories are mandatory but alcohol levels are optional.

Michele Simon, a public health lawyer, author of Appetite for Profit, and president of Eat Drink Politics said the reason that beer companies don’t disclose ingredients is simple: they don’t have to.

“Ingredient labeling on food products and non-alcoholic beverages is required by the Food and Drug Administration.  But a whole other federal agency regulates beer, and not very well. The Department of Treasury – the same folks who collect your taxes – oversees alcoholic beverages. That probably explains why we know more about what’s in a can of Coke than a can of Bud. You can also thank the alcohol industry, which has lobbied for years against efforts to require ingredient labeling.”

I figured if the beer companies aren’t required to tell us the exact list of ingredients, I needed to investigate this for myself and asked them the pointed questions until I got the truth.

 

 

 

 

First of all, I was able to obtain a baseline list of “legal” additives allowed in beer from the book “Chemicals Additives in Beer” by the Center of Science and Public Interest. This list allowed me to ask specific questions about each beer I investigated. For example – beer sold here in America can contain several of the following ingredients:

• Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) –  alcohol is already addictive with some people, but with MSG?! Holy smokes.

• Propylene Glycol (an ingredient found in anti-freeze)

• Calcium Disodium EDTA (made from formaldehyde, sodium cayanide, and Ethylenediamine)

• Many different types of sulfites and anti-microbial preservatives (linked to allergies and asthma)

• Natural Flavors (can come from anything natural including a beavers anal gland)

• High Fructose Corn Syrup

• GMO Sugars – Dextrose, Corn Syrup

• Caramel Coloring (Class III or IV made from ammonia and classified as a carcinogen)

• FD&C Blue 1 (Made from petroleum, linked to allergies, asthma and hyperactivity)

• FD&C Red 40 (Made from petroleum, linked to allergies, asthma and hyperactivity)

• FD&C Yellow 5 (Made from petroleum, linked to allergies, asthma and hyperactivity)

• Insect-Based Dyes: carmine derived from cochineal insects to color their beer.

• Animal Based Clarifiers: Findings include isinglass (dried fish bladder), gelatin (from skin, connective tissue, and bones), and casein (found in milk)

• Foam Control: Used for head retention; (glyceryl monostearate and pepsin are both potentially derived from animals)

• BPA (Bisphenol A is a component in many can liners and it may leach into the beer. BPA can mimic the female hormone estrogen and may affect sperm count, and other organ functions.)

   

During an investigation, a single mainstream beer company to share the full list of ingredients contained in their beer. But some of them to fess up to the use of these ingredients in writing so I’m going to share this information with you now.

Carcinogenic Caramel Coloring

Newcastle, a UK brand, confessed to using what I would consider one of the most controversial food additives. Toasted barley is usually what gives beer its golden or deep brown color, however in this case, Newcastle beer is also colored artificially with caramel color. This caramel coloring is manufactured by heating ammonia and sulfites under high pressure, which creating carcinogenic compounds. If beer companies were required by law to list the ingredients, Newcastle would likely have to have a cancer warning label under California law because it is a carcinogen proven to cause liver tumors, lung tumors, and thyroid tumors in rats and mice.

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

Many of the beers I questioned contained one or more possible GMO ingredients.

• High Fructose Corn Syrup (Guinness – unable to provide an affidavit for non-GMO proof)
• Corn syrup (Miller Light, Coors, Corona, Fosters, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Red Stripe)
• Dextrose (Budweiser, Bud Light, Busch Light, Michelob Ultra)
• Corn (Red Stripe, Miller Coors Brand, Anheuser-Busch Brands)

Most beers brewed commercially are made with more GMO corn than barley. Many of the companies I contacted dodged the GMO question – however Miller Coors had a very forthcoming and honest response. They stated “Corn syrup gives beer a milder and lighter-bodied flavor” and “Corn syrups may be derived from a mixture of corn (conventional and biotech.)”, admitting their use of GMOs.

Pabst Blue Ribbon responded saying their corn syrup was “special” and “made of carbohydrates and some simple sugars like dextrose and maltose.  The sugars are fermented into alcohol and CO2, and the carbohydrates, both from the corn syrup and the malt, remain in the beers as flavor, color and body components.”

Dextrose and maltose can come from a variety of substances that are sweet, but likely are derived from GMO corn because it is super cheap for a company to use corn instead of fruit or other non-GMO sources. With cheap beer – you are not just getting a cheap buzz, you are getting the worst of the worst.  Just like with cheap fast food – if you don’t invest in your beer – you will be drinking a lower quality product like Pabst Blue Ribbon that is made from GMO Corn and Corn Syrup.


In 2007, Greenpeace found unapproved and experimental GMO Rice strain in Anheuser-Busch (Budweiser, Bud Light) beer. Anheuser-Busch responded saying their US-grown long-grained rice “may have micro levels” of a genetically engineered protein called Liberty Link, but added that the protein is “substantially removed or destroyed” during the brewing of beer sold domestically. Don’t you think it’s hard to trust any beer company that gets caught using experimental food made in a laboratory? GMOs have not been tested long term on human beings and one of the main pesticides (Roundup) they spray on GMO crops are linked to inflammation, cancer and other diseases.

 

High Fructose Corn Syrup & Fish Bladders

Speaking of trusting companies, let’s get one thing straight, Guinness beer is no longer owned by the Irish, they are now owned by a large beer conglomerate called Diageo and manufactured in over 50 different countries. No matter how many St. Patty’s Day celebrations you’ve had with this dark stout, it’s time to stop because they use high fructose corn syrup in their beer. But, Guinness beer also contains isinglass, a gelatin-like substance produced from the swim bladder of a fish. This ingredient helps remove any “haziness,” solids, or yeast byproducts from the beer. Mmmmm… fish bladder sounds delicious, doesn’t? The sneaky thing this beer company does like many of the companies mentioned here today is create an illusion of using the best ingredients when in actuality what they tell you publicly on their websites is a complete farce. On Guinness FAQ’s – they have a question that states: “What are the key ingredients in Guinness” and the answer doesn’t reveal the whole picture – it only states “Our key ingredients – other than inspiration – are roasted, malted barley, hops, yeast and water.” What BS, right?  You have to call, email, question and know the right things to ask to even have a chance at getting the truth. This is insanity!




8 Hidden Dangers in Cosmetics

Dangerous Ingredients to Watch Out For in Cosmetics

Hidden Dangers of Cosmetics

The manufacturing and selling of cosmetics is a multi-billion dollar industry. Although cosmetics manufacturing has improved greatly over time and fewer toxic compounds are utilized, many products still contain lead, mercury, and other hazardous chemicals. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not fully regulate safety of either U.S.- or foreign-made cosmetic products. This slideshow covers a few chemicals that you should look out for in your cosmetics.

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Hidden Ingredients: What's Really in Your Food?

You may not want to know...

A lot has been said lately about knowing what is in our foods when grocery shopping. From dyes to chemicals, food manufacturers are filling our bellies with who knows what. For instance, did you know that the manufacturing process for those popular Greek yogurts produces millions of pounds of toxic acid waste annually?  It really is such a lovely image.

Well, at least the acid waste is not in the yogurt. The truth is, there are several "ingredients" hidden in the foods we eat every day.  Here are a few of those unnerving hidden ingredients:

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How much Hidden Sugar is in YOUR Diet?

How much hidden sugar is in YOUR diet? Study reveals that a bowl of tomato soup or natural yogurt has as much sugar as a bowl of Frosties


Leading professor has compiled a list of everyday 'hidden sugar' offenders
These include flavoured water, yogurts, canned soup, ready meals and bread

Graham MacGregor says food industry is adding more sugar to food

Says many people fall for the 'low fat' trick - not realising food is packed with sugar instead to give it flavor


We are constantly told how much sugar there is in fizzy drinks and cakes. But what about the hidden sugar in so-called healthy foods? 

A leading professor has spoken out about the dangers of 'hidden sugar' in food.
He also cautions against opting for low fat foods that are often full of sugar instead to give them flavour.

Graham MacGregor, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine at Barts and The London Hospital, says the food industry is adding more and more sugar to food, which consumers are largely unaware of, as it is mostly hidden.

 

Hidden enemy: A leading professor has warned that many of us have no idea how much sugar is hidden in certain foods. He has compared well-known sugary foods such as Coke, Frosties and popcorn with other that many of us consider to be quite healthy

 

Writing for The Conversation, he said: 'Added sugar in our diet is a very recent phenomenon and only occurred when sugar, obtained from sugar cane, beet and corn, became very cheap to produce.

'It’s a completely unnecessary part of our calorie intake: it has no nutritional value, gives no feeling of fullness and is acknowledged to be a major factor in causing obesity and diabetes both in the UK and worldwide.'

 

Professor MacGregor has compiled a table of some of the most common culprits.
He says: 'While it may not be surprising that a can of Coca Cola has a staggering nine teaspoons of sugar (35g), similar amounts can be found in the most unlikely of foods.'
These include flavoured water, yogurts, canned soup, ready meals and even bread.

 

 

 

 

Hidden where you least expect it: 300g (about 3/4 can) of Heinz Tomato Soup contains four teaspoons of sugar, while 150g of Yeo Valley 0% Fat Vanilla yogurt contains five
 

 

 

Half a jar of this Ragu Tomato and Basil pasta sauce has nearly as much sugar as a bowl of Frosties

 

As Professor MacGregor expains: 'You might opt for 0 per cent fat in your yoghurt, but what if it also comes with five teaspoons of sugar? A bowl of Frosties with semi-skimmed milk only has four.'

At the other end of his scale, a Starbucks caramel Frappuccino with whipped cream - made with skimmed milk - contains 11 teaspoons of sugar. A can of regular Coke has nine, a Mars bar eight.

When it comes to food, a Sharwood's Sweet and Sour Chicken with Rice contains six teaspoons - two more than a 25g bag of Butterkist toffee popcorn.
'It’s clear this sugar plays a part in soaring levels of obesity and diabetes. To this end, leading health experts from across the globe have united to tackle – and to unmask hidden sugar so consumers can make informed decisions about what they eat and drink.'

 

 

Sharwoods' Sweet and Sour Chicken with Rice contains six teaspoons - more than a small bag of toffee popcorm
 

He adds that sugar in our diets should now be gradually reduced, just as salt has been over the past few years.

'Salt content in food products in the supermarkets have now been reduced by 20-40 per cent and as a result, salt intake has fallen in the UK by 15 per cent (between 2001-2011), the lowest known figure of any developed country.'

This this will have reduced stroke and heart attack deaths by a minimum of 9,000 per year, with a saving in health care costs of at least £1.5bn a year, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

 

 

Crammed: A regular can of Coke contains nine teaspoons of sugar, while one Mars bar contains eight

 

Professor MacGregor says that a similar move could be taken with sugar.

'Like salt, most of the sugar we consume is hidden in processed food and soft drinks.
'There are also specific taste receptors for sugar, which if sugar intake is gradually reduced, become more sensitive. So over time we don’t notice that sugar levels have gone down.

'If we can persuade the Department of Health that this programme is very likely to help considerably with the obesity epidemic -  and in particular to reduce childhood obesity - while also reducing the incidence of dental disease, and (very likely) the number of people developing Type 2 diabetes, it should have a good chance of success. '

Revealed: How much sugar other foods contain

 

 

1. BOTTLE OF COKE (500ml);

2. JORDANS FRUSLI BAR, BLUEBERRY;

3. VOLVIC TOUCH OF FRUIT LEMON AND LIME (1.5 litre);

4. RED BULL (250ml);

5. BEN & JERRY'S PHISH FOOD ICE CREAM (500ml);

6. TESCO CHICKEN KORMA & PILAU RICE (550g);

7. INNOCENT MANGOES & PASSION FRUITS SMOOTHIE (250ml);

8. 1 TBSP (15ml) KETCHUP;

9. BB Q PRINGLES, (190g);

10. 2 MCVITIES DIGESTIVES;

11. NEW COVENT GARDEN PLUM TOMATO & MASCARPONE SOUP (600g);

12. PRET CORONATION CHICKEN & CHUTNEY SANDWICH;

13. MCDONALD'S LARGE STRAWBERRY MILKSHAKE;

14. WAITROSE LOVE LIFE CRAYFISH & MANGO SALAD;

15. SUN-MAID RAISINS (14g);

16. MULLER LIGHT STRAWBERRY (175g pot);

17. 1 BANANA;

18. DOLMI O BOLOGNESE ORIGINAL SAUCE (500g jar);

19. 1 PLAIN BAGEL;

20. GLASS OF TROPICANA SMOOTH ORANGE JUICE (200ml);

21. GLASS SEMI SKIMMED MILK (200ml);

22. APPLE; 23. BRAN FLAKES (30g with milk, 125ml);

23. BRAN FLAKES (30g with milk, 125ml) ;

24. STARBUCKS SIGNATURE GRANDE HOT CHOCOLATE & CREAM;

25. MCDONALDS FILLET-O-FISH;

26. GALAXY BAR (125g)

 

Avoiding Bad Chemicals in Your Food and Beverages

 

 

 

Every day, we consume processed foods and beverages that contain hidden ingredients with not-so-hidden negative consequences. Pay attention to the following bad chemicals in food, and avoid their unhealthy repercussions.

Instead of just obsessing about the no-no’s, we believe that having healthy alternatives is the best way to live an overall pro-health lifestyle. So we’ve provided alternatives to the downright scary stuff below.

1.    BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene). Food engineers place this additive in processed foods to help fats from becoming rancid. You should avoid it for its possible negative effects on the stomach and liver. BHT is normally found in potato chips and processed baked goods, but it can also be found in cosmetics.

TRY THIS: Instead of snacking on highly processed chips or crackers, go with crunchy carrots or bake your own pita chips.

2.    Glutamic acid, yeast extract, caseinate, and other names for MSG. Anyone with a clue about health knows that MSG is bad. It’s more difficult to keep an eye out for MSG hiding under other names, like glutamic acid. MSG enhances foods’ flavors, but it has the potential to make us sick, so make sure you know MSG’s synonyms so you can keep a wary eye out.

TRY THIS: Since MSG is found in a variety of foods from soup to nuts, there’s no one food to avoid. Actively check labels, and opt for fresh food in general. Fresh tomatoes or farm-raised beef definitely won’t have MSG!

3.    4-MI. 4-MI is short for 4-methylimidazole. A good rule of thumb is, if it’s as difficult to pronounce as methylimidazole, it’s probably not good for you. New reports suggest that this chemical causes cancer in animals, and the verdict’s out on whether it’s bad for people, too. Still, better to be on the safe side. 4-MI is also known as “caramel coloring” in all of our favorite brown sodas.

TRY THIS: You want the simple solution? Quit drinking soda and switch to water. If you crave carbonation, try diet clear sodas or carbonated water.

4.    BPA (bisphenol A). Frequently found in plastic or canned food packaging, BPA is linked to serious health problems: diabetes, liver malfunctions, heart disease, and brain issues included. The culprit food packaging includes bottles that bottled water is often packaged in.

TRY THIS: You can’t exactly find BPA on an ingredients list because it’s more about the packaging than what’s in it, so this chemical is a tough one to sniff out. What you can do is eat fewer foods that come in contact with plastics and cans. Fresh and frozen foods are, once again, your best bet. You can also avoid bottled water and stick with the grade-A pure water from a water ionizer to ensure that no BPA is sifting in through your water.

5.    Trihalomethanes. There’s a laundry list of potential chemicals in drinking water, and they’re all frightening. But trihalomethanes are some of the worst culprits. These chemicals are actually made of cleaning byproducts, including chloroform. Trihalomethanes could be cancer-causing, and unfortunately, they’re present in much of the drinking water across the country.

TRY THIS: Plain and simple: Don’t drink bad water. Drink water that’s good for you, and that’s going to benefit your life instead of hurt your body. We recommend alkaline ionized water from a Tyent water ionizer for water that’s totally clean with the added benefits of antioxidants and hydroxyl ions.

Whenever you purchase food, ask yourself if there’s a fresher option; that’s normally going to be your best bet. When it comes to drinking, clean water is always going to be healthier than any drink on the shelf. Let us know if you have additional tricks to avoid bad chemicals in food and drinks!



20 Gross & Disturbing Food Facts You'll Wish You Didn't Know

Eating gross things is fascinating when other people do it. It's why kids pay a dollar to get a weird kid to eat bugs on the playground and the reason NBC has been able to produce 150 episodes of Fear Factor. But when you're the one eating the gross stuff, it's not as fun. And there are a lot of disgusting and weird things out there that crop up in our everyday food.

Some of them just feel kind of off-putting, but in the grand scheme of things aren't that big of a deal. I know how cheese is made and I'm still going to eat five pounds of it if you put it in front of me. Others just feel plain wrong though, chemicals that shouldn't be in paint, or food that's not fresh being made to look fresh. Here are 20 food facts that will make you think twice next time you're at the grocery store.

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11 Scary Ingredients Lurking in our Fast Food

Did you know eating fast food just twice a week can make you gain 10 pounds and double your risk for insulin resistance, which can lead to diabetes, obesity, and a host of other health issues? (If that's not enough to scare you, maybe knowing that a 1999 McDonald's burger is still looking fresh or that Burger King burgers were contaminated with horsemeat in 2012 will. Ew.)

Needless to say, I don't think anyone would be shocked to learn that fast food isn't the healthiest dining option out there, but it may not be for the reasons you think. The fried foods and the empty-calorie sodas aren't the only thing that make fast food bad for you. It's not such a bad thing to have something battered and fried, or high in fat or calories, as long as it's mixed with a balanced diet and active lifestyle. But what about all the other things that make fast food not so much a food, but more of a science experiment? Often referred to as "Franken-food," fast food is typically composed of a variety of absolutely terrifying ingredients you would never consider putting in your body if they weren't disguised so beautifully as a delicious burger or French fry, and presented in fun, colorful packaging and buried in catchy marketing messages.

Take for example McDonald's menu description: "Our tender, juicy, Chicken McNuggets are made with USDA-inspected white meat. They're tempura battered and cooked to golden perfection." Doesn't sound half-bad, right? Until you look past that flaky exterior and further into the ingredient list. According to Dr. Mercola, "Only 50 percent of a McNugget is actually chicken. The other half includes corn derivatives, sugars, leavening agents, and completely synthetic ingredients." If that's not bad enough, a recent Annals of Diagnostic Pathology study revealed that number may be as little as 2% — as in only 2% of your meat is actually meat. (The average was 12% meat.) Yikes.

After looking into this I'm slightly regretting all the fast food I ate on my road trip this past weekend. Although the occasional fast food isn't really a big deal, I'll be keeping these ingredients in mind next time I decide to roll through the drive through. It's definitely making me appreciate the simplicity of the "rule" to try to eat foods with five ingredients or less, that way there's less likelihood of crazy things like the following making the list.

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8 Facts About Food That Will Totally Creep You Out

 

Disclaimer: Don't eat a hot dog while you watch this.

 

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10 Children's Books You Didn't Know Were Racist

10 Children's Books You Didn't Know Were Racist

Maybe these aren't the best books to teach your child to read with, check out why in 10 surprisingly racist children's books.

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How and Why GMO Industry Maligned Seralini's Roundup Ready Corn and Roundup Herbicide Study

The journal Food and Chemical Toxicology (FCT) removed the Gilles Eric-Seralini team's research paper recently. This happened after two major events. First there was a groundswell of "scientific criticisms" from scientists with or formerly with GMO industry connections. Some even with GMO patents. Their conflicts of interest were never an issue.

The mainstream media (MSM) accepted those criticisms as scientific truth without question or consulting Seralini and his many supporters. Seralini and the researchers at University of Caen in France don't represent any of the industry mega-corporations that frequently advertise through the MSM. Nor do hundreds of scientists who support the study.

Soon after this tsunami of outrage from GMO related scientists that got favorable press, along came former Monsanto scientist Richard E. Goodman to the newly created post of associate editor for biotechnology at FCT.

Then suddenly the editor-in-chief of FCT, A. Wallace Hayes, announced the removal of Seralini's study "Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize".

Hayes admitted the study was not fraudulent or inaccurate, but explained that it was inconclusive. Real scientists jumped on that one, explaining that peer reviewed published studies are often inconclusive, recommending "further studies".

Another study harmful to Monsanto was thrown out just after Goodman's arrival. That was a Brazilian study proving Monsanto's Bt corn insecticide starter genes do not disintegrate in mammalian stomachs but survive intact to harm mammals' blood cells. That study has now been published in another journal. (Source below)

Refuting GMO mad scientists' critical howls reported by the MSM

Wrong rats used: They were the same rats Monsanto had used in a 90 day trial. The Sprague-Dawley (SD) strain has a life expectancy of 24 to 36 months. Just right for a two year study that's intended to replicate the life span of a human.

SD rats tend to have spontaneous tumors: True, around 30 percent of SD rats get cancer symptoms without test-induced provocations. Again, this mimics human statistics on cancer. More SD rats fed well under maximum regulatory amounts of Roundup along with the Roundup Ready corn developed tumors than the control rats within four to seven months of the study. The exposed rats also died earlier.

Too few rats: The short Monsanto study used 20 rats for each group. But, they only checked urine and serum samples of 10 in each group. The Seralini study used 10 for each grouping, but they tested urine and serum samples from all 10.

Insufficient study for proving carcinogenicity: The title of the study tells us that was not Seralin's intent, it was a long term toxicity study of Roundup and Roundup Ready corn, period. Tumors were incidental. The rats who were exposed showed signs of liver, kidney, and other organ damage.

Prelude to the rat study

Regulatory agencies only test the active ingredients of pesticides and herbicides such as Monsanto's Roundup while acquiescing to industry demands of "protecting trade secrets" for the "inactive" ingredients used as adjuvants to increase glyphosate's plant absorption.

An earlier study from Caen University by Mesnage, Bernay and Seralini separated the ingredients of glyphosate based herbicides, including Monsanto's Roundup, to determine what "inert" substances added to the toxicity of glyphosate.

That study determined the most commonly used adjuvant, POE-15, was more toxic by itself than glyphosate. It asserted that regulatory testing only active ingredients is useless, and the combination of all the ingredients need to be tested long term on mammals to determine human safety. (Source below)

Although it pierced pesticides' veil of secrecy, that study didn't make waves publicly. But it's what led to the controversial rat study.

Sources for this article include:

FCT journal's constant conflicts of interest
http://gmwatch.org

Covering Seralini's study politically http://www.fooddemocracynow.org

Covering Seralini's study scientifically
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NK603

The Brazilian study in its new journal home
http://www.esciencecentral.org

The earlier glyphosate base pesticde study - "Ethoxylated adjuvants of glyphosate based herbicides are active principles of human cell toxicity."
http://gmoseralini.org



How Medicine is Killing us all: Antibiotics, Superbugs and the next Global Pandemic

 

While globalists like Bill Gates are feverishly working on ways to reduce human population through vaccines, GMOs and abortions, an even more effective population killer is now emerging: drug-resistant strains of "gram-negative" bacteria: Superbugs.

The global abuse of antibiotics and the rise of drug-resistant superbugs has become an urgent issue of survival for the human race, and even mainstream medical experts are now describing microbiological doomsday scenarios if the situation isn't reversed. As The Guardian reported today:

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria with the potential to cause untreatable infections pose "a catastrophic threat" to the population, the chief medical officer for Britain warns in a report calling for urgent action worldwide.
 

Big Pharma causes the problem, then walks away

How did it get this bad? After Big Pharma polluted the medical landscape with a flood of antibiotics that caused drug-resistant strains to emerge, it has since abandoned any new research on antibiotics, claiming "there's no profit in it."

The antibiotics pipeline is empty. But drug-resistant bacteria aren't asleep at the wheel; they're rapidly mutating, developing new biological defenses against Big Pharma's drugs. With each passing month, the superbugs get stronger. "No new classes of antibiotics have been developed since 1987, and none are in the pipeline across the world," reports The Independent.

It continues, "...for Big Pharma, there is little money in expensively developing new compounds which will only be taken in short courses, compared to a drug for blood pressure, say, which may have lifelong use for patients."

Even if it were profitable to develop new antibiotics, it's a losing game anyway because a drug that takes 10 years to develop can become useless in as little as one year in the real world. That's thanks to the rapid mutation capabilities of gut bacteria.

The net result is that the western medical system that was built on chemicals as the weapons of war against disease has run out of chemicals to fight superbugs. The "end game" of modern medicine is upon us, and the drug industry openly admits it's not even working on solutions to this problem.
 

Natural remedies for superbugs have been suppressed and censored

Meanwhile, the governments and medical institutions of the world have, for an entire century, suppressed the natural antibiotics cures that can very effectively kill superbugs. Natural remedies like colloidal silver, aloe vera, garlic, medicinal herbs and high-potency nutritional therapies have been attacked, censored and criminalized. This has left the population with a problem that's best stated in three parts:

#1) A wave of antibiotic-resistant superbugs is accelerating toward humanity.
#2) Big Pharma has run out of chemicals to treat them.
#3) The corrupt medical system has censored natural antibiotics.

The result is that the people are left with no solutions other than to lay down and die.

Not coincidentally, that may be exactly what the system wants you to do.
 

Modern medicine IS population control

It turns out that the entire system of medicine has been veering aggressively toward population control for the past decade.

For example, vaccines were once widely known to be dangerous for pregnant women, but the medical authorities "flipped the script" just a few years ago and said that pregnant women now need more vaccines than everybody else. The upshot is that vaccines cause huge increases in spontaneous abortions (i.e. population reduction). For example, Gardasil is reportedly linked to more stillbirths than any other vaccine. Eugenicists like Bill Gates refer to this as "reproductive health," by the way. That's code for "population reduction."

Chemotherapy would have never been given to pregnant women in years past, but now it's actually recommended as a preventive cancer therapy for expectant mothers. Chemotherapy, of course, is a chemical weapon that kills unborn babies and causes spontaneous abortions, organ damage and birth defects.

The aggression behind today's big vaccine push is also largely a population control measure. Vaccines cause infertility due to the mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde chemicals they contain. All of these chemicals interfere with fertility and gestation.

Most of the pharmaceuticals being heavily pushed today (statin drugs, blood thinners, etc.) are at least partially designed to kill you before you can collect social security.

The idea is to make sure the population only lives long enough to keep working and paying into the system, but not long enough to actually collect benefits which are bankrupting the nation. Before long, "dying early" is going to be pushed as "patriotic" and "good for the country." You can fully expect the socialist government to start spreading guilt about longevity. If you live long enough to collect money from the government, they're going to make sure you feel incredibly guilty about it. ("How dare you live long enough to collect some of the money we stole out of your paycheck during your working years!")

Superbugs are a key ally to the system in all this because they create a convenient scapegoat to take the blame for a failed medical system. A patient who is over-medicated, immuno-suppressed and taken over by an aggressive superbug infection can be written off as another casualty of a "fatal infection." Never mind the fact that the person was made vulnerable to infections by all the toxic therapies and prescription drugs that serve as the foundation of western chemical medicine.

Superbugs are the new Lee Harvey Oswalds of medicine: they take the blame for the killing and prevent people from asking in-depth questions about what really happened.
 

Probiotics remain completely ignored

What's really astonishing in all this is the delusional belief that only Big Pharma can "discover" new drugs that kill these drug-resistant bacteria. In all of western medicine, there is never any discussion of the all-important role of probiotics in establishing healthy gut flora, thereby crowding out the dangerous strains. If "anti" biotics are the problem, then "pro" biotics are the solution.

It is absolutely astonishing that modern medicine refuses to advocate probiotics, and it reveals how the entire system of modern medicine remains stuck in a 1940's mentality where the body was a "battleground" and medicines were "weapons" to be unleashed against "the enemy."

This delusional metaphor is what has driven the failed system of modern medicine for nearly a century, and it's the reason superbugs and antibiotics have reached a point of such insanity that the entire population is now threatened with the possibility of a runaway global pandemic.

The medical system also doesn't understand synergistic phytonutrients and how a concert of plant-based chemicals work together in ways that are far more powerful than any one isolated chemical could ever be. Big Pharma is always looking for the next great isolated molecule but can never embrace the idea that isolated chemicals are always less effective and more dangerous than full-spectrum phytochemicals from the natural world. (A drug can never be as powerful as a plant, because a drug doesn't have the phytonutrient complexity of a plant.)

Eliminating gram-negative superbugs from the gut of a patient is easy if you aren't medically ignorant (i.e. trained in medical school). Simply embracing the power of antibacterial super foods like garlic -- combined with the health-protective powers of probiotics -- yields phenomenal results. Food choice also impacts gut health (obviously), yet doctors rarely talk to their patients about what they should eat. Somehow, modern medicine has isolated food choice from health outcomes, creating a truly delusional health care system in which patients are treated with deadly chemicals rather than food as medicine.

This is what got us to this crisis in the first place: doctors functioning as chemical pushers... and patients surrendering their personal power to the failed medical system.
 

Why humanity's superbug crisis can't be solved with chemicals

To get out of this crisis, we can't approach it with the same type of thinking that caused the problem in the first place. This isn't a situation that can be solved with "another chemical." This is going to require transcending the failed age of chemical medicine and embracing the factors of healthy gut flora -- and that has everything to do with diet, supplements, super foods, etc.

The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), not surprisingly, can only see a future based on more chemicals. "More still needs to be done and we believe that for there to be a continual supply of effective antibiotics, a comprehensive review of the R&D [research and development] environment and good stewardship are required urgently," they say (Guardian source, above).

This is a classic example of medical insanity. It's the chemicals that brought us to this crisis, and the only solution they can think of is coming up with more chemicals. (Remember the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results...)

This is exactly like the Federal Reserve observing a global currency confidence crisis and deciding the best solution is to print more money. It's like a heroin addict reasoning that the way to quit heroin is to take just one more hit.

When it comes to superbugs and medicine, we are living in an age of outright, runaway insanity that has infected nearly all the doctors, hospitals, drug companies and health authorities. Unless they wake up and finally recognize the error of their ways, this situation is only going to spiral into an ever-expanding crisis that may soon lead to a runaway superbug plague.
 

They don't want to cure you; they want to kill you (slowly)

Yet the failed battle cry continues: "Just one more chemical!" Little do the doctors realize the system doesn't want to find cures for infections and disease... the system wants people to die as early and as often as possible (but not before doctors, cancer clinics and drug companies extract their share of revenues from their human victims).

What they're waiting for now is the spread of superbugs from hospital patients to home families, communities and neighborhoods. This is where things really accelerate in terms of disease transmission and population reduction. The doctors pump grandma full of antibiotics and drugs, destroy her intestinal flora and immune system, expose her to the deadly superbugs circulating around the hospital, then send her home with family where she can infect everyone else.

That's modern medicine. That's how the system really works, and that's why medicine is a very real threat to the survival of the human race.

Remember: Big Pharma created the superbug problem. And now humanity stands on the brink of medical self-destruction because of it.