toxins in everyday foods and groceries

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Disease-promoting ingredients in everyday

foods and groceries

 

 

Disease-promoting ingredients in everyday foods and

groceries JoAnn

Guest Apr 06, 2005 13:09 PDT

Disease-promoting ingredients in everyday foods and

groceries more

dangerous than terrorists

http://www.newstarget.com/004781.html

 

Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson

resigned recently,

and part of his outgoing statement included a warning

to Americans that

terrorists would strike the food supply.

 

His words were " I can't believe terrorists haven't

attacked the food

supply yet. "

 

But who needs terrorists when we've already got a food

supply that is

accelerating the deaths of literally millions of

Americans each year?

 

The toxic additives and ingredients found in our foods

are directly

causing chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes and

heart disease.

They're even causing mental disorders (ADHD,

depression) while creating

unstable mental conditions that lead to violent,

aggressive behavior,

especially in young males.

 

 

 

These are broad claims, but each and every one of

these has been backed

up by clinical evidence correlating the consumption of

popular American

foods with these diseases and disorders. In fact, I

have reported on

each and every one of these right here on this

website.

 

The situation has become so treacherous for the

American population

that

food companies, soft drink companies and fast food

restaurant chains

are

actually contributing to the early deaths of thousands

of times as many

people as any terrorists ever killed in the United

States. Of course,

these companies aren't actually trying to harm people,

but that's the

effect nonetheless.

 

It's quite similar to the situation with Big Tobacco.

Cigarette

companies weren't trying to kill people, they were

just trying to make

a

buck. It was the side effect of their product that

caused lung cancer,

emphysema and cardiovascular disease. Frankly, that

was an unintended

side effect. Big tobacco would have much preferred to

eliminate the

toxic side effects of their products as long as they

could preserve the

addictive quality of nicotine.

 

Likewise, the food companies aren't out to actually

harm anybody, it's

just that they are unintentionally accomplishing

precisely that due to

the biological cause-and-effect consequences of their

product

ingredients.

 

Which ingredients am I talking about?

 

Sodium nitrite (cancer), refined white flour

(diabetes), hydrogenated

oils (heart disease), aspartame (nervous system

disorders), red meat

(colon cancer), excess sodium (hypertension), and the

list goes on.

 

The American public is just now waking up to this

reality. Study after

study now shows the undeniable link between foods and

disease.

 

Unfortunately, our own government does not yet have

the courage to tell

the truth about the links between these food products

and chronic

disease.

 

Even with the recent updating of national dietary

guidelines by a panel

of experts at the USDA, the conclusion left out any

advice that would

have told Americans to limit their intake of added

sugars.

 

Any guesses on why that happened?

 

It's no more complicated than good old-fashioned food

politics: the

soft

drink companies, sugar industry and mass food

producers lobbied the

USDA

to make sure the new guidelines would not cause a

decrease in the sales

of their products.

 

So the anti-sugar message was censored. The result, no

doubt, is that

more Americans will continue to consume added sugars,

and they will

increasingly be diagnosed with diabetes and obesity as

a result.

 

The food lobby, the big sugar lobby and the soft drink

lobby have all

blockaded what would have otherwise been good

nutritional advice.

 

These food and beverage companies are preventing the

government from

providing information to the public that would save

countless lives and

dramatically improve the quality of life while

reducing healthcare

costs

in the decades ahead.

 

This action by the food lobby, in my opinion, is

nothing less than the

outright suppression of advice that would prevent

chronic disease and

save countless American lives.

 

The food lobby can no longer claim that it is just on

the sidelines and

that these diseases are happening unintentionally,

because now it is

actively involved in suppressing the very information

that would help

prevent those diseases.

 

It is at this point that the food industry and

beverage industry,

combined with USDA officials, becomes a " food racket. "

It is a racket

because it represents a combined effort to protect the

profits of the

industry at the expense of public health. It's much

the same as the

drug

racket currently operated by the FDA in conjunction

with pharmaceutical

companies -- and in fact the goals of the two rackets

are much the

same:

boost corporate profits, regardless of the ultimate

cost to society.

 

Now here's what's really interesting about all of

this. The more

successful the food lobby is at suppressing

information that would

prevent chronic disease in the American people, the

more the

pharmaceutical industry benefits financially.

 

Why is that? Because as more Americans eat added

sugars, processed

foods, hydrogenated oils and other foods and food

ingredients that

promote chronic disease, the more prescription drugs

they will need to

treat those diseases. Thus, in a rather bizarre and

sickening way, the

pharmaceutical industry has the food industry to thank

for creating

more

customers!

 

Likewise, the people making decisions at the FDA have

USDA officials to

thank for protecting the profit base that keeps drug

companies in

business and keeps many FDA officials in positions of

power. It's a

fascinating economic cycle, and strangely all of this

counts towards

the

Gross Domestic Product.

 

Every dollar spent on junk foods and prescription

drugs to treat the

diseases promoted by those foods is counted as

" productivity " in terms

of economics. Yet there's nothing productive about

this at all!

 

Technically, productivity is being destroyed by these

foods and

medicines because they interfere with the healthy

productivity of the

American population and reduce lifespan.

 

So even though there's a whole lot of money changing

hands, no net good

is actually being achieved from any of this.

 

But it sure does generate a lot of money. Most

economists call this

whole charade " economic productivity. "

 

Seriously, is there any long-term gain from feeding an

entire

population

foods and beverages that promote disease? I think not.

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JoAnn Guest

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