why sugar, salt and fragrance make you stupid

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Taste inflation revealed: why sugar, salt and fragrance make you stupidhttp://www.NewsTarget.com/012556.html Page 1 | next page ->Posted Oct 18, 2005 PT by the Health Ranger (Mike Adams) America is a nation that suffers from "taste inflation." Virtually all prepared foods in this country, whether they're restaurant foods or convenience foods, are made with such outrageous levels of salt, sugar and MSG that they can only be called extreme foods suffering from taste inflation. What do I mean by taste inflation? If you studied newborn babies and were able to analyze their chemical taste sensors, you'd find they were able to experience a broad range of various tastes – the bitters in green leafy vegetables, the natural fruit sugars in apples and berries, and even the sweetness in cashews or tomatoes. But when you introduce them to standard American foods – infant formula, and then later in life, candy bars, fast food, soft drinks, etc. – you basically obliterate their natural taste senses, desensitizing them to the flavor subtleties found in natural foods. You end up with people who can really only taste two things: Sugar and salt. That's why, in our country, most prepared or processed food is loaded either with one or the other. Just go to any restaurant, especially those family chain restaurants, and try to order a bowl of soup. You mostly just get salt and MSG. There's hardly any other flavoring in the soup, since the physical matter in there has been so overcooked that it's just dead food with no taste subtlety remaining at all. These restaurants have to depend on salt and MSG to make these soups palatable to mainstream consumers. Personally, I can't touch a soup made by anything other than a gourmet restaurant, and canned soups found at the grocery store are also loaded with salt. Food manufacturers are adding so much salt to everything that millions of people are suffering from hypertension. Sweet, redefinedWe also have sugar inflation in this country. A loaf of bread was once actually bread, not cake. Today, there's so much sugar in bread that it's basically just sponge cake. A muffin was once actually a muffin, and corn bread once tasted sort of like corn. Today, muffins are just cake in the shape of muffins, and corn bread is just corn-flavored cake. Even our bagels don't taste like bagels anymore; they're just bagel-shaped cake. And what do I mean by cake? I mean a bread-based product loaded with sugar and white flour. When it comes to bagels, you also get some hydrogenated oils (see related ebook on hydrogenated oils) in there, just to make sure your cardiovascular health takes a beating, too. continues on page 2 →