The top 10 things food companies don't want you to know

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The top 10 things food

companies don't want you to know

The giant food corporations have one mission: selling more food and beverage

products to consumers. Succeeding with that mission depends on keeping

consumers in the dark on certain issues such as the presence cancer-causing

chemicals found in popular food products.

 

Here are ten things the food corporations, whose products dominate grocery

store shelves across the United States and other countries, absolutely do not

want you to know.

 

1. The ingredients listed on the label aren't the only things in the food.

Cancer-causing chemicals such as acrylamides may be formed in the food during

high-heat processing, yet there's no requirement to list them on the label.

Residues of solvents, pesticides and other chemicals may also be present, but

also do not have to be listed. The National Uniformity for Food Act, currently

being debated in the U.S. Congress, would make it illegal (yes, illegal) for

states to require cancer warnings on foods that contain cancer-causing

chemicals (such as California's Proposition 65.) See articles on the Food

Uniformity Act.

 

2. Monosodium glutamate (MSG), which is added to thousands of food and grocery

products through a dozen different innocent-sounding ingredients, imbalances

endocrine system function, disabling normal appetite regulation and causing

consumers to keep eating more food. This chemical not only contributes to nationwide

obesity, it also helps food companies boost repeat business. See articles on

MSG.

 

3. MSG is routinely hidden in foods in these ingredients: yeast extract, torula

yeast, hydrolyzed vegetable protein and autolyzed yeast. Thousands of common

grocery products contain one or more of these chemical taste enhancers,

including nearly all " vegetarian " foods such as veggie burgers (read

labels to check). See Food manufacturers hide dangerous ingredients in everyday

foods by using confusing terms on the label.

 

4. ADHD in children is caused almost entirely by the consumption of processed

food ingredients such as artificial colors and refined carbohydrates. Eighty

percent of so-called ADHD children who are taken off processed foods are cured

of ADHD in two weeks. See articles on ADHD.

 

5. The chemical sweetener aspartame, when exposed to warm temperatures for only

a few hours, begins to break down into chemicals like formaldehyde and formic

acid. Formaldehyde is a potent nerve toxin and causes damage to the eyes, brain

and entire nervous system. Aspartame has been strongly linked to migraines,

seizures, blurred vision and many other nervous system problems. See articles

on aspartame.

 

6. Most food dips (like guacamole dip) are made with hydrogenated oils, artificial

colors and monosodium glutamate. Many guacamole dips don't even contain

avocados.

 

7. Plastic food packaging is a potent health hazard. Scientists now know that

plastics routinely seep the chemical bisphenol A into the food, where it is

eaten by consumers. Cooking in plastic containers multiplies the level of

exposure. Bisphenol is a hormone disruptor and can cause breast formation in

men and severe hormonal imbalances in women. It may also encourage

hormone-related cancers such as prostate cancer and breast cancer. See Plastics

chemical bisphenol A found to promote prostate cancer in animal studies.

 

8. Milk produced in the United States comes from cows injected with synthetic

hormones that have been banned in every other advanced nation in the world.

These hormones help explain why unusually young teenage girls develop breasts

at such a young age, or why hormone-related cancers like prostate cancer are

being discovered in unprecedented numbers. In order to protect Monsanto, the

manufacturer of hormones used in the industry, the USDA currently bans organic

milk producers from claiming their milk comes from cows that were not treated

with synthetic hormones. Even organic milk is now under fire as the Organic

Consumers Association says Horizon milk products are falsely labeled as

organic. See Horizon milk, Wild Oats named in consumer boycott of

" false " organic products. (The solution to all this? Drink raw almond

milk instead. Make it yourself with a Vitamix, water and a nut milk bag.)

 

9. Most grocery products that make loud health claims on their packaging are,

in reality, nutritionally worthless (like meal replacement shakes, instant

chocolate milk, etc.). The most nutritious foods are actually those the FDA

does not allow to make any health claims whatsoever: fresh produce. See

articles on food labeling.

 

10. Food manufacturers actually " buy " shelf space and position at

grocery stores. That's why the most profitable foods (and hence, the ones with

the lowest quality ingredients) are the most visible on aisle end caps,

checkout lanes and eye-level shelves throughout the store. The effect of all

this is to provide in-store marketing and visibility to the very foods and

beverages that promote obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease and other

degenerative conditions now ravaging consumers around the world. See articles

on food marketing.

 

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