Preservatives and Additives

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Preservatives and Additives

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This is the age of science. A fabricated custom-made reality, competing

with the natural, organic world man from which has lived for thousands of

years. Yet the living, human cell has been incapable in keeping up with our

ever-changing times. The small print on your Twinkies reads more like rocket

fuel than food for human consumption with unpronounceable test tube names

labeling chemicals manufactured in the cauldrons of industry. There is no

doubt that the Twinkie-drug has been a successful experiment in taste-bud

delight, their bright plastic husks found in dumps all over the planet. But

are there side effects? And if so, do they outweigh the benefits that

Twinkies are providing for the millions who have come to depend upon their

relief

from the drudgery of daily living?

The human body consists of billions of microscopic living cells, composed

of perfectly, balanced quantities of water and organic substances. If you

have eaten the standard North American Diet for years, without serious harm

to your health, it is due to your body's outstanding resistance. Yet

genetic weaknesses may be hidden by youth. The cumulative effect of toxins will

increase the risk of becoming a host to disease or premature death.

Unfortunately, resistance to disease diminishes as the abuse continues. Disease

is

like heating a pot of water. When the water becomes too hot, it quickly

boils over. The biochemistry of the body will absorb toxins only to a point.

There is a boiling point - illness!

We live like no other generation before us. A giant experiment of toxic

ingestion. In this game, the stakes are high, it can cost your life. We may

consider our way of eating as normal, but the modern diet is about as normal

as a test tube of chemicals. The body’s chemistry is recreated by ingesting

countless food additives and environmental contaminants.

The toxins in your body have been accumulating since birth and are

imbedded in every cell structure and organ. But do not despair, there is an

answer. Toxins disrupt the natural chemistry of your body. Remove the harmful

elements in your diet, replacing them with health-filled foods, and a

wonderful new metamorphosis will occur. God has created the body to be

irrepressibly healthy!

Chemicals which have the power to produce mutations through chromosome

damage are called mutagens. They cause disruptions of the genetic code which

are responsible for over 15,000 inheritable, genetic disorders. Sadly, they

may have a drastic consequence to our grandchildren.

The food industry aims at making products look and taste appealing without

thought to the products' nutritional value. Loaded with chemical additives

and designed to be addictive, processed food is manufactured first for

profit.

All great chefs will tell you that the tangy flavor of lemon juice is a

must in enhancing and lifting the taste of fish. In fact, lemon juice is

widely used to compliment a variety of popular dishes. But to cut cost and for

the sake of convenience, manufacturers have replaced lemon juice with

2-methyl-3-(pisopropylphenyl)-propionaldehyde. An unpronounceable name to add

to the estimated three thousand chemical additives which we consume.

Your body has become a chemical depository. Sulfur is used to keep dried

fruit fresh. Formaldehyde which is used to retard corpse decomposition is

added to disinfect frozen vegetables. The blue shimmer on the surface of

luncheon meat is the result of sodium nitrate. Sodium nitrate is commonly used

in the preservation of ham, bacon, sausage and bologna to keep meat

looking red, when normally, it would have decomposed into an unappealing gray.

In

the stomach, sodium nitrate is converted into nitrous acid which is

suspected of inciting stomach cancer. Germany and Norway have banned the use of

this powerful toxin.

Feed for raising chickens contains arsenic to stimulate growth, increase

egg-production and give the chicken a yellowed skin. Aluminum compounds are

added to baking powder, aspirin, antacids, beer, table salt and

antiperspirants. It also leaches into our food and water through cookware, soft

drink

cans and aluminum foil. It has been discovered in high concentrations in

the brain of Alzheimer's patients and is suspected in contributing to this

most hideous disease.

Potatoes may seem untouched by chemicals but because of their bad habit of

sprouting, they are coated with the chemical inhibitor, maleic hydrazide,

which has resulted in cancer in laboratory animals.

Ice cream producers use propylene glycol, the same substance in

antifreeze and paint remover. Carboxymethylcellulose is a stabilizer, used in

ice

cream, salad dressing, cheese spreads and chocolate milk. It has produced

tumors in 80% of rats injected. Yet, the FDA flatly denies it as a carcinogen,

for the reason that when it was given to the rats orally, it didn’t cause

cancer.

For 50 years, producers have added brominated oils to bottled fruit juice

to maintain a look of freshness - even after 6 months of storage.

Unfortunately, brominated oils have side effects. They produce changes in heart

tissue, enlargement of the thyroid, kidney damage, decrease in liver metabolism

and cause withered testicles. Canada, Holland, and Germany have banned

brominated oils in the production of bottled drinks, yet they can still be

imported from other countries.

New food additives are believed to be met with stringent testing. But due

to unreliable testing methods, lack of qualified technicians, expensive

analysis equipment, budget cuts and government lobbying by food conglomerates,

additives that are marginally carcinogenic, mutagenic, or teratogenic stay

in use.

The fetus cannot deal with foreign chemicals. Whatever toxic substances

the mother eats flow largely unimpeded into the fetus. Unlike an adult, the

fetus lacks protective, detoxifying systems. Teratogens are toxins which

harm fetal development. Certain food additives are considered mildly

teratogenic.

What toxicology testing cannot accurately predict is the long-term

combined effect of 3,000 additives and environmental toxins on children, the

elderly, newborn, the fetus, and people with cancer. The combined effect of

these toxins on humans is unknown.

The processed food industry loads fat, sugar and salt into their products

because they are cheap. They use chemicals to change these cheap, raw

materials into brightly-colored, tasty products with a long shelf life. Food

producers buy the cheapest raw materials, manufacture the product as quickly

as possible, then sell it for the highest price. Good business sense, but,

what is lost in the manufacturing is quality.

Before cyclamate was banned, it was used to sweeten drinks such as

Cool-Aid which contained 28.5% of this substance. It was discovered that 30% of

humans converted as much as 40% of the cyclamates ingested into

Cyclohexylamine which produces chromosome damage in animals, a high rate of

still-born

young, and birth defects. It was then banned. Lipton donated its

artificially sweetened product to mental hospitals and prisons in Ohio where it

was

accepted without question. It seems as if food companies will do just about

anything to enhance the taste and textures of their products. The aim is to

increase the pleasure of eating even if it means compromising nutritional

value.

MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE

A common example of the thousands of chemicals used in our new high-tech

foods is monosodium glutamate. MSG is like glutamic acid, an amino acid that

is used in the function of the brain. Dr. John W. Olany of the University

School of Medicine, in St. Louis, decided to test MSG by injecting it into

infant mice. After the MSG injection, nerve cells, especially in the

hypothalamus, became dramatically swollen. Within several hours, these cells

died. It was discovered that the enzymes which help to metabolize MSG in adults

do not exist in infants. It is suspected that instead of the nutrient

glutamic acid, MSG is carried to the brain, causing a dangerous excess. When

his report was published, Gerber, Beech-Nut, and Heinz took monosodium

glutamate out of their baby foods., Naive mothers fed MSG to their babies

believing that these trustworthy companies would never put something harmful

into

their baby’s foods.

At present, the average consumer eats over one gram of MSG per day. When

pregnant women eat MSG, it crosses the placenta. MSG fed to growing rats,

reduced their growth rate by 16%. The effect on the human fetus is still

unknown!

FOOD COLOURING

Synthetic colour adds nothing to nutritional value. Numerous colours have

been banned after twenty years on the market, only to discover that they

were carcinogenic.

All certified food colours in use today are of a class of chemicals

called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that are universally suspect as

carcinogenic. The FDA argues that food colouring is safe because it causes

cancer

only when injected into rats, not when they are feeding on it. Therefore,

the FDA gives manufacturers the freedom to use food colouring at their

discretion. Children are attracted to bright colours. Fruit loops, gum balls,

popsicles and fruit drinks are mostly colour and sugar. The food industry is

making millions on selling chemical substances that have zero value to life.

 

On the Island of Nauru lived a small group of healthy and happy

Polynesians. These people were left undisturbed until it was discovered that

part of

the island contained huge quantities of bird dung, containing valuable

phosphates that can be used in fertilizer. The native islanders grew wealthy by

selling this resource and with their new-found money supply they imported

foods from the industrialized nations. The flavor of the North American

diet cost them 1/3 of the Naurauns developing diabetes.

EARTH ADDITIVES

The Great Lakes is the largest body of fresh water in the world. A global

treasure. People living by the Great Lakes have at least 30 contaminants

stored in their body fat such as mercury, dioxin, and PCBs. According to Dr.

Andrew Gilman, Manager of the Great Lakes Health Effects Center, health

problems from contaminants around the lakes are affecting some residents. The

most susceptible to these poisons are the elderly, new-born, children,

fetuses and those in ill health. Women who drink water from the Great Lakes had

a significantly higher rate of mouth and thyroid cancer.

I know what you’re thinking. How can all this be true, in light of the

fact that many seem to live in generally, good health? I mean, if everything

that we eat, drink and breathe are loaded with poisons, how can the world be

full of seemingly healthy people? It would be appropriate right now to bow

your head in humility and awe at the wondrous body that God has created

for you. Truly, it seems able to endure overwhelmingly hostile conditions and

still survive. But God’s best is not survival, only keeping one step ahead

of illness. He wants you to experience the fullness of all His blessings,

physical and spiritual. Everything which God makes sparkles with Life.

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Dyes, bleaches, antioxidants, preservatives, chemical flavours, buffers,

noxious sprays, alkalizers, acidifiers, deodorants, moisteners, drying

agents, expanders, modifiers, emulsifiers, stabilizers, thickeners, clarifiers,

disinfectants, defoliants, fungicides, neutralizers, anticaking and

antifoaming agents, hydrolyzers, hydrogenators, herbicides, pesticides,

synthetic

hormones, antibiotics, steroids and four thousand other drugs that just

make your mouth water with anticipation.

They find their way into the human food chain and become the raw materials

for every cell of your body. They disrupt the natural chemistry resulting

in cancer, diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, allergies,

diverticulitis, emphysema, stomach ulcers, premature aging, impotence,

hypoglycemia and

arthritis. These countless diseases exist because chemically-synthesized

substances disrupt the bio-chemistry of hundreds of billions of microscopic

living cells which make up the body.

The life of most cells is short; new cells are constantly being made to

replace dead ones. The raw materials for this rebuilding come from the blood

stream. When it contains toxins, the process of rebuilding cells is

disrupted. Resistance to disease diminishes. If you have a genetic weakness and

continue to eat processed foods, the cumulative effect of toxins will increase

the risk of becoming a host to disease or premature death.