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NEWSLETTER | Volume # 7 | July 2004

 

 

In this issue:

 

New Products

Stores and Location

About Additives and Preservatives

 

 

RECOGNIZED:

LifeForce Foods recognizes Woody Harrelson and Laura

Louie’s “VoiceYourself.” This incredible site is

dedicated to the preservation of our planet. Visit

VoiceYourself today at www.voiceyourself.com

 

 

Visit a Mothers Market near you today to get your raw

gourmet entrées by LifeForce Foods!

 

 

NEW PRODUCTS:

 

Gourmet Bistro Burger: Our new burger has finally hit

the markets. A selected combination of herbs, spices,

seeds, nuts and mesquite pod joined together by two

pieces of our spiced onion bread make this burger an

incredibly filling entrée for all. Complete with faux

fries!

 

 

 

CURRENT PRODUCTS:

 

Our line of gourmet foods includes:

(Please note: our foods are all raw, vegan, organic.

They contain no meat, dairy, pesticides, or chemicals)

 

 

 

·Personal Pan Pizzas Now choose from: Cheese,

Marinara, Pesto, BBQ

 

·Fraudulent Tuna Our award winning mock tuna sandwich

 

·Linguini Italiano Our raw Italian pasta is simply the

best. Choose from: Marinara, White Cheese, and Pesto

 

·Bistro Burger: A selected combination of herbs,

spices, seeds, nuts and mesquite pod joined together

by two pieces of our spiced onion bread make this

burger an incredibly filling entrée for all. Complete

with faux fries!

 

 

 

 

 

STORES & LOCATIONS:

 

*VP Discount in W. Hollywood is currently working hard

to expand their Raw Section. We ask that you help

support this market; in return you will find the best

prices on raw food in Los Angeles!!!

 

 

Co-Opportunity Natural Food Markets

1525 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404

 

 

VP Discount Natural Food Markets

8001 Beverly Blvd. N. Hollywood, CA 90036

 

 

Mother's Market and Kitchen Restaurant

Irvine

2963 Michelson Dr, Irvine 92612

 

 

Mother's Market and Kitchen Restaurant

Huntington Beach

19770 Beach Blvd. Huntington Beach, CA 92648

 

 

Mother's Market and Kitchen Restaurant

Laguna Woods

24165 Paseo De Valencia Laguna Woods, CA 92653

 

 

Mother's Market and Kitchen Restaurant

Costa Mesa

225 E. 17th Street. Costa Mesa CA 92627

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About Additives and Preservatives:

 

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

reality. It competes with the natural, organic world

from which man has lived for thousands of years. Yet

the living human cell has been incapable of 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. We live in

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 brominate 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 brominate 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 COLORING

Synthetic color adds nothing to nutritional value.

Numerous colors have been banned after twenty years on

the market, only to discover that they were

carcinogenic.

 

All certified food colors in use today are of a class

of chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

that are universally suspect as carcinogenic. The FDA

argues that food coloring 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 coloring at their discretion.

Children are attracted to bright colors. Fruit loops,

gum balls, popsicles and fruit drinks are mostly color

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.

 

***

 

Dyes, bleaches, antioxidants, preservatives, chemical

flavors, 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.

 

Thank God, the Good Shepherd that He is still in the

business of leading His sheep to green pastures and

still waters.

 

 

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