Posted on 06/24/2024 9:57:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
They attack phosphates, because they want to reduce fertilizers so we have a harder time growing food.
Fauxcy says they are safe and effective.
The unholy alliance between Big Food & Big Pharma
We’re being poisoned slowly and surely.
It was bad by the 80s, but got worse when the tobacco companies bought the food companies and used the same tricks they used making lung darts more addictive.
1. Over 73% of the U.S. food supply is ultra-processed, containing many additives.
2. The FDA lists at least 3,972 substances added to food.
3. Many additives are classified as "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS), but this classification may not account for modern consumption patterns.
4. Studies have linked ultra-processed foods to increased risks of early death, cardiovascular diseases, mental disorders, respiratory diseases, metabolic syndrome, and cancer.
5. Specific additives of concern include phosphate additives and emulsifiers.
6. Long-term effects of additives, especially in combination, are difficult to study and potentially unpredictable.
Now, here's a chart of the food additives discussed and their potential health impacts:
Phosphate Additives:
* Quickly absorbed, increasing blood phosphate levels
* Can adversely affect cardiovascular system, kidneys, and bones
* May reduce vitamin D levels
* Associated with bone loss and vascular calcification
* Linked to increased risk of cardiovascular diseases
* Higher mortality rates at daily intake exceeding 1,400mg
Emulsifiers (e.g., carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) and polysorbate-80 (P80)):
* Can harm gut microbiota
* May cause intestinal inflammation
* Potential to increase toxin translocation into bloodstream
* Associated with increased appetite and obesity
* Can reduce gut microbiota diversity
* May deplete beneficial short-chain fatty acids
* Linked to erosion of intestinal mucus layer and bacterial infiltration
* Associated with higher risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease and overall cancer
I’m not being poisoned. I use Environment Working Group’s list of the Dirty Dozen and Clean fifteen lists, only buy organic versions of the Dirty Dozen.
Also buy teabags at Natural Grocer, where they have no nasty micro plastics. Gave up beef because cows are getting shot with MRNA vax now.
Buy organic boneless, skinless chicken thighs at Trader Joe, which WebMD says is the best kind of chicken for your heart. Lots of stores have their own brand of those.
Alaskan salmon comes from clean water, Costco has Alaskan salmon burgers that are very tasty and far cheaper than Alaskan salmon in supermarkets. ,
Our city has horrible water and lead in the pipes. So my cat and I get filtered water, refill gallon jugs at Natural Grocer or other supermarkets in town. You can also put filters on your faucets. My daughter’s house has filter in the basement so even her tub and shower have filtered water. That’s a pretty expensive way to go, but it was already there when she bought the house a few months ago.
Lots of ways to avoid being poisoned. And you don’t need to go broke to do it.
That’s a good condensation. How did you do that?
“nasty micro plastics”
I’ve read a couple of articles about micro plastics the past week. It’s very scary — tens of millions of tons of plastic decomposing into 5 mm chunks down to micron-sized particles that accumulate in the oceans, enter the fish food cycle and get concentrated. And to think that these chemicals didn’t even exist 100 years ago.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it’s not the additives, but the sheer amount of food consumed that messes most Americans up.
CC
Not more than 10 minutes ago, I saw a video of a woman who went to Spain and was able to eat anything she wanted. It didn’t affect her at all like food in the US does.
They will take away my frosted brown sugar cinnamon Pop Tart when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
You can get that one in Australia
Saved article as PDF, asked Claude.ai (my fave): "I do not have the time to read the PDF article attached which discusses the potential dangers of food additives. Please read it for me and summarize the most important points therein, and then produce a chart displaying in the first column the food additive discussed, and in the second column its potential dangers or impacts on health."
Then changed chart into bullet points in a follow-up.
AS near as I can figger, this article says I died 10 or 15 years ago...
Is it Alaskan Salmon processed in China ?
Mass production, the industrial farm, reductions of loss through spoilage etc. are a great idea, (((but not at the expense to quality!)))
Our food looks and tastes good, but it is of extremely low quality.
Over use of soil (depletion) causes the mineral / nutrient content of food to drop.
Pesticides.
Fungicides.
Herbicides.
Pasteurization (destroys pro-biotics).
Irradiation.
Food coloring.
Aromatics.
Preservatives.
The use of HFCS in everything.
Foaming agents.
Artificial flavors.
The use of oil to substitute for whip cream or cheese.
Pink slime. Still used.
Bleaching.
The use of hormones.
Antibiotics.
GMO.
Over use of salt in everything.
The weird things we feed livestock. Cows being fed fish...
Packaging which leaches chemicals into the food.
When you eat chicken, it’s likely only 47 days old before it was slaughtered. There is a chance that it was raised in complete darkness...
Our food is a lot like an Oreo. It looks pretty and tastes really good, but you probably ought to not eat to many of them.
You have to read labels and do some research to find quality food.
U.S. food is loaded with preservatives so it can sit on the shelf in a grocery store forever without going bad. I was stationed in Italy for a while, I ate like a pig and didn’t gain an ounce. When I came back to the states I couldn’t keep the weight off despite eating probably 1/3 less than I was in Italy. The preservatives in our garbage food are killing us.
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