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 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.
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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.
AS near as I can figger, this article says I died 10 or 15 years ago...
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.
Xanthan gum is quite delicious....
I can sympathize with this lady. When I first came to Austria more than 40 years ago - like her, I was completely unprepared, having done absolutely no advanced homework about the country to which I was immigrating - I walked into a supermarket, expecting to find cans of Vegemite on the shelves, "snags" (= sausages) I could throw on the "barbie," etc.
Instead, I was confronted by food items with such weird names as "Spätzle" (noodles), "Nürnberger" (sausages), and "Sülzle" (aspic). The language is thus even more unintelligible than I thought it would be!
And in the more than 40 years that I have lived here, I have yet to see a single "kanga" in the wild!
Austria is indeed far different than I had expected it to be!
That's how I can empathize with this Austrian lady!
Regards,
Our food is made by chemical companies. Even our “health food” is mostly processed chemicals.
I’ve noticed a loaf of bread can last months now without molding. That ain’t right.
In! Before a FReeper claims he was weaned on food additives and is perfectly healthy!
A good friend of mine has a saying I’ve lived by: “Eat food that rots before it rots.”
If you don’t grow and/or raise your own food, at least avoid the center aisles of a grocery store. It won’t eliminate all your f the poison, but will at least cut out 90% of it.