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"Alcohol (see page 62) • Table salt and excessively salty foods • Highly processed foods, food additives, and foods high in trans fats and chemicals. Meat. Meat-based diets have been linked to heart disease, colon cancer, and bladder and rectal cancers. In fact, women who eat red meat once a day have a 250 percent increased chance of getting colon cancer compared with women who eat it less than once a month. Estrogen mimics. Estrogen mimics are chemicals that our bodies perceive to be estrogen, a naturally occurring hormone that governs the development of female characteristics." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Ironically, these food additives have nothing to do with preserving food or protecting its integrity. They are used to alter or "enhance" the taste of food. MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE (MSG) When one cooks soy, evidence suggests that MSG is a naturally created by-product. Many people in the live-food movement thought that the creators of Bragg's Liquid Aminos were adding MSG to the product, because people were having MSG reactions to it. They were not adding MSG. Patricia Bragg would never do that." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"It was aimed mainly at restricting food additives, along with the natural food chemical called salicylate, which is found in a number of seemingly healthy foods, such as green peppers and mushrooms, which cause reactions in some people. The science behind this diet seemed a little fuzzy to me at the time, but parents and kids said it worked, and I couldn't ignore that. I've often thought that there are two basic types of doctors: those who listen to their patients, and those who don't. I've always said, if you don't listen, you won't hear, and if you don't look, you won't see." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"The FDA does not require the labeling of MSG if it is blended in with a mixture of spices or food additives, so it is usually hidden. This is because, in the 1970s, consumers became aware of the damage it does. MSG is definitely hidden in anything labeled with the following: hydrolyzed protein, sodium caseinate, calcium caseinate, autolyzed yeast, yeast extract or gelatin." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The food additives Handbook reports that lead, cadmium and arsenic are put into animal feed, as are other heavy metals. They are probably placed there intentionally to remove germs. In addition, aluminum is found in baking powder, table salt, and vanilla powder. It's used as an emulsifier, and as an anti-cak-ing agent," Dr. Calapai adds. The diagnosis of heavy metal toxicity should include exposure history, signs and symptoms, and lab tests." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, these food additives are harmful in the following ways:3 Sulfites (sulfur dioxide and sodium bisulfite), found in dried fruits. They commonly cause allergies. Potassium bromate, found in factory-made breads. It is banned from use in food products in Europe, Canada, and most other countries, including China. Preservatives (such as BHA, BHT.TBHQ). found in some butter, meats, cereals, chewing gum, baked goods, snack foods, dehydrated potatoes, and beer. Some studies show they cause cancer in animals." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Animals are treated with artificial hormones to increase their weight, with antibiotics to prevent disease and are reared on crops sprayed with chemicals. food additives, preservatives and artificial flavourings and colourings, combined with plastic wrapping and packaging, adulterate our food. Then we chew all this polluted food with amalgam-filled teeth which add excess mercury to our slowly poisoning bodies. And we don't just have to worry about outside pollution. Inside, our homes and workplaces are riddled with pollutants." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"In their report on the Third International Soy Symposium, regarding the US Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, held April-May 2000, Sally Fallon and Mary Enig state: All food additives not in common use prior to 1958, including casein protein from milk, must have gras (Generally Recognized As Safe) status____To this day, use of soy protein is codified as gras only for limited industrial use as a cardboard binder. However, the soy industry public relations campaign has been a huge success. "The competition?" - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Among its numerous functions is to act as a filter and remove harmful substances like drugs, insecticides, food additives, and other chemicals from the blood. The public hears much about the dangers of viral hepatitis infections, which can lead to liver failure. But viruses such as hepatitis A are not the leading cause of this organ's failure in the United States. Not by far. Instead, most Americans who suffer from liver failure have been poisoned by their medications." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Choose not to use, any more than is absolutely necessary, any harmful chemicals, pesticides, tobacco, or food additives. 6 Reduce your exposure to emf and emr-emitting electrical devices. Regarding geopathic energies, look at animals to identify them. For example, large animals like horses, cows, and dogs will not lie down in geopathic energy areas. So if your dog won't lie on your bed where you sleep, move the position of your bed. You can buy small devices for your home, car, phone, place of work, and person that neutralize harmful emrs." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Because many examples of "J" and "U"-shaped dose-response curves have been reported among nutrients and food additives, a more critical question should be, what is the potential interaction of ROS and antioxidants with chemotherapy and radiation therapy? The interaction occurs sometimes in a positive manner, enhancing the efficacy of the treatment, but also sometimes negatively interfering with the agent or treatment." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Non-specific, non-allergic irritants: such as exercise, emotions, atmosphere, pollution, chemicals, food additives and infection. Allergic Triggers Allergic triggers are often very small particles: small enough to be mistaken by the body for viruses or bacteria (which are not as large as human cells). DUST MITES The most common allergic trigger is dust mite populations. The mite is too tiny to be seen, but it is still too large for the human body to have an allergic reaction to it." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"We are pressured, even by teachers, to drug our kids with Ritalin instead of finding the underlying causes of their hyperactivity, which are usually refined sugar, food additives and dyes (Appendix A) or pesticides (Chapter 17). Take no responsibility for your health! Just pop a pill! And when you don't get well, it's the doctor's fault or the drug's fault or the hospital's fault. And when you have paid so much money for the treatments that didn't get you well, complain to the government that health care should be paid for by taxpayers, the health care that didn't even cure you." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The most common allergens in our diet are dairy products, yeast products (bread, beer), eggs, chocolate and a number of food additives, particularly preservatives, colourings and monosodium glutamate. Finally, drugs can cause asthma attacks in sensitive people. The types of drugs that have been implicated in these reactions are aspirin, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and beta-blockers. Aspirin is found as an ingredient of many brands of cold and flu medications, and asthmatics should be careful to check the ingredients when buying them." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"There is much research data on the harm that chemical food additives do to human health. Taste-enhancers are aptly called "excitotoxins." These particular chemicals are in many of our processed and prepared foods. They include monosodium glutamate (msg), aspartame (Nutrasweet?, cysteine, hydrolyzed protein, and aspartic acid. Briefly stated, excitotoxins stimulate brain cells to death on a selective basis. They cause brain damage by exciting neurons to such a degree that various neurological malfunctions develop." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"In October 2005, Congress voted to weaken organic standards still more by allowing numerous synthetic food additives and processing aids to be included in processed foods labeled "organic." The consumer needs to keep on top of these changes in order to know the current meaning of "organic." Soon, growers and consumers may have to come up with a totally different label, something like "super" or "pure," if we are to maintain high standards. Sadly, all of the expense, pain and suffering from pesticides are neither necessary nor financially efficient in growing healthy crops." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"A recent study in Lancet*2 clearly showed that food additives make children hyperactive.They took about three hundred normal children and split them into two groups. Each group was given an identical-looking colored drink. One was naturally colored and the other contained sodium benzoate and many other colors and additives. The children who drank the tainted drink were all much more hyperactive.There is no benefit or role for these compounds in our diet, and much evidence of harm. They benefit the food industry by improving shelf life, taste, and "attractiveness." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "He may also have suffered from other environmental toxins like mold toxins from the black mold in his house and food additives we could not measure. Clearly, Clayton's problem was not a Ritalin deficiency or bad parenting! The cause of all these problems lay in the dietary and environmental pollutants that throw the seven underlying systems in our body out of balance. The Simplicity of Treatment It is not any one thing that caused Clayton's ADHD, abnormal handwriting, hives, asthma, or stomachaches." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "His typical diet included trans fat, food additives,2 and an overload of carbohydrates and refined sugar.This has been associated with ADHD.3 Blood tests confirmed significant deficiencies in many important fats, vitamins, antioxidants, and minerals. Clayton had no omega-3 fats and very low levels of tryptophan, vitamins B6, A, and D, antioxidants (vitamin E and beta carotene), zinc, and magnesium. Omega-3 fats> eicosapentanoic acid (EPA) and docosahexanenoic acid (D HA), are essential for brain function. In fact, 60 percent of the brain consists of DHA." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "Bad Brain Food Versus Good Brain Food In chapter 4,1 explained the harmful effects of trans fats, high-fructose corn syrup and sugar, artificial sweeteners and food additives, as well as the dangers of hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, and heavy metals, in our food. I also reviewed the risks of caffeine and alcohol. Common sense and scientific research both lead us to the conclusion that if we want healthy bodies and healthy brains we must put in the right raw materials: real, whole, local, fresh, unadulterated, unprocessed, and chemical-, hormone-, and antibiotic-free food." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Food Additives The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has mandated toxicity testing for new food additives. The safety of all food additives must now be proven before they can be added to food. Yet most of the ingredients in foods have never been tested for carcinogenic properties! In fact, some of the substances generally regarded as safe?sugar and salt for example—have been demonstrated to cause cancer in animals. Unbelievable as this may sound, if sugar and salt were discovered today, they would not pass the safety guidelines of the FDA, and they would never be approved as food additives." - J. Robert Hatherill, Eat To Beat Cancer: A Research Scientist Explains How You and Your Family Can Avoid Up to 90% of All Cancers (Get the book.)

"As a result of this, he successfully crystallized an enzyme, marking the beginning of commercial enzyme production and the use of enzymes as dietary supplements and food additives. Elsewhere, enzyme therapy was heading down a slightly different path through investigations into the use of enzymes from animals. By 1930 enzyme therapy was moving in two major directions: the study of fungal enzymes, and the study of animal enzymes. The following section is an attempt to credit the individuals who have been responsible for this research throughout the years." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"An in-depth analysis and explanation of the dangers of food additives and their effects can be found in Dr. Russell Blaylock's book Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills. Microwave Ovens Foods that have been subjected to microwave radiation are dangerous to our health. Microwave ovens heat food with high-frequency microwaves that force water molecules to heat up by violently vibrating them. This causes a fracturing of the molecules, and a rearrangement of the chemical composition of the food." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Avoiding other major cancer risk factors, such as excessive sun exposure, alcohol, asbestos, pesticides, and some food additives, could also reduce the incidence of cancer. Some substances in food are major contributors to cancer, including some that occur naturally and others that are added in processing. For example, food additives called nitrites, found in processed meats such as bacon and bologna, are converted in the body to potent carcinogens called nitrosamines." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"Environmental toxins include household chemicals, industrial pollutants, food additives, and pesticides. Internal toxins consist of waste products created by normal metabolic processes within the body. Such digestive toxins are produced as a result of breaking down proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. But I also want to point out another dimension to this definition that's frequently overlooked. Substances you wouldn't normally view as "toxic" or "poisonous" are indeed members of this category. These include pharmaceutical drugs, caffeine, and alcohol." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "They include heavy metals and a range of chemicals such as pesticides, pollutants, and food additives that have become almost unavoidable—an inevitable price to pay for the advancements we have made as a human race. With the yin of progress comes the yang of consequence. We have created some toxins that are so foreign to our bodies that they just don't know what to do with them, so instead of effectively neutralizing or eliminating them, these toxins get thrown into remote corners of tissues and organs, and especially fat cells, where they can sit for years and cause irreparable damage." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The Two Most Dangerous Food Additives Two specific food additives may be largely responsible for the increasing numbers of people who are overweight, obese, prediabetic, and diabetic. These additives are high-fructose corn syrup and trans fats; uangers mat lutk ueyona l.aiones ana uaras dj the latter are found in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. Most processed and packaged foods—those sold in boxes, cans, bottles, and jars—contain one or both of these additives. We list many of these foods in chapter 6." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"There are many studies that conclude that the constant intake of food additives and the ingestion of pesticides, chemicals, and dyes can cause irritation to the intestinal tract and/or an imbalance of the intestinal microflora, resulting in inflammation or symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome. When I utter the world constipation in a roomful of people, it's always interesting to watch the response. Constipation is not something we usually like to talk about in public." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

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