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"Each of these food chemicals interacts with the other food chemicals and your body's chemicals in very specific ways. It is an infinitely complex process, and it is literally impossible to understand precisely how each chemical interacts with every other chemical. We will never discover exactly how it all fits together. CHART 11." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"The average American consumes literally pounds of hormones, antibiotics, food chemicals, additives, artificial sweeteners, and MSG each year. Each one of these toxic chemicals has been shown to harm the brain. The average person consumes a gallon of neurotoxic pesticides and herbicides each year by eating conventionally grown fruits and vegetables.w (And that's with people eating much less than the eight to ten servings they should be eating!) Remember, pesticides work because they are neurotoxic to pests—they attack their nervous system." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Even if it makes no difference to fertility, it's best for the health of any developing baby to eliminate all food chemicals, additives, flavorings, and preservatives. They simply can't contribute anything useful to child development. Along the same lines, use as much organic produce as you can find and afford. It's just as well to minimize exposure to pesticides, herbicides, and so on. And of course eliminating sugar, white flour, and other refined and processed foods is good for anyone's health." "I've been hearing a lot of this from my mother, too." "Good for her." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"This genetic uniqueness is so prevalent that we cannot really extrapolate nutritional recommendations from one population to another, because they may have significantly differing methods of metabolism of the same food chemicals; that is, a person from Alaska metabolizes food differently than a person from Mississippi. Our metabolic individuality is also determined by constitutional factors, such as age, sex, developmental size, and parental factors, as well as environmental factors, such as time, geography, climate, occupation, education, and diet." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"Environmental toxins and food chemicals of hundreds of different kinds can build up in our bodies and cause long-lasting problems, disease, and even death. We need to know how to get rid of these poisons so our bodies can be restored to a healthy balance. Toxins can remain in our bodies for minutes or for a lifetime, depending on the types we absorb or breathe in. You need to detoxify your body to restore it to its natural balance and overall health. Chemical toxins are flushed mostly from the organs through the skin, liver, and kidneys, and finally flushed out of the body." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"Also, we threw every bit of sugar, refined carbohydrate, hydrogenated vegetable oil, and food chemicals out of the house," Rebecca said. "Monica told me you recommend doing that no matter what the problem is, and also just for staying as healthy as possible." "Absolutely!" I replied. "None of those items have any place in healthful diets." "Takes some getting used to, but since we did, I've felt less tired," David observed. "Let's check Bobby over, and then have lab tests done, with your permission, of course," I said. "That's what we brought Bobby here for," David replied. " - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.) "I've told Erwin no sugar, no white flour, low saturated fat, no food chemicals, only whole fresh foods, no frying . . . we've been doing that as much as I could anyway— now it'll be 100%." Erwin sighed. "And now for a list of vitamins—a mile long," he observed. "Only half a mile," I said. "But they'll likely do you some good, particularly as your records say you're not taking any except vitamins E and C right now." "That's Ingrid's doing. She said she doesn't want me to have a heart attack, too." "Those vitamins will lower your chances. I'll write down other things for you." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"Each of these sources of dietary variability can effect individual exposures to food chemicals, as well any associated risks. Estimates of potential dietary cancer risks are subject to considerable uncertainty; for example, epidemiological studies have failed to provide unambiguous evidence of the effects of dietary fat on cancer risk. Estimates of potential cancer risks associated with low levels of individual food chemicals derived on the basis of laboratory results are highly uncertain." - Committee on Comparative Toxicity of Naturally Occurring Carcinogens, Carcinogens and Anticarcinogens in the Human: A Comparison of Naturally Occurring and Synthetic Substances (Get the book.)

"This is only one of hundreds of food chemicals to be tested in this way and, of course, it raises the question as to what safety criteria a chemical must meet before being allowed to enter the food chain. Or are new chemicals simply innocent until proven guilty? While the legislation on "novel foods" is becoming more stringent, the concept of testing for antinutrient effects is not yet on the checklist. The pesticide problem Labeling on food does not tell you everything. Unless you eat only organic food, one in three of all the foods you eat contains traces of pesticides." - Patrick Holford, The New Optimum Nutrition Bible (Get the book.)

"Although this information might be used to evaluate the potential risks associated with individual food chemicals, it is more difficult to evaluate the overall risk posed by carcinogens present in the diet as a whole. The human diet is a complex mixture of food chemicals that interact in ways that are not generally well understood. Consequently, much of the discussion in this chapter of the comparative risks of naturally occurring and synthetic carcinogens present in the diet will focus on individual substances rather than mixtures." - Committee on Comparative Toxicity of Naturally Occurring Carcinogens, Carcinogens and Anticarcinogens in the Human: A Comparison of Naturally Occurring and Synthetic Substances (Get the book.)

"Lifestyle (for our body and our planet) is the key to this prevention, and this begins with not smoking and avoiding most environmental and food chemicals. Nutritional balance with wholesome food and avoiding physical and persistent emotional stress helps. Likewise, the process of detoxification as described in this book works much better in cancer prevention I believe than it does in treatment." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., The New Detox Diet: The Complete Guide for Lifelong Vitality With Recipes, Menus, and Detox Plans (Get the book.)

"Food chemicals and food additives. Pp. 245-318 in P. M. Newberne, ed. Trace Substances and Health: A Handbook. Part 1. Marcel Dekker, New York and Basel. Merrill, R. A. 1978. Regulating carcinogens in food: A legislator's guide to the food safety provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Mich. Law Rev. 77:171-250. National Academy of Sciences. 1972. A Comprehensive Survey of Industry on the Use of food chemicals Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) (Comprehensive GRAS Survey). A report prepared by the Subcommittee on Review of GRAS List—Phase II." - Committee on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer, Assembly of Life Sciences National Research Council, Diet, Nutrition and Cancer (Get the book.)

"Toxic food chemicals are often the culprits. Once they have eliminated or reduced exposure to chemicals, including hormones, food colorings, preservatives, sulfites, pesticides, and herbicides (with organic foods), they experience a marked reduction in symptoms while regaining their health and vitality. Although we are exposed daily to chemicals through our water, air, cleaning products, and personal care products, our greatest risk of chemical exposure is through our foods. This is also the area over which we have the most control." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., The New Detox Diet: The Complete Guide for Lifelong Vitality With Recipes, Menus, and Detox Plans (Get the book.)

"According to the standards of the U.S. food chemicals Codex, commercial salt must be 97.5 percent pure sodium chloride to qualify for food use. Most commercial brands are iodized, which Salt /Nutritional Value Itsp. 1 Up. Calories 0 Phosphorus 3mg Calcium 14 mg Potassium trace Iron trace Sodium 2,100-2,300 mg means that potassium iodide, an essential nutrient removed during the refining process, has been re-added." - Dianne Onstad, Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods (Get the book.)

"CONSTRAINTS: Water soluble; heat, cooking, toasting; refined carbohydrates lose 85%; 112 of diet refined, processed foods lose 35-50%, starches, white sugar, soda, food chemicals; coffee (chlorogenic acid); tannic tea (Vitamin C helps), raw clams, oyster enzymes; smoking, alcohol, caffeine; fever; surgery; stress (take with B3 and Cysteine to control cross-linker acetaldehyde and free radicals); liver disease; pregnancy, lactation; aging; antibiotic sulfonamide drugs, muscle relaxants; and polychlorinated bipheny Is (PCBs)." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

"Pharmacologically active food chemicals can guard individual cells by cutting the enemy off at any number of biological passes. Whether you are fighting off infections, arthritis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, ulcers, or even depression or fatigue, you are carrying on that battle in unseen places by fending off tiny assaults against individual cells. How well you do that depends upon unfathomable biological activity. Scientists are beginning to understand how food and food chemicals can exert influence against disease at a cellular level." - Jean Carper, The Food Pharmacy: Dramatic New Evidence That Food Is Your Best Medicine (Get the book.)

"Although only a limited number of naturally occurring food chemicals have been tested in rodent bioassays for carcinogenic activity, the proportion of them demonstrating carcinogenic properties in such tests is comparable to the proportion of synthetic chemicals that are carcinogenic. The committee also felt that further testing of carefully selected naturally occurring food chemicals would result in the identification of additional carcinogens." - Committee on Comparative Toxicity of Naturally Occurring Carcinogens, Carcinogens and Anticarcinogens in the Human: A Comparison of Naturally Occurring and Synthetic Substances (Get the book.)

"Most of these food products, however, remain "junk foods" despite the added dose of phytochemicals: Nutraceuticals can also concentrate the best of food chemicals for daily consumption. Since only 9 percent of Americans eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day these supplements are playing an increasingly important role in our nation's health." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

"Excellent summary, and you're right, I should have emphasized the vegetables, fruits, and whole grains first. I also should mention other foods which lower cholesterol. In addition to soy protein, garlic, onions, oat bran, carrots, and alfalfa sprouts are all beneficial." "Now, what about supplements?" "There are so many vitamins, minerals, and botanicals known to lowet serum cholesterol that drugs are virtually never a necessity. Let's see, there's inositol hexanicotinate, lecithin, pantethine, L-carnitine, beta-sitosterol, calcium, and chromium." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"For example, food safety laws do not require any clinical or laboratory toxicology testing. food chemicals that were already being consumed before the passage of food additive laws are also exempt from safety testing. U.S. FDA officials have testified that historical use is a legitimate basis for exempting common food chemicals from safety requirements, and apply the same logic to old drugs. They are not subject to any scrutiny at all if they are "generally recognized as safe." Herbs that have been eaten or medicinally applied for a long time are presumed safe unless proven otherwise." - Robert S. McCaleb, Evelyn Leigh, and Krista Morien, The Encyclopedia of Popular Herbs (Get the book.) "History of use is considered an important indicator of safety in foods, food chemicals, and old drugs. It is generally accepted that if something has a long history of human use, new safety testing is not needed. For example, food safety laws do not require any clinical or laboratory toxicology testing. food chemicals that were already being consumed before the passage of food additive laws are also exempt from safety testing. U.S." - Robert S. McCaleb, Evelyn Leigh, and Krista Morien, The Encyclopedia of Popular Herbs (Get the book.)

"We were not alone in worrying about food additives: a 1979 report recommended a complete revision of the food safety laws to strengthen our ability to control the use of food chemicals such as saccharin, the artificial sweetener that had just been linked to cancer risk.1 Additives and pesticides remained primary public safety concerns through the mid-1980s. Dr. David Kessler, who later became commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said that food safety laws needed an overhaul to control food additives—without even mentioning microbial hazards." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.) "Even if such levels were still too high—and any level of pesticides in food continues to raise safety questions—harm from food chemicals paled in comparison to that caused by pathogens. In the late 1980s, health officials found Salmonella in one-third of all poultry and estimated that 33 million Americans experienced at least one episode of foodborne microbial illness each year.2 A few farsighted advocacy groups such as the Community Nutrition Institute in Washington, DC, pressed for more action to prevent pathogens from entering the food supply." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"Is it true that 114 toxic overload from these food chemicals and other environmental sources may be a significant cause of autoimmune disease? Should those of us with immune system illnesses be any more concerned than the general healthy public about eating foods containing these chemical residues? Once I decided to search for answers to these challenging questions, I expected to pack my camel train and set out to find the balanced view on agricultural chemicals. I had little inkling, however, that my safari through the food chemicals debate would be so arduous." - Sharon Moore, Lupus: Alternative Therapies That Work (Get the book.)

"FOOD CHEMICALS AND CANCER PREVENTION, vol.1, American Chemical Society, Wash DC, 1994 ^ . McBrien, DC, et al., LIPID PEROXIDATION AND CANCER, Academy Press, NY 1982 ^ . Wagner, H., et al., Planta Medica, vol.12, p.34,1985 " . Rizzi, R., et al., J. Ethnopharmacol., vol.38, p.63,1993 °°. DeOllvera, MM, et al., Anals Acad.Brasil Ciencias, vol.44, p.41,1972 • . Hishida, I., et al., Chem.Pharm.Bull., vol.36, p.1819,1988 ^?. Adachi, K., et al., Chem.Phann.Bull., vol.36, p.1000,1988 " . Nanba, H., J. Orthomolecular Med., vol.12, p.43,1997 " . Nanba, H., Cancer Prevention, NYAS, p.243, Sept." - Patrick Quillin, Beating Cancer with Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Read labels carefully; many sauces are salty, fatty, sugar laden or filled with food chemicals. Homemade salad dressings are best. Mustard Horseradish Salsa Worcester- Tamari or shoyu Vinegars: balsal- shire sauce sauce mic, rice, fruit Herbs & spices Pepper: white or Olives: Anchovy paste black black & green Sun dried Pickles Seaweed flakes tomatoes Gomasio Sauerkraut Herbal blends Capers in shakers Chapter II Skills for Developing Emotional Hardiness: Stress Management "Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least." - Elizabeth Lipski, Digestive Wellness: How to Strengthen the Immune System and Prevent Disease Through Healthy Digestion (Get the book.)

"The committee also felt that further testing of carefully selected naturally occurring food chemicals would result in the identification of additional carcinogens. • The great majority of individual naturally occurring and syn-thetic food chemicals are present in human diet at levels so low that they are unlikely to pose an appreciable cancer risk. Although the human diet contains both naturally occurring and synthetic carcinogens, these chemicals are generally present at very low concentrations, and are thus unlikely to pose an appreciable cancer risk." - Committee on Comparative Toxicity of Naturally Occurring Carcinogens, Carcinogens and Anticarcinogens in the Human: A Comparison of Naturally Occurring and Synthetic Substances (Get the book.)

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