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"Take a look at the expiration dates on the drawn to them recently that trans fats are being banished from many foods by restaurants and food manufacturers. (Cities like New York are leading the charge and banning trans fats in restaurants. Other cities and states are following the Big Apple's example.) So it is becoming easier to avoid trans fats when you eat out. The even better news about trans fats in terms of SuperFoods is that if you're following the SuperFoods plan you don't need to even think about trans fats. All of the SuperFoods are whole foods; none contain artificial trans fats." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, it's not as easy as it sounds. food manufacturers have put them in almost every food they manufacture. The good news is that if enough people refuse to buy foods that contain trans-fatty acid oils, manufacturers will stop putting them in their foods. You also want to eliminate refined oils and manufactured polyunsaturated oils from your diet. What oils are good? Virtually any raw natural oil is good. Olive oil is the best. Use lots of extra virgin olive oil in your cooking." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Commercial interests, mainly in the United States, convinced food manufacturers to abandon the use of this tropical oil in favor of processed oils made from various crops, including soy, that were "home grown." Mary Enig points out that poor research practices were also to blame: "The problems for coconut oil started four decades ago when researchers fed animals hydrogenated coconut oil that was purposefully altered to make it completely devoid of any essential fatty acids."42 As already pointed out, the hydrogenation of oils produces trans fats, which are very unhealthy." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Low-fat products often hide the most sugar. When food manufacturers take out the fat, guess what they use to replace the taste factor? Also, take a close look at foods that proclaim "no sugar." Remember that "no sugar" simply means "no sucrose." Manufacturers use different kinds of sweeteners to mask how much sugar is in products marketed as "healthy" or "low-fat." The labels on these foods may show five different ingredients, such as maltodextrin, raisin juice or fructose. These all sound healthy, don't they? They are all sugars." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"But, in addition, the mighty doctors' associations, the food manufacturers and the consumers themselves are; we are talking about a huge lack of knowledge about natural health. It is easy for Big Pharma to sell drugs: we don't ask, we don't look; we just take the drugs, believing that it is much more convenient to take them instead of changing our habits. We allow them to carry on their big business by not opposing them. We allow them to take our money." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Food companies and farmers can protect themselves Whether the tipping point is achieved through a new scientific finding, a national education campaign, a religious leader, legislation, or even a well-received segment on Oprah Winfrey, there is an excellent chance that US food manufacturers will abandon GM foods in the near future. Several have already taken steps to protect themselves by avoiding GM ingredients. Still, farmers and food manufacturers may need to do more than just avoid GMOs in their own operations to protect themselves." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"Physicians and dietitians should encourage the patient to join local chapters of national support organizations, which can aid in finding local resources, such as supermarkets, food manufacturers, literature, and restaurants that are familiar with the gluten-free diet. Lifelong compliance with the gluten-free diet is challenging. The most important factors in achieving compliance are patient education, close supervision by an interested physician, and regular nutritional counseling by a registered dietitian with expertise in this area [65, 83]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Today, industrial food manufacturers have at their disposal an endless variety of chemical ways to preserve food, including benzoates, BHA, BHT, FD&C dyes, MSG, nitrates, nitrites, parabens, and sulfites. The final step in food processing is the addition of vitamins and minerals, to make up for what was lost during the initial heat-stripping phase." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"A great many foods contain glycotoxins; in fact, food manufacturers have been adding glycotoxins to their products for many years as a cheap way to enhance flavor and appearance. The dramatic increase in processed foods in recent years and the fact that fast food has become a staple of the American diet mean that most people are consuming unprecedented amounts of food-derived glycotoxins. A high-fat diet clearly enhances glycation." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Foods that contain artificial sweeteners are the stealth bombers of healthy eating. food manufacturers have led us to believe that "low cal" is king. How The Truth About "Low Fat" Packaged Foods. People who are trying to lose weight see reduced-fat foods as great diet foods. But they usually fail to notice that what's missing in terms of fat has been added in some other form to make up for the loss of flavor and texture that fat provides. These foods are often nearly or as high in calories as a full-fat food." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"And then there were the food manufacturers, which stood to make very little money from my grandmother's cooking, because she was doing so much of it from scratch— up to and including rendering her own cooking fats. Amplifying the "latest science," they managed to sell her daughter on the virtues of hydrogenated vegetable oils, the ones that we're now learning may be, well, deadly substances. Sooner or later, everything solid we've been told about the links between our diet and our health seems to get blown away in the gust of the most recent study. Consider the latest findings." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"What information you should pay particular attention to on these labels is not provided by food manufacturers or even many health-care professionals." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"In the early twentieth century, however, food manufacturers in the industrialized nations began literally pouring corn oil—a source of omega-6 fatty acids—into the food chain. This was accompanied by a decline in consumption of fish and wild game and a dramatic increase in the use of grains (another source of omega-6) to feed livestock. These factors, along with the popularity of fast-food restaurants and processed foods that contain vegetable oils, combined to drastically alter the balance between omega-6 and omega-3 in the Western diet." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"This explains why food manufacturers put wheat in everything. It is even hidden in items like ketchup under names like "modified starch." Gluten was found to contain fifteen different opioid sequences which, when ingested and assimilated, interfere with normal brain chemistry and result in learning disabilities. In an article entitled "Schizophrenia and dietary neuroactive peptides," T. C. Dohan discusses how wheat and other glutens create endorphic activity, which is probably what makes them addictive, and also induce schizophrenia in people who are particularly sensitive." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "If I ate just a bit of either, I would crave it strongly the next day. food manufacturers know this, which is why they manage to slip some hidden form of these addictive poisons into processed foods. My body was so sensitive from eating mostly raw foods that when I ate wheat, I noticed that I would feel a mild stupor, somewhat like a drug-induced state in which I lost all alertness. If I had much of it, like a few pieces of bread or cake, I would fall asleep. For more information on the addictive nature of wheat and dairy, see the web site www.13.waisays.com/zombie.htm. (Also see Appendix A." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Glycotoxins are also formed during food production and preparation. food manufacturers use various heating processes to enhance flavor, color, and texture; to improve food safety (sterilization and pasteurization); and to extend shelf life. A byproduct of these processes, unfortunately, is often glycotoxins. Foods as varied as cola drinks, infant formulas, baked goods, caramel, and brewed products contain glycotoxins. Foods high in fat and protein (such as meat and poultry) typically have the highest glycotoxin levels." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"And how could they, given that so much of the relevant information is distorted or kept hidden by food manufacturers and government agencies alike? For example, restaurant chains are refusing to provide even with the most basic nutrition information to help people exercise more personal responsibility. There are numerous examples of how food-industry lobbyists control and manipulate the discourse on food and food policy." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"The mass media, medical industry and food manufacturers have not taken much notice of this important finding. In the meanwhile, the low-fat hysteria continues to escalate. "Light Fats" and their "Amazing" Effects Take for instance "light-butter" or half-fat butter, which has been heralded as one of the greatest "achievements" of food technology so far. In this high-tech product, at least half of the fat content of butter is replaced with water. It tastes like butter, it spreads like butter and it melts like butter in the mouth, but in reality it is mostly water." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "At last, food manufacturers have complied with the demands made by nutritional scientists and dieticians to produce foods with fewer calories. Consumers feel relieved that the new food is fat-free and without sugar, and instead contains fat substitutes, water and artificial sweeteners. This saves massive amounts of calories. And by adding artificial flavors to the food and using other forms of chemical manipulation, the taste buds believe that it is the real thing." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "For this reason, U.S. food manufacturers are required to fortify their olestra-containing products with all these vitamins; this gives the false impression that these foods are now safe for human consumption. But uncontrolled intake of vitamin K can endanger the lives of hemophiliacs; and a pregnant mother may risk her baby's life by taking too much vitamin A. Apart from removing vitamins from the body (and thoroughly confusing the body), olestra also reduces the absorption of carotenoids that help us to prevent cancer, heart disease, and strokes. Pseudo-fats cannot fool even animals." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Let's Get Together and Form Ourselves an Institute Another increasingly popular tactic for manipulating and controlling the scientific discourse is to generate industry-friendly "research" under the cover of seemingly impartial institutes founded by food manufacturers themselves. Like corporate advisory panels, such bodies are given lofty, objective-sounding names to convey scientific integrity. Witness the Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition, created by cereal giant General Mills." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Along with Stonyfield Farm and Organic Valley, Ben & Jerry's has sued to preserve its right, and the right of other food manufacturers, to label its products as rBGH-free. They won, and now consumers can look on food labels, and make an informed choice as to whether they want dairy products made with or without artificial growth hormones. As a food company reliant on Vermont's family farms, Ben & Jerry's has strong views on these agricultural and consumer concerns." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"Fried foods, especially French fries, fried chicken, and doughnuts, are almost always soaked in these toxic fats. food manufacturers have to tell you, on their labeling, how much of these fats their products contain, but you should know that a product that contains less than half a gram (0.5 grams) of trans-fatty acids per serving can be labeled as zero grams. To be safe, stay away from foods like chips, crackers, and packaged baked goods, all of which are likely to contain some amount of hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated vegetable oils—trans fats." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"On the negative side, you often get what you pay for. food manufacturers must take shortcuts to produce foods cheap enough to sell at warehouse prices, and that often means using low-cost, unhealthy ingredients, such as partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and high-fructose corn syrup. As but one example, if you look at the ingredients of corn chips at supermarkets, natural food stores, and Trader Joe's, you'll usually find soybean, safflower, or canola oil. At the big-box stores, it's most often partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. Read the labels extra carefully in these stores." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.) "While some food manufacturers honor both the letter and the spirit of Emphasize Fresh Foods As you learn how to read food labels, you'll soon realize that the majority of foods in supermarkets aren't very healthy. They're loaded with sugar, sugarlike carbs, dangerous trans fats, and way too much salt. So, what do you eat? The simplest approach is to buy only fresh, perishable foods, such as fish, chicken, and vegetables. food-labeling laws, others follow the letter but exploit labeling loopholes with an apparent intent to deceive shoppers." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"After World War I, pet food manufacturers introduced canned horsemeat for dog food. By 1930 pet food companies introduced canned food and dry meat-meal dog foods, but for the most part people still fed their pets leftovers from the dinner table. In subsequent years as farm machinery replaced teams of horses, horsemeat products became less plentiful, and meat and cereal by-products replaced horsemeat as the primary ingredients in pet food. By the 1960s a great diversification in the types of pet food flourished." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) "Philip Lee-Shanok, a reporter from the Toronto Sun, reported, "The protein meal is sold to various pet food manufacturers and other animal feed companies." When Lee-Shanok interviewed Mario Couture, Sanimal's head of procurement about euthanized pets rendered into pet food, he stated, "This food is healthy and good, but some people don't like to see meat meal that contains any pets."11 (If you read the ingredient descriptions for pet food in Chapter One, it is doubtful that the food is healthy and good!" - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) "Until pet food manufacturers are willing to start testing the protein source, they will continue to be questioned by consumers—and certainly by me! The FDA/CVM, as part of their study on sodium pentobarbital, which is discussed in Chapter Three, also stated that it "developed a test to detect dog and cat DNA in the protein of the dog food."13 The FDA/CVM noted that all samples from its survey were examined for the remains derived from dogs and cats. The results showed a complete absence of material from euthanized dogs and cats." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"But if you are unable to imagine breakfast without these meats, you are in luck. food manufacturers have come to your rescue with vegetarian versions, and most supermarkets and all health food stores now carry several varieties. If they are new to you, think of them as a liberal interpretation of the original; they are tasty and high in protein. Read the package labels, and choose those that omit animal ingredients (some are made with egg white, which is concentrated animal protein that you want to avoid) and are the lowest in fat." - Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan, Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs (Get the book.)

"It seems that food manufacturers want to titillate our children's taste buds with flavorants, attract their eyes with colorants, and preserve their food so that it never decays, resulting in little returns to the stores. Our children are exposed to these substances in hotdogs, burgers, fries (any fast food), mayonnaise, salad dressings, soda, candy, breakfast cereals, and in fact most of the food manufactured and man-made. The easiest thing for a mother to do is stick to natural foods, read labels, and go for homemade." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

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