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"Once they had as much oil as they did in the food supply they had a lot of soy protein residue left over, and since they can't feed it to animals, except in small amounts, they had to find another market." In other words, the human population became an effective garbage dumpster for the food industry while making the medical industry increasingly profitable as a result of treating the many soy-caused illnesses. This is not unlike the pouring of the poison fluoride—a hazardous waste product from aluminum plants—into the municipal water to "save" children from developing bad teeth." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"The theory is that their food supply always varies. Foods that are consumed frequently become allergies. In Japan, rice allergies are common. In Scandinavia, fish allergies are prevalent. This is good advertising for food rotation diets. Addiction and continual consumption of certain foods can cause an adaptation to it. For example, an offending food may give you an initial reaction but if you consume a small portion of it every day, you may become accustomed to it. After a while, you may feel sluggish if you do not have this food and when you have it, you feel picked up again." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"One of the chief concerns with toxins in the environment is the fact we are at the top of the food chain and are more likely to be exposed to an accumulation of toxic substances in the food supply (often called "bioaccumulation"). Grains sprayed with pesticides, for instance, are then fed to animals that store those toxic substances in their fatty tissue. The animals also store other toxins such as hormones, antibiotics, and other chemicals administered by farmers." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"That way, you are eliminating the pesticides, herbicides, hormones and antibiotics that go into so much of the food supply, all of which have significant biological effects. "Eat whole foods. It's crucial. Humans were meant to eat whole foods, not Pop Tarts. If you eat a whole food diet and then eat a processed food, there are significant effects on intestinal functioning. If the intestine is not functioning well, you are not going to be taking in the nutrients, even if the food is decent. "Eliminate all of the sugar." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"All of a sudden, there's this constant food supply, like we have now, 24 hours a day. We never have the famine, so that's why they become so much more overweight. Then, being overweight, they develop the Type-2 diabetes that goes with that." TOTAL PREVALENCE OF DIABETES BY RACE/ETHNICITY28 Non-Hispanic Whites: 13.1 million, or 8.7 percent of all non-Hispanic whites age 20 years or older have diabetes. Non-Hispanic Blacks: 3.2 million, or 13.3 percent of all non-Hispanic blacks age 20 years or older have diabetes. After adjusting for population age differences, non-Hispanic blacks are 1." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Also, simple deficiencies in brain nutrition, caused by our unhealthy and often toxic food supply, can contribute to the onset of not only full-blown autism, but also ADHD, allergies, and asthma. The causal links among these disorders go on and on. These links even extend, to a significant degree, to other modern childhood epidemics, including those of learning disabilities, depression, teen suicide, substance abuse, speech pathologies, diabetes, childhood obesity, and recurrent ear infections." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "They do contain complex proteins, which can confuse the immune system, and they may be harder than other high-protein foods for the body to recognize, because of the fact that they were one of the last staples to enter our food supply. But the reasons for their unmatched capacity to kill remain largely mysterious. Anju and her husband, therefore, had to take Priya out of school. They couldn't possibly take the risk of her being exposed to peanuts again. The family's range of activities began to shrivel, out of fear of contact with peanuts." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "A popular theory about why gluten intolerance is so common is that wheat was not introduced into the human food supply until relatively late in the process of human evolution. People didn't eat wheat until after the advent of agriculture, about ten thousand years ago. This, however, was preceded by at least one million years in which people subsisted mostly on wild fruits, vegetables, and game meat. This long period of living on vegetables, fruit, and meat may account for the fact that reactions to vegetables, fruit, and meat are far less common than reactions to grains." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"These are among the accomplices in our largely overprocessed food supply, entering our diets as ingredients in processed foods. The infiltration of fast food into our lives—and its economic, cultural, and health consequences—was expertly described in chilling detail in Eric Schlosser's best-selling book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Other animals have to live within the constraints of their ecosystems, where their numbers are regulated by food supply, predators and so on. Homo sapiens has broken out from this ecological straitjacket - our food supply is no longer limited by what we can grow in the field and forage in the forest. Instead, we turn fossil fuels into food, through mechanised agriculture and long-distance transport. Natural gas is used to make nitrogen fertilisers, whilst oil powers the tractors and combine harvesters that carry out most of the labour." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Energy density of foods and beverages in the Australian food supply: influence of macronutrients and comparison to dietary intake. Eur. J. Clin. Nutr. 58, 1485-1491. 53. de Castro, J. M. (2006). Macronutrient and dietary energy density influences on the intake of free-living humans. Appetite 46, 1-5. 54. de Castro, J. M. (2005). Stomach filling may mediate the influence of dietary energy density on the food intake of free-living humans. Physiol. Behav. 86, 32-45. 55. de Castro, J. M. (2004). Dietary energy density is associated with increased intake in free-living humans. J. Nutr." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Allowed the continued legal use of harmful, cancer-causing food additives in the national food supply such as sodium nitrite (which causes cancer and yet is intentionally added to nearly all processed meats). Refused to ban a poisonous artificial fat from the food supply (hydrogenated oils) for decades, even though the World Health Organization urged member nations to outlaw the substance in 1978. Hydrogenated oils continue to harm infants, children, and adults today." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "Knowingly approved harmful food additives for widespread use in the food supply (such as aspartame, which has a rather dubious history and has been proven toxic in several studies), even when its own safety experts recommended denying approval. Allowed the continued legal use of harmful, cancer-causing food additives in the national food supply such as sodium nitrite (which causes cancer and yet is intentionally added to nearly all processed meats)." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Anything, therefore, that might have caused either an increase in food supply or a decrease in temperature would go a long way toward explaining why it took until 541 for Y. pestis to make its presence known in Pelusium. Researchers have documented just such a temperature drop, at precisely the appropriate time.* While one variable in the risk of plague in humans is an increase in the number of rar populations, another—perversely—is the percentage of rats within those populations susceptible to the disease. Each • For more on sixth-century climate change, see Chapter 9." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Evidently, such changes are a threat to the food supply of the entire world. The recognition that climate change-induced dangers are real and need to be combated is growing. A new milestone was reached in December of 2007 when the "Bali roadmap"—a two-year framework for global negotiation adopted at the U.N. climate change convention on the island of Bali—acknowledged that evidence for global warming is "unequivocal" and that delays in reducing greenhouse gas emissions increase the risk of "severe climate change impacts." Although the U.S." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Indeed, GM could play a vital role in bolstering Africa's food supply. Bananas have been developed that contain vaccines so that children without access to immunization shots can simply eat bananas to protect themselves from deadly viruses. This could prevent millions of deaths every year. The public, however, is growing wary of the promises of transnational agribusinesses. The green revolution's pesticides and irrigation schemes did lead to increased yields, but it didn't end world hunger; it certainly saved lives, but it also forced farmers to become dependent on chemical seed corporations." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Part of the justification for the penal vibe has to do with food safety: it's an obvious target for anyone wanting to contaminate New York's food supply. But rather than feeling secure, as I drive around the market's outskirts on Food Center Drive, I can't help recalling Jimmy's tales of corruption and crime. The Mafia connotations aren't only in Jimmy's mind. Shortly after my visit, the New York Police Department broke up a million-dollar gambling ring based in the market. One of the eleven people arrested in "Operation Rotten Apple" was John Caggiano. Owner of C&S Wholesale Produce, Inc." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"With the climate change comes a change in food supply, temperature and sun exposure. People tend to get sick at this time, which is due to the stress the body goes through to adjust to its environment. Given that we are harmonious creatures with nature, it would seem wise to cleanse during these seasonal shifts. I would recommend a whole body cleanse because as one organ system is worked on, it can create a rebound stress for other systems. When the organ systems work in harmony, it releases toxins more effectively." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"In addition, pollutants and pesticides in the animals' food supply (which then becomes stored in the animals' fat) might trigger breast cancer. 2. Women who eat high-fat foods tend to be overweight, and overweight women produce more estrogen and have a higher rate of breast cancer. So is it what's in the fat or what the fat does? Fat is active. It is constantly producing hormones and inflammatory proteins. Unfortunately, fat tends to make estrone, and a form of estrogen, which is associated with breast cancer. 3. The way you cook your meat plays a role, too." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"When you nosh on foods high in sugar and starches, you, too, activate insulin resistance, but continue and you become overweight, which your genes perceive as threatening the food supply of others. Likewise, as your muscle mass decreases with age, if you continue to eat like a teenager but are inactive, your genes assume that you're taking more than your share without contributing to defense or food collection. In either case, your behavior unwittingly activates killer genes." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"The most important such nutrition campaign has been the thirty-year effort to reform the food supply and our eating habits in light of the lipid hypothesis—the idea that dietary fat is responsible for chronic disease. At the behest of government panels, nutrition scientists, and public health officials, we have dramatically changed the way we eat and the way we think about food, in what stands as the biggest experiment in applied nutritionism in history." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "The whole of the industrial food supply was reformulated to reflect the new nutritional wisdom, giving us low-fat pork, low-fat Snackwell's, and all the low-fat pasta and high-fructose (yet low-fat!) corn syrup we could consume. Which turned out to be quite a lot. Oddly, Americans got really fat on their new low-fat diet—indeed, many date the current epidemic of obesity and diabetes to the late 1970s, when Americans began bingeing on carbohydrates, ostensibly as a way to avoid the evils of fat. But the story is slightly more complicated than that." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "With the result that today corn contributes 554 calories a day to America's per capita food supply and soy another 257. Add wheat (768 calories) and rice (91) and you can see there isn't a whole lot of room left in the American stomach for any other foods. Today these four crops account for two thirds of the calories we eat. When you consider diat humankind has historically consumed some eighty thousand edible species, and that three thousand of these have been in widespread use, this represents a radical simplification of the human diet. Why should this concern us?" - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Some researchers believe that such contamination of our food supply, or other consumer products, happens when large commercial networks operate without sufficiently tight oversight or when businesses are not knowledgeable about the consequences of making even minor alterations in manufacturing processes. One high-level researcher, who prefers to talk off the record, cautions that, without proper oversight and improved regulation, we may well see more such food- and additive-related clusters in the future, both in epidemic and sporadic form." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"As a result of folic acid added to the food supply, fewer Americans will be depleted compared with the past. In 1999, scientific evidence began to demonstrate that the folic acid added to the U.S. food supply was having positive effects, including a partial lowering of homocysteine levels.32 In the same year, however, a report from the North Carolina Birth Defects Monitoring Program suggested the current level of folic acid fortification has not reduced the incidence of neural-tube defects." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"Real prevention, cleaning the air and water, for example, or purifying the food supply, are not even part of the NIH mission. Even worse, our government still pays vatious and sundry subsidies, actually $345 million in the year 2000, to support tobacco farming.36 One cannot escape the conclusion that our government fights lung cancer with one fist, just as it promotes that dread disease with the other. We might focus on the public health establishment. Most of their effort is in controlling some problem that is a manifest threat, say, the spread of infectious disease." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Meanwhile, although Congress has passed consumer disclosure legislation forcing the food industry to list fat, cholesterol, and additional nutritional information on labels, consumers have no legal right to know of the carcinogenic and other toxic chemicals whose residues are found in the food supply. The bottom line is that consumers have a legal right to know about cholesterol and fat in the food supply; but when it comes to pesticides in the food supply, consumers have no such right. Recent reports have focused on the risk to children posed by chemicals in the food supply." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., The Politics of Cancer Revisited (Get the book.)

"Humans label as 'pests' any plants or animals that endanger our food supply, health or comfort. To manage these pests, we have pesticides/These are products 'intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest [according to the Federal Act].'" Just as we are coming to recognize the importance of the condition of the body's terrain (internal environment) to health, so too are we becoming increasingly aware that the health of plants is dependent upon the condition of the soil (external terrain) in which they're grown." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Nor do I want to leave you with the impression that vitamin and nutrient supplementation of the food supply is always a bad thing. However, if you are a resident of the U.S. or Europe and have access to a variety of foods, you don't need added vitamins, minerals, or supplements, for they are more likely to cause harm than good. There are residents of Third World countries, however, who may benefit from the addition of vitamins and supplements to their foods." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Heavy Metal Toxicity_ Thousands of tons of toxic industrial wastes invade our air, water, soil, and food supply annually. Included among these wastes are heavy metals such as lead, mercury, arsenic, and cadmium. Both acute and chronic low-level exposure to heavy metals have been found to cause a host of problems, such as hyperactivity, aggression, insomnia, anxiety, depression, and reduced cognitive function. Dr." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

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