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"There are no ingredients labels, no health claims, nothing to read except maybe a recipe. It's hard when contemplating such produce to think in terms of nutrients or chemical compounds; no, this is food, so fresh it's still alive, communicating with us by scent and color and taste. The good cook takes in all this sensory information and only then decides what to do with the basket of possibilities on the counter: what to combine it with; how, and how much, to "process" it. Now the culture of the kitchen takes over." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "To do it right, you've got to be up on the latest scientific research, study ever-longer and more confusing ingredients labels,* sift through increasingly dubious health claims, and then attempt to enjoy foods that have been engineered with many other objectives in view than simply tasting good. To think of some of the most delicious components of *Geoffrey Cannon points out that nutrition labels, which have become the single most ubiquitous medium of chemical information in our lives, "are advertisements for the chemical principle of nutrition." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "Hyphens sprouted like dandelions in the supermarket aisles: low-fat, no-cholesterol, high-fiber. ingredients labels on formerly two- or three-ingredient foods such as mayonnaise and bread and yogurt ballooned with lengthy lists of new additives—what in a more benighted age would have been called adulterants. The Year of Eating Oat Bran—also known as 1988—served as a kind of coming-out party for the food scientists, who succeeded in getting the material into nearly every processed food sold in America." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"One of the best ways to do this is to read ingredients labels. Don't pay attention to packaging, which contains misrepresentations. That's what that the manufacturers want you to read. Instead, read the side or the back, where the ingredients label is posted. That's what you should read first, because it will give you a much clearer picture of what is in the product and what the nature of the product really is. For example, there are many products in the so-called healthy food industry that contain ingredients that aren't healthy." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) "Up until the success of the Atkins Diet and low-carb dieting in general, Slim Fast was an extremely successful product purchased by tens of millions of Americans who, quite obviously, are nutritionally illiterate and never read ingredients labels, or don't realize sugar is one of the last things you should put in your body if you are attempting to lose weight. The liquid forms of Slim Fast, by the way, are of a similar nature; the primary ingredient being water and the second ingredient being sugar. Those products are offering you primarily sugar water, which is much the same as soft drinks." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"All such foods contain toxic synthetic chemicals, and many aren't even listed on the ingredients labels. •* Eliminate all conventional home care and personal care products from your life: Shampoo, deodorant, soap, cleaners, detergents, dryer sheets, air fresheners, hair spray, hair dye, cosmetics, etc. Replace them all with "green home" and "green personal care" products. (See recommendations later in this book.) «•* Stop eating out of plastic, styrofoam, Teflon and aluminum foil. Eat out of Pyrex or glass containers. For cooking, use iron or stainless steel. •* Clean your air and water." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"By recognizing and applying these simple patterns for reading ingredients labels, you can quickly scan the label of any food in less than 10 seconds and determine whether you should eat it. • As much as you can, the get into the habit of relying on natural, unprocessed foods rather than purchasing excessive amounts of packaged, manufactured foods. There's nothing wrong with purchasing manufactured foods such as breads, soups, microwaveable meals and so on, as long as you don't rely on these items for the bulk of your diet. • Get into the exercise habit." - 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.) "As always, I strongly recommend you read the ingredients labels before purchasing any food item. That's the only way to be sure you're avoiding hydrogenated oils. Of course, you'll also have to watch out at restaurants. This subject warrants a lengthy discussion on its own, but the short version is that practically every salad dressing, baked pastry, butter spread, and dessert is going to contain hydrogenated oils and trans fats. The restaurant industry loves hydrogenated oils: they're cheap, they add calories and "fill" to foods, and they have an extended shelf life." - 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.) "Making a change in your margarine is easy: just buy margarine products that have "no trans fats" and read the ingredients labels to make sure they have no hydrogenated oils. But there's an even better solution that I highly recommend: buy yourself some extra virgin, cold-pressed, non-refined coconut oil and use that as a buttery spread. It's already the right texture, and it's both delicious and healthy. To add butter flavor, simply squeeze some Smart Squeeze butter-flavored liquid on top of the coconut oil. This is, by far, my best recommendation on buttery spreads." - 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.) "When shopping for products made with olive oil, be sure to read ingredients labels (and not just the claims on the front of the package). Many products claim "made with 100 percent olive oil" on the label, but when you look at the ingredients, you find that the first oil listed is actually some other oil, not olive oil. How do they get away with his claim? Well, the claim is actually true: the product is made with a little bit of "100 percent olive oil" that is mixed together with other, cheaper oils. This is a common gimmick used by salad dressing manufacturers." - 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.)

"Choose organic whenever possible, and check ingredients labels to know exactly what you're getting. Sadly, as the popularity of natural brands has risen, some of their quality standards have fallen. Mega-food manufacturers have bought out some of the original mom-and-pop type health food brand companies and have also started up some of their own brands. Some of these companies pay more attention to their profits than purity." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.) "Or, if you like, you can carry around the definitive guide to food additives when shopping for foods, along with a magnifying glass so you can check the ingredients labels. However, in the interests of your time, stress level and sanity, make life easier by buying natural food brands that do not contain chemical food additives. In addition, every time you purchase a brand that does not contain harmful chemicals you strike back at the profit-minded food manufacturers who do use them, and at the same time reward those that do not." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

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