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Do you know which
seven dangerous food ingredients to watch out for in your groceries?
These are the "deadly seven," as I call them, and they can directly promote
heart disease, migraines, obesity, outrageous food cravings, osteoporosis,
diabetes and even birth defects.
The top three most dangerous
ingredients I've found in my research are:
1) Sodium nitrite -
causes cancer, found in processed meats like hot dogs, bacon,
sausage. Used to make meats appear red (a color fixer chemical).
2)
Hydrogenated oils - causes heart disease,
nutritional deficiencies, general deterioration of cellular health, and much
more. Found in cookies, crackers, margarine and many "manufactured" foods. Used
to make oils stay in the food, extending shelf life. Sometimes also called
"plastic fat."
3) Excitotoxins -
aspartame,
monosodium glutamate and others (see below). These neurotoxic chemical
additives directly harm nerve cells, over-exciting them to the
point of cell death, according to
Dr. Russell Blaylock. They're found in diet soda, canned soup, salad
dressing, breakfast sausage and even many manufactured vegetarian foods. They're
used to add flavor to over-processed, boring foods that have had the life cooked
out of them.
Did you know, for example,
that:
- Feeding children hot
dogs increases their risk of brain cancer by 300%?
- Strawberry yogurt, fruit
punch and other red-looking grocery products are often colored with dead,
ground-up cochineal beetles? The ingredient is called "carmine," and it's
made from insects. It's listed right on the label of many of
your favorite foods.
- Food companies now
"hide" MSG in safe-sounding ingredients like yeast extract or torula yeast?
- Many Florida oranges are
actually dipped in an artificial orange dye in order to make
them more visually appealing? It's the same dye that's been banned for use in
foods because of cancer risk.
- Girl Scout cookies are
still made with hydrogenated oils that contain
trans fatty acids?
- Many so-called "healthy"
or vegetarian foods also contain the very same offending ingredients as
conventional groceries?
- Eating just one serving
of
processed meats each day increases your risk of
pancreatic cancer
by 67%?
- One artificial color
additive causes behavioral disorders in children? And that 80%
of children diagnosed with ADHD can be outright cured of the condition in two
weeks by avoiding certain ingredients?
- The #1 ingredient in
Slim Fast meal replacement shake (powder form) is sugar?
- Some guacamole dips
don't even contain avocado? Instead, they're made with hydrogenated
soybean oil and artificial colors.
Everything I'm sharing
here is absolutely true. It's all quite shocking, yes, but this is information
you need to know if you want to feed yourself - and your family - foods that
actually promote health instead of disease.
The truth about metabolic
disruptors
Nearly all modern
diseases are caused by what I call "metabolic disruptors." These are common
ingredients, such as white flour and sugar, that prevent your body from healing.
Unfortunately, metabolic disruptors are used in almost all commercially prepared
foods, which means most products on your grocer's shelves contribute to poor
health. But if you know what to look for, you can fill your cart with foods that
will help you live a longer more vibrant life.
Back to the "hidden"
ingredients
So how do food
companies manage to hide excitotoxins and taste additives to their foods? It's
easy: They just keep changing the words to confuse consumers. Once customers
learned to avoid MSG / monosodium glutamate, the food companies started using
yeast extract.
And now, two years after I
started sounding the alarm on yeast extract, many companies have switched to "torula
yeast," which accomplishes the same thing. Other hidden sources of MSG include:
-
Autolyzed vegetable protein
- Hydrolyzed vegetable protein
- Calcium caseinate
- Sodium caseinate
- Textured protein
The ingredients "stacking"
trick
Food companies also use the
ingredients stacking trick to intentionally leave you with the wrong impression
about what's really in their food products.
For example, one company
makes a nutrition bar that's absolutely loaded with sugar, but they way they've
arranged the ingredients prevents sugar from appearing as the #1 ingredient.
Instead, the first ingredient is rice. But looking down the label, you'll find
all the following forms of sugar, all in the same nutrition bar:
- Sugar
- Sucrose
- High-fructose corn syrup
- Corn syrup solids
- Dextrose
Add all these up, and the #1
component in the bar is, indeed, sugar (or sugary substances). But the
manufacturer has used ingredients stacking to make you think the top ingredient
is actually rice.
It's a clever, dishonest
technique used by food companies to lie with food labels.
Remember, the longer the
ingredients label, the less healthy the food. Read those ingredients lists
before buying foods, and if you discover chemical names that you can't
pronounce, don't buy the food!
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