20 Ingredients To Memorize and Avoid In ANY Food You Consume

20 Ingredients To Memorize and Avoid In ANY Food You Consume

Artificial flavors, colors, preservatives, emulsifiers,
sweeteners have saturated the food supply for more than four decades. We
are on the precipice of discovering what our toxic food industry has
done to our bodies and our environment. There is a heightened awareness
and a sense of caution on the minds of most grocery shoppers, so let's
make it easier for them. Here are 25 of the most common toxic
ingredients you must avoid in foods. The discovery of even one of these
ingredients on a food label means "stay away."



This list is by no means all inclusive as there are dozens of
other culprits, but these are the most commonly used by the food
industry with little regard to consumer's health.

1. Artificial Flavors

Artificial flavorings are derived from chemicals made in a
laboratory and offer absolutely no nutritional value and are a magnet
for processed foods. They show up in almost everything today,
including bread, cereals, flavored yogurt, soups mixes, and cocktail
mixers, so they can be hard to avoid. Every single artificial flavor
in the food industry has some kind of detrimental
health effect. These include neurotoxicity, organ,
developmental, reproductive toxicity and cancer.

2. Enriched Wheat



Wheat is already one of those grains that should be avoided, but
the key word to watch out for is 'enrichment'. That means niacin,
thiamine, riboflavin, folic acid, and iron are added after these and
other key nutrients are stripped out in the first place during the
refining process. That applies to whether it's wheat, rye, or other
grains. Enriched flour is really just refined flour that has had a few
nutrients re-added to it, but not enough to make any food made from
this nutritionally worthy.


3. Hydrogentated or Fractionated Oils




Fractionating oil is a process most often used on palm
and palm kernel oil that involves heating the oil, then cooling it
quickly so that it breaks up into fractions (hence the name). The key
thing is that the filtration process separates out most of the liquid
part of the oil, leaving a high concentration of solid unhealthy fat
behind which is terribly toxic for human consumption.

Hydrogenated oils are oils that are often healthy in their natural
state, but are quickly turned into poisons through the manufacturing and
processing they undergo. They take these naturally healthy oils such
as palm, kernel, soybean, corn oil, canola oil or coconut oil and they
heat it anywhere from five hundred to one thousand degrees. They then
become fantastic preservatives because all the enzymatic activity in
the oil has been neutralized during the hydrogenating process.
Hydrogenated oils are the closest thing you can get to plastic sludge
running through your body. If you see "hydrogenated" anywhere on an
ingredient list, run like the wind.


4. Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)

The food additive "MSG" is a slow poison
which hides behind dozens of names, such as natural
flavoring, yeast extract, autolyzed yeast extract, disodium guanylate,
disodium inosinate, caseinate, textured protein, hydrolyzed pea protein
and many others. Currently, labeling standards do
not require MSG to be listed in the ingredient list of thousands of
foods.


MSG is not a nutrient, vitamin,
or mineral and has no health benefits. The part of
MSG that negatively affects the human body is the
"glutamate", not the sodium. The bound glutamic acid
in certain foods (corn, molasses, wheat) is broken down
or made "free" by various processes (hydrolyzed, autolyzed,
modified or fermented with strong chemicals, bacteria, or
enzymes) and refined to a white crystal that
resembles sugar.

There are a growing number of Clinicians and Scientists who
are convinced that excitotoxins play a critical role
in the development of several neurological
disorders, including migraines, seizures,
infections, abnormal neural development, certain endocrine
disorders, specific types of obesity, and especially the
neurodegenerative diseases; a group of diseases
which includes: ALS, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease,
Huntington's disease, and olivopontocerebellar degeneration.

5. Sugar


The single largest source of calories for Americans comes from sugar. Sugar
is loaded into your soft drinks, fruit juices, sports drinks, and
hidden in almost all processed foods--from bologna to pretzels to
Worcestershire sauce to cheese spread. And now most infant formula has
the sugar equivalent of one can of Coca-Cola, so babies are being
metabolically poisoned from day one if taking formula. Sugar
changes metabolism, raises blood pressure, critically alters the
signaling of hormones and causes significant damage to the liver --
the least understood of sugar's damages. These health hazards largely
mirror the effects of drinking too much alcohol, which they point
out in their commentary is the distillation of sugar. If it's not a
natural sugar, it doesn't belong in your food.

6. High Fructose Corn Syrup

A few years ago, the Corn Refiners Association petitioned
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow the term ‘corn sugar’
as an alternative label declaration for high fructose corn syrup
(HFCS). The reason? Too many people were finding out how lethal HFCS
was for the human body.

HFCS causes insulin resistance, diabetes, hypertension, increased weight gain, and not to mention manufactured from genetically modified corn.

7. Potassium Benzoate and Sodium Benzoate

Sodium Benzoate can convert into lethal carcinogenic poison
when combined with absorbic acid. Professor
Peter Piper, a professor of molecular biology and biotechnology,
tested the impact of sodium benzoate on living
yeast cells in his laboratory. What he found
alarmed him: the benzoate was damaging an
important area of DNA in the "power station" of
cells known as the mitochondria. "These chemicals have
the ability to cause severe damage to DNA in the mitochondria
to the point that they totally inactivate it: they
knock it out altogether." he stated.

Potassium benzoate often shows up in seemingly innocuous foods such
as apple cider, low-fat salad dressings, syrups, jams, olives, and
pickles. It is just as hazardous as Sodium Benzoate so read your labels.

8. Artificial Coloring

Food colorings still on the market are linked with
cancer. Blue 1 and 2, found in beverages,
candy, baked goods and pet food, have been linked to cancer
in mice. Red 3, used to dye cherries, fruit cocktail,
candy, and baked goods, has been shown to
cause thyroid tumors in rats. Green 3, added
to candy and beverages, has been linked to
bladder cancer. The widely used yellow 6,
added to beverages, sausage, gelatin, baked goods,
and candy, has been linked to tumors of the adrenal gland
and kidney.

9. Acesulfame-K

Acesulfame-K, also known as acesulfame potassium, represents one of
the food additives used for sweetening aliments and drinks. It is
approved by the FDA, but there are several potential problems
correlated with consumption of this food additive. Even though there
are many studies that attest its safety, acesulfame potassium is still
suspected of causing benign thyroid tumors. In rats, the development
of such tumors took only 3 months, a period in which the concentration
of this additive in the consumed food was between 1 and 5 percent.
This is a very short period of time, so the substance is believed to
have significant carcinogenic properties.
Methylene chloride, a solvent used in the manufacture of acesulfame
potassium, is the substance that may give the food additive its
potential carcinogenic characteristics.

10. Sucralose

Splenda/sucralose is simply chlorinated sugar; a chlorocarbon. Common
chlorocarbons include carbon tetrachloride, trichlorethelene and
methylene chloride, all deadly. Chlorine is nature's Doberman attack
dog, a highly excitable, ferocious atomic element employed as a
biocide in bleach, disinfectants, insecticide, WWI poison gas and
hydrochloric acid. Chlorocarbons are never nutritionally compatible
with our metabolic processes and are wholly incompatible with normal
human metabolic functioning. Sucralose is a very common additive in
protein mixes and drinks so beware all of you who love to add these
into your smoothies.

11. Aspartame

The sale of aspartame, with only four calories per
gram and 200 times sweeter than sugar, is sold under
the trademarks NutraSweet and Equal. Results
indicate that aspartame is a multi-potential
carcinogen, even consumed daily at 20 milligrams
per kilogram of body weight. That is a lower quantity
than the maximum recommended by the FDA.
It's one reason you should never purchase major brands of chewing gums.

12.
BHA and BHT

Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydrozyttoluene
(BHT) are used to preserve common household foods. Any
processed food that has a long shelf life is often filled with BHA. They
are found in cereals, chewing gum, potato
chips, and vegetable oils. They are oxidants,
which form potentially cancer-causing reactive
compounds in your body.

13.
Propyl Gallate

Another preservative, often used in conjunction with
BHA and BHT. It is sometimes found in meat products, chicken
soup base, and chewing gum. Animals studies have
suggested that it could be linked to cancer.

14.
Sodium Chloride

A dash of sodium chloride, more commonly known as salt, is the culprit
that the mainstream media and medical community claim we should stay
away from. They're right, but only because it's not real salt. Common
table salt (sodium chloride) has almost nothing in common
with traditional rock or sea salt. If a food label lists
salt, or sodium chloride as an ingredient, that's the bad stuff and you
need to avoid these foods wherever possible.

15.
Soy

Although it's often lauded as a healthy, cholesterol-free, cheap, low-fat protein alternative to meat, soy is NOT a health food.
Any foods that list soy in any form as an ingredient should be avoided.
Soy protein, soy isolate, and soy oil are present in about 60
percent of the foods on the market and have been shown to impair
fertility and affect estrogen in women, lower sex drive, and trigger
puberty early in children. Soy can also add to the imbalance between
omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids.

The only soy products fit for human consumption are fermented and organic
and I can guarantee you will never find this type of soy in any
processed foods. The majority of soy is GMO and you can't get around
this. Regardless of who I am speaking with, soy is one of those foods I
use to gauge the nutritional IQ of others. You would not believe how
many health practitioners and even Naturopathic Doctors still think soy
is a health food. Please don't touch this stuff.


16.
Corn

We are at the point where all corn products, including fresh corn
should be
avoided. The percentage of genetically modified corn is just far too
high. You will never know if you are actually consuming organic corn.
Modified cornstarch, dextrose, maltodextrin, and corn oil should all be
avoided. All are high in omega-6 fatty acids, which can promote
inflammation, cancer, and heart disease. While your body needs both
omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids to perform at its full potential, most
experts recommend an omega-6 to omega-3 ratio of 1:1--currently most
Americans consume about 15-20 times more omega-6 acids than omega-3s.

17. Potassium Sorbate

As one of the most prolific preservatives in the
food industry, it is difficult to find an ice cream
without potassium sorbate. However, it is not only
recommended to avoid this chemical, it's a necessity
to eliminate it from our foods. The food industry and its scientists
will parrot endless myths that potassium sorbate is
not a health threat because of its safety record and
non-toxic profile. This could not be further from
the truth.

Food and chemical toxicology reports have labeled potassium
sorbate as a carcinogen, showing positive mutation results in
the cells of mammals. Other studies have shown broad
systemic and toxic effects on non-reproductive
organs in animals. No long term studies have ever
been initiated on either animals or humans, so there
is simply not enough evidence to theorize what
could happen after years of ingesting this preservative.
However, based on short-term carcinogenic and toxic effects,
is it worth the risk to find out?

18. Soy Lecithin

Soy Lecithin has been lingering around our food
supply for over a century. It is an ingredient in
literally hundreds of processed foods, and also sold
as an over the counter health food
supplement. However, most people don't
realize what soy lecithin actually is, and why
the dangers of ingesting this additive far exceed
its benefits.

Soybean
lecithin comes from sludge left after crude soy oil
goes through a "degumming" process. It is
a waste product containing solvents and pesticides. The toxic
hexane extraction process is what is
commonly used in soybean oil manufacture today. Another big problem
associated with soy lecithin comes from
the origin of the soy itself. Look out for this emulsifier in ice
creams, chocolate and many processed creams.


19. Polysorbate 80

Polysorbate 80 has been found to negatively affect the immune
system and cause severe anaphylactic shock which can kill.
Food and Chemical Toxicology has shown that
Polysorbate 80 causes infertility. It accelerates
maturing, causes changes to the vagina and womb
lining, hormonal changes, ovary deformities and
degenerative follicles. What is very suspicious about this ingredient
is its addition to vaccines. Scientists are obviously aware of its
ability to cause infertility yet it continues to
appear in children's vaccines. You will also commonly find this in a
child's favorite treat, ice cream.


20. Canola oil

Canola or rapeseed oil is poisonous to living things and is an
excellent insect repellent. It is an industrial oil, not a food. It is a
genetically modified plant designed through intensive breeding and
genetic engineering techniques. The Canadian government and industry
paid the FDA $50 million dollars to have canola oil placed on the
(GRAS) List, "Generally Recognized As Safe". It is becoming
increasingly difficult to find products that do not contain Canola oil.
Please do not buy any food product containing canola oil.


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