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What's really in the food? The A to Z of the food industry's most evil ingredients

NaturalNews) Ever wonder what's really in the food sold at grocery stores around the world? People keep asking me, "What ingredients should I avoid?" So I put together a short list that covers all the most toxic and disease-promoting ingredients in the food supply. These are the substances causing cancer, diabetes, heart disease and leading to tens of billions of dollars in unnecessary health care costs across America (and around the world).

If you want to stay healthy and out of the hospital, read ingredients labels and make sure you avoid all these ingredients:

Acrylamides - Toxic, cancer-causing chemicals formed in foods when carbohydrates are exposed to high heat (baking, frying, grilling). They're present in everything from bread crusts to snack chips, and because they aren't intentional ingredients, acrylamides do NOT have to be listed on labels.

Aspartame - Chemical sweetener that causes neurological disorders, seizures, blurred vision and migraine headaches. (http://www.naturalnews.com/030918_a...)

Autolyzed Proteins - Highly processed form of protein containing free glutamate and used to mimic the taste-enhancer chemical MSG.

BPA (Bisphenol-A) - A hormone mimicking chemical found in nearly all food packaging plastics. Active in just parts per billion, BPA promotes cancer, infertility and hormone disorders. It also "feminizes" males, promoting male breast growth and hormone disruption (http://www.naturalnews.com/032860_B...).

Casein - Milk proteins. Hilariously, this is widely used in "soy cheese" products that claim to be alternatives to cow's milk. Nearly all of them are made with cow's milk proteins.

Corn Syrup - Just another name for High Fructose Corn Syrup (see below). Frequently used in infant formula products (http://www.naturalnews.com/029863_S...).

Food Colors - FD&C Red #40, for example, is linked to behavioral disorders in children. Nearly all artificial food colors are derived from petroleum, and many are contaminated with aluminum.

Genetically Modified Ingredients - Not currently listed on the label because the GMO industry (Monsanto and DuPont) absolutely does not want people to know which foods contain GMOs. Nearly all conventionally grown corn, soy and cotton are GMOs. They're linked to severe infertility problems and may even cause the bacteria in your body to produce and release a pesticide in your own gut. If you're not eating organic corn, you're definitely eating GMO corn. (http://www.naturalnews.com/026426_G...) Learn more at Institute for Responsible Technology - or watch my GMO music video (hilarious) at NaturalNews.com

High Fructose Corn Syrup - A highly processed liquid sugar extracted with the chemical solvent glutaraldehyde and frequently contaminated with mercury (http://www.naturalnews.com/032948_h...). It's also linked to diabetes, obesity and mood disorders. Used in thounited snakesnds of grocery items, including things you wouldn't suspect like pizza sauce and salad dressings.

Homogenized Milk - The fats in the milk are artificially modified to change them into smaller molecules that stay in suspension in the milk liquid (so the milk fat doesn't separate) (http://www.naturalnews.com/022967_m...). While it makes milk look better on the shelf, it's also blamed for promoting heart disease and may contribute to milk allergies. Raw milk is healthier, which is why the government had outlawed it (http://www.naturalnews.com/029322_r...).

Hydrochloride - When you see anything hydrochloride, such as Pyridoxine Hydrochloride or Thiamin Hydrochloride, those are chemical forms of B vitamins that companies add to their products to be able to claim higher RDA values of vitamins. But these are synthetic, chemical forms of vitamins, not real vitamins from foods or plants. Nutritionally, they are near-useless and may actually be bad for you. Also watch out for niacinamide and cyanocobalamin (synthetic vitamin B-12). (http://www.naturalnews.com/032766_c...)

Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein - A highly processed form of (usually) soy protein that's processed to bring out the free glutamate (MSG). Use as a taste enhancer.

Partially Hydrogenated Oils - Oils that are modified using a chemical catalyst to make them stable at room temperature. This creates trans fatty acids and greatly increases the risk of blocked arteries (http://www.naturalnews.com/027445_f...). It also promotes what I call "sludge blood," which is thick, viscous blood that's hard to pump. This is usually diagnosed by doctors as "high blood pressure" and (stupidly) treated with blood-thinning medications that are technically the same chemicals as rat poison (warfarin) (http://www.naturalnews.com/023149_d...).

Phosphoric Acid - The acid used in sodas to dissolve the carbon dioxide and add to the overall fizzy-ness of the soda. Phosphoric acid will eat steel nails. It's also used by stone masons to etch rocks. The military uses it to clean the rust off battleships. In absolutely destroys tooth enamel (Phosphoric acid in sodas nearly as damaging to teeth as battery acid). Search Google Images for "Mountain Dew Mouth" to see photos of teeth rotted out by phosphoric acid: moun - Google Search...

Propylene Glycol - A liquid used in the automotive industry to winterize RVs. It's also used to make the fake blueberries you see in blueberry muffins, bagels and breads. (Combined with artificial colors and corn syrup.) See shocking "Fake Blueberries" video at: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=7...

Sodium (Salt) - The processed white salt lacking in trace minerals. In the holistic nutrition industry, we call it "death salt" because it promotes disease and death. Real salt, on the other hand, such as "dirty" sea salt or pink Himalayan salt, is loaded with the trace minerals that prevent disease, such as selenium (cancer), chromium (diabetes) and zinc (infectious disease). Much like with bread and sugar, white salt is terrible for your health. And don't be fooled by claims of "sea salt" in grocery stores. All salt came from the sea if you go far back enough in geologic time, so they can slap the "sea salt" claim on ANY salt!

Sodium Nitrite - A cancer-causing red coloring chemical added to bacon, hot dogs, saunited snakesge, beef jerky, ham, lunch meats, pepperoni and nearly all processed meats. Strongly linked to brain tumors, pancreatic cancers and colon cancers (Processed meat consumption results in 67% increase in pancreatic cancer risk, says new research). The USDA once tried to ban it from the food supply but was out-maneuvered by the meat industry, which now dominates USDA regulations. Sodium nitrite is a complete poison used to make meats look fresh. Countless children die of cancer each year from sodium nitrite-induced cancers.

Soy Protein - The No. 1 protein source used in "protein bars," including many bars widely consumed by bodybuilders. Soy protein is the "junk protein" of the food industry. It's made from genetically modified soybeans (often grown in China) and then subjected to hexane, a chemical solvent (http://www.naturalnews.com/026303_s...) that can literally explode.

Sucralose - An artificial chemical sweetener sold as Splenda. The sucralose molecule contains a chlorine atom (http://www.naturalnews.com/027491_a...). Researchers have repeatedly found that artificial sweeteners make people fat by actually promoting weight gain (http://www.naturalnews.com/024543_h...).

Sugar - The bleached, nutritionally-deficient byproduct of cane processing. During sugar cane processing, nearly all the minerals and vitamins end up in the blackstrap molasses that's usually fed to farm animals. (Blackstrap molasses is actually the "good" part of sugar cane juice.) Molasses is often fed to farm animals because every rancher knows that farm animals need good nutrition to stay alive. Amazingly, conventional doctors don't yet realize this about humans, and they continue to claim that eating sugar is perfectly fine for you. Sugar promotes diabetes, obesity, mood disorders and nutritional deficiencies.

Textured Vegetable Protein - Usually made of soy protein which is extracted from genetically modified soybeans and then processed using hexane, an explosive chemical solvent (see Soy Protein, above). Widely used in vegetarian foods such as "veggie burgers" (most of which also contain MSG or Yeast Extract, by the way).

Yeast Extract - Hidden form of MSG that contains free glutamate and is used in many "natural" food products to claim "No MSG!" Yeast extract contains up to 14% free glutamate. You'll find it in thounited snakesnds of grocery store products, from soups to snack chips. I even once spotted it used on fresh meat!

Food label tricks

Here's a trick food companies frequently used to pack more sugar into their products without making sugar look like the first ingredient:

Ingredient labels, you see, must list the most prominent ingredients first, and some consumers might freak out of they saw a box of cereal that said, "Sugar, whole grain wheat, corn" and so on. Instead, the company uses 3 or 4 different forms of sugar to distribute them farther down the label, like this:

"Whole grain wheat, sugar, corn syrup, corn syrup solids..."

This way, the first ingredients looks like "whole grain wheat" when, in reality, the cereal might be over fifty percent sugars!

How to buy honest food

• Shop are your local farmer's market, food co-op or CSA.

• In the united snakes, look for the USDA Organic label on foods. This is a legitimate claim to being certified organic. It's one of the few programs run by the USDA that actually has integrity.

• Read the ingredients labels! If you see names of chemicals you can't pronounce, don't buy it.

• Buy more unprocessed food ingredients and make your own meals rather than buying ready-to-eat, processed foods, which are almost universally formulated with disease-promoting ingredients.

• GROW some of your own food! The best food you can ever eat is food from your own garden.

Learn more: What's really in the food? The A to Z of the food industry's most evil ingredients

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This is a damn shame! that we have to even have such a list!!! Fucking Crackkkas destroying everything!!!! What are we gonna do about it? Just let these b****s! live and continue to destroy the EARTH!!!! :cussing::resist::guns::skeleton: OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!! LET MY THOTS AND SPIT BECOME  ACTIONS OF 2MARROW!!!! I'VE HAD ENOUGH!!! IT'S TIME TO BUILD!!! JUST DO IT!!!

[Nataki]

Consciousness usually drives a desire for pursuing optimal  spiritual, mental, and physical health. As we pursue optimal physical  health we need to be mindful that there are vultures that latch onto the  health trend and try to pray on those trying to make healthy choices.  Let's help each other stay woke. (Sorry for using the word health like 4  times there. )

This list is powerful let's post other tips

[Nataki]

HIDDEN MSG AND THE EFFECT ON THE BODY

http://www.natural.news/2015-07-20-top-10-grocery-store-foods-contain-hidden-msg.html

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MSG: Is This Silent Killer Lurking in Your Kitchen Cabinets

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/21/msg-is-this-silent-killer-lurking-in-your-kitchen-cabinets.aspx

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• Monosodium  glutamate (MSG) is a flavor enhancer added to thounited snakesnds of foods you  and your family regularly eat. It's also one of the worst food additives  on the market
• MSG  is an excitotoxin, which means it overexcites your cells to the point of  damage or death, causing brain damage to varying degrees, and  potentially even triggering or worsening learning disabilities
• Common  adverse effects linked to regular consumption of MSG, include: obesity,  eye damage, headaches, fatigue and disorientation, depression, rapid  heartbeat, tingling and numbness
• Early  studies suggested 25 percent to 30 percent of the US population was  intolerant of MSG at levels then found in food. Today, an estimated 40  percent of the population may be impacted
• In  general, if a food is processed you can assume it contains MSG (or one  of its pseudo-ingredients). Eating a whole, fresh food diet is your  best, if not only, guaranteed way to avoid this toxin

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  A widespread and silent killer that's worse for your health than  alcohol, nicotine and many drugs is likely lurking in your kitchen  cabinets right now.
 "It" is monosodium glutamate (MSG)¹,  a flavor enhancer that's known widely as an addition to Chinese food,  but that's actually added to thounited snakesnds of the foods you and your family  regularly eat, especially if you are like most Americans and eat the  majority of your food as processed foods or in restaurants.
 MSG is one of the worst  food additives on the market and is used in  canned soups, crackers, meats, salad dressings, frozen dinners and  much  more. It's found in your local supermarket and restaurants, in your  child's school cafeteria and, amazingly, even in baby food and infant  formula.
 MSG is more than just a seasoning like salt and pepper, it actually  enhances the flavor of foods, making processed meats and frozen dinners  taste fresher and smell better, salad dressings more tasty, and canned  foods less tinny.
 While MSG's benefits to the food industry are quite clear, this food  additive could be slowly and silently doing major damage to your health.

 What Exactly is MSG?

 You may remember when the MSG powder called "Accent" first hit the  U.S. market. Well, it was many decades prior to this, in 1908, that  monosodium glutamate was invented. The inventor was Kikunae Ikeda, a  Japanese man who identified the natural flavor enhancing substance of  seaweed.
 Taking a hint from this substance, they were able to create the  man-made additive MSG, and he and a partner went on to form Ajinomoto,  which is now the world's largest producer of MSG (and interestingly also  a drug manufacturer). ²
 Chemically speaking, MSG is approximately 78 percent free glutamic acid, 21 percent sodium, and up to 1 percent contaminants.³
 It's a misconception that MSG is a flavor or "meat tenderizer." In  reality, MSG has very little taste at all, yet when you eat MSG, you  think the food you're eating has more protein and tastes better. It does  this by tricking your tongue, using a little-known fifth basic taste:  umami.
 Umami is the taste of glutamate, which is a savory flavor found in  many Japanese foods, bacon and also in the toxic food additive MSG. It  is because of umami that foods with MSG taste heartier, more robust and  generally better to a lot of people than foods without it.
 The ingredient didn't become widespread in the United States until  after World War II, when the U.S. military realized Japanese rations  were much tastier than the U.S. versions because of MSG.
 In 1959, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration labeled MSG as  "Generally Recognized as Safe" (GRAS), and it has remained that way ever  since. Yet, it was a telling sign when just 10 years later a condition  known as "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" entered the medical literature,  describing the numerous side effects, from numbness to heart  palpitations, that people experienced after eating MSG.
 Today that syndrome is more appropriately called "MSG Symptom  Complex," which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) identifies as  "short-term reactions" to MSG. More on those "reactions" to come.

 Why MSG is so Dangerous

 One of the best overviews of the very real dangers of MSG comes from  Dr. Russell Blaylock, a board-certified neurosurgeon and author of "Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills."  In it he explains that MSG is an excitotoxin, which means it  overexcites your cells to the point of damage or death, causing brain  damage to varying degrees -- and potentially even triggering or  worsening learning disabilities, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's  disease, Lou Gehrig's disease and more.
 Part of the problem also is that free glutamic acid is the same  neurotransmitter that your brain, nervous system, eyes, pancreas and  other organs use to initiate certain processes in your body.⁴ Even the FDA states: "Studies have shown that the body uses glutamate, an amino acid,  as a nerve impulse transmitter in the brain and that there are  glutamate-responsive tissues in other parts of the body, as well.

Abnormal function of glutamate receptors has been linked with  certain neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and  Huntington's chorea. Injections of glutamate in laboratory animals have  resulted in damage to nerve cells in the brain."⁵

Although  the FDA continues to claim that consuming MSG in food does not cause  these ill effects, many other experts say otherwise.
 According to Dr. Blaylock, numerous glutamate receptors have been  found both within your heart's electrical conduction system and the  heart muscle itself. This can be damaging to your heart, and may even  explain the sudden deaths sometimes seen among young athletes.
 He says: "When an excess of food-borne excitotoxins, such as MSG,  hydrolyzed protein soy protein isolate and concentrate, natural  flavoring, sodium caseinate and aspartate from aspartame, are consumed,  these glutamate receptors are over-stimulated, producing cardiac  arrhythmias.

When magnesium stores are low, as we see in athletes, the  glutamate receptors are so sensitive that even low levels of these  excitotoxins can result in cardiac arrhythmias and death." ⁶

Many other adverse effects have also been linked to regular consumption of MSG, including:
 
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• Eye damage
• Headaches
• Fatigue and disorientation
• Depression

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 Further, even the FDA admits that "short-term reactions" known as MSG  Symptom Complex can occur in certain groups of people, namely those who  have eaten "large doses" of MSG or those who have asthma.⁷
 According to the FDA, MSG Symptom Complex can involve symptoms such as:
 
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• Burning sensation
• Tingling
• Facial pressure or tightness
• Chest pain or difficulty breathing
• Headache
• Nausea
• Rapid heartbeat
• Drowsiness
• Weakness

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 No one knows for sure just how many people may be "sensitive" to MSG,  but studies from the 1970s suggested that 25 percent to 30 percent of  the U.S. population was intolerant of MSG -- at levels then found in  food. Since the use of MSG has expanded dramatically since that time,  it's been estimated that up to 40 percent of the population may be  impacted.⁸
 How to Determine if MSG is in Your Food

 Food manufacturers are not stupid, and they've caught on to the fact  that people like you want to avoid eating this nasty food additive. As a  result, do you think they responded by removing MSG from their  products? Well, a few may have, but most of them just tried to "clean"  their labels. In other words, they tried to hide the fact that MSG is an  ingredient.How do they do this? By using names that you would never  associate with MSG.
 You see, it's required by the FDA that food manufacturers list the  ingredient "monosodium glutamate" on food labels, but they do not have  to label ingredients that contain free glutamic acid, even though it's  the main component of MSG.There are over 40 labeled ingredients that  contain glutamic acid,⁹  but you'd never know it just from their names alone. Further, in some  foods glutamic acid is formed during processing and, again, food labels  give you no way of knowing for sure.
 Tips for Keeping MSG Out of Your Diet

 In general, if a food is processed you can assume it contains MSG (or  one of its pseudo-ingredients). So if you stick to a whole, fresh foods  diet, you can pretty much guarantee that you'll avoid this toxin.The  other place where you'll need to watch out for MSG is in restaurants.  You can ask your server which menu items are MSG-free, and request that  no MSG be added to your meal, but of course the only place where you can  be entirely sure of what's added to your food is in your own kitchen.  To be on the safe side, you should also know what ingredients to watch  out for on packaged foods. Here is a list of ingredients that ALWAYS contain MSG:
 

Autolyzed Yeast	Calcium Caseinate	Gelatin
Glutamate	Glutamic Acid	Hydrolyzed Protein
Monopotassium Glutamate	Monosodium Glutamate	Sodium Caseinate
Textured Protein	Yeast Extract	Yeast Food
Yeast Nutrient

These ingredients OFTEN contain MSG or create MSG during processing:¹⁰
 

Flavors and Flavorings	Seasonings	Natural Flavors and Flavorings	Natural Pork Flavoring	Natural Beef Flavoring
Natural Chicken Flavoring	Soy Sauce	Soy Protein Isolate	Soy Protein	Bouillon
Stock	Broth	Malt Extract	Malt Flavoring	Barley Malt
Anything Enzyme Modified	Carrageenan	Maltodextrin	Pectin	Enzymes
Protease	Corn Starch	Citric Acid	Powdered Milk	Anything Protein Fortified
Anything Ultra-Pasteurized

So if you do eat processed foods, please remember to be on the lookout for these many hidden names for MSG.
 Choosing to be MSG-Free

 Making a decision to avoid MSG in your diet as much as possible is a  wise choice for nearly everyone. Admittedly, it does take a bit more  planning and time in the kitchen to prepare food at home, using fresh,  locally grown ingredients. But knowing that your food is pure and free  of toxic additives like MSG will make it well worth it.Plus, choosing  whole foods will ultimately give you better flavor and more health value  than any MSG-laden processed food you could buy at your supermarket.