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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not regulate claims of "all natural." They might claim to, but they don't. Food companies using all sorts of non-natural processes and chemical ingredients in a food product that they claim is all natural. For example, foods fried at high temperatures, resulting in the formation of cancer-causing acrylamides, are labeled "all natural" in the snack section of the grocery store. Frying starches at high temperatures isn't natural at all -- it's a human-invented process for making boring foods like potatoes taste interesting by loading them up with fat and salt.
Salt isn't natural either. It'sprocessed salt, and even the products that claim to be made from "sea salt" are actually using a white, processed sea salt (not a full-spectrum brown or pink salt like you might find with Celtic Sea Salt, which is truly natural).
Grocery product makers are adding chemical additives to their "all natural" products, hiding them under innocent-sounding ingredients that don't raise red flags with consumers. Monosodium glutamate (MSG), is a neurotoxic substance classified as an excitotoxin. Consuming it causes migraine headaches, endocrine system damage, loss of appetite regulation (leading to obesity), neurological damage in fetuses (when consumed by expectant mothers). Baby food manufacturers MSG from their products decades ago following a public outcry about the dangers of MSG to babies and infants.
Yet today, "all natural" food companies use hidden forms of MSG in their foods, hiding them under innocent-sounding ingredients like yeast extract, autolyzed or hydrolyzed proteins (all of which contain MSG). Companies you've grown to trust in the "natural" food business engage in the blatant lies hiding of MSG in their products. Pay special attention to vegetarian food products such as veggie burgers. Read the ingredients on everything you buy and you'll find that the largest "natural" food manufacturers still use hidden MSG.
(The newest ingredient to hide MSG under is called torula yeast. Watch for it on labels.)
What's the definition of all-natural, anyway?
Food manufacturers any ingredients or processes they want while still claiming their foods are all-natural. They can take whole wheat berries from nature, mill them down and strip out 98% of the nutrients, bleach the flour with chemicals, "enrich" the flour with synthetic chemical vitamins, and then claim their wheat is "all natural."
And why is it natural? Because it comes from the earth, they would say. It was grown by nature.
But then it was physically and chemically modified, adulterated, contaminated and altered in ways that destroy its natural properties. The final product has no resemblance to anything truly natural.
In the food industry today, there's no official definition of "all natural." It means whatever the food companies wants it to mean. It can mean, that all the chemicals found in the product simply aren't listed on the label. (There's no requirement for food companies to list chemical contaminants found in their foods.) A food labeled "all natural" can contain pesticides, herbicides, toxic heavy metals, trace amounts of PCBs, toxic fluoride, hidden MSG, high-temperature cooking byproducts, synthetic chemical vitamins and dozens of other non-natural substances. This is all perfectly allowed and tolerated by the FDA. Cable news stations, magazines, newspapers and other media giants are all too happy to take money from junk food manufacturers and run their advertisements claiming their foods are "all natural." There is no effort to determine whether such claims are really true. Media companies simply take the money and run the promotions.
Consumers are a gullible bunch, and food manufacturers have mastered the art of selling people crap while getting them to believe it's actually good for them. Reason: Profits No steps nor efforts have been taken by the mainstream food industry to make foods healthy; there's only an effort to make them appear to be healthy. It's all about marketing. Junk food crap that wasn't labeled with any health claims two years ago is now labeled "all natural" and positioned in the healthy food section of the grocery store. Same ingredients, new spin.
There are some honest real Natural foods in the market, but they aren't manufactured by the big brand-name food companies. Smaller, niche-market companies are offering real food these days, but you have to search them out. Companies like Ewehorn make honest cereals with no garbage ingredients, and there are lots of raw foods companies that produce truly outstanding food products (such as www.RawBakery.com). FoodsAlive (www.FoodsAlive.com) also makes real food, as do dozens of other companies I could mention.
The real secret is to be a skeptical consumer, read the ingredients labels yourself. Analyze the ingredients and ignore the health claims on the front of the package. Health claims are meaningless. Learn how to read ingredients labels on the package. I know it takes timem, but if you don't you will spend time and money going from doctor to doctor to figure out why you are getting sick so often or why you cannot loose a certain amount of weight even tough you think you are eating safe, all natural healthy foods.
You have to remember these giant food manufacture companies have their own people in Washington bribing, buying, interfering and pooling all kinds of tricks to lie to the consumer and make their junk chemical treated foods to the innocent trusting consumer. Don't count on the FDA to protect you and your family.
I, like many of you, have lost love ones to cancer and other hard to believe illnesses produced by chemicals injected in our food supply. I have lost two sister younger than I with no history of such diseases that usually affect people in that category of risky food intake or exposure to chemicals. How the heck can I protect myself and my family against such evil practices. Reading the label is a start. Becoming familiar with ingrediats by looking them up in the internet for what they really are. Print out a list of the chemicals that the food manufacturing companies use and hide on the "all natural" food and keep it with you at all times. Use it when food shooping. You be surprise how much garbage chemicals are found in a labeled that are not fit for humans yet the FDA does no enforce any regulations to stop this evil and greedy behavior on the part of foods processing company. Why? Too much money involved.
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Posted by airsjc on 2008-05-16 07:55:34 | Rating: | Views: 51
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