9 Common Foods That Contain Toxic Ingredients: Shape Magazine
By Cristina Goyenes
Shape Magazine Article on Toxic Food Additives that are common in our foods:
Shape Magazine Folks.
GMO Corn = Round Up = Monsanto
This is how Mainstream this information is, yet, most of us are still totally unaware of the dangers of “Conventional Foods”. Conventional Food is not conventional, it’s the contrary. To eat conventionally would be to eat the way that we have been eating for centuries, or even tens of thousands of years. It is my hypothesis that most of these foods, and food additives our bodies no longer recognize as food sources.
GMO Corn and Round Up, the European Scientists have linked to cancer. There are some skeptics, and the research is now in debate to the American Public. Just like the Gas Industry and the Tobacco Industry, when there is a debate, it’s difficult for the population to make a decision. As long as there is “a debate” that is good for Monsanto. Just like the debate was good for Tobacco, just like the current debate on Gas Extraction is good for the Gas Industry. The Debate is paid for, by the company, that has so much to lose.
As you make your decision, please keep that in mind.
GMO wheat has been proven to cause us to eat an extra 300-500 calories a day. This form of wheat is called ‘dwarf wheat’; 3 to 5 years ago scientists proved that GMO wheat shuts the mechanism off in the brain that tells us we’re full. Last year, scientists proved that GMO wheat causes a morphine response in the brain.
Albeit, I’m not an advocate for eating wheat, I have probably one of the worst cases of Celiac’s Disease in history. If you do choose to indulge, please, for your health, choose Organic versions of: corn, wheat, and soy. In the United States it’s illegal to have Organic products be GMO.
It’s illegal in many countries to have GMO foods.
Why?
Because it’s bad for us.
One of my Teammates can’t eat wheat or gluten, in the US, goes to Europe, no problem.
Part of that may be that this GMO wheat contains 3x the amount of gluten than it’s non-GMO counterpart does.
These companies make billions of dollars a year, yet the additives they are adding to your food, are linked to billions of dollars of extraneous health care costs, which we are not asking them to pay. The food industry should be accountable to pay for their part in our health care crisis.
My Integrative Medicine Doctor is doing a lot of research on Organic vs “Conventional” Foods. What he finds consistently is that when his patients have a food allergy 80% of the time, if his client eats the Organic Variety, the allergy disappears. He is working more to prove this. Ironically Monsanto makes the Food Allergen tests, so when you’re tested you’re tested for the GMO variety. My MD has found he can order the allergen tests from Europe to prove his hypothesis: People are allergic to GMO foods, not real, organic foods.
80%, that’s 8 out of 10, in my field that is considered statistically significant.
So, let’s hit the 9 Toxic Foods presented in Shape Magazine:
“Mac And Cheese
Banned ingredients: Coloring agents yellow 5 and yellow 6
The “cheesy” neon-orange color in most store-bought mac and cheese is a result of dangerous dyes made from coal tar, which is also used to seal-coat and preserve products like shiny industrial floors as well as to kill bugs in lice shampoo. Studies have linked artificial food coloring to allergies, ADHD, and cancer in animals, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Sports Drinks
Banned ingredients: Coloring agents blue 1 and blue 2
Similar to yellow 5 and 6, these unnatural highlighter hues offer a rainbow of health risks, including messing with the cognitive function of hyperactive kids, who performed poorly on tests that measured their ability to recall images, according to a U.S. study published in the journal Science.
Fat-Free Chips
Banned ingredient: Olestra (aka Olean)
It was the potato chip industry’s answer to their high-fat problem. Too bad making a light chip created a bigger problem: spending too much time in the bathroom. To top that off, these fat-free snacks may also make you fat. In a 2011 Purdue University study, rats fed foods containing Olean ate more overall and gained more weight than those fed a high-fat dietincluding regular, full-fat chips.
Citrus-Flavored Sodas
Banned ingredient: BVO (aka brominated vegetableoil)
This food additive, which works as an emulsifier in beverages, features bromine, the same ingredient used with some flame retardants in furniture and plastics. Sounds gross, but what’s worse is the harm: In addition to the health risks mentioned in our list of 13 banned foods still allowed in the U.S., BVO may also cause build-up in fatty tissues and create reproductive and behavioral problems.
Flatbreads And Wraps
Banned ingredient: Potassium bromate (aka brominated flour)
A key bulking ingredient, potassium bromate speeds up the bread-making process and cuts costs for manufacturers—and may be linked to kidney and nervous system disorders and gastrointestinal discomfort.
Boxed Pasta Mixes
Banned ingredient: Azodicarbonamide
This hard-to-pronounce chemical has been linked to asthma and is banned in Singapore, Australia, the UK, and most European countries. If American food producers exercised a little more patience and just waited one week for wheat to whiten naturally on its own instead of adding this to fast-track flour’s bleaching process, we’d have no worries.
Cereal Snack Mixes
Banned ingredients: BHA and BHT
Both of these preservatives have been found to increase the risk of cancer in animals, and BHA is “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen” by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. You’re also getting heart-unfriendly trans-fats disguised under the new name “monoglycerides.”
Non-Organic Yogurt
Banned ingredients: rBGH and rBST
Non-organic yogurts generally come from dairy cows that have been given growth hormones rBGH and rBST to boost milk product. Unfortunately these also boost the level of another hormone called insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1), which has been tied to breast, colon, and prostate cancers in some human studies. Many yogurts also contain artificial food colorings and sugar substitutes or high-fructose corn syrup and have little protein, making them less satisfying.
Whole Conventional Grocery Store Chicken
Banned ingredient: Arsenic (found in chicken feed)
In exchange for pinker, plumper poultry, which appears fresher, you get exposure to this cancer-causing toxin. Traces of an inactive ingredient used in Prozac may also be in some caged chickens’ systems (a “solution” to helping them deal with poor living conditions), according to a 2012 Johns Hopkins University study that tested poultry from six states and China. But that is not the worst of it: Scientists also found a broad-spectrum class of antibiotics, which are used to reduce infections and boost bird growth. Unfortunately indirectly consuming these drugs can cause antibiotic-resistant infections in humans.