Is Chewing Gum the Most Toxic Substance in the Supermarket?
After a friend on Facebook had shared an
article about gum, I was a bit surprised, but not entirely shocked, at
just how harmful and non-harmonious with our bodies that gum can be. I
gave up chewing gum a couple years ago myself and recommend it for
anyone else, or at least looking into alternatives! Check out this
information for facts about gum that you should definitely know,
especially if you are a regular chewer…
Recently, about thirty women, were asked
whose ages were mostly under the age of forty, if they carried chewing
gum with them. Twenty seven of the thirty were able to pull out a pack
of gum, some even going as far as telling me why they loved a particular
brand/flavor of gum.
While this demographic is not
representative of all women, 90% of them chewed gum on a daily basis,
some consuming more than one stick per day. As with many things that we
expose our bodies to on a daily basis, let’s take a moment and analyze
the ingredients of chewing gum and ask some important questions that
pertain to whether it contributes to good health.
How many of us have looked at the ingredients on a pack of gum?
If you have, do you know what each one of the substances is?
Is a stick of chewing gum more of a “cancer stick” than a cigarette?
As you will see below, commercial gum
products are some of the most toxic substances that you can expose your
body too and literally can lead to some of the worst diseases on the
planet.
Here is a list of the most common ingredients in the most popular chewing gum products on the market:
Sorbitol, Xylitol, Mannitol, Maltitol
Gum Base
Glycerol
Natural and Artificial Flavors
Hydrogenated Coconut Oil and Starch
Aspartame –Acesulfame
Soy Lecithin
Colors (titanium oxide, blue 2 lake, red 40)
BHT
Malic Acid, Citric Acid
Gum Base
Glycerol
Natural and Artificial Flavors
Hydrogenated Coconut Oil and Starch
Aspartame –Acesulfame
Soy Lecithin
Colors (titanium oxide, blue 2 lake, red 40)
BHT
Malic Acid, Citric Acid
Ingredient #1: Gum Base.
Imagine if someone came up to you and
said, “Hey, would you like to chew on some tire rubber and plastic?” You
probably would politely decline and want to report this person to a
doctor for a psychological evaluation. “Gum base” is a blend of
elastomers, plasticizers, fillers, and resin. Some of the other
ingredients that go into this mix are polyvinyl acetate, which is
frequently referred to as “carpenter glue” or “white glue”. Paraffin wax
is another ingredient that is a byproduct of refined petroleum.
Source : http://www.activistpost.com/
PepsiCo Says It Will Halt Use of Aborted Fetal Cells in Flavor Research
A pro-life leader has won a victory in
her efforts to convince soft-drink manufacturer PepsiCo to stop the use
of aborted fetal cells in its research for enhancing the flavors of its
products. Debi Vinnedge, executive director of Children of God for Life
(COGFL), announced that in late April she had received a letter from
Paul Boykas, PepsiCo’s vice president for Global Public Policy,
confirming that the company will not allow the use of HEK-293 — a cell
line derived from human embryonic kidney — in its partnership with
Senomyx, the company with which it had inked a four-year, $30 million
contract for flavor research.
Coke and Pepsi change manufacturing process to avoid cancer warning
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo account for nearly 90% of the US fizzy drink market
Coca-Cola and Pepsi
are changing how they make an ingredient in their drinks to avoid being
legally obliged to put a cancer warning label on the bottle.
The new recipe for caramel colouring in
the drinks has less 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI) - a chemical which
California has added to its list of carcinogens.
The change to the recipe has already been introduced in California but will be rolled out across the US.
Coca-Cola says there is no health risk to justify the change.
Utah man David Whipple has managed to
hang on to a hamburger from McDonald's since 1999. The extraordinary
part isn't the fact that he didn't throw the burger out, though -- it's
that the burger barely looks like it has aged.
Appearing by phone on the TV show "The Doctors" recently, Whipple explained that the burger was discovered many years ago in his coat pocket, oddly enough. It looked the same then as it does now.
Whipple isn't the only one to discover this non-rotting burger phenomenon. In 2010, J. Kenji López-Alt conducted a series of tests for Serious Eats to figure out if various burgers would rot over time. He found that "the burger doesn't rot because its small size and relatively large surface area help it to lose moisture very fast. Without moisture, there's no mold or bacterial growth."
It isn't just burgers that have a eerily long shelf life, though. Melanie Warner, author of the book Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Foods Took Over the American Meal, conducted several food experiments earlier this year. Her findings? Fast food chicken sandwiches, store-bought guacamole and American cheese can also stand the mold-free test of time. But that's not necessarily a good thing.
Appearing by phone on the TV show "The Doctors" recently, Whipple explained that the burger was discovered many years ago in his coat pocket, oddly enough. It looked the same then as it does now.
Whipple isn't the only one to discover this non-rotting burger phenomenon. In 2010, J. Kenji López-Alt conducted a series of tests for Serious Eats to figure out if various burgers would rot over time. He found that "the burger doesn't rot because its small size and relatively large surface area help it to lose moisture very fast. Without moisture, there's no mold or bacterial growth."
It isn't just burgers that have a eerily long shelf life, though. Melanie Warner, author of the book Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Foods Took Over the American Meal, conducted several food experiments earlier this year. Her findings? Fast food chicken sandwiches, store-bought guacamole and American cheese can also stand the mold-free test of time. But that's not necessarily a good thing.
10 of The Grossest Things Found in Your Food
came across some pretty gross stuff
recently with regards to food. Anything that encourages people to move
away from the mainstream food industry is great. Here is a recent list
of the ten grossest things found in food from across North America. Keep
in mind that occurrences like these are not always made public, I
wouldn’t be surprised if this happens regularly. Hopefully this will
encourage more people to seek out healthy, trustworthy sources of food
instead of trusting what is always heavily marketed. The food industry
is becoming transparent by the day, the people that own it and the
multinational corporations they hide behind don’t have our best
interests at hand.
1. A women in Minneola,
Florida found a living frog inside a bag of salad greens at a Walmart.
In mid 2012, there was a massive recall of bagged salad.
Ever Wonder About “Fresh Squeezed 100%” Orange Juice?
If you are like me, you probably are in a
human physicality. Further, you may like baseball, or.. Orange Juice. I
was that guy when I was a teen that used to come home from playing
sports and instead of going for water I’d clean half the Tropicana
carton because it just tasted so good. And come on, its fresh squeezed
100% orange juice. The side of the carton says the only ingredient is
100% fresh squeezed oranges!
As I got older I asked that question “How
the heck do they manage to keep oranges in season all year round for
these juices?” Possible answer, maybe they were unbelievably good at
strategically timing the various orange types in various countries and
they were able to some how make it happen. But that was obviously
extremely unlikely. Then it hit me. Have you ever noticed that it
doesn’t matter what carton, from what store, during any part of the
year, when you pop off that safety seal and taste that first sip each
brand always tastes EXACTLY THE SAME! Whether its Tropicana, Minute Maid
or Oasis etc. they all have their own taste that manages to stay
EXACTLY the same year after year. This was the tip off for me. This is
when I started to realize there is absolutely no way this stuff is “100%
fresh squeezed oranges”
Salmon Confidential
Salmon Confidential is a new film on the government cover up of what is killing BC’s wild salmon.
When biologist Alexandra Morton discovers
BC’s wild salmon are testing positive for dangerous European salmon
viruses associated with salmon farming worldwide, a chain of events is
set off by government to suppress the findings.
Tracking viruses, Morton moves from
courtrooms, into British Columbia’s most remote rivers, Vancouver
grocery stores and sushi restaurants.
The film documents Morton’s journey as
she attempts to overcome government and industry roadblocks thrown in
her path and works to bring critical information to the public in time
to save BC’s wild salmon.
The film provides surprising insight into
the inner workings of government agencies, as well as rare footage of
the bureaucrats tasked with managing our fish and the safety of our food supply.
Wegmans Cruelty is a documentary produced
by a small investigative team from the organization Compassionate
Consumers. Organization members contacted Wegmans Food Markets to try to
hold some meaningful dialogue about the conditions at Wegmans Egg Farm,
and were then misled and dismissed by Wegmans representatives. The team
set out to capture actual footage inside the farm and create a film
based on their experience. The film features statements from Wegmans
representatives, interviews with the investigators, and footage of what
life and death is like inside of an "Animal Care Certified" battery cage
facility.
by SEAN POULTER, Daily Mail
Shoppers are being fobbed off with low-quality chicken pumped full of chemicals, water and even pig skin.
About 40 per cent of the imported chicken sold by catering suppliers undergoes heavy processing.
The meat that results is so rubbery and tasteless it is known in the trade as ‘plastic chicken’.
Huge quantities are involved – about 60,000 tons a year – in what amounts to a massive food fraud.
Most of the meat comes from processors in
Holland and Belgium, who bring in cheap chickens from Thailand and pump
the meat with a chemical mix.
The treatment is now so sophisticated that what seems like a fresh, plump chicken breast might be only 51 per cent meat.
Much of the plastic chicken goes to curry
houses, Chinese restaurants and takeaways, often disguised with highly-
spiced sauces and colourings. There are concerns that some is sold to
small butchers, while supermarket foods could also include suspect
supplies.
The details – to be revealed in
tomorrow’s Panorama – will confirm the fears of British and Irish
watchdogs. BBC TV investigators found many of the supermarkets use
chicken with added water in ready meals. The stores say adding small
amounts of water to the flesh prevents the meat from drying out.
But the Food Standards Agency is
concerned that Moslems, who for religious reasons do not eat pig meat,
might be consuming chicken that contains pork DNA.
Panorama found traces of pig DNA in
own-label chicken nuggets sold by Sainsbury’s, although this is being
viewed as accidental contamination.
The ingredients on what looks like a
‘natural’ chicken breast can include a bizarre cocktail of materials
designed to hold in the water.
They will include salt, stabilisers
(E450, E451), the milk protein lactose and the sweeteners dried glucose
syrup and dextrose to counteract the salt.
The use of pig material may be described – where there are labels – as hydrolised protein.
Flavour enhancers such as E649 and E621 are also often used to disguise the washed-out taste.
Watch The Video That Coca-Cola And McDonald's Hope You Never See
- 1:14 How her daughter's obsession with one particular person made her realize what was happening.
- 2:20 Can you guess how much money the food industry spends marketing to kids?
- 3:15 There's even a term for the way they make children more annoying.
- 3:55 Find out just how many thousands of ads kids see if they watch a regular amount of television.
- 4:30 Here's why just turning off the TV isn't a solution.
- 4:50 Learn which school supplies are now sponsored by junk food.
- 5:54 Find out how companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi are straight-up conning school communities to buy their products.
- 6:47 Here's what she finds most upsetting.
- 8:10 And here's how they get even more information about kids.
- 9:30 She talks about the life and death consequences that hang in the balance with this issue.
- 10:24 We're seeing the most depressing innovations in health care now thanks to the food industry.
- 12:00 You'll never believe where McDonald's wanted to advertise.
- 13:01 Find out who's fighting these food behemoths and saving generations to come.
Scientists using stem cells to grow hamburger in a lab
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