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Uk&Ireland Breaking News
June 11, 2008

Coke Zero has been banned in Venezuela because of possible health risks.

The government, led by Hugo Chavez, ordered the removal of the soft drink from stores while its ingredients are investigated.

Health minister Jesus Mantilla said: "The product should be withdrawn from circulation to preserve the health of Venezuelans."

He did not specify which ingredients were causing concern or what health risks they posed.

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NCI STUDY LINKS ASPARTAME TO LEUKEMIA/LYMPHOMA

EFSA blesses formaldehyde-forming aspartame on April 20

NCI backs study linking formaldehyde to leukemia, lymphoma on May 14

From Mission Possible International

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) announced April 20, 2009: ..."on the basis of all the evidence currently available including the [second] published ERF study there is no indication of any genotoxic or carcinogenic potential of aspartame and that there is no reason to revise the previously established ADI (allowable daily intake) for aspartame of 40mg/kg bw/day." Truth be told: aspartame is an addictive excitoneurotoxic, genetically engineered, carcinogen that interacts with virtually all medications.

EFSA is blinded by allegiance to commercial interests so it invents objections to acclaimed medical research, disregarding the suffering, ruined lives and death their cupidity brings to an entire continent.

In 2005 the renowned Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences reported a rigorous three year study on 1800 rats, concluding: aspartame causes significant increases in lymphomas/leukemias and is a multi-potential carcinogen. EFSA invented "deficiencies" in the study to protect manufacturers pet poison. The second study, ERF 2007, entirely verified the first. Dr Morando Soffritti, who led both projects, noted that so much formaldehyde developed in aspartame-exposed rats that their skin turned yellow.

Ajinomoto Seeks Approval of Sweetener, Advantame, a New and as yet Unknown Biochemical NIghtmare

CHICAGO-- Ajinomoto Company Inc., the leading global supplier of proven neurotoxic and carcinogenic aspartame as well as the equally destructive monosodium glutamate, has applied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approval of another biochemical monstrosity of to-the-public-unknown constitution, called Advantame, what they call "an innovative sweetener for use in foods and beverages."

My educated-but-still-layman's guess is that is is some mixture of aspartame and neotame, yet another deadly concoction and witch's brew. Ajinomoto was dumb enough to sue ASDA/Walmart for merely saying that Aspartame was "nasty" enough for them to get rid of out of their stores.

see also:

http://www.prlog.org/10070694-uk-supermarket-chain-bans-aspartame-from-own-label-products-japanese-manufacturer-ajinomoto-sues.html

Ainomoto says this: "Advantame has a sweet, clean sugar-like taste. Because it is much sweeter than most low and non-calorie sweeteners currently available, it is anticipated to be a top candidate for food and beverage formulations."

Sweet reversal: Harmful effects of fructose traced to one protein in a study of mice.

Knocking out a liver protein in mice can reverse the damaging effects of a super-sweet diet. Diets loaded with high-fructose corn syrup wreak havoc on metabolic processes, but how fructose does its damage has been a mystery. The new study, appearing in the March 4 Cell Metabolism, identifies a possible culprit, a protein in the liver called PGC-1 beta.

The new research is "putting together things that we know and making a link," comments Carlos Hernandez of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The paper highlights the importance of PGC-1 beta in the whole process, says Hernandez, who wrote a commentary in the same issue of Cell Metabolism on the new research.

Nationalpost.com
February 18, 2009
by Vanessa Farquharson

Everyone knows about the evils of HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup), whether it's the environmental damage caused by genetically modified monocrops or the health side effects like diabetes. And of course, soft drinks tend to have some of the highest concentrations of this stuff.

As the folks at Bev-Review.com have revealed, at some point in the middle of April, PBV (Pepsi Bottling Ventures) will begin distributing Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback, which come in retro-designed cans and are made with sugar instead of HFCS. This comes after a few successful ventures in the UK (Pepsi Raw) and Mexico (Pepsi Retro).

Although it's unclear whether these products will be coming to Canada as well as the U.S., it's a safe bet they will. And if not, well, make sure to stock up during Passover, which is coming up soon (April 8th, to be exact).

Sott.net
Jonathan Serrie
FOXNews
January 30, 2009

A suburban Atlanta school principal claims to have a simple solution to improve test scores, reduce discipline problems and improve student health: ban sugar.

"My personal health challenges inspired this," said Yvonne Sanders-Butler, who once suffered from obesity and severe high blood pressure.

For the past ten years, the now-trim principal has required students at Browns Mill Elementary in Lithonia to participate in daily physical exercise and eat healthy foods. Her school enforces a strict ban on sugar.

"I just think it's a great idea," said Kimberly Morcroft, who was politely turned away as she attempted to deliver cupcakes to the school in celebration of her daughter's 10th birthday. "She dropped a pant size just from last year to this one," Morcroft said, smiling at her daughter.

According to Butler, standardized test scores increased 15 percent at the school within the first year of the program. She said discipline problems decreased by 23 percent. Student health has improved and obesity at the school has been virtually eliminated.

Comanche County Chronicle, Elgin, OK, September, 2008
from Institute for Responsible Technology, Spilling the Beans newsletter on GM Foods
by Jeffrey M. Smith, author of Seeds of Deception

Before the Appleton Wisconsin high school replaced their cafeteria's processed foods with wholesome, nutritious food, the school was described as out-of-control. There were weapons violations, student disruptions, and a cop on duty full-time. After the change in school meals, the students were calm, focused, and orderly. There were no more weapons violations, and no suicides, expulsions, dropouts, or drug violations. The new diet and improved behavior has lasted for seven years, and now other schools are changing their meal programs with similar results.

Years ago, a science class at Appleton found support for their new diet by conducting a cruel and unusual experiment with three mice. They fed them the junk food that kids in other high schools eat everyday. The mice freaked out. Their behavior was totally different than the three mice in the neighboring cage. The neighboring mice had good karma; they were fed nutritious whole foods and behaved like mice. They slept during the day inside their cardboard tube, played with each other, and acted very mouse-like.

UNCENSORED 8 PAGE SPECIAL EDITION.pdf

Sott.net
Thea Deley
Informity News
June 6, 2008

DANGEROUS DYES? A food safety advocacy group claims eight dyes commonly used in food, from Lucky Charms to M&Ms, cause behavioral problems in children. Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration disputed these claims in the past, it seems unlikely it will ban the artificial colorings.

Monday the Center for Science in the Public Interest formally petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban eight food dyes, including the two most common - Red 40 and Yellow 5. The United Kingdom already phased out several of these dyes.

FDA Considers Petition to Ban Artificial Food Colors

The Center for Science in the Public Interest asked the FDA to ban the following dyes:

* Yellow 5
* Red 40
* Blue 1
* Blue 2
* Green 3
* Orange B
* Red 3
* Yellow 6

OpEdNews
May 11, 2008
By Stephen Fox

This is astonishing!

The world's largest Aspartame and MSG manufacturer, Ajinomoto, has decided to sue ASDA, the UK Supermarket chain, for removing the sale of products containing aspartame, the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, which was done

AT THE REQUEST OF THEIR OWN CUSTOMERS!

Fresh from their many successes, like a Forbes article/puff piece in February, routing the genteel legislative effort in the Hawaii Senate to just ask the FDA Commissioner to rescind the approval for their product in US markets, etc., perhaps Ajinomoto is about to shoot itself in the foot, or more apropos: commit a kind of jurisprudential hari kiri in its efforts to silence ASDA's publicity.

There is a superb article here:

Independent.co.uk
By Josie Clarke, PA
April 10, 2008

Children's campaigners today welcomed a recommendation by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to ban six artificial food colourings.

The board of the FSA said UK manufacturers should voluntarily remove the additives from their products by 2009 and also called on the EU to take action.

The FSA wants the E numbers to be removed from food products because of an "accumulating body of evidence" that they are associated with child hyperactivity.

At a meeting in London, the board agreed that the EU should phase out the colourings but said UK manufacturers should voluntarily remove them in the meantime.

The colourings involved are sunset yellow (E110), quinoline yellow (E104), carmoisine (E122), allura red (E129), tartrazine (E102) and ponceau 4R (E124).

UK ministers will now consider the recommendation but the final decision will be made at EU level.

The board's chairwoman, Dame Deirdre Hutton, concluded: "If one puts consumers first, which is our duty, we must recognise that these colours are not necessary and it would be sensible to have them removed from all foods."

In a study for the FSA, researchers at Southampton University looked at the effect of food colouring on behaviour.

NewsWithViews.com
By Shane Ellison M. Sc.
The People's Chemist
April 13, 2008

If you could make one simple change in your diet to help you melt fat, sleep better, and improve your memory ... wouldn't you do it? What if that same simple dietary change could increase your energy, conquer depression, save your eyesight, restore your mental alertness, get your bedroom energy rockin', and increase your lifespan?

This may sound too good to be true. But it's not. And you don't have to take drugs. Nor do you have to try some newfangled experimental supplements. Or stop eating. Or even give up the foods you love.

It's as simple as reducing the amount of sugar you eat.

This is not a trick. I said you don't have to give up the foods you love. And that includes sweets. You can actually give up sugar and keep your sweet tooth happy. This is the greatest health secret of all time. And I'm gonna teach you how to incorporate it into your life.

Before I tell you how, I want you to know just why you should give up sugar.

It's not just because of all the aforementioned benefits. It's because sugar can have serious health consequences.

By Terrence McNally, AlterNet
April 3, 2008

Why would anyone need to write a book called In Defense of Food? If we can afford it and can get our hands on it, we eat food several times a day. Or do we?

According to Michael Pollan, most of what Americans consume isn't food. He calls it "edible foodlike substances." He also says that the way we consume it is not really eating. It's something we do pretty unconsciously as we work or drive or watch TV.

We all know about the U.S. epidemic of obesity and diabetes over the past 25 years, on top of the steady rise of chronic diseases over the past hundred. Paradoxically, this happens just as Americans and the food industry are ever more aware of nutrition. What's going on here?

Pollan claims that in the Western diet, good old food has been replaced by nutrients, mom's good advice by nutritional experts, common sense by confusion, and for most, a relatively good diet by a bad and dangerous one. The book in which he makes all these claims and advises us simply to "Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants," has topped the New York Times bestseller list.

Michael Pollan's previous books include The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post, and The Botany of Desire. Pollan is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and a Knight Professor of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley.

Hawaii Reporter
Freedom to Report Real News
By Betty Martini
February 26, 2006

HONOLULU, HI - A blazing epidemic ravages the planet. Everywhere are reports of the disabled and dying. There are 92 symptoms, seizures, comas, sexual dysfunction, death are listed by the FDA. Medical texts by eminent doctors define the causation and delineate a preventive to stop the slaughter. Thousands of case histories and dozens of peer reviewed studies by top professionals and research institutions confirm the source of the sickness, a sweet addictive toxin poisoning our foods and beverages: aspartame/NutraSweet/Equal.

But Government intransigently refuses to protect the people since big money is involved. Let people die, the profits of the poisoners must be protected, whatever the cost to citizens. The political influence and bottomless checkbooks of the producers overwhelm reason and evidence.

It's tobacco Redux. Nicotine murders millions, an endless rampage powered by greed, addiction and profit. But nicotine is known as a killer and its adult users are aware of it. Aspartame is in children's vitamins, even vaccines, plus thousands of prepared foods and "diet" products. No "Warning, this product includes a deadly poison" labels tell gum chewers and cola drinkers that they're putting death in their mouth. No warning for pregnant women aspartame causes birth defects.

So it will continue in Hawaii. On Monday the Senate Bill 2506 to ban aspartame was "deferred". Senator David Ige and the committee decided that FDA has this responsibility.

James Turner, renowned consumer attorney fought the approval of aspartame with world famous neuroscientist Dr. John Olney and explained: "The toxicity of this deadly carcinogen is well known. The FDA not only refused to approve aspartame for years, but asked the Department of Justice to indict G.D. Searle, the manufacturer, for submitting fraudulent test reports to get the poison approved.

CommonDreams News Center
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OCTOBER 29, 2007

WASHINGTON, DC - October 29 - An international coalition of consumer organizations announced the formation of the Global “Dump Soda” Campaign to call attention to the marketing of sugary soft drinks and other high calorie beverages linked to the world-wide childhood obesity crisis.

The campaign, aimed at transnational giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, is calling on government officials to require the companies to:

1. Cease all marketing of sugar-laden beverages to children under 16, including print and broadcast advertising, product placement, the Internet, mobile phones, athletic event sponsorship, signage, packaging promotions, merchandising, and other means.

NewsTarget.com
June 8 2007
by Mike Adams

The Food and Drug Administration has been gleefully warning us about the dangers of China-made food and personal care products recently. Why gleefully? Because announcing the discovery of toxic chemicals in products made by other countries (especially a Communist country) allows the FDA to appear as if it's protecting the public without having to tell the truth about the toxic chemicals found in American food and personal care products. Talking about the deadly chemicals and poisons used by American food and personal care product manufacturers is, of course, an activity to be avoided at all costs. It's much easier to point the finger of blame at someone else and imply that U.S. manufacturers of such products would never poison their customers.

NBC11.com
May 25, 2007
Diane Kockler, Staff writer

HFCS Can Block Brain From Knowing What You Eat

Robin Nolan first heard about high fructose corn syrup while watching Oprah Winfrey.

On the show, Dr. Mehmet Oz listed five ingredients to avoid for those who want to live longer. One of them was high fructose corn syrup.

Oz said that HFCS alters the body's ability to regulate appetite; it can make you feel like you're not full, and then you often consume extra calories.

Caution: Some soft drinks may seriously harm your health
Expert links additive to cell damage
By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent
Published: 27 May 2007
Source: The Independent

A new health scare erupted over soft drinks last night amid evidence they may cause serious cell damage. Research from a British university suggests a common preservative found in drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA.

The problem - more usually associated with ageing and alcohol abuse - can eventually lead to cirrhosis of the liver and degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's.

The findings could have serious consequences for the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who consume fizzy drinks. They will also intensify the controversy about food additives, which have been linked to hyperactivity in children.

Concerns centre on the safety of E211, known as sodium benzoate, a preservative used for decades by the £74bn global carbonated drinks industry. Sodium benzoate derives from benzoic acid. It occurs naturally in berries, but is used in large quantities to prevent mould in soft drinks such as Sprite, Oasis and Dr Pepper. It is also added to pickles and sauces.

Sodium benzoate has already been the subject of concern about cancer because when mixed with the additive vitamin C in soft drinks, it causes benzene, a carcinogenic substance. A Food Standards Agency survey of benzene in drinks last year found high levels in four brands which were removed from sale.

by PhysOrg.com
May 24, 2007

It's research that may have you thinking twice before upgrading to the large size at your favorite fast food joint. Saint Louis University research presented this week in Washington, D.C., shows the dangers of high-fat food combined with high fructose corn syrup and a sedentary lifestyle – in other words, what may be becoming commonplace among Americans.

Brent Tetri, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine at Saint Louis University Liver Center, and colleagues studied the effects of a diet that was 40 percent fat and replete with high fructose corn syrup, a sweetener common in soda and some fruit juices. The research is being presented at the Digestive Diseases Week meeting.

PhysOrg.com
May 7, 2007

Politicians and health workers in the United States are pushing for a bill to ban the use of a food flavoring chemical that has been linked to lung disease.

The Washington Post reported on a growing group of California food-flavoring workers who have been diagnosed with bronchiolitis obliterans, a rare and life-threatening form of fixed obstructive lung disease. The disease, also known as popcorn workers lung, slowly eliminates lung capacity.

A transplant is reportedly the only cure.

www.telegraph.co.uk
March 19, 2007

With 40,000 British children now being prescribed drugs to counter hyperactivity, the parents of a son with ADHD tell Victoria Lambert how diet can make a big difference

When 36-year-old lecturer Karen Gray was told that her son Jac, then six, was "hyperactive", she wasn't terribly surprised.

She and her husband Martin, 42, a firefighter, became aware that Jac was different from his younger brother Thomas early on.

"He was always a handful," says Karen. "He was on the go, into everything, but it was more than just boyish energy."

Jac was having trouble concentrating and he couldn't sit still. School holidays were a nightmare.

6abc action news
A Special HealthCheck Report
by Anita Brikman and Dawn Heefner, HealthCheck Producer

The growing problem of obesity in this country has led some experts to take a closer look at diet soft drinks. It turns out they may not be as helpful to weight loss as some people might think.

Ever since Tab hit the market in the swingin' 60s, diet soda has become an American mainstay.

In the era when thin-became-in thanks to mini-skirts - and the rail-thin model Twiggy - diet soda's appeal was instant...

Save hundreds of calories a day, and stay skinny - right?

By Julia Havey
commonvoice.com
March 7, 2007

Oopsy. I should have said "sparkling beverages"; not soft drinks! My bad!

The case against swigging soda just got stronger. A large systematic review reveals clear associations between consumption of nondiet soft drinks and increased calorie intake and body weight.

Full-calorie soft drinks are also linked with reduced intake of milk and fruit and increased risk of type 2 diabetes. "Recommendations to reduce population soft drink consumption are strongly supported by the available science," concludes the review of 88 studies.

Dr. Betty Martini
Mission Possible World Health International
January 5, 2007

This article on Aspartame in your diet says that the 1976 Grolier Encyclopedia states cancer cannot live with phenylalanine. Aspartame is 50% phenylalanine.

Are you sick and don't know it?
There are 92 documented symptoms of ASPARTAME, from coma to death. The majority of them are all neurological, because the ASPARTAME destroys the nervous system. ASPARTAME Disease is partially the cause to what is behind some of the mystery of the Dessert Storm health problems some of the soldiers are experiencing. The burning tongue and other problems discussed in over 60 cases can be directly related to the consumption of an ASPARTAME product. Several thousand pallets of diet pop were shipped to the Dessert Storm troops. (Heat can liberate the methanol from the ASPARTAME at 86 degrees F). Diet pop sat in the 120 degree F. Arabian sun for weeks at a time on pallets. The service men and women drank this diet pop all day long. All of their symptoms are identical to ASPARTAME poisoning.

NewsTarget.com
December 6 2006
by Jerome Douglas

(NewsTarget) New research states that at least 59 of the nation's 250 children's hospitals have fast-food restaurants as part of their cafeteria operations. According to Dr. Hannah Sahud -- the lead researcher behind the new study -- that is a troubling phenomenon, particularly given rising obesity rates.

The New Yorker, May 2006
by Burkhard Bilger

Building a better sugar substitute,

The substance in the flask seemed to have all the makings of an excellent insecticide. It was a fine crystalline powder, easy to imagine spraying over a field, and its molecules were full of chlorine atoms, like DDT. To make it, Shashikant Phadnis, a young Indian chemist at Queen Elizabeth College, in London, and his adviser, Leslie Hough, had begun by taking an eyedropper full of sulfuryl chloride -- a highly toxic chemical-- and adding it to a sugar solution, one drop at a time. In the violent reaction that followed, a wholly new compound was born: 1‘, 4, 6, 6‘- tetrachloro - 1‘, 4, 6, 6’ - tetra-deoxygalactosucrose.

BBC News
November 30, 2006

Hospital food needs to be more nutritious, according to a watchdog.

The Audit Scotland report said patients were not routinely screened for poor nutrition, and claimed this should be a priority for the NHS.

The research also suggested catering services had improved over the past three years and patients were now being offered a greater choice of food.

The Scottish Executive said it was working on new nutritional standards, which NHS caterers will have to meet.

The Guardian
By Felicity Lawrence
October 17, 2006

Research with British and US offenders suggests nutritional deficiencies may play a key role in aggressive behaviour

That Dwight Demar is able to sit in front of us, sober, calm, and employed, is "a miracle", he declares in the cadences of a prayer-meeting sinner. He has been rocking his 6ft 2in bulk to and fro while delivering a confessional account of his past into the middle distance.

He wants us to know what has saved him after 20 years on the streets: "My dome is working. They gave me some kind of pill and I changed. Me, myself and I, I changed."

Demar has been in and out of prison so many times he has lost count of his convictions. "Being drunk, being disorderly, trespass, assault and battery; you name it, I did it. How many times I been in jail? I don't know, I was locked up so much it was my second home." Demar has been taking part in a clinical trial at the US government's National Institutes for Health, near Washington. The study is investigating the effects of omega-3 fatty acid supplements on the brain, and the pills that have effected Demar's "miracle" are doses of fish oil.

Time magazine
By PAMELA PAUL
Posted Sunday, Jun 11, 2006
www.time.com

Somewhere between mother's breast and the lunchroom, something has gone very wrong. How to instill good eating habits from the start

Too much sugar, too much fat, too many meals on the run and not enough vegetables or variety. Could it be that Americans' worst eating habits all take root in the high chair and stroller? Consider this: By age 2, according to a 2002 survey, 1 in 5 babies is eating candy every day. And the No. 1 vegetable for toddlers isn't pureed peas or carrots; it's French fries. Sounds a lot less like baby food and a lot more like, well, our own meals.

Zoe Williams
November 1, 2006
The Guardian

The British gum market went down 6% last year and 5% the year before. Cadbury blames a lack of competition and believes that breaking into the market with its American brand, Trident, will help sales snap back.

I would dispute this reasoning. When I decide to buy slightly less of something, year on year, it is almost never because I'm thinking, "If only there were more choice! If only I wasn't staring down the barrel of the same old minty flavours!"

NewsTarget.com
October 24 2006

(NewsTarget) The Australian government has established the National Collaboration on Trans Fats in order to reduce the presence of the harmful food ingredient, and one American health author is applauding Australia for protecting its citizens from the ingredient.

Trans fats are found in foods that contain hydrogenated oils, usually added to make fried food crisper, and has been linked to several health concerns including increased LDL (bad) cholesterol and an increase in heart disease risk. Denmark banned food with more than 2 percent trans fats two years ago, but thus far has been the only country to impose such a severe restriction.

The new Australian body will be made up of the National Heart Foundation of Australia, the Dietitians Association of Australia, the Australian Food and Grocery Council, and Food Standards Australia New Zealand, and promotes mandatory labeling of foods with trans fats. Currently, foods are only required to have trans fat content listed on the label if it claims to be "low in saturated fat" or have "no cholesterol."

By Jitendra Joshi
September 29 2006

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US doctors' group sued seven leading fast-food chains including McDonald's and Burger King over their use of a "dangerous carcinogenic" in grilled chicken.

The Washington-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) filed suit in California "to compel the restaurants to warn unsuspecting consumers" through in-store posters and menu messages.

The group said every sample of grilled chicken products from the seven national chains "tested positive for a dangerous carcinogenic compound called PhIP" during analysis at an independent laboratory.

PhIP is one of a group of carcinogenic compounds called heterocyclic amines (HCAs) that are found in grilled meats. In 2005, the US government officially added HCAs to its list of cancer-causing agents, the doctors' group said.

September 28, 2006
by Healthy News Service

Doctors' Group Sues McDonald's, Burger King, Outback, and Other National Chains Under California Law to Warn Consumers

WASHINGTON—Every sample of grilled chicken products from seven national restaurant chains tested positive for a dangerous carcinogenic compound called PhIP, prompting the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) to file suit under California’s Proposition 65 to compel the restaurants to warn unsuspecting consumers. PCRM is suing McDonald’s, Burger King, Chick-fil-A, Chili’s, Applebee’s, Outback Steakhouse, and TGI Friday’s in The Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles.

NewsTarget.com
October 2 2006

(NewsTarget) While some critics are denouncing New York City's proposal to almost completely ban dangerous trans fat from its restaurants, Natural health advocate Mike Adams, author of "Poison In the Food: Hydrogenated Oils," is publicly stating his support for the plan.

"NYC has every right to protect its people from this artificial food adulteration that promotes birth defects, nutritional deficiencies, heart disease and cancer," said Adams.

Trans fats appear in the body when people consume fats that have been hardened to a butter-like state using hydrogenization. The oils are responsible for giving some fried foods their "crunchy" texture, but they are also responsible for a number of health issues, including raising LDL (bad) cholesterol and lowering HDL (good) cholesterol.

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible International

Aspartame, AKA NutraSweet, Equal, E951 and under numerous other aliases is an addictive excitoneurotoxic carcinogen masquerading as an additive. The chemical liberates methyl alcohol, (methanol} the deadliest of the alcohols, commonly known as wood alcohol. It's so toxic a single ounce can kill or blind an adult, and it's a cumulative poison that alters the dopamine system of the brain creating addiction. The methanol, CH4O, loses two hydrogens to become CH2O, formaldehyde, which is next metabolized to create CH2O2, formic acid: fire-ant venom. But that's just the beginning.

Half of aspartame is phenylalanine, which floods the brain, a neurotoxin, lowering the seizure threshold. It depletes serotonin triggering psychiatric and behavioral problems and interacts with all drugs and vaccines. http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_interacts.htm Today our children are medicated instead of educated.

June23, 2006

www.mindconnection.com

Amazingly, Americans (and people in other countries) actually drink a product that can rightfully be called Osteoporosis In a Can. And, it gets worse from there. Read on.

This poison goes by many brand names, such as Coca Cola and Pepsi.

Generically, this poison is on the market in formulations known as soda, pop, and soft drinks. It includes all carbonated beverages˜even carbonated plain water. The various substances in sodas compound the problem, especially the typical formulations with their carbonic acid or phosphoric acid.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
June 12, 2006
By N. R. KLEINFIELD

Dr. John Newcomer is a psychiatrist who generally treats people with severe ailments of the mind and spirit. But before his patients sit down, before he hears about their clammy paranoia or renegade voices, Dr. Newcomer wants to know about their waist size.

He steers them to a scale to learn their weight. He orders a blood sugar test. If big numbers come up, he begins a conversation about Type 2 diabetes, a disease associated with obesity that is appearing with alarming frequency among the mentally ill.

by www.SixWise.com

Benzene, a cancer-causing chemical found in gasoline, smog and cigarette smoke, can form in soft drinks that contain ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and the preservative sodium benzoate.

The FDA maintains that benzene in soda is not a concern at this time, yet they aren't releasing the results of their study on benzene levels in beverages to the public.

The New York Times
April 16, 2006
Op-Ed Contributor
By NINA TEICHOLZ

IT'S never pleasant to learn that an artificial substance in your food might be ruining your health. This is what happened with trans fats when they were "discovered" in the food supply a few years ago, after a high-profile lawsuit against the makers of the Oreo cookie (laden with trans fats, who knew?) captured headlines nationwide.

The publicity pushed the Food and Drug Administration to require that trans fats be listed on package labels starting this year. Producers of cookies, cakes, crackers, frozen foods and margarines, all high in trans fats, thus had an incentive to eliminate them from their products. But Americans would be better protected if the F.D.A. would limit trans fats in all foods.

by: Health Lies Exposed
Date: September 9, 2005
By: Pam Killeen & Marion Nestle
Source: Crusador Investigative Reporter Pam Killeen Interviews Nutritionist Marion Nestle, PhD
http://www.healthliesexposed.com/articles/article_2005_09_10_5241.shtml

From February 3rd - 5th, 2005, the Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) held their 14th annual conference, Reclaiming Health: Nourishing our Farms and Families, Farming for the Future, 2005 at Penn State, State College, PA. Marion Nestle, PhD was one of the keynote speakers who presented her observations about the current state of the food industry. Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor of the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, a department she chaired for 15 years. Her degrees include a PhD in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of “Food Politics” (2002) and “Safe Food” (2003), both from University of California Press.

As a consumer I have often wondered how processed food companies get away with selling “junky”, sugar-laden cereals to our children. I finally heard the answer to my question when I listened to Dr. Nestle’s keynote address at the recent Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable Agriculture conference. Her most poignant remarks had to do with explaining how companies have been getting away with selling these cereals to our children. According to Dr. Nestle:

Health Sciences Institute e-Alert
September 21, 2005

It might go something like this:

“I was feeling really, really sick and unhappy. Started eating. Feel great. I feel really good now. I feel so good it’s crazy.”

The word “eating” is the giveaway that this line isn’t spoken by a junkie; it’s spoken by a man who has eaten way too much fast food. The man is Morgan Spurlock, the documentary filmmaker who produced and directed “Super Size Me,” which I finally saw this past weekend.

If you haven’t seen or heard of this movie, here’s the nutshell: A healthy young man eats nothing but McDonald’s food for 30 days. Pretty simple. But it’s not just footage of a guy indulging in a junk food binge. He also reveals some surprising facts about how American’s eat, along with useful insights for a nation that needs to get back on track to better dietary choices.

News Target Insider
Posted July 21, 2005 PT
by Dani Veracity

Most people know about the massive sugar intake in the United States. Despite the warnings of dental and healthcare professionals, the average American consumes 150 pounds of sugar per year. However, not everyone knows about the hand the sugar industry, or "Big Sugar," has in nutrition guidelines set by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Fewer still know of sugar companies' stronghold on U.S. import taxes, which puts $1 billion in excess profits into the pockets of American sugar barons. While the white stuff doesn't seem as dangerous as tobacco, the two industries employ similar political and research tactics to keep the dangers of their products out of the minds of the public.

Obesity claims more lives and drains more of the healthcare budget than smoking. Obesity is linked to diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, stroke and certain cancers. It inflates healthcare costs by 36 percent and medication costs by 77 percent. Not only are people suffering from the negative effects of sugar; they're paying big money to be treated for these debilitating diseases that result from it.

Given the obvious stress on hospitals, the U.S. Surgeon General has urged the nation to cut back on sugar and fats. Dr. Meir Stampfer, professor of epidemiology and nutrition (see related ebook on nutrition) at the Harvard School of Public Health insists that "any plan dealing with obesity has to take on sugar."

Santa Fe, New Mexico - Consumer advocate and Legislative Activist, Stephen Fox does not take NO for an answer, when it comes to protecting children in school from junk foods and especially from artificially sweetened soda pop and coke sold widely in vending machines.

Legislation introduced in the New Mexico State Legislature in January 2005 was "killed" by heavy lobbying from the big food industry. It is being re-introduced in 2006, and the battle promises to become a memorable David-and-Goliath act. The FDA is refusing to issue national regulations or promote national legislation despite widespread obesity and problems of kids in school, that many say are due to bad nutrition. The food giants are pressuring legislators. Lobbyists and campaign contributions have swayed many, not only in New Mexico but all over the U.S.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, had signed an exclusive contract for the district's 125 schools with PepsiCo. In 2004, when schools tried to stock other vending machines with milk, PepsiCo sent a letter warning that they were in violation of the contract. Apparently the contract does indeed bind the school district to PepsiCo and only in 2007, it comes up for renewal, at which time it may be cancelled. It is far from easy to get healthier foods and drinks into schools over the resistance of the food and drinks industry.

Following below is a report by Stephen Fox, with an introduction by Leland Lehrman of Mother Media. Anyone seriously interested in bettering the nutritional situation for kids in school may find the report very interesting.

We hear there is an epidemic of obesity, especially in the United States where, according to this page on the Centers for Disease Control's website, a 1999–2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey showed that "an estimated 65 percent of U.S. adults are either overweight or obese."

While most of the blame for obesity must by necessity be given to individual food consumption patterns, there are some substances such as monosodium glutamate (MSG), which directly influence the trend towards obesity by an addictive reaction to foods that contain it.

The U.S. health authorities have long maintained that monosodium glutamate, which like aspartame is called an excitotoxin by some, is perfectly safe and a legitimate constituent of our food supply. Yet when medical researchers need obese mice to test drugs, they are made so by giving them - you guessed it - monosodium glutamate!

As the obesity epidemic spreads, the FDA targets natural slimming aids for elimination. Ephedra, a herb used in some slimming products, was taken off the market by the FDA and other substances are being investigated. Yet MSG continues to be added to most packaged foods.

Are the American people being pushed in the direction of obesity by an irrational food control policy? John Erb certainly thinks so. His book "The Slow Poisoning of America" discusses the MSG-obesity connection.

Thanks to Tjarko Holtjer for the following message:

Many people find microwave ovens convenient and fast. But the price we pay is dear. Microwave radiation strips food of all its nutritional value and affects the body adversely due to the manner in which microwaves cook food. You may recall from the section in this chapter on Water that the water molecule is constructed in such a way that one end has a positive charge and the other end has a negative charge.
Water, which is especially sensitive to being imprinted by radiation, is present in high amounts in all life forms of this planet. When subjected to microwave radiation, the water molecules in the food reverse in polarity: the positive ends become negative and the negative ends become positive. This happens continually at high speeds back and forth-up to one hundred billion times a second! The molecules are jostled so much that the motion creates friction, and it is this friction caused by these repeated changes that emits the heat that cooks the food.

After some (well deserved) bad publicity over the health effects of big macs and other offerings from the McDonald's fast food chain, a trend away from fast food seems to have started. Despite efforts to change and offer more healthy fare like salads and organic milk, Big Mac lost business in the UK. According to the British Medical Journal, profits of the fast food chain's UK branch dropped by three quarters last year.

An inversion of the fast food trend sees more people conscious of the fact that what we eat will determine our future health and I guess more people are - like I have been for years - avoiding the fast food trap.

There are alternatives - organic foods as well as whatever is locally grown and available - that bring more nutrition to our starved bodies. With supplements targeted by international regulators including the UN's Codex Alimentarius, prodded on by pharmaceutical and "big food" interests, we might want to take things into our own hands. Let's at least get the basics right and start eating healthy.

Here is the BMJ report:

Beware of chemical additives
9 August 2004
Source: Gulf Daily News

Some foods are pumping chemicals into our bodies that may do real harm, says lifestyle expert Helen Evans.

When cooking a home made meal for the family, we would generally add herbs and spices, or a pinch of salt or pepper to make it tastier. We would certainly think twice about adding lots of chemical flavouring, colouring, artificial preservatives, or just for good measure, a few pesticide residues.

And yet this is just what is available on the menu from many ready-made meals.

We must be extra vigilant about food additives, especially where children's food is concerned, because we do not know the long-term effects that they may have.

Tasty but still bad for health

by Richard Seah
news@newstoday.com.sg
 
SEVERAL newspaper reports have suggested that MSG, or monosodium glutamate, is safe or even good for health. The latest came from a lecturer in Natural Sciences and Science Education at the National Institute of Education (NIE) in a recent newspaper article titled Tasty facts about MSG.

I feel this warrants closer attention. Have we been blaming MSG unfairly for numbness of the face, neck and shoulders, dizziness, rapid heart beats and other symptoms of "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome"?

The article fails to discuss this at length but merely states: "Scientific evidence has shown no association of MSG with the concerns of hair loss, headache and allergic reactions."

Aspartame Documentary "Sweet Misery" Reveals the Dangers of the Artificial Sweetener and how it was Approved Through the FDA.  

After 7000 miles, and 25 hours of footage, "Sweet Misery" will reveal one of the most pervasive, insidious forms of corporate negligence since tobacco. The toxic long-term effects of aspartame are often dismissed as a "hoax" by the sweetener industry and at least five other internet websites. The real footwork, however, unravels something less comforting than a mere "Hoax."

(PRWEB) July 29, 2004 -- One month ago, Sound and Fury Productions finished post production for "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World." We call this a "Case Study of a Food Supply in Crisis" and it follows the introduction and marketing of aspartame.

Science panel urges food safety, cites risks posed by genetically modified crops
Mike Toner
July 28, 2004
Source: NPIcenter.com

ATLANTA -- Unintended changes in the allergens, toxins and nutrients in genetically modified crops pose human health risks of uncertain magnitude, a panel of the National Academies warned Tuesday.

The academies' Institute of Medicine also reported that while the potential for human health effects appears greatest for genetically engineered crops, even conventional techniques that have been used to "improve" crops for centuries need some new form of government regulation.

Scientists horrified by Bush's Bad Science
By Ashlee Vance in Chicago
Published Monday 12th July 2004 17:21 GMT
Source: The Register

What started as a group of 62 scientists fighting what they saw as Bad Science being practiced by the Bush administration has now bloated to a body with more than 4,000 whitecoats calling for change.

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), in a new report, has again expressed its feeling of "embarrassment and disgust" over the way the Bush administration uses - or misuses - science when making policy decisions. The scientists have found that the administration often ignores the recommendations of advisory panels and "suppresses, distorts and manipulates" scientific work. In particular, the group is concerned about Bad Science affecting environment, emergency contraception and endangered species policies .

Monsanto Likely Phasing Out Controversial Bovine Growth Hormone
Are Rats Jumping Off Posilac Ship?

From Milkweed, Issue #299, June 2004

While Monsanto remains quiet about the fate of its genetically
engineered cow hormone, Posilac, signs are that more rats are jumping off
the ship.

In late January 2004, Monsanto announced a 50% reduction in sales of
Posilac to regular customers. That followed a December 19, 2003
announcement of a 15% cutback.

The Milkweed reported of a Posilac sales force meeting in March, at
which numerous sales persons were terminated by Monsanto. Other Posilac
sales personnel are rumored to be aggressively seeking their next employment
opportunity.

Public 'fear pesticide in foods'
26 June, 2004
Source: BBC News

Most Britons are worried about traces of pesticides in food, a poll by organic milk suppliers suggests.

Of the 1,000 people questioned in an NOP survey, 77% said people should be concerned about food pesticide levels.

Half of those questioned were not convinced maximum pesticide residue levels set by the government are safe.

But Dr Ian Brown, of the government's Pesticide Residues Committee (PRC), said only "absolutely minute" traces were ever found and tests were robust.

Greens seek state's GMO 'pharming' secrets

May 24, 2004
By Mariette le Roux
Source: IOL.co.za

Environmental lobby group Biowatch sought a Pretoria High Court order on Monday compelling the government to divulge details of all genetically modified organisms (GMO) brought into or manufactured in the country to date.

The body is seeking an order directing the state to make available a list of facts concerning each permit, approval and authorisation granted for all GMO imports, exports, field trials and general releases to date.

This included, in each case, a description of the GMO, its purpose, the name and address of the permit applicant, the area where the GMO would be used, plans for its monitoring, emergency measures in case of an accident, and the relevant environmental impact studies.

'Our world is not for sale'
It also sought similar particulars of those applications still pending.

Biowatch lodged its court application after several failed attempts to get certain information.

Modern Foods, New Epidemic
The Nation (Nairobi)

June 7, 2004
Posted to the web June 7, 2004 Source: allAfrica.com

Jeff Otieno
Nairobi

Dental problems will increase sharply in Kenya in the next decade due drastic changes in diet, the dental association has warned.

Research done by the umbrella dentists body has discovered that the complaints, also referred to as oral health problems, are the result of an increased consumption of sugary foods and drinks.

Consumption of sugar in recent years has risen threefold as Western foods, which are full of refined sugars, replace the otherwise nutritious traditional dishes.

Leading the pack is tooth decay, which affects people as young as three years in both the rural and the urban areas.

Is food endangered by additives?
By LIZ KOCH
SPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel

Ever since the Campbell’s soup people convinced America they could make soup "better" than Grandma, some of us actually believed packaged foods were equivalent to our own home-cooked meals. From there we moved into convenience or "fast food," delivered to our cars in seconds.

But as people less and less prepare food from scratch, relying on packaged food and fast foods as their main sources of nutrition, we are seeing the results in our current health-care crisis.

Ed Bauman, director of the Bauman College nutrition and natural chef training programs, will speak on this topic Thursday at Way of Life in Capitola.

Pharm Crop Products In US Market
The Institute of Science in Society - ISIS
Press Release 26/05/04

Prof. Joe Cummins discovers that dangerous GM pharmaceutical crops have been produced and marketed in the United States for at least two years, unbeknownst to the public, via a gaping loophole in the regulatory process.

A fully referenced version of this article is posted on ISIS members' website. Details here.

There has been a great deal of public opposition recently to the testing of rice genetically modified to produce the human proteins lysozyme and lactoferrin in the United States. So far, those tests have been stalled (see SiS 22).

Food Additives Associated With ADHD Symptoms
Laurie Barclay, MD

Source: Medscape Medical News 2004. © 2004 Medscape

May 27, 2004 ˜ Food additives are associated with symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to the results of a randomized trial published in the June issue of the Archives of Diseases in Childhood. The investigators suggest removing these from the diet of all children.

"There have been no population based studies examining the prevalence of hyperactivity related to intolerance to food additives following the initial claims of the detrimental effect of artificial additives on children's behaviour," write B. Bateman, from the University of Southampton in the U.K., and colleagues. "Subsequent studies, despite improved methodology, have failed to substantiate this claim or have only shown a small effect."

Food colorings and preservatives can increase hyperactive behavior in children, suggest the findings of a study that supports the removal of such additives from children's food, particularly among those with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

U.N. supports genetically modified crops despite public opposition

By NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press Writer
Source: NPI center

ROME -- Genetically modified crops are helping poor farmers and have posed no adverse health or environmental effects so far, the U.N. food agency said Monday in a report on how biotechnology can help feed the world's hungry.

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization called for greater government regulation and monitoring of genetically modified, or transgenic, products to ensure they are safely used and said more research is needed on their long-term health and environmental impacts.

US seeks £1bn from Europe over GM ban
Paul Brown, environment correspondent
Tuesday April 27, 2004
Source: The Guardian

The US has demanded that the EU abandon its ban on the growing of genetically modified crops and pay at least $1.8bn (£1bn) in compensation for loss of exports over the past six years.

The challenge is outlined in papers filed to the World Trade Organisation that have been seen by the Guardian.

Animal Pharm
by Mark Purdey
Source: Weston A. Price Foundation

Note: As an organic farmer, Mark Purdey resisted the order to spray his cattle with organophosphates for warble fly and went to court for a judicial review; he won and was exempted from using the spray. No cows born in his herd developed BSE (mad cow disease). He has contributed numerous articles on the subject of BSE to scientific journals. He farms in Somerset, UK. This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly magazine of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Spring 2000

Despairing GM firms halt crop trials

Paul Brown, environment correspondent
Thursday April 15, 2004
The Guardian

All the major biotechnology companies have abandoned GM trials in the UK this year and only one crop - a GM pea - has been granted a licence to be planted this summer.

The lack of applications, which peaked at 159 in 2000-01, shows a dramatic change in the fortunes of a technology which had the backing of the government but remains unpopular with the public.

Autism and ADHD Linked to Addictive Food Additive
24 gen 04

New research shows that a common food additive in restaurant and processed food can cause abnormal fetal development, causing ADHD and Autism in children.

For the last fifty years, the medical community has been baffled by the rise in cases of Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder and Autism. These two diseases, unheard of before 1950, have been striking an increasing number of children. Physicians have been unable to explain to parents why their children are suffering these maladies despite there not being any family history of the disorder.

US shields fast-food firms from obesity cases
Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Friday March 12, 2004
The Guardian

America's fast-food industry savoured a victory over consumer activists yesterday after Congress approved a "cheeseburger bill" to shield restaurant franchises and food firms from blame for making customers "dangerously fat".

By 276 to 139 votes Congress on Wednesday night moved to ban lawsuits against the industry that enjoys a grip on America's eating habits and has grown into the country's second largest employer.

Starved of the truth
Biotech firms are out to corner the market, so they have to persuade us something else is at stake

George Monbiot
Tuesday March 9, 2004
The Guardian

The question is as simple as this: do you want a few corporations to monopolise the global food supply? If the answer is yes, you should welcome the announcement that the government is expected to make today that the commercial planting of a genetically modified (GM) crop in Britain can go ahead. If the answer is no, you should regret it. The principal promotional effort of the genetic engineering industry is to distract us from this question.

Our health officials tell us we need not worry about supplementing vitamins, our normal food contains all our bodies' health could ever require. Not so, at least not for the millions around the world who eat fast food with any regularity.

Someone actually checked it out. An Australian filmmaker ate nothing but McDonalds food for a month, three meals a day. Here is the story, published in the New Zealand Herald.