The Total Wellness Cleanse - e-Course Part 5

"THE TOXIC SIDE OF FOOD" e-Course

Part 5 - When "Adding" Ingredients Becomes Dangerous

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Non-Foods, Fabricated Foods, Faux Foods, and Food Additives Are Big Business!

These are just some of the names we use to refer to packaged and processed foods “created” by big food conglomerates such as Kraft, General Mills, and McDonald’s.

The total U.S. market for food additives is an estimated $5.8 billion, a huge increase from $1.3 billion in 1978. Food sellers are very clever that most consumers are more likely to buy products that contain additives that render their foods more appealing, in one way or another. They spend, therefore, more than $1.4 billion annually to introduce 10,000 new food products into the market.

Most recently, we’ve witnessed the unfortunate introduction of “functional foods” such as Wonder Bread with DHA, Tropicana Orange with Omega-3s, and many more foods that add one healthy element to make it more appealing to the masses without providing any additional nutritional value.

The chilling reality is that it takes many years of research and unfortunate trial and error (on humans) for governing bodies to realize the true effects of many of the food additives in our food supply. As an example, in 1978, there were 35 widely used additives that had been approved as safe for food but have since been removed as unsafe, most because they were found be carcinogenic.

Below is a table showing the list of banned additives over the last century. One can only imagine how much more time will be required for many of today’s additives to show similar dreadful implications on human health.

Banned Additives The food and chemical industries have said for decades that all food additives are well tested and safe. And most additives are safe. However, the history of food additives is riddled with additives that, after many years of use, were found to pose health risks. Those listed below have been banned. The moral of the story is that when someone says that all food additives are well tested and safe you should take their assurances with a grain of salt.
Additive	Function	Natural or Synthetic	Year Banned	Problem
Agene (nitrogen trichloride)	flour bleaching and aging agent	synthetic	1949	Dogs that ate bread made from treated flour suffered epileptic-like fits; the toxic agent was methionine sulfoxime.
Artificial colorings:
Butter yellow	artificial colouring	synthetic	1919	Toxic, later found to cause liver cancer.
Green 1	artificial colouring	synthetic	1965	Liver cancer
Green 2	artificial colouring	synthetic	1965	Insufficient economic importance to be tested
Orange 1	artificial colouring	synthetic	1956	Organ damage
Orange 2	artificial colouring	synthetic	1960	Organ damage
Orange B	artificial colouring	synthetic	1978 (ban never finalized)	Contained low levels of a cancer-causing contaminant. Orange B was used only in sausage casings to color sausages, but is no longer used in the United States.
Red 1	artificial colouring	synthetic	1961	Liver cancer
Red 2	artificial colouring	synthetic	1976	Possible carcinogen
Red 4	artificial colouring	synthetic	1976	High levels damaged adrenal cortex of dog; after 1965 it was used only in maraschino cherries and certain pills; it is still allowed in externally applied drugs and cosmetics.
Red 32	artificial colouring	synthetic	1956	Damages internal organs and may be a weak carcinogen; since 1956 it continues to be used under the name Citrus Red 2 only to color oranges (2 ppm).
Sudan 1	artificial colouring	synthetic	1919	Toxic, later found to be carcinogenic.
Violet 1	artificial colouring	synthetic	1973	Cancer (it had been used to stamp the Department of Agriculture's inspection mark on beef carcasses).
Yellow 1 and 2	artificial colouring	synthetic	1959	Intestinal lesions at high dosages.
Yellow 3	artificial colouring	synthetic	1959	Heart damage at high dosages.
Yellow 4	artificial colouring	synthetic	1959	Heart damage at high dosages.
cinnamyl anthranilate	artificial flavouring	synthetic	1982	Liver cancer
cobalt salts	stabilize beer foam	synthetic	1966	Toxic effects on heart
Coumarin	flavouring	tonka bean	1954	Liver poison
cyclamate	artificial sweetener	synthetic	1970	Bladder cancer, damage to testes; now not thought to cause cancer directly, but to increase the potency of other carcinogens.
diethyl pyrocarbonate (DEPC)	preservative (beverages)	synthetic	1972	Combines with ammonia to form urethane, a carcinogen
dulcin (p-ethoxy-phenylurea)	artificial sweetener	synthetic	1950	Liver cancer
ethylene glycol	solvent	humectant	synthetic	Kidney damage
monochloroacetic acid	preservative	synthetic	1941	Highly toxic
nordihydroguaiarec acid (NDGA)	antioxidant	desert plant	1968 (FDA), 1971 (USDA)	Kidney damage
oil of calamus	flavoring	root of calamus	1968	Intestinal cancer
polyoxyethylene-8-stearate (Myrj 45)	emulsifier	synthetic	1952	High levels caused bladder stones and tumors
safrole	flavoring (root beer)	sassafras	1960	Liver cancer
thiourea	preservative	synthetic	c.1950	Liver cancer

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