Reading The Labels

If you buy packaged foods, which most people in civilized countries do, it would be well advised to read the labels on the packages, AND to know what all those terms mean. For instance, Hydrolized Protein and Yeast Extract, are just other names for MSG. By law, food manufacturers must list MSG on the label. The FDA says that MSG is GRAS, or Generally Regarded As Safe. If so, why are there over 25 names on packages to disguise it? The manufacturers do list MSG. The unwary public is mostly clueless that MSG is even in their foods. And it's in most of them. Check out this site to find other names used to hide MSG from public view. This is another good link from the same site.

NutraSweet is another very dangerous substance, very widely used in foods. Check out this site to see how dangerous this truly is.

Propylene Gylcol is a hazardous material in its own right, and yet, it is in many food and cosmetics. Yet if you go to the FDA's website, or check out the MSDS sheet on it, it will tell you in smaller doses it is safe. Uh huh. Supposedly mercury in our teeth was safe too, and fluoride in our water. Now we know better. Thanks to trillions of dollars in health issues caused by those products. Visit this link to the FDA's website, and start on page 8. There is a huge amount of dis-information on the web, and with mainstream media, on what is safe, and what is not. I have little respect for the FDA, but I do pay attention when they list chemicals as hazardous. Yet they still allow these in foods, drugs, and cosmetics. Who's side is the FDA on anyway? Not yours unless you work in the food and drug industry.

Where did we ever get the crazy idea we would be healthy consuming chemicals? Just one of the forms of the insanity of humanity, it seems....

Did you know.....America has no health care system? Only a sick care system. That's why YOU don't know the cure for cancer, for diabetes, for MS, for AIDS, etc. The drug companies do. But you don't. There's not much money in teaching people to stay healthy. There is hundreds of billions of dollars to be made yearly from disease though.

This is part of another page from the FDA's site, which shows that Ditheylene Glycol was "inadvertantly" put into food and drugs. Knowing how companies want to cut costs and get by cheaply, why even consider having propylene glycol as an option for anything except anti-freeze for your car?

Import Alert


(Note: This import alert represents the Agency's current guidance to FDA field personnel regarding the manufacturer(s) and/or products(s) at issue. It does not create or confer any rights for or on any person, and does not operate to bind FDA or the public).

Import Alert # 55-02
Published Date: 03/18/2011
Type: DWPE with Surveillance
Import Alert Name:
"Increased Surveillance Of Bulk Ingredients Susceptible To Contamination With Diethylene Glycol"

Reason for Alert:
In October 2006, a number of illnesses and deaths in Panama were linked to cough syrup that was found to be contaminated with diethylene glycol (DEG). Laboratory analysis performed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), subsequently confirmed by FDA's Forensic Chemistry Center, detected DEG, an ingredient in anti-freeze products, in two samples of acetaminophen elixir products, "Afebril" and "Valodon." The source of the contamination was determined to be glycerin that had been adulterated with less expensive but highly toxic DEG; shipping records indicated the source of the glycerin may have been China.

In 2007, toothpaste manufactured in China was removed from stores in Panama, the Dominican Republic, and Australia after the products were determined to contain DEG. Multiple other incidents involving pharmaceutical products made with DEG contaminated glycerin have occurred, including an incident in 1996 involving acetaminophen syrup that was linked to the deaths of 80 children in Haiti. In 1937, over 100 people in the United States died of renal failure after consuming a DEG contaminated elixir marketed to treat infections.

In 2008, teething relief products were removed from the market in Nigeria after the deaths of over 40 children in that country. The product of concern, a combination of an analgesic and an antihistamine, was determined to have been contaminated with DEG. The DEG contamination is believed to have come from contaminated propylene glycol.

Glycols, such as glycerin, propylene glycol and sorbitol, are present in many formulations of medicinal, food, and cosmetic products. OASIS entry data indicates that approximately 1100 shipments of bulk glycols are received in the United States per year.

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Artificial Sweeteners

Many people, at least those who have some knowledge about health, try to learn a little and keep some of the known dangers out of their foods. Sadly though, the food companies are in this to make money; not to make people healthy. As a rule.

There are always exceptions, but all are still in this to make money. I have no problem with making a profit. Just don't do it at someone else's expense.

In a past blog I wrote that MSG, NutraSweet and other chemicals are generally hidden with other labeling on the package, such as the term "Natural Flavoring", "Parabens", "Phenylalanine", and more. Here is a good story on NutraSweet. Well worth reading.

Did you know?

Propylene Glycol, which is in a large amount of food and drug products, is a known carcinogen, and can kill in small doses? Yet...the FDA doesn't tell you. It is stated on the FDA website though.

The term "Derived From Natural Sources" actually means this is a chemical. ~ Journal of biochemical and biophysical methods ISSN 0165-022X

Corn Syrup is very harmful to your health. This is just one of thousands of articles written which show this. Splenda is equally as dangerous, if not more so. It is 75% chlorine. Chlorine KILLS. Please read this story, by Dr Janet Starr Hull

Using natural products such as Xylitol or Stevia as sweeteners is far better than using Corn Syrup, NutraSweet, MSG, or Sugar. Xylitol and Stevia will both help the body rather than hurt it. The others listed here will only hurt the body, and never help it. Sugar, as has been stated in the last couple of months by me, is the prime fuel for all cancers. Particularly, refined sugars.

You would have to learn to use Stevia. It is a very natural plant, but is extremely sweet. Meaning, if you use much more than necessary, your food won't taste all that good. It is, depending on refinement, up to 200 times sweeter than sugar.

Xylitol, like Stevia, is neither harmful to the health, nor do either cause candida overgrowth, which the other 5 listed ingredients will. Nor does either of those feed the harmful bacteria in the mouth.

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