Fast Food and Processed Foods

Fast Food Foolishness

Soft drinks contain large amounts of phosphorous, which throw off the body's calcium/phosphorous ratio, decreasing calcium, which is vital to your health. For anyone over 40, soft drinks are particularly hazardous because the kidneys are less able to excrete phosphorous. Heavy soft drink consumption can interfere with the body's metabolism of iron and diminish transmission of impulses through the nervous system.

Soft drinks contain, but are not required to disclose on their labels, ingredients such as ethyl alcohol, alginate (hazardous to pregnant women), brominated vegetable oil (harmful to vital organs), and many other dangerous chemicals.

They interact with antacids and antibiotics and can cause nausea, vomiting, headaches, and kidney damage.

The average 12 ounce cola contains 7 teaspoons of refined sugar.

All of these findings appear in medical literature, yet no manufacturer or seller may mention them in connection with a vitamin C product. IMPERATIVE INFORMATION FOR YOUR HEALTH.

Tips On Salt

High salt consumption can cause hypertension, migraine headache, abnormal fluid retention, potassium loss, interfere with proper utilization of protein, and increase chances of heart disease and many other ailments. The average American consumes more than the weight of a bowling ball made of salt each year (more than 15 pounds). If you think you don't eat salt because you never eat pretzels or chips, think again before dinner.

Processed Foods

Cream of wheat, cream of rice, farina, and hominy, which for years has been accepted as top-notch, high nutrition hot breakfasts are not of any nutritional value. They are all degerminated (processed for creaminess by eliminating all grain germ and bran).

White bread is made from highly processed wheat flour that has been milled and bleached, thereby eliminating or depleting numerous nutrients that "enriching" cannot replace. The bread may contain more than 100 food and chemical additives that are not listed on the labels. In addition it can claim to have "no preservatives" and still contain dough conditioners such as potassium bromate, known to cause central nervous system disorders and kidney problems.

Jellies, jams, honey, and fruit butter can be hazardous as well. Most commercial jams and jellies are not made from fresh fruit. They are more than half sugar, strictly refined and combined with corn syrup. Honey is more expensive and rarely used, yet it is the only sweetener that must be listed on the label. Most fruit spreads contain benzoic acid or sodium benzoate, artificial colors, artificial flavorings, among other additives.

Frozen foods contain little or no nutritional value. Microwaving depletes the value of the foods you eat.The Controversy Against Milk. Milk has 65 percent saturated fatty acids and only 4 percent unsaturated. If you are concerned about arteriosclerosis, an acknowledged precursor to heart attacks, milk can be dangerous because these fatty particles in homogenized whole milk can pass through the stomach wall into the bloodstream, causing cholesterol buildup.

Controversy Against Milk

If one has lactose intolerance, milk can cause such gastrointestinal problems such as: bloating, cramps, diarrhea, eczema, asthma, ear infections, excessive fatigue, or constipation. Nearly 20 percent of Americans have lactose intolerance.

Bovine Growth Hormones (BGH) leaves potentially hazardous residues in milk.

Resolving The Protein Predicament

Meat Information To Consider

The presence of parasites in the flesh of meat animals and fish is undoubtedly a problem of considerable magnitude. This excerpt is from an article in New York Times by health inspector in a Kosher meat factory.

“The worn gears in meat grinder were rusty and caked with bits of old fat and meat. Paint was scaling of the equipment and falling into the vats. Fresh meat was stored in rusty tubs. Evidence of rats were everywhere where meat was being handled. The animals are kept alive and fattened by the continuous administration of tranquilizers, hormones, antibiotics, and 2,700 other FDA approved drugs. Meat packing plants or slaughter houses are infernos of nauseous smells, pools of blood, and screams of terrified animals, many skinned alive.Toxic wastes, including uric acid, are present in the blood and tissue, as also are dead and virulent bacteria, not only from the putrefaction process, but from animal diseases, such as hoof and mouth disease, contagious abortion, swine fever, malignant tumors, etc. Similarly, meat contains vaccines injected into the animals against prevalent diseases.All of today’s food animals, no exceptions..the proud and passionate chickens, the friendly steadfast pigs, the gentle-hearted pigs, the gentle-hearted cows..are treated in a manner that would sicken any open-hearted person who had eyes to see what was actually happening.”