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MSG Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills
31-Oct-2012
MSG (monosodium glutamate) is a taste enhancing and hydrolyzed vegetable protein. At the time of discovery, MSG was thought to be safe since it was a natural substance (an amino acid). The amount of MSG alone added to foods has doubled in every decade since the 1940's and by 1972 262,000 metric...
Microwave: Effects on Food and Humans
08-Oct-2012
Microwave cooking ovens were originally researched and developed by German scientists to support mobile operations during the invasion of the Soviet Union. Had they perfected electronic equipment on a mass scale, the Nazi's could have eliminated the logistical problems connected with cooking fuels while producing edible products in far less time than they could using traditional cooking tools. After the war, the Allies discovered the medical research and documentation concerning microwave ...
How To Get Sick
14-Dec-2012
How to Get Sick: A Modern Prescription for Illness by Jordan Rubin, from "The Makers Diet" pages 83-94 UNDER IDEAL CONDITIONS, EVERYONE WOULD BE BORN PERFECT and without flaws. In reality, we all carry genetic and metabolic weaknesses and are constantly bombarded and attacked by potentially harmful bacteria, viruses, fungi, and industrial toxins. I'm convinced that we all have predetermined weaknesses in our bodies. Mine was the gut, but yours may be the lungs, the cardiova...
Excitotoxins: Ultimate Brainslayer
05-Oct-2012
Glutamic acid (also called "glutamate") is the chief excitatory neurotransmitter in the human and mammalian brain (1-3). Glutamate neurons make up an extensive network throughout the cortex, hippocampus, striatum, thalamus, hypothalamus, cerebellum, and visual/auditory system (4). As a consequence, glutamate neurotransmission is essential for cognition, memory, movement, and sensation (especially taste, sight, hearing) (3). Glutamate and its biochemical "cousin," aspartic acid or aspartate...
Food Irradiation
15-Dec-2012
Irradiation, or as it is sometimes euphemistically called, "cold pasteurization," is a process in which food is submitted to ionized radiation in order to kill bacteria. This is described as a tool towards greater food safety by some, and as a frightening way of passing off tainted food as edible to others. It will probably come as no surprise that I fall into the latter group. The first problem I have with this process is the fact that irradiation not only kills "harmful germs" but also many ...
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