Blog: Nutrition: Avoid These

Obama quietly signed this Monsanto Protection Act into law thus ensuring the American people have no recourse against this bio-tech giant as they fall ill .

GMO has become a common term in our modern vocabulary. However, not everybody understands what it stands for, what it really means, and if it is something we should worry about. Let’s take a closer look to GMOs and gather some basic information.

Metabolic and epidemiologic studies indicate an adverse effect of trans fatty acids on the risk of coronary heart disease.

Trans Fatty Acids in Foods and how responsible governments should institute a mandatory lifestyle course into our children's school curricula.

The next time a television commercial tries to tell you to buy a candy bar for that sudden burst of energy, consider this, the liver can only store about 150 grams of glycogen (which is derived from sugar), and the excess becomes fat globules.

All the possible ways in which sugar can ruin your health

avoid artificial sweeteners. In addition, eating too much REAL sugar will also adversely affect your health, as it will cause your blood sugar level to rise.

Microwaving Destroys Flavonoids, substances often found in many brightly coloured fruits and vegetables, have been linked to a reduced risk of coronary heart disease, stroke and lung cancer.

A recent study has demonstrated that aspartame feeding to animals results in an accumulation of formaldehyde within the cells, with evidence of significant damage to cellular proteins and DNA.

After 30 days of McDonalds Diet his liver became toxic, his cholesterol shot up from a low 165 to 230, his libido flagged and he suffered headaches and depression.

statisticians at Boston College reveal that in France, Japan and Switzerland, men and women aged 65 now live several years longer than they do in the US

Many Americans have filled every one of these twenty-seven prescriptions for illness. Their bodies struggle to overcome an unbearable toxic load while fueled with poisonous processed junk food or non-nutritious pre-packaged foods.

Avoid GMO foods. Check labels for these commonly altered items: soy, corn oils, and flour, lecithin, canola, and soy protein isolates.

Scientists believe that neurotoxins are even more of a problem in food than carcinogens.

When exposed to heat, aspartame breaks down into toxic methyl alcohol. This may occur even at temperatures reached by diet sodas during regular storage.

Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food

The only way to avoid dangerous food additives is to eat whole, natural, organic food.

Carbonated water will make your plants grow vigorously but is not good for us to drink in large quantities.

The common side effects of caffeine are numerous and should be examined closely to determine if its use is contributing to your health conditions.

Heartburn and reflux is an extremely complex subject ~ so much so that mainstream medical science does not fully understand all of the mechanisms that function to protect the esophagus from high acid conditions... mechanisms generally centered around the lower esophageal sphincter.

Monsanto has significantly beefed up its lobbying efforts to pass this bill, spending nearly a half million dollars per month in total lobbying and boasting that it has contacted every single member of Congress.

Important history of the intertwined science and politics of GMO

MSG: The food producers and restaurants have been addicting us to their products for years, and now we are paying the price for it.

Yes, there are many known side effects of MSG in your food. Monosodium Glutamate should be avoided to prevent damage.

If you have not woken up to the gravity of this issue, please consider this your wake-up call.

Morgan Spurlock subsisted on a McDonalds-only diet for a month and lived to make a documentary about it.

When Super Size Me had its debut in January at the Sundance Film Festival, where it picked up an award for documentary directing, McDonald's had just pulled itself out of a hole caused by over-aggressive expansion, growing complaints about customer service, concerns about obesity.

The only reason sulfites are added to our foods today is to improve the look of inferior foods and extend the shelf life.

MSG is not the only taste "enhancing" food additive known to cause damage to the nervous system. They all share one important property.

Microwave exposure caused significant decreases in the nutritive value of all foods studied.

Sucralose has been found to shrink thymus glands (the biological seat of immunity) and produce liver inflammation in rats and mice.

The solution to the problem of food borne illnesses is to make tougher sanitation laws for meat processing, because current methods are endangering public health

Excitotoxins are biochemical substances (usually amino acids, amino acid analogs, or amino acid derivatives) that can react with specialized neuronal receptors - glutamate receptors - in the brain or spinal cord in such a way as to cause injury or death to a wide variety of neurons

People who experience depression, fatigue, and other symptoms, however, may want to moderate their aspartame consumption.

Everything consumed ultimately affects your body, from your skin to your digestive system.

Cities across the country are manipulating the results of tests used to detect lead in water, violating federal law and putting millions of Americans at risk.

GMO corn is loaded with RoundUp. Scientific evidence on glyphosate accumulated over three decades documents miscarriages, birth defects, carcinogenesis, endocrine disruption, DNA damage, and more.

Why is Aspartame, NutraSweet, Equal, Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, and more on the market and in thousands of foods?

Compass Group has announced that it will only buy pork and chicken from companies that stop using medically important antibiotics to make healthy animals grow faster.