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Is Your Food Source Safe and Healthy?

© Jill Manzoni

Today's processed foods are loaded with sugar and drenched with chemical poisons. Would you eat or prepare food for your family which had a poison warning on it? How about if it needed a prescription from your local pharmacist? Oh, you wouldn’t? Well do you know what all those additives and chemicals are on the food labels? Most of them are compounds and chemicals which have been shown to create long term affects on the human body.

Here is a basic time line, referring to additives and the amounts we consume each year. In 1970, individual consumption of these additives was estimated at a "mere" two or three pounds a year. Since then these chemicals have gradually increased. By 1974 we were each ingesting an annual five pounds of them; by 1977 nine pounds, 1980 it was up to ten poisonous pounds. To get another perspective, in 1980 the food industry spent some $983 million on them and $1.3 billion for chemical food additives by 1984.

So does this make you rethink your menu tonight? Remember, this is the agency that is charged to put food on our table. They are a tremendously powerful body of financial entrepreneurs that you trust. Now think about this. Remember how many times you have read, “Take only as directed”, or “Not suitable for those with heart, kidney, liver, diseases, etc.” They claim that a little is okay, but if taken in larger quantities, the exact same foods that are supposedly safe and good for us, turn into poisons.

So why is it okay to use it in moderation? It’s not. Poison is poison, and there is no getting around that. I call this brainwashing, as they also want to our minds. To explain further, they spend billions selling us on the marvels of the food they sell us to eat, they have billions to spend on advertising, on lobbying and political contributions, on endowing the nutrition departments of universities, on scholarships and favors, on a vast army of media spokespeople all eager to spout their self-righteous and scathing clichés: "There's no nutritional superiority in natural foods," "All foods are health foods," "Vitamins and minerals are a waste of money, you will get all you need if you just eat a balanced diet:” No wonder Americans are confused. We see the disease and illnesses in this world. We see that the top ten leading causes of death in the United States have been linked to our diet. So who is telling the truth?

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