We are what we eat or more importantly what we absorb. This is the season of over indulgence, so what else are you consuming that can effect your health beyond just putting on a few extra pounds? What are you purchasing from the supermarket on a weekly basis that is threatening your health and even slowly poisoning you without your awareness?
Making the right choices is becoming more and more of a mine field, even when eating at home and eating out can turn into a game of Russian roulette from mysterious cooking oils from huge drums, toxic additives such as Monosodium glutamate, pesticide covered foods and genetically modified food. We are given dietary advice by government, dieticians and doctors with little to no training in nutrition and wellness who only follow government guidelines that are promoting the latest way to control the masses and has nothing to do with nutrition and health.
“If you control the food, you control the people. That’s ultimately the end goal.”
The control over what foods are available and what is in them or on them grows constantly. Just staying away from processed foods is no longer enough. The latest developments include a covering that claims to be there to protect the fruit and vegetables and is totally safe to ingest (where have we heard that before!) eating bugs for protein, lab grown meat and even vaccines in food.
Pesticides, Fungicides and Herbicides
Pesticides, fungicides and herbicides are sprayed on nearly all crops not grown organically, including fruit, vegetables, grains, nuts and seeds. There are over 300 types of pesticide and many are extremely toxic. Despite so-called safe limits (often broken, especially on fruit) pesticides are doing untold damage to our bodies. They are not just on the outside of produce as some are systemic and thus are present throughout the whole vegetable or fruit. Most pesticides are resistant to water, so washing fruit and vegetables before eating is ineffective.
An average person’s annual intake of fruit and vegetables has had the equivalent of a gallon of pesticides sprayed onto it.
Even though DDT has been banned since the 1970s, it still shows up regularly in fresh produce testing as soil is still contaminated by it.
Pesticides have been shown to be carcinogenic, but they also prevent your body from being able to defend itself against other carcinogens. Some of these chemicals imitate oestrogen and disrupt thyroid function, both of which can lead to weight gain and increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancer.
Glyphosate Found in 19 of 20 Beers and Wines Tested
“Glyphosate—the active ingredient in Monsanto‘s Roundup weedkiller that some studies have linked to cancer—is also a secret ingredient in nearly 20 popular beers and wines.
That’s the finding of a new study from the education group U.S. PIRG, which found glyphosate in 19 of 20 wine and beer brands tested, including organic labels and brews.” https://www.ecowatch.com/glyphosate-beer-wine-2630077686.html
Pesticide mixtures in wine more than treble since 2016
“Recent results from the UK Government’s testing programme have exposed a dramatic increase in the proportion of wine that contains multiple pesticide residues – from 14% in 2016 (the last time that wine was tested) to 50% in 2022.” https://www.pan-uk.org/multiple-pesticide-residues-in-wine/
Pesticide poisoning
“Pesticide poisoning is a global health emergency. It is estimated that 44% of farmers and farm workers are poisoned by pesticides every year, that is 385 million people.
The figure is shocking in itself but it doesn’t include the thousands of suicides from pesticide each year. It is estimated that 14 to 16 million people worldwide have died from ingesting pesticides over the last 50 years.” https://www.pan-uk.org/pesticide-poisoning/
Vegetable Oil
The government and medical profession have been advising us for years not to eat saturated fats, such as butter and coconut oil. We have been led to believe saturated fats raise blood cholesterol levels and increase the risk of heart disease. Instead, we were told to eat vegetable oils such as corn, canola/rapeseed, cottonseed, soybean and sunflower oil. These are classified as unsaturated, or polyunsaturated oils.
Vegetable oils have only been produced in the last 100 years. They are made by heating the grain and the use of toxic solvents and chemicals to extract the oil. These oils contain large amounts of Omega-6 fatty acids, which are harmful in excess as they cause inflammation – the route to nearly every disease. When used at high temperatures, many of these types of vegetable oil are also carcinogenic.
To make things even worse, these vegetable oils are often modified into trans fats, sometimes known as hydrogenated fats. They go through a process of hydrogenation to make them solid at room temperature, such as margarine.
Hydrogenated fats have been found to be highly toxic as they not only raise the level of bad (LDL) cholesterol, but also lower your good (HDL) cholesterol. They are now associated with increasing the risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and obesity. Unfortunately, hydrogenated or trans fats are found in nearly all processed baked foods, including bread, biscuits, ready meals and fast food products.
The belief that saturated fats cause heart disease is also being questioned. The French, Eskimos and people of northern India eat large amounts of saturated fats. The level of heart disease among these groups is lower than in countries where people eat little saturated fat.
Fats are essential to health. Your brain is made up of at least 60% fat. It has been suggested the increase in neurological diseases such as dementia, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease may partly be due to a low-fat diet and the wrong type of fat being consumed in the diet.
The best types of oil to consume are coconut, olive, nut, flaxseed and avocado which have been cold pressed and are preferably organic. Most of these oils are best used cold as heating them can make them become carcinogenic. A good oil to use for cooking is organic, virgin coconut oil. It is also great on your skin and has some amazing properties. It is antibacterial, antiviral, anti-carcinogenic, anti-inflammatory and boosts the immune system. Ghee made from organic butter is also good for cooking.
The Toxic Truth About Vegetable Oils in Your Home | Facts Matter Exclusive https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/the-toxic-truth-about-vegetable-oils-in-your-home-facts-matter-exclusive-5554019?
Additives
Grocery stores are full of processed foods and pretty much all of them contain additives to enhance colour, taste and act as preservatives. Some of these are natural but the majority are chemicals. When reading food labels, it feels like you need a degree in chemistry to understand them! You also have to attempt to translate a list of E numbers into the ingredients they really are. To make an informed decision about what you are feeding yourself and your family, you need to become an avid label reader. If you don’t recognise an ingredient don’t eat it. Yes, it’s a pain, if like me you have to dig out your reading glasses, but your health is your main asset so it’s worth it!
Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
MSG is a flavour enhancer found in many processed and fast foods as well as Chinese and Asian cuisine. It spices up bland food and makes it taste good as well as making you want more and more.
MSG can cause:
• Skin rashes
• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Headaches
• Asthma
• Depression
• Heart arrhythmias
• Obesity.
Glutamate has a negative effect on health especially for those who are an undermethylator where it really effects the brain. Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the nervous system. Glutamate pathways are linked too many other neurotransmitter pathways, and glutamate receptors are found throughout the brain and spinal cord in neurons and glia.
How do they make red food colouring?
Apeel
Gates-Funded ‘Edible’ Food Coating Gets Green Light From Regulators
Edipeel, marketed as Apeel, is described as a colorless, odorless, tasteless coating for fruit and vegetables that’s composed entirely of a mixture of food-grade glycerolipids, derived from edible plant oils, that we’re assured is entirely safe to eat.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/gates-foundation-food-coating-apeel-edipeel/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender-wk&utm_id=20230507
Vaccines in Food
Vaccines in your salad? Scientists growing medicine-filled plants to replace injections
“Vaccinations can be a controversial subject for many people, especially when it comes to injections. So what if you could replace your next shot with a salad instead? Researchers at the University of California-Riverside are working on a way to grow edible plants that carry the same medication as an mRNA vaccine.” https://studyfinds.org/vaccines-salad-growing-plants/
Researchers aim to develop edible plant-based mRNA vaccines
“The future of vaccines may look more like eating a salad than getting a shot in the arm. UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories.”
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210916/Researchers-aim-to-develop-edible-plant-based-mRNA-vaccines.aspx
Edible Vaccines: Promises and Challenges
“The main challenge faced by edible vaccine is its acceptance by the population so that it is necessary to make aware the society about its use and benefits. When compared to other traditional vaccines, edible vaccines are cost effective, efficient and safe. It promises a better prevention option from diseases.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7090473/
Bugs for Protein
On a standard search nothing but how good and delicious bugs are, but what is really going on? This is a huge topic so will be the subject of next weeks Special Report: Will You Eat the Bugs?
How to Stay Healthy
The best, safest way to stay healthy is to grow our own food, making sure seeds are organic, the soil and compost is also organic and good quality and no pesticides are used. The next best is organic from a local producer where we have a relationship with them and know what methods they are using. Organic produce from supermarkets may be better than standard grow, but is it really organic? Organic produce can also be contaminated from pollution in the air drifting from near by spraying and from pollutants in rain water or irrigation sources.
