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Health, Sports & FitnessBy myqute
9 months ago
Who are Genetically-Modifying Mother Nature's Natural Seeds?
There are many bio-tech companies who are genetically modifying our foods and Earth's natural seeds. However one giant biotech and agricultural company stands out - MONSANTO. Monsanto is modifying 90% of the world's natural seeds. (UK-based Novartis AG comes in a close second of the world's largest agricultural company.).
Monsanto does not sell directly to you, the consumer. Monsanto (with the help of Donald Rumsfield) gave this world harmful artificial sugar, Aspartame. Monsanto now wants to modify SEEDS of fruits, etc.
If you are not aware of who Rumsfield is, here's some quick info. He used to work for Monsanto, then FDA (to say aspartame is safe) and then moved on to become USA's Secretary of Defense. The man who was responsible for making Bush believe that a war against Iraq was justifiable and necessary (rumoured that he has some help from Dick Cheney), he stepped down in November 2006. [ More info |
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LifestyleHealth, Sports & FitnessBy myqute
12 months ago
Thank you everyone who ever cared to comment or rate or do both for part two! There were 20+ comments which I did not expect - THANK YOU again!! Part two covered: #1. Raisins and Fructose #2. Toxic Alloxan in White Bread and #3. Microwaved Foods
In this part I will be chatting about whether hydrogenated oil is healthy. #1. Partially hydrogenated oils - most often soybean and vegetable oil - contains high levels of trans fats. And what's trans fats? Trans fats interfere with the metabolic processes of life by taking the place of a natural substance that performs a critical function (definition of a poison). As such trans fat are poisons, just like arsenic or cyanide. Your body has no defense against such poisons, because they never even existed in our two billion years of evolution -- so we've never had the need or the opportunity to evolve a defense against them. Unsaturated fat, usually a vegetable oil, is mixed with hydrogen gas and platinum catalysts, then heated to temperatures in excess of 500 F to make it more solid and to give it a longer shelf life. This recipe results in changing the molecular makeup of healthy fatty acids into disfigured, twisted molecules—trans fat—often listed on food labels as hydrogenated fats or oils. The trans fat is an otherwise normal fatty acid that has been "transmodified", by high-heat processing of a free oil |
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LifestyleHealth, Sports & FitnessBy myqute
12 months ago
Thank you everyone who ever cared to comment or rate or do both for part one! Part one covered: #1. Aspartame (artificial sugar). #2. Flouride content in Water Supply. #3. Mandatory Vaccinations In this part I will try to cover 3 more Health Myths (or foods)! #1. Raisins are healthy. HALF-TRUTH! Although it is true raisins contain a good amount of anti-oxidants, but nowadays it is high in fructose. Fructose is part of a large-scale commercial sweetener added to processed foods and beverages. Some Sugar Info You Don't Want to Miss Fructose itself raises blood levels of cholesterol and fat (triglyceride). It's worse when you take meat because basically all cholesterol comes from meat that have hormones and no anti-oxidants in them.
Wikipedia.com says fructose has been manufactured/used as commercial sugar (nothing natural of it) since 1970s. The danger of fructose is also mentioned via Wikipedia,"Unlike glucose, fructose is almost entirely metabolized in the liver. "When fructose reaches the liver," says Dr. William J. Whelan, a biochemist at the University of Miami School of Medicine, "the liver goes bananas and stops everything else to metabolize the fructose." |
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LifestyleHealth, Sports & FitnessBy myqute
12 months ago
"Do you trust your life and safety in the hands of your health authorities?" Most people will not hesitate to answer YES. I recall, as a child, a small voice inside me has always asked,"How do we know what goes into our medicine?" 20 years later, I decide to attempt answering this question! (Disclaimer: All facts provided in this blog entry are easily available on the internet. As such I am not liable for any thing you decide out of reading this article. There are many people who need to be credited for this article - I apologise if I did not mention those people for the sake of brevity for this article!)
Here are 3 of the world's Greatest Health Myths busted: 1. Artificial sugars like Nutrasweet/Splendor are good for diabetics. MYTH!! There is nothing natural in Nutrasweet! It is indeed artificial sugar. Splendor (aka Splenda) a variation of Nutrasweet is actually chemical chlorine. Clinical trials show that Aspartame is able to neutralise all nutrients of the last meal you ate. And more! Perhaps Mrs. Victoria Innes-Brown, a private citizen of the USA, gave one of the most compelling evidence of Aspartame when she did an experiment feeding 2 groups of rats - one with Aspartame and the other without. Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino (New Mexico State Senator) once wrote to the ex-Acting Commissioner of FDA, a Dr. Frank Torti, to pull all artificial aspartame from supermarket shelves. |
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