Re: Hidden treasures/additives in our food

[Guest guest]

No wonder I feel crappy whenever I eat some of this stuff.

It is very disappointing that the food industry can add MSG without clearly

spelling it out.

Ed White

Sandwich, MA USA

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" Sue W. " wrote: Hi -

This is a great article from the book 'Excitotoxins - The Taste That

Kills', by Dr. Blaylock, MD. It contains a discription of the

hidden additives in foods, including Soy Protein Concentrate

Soy Protein Isolate, and Whey Protein Concentrate. The Whey Protein

Concentrate brought me back to your discussion on supplements, and the

hidden items in those.

http://www.rense.com/general35/hidd.htm

You really do have to check everything you eat.

Sue Waddicor

Massachusetts, US

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[Guest guest]

It is very disappointing. One needs to get a Ph.D. in food science in order to

decipher this stuff. My kids laugh at me because it takes us so long to grocery

shop. But, by the time you really read the labels it ends up being very time

consuming.

Mark Cotton

New Jersey, USA

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Ed White wrote:

No wonder I feel crappy whenever I eat some of this stuff.

It is very disappointing that the food industry can add MSG without clearly

spelling it out.

Ed White

Sandwich, MA USA

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" Sue W. " wrote: Hi -

This is a great article from the book 'Excitotoxins - The Taste That

Kills', by Dr. Blaylock, MD. It contains a discription of the

hidden additives in foods, including Soy Protein Concentrate

Soy Protein Isolate, and Whey Protein Concentrate. The Whey Protein

Concentrate brought me back to your discussion on supplements, and the

hidden items in those.

http://www.rense.com/general35/hidd.htm

You really do have to check everything you eat.

Sue Waddicor

Massachusetts, US

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[Guest guest]

Dr. Blaylock's work requires some serious revision. It's people like

him that get

everyone paranoid. One of the most famous studies on aspartame that

was done on rats and shown to cause cancer was very misleading. The

amounts they gave the rats were extremely high doses. It would be

impossible for a human to take amounts this high. Another study just

came out showing that in fact is doesn't cause cancer. Here's the

study:

Latest study on aspartame

Crit Rev Toxicol. 2007 Sep;37(8):629-727.

Aspartame: a safety evaluation based on current use levels,

regulations, and toxicological and epidemiological studies.

Magnuson BA, Burdock GA, Doull J, Kroes RM, Marsh GM, Pariza MW,

Spencer PS, Waddell WJ, R, GM.

Burdock Group, Washington, DC, USA.

Aspartame is a methyl ester of a dipeptide used as a synthetic

nonnutritive sweetener in over 90 countries worldwide in over 6000

products. The purpose of this investigation was to review the

scientific literature on the absorption and metabolism, the current

consumption levels worldwide, the toxicology, and recent

epidemiological studies on aspartame. Current use levels of

aspartame, even by high users in special subgroups, remains well

below the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and European Food Safety

Authority established acceptable daily intake levels of 50 and 40

mg/kg bw/day, respectively. Consumption of large doses of aspartame

in a single bolus dose will have an effect on some biochemical

parameters, including plasma amino acid levels and brain

neurotransmitter levels. The rise in plasma levels of phenylalanine

and aspartic acid following administration of aspartame at doses less

than or equal to 50 mg/kg bw do not exceed those observed

postprandially. Acute, subacute and chronic toxicity studies with

aspartame, and its decomposition products, conducted in mice, rats,

hamsters and dogs have consistently found no adverse effect of

aspartame with doses up to at least 4000 mg/kg bw/day. Critical

review of all carcinogenicity studies conducted on aspartame found no

credible evidence that aspartame is carcinogenic. The data from the

extensive investigations into the possibility of neurotoxic effects

of aspartame, in general, do not support the hypothesis that

aspartame in the human diet will affect nervous system function,

learning or behavior. Epidemiological studies on aspartame include

several case-control studies and one well-conducted prospective

epidemiological study with a large cohort, in which the consumption

of aspartame was measured. The studies provide no evidence to support

an association between aspartame and cancer in any tissue. The weight

of existing evidence is that aspartame is safe at current levels of

consumption as a nonnutritive sweetener.

Ann Oncol. 2007 Jan;18(1):40-4. Epub 2006 Oct 16.

Artificial sweeteners and cancer risk in a network of case-control

studies.

Gallus S, i L, Negri E, Talamini R, Franceschi S, Montella M,

Giacosa A, Dal Maso L, La Vecchia C.

Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Negri, Via Eritrea 62,

20157 Milan, Italy. gallus@...

BACKGROUND: The role of sweeteners on cancer risk has been widely

debated over the last few decades. To provide additional information

on saccharin and other sweeteners (mainly aspartame), we considered

data from a large network of case-control studies. METHODS: An

integrated network of case-control studies has been conducted between

1991 and 2004 in Italy. Cases were 598 patients with incident,

histologically confirmed cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx, 304

of the oesophagus, 1225 of the colon, 728 of the rectum, 460 of the

larynx, 2569 of the breast, 1031 of the ovary, 1294 of the prostate

and 767 of the kidney (renal cell carcinoma). Controls were 7028

patients (3301 men and 3727 women) admitted to the same hospitals as

cases for acute, non-neoplastic disorders. Odds ratios (ORs), and the

corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs), were derived by

unconditional logistic regression models. RESULTS: The ORs for

consumption of saccharin were 0.83 (95% CI 0.30-2.29) for cancers of

the oral cavity and pharynx, 1.58 (95% CI 0.59-4.25) for oesophageal,

0.95 (95% CI 0.67-1.35) for colon, 0.93 (95% CI 0.60-1.45) for

rectal, 1.55 (95% CI 0.76-3.16) for laryngeal, 1.01 (95% CI 0.77-

1.33) for breast, 0.46 (95% CI 0.29-0.74) for ovarian, 0.91 (95% CI

0.59-1.40) for prostate and 0.79 (95% CI 0.49-1.28) for kidney

cancer. The ORs for consumption of other sweeteners, mainly

aspartame, were 0.77 (95% CI 0.39-1.53) for cancers of the oral

cavity and pharynx, 0.77 (95% CI 0.34-1.75) for oesophageal, 0.90

(95% CI 0.70-1.16) for colon, 0.71 (95% CI 0.50-1.02) for rectal,

1.62 (95% CI 0.84-3.14) for laryngeal, 0.80 (95% CI 0.65-0.97) for

breast, 0.75 (95% CI 0.56-1.00) for ovarian, 1.23 (95% CI 0.86-1.76)

for prostate and 1.03 (95% CI 0.73-1.46) for kidney cancer. A

significant inverse trend in risk for increasing categories of total

sweeteners was found for breast and ovarian cancer, and a direct one

for laryngeal cancer. CONCLUSION: The present work indicates a

lack of association between saccharin, aspartame and other sweeteners

and the risk of several common neoplasms.

Personal Trainer

Owner of Personalized Fitness

San , Texas

>

> Hi -

>

> This is a great article from the book 'Excitotoxins - The Taste

That

> Kills', by Dr. Blaylock, MD. It contains a discription of

the

> hidden additives in foods, including Soy Protein Concentrate

> Soy Protein Isolate, and Whey Protein Concentrate. The Whey Protein

> Concentrate brought me back to your discussion on supplements, and

the

> hidden items in those.

>

> http://www.rense.com/general35/hidd.htm

>

> You really do have to check everything you eat.

>

> Sue Waddicor

> Massachusetts, US

>