Processed Food Nation

A post by Blanche Scharf http://www.yourhealthupdates.com I have been studying natural healing modalities for the last 25 years. In that time I have had the privilege of working with some of the greatest minds in Natural Healing including Naturopaths, Scientists, and Energy Healers. I have seen people miraculously heal from all kinds of dis-ease thru non-invasive methods. Personally, I have experienced all kinds of diets from Macrobiotics to Raw Foods. Now is a very important time to start sharing this health information with as many people as possible, so people can make well informed decisions about their health and not fall victim to a sickcare system based on profit, rather than one of supporting wholeness, compassion and love To see more posts by Blanche Scharf, click here

America can be called the processed food nation. We have lost touch with nature. Our food choices, personal care solutions and household products are innovation and formulation driven, that incorporate imaginative new technologies. Modern cosmetology, repairs, regenerates, has anti-gravity effects, and is formulated by the same companies that provide unprecedented range of preservatives, emulsification, flavors, surfactants, fragrance, and coloring agents.

Your food did not come straight from the farm. The same production line operation will insure your breakfast, lunch, and dinner will have flavor, aroma, and texture. The formulating that will go into a home cooked like – packaged meal, will deliver the distinctive taste that does not stem from the food itself. A mixture of cottonseed oil/canola oil and a touch of beef tallow, dextrose, natural flavor, or artificial flavor, and plenty of man made additives and you have dinner.

More significantly most processed food gets its taste from additives. The canning, freezing, and dehydrating techniques destroy the foods flavor, if the food used had any flavor to begin with. The price of the pre-packaged food includes the packaging, appearance, and advertising. The least amount is spent on the food. Quality does not determine if it is bought again, taste does. So the least natural product can also have a shot at our pocketbooks. About 90 percent of the money that Americans spend on food is on processed food.

Making processed food palatable is the job of the chemist as much as the food taster. The flavors do not originate in a kitchen, but in a laboratory. The flavor industry is located in refineries, and chemical plants. Dozens of companies manufacture flavors.  Men and women in white lab coats produce the smells of and aroma that will be used for cosmetics, food, and personal care items.

Different laboratories, and pilot kitchens, test and create flavors. Laboratories create the flavored potato chips, corn chips, crackers, cereals. Also, they formulate the flavors for ice cream, cookies, candies, toothpastes, mouthwashes. At the same time they work on flavors for soft drinks, sports drinks, wine coolers, “all natural juice drinks.”

All these aromas are made through essentially the same process: the manipulation of volatile chemicals. The basic science behind the scent of your shaving cream is the same as that governing the flavor of your TV dinner.

When a diet consists of cola’s, frozen entrees, chips, and corn dogs, we are not only a processed food nation, but a country of processed people. There are hundreds if not thousands of food choices, what you choose is what you become. The flavor industry has revenues of about 1.4 billion a year. Every year there are thousands of new choices on the shelves, filling the frozen food cases. All our cells are being built from this designer food. The flavor in soft drinks costs a few cents, the expensive part; you will be responsible for the medical bills.

The federal Food and drug administration does not require companies to disclose the ingredients of their color or flavor additives so long as the chemicals in them are considered by their agency to be GRAS (“generally recognized as safe”). This enables the companies to maintain the secrecy of their formulas. The fact that the flavor compounds, has the majority of the ingredients, the food is just the canvas.

Often the same food coloring is used in cosmetics and food. At the fast food chains the same coloring agents have been added to the soft drinks, salad dressing, condiments and buns etc.

Some of theses materials may find their way into food, personal care items, and household products: amyl acetate, amyl butyrate, amyl valerate, anethol, anisyl formate, benzyl acetate, benzyl isobutyrate, butyric acid, cinnamyl isobutyrate, cinnamyl valerate, cognac essential oil, diacetyl, dipropyl ketone, ethyl acetate, ethyl amyl ketone, ethyl butyrate, ethyl cinnamate, ethyl heptanoate, ethyl heptylate, ethyl lactate, ethyl methylphenylglycidate, ethyl nitrate, ethyl propionate, ethyl valerate, heliotropin, hydroxyphenyl-2-butanone (10 percent solution in alcohol),-ionone, isobutyl anthranilate, isobutyl butyrate, lemon essential oil, maltol, 4-methylacetophenone, methyl anthranilate, methyl benzoate, methyl cinnamate, methyl heptine carbonate, methyl naphthyl ketone, methyl salicylate, mint essential oil, neroli essential oil, nerolin, neryl isobutyrate, orris butter, phenethyl alcohol, rose, rum ether, undecalactone, vanillin, and solvent

A processed food nation may be innovative, financially profitable, but clinical research shows that the price is impaired health.

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