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Consumming processed food can lead to all types of health problems. Some of them we are experiencing now.

The incidence of obesity among children and adolescents has increased worldwide.

The long-term effects, both with regards to ill-health and mortality rate, are insufficiently documented.

The risk has been underestimated; from coronary heart disease to cancer, the major cause is the over consumption of pretend food.

Processed

What it takes to navigate our food supply is a degree in food science and technology. Save time most answers are just a few clicks away. The dirty tricks surface online.

Processed beef becomes a mashed substance that is frozen into blocks or chips, is used in a majority of the hamburger sold nationwide. But it has remained little known outside industry and government circles. Federal officials agreed to the company’s request that the ammonia used be classified as a “processing agent” and not an ingredient that would be listed on labels. The use is to kill pathogens by raising the level of alkalinity in the beef product. School lunch officials and customers have complained about the odor and taste of treated beef.

A pizza chain has used patented manufacturing processes that added lots of water, salt, and food starch to granules of so-called pizza cheese before flash-freezing. Food starch is a profit making component, it holds ten times its weight in water. For shelf-life water with a little antifoam is sprayed on the cheese granulates. The antifoam FG10 is known as polydimethylsiloxane. It is an anti-foaming agent for boiler water in plants processing procedures.

Consequence

This unfavorable development caused significant health problems. This technology and the overeating that ensues, increase the likelihood of childhood obesity. It is now found that those who are overweight in adolescence have an increased mortality rate from most causes. We see it across the board in the children, adults, and seniors as a continual decline in health. This is propelling the nation’s health crises.

 On The Record

It is expected that the purchase of processed food will increase, at this time it makes up 90% of our groceries. Just because we can build it doesn’t mean we should be using it. While we communicate the pitfalls of this type marketplace, we have yet to motivate enough people to share this mission and passion. The lack of high quality food is going to change our lives. Our children can’t afford to wait it out. There is an option and it starts when we open our pocketbooks. We go on the record for or against something by the lifestyle we choose.

Fortified folic acid danger comes from the fact it is different from natural occurring vitamins and minerals. The folic acid used by food and the pharmaceutical companies work differently. On the passage through the intestinal wall, folic acid is converted to 5-methytetrahydrofolate, the naturally circulating form of folate. There are studies that imply that high oral doses of folic acid overwhelm the conversion pathway.

Concern

The concern is that fortified folic acid form may be detrimental; it is not a naturally occurring co-enzymatic form of the vitamin. Now that it is added to fortified foods such and breakfast cereals, pastas and grain products including breads a large percent of the population has un-metabolized folic acid circulating in the body.

Grains and cereals have been fortified since 1998, now large does of the vitamin have been linked to an increase in cancer and other chronic conditions. Lung cancer took the lead in this category.

Implications

If you just look at the overall picture and have no understanding of natural vs. synthetic you implicate all folate acid and vitamin B 12. Folate acid is one of the most important nutrients that are found in leafy green vegetables, fruits and animal protein.

Folate acid is destroyed by different cooking methods. Evidence has indicated that folate deficiency may promote cancer growth; the study’s authors suggested it was also possible that excess folic acid accelerated the growth of tumors. The real fortified folic acid danger is that it does not come from a natural source.

Bad Logic

One of the reasons that a folate deficiency may promote disease is that the things that deplete the supply are the of cause poor health. Alcohol, oral contraceptives, sugar, tobacco, sulfa drugs, and a calcium deficiency will deplete folate acid.

Folate acid is easily depleted by the above and environmental chemicals. Getting folate acid from the diet is the way the body is able to handle it the best.

Medications that interfere with folic acid utilization include:

• Anti-convulsant medications (such as dilantin, phenytoin and primidone)
• metformin (sometimes prescribed to control blood sugar in type 2 diabetes)
• sulfasalazine (used to control inflammation associated with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis)
• triamterene (a diuretic)
• methotrexate (used for cancer and other diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis)
• barbituratess(used as sedatives)

The Truth

We are fortifying our food supply, as we deplete everyone’s store of folate acid. Now we are oversupplying folic acid in a form that may cause harm. We blame the folate acid and the vitamin B12, and remain clueless. The most effective vitamins and minerals come from dietary sources, not from assembly lines.

Kidney exhaustion is a term that describes a decline in kidney function. It is linked to a diet high in sodium and artificially sweetened drinks. This is according to two papers being presented at the American Society of Nephorology’s annual meeting in San Diego, California.

Julie Lin MD, MPH, FASN and Gary Curhan, MD, ScD, FASN of Brigham and Women’s Hospital studied more than 3,000 women participating in the Nurses’ Health Study to identify the impact of sodium and sweetened drinks on kidney function.  “There are currently limited data on the role of diet in kidney disease,” said Dr. Lin. “While more study is needed, our research suggests that higher sodium and artificially sweetened soda intake are associated with greater rate of decline in kidney function.”

All it takes is two or more diet sodas a day to double the risk of kidney function decline. Recent studies, showed that women who drank two or more diet sodas a day had a 30% drop in kidney function. “Thirty percent is considered significant” says researcher Julie Lin, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a staff physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The participants in the study had well-preserved Kidney function at the start of the study. The median age of the study participants was 67.

The research group looked at the cumulative average beverage intake, from food questionnaires completed in 1984, 1986, and 1990. The women in the study answered how many times they drank the beverages. Anywhere from less than once a month, one to four times a month, two to six times weekly, once daily but less that twice, or twice a day or more were what was asked. Then they compared kidney function of the women in 1989 and 2000. What they found was that 11.4% or 372 women had a kidney function decline of 30% or more with drinking two or more artificially sweetened sodas a day.

All other factors such as age, high blood pressure, diabetes, and physical activity were taken into account. Most researches know that a high sodium intake is hard on the kidneys. Some 20 million Americans have evidence of chronic kidney disease, and kidney disease diagnoses have doubled.

Now if a herb had this sort of adverse affect it would be pulled from the market. In the world of big business, we ask the senior vice president of science policy for the American Beverage Association to review the study finding. So Maureen Storey, senior vice president said in a prepared statement “Its important to remember that this is an abstract presented at an annual meeting.” It needs further scrutiny by researches.

She allowed that kidney disease is serious but that diabetes and high blood pressure account for the majority of kidney disease cases, “not consumption of diet soda.”  To even try to answer this is will be a waste of time. The ingredients in diet soda are toxic. There is nothing in it that resembles nutrition to vitalize and energize our cells.

It is true that the participants were older and might have been consuming diet drinks over a long period of time. The ticking time bomb is in our children’s systems, they are starting at a much younger age to cosumne these substances. The call is for more studies that depend on more than questionnaires. Lets spend more time and money on studies to reassure those that drink the chemical concoction, that they can do it with impunity.

The facts are that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has listed Kidney disease on the top 10 list for disease that take the most lives. It is know that kidney disease plays a major role in hypertension and diabetes. Diet soda not only affects kidney function it has been implicated in many conditions.

What is important to note this was an 11 year study of more than 3,000 women participants of the Nurses Health study. We have a disease that kills people every year. Kidney disease accounts for a large portion of hospitalizations. What we need to know is that kidney exhaustion is another way of saying that the kidneys do not have the reserves to work properly. Weaker kidneys means weaker immunity, the only thing that is smart to do is to create a healthier lifestyle. It is a threat to a country already experiencing an epidemic of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, and auto-immune disease. Artificial sweeteners has been implicated in many of these conditions. We do not need more proof we need these substances banned.