Posts Tagged ‘mitochondrial health’

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.

Medical treatments that don’t work aren’t abandoned.  It continues to fascinate me how people keep doing the same thing and wonder why the results have not changed. You read about this phenomenon without realizing this is happening in our institutions, and cultural thinking.

From a medical prospective what comes up is physicians using the same approach over and over and getting the same poor results. There is a lethal danger to seeing the possible dangers of treatment and side effects, and prescribing it anyway. The physicians think that the arsenal of drugs are the answer.

What has been forgotten is the body tries to find balance; it is a self healing entity. All wellness oriented health care provider’s state this. Since it makes perfect sense, their aim is for you to achieve wellness. There are safety concerns such as risk vs. results. With an epidemic of every condition possible, we here at yourhealthupdates.com will be exploring this topic.  The issue is, do we want more chemical cocktails, or do we want to preserve and enhance our health by other methods.

On these pages we will talk about mitochondrial health. This is where we get our energy, from our cells. The term ATP ( Adenosine Triphosphate) will start to have a meaning to our readers, it is the immediate supply of energy for biological processes. It is known as the activated carrier which gives the organism energy, it is cellular currency

We are going to start a debate that will show you clinically the competitive edge to some of the therapies that we will feature on these pages. Our language will be enzymes, leptin sensitivity, and a host of technical terms so that smart people make smart choices. Smart people, poor choices come from restricted choices, and not easily finding the information. This is what yourhealthupdates.com has dedicated this site to: opening up a conversation based on a plethora of information that is available to validate the efficacy of different healing therapies