| The processes used to produce and preserve our foods today have had a serious effect on the quality of this tremendous food supply. Rex Beach wrote in his report to the U.S. Senate:
Do you know that most of us today are suffering from certain dangerous diet deficiencies, which cannot be remedied until the depleted soils from which our foods come are brought into proper mineral balance? The alarming fact is that foods—fruits and vegetables and grains—now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contain enough of certain minerals, are starving us no matter how much we eat. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
See book keywords and concepts |
 Real prevention, cleaning the air and water, for example, or purifying the food supply, are not even part of the NIH mission. Even worse, our government still pays vatious and sundry subsidies, actually $345 million in the year 2000, to support tobacco farming.36 One cannot escape the conclusion that our government fights lung cancer with one fist, just as it promotes that dread disease with the other.
We might focus on the public health establishment. Most of their effort is in controlling some problem that is a manifest threat, say, the spread of infectious disease. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |
 Although genetically mutated, these and other microbes still require an unclean environment to live and to survive; their population is naturally reduced in size when their food supply becomes limited. Our body's "ecosystem" is not exempt from this law of nature. The belief that man is powerful enough to bypass the laws of nature and use antibiotic drugs for minor infectious diseases is crushed by a few evasive microbes we cannot even see with our bare eyes. The more people stop "feeding and fighting" them, the less dangerous they will become for us humans. |
| Reducing the amount of blood in the body greatly reduces their food supply (iron) and thereby makes the blood less attractive to them. For the same reason, menstruating women are protected against infection by naturally lowering blood iron before the beginning of their natural bleeding cycle; and pregnant women do the same during the ninth month of pregnancy, thanks to nature's perfect innate wisdom.
2. Business with Your Blood
Are Blood Transfusions Truly Necessary? |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |
 As a result of folic acid added to the food supply, fewer Americans will be depleted compared with the past. In 1999, scientific evidence began to demonstrate that the folic acid added to the U.S. food supply was having positive effects, including a partial lowering of homocysteine levels.32 In the same year, however, a report from the North Carolina Birth Defects Monitoring Program suggested the current level of folic acid fortification has not reduced the incidence of neural-tube defects. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 You can learn more about dangerous chemicals in the food supply in my book, Grocery Warning, available from Truth Publishing.
Or you can download my free Honest Food Guide from www.HonestFoodGuide.org which reveals the true health dangers of numerous chemicals added to processed foods. The Honest Food Guide has now been downloaded by over one million people.
Protect yourself and your family
Processed meats promote cancer. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
See book keywords and concepts |
 That is a difficult task considering that the majority of our food supply has been contaminated by tens of thousands of chemicals injected into our food in the name of convenience, freshness, taste, texture, quality, shelf life and weight loss.
Fortunately, there is good news. Today, thousands of stores carry natural and organic products. National chains like Whole Foods and Wild Oats and most major grocers such as Kroger, Safeway and Albertson's offer a wide variety of healthy food selections. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 Right now, we have food companies growing genetically modified crops that, if subjected to unlucky gene mutations, could potentially wipe out significant portions of the global food supply, leading to devastating famine and a sharp decline in the global population. That's not fiction: It's the status quo in modern agriculture today. No special effects required.
The FDA and various food processing companies are also pushing for new regulations that would mandate the mass irradiation of all foods. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
See book keywords and concepts |
| Manufacturers neither need to register their products with the FDA, nor are they required to get FDA approval before producing or selling a dietary supplement unless it contains a new dietary ingredient not marketed or present in the food supply before October 15, 1994. For new dietary ingredients, manufacturers must notify the FDA with a letter at least 75 days before marketing the product providing information concluding the ingredient "will reasonably be expected to be safe."3
That does not inspire confidence in the process of protecting the best interests of the public. |
| Trans fats are not necessary and should be removed from our food supply. Even with better labeling, we are still all exposed to trans fats in cooking oils in most restaurants. When our government is aware that trans fats kill people but only requires a label to tell people if they exist in a product, it is not enough. There are plenty of consumer advocate groups rallying behind banning trans fats. In fact, the city of New York has banned all trans fats from restaurants. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |
 Some researchers believe that such contamination of our food supply, or other consumer products, happens when large commercial networks operate without sufficiently tight oversight or when businesses are not knowledgeable about the consequences of making even minor alterations in manufacturing processes. One high-level researcher, who prefers to talk off the record, cautions that, without proper oversight and improved regulation, we may well see more such food- and additive-related clusters in the future, both in epidemic and sporadic form. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |
| Vitamin enrichment in foods merely prevents the most obvious nutritional diseases
As a nation we have managed to force a handful of minerals and vitamins into the food supply that prevent the most grotesque and physically obvious disorders and diseases caused by nutritional deficiencies. And by the way, those are the only ones that really get addressed through the food supply.
If there is an obvious and immediate link between nutrition and a particular disease such as birth defects caused by a lack of folic acid, then of course this gets recognized and addressed very quickly. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
See book keywords and concepts |
 Adverse consequences of this genetic change only became apparent when the food supply provided inadequate ascorbic acid.
This negative dietary change apparently occurred when humans descended from the trees onto the plains, migrating to regions of the planet where the vegetation contained lower levels of vitamin C. Irwin Stone, for example, has argued that all humans now naturally suffer from hypoascorbemia, a pandemic vitamin C deficiency disorder, also known
40 as subclinical scurvy. |
| For example, enriching the food supply so it provides 100 mg of niacinamide daily is not noticed by the average consumer. Flowever, taking large doses of niacin does have a discomfiting but not dangerous effect because of vasodilation or 'flush' when first taken. The flush associated with niacin is 'dry', unlike the menopausal flush or the flush created by male hormone blockers used in treating prostate cancer. The higher the initial dose, the greater the flush. However, there is a threshold dose, which, if maintained, does not cause any more flushing unless the niacin is not taken regularly. |
Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts |
 With the result that today corn contributes 554 calories a day to America's per capita food supply and soy another 257. Add wheat (768 calories) and rice (91) and you can see there isn't a whole lot of room left in the American stomach for any other foods.
Today these four crops account for two thirds of the calories we eat. When you consider diat humankind has historically consumed some eighty thousand edible species, and that three thousand of these have been in widespread use, this represents a radical simplification of the human diet. Why should this concern us? |
| The whole of the industrial food supply was reformulated to reflect the new nutritional wisdom, giving us low-fat pork, low-fat Snackwell's, and all the low-fat pasta and high-fructose (yet low-fat!) corn syrup we could consume. Which turned out to be quite a lot. Oddly, Americans got really fat on their new low-fat diet—indeed, many date the current epidemic of obesity and diabetes to the late 1970s, when Americans began bingeing on carbohydrates, ostensibly as a way to avoid the evils of fat.
But the story is slightly more complicated than that. |
| The most important such nutrition campaign has been the thirty-year effort to reform the food supply and our eating habits in light of the lipid hypothesis—the idea that dietary fat is responsible for chronic disease. At the behest of government panels, nutrition scientists, and public health officials, we have dramatically changed the way we eat and the way we think about food, in what stands as the biggest experiment in applied nutritionism in history. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
See book keywords and concepts |
| The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation's food supply, cosmetics and products that emit radiation.5 The key words in this description of the agency's mission are "protecting the public" and "assuring safety." After celebrating 100 years of service to our country, the FDA cannot predict the long-term effect of any drug, nor can the agency guarantee the safety of the drugs they approve. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
See book keywords and concepts |
 Tucker KL, Mahnken B, Wilson PWF et al: Folic acid fortification of the food supply: potential benefits and risks for the elderly population. JAMA; 276(23):1879-1885. 1996
Villa P, Suriano R, Constantini B et al. Hyperhomocysteinemia and cardiovascular risk in postmenopausal women: the role of folate supplementation. Clin Chem Lab Med; 45(2): 130-135. 2007
Werler MM, Shapiro S, Mitchell AA: Periconceptional folic acid exposure and risk of occurrent neural tube defects. JAMA: 269(10): 1257-1261. 1993
Zoungas S, McGrath BP, Branley P et al. |
David R. Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |
 Although subsidy programs were originally intended to support struggling family farms and ensure a stable food supply, by the 1960s farm subsidies actively encoutaged larger farms and more intensive methods of crop production focused on growing single crops. U.S. commodity programs that favor wheat, corn, and cotton create incentives for farmers to buy up mote land and plant only those crops. In the 1970s and 1980s, subsidies represented almost a third of U.S. farm income. A tenth of the agricultural producers (coincidentally, the largest farms) now receive two-thirds of the subsidies. |
| A professor of political economy at Haileybury College, Malthus argued that exponentially growing populations increase faster than their food supply. He held that population growth locks humanity in an endless cycle in which population outstrips the capacity of the land to feed people. Famine and disease then restore the balance. British economist David Ricardo modified Malthus's ideas to argue that populations rise until they are in equilibrium with food production, settling at a level governed by the amount of available land and the technology of the day. |
| Neither plants nor animals were fully domesticated when Natufian culture arose, yet by the end of the era, hunting accounted for just a fraction of the food supply.
The regional population began to grow dramatically as domestication of wheat and legumes increased food production. By about 7000 bc small farming villages were scattered throughout the region. Communities became increasingly sedentary as intensive exploitation of small areas discouraged continuing the annual cycle of moving among hunting camps scattered around a large territory. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |
 Originally, nature tried to schedule the occurrence of births at a time of year when the odds of survival for mother and baby were the greatest—that is, when the days are long and the nights are short (and the food supply is the greatest). So melatonin cycles meant more babies were conceived to be born in spring.
Now, you probably also know the word melatonin because in supplement form it's often used as a sleep aid, and for good reason. As a supplement, it helps get our body clocks adjusted to sleep better. We can also find natural ways to make our sleep patterns more predictable. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |
 PCB-contaminated protein source in the U.S. food supply. On average, farmed salmon have sixteen times the dioxinlike PCBs found in wild salmon, four times the levels in beef, and 3.4 times the levels in other seafood.
American consumers nationwide are exposed to elevated PCB levels by eating farmed salmon.
So to get the real benefits of this amazing fish, you really have to go for the wild variety. I've gotten in the habit of asking at restaurants, "Is it wild?" If it's not, I don't order it. It may take some effort to find the wild Alaskan variety, but it's totally worth it. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
See book keywords and concepts |
 We just don't know what other genes may be influenced by pumping methyl donors into the food supply, and we probably won't know for years.
When doctors expect a pregnant woman to give birth prematurely, she is often injected with a drug, usually betamethasone, to help speed up the development of her fetus's lungs, dramatically improving its chance of survival. Now, there are signs that children whose mothers received multiple doses of betamethasone have increased levels of hyperactivity and slower than normal overall growth. |
| At first, the locusts continue to be loners, just feasting off the abundant food supply. But as the extra vegetation starts to die off, the locusts find themselves crowded together. Suddenly, baby locusts are born with bright colors and a hankering for company. Instead of avoiding one another and hiding from predators through camouflage and inactivity, these locusts gather in swarms, feed together, and overwhelm their predators through sheer numbers. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |
 Don't Take Food for Granted
Over the last hundred years, many nations have made great strides in sanitation and hygiene, resulting in a food supply that is mostly free of disease-causing bacteria. We believe that the near elimination of bacte-rially contaminated food has led to a sense of complacency: if food is clean and free of germs that make us sick, it should be good to eat, right?
Fast-food restaurants, such as McDonald's and Burger King, follow stringent rules to avoid bacterial contamination of food. You're not likely to get food poisoning at these and other fast-food restaurants. |
Mark Lynas
See book keywords and concepts |
 Homo sapiens has broken out from this ecological straitjacket - our food supply is no longer limited by what we can grow in the field and forage in the forest. Instead, we turn fossil fuels into food, through mechanised agriculture and long-distance transport. Natural gas is used to make nitrogen fertilisers, whilst oil powers the tractors and combine harvesters that carry out most of the labour. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 Refused to ban a poisonous artificial fat from the food supply (hydrogenated oils) for decades, even though the World Health Organization urged member nations to outlaw the substance in 1978. Hydrogenated oils continue to harm infants, children, and adults today.
It is clearly time to reform not merely the FDA, but the entire medical industry. Drug companies are running amok, and this new Consumer Reports survey reveals that consumers are finally fed up with it.
Action Items:
Support the Health Freedom Protection Act introduced by Rep. Ron Paul. Learn more at http://www.stopFDAcensorship. |
Mark Lynas
See book keywords and concepts |
| However, with billions of people suffering drought and famine in the tropics and subtropics, the world food supply situation will become increasingly precarious, even with gains closer to the poles. The IPCC study sees net global food deficit beginning to drive up market prices once the 2.5°C threshold is crossed. Where the losses are worst in developing countries, widespread starvation becomes a real possibility. |
Email this page to a friend
