Are New-Age Foods Killing Us?
Posted: Monday, January 26, 2009
by Kayce Mick
http://www.stunnazine.com
It is a well known fact that new-age diseases such as diabetes and cancer are usually linked to an unhealthy lifestyle. You try to be healthy. You are told that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so you start off your day with a bowl of cereal, skim milk, a glass of apple juice, and perhaps some fruit, or yogurt, or toast. That all seems pretty healthy... or is it? Let's take a look at cereal first. Many booxes of cereal use words like "Made with Whole Grain", or "Low Cholesterol", however you should always check the lables of everything you consume, not just for calories and fat, but for sugars! How much cereal does a normal person eat? Everyone I know eats a normal-sized cereal bowl full to the top and sometimes even has seconds! I used to do that too. It takes quite a bit of the stuff to fill you! Well let's take a look at the nutrition label and find out what we are supposed to eat... according to the manufacturers, that is.
Let's take a look at what's next... Yup, Good Ol' Sunny D. My favorite drink as a kid, also many of my friends' favorite drink growing up. Kids still drink it! Why? Because it's sweet, it tastes good, and it's cheap! Aside from the high amount of sugar and calories, guess what one of the ingredients is?? Vegetable oil!! It's true, they use it as a thickener. It's kind of disgusting thinking you are drinking fattening vegetable oil just so that the manufacturers can save money! Also, many other drinks like this one, contain sodium benzoate. Sodium Benzoate is used in just about every canned drink, also in many salsas, fruit juices, pickles, ect., as a preservative. Sodium Benzoate is also used to prevent mildew and rust. Rust?! That's right, it was also recently used as a corrosion inhibitor in engine coolant systems. And we eat this....why? Because it is a lower costing preservative, and manufacturers need to add preservatives so they can produce more products and get all of them sold rather than throwing them off the shelves every couple days.
How about a food product like Cheetos or cheesy twists, or even gummybears? They aren't natural! You can't find it somewhere on the earth growing naturally. They were brewed up by scientists! Just as pesticides came to be within the last century. They spray fruits and veggies with pesticides (obviously to keep the bugs off so they can grow a larger amount of produce) but if they're enough to kill and keep away insects, why would humans want to ingest that? On top of the pesticides, most grocery stores then put wax on their fruits and veggies! Why? So they look better on display! In many states it is illegal for stores not to let you know if there is wax on their fruits and vegetables or not, so read up!
Search the internet for your local grocery store's policies on waxing. Definitely buy organic products if you can. They are a little more expensive, but you can't put a price on your health. Even something that grows underground like potatoes, or carrots, that you think don't get sprayed with pesticides... well, farmers usually have pesticides in the soil in which these vegetables grow in. Cancer and diabetes as well as many other new-age diseases are usually caused by our lifestyle. The foods we eat, the drinks we drink, not getting enough excersize, smoking, ect. Think about it. If these diseases were hereditary, why didn't these diseases exist centuries ago? You know, before scientists and farmers started using chemicals in our food, and manufacturing companies add a lot of sugar but display the nutrition information so that it confuses people.
So when a patient is diagnosed with cancer, why does the doctor ask them if they have a history of cancer in thier family? Doctors simply don't have the time to sit there with each patient going over their lifestyle history with them. Sure they could ask patients what they had for breakfast that morning to get an idea of how they live... but the patient would then ask why they wanna know! And the doctors simply do not have the time. As Thomas Edison said decades ago, a good doctor of the future would simply not just give medicine. He would inform the patient to live a healthier lifestyle and educate on the cause of desease and give them free advice on how to live healthier. What can we do?? Find out...at Stunnazine, Free Teen Magazine, for Free Advice and more!
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)hi kayce,this was a well written and very interesting article.one might think because they aren't eating that much, that they are helping their weight, when they clearly are adding to it. thanks for sharing,and i hope you continue writing,welcome to searchwarp,best regards,sue thom
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