Read Food Labels!

You will be surprised just how much is in your food once you start reading food labels! There are over 14,000 man-made chemicals added to our food supply today. The more foreign ingredients (which names you can not pronounce) in your food, the more likely that it is bad for you. Stick to whole foods and minimize your amount of processed foods. When purchasing packaged, processed foods, read labels and avoid added sugar, MSG, artificial flavorings, preservatives, and food colorings. These harmful food additives are hard for your body to process and often are stored in fat cells, MAKING YOU TOXIC!!! Toxic terrain often leads to disease, possibly even cancer.  A good rule of thumb: the less ingredients the better. 

Think about it, if it can sit on the store shelf for years at a time, it can be stored in your body just as long!

Start with avoiding the most dangerous additives that are often found in many processed foods with low nutritional value.  Here's a list of just a few….

MSG:  Monosodium glutamate is a chemical additive used to enhance flavor.  It's a neurotoxin, excitatory to the neurological system.  Long-term consumption of MSG can lead to MS, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, brain lesions, and obesity. 

Aspartame:  This sugar substitute is also a neurotoxin that causes chemical disruptions in the brain.  Aspartame not only can make you fat, but it can cause headaches, memory loss, depression, anxiety attacks, brain tumors, and MS. The same dangers can be said for Splenda (sucralose) and saccharin.

Sodium Nitrite:  Often found in preserved, processed meats, nitrites are potent carcinogens!  Consumption of nitrites has been linked to cancer of the esophagus, stomach, large intestine, bladder, and lungs.

Artificial Colorings:  Consumption of artificial colors has been proven to be carcinogenic.  They are also known to cause excitability and behavior issues such as ADD and ADHD in children.  Be sure to avoid the following:

Oranges: D&C Orange 17
Blues:      FD&C Blue 1
Reds:       FD&C Red 3
FD&C Red 9
D&C Red 19
D&C Red 33
FD&C Red 4
FD&C Red 40
Greens:   D&C Green 5
FD&C Green 3
Yellow:    FD&C Yellow 5
FD&C Yellow 6


A simple general rule:  AVOID PROCESSED FOOD! Eat whole foods!  Less is more!

For more info on additives to avoid in your food and body products, check out my favorite book, What's in Your Food?


There is also great info at http://www.truthinlabeling.org