Did You Know…?

Foods

by Marita Roussey


Toxins can be anywhere and everywhere. Knowing the facts can help you make active, informed lifestyle choices to ensure your quality of health.

  • Aspartame is a known neurotoxin, an “excitoxin” that inflicts damage on brain and nerve cells. Moreover, in the small intestines, aspartame is broken down into methanol, a severe metabolic poison and a narcotic. White sugar often contains aspartame. Products labeled “sugarless,” “low-carb,” “sugar-free,” contain aspartame instead. Regular chewing gum and sodas, in addition to sugar also have added aspartame.

Aspartame is not a diet product! It makes you crave carbohydrates.

  • No rat or mouse is naturally obese, but scientists can make them morbidly obese by injecting MSG when they are newborn. MSG tricks your brain into thinking the food you are eating tastes good. Manufacturers can use inferior ingredients, and by adding MSG-containing substances, make a product appear to taste good. MSG is commonly used as a flavor enhancer. Unlike salt, MSG does not alter the actual taste: it enhances it by exciting and stimulating the sensitivity of your taste buds through an electrical discharge to the brain. In other words, MSG acts as a neurotransmitter, stimulating brain activity.

Side effects are sometimes severe: reactions on the intestinal muscle, on blood vessels, and in the brain. There is an increasing concern in the medical profession regarding the extensive use of MSG in our food. The FDA has set no limits on how much of it can be added to food. They claim it is safe to eat in any amount.

  • Chain restaurant strawberry milkshakes contain over 50 ingredients, none of which is strawberry or milk. The law governing packaging and food processing states that labels must accurately list the contents of the container. However, for over 300 “standard foods” (those for which the government has written chemical recipes), no ingredients need to be listed. For example, ice cream, considered a standard food, can have up to 30 additives that do not have to be indicated on the label. To date, over 10,000 additives are intentionally used in foods.