Everything in moderation? NO THANKS!

You are so sneaky and cruel. don’t think that i won’t catch you before you get to me. you fool everyone, but not me. you are on my list and i will expose you.. food additives.
“Everything in moderation” is a phrase that is thrown around quite frequently. I say, no thanks! Additives are poison, and I certainly do not want any in moderation.
Additives are used in food to help preserve, add bulk, brighten colors, etc. Fortunately, you can learn to cook fresh whole foods so you don’t have to rely on these deadly ingredients.
If these ingredients are in any foods you eat, DISCARD THEM and never bring them into your home again… or you will be committing suicide by food, for sure.
Monosodium Gluconate AKA MSG
- a flavor enhancer
- not just in Chinese Food
- hides out in other ingredients, for example: hydolyzed protein, monopotassium glutamate, gelatin, textured protein, plus many more
- can cause MSG complex (nausea, numbness, chest pain, headache, rapid heartbeat, difficulty breathing)
- is an excitotoxins causing cardiac arrhythmias
- is EXTREMELY hard to avoid, but can be avoided by limiting processed foods and reading the label very, very carefully
Acesulfame-K
- is a sweetener 200x sweeter than sugar
- often found in gum, baked goods, gelatin, and soft drinks
- CARCINOGEN
Blue 1 & 2, Red 3, and Yellow 6
- Food colors
- CARCINOGENS
Sodium Nitrates
- often found in processed meats, smoked fish, hot dogs, bacon, etc
- break down to nitrosamines in the body which are CARCINOGENS
Potassium Bromate
- increases volume in breads
- banned in every country but Japan and the USA (hmm interesting)
- If used in CA, needs a cancer causing label
- obviously, a CARCINOGEN
- take note of how often you will see this ingredient
- sometimes you will see it as BROMATED FLOUR
Propyl Gallate, BHA and BHT
- used to prevent fats and oils from spoiling
- often found in cereal, vegetable oil, and potato chips
- CARCINOGEN
Try this suicide by food challenge:
Go in your kitchen cabinets and pull out 10 random processed foods. Check the labels and see how many products contain at least ONE of these ingredients. What you may find will shock you. Now imagine that you eat a few of these cancer causing ingredients a day. That accumulates in your body. Your poor body can’t even excrete these toxins at the rate that you are ingesting them. Seems pretty obvious why cancer is so rampant in the USA.
Personally, when I grocery shop in a regular supermarket, I stay away from the center of the store. I am sure you have heard about this for weight control reasons, but now you can apply it to smart shopping regarding additives. If its on the shelf, it is most likely processed, and most likely has dangerous ingredients. There have been so many protests to eliminate several of these ingredients throughout the year. In fact, in the 1970’s the USDA tried to ban sodium nitrates, but was preempted by the meat processing industry who relied on this ingredient to make meat look more appealing. Pathetic.
I know there are SO many more additives that need to be added to this list, so feel free to comment and write a few lines about them. EXPOSE THE TRUTH.
Great post; thanks. I used to use a certain calorie-counting website (which I will not name at the moment) pretty religiously and I never saw anything thrown around in the forums like the “Everything in moderation” line…I think at heart its a nice reminder that no one is perfect and one bite is not going to bring the end to a healthy lifestyle/diet, that someone has toiled laboriously over. But more often than not, “everything in moderation” is a sentiment thats used just to excuse poor behavior – by food manufacturers and by consumers. None for me, thanks!
Thanks for reading! You are right, it is used to excuse poor behavior. Let’s change the phrase to “everything good in moderation”. Meaning, only eat quality foods in moderation! LOL