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Posted 8/23/2011 12:18 AM (GMT 0)
This is one example of why I am really going to try (I know it's gonna be hard though!) to go with more basic foods and really read those ingredient labels! I don't want to name the bread brand here, but let's say it has the word "Nature" in the brand name and it touts it's "healthy" (their word) white sandwich bread, which is a white wheat, as having "No artificial preservatives, colors or flavors, no high fructose corn syrup." So of course when I bought this, I thought 1) it was a good national brand and 2) it would be fairly healthy. I have looked up some ingredients, and one that is in it is called Azodicarbonamide. Turns out, it's mainly used in the making of PLASTIC.

The ingredient is banned for food use in Australia and Europe....but here it is in the "healthy" food I am feeding my family.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azodicarbonamide

I think I am chemical sensitive, and probably many of us are. This ingredient cannot be good for us.
Posted 8/23/2011 8:47 AM (GMT 0)
Shocking!
Almost the same thingt has gotten me to switch from Margarine to real butter. Read anothger similar article stating that there is only about 2 or 3 moleculs that differentiate margarine from plastic.... Scary isn't it? You would think that with all the strict rules abou!t food safety things like thios would be a thing of the past, but as this bread and butter story shows, nasty stuff is still out there in our foods...

Fiona
Posted 8/23/2011 10:26 AM (GMT 0)
I find eating natural, whole foods is much healthier for us.  I do not eat any processed foods, except for my 100% juice, no sugars or sweeteners added, and I only use about 8 ozs a day.  I do have stable kidney stones so I make sure I have cranberry juice daily. 

White bread is never healthier, although I do not believe any bread is healthy! eyes White flour is the most processed flour there is, so stating it is healthy is the first lie.

Posted 8/23/2011 1:00 PM (GMT 0)
It's a good reminder that "No artificial preservatives" is not the same as no artificial ingredients. It really makes me mad that companies can be so devious.
Posted 8/23/2011 1:14 PM (GMT 0)
I bought some chicken nuggets for my grandchildren when they were here.  I NEVER buy this junk but that's what they eat.  The label read "all natural ingredients with no artificial preservatives'.  I got the box home and the list of ingredients was at least six inches long...especially the breading.  I guess if it doesn't include radio active waste from a nuke plant it's considered 'natural'.

On a side bar...I just looked at my Febrez label.  It says 'You will be tempted to dance the Samba or start a parade in your living room.'  HAHAHAHA!  It's just air freshener.

Advertising...such a giant load...

Donna

Posted 8/23/2011 4:42 PM (GMT 0)
This is used to help with the baking quality and it is in 95% of bread products.  Remember, these companies are baking on a large scale.  They need to get the product baked and to the market and still have shelf life.  It's a whole new ballgame when you think about that.  Here is what the Medwell Journal (Jpurnal of Food Technology) had to say about this substance.  It will be found on page 7.

 

http://docsdrive.com/pdfs/medwelljournals/jftech/2008/242-252.pdf

 

We don't like all these chemicals but they are in such trace amounts that they usually don't cause a problem.  Look at the chemicals we drink in our water!  The only way around this is to bake your own bread and make everything from scratch.  I know I don't have the time.  If the chemical was causing a problem, it would be taken off the market, too.

 

So, I guess it's up to each individual to decide whether the convience is worth it.  By the way, I know what bread you are talking about and I've been using it for two decades!  I love it, it's a lower carb bread so I can eat it as a diabetic, too.  It's the first bread that is bought up on our grocery shelves around here, too.  I will continue to purchase this.  Now remember, this is coming from a person who used to chew the paint off her pencils, eat her erasers, and even a little dirt now and then!  I"m 64 years old and not the worse for wear, either!  yeah

 

Sherrine

Posted 8/23/2011 5:37 PM (GMT 0)
Hey y'all-

Did you ever wonder why poor prople are so fat? (That includes me so don't get offended) Did you ever notice the poorest states have the highest rates of obesity, heart disease and diabetes? Did you kind of think in the back of your mind "Well, it's kina their fault-they need to exercise and eat healthy".

When you have $40-60/week to feed your family, what are you going to buy? Lots of potatoes, cheap white bread, mac n cheese, rice, koolaid with sugar, ramen noodles and very ynhealthy hot dogs and bologna. Decent ground beef runs $3/lb.

I would love to feed my daughter organic food, free of HGH, and other nasty stuff, but it is too expensive. Until these organics are offered at a reasonable price, the poor people in this country will use a disproportionate percentage of medical resources.

Whew! Thanks for letting me vent-don't EVEN get me going on about school lunches!!!!!

Maggie
Posted 8/23/2011 6:54 PM (GMT 0)
Yes...why is it that organic food that contain less ingredients costs more???  Because they can get it...that's why.  In our local store one organic apple costs $1.29...you can buy a whole bag of apples that have been waxed and sprayed with expensive pesticides for $3.00.  Doesn't make sense.
Posted 8/24/2011 2:23 AM (GMT 0)
Until (I think this year) organic farming wasn't subsidized. That bag of apples that was waxed and sprayed with expensive pesticides is cheaper because our government gives our tax dollars to the large farmers to do just that. Makes it cheaper at the register and gives traditional farmers a leg up against organic farmers. The new subsidies though won't do much for those farmers who've been farming for years. It will mainly be for traditional farms to transition to organic. I don't know if it will help or not. Some people think this will end organic farming.
Posted 8/24/2011 5:28 AM (GMT 0)
i am so glad I live where I do with a drive we can get fruit straight from the farm or pick them ourselves. We have our own fruit trees so buy very little winter fruit. We have our own vine vegs ie pumpkins, watermelons etc. My DD is going to start to grow all of our other vegs this summer. We use no sprays at all.
Kathy
Posted 8/24/2011 6:48 AM (GMT 0)
bayoub2, our local farmer's market has started taking food stamps. I don't receive them but I thought that was an exellent program. This way low income people can afford fresh local grown foods instead of foods filled with preservatives shipped from who knows where.
Posted 8/24/2011 11:00 AM (GMT 0)
Those chemicals in our food that are in "trace amounts" are often the very reason many of us are ill.  It's not the "trace amounts" in one food, it's in all processed foods, so by the end of the day, the "trace amounts" are no longer trace amounts!  Even in making your own bread, if you do not make your own flour and youbuy processed flours, you are still getting the "trace amounts" of chemicals.

It's those very chemicals that caused me to be so sick.  It's sad that it cost so much more to eat healthy.  Thing is, when they use the wax and such on the fruits, and the chemical sprays on the veggies, it's to make them last longer for transportation, not for our health.

It's a difficult issue to beable to change, especially when you have a family.  I can say though, had I known the dangers of gluten, soy, all grains for that matter, processed foods, etc, my kids would of grown up eating a much healthier diet and wouldn't be suffering now from what I felt was good for them back then. shakehead

Posted 8/24/2011 11:31 AM (GMT 0)
My grandfather just turned 108 this week...he has been a farmer his entire life and just stopped farming two years ago.  Some television station interviewed him and asked him his secret to a long life.  He has never eaten processed food...never been to Burger King...raised his entire food supply himself.  He got up at the end of the  interview and clog danced for the cameras.  I truly believe these preservatives are the culprit for so many illnesses.  My grandfather has only been to the doctor once in his life and that was for ear wax!  He is on one medication...a baby aspirin.  You go, grandpa! 

Donna

Posted 8/24/2011 11:49 AM (GMT 0)
Way to go Grandpa!!!!!! smilewinkgrin
Posted 8/24/2011 12:55 PM (GMT 0)
Whenever my well-meaning friends chide me for eating "evil" butter, I just show them this:

"Margarine processing uses the cheapest seeds, most of which are full of pesticides and genetically engineered. Oil is extracted under high temperature and pressure, and the remaining fraction of oil is removed with hexane solvents.

Then manufacturers steam clean the oils, which removes all the vitamins and all the antioxidants – but, of course, the solvents and the pesticides remain. These oils are mixed with a nickle catalyst and then put into a huge high-pressure, high-temperature reactor.

What comes out of that reactor is a smelly mass resembling grey cottage cheese. Then they mix in the emulsifiers to smooth it out, and steam clean it again to get rid of the horrible smell. Then they bleach it to get rid of the grey color, and they add artificial flavors and synthetic vitamins.

But they are not allowed to add a synthetic color to margarine. They have to add a natural color, such as annatto – a comforting thought. It is then packaged in blocks and tubs and advertised as health food."
Posted 8/24/2011 2:22 PM (GMT 0)
Oldschool-YUCK!! I'm going to the fridge and throw out my expensive heart healthy spread.

Newgranny- yes, we used to have anawesome farmer's market before Katrina. It is cming back slowly, but this time of year, at least, we get juicy local tomatoes, melons, squash etc. Our favorite is veggie kabobs on the grill-yum.

Speaking of all these trace chemicals etc in our food system....could that be linked to the explosive numbers of kids with ADHD, girls starting their periods at 9, I think there is. But corporate farming has a very powerful lobby, so we the citizens are bound to lose that fight-just like all the pharma keeping costof cheap meds high.

Well I'm off to gather up some positive thoughts-lol Have a good day

Maggie
Posted 8/24/2011 4:12 PM (GMT 0)
I'm fortunate living in Florida because we have farmer's markets all year.  I do eat fresh foods and rarely have prepackaged things or processed foods.  Sandwich meat?  Yuck!  I don't eat fast foods either.  But there still are some conviencies that I indulge in.  I guess everything in moderation...unless you are allergic to it.  That's a different story.

 

Bottom line is to try to eat as healthy as possible.  Planning meals ahead of time, making extra and freezing it, all helps.  Here's to healthy eating!

 

Sherrine

Posted 8/24/2011 4:20 PM (GMT 0)
I think just like I am hyper sensitive to smells (especially fabric dyes in stores) I am probably hyper sensitive to stuff in foods. If your abdomen bloats after you eat something, you're intolerant to it. I react this way to almost all processed foods. I'm still trying to figure it all out.
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