. GENERAL INTEREST:  Fresh, Home-Cooked Meals = Free of Unwanted Synthetic Chemicals and Taste Way Better . Five Reasons Why We Should Make Our Own FoodWall Street Journal (blog) .
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GENERAL INTEREST:  Fresh, Home-Cooked Meals = Free of Unwanted Synthetic Chemicals and Taste Way Better

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Five Reasons Why We Should Make Our Own Food
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PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT CHEMICALS:  Preservatives Linked with Breast Cancer . Preservative in consmetics may cause breast cancerFood Consumer A new study published in the Journal of Applied Toxicology suggests that using cosmetics and food with parabens added as preservatives or other ingredients may boost breast cancer… …
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Preservative in consmetics may cause breast cancer
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A new study published in the Journal of Applied Toxicology suggests that using cosmetics and food with parabens added as preservatives or other ingredients may boost breast cancer…

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FOOD CHEMICALS: Preservatives in Processed Lunchmeat and COPD

Nitrates in Cured Meats May Aggravate COPD Symptoms

They reported the nitrates used as preservatives in cured meats produce reactive nitrogen species that could damage lung tissue, and excessive consumption of these food items might raise the risk of hospitalization among COPD patients.

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FOOD CHEMICALS:  So-Called *Healthy* Yogurt Is Really Industrialized Little Tubs-O-Chemicals . “Most yogurt has become a highly industrialized food….These days, it’s not just fruit that’s found in those plastic tubs, but also sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, colors, and flavors, as well as thickeners, stabilizers, and preservatives.” . Not your grandma’s yogurt Although it’s often seen as a healthy grocery store option, most yogurt is the product of an increasingly industrialized process. Read more. . “a growing group of people who are rethinking buying industrial versions of popular health foods — such as yogurt — in favor of making their own with minimal processing and additives.” ______ photo-aurelofleaves.com
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“Most yogurt has become a highly industrialized food….These days, it’s not just fruit that’s found in those plastic tubs, but also sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, colors, and flavors, as well as thickeners, stabilizers, and preservatives.”

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Not your grandma’s yogurt

Although it’s often seen as a healthy grocery store option, most yogurt is the product of an increasingly industrialized process.

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“a growing group of people who are rethinking buying industrial versions of popular health foods — such as yogurt — in favor of making their own with minimal processing and additives.”

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Food Chemicals: Nestle Cleans Up UK Candy

While there are still plenty of synthetic and industrialized food chemicals to be found in Nestle’s U.S. candy, in the U.K. treats just got a little cleaner:

Nestle ditches artificial additives

Nestle has become the first major confectioner to remove artificial colours, flavours and preservatives from its entire range.

PET FOOD CHEMICALS:  WHAT TO AVOID . AVOID: “Chemical preservatives, artificial colors or flavorings including ethoxyquin, BHS, BHG and propylene glycol, all of which make foods last longer [for the manufacturer’s benefit, not your pet’s] than natural preservatives such as “mixed tocopherols” or vitamin E. Coloring [is unnecessary] and added for our benefit, and if the meat is of sufficient quality, flavorings are unnecessary.” The real trick to choosing the right food is learning to read labels. Don’t be swayed by the appetizing comfort meal pictured on the front of the package. Go right to the ingredients listing and nutrition statement, remembering the predominant ingredients (by weight) are listed first: Ingredients to avoid: •Corn, in any form, including ground yellow corn, corn meal and corn gluten meal. As an inexpensive filler, corn’s only purpose is to make the animal feel fuller. Dogs and cats cannot digest corn nor use the nominal plant protein it contains, so it just passes through the digestive system and you scoop it up. [Additionally, the corn will most likely be genetically modified and GMO foods contain high pesticide levels.]•Byproducts: Scraps leftover after the meat has been removed from a carcass can include chicken heads, feet, cow hooves, horns, fur, feathers, blood, even floor sweepings. While some innards can be nutritious those destined for dog food processing are considered unfit for human consumption and rarely kept fresh. •Chemical preservatives, artificial colors or flavorings including ethoxyquin, BHS, BHG and propylene glycol, all of which make foods last longer [for the manufacturer’s benefit, not your pet’s] than natural preservatives such as “mixed tocopherols” or vitamin E. Coloring [is unnecessary] and added for our benefit, and if the meat is of sufficient quality, flavorings are unnecessary.•Onions in any form, including onion powder, are very toxic to dogs and can cause anemia even death. Onions have no place in dog food but some manufacturers use it. So read, read, read! In today’s exploding market of pet foods it’s virtually impossible to pinpoint the best choice without consulting your veterinarian, breeder and doing A LOT of reading. The Whole Dog Journal provides comprehensive reviews of commercial and homemade diets every year — an excellent source of information on this complex subject. To subscribe see http://www.whole-dog-journal.com . Source:mcall.com; [bracketed info from ChemicalFreeLife.tumblr.com]
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AVOID: “Chemical preservatives, artificial colors or flavorings including ethoxyquin, BHS, BHG and propylene glycol, all of which make foods last longer [for the manufacturer’s benefit, not your pet’s] than natural preservatives such as “mixed tocopherols” or vitamin E. Coloring [is unnecessary] and added for our benefit, and if the meat is of sufficient quality, flavorings are unnecessary.”

The real trick to choosing the right food is learning to read labels. Don’t be swayed by the appetizing comfort meal pictured on the front of the package. Go right to the ingredients listing and nutrition statement, remembering the predominant ingredients (by weight) are listed first:


Ingredients to avoid:


•Corn, in any form, including ground yellow corn, corn meal and corn gluten meal. As an inexpensive filler, corn’s only purpose is to make the animal feel fuller. Dogs and cats cannot digest corn nor use the nominal plant protein it contains, so it just passes through the digestive system and you scoop it up. [Additionally, the corn will most likely be genetically modified and GMO foods contain high pesticide levels.]

•Byproducts: Scraps leftover after the meat has been removed from a carcass can include chicken heads, feet, cow hooves, horns, fur, feathers, blood, even floor sweepings. While some innards can be nutritious those destined for dog food processing are considered unfit for human consumption and rarely kept fresh.

•Chemical preservatives, artificial colors or flavorings including ethoxyquin, BHS, BHG and propylene glycol, all of which make foods last longer [for the manufacturer’s benefit, not your pet’s] than natural preservatives such as “mixed tocopherols” or vitamin E. Coloring [is unnecessary] and added for our benefit, and if the meat is of sufficient quality, flavorings are unnecessary.

•Onions in any form, including onion powder, are very toxic to dogs and can cause anemia even death. Onions have no place in dog food but some manufacturers use it. So read, read, read!

In today’s exploding market of pet foods it’s virtually impossible to pinpoint the best choice without consulting your veterinarian, breeder and doing A LOT of reading.

The Whole Dog Journal provides comprehensive reviews of commercial and homemade diets every year — an excellent source of information on this complex subject. To subscribe see http://www.whole-dog-journal.com

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Source:mcall.com; [bracketed info from ChemicalFreeLife.tumblr.com]

FOOD CHEMICALS:  DANGEROUS PRESERVATIVES . These Preservatives Are Trying To Kill You Even if you know next to nothing about eating healthy, you probably know one thing for sure: that preservatives and additives found in many packaged and pre-made foods are bad for you.  With so much coded language (and so many gross additives), it’s hard to tell what’s harmless–and what’s carcinogenic. Rarely does the label on the back of your potential purchase say, out-right, that is contains dangerous, under-studied, over-subsidized fillers and additives. Instead, amid the normal-looking ingredients, there lurk food dyes, plasticizers, stabilizers, and emulsifiers, which keep food, shipped from thousands of miles away, looking and tasting as if it was just bottled or boxed. And while a lot of these ingredients have technically been deemed “safe” by the FDA (though not, it turns out, by the food safety commissions of other nations, like Australia and England) the fact is that when it comes to GMOS, artificial sweeteners, and the aforementioned preservatives, we’re currently part of what’s basically the largest food safety study of all time. Many of these ingredients were only introduced in the last 30-50 years, and haven’t had quite enough time to prove their danger. So which preservatives have been found to cause cancer? Digestive issues? Hormonal imbalances? And what products tend to contain them? Flip through this gallery to see which preservatives are some of the worst–and which household food items are most likely to harbor potentially disease-causing additives. Then, it’s up to you to decide for yourself if it’s something you really need… These Preservatives Are Trying To Kill You __
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These Preservatives Are Trying To Kill You

Even if you know next to nothing about eating healthy, you probably know one thing for sure: that preservatives and additives found in many packaged and pre-made foods are bad for you.  With so much coded language (and so many gross additives), it’s hard to tell what’s harmless–and what’s carcinogenic.

Rarely does the label on the back of your potential purchase say, out-right, that is contains dangerous, under-studied, over-subsidized fillers and additives. Instead, amid the normal-looking ingredients, there lurk food dyes, plasticizers, stabilizers, and emulsifiers, which keep food, shipped from thousands of miles away, looking and tasting as if it was just bottled or boxed. And while a lot of these ingredients have technically been deemed “safe” by the FDA (though not, it turns out, by the food safety commissions of other nations, like Australia and England) the fact is that when it comes to GMOS, artificial sweeteners, and the aforementioned preservatives, we’re currently part of what’s basically the largest food safety study of all time. Many of these ingredients were only introduced in the last 30-50 years, and haven’t had quite enough time to prove their danger.

So which preservatives have been found to cause cancer? Digestive issues? Hormonal imbalances? And what products tend to contain them? Flip through this gallery to see which preservatives are some of the worst–and which household food items are most likely to harbor potentially disease-causing additives. Then, it’s up to you to decide for yourself if it’s something you really need…

These Preservatives Are Trying To Kill You

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