Originally posted by Digi
The picture is also misleading. Aspartame is one of the most highly tested additives on the market because of the "controversy" surrounding it, and not only is it safe, but it's more provably safe than hundreds of other additives that we eat without thinking.
Yeah but MSG, milk from cows with growth hormones, and coca cola certainly aren't very healthy for you.
In fact, I can't imagine many additives in foods to be healthy for you at all. Aspartame is not natural thats why theres so much controversy surrounding it. Let's be honest with ourselves here, the food industry has had its fair share of "safe" additions to their products.
Natural MSG is ok, but synthesized the way we use it isn't good for you. There's a lot that has been written about it Why do you think the packaging labeling is always changing it's names? To cover up the fact that people don't want MSG. It goes by many names on packaging labels.
And yes, we do need enzymes. lol I will not back off on that.
The whole American corn reformation under the Bush Administration scared the hell out of me.
Hundreds of farmers forced to turn their farm crops into materials for syrup for Coke and other artificial goods manufacturers. In the name of profit. Or die.
So many farms and if you walked into one of these plantations you wouldn't be able to eat the beautiful corn for it would taste like saw dust in your mouth.
Originally posted by Deja~vu
Natural MSG is ok, but synthesized the way we use it isn't good for you. There's a lot that has been written about it Why do you think the packaging labeling is always changing it's names? To cover up the fact that people don't want MSG. It goes by many names on packaging labels.And yes, we do need enzymes. lol I will not back off on that.
It changes its name because people are scared shitless by "chemical sounding" names. Due to their own lack of education.
Proof?
http://www.haciendapub.com/excito.html
Written by: Russell L. Blaylock, M.D
board-certified neurosurgeon, clinical assistant professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and President of the Mississippi Chapter of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS).
Explains MSG and Aspartame. They destroy neurons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitotoxicity Many things are written about it and I read a super long book explaining it.
There are a growing number of Clinicians and Scientists who are convinced that excitotoxins play a critical role in the development of several neurological disorders, including migraines, seizures, infections, abnormal neural development, certain endocrine disorders, specific types of obesity, and especially the neurodegenerative diseases; a group of diseases which includes: ALS, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and olivopontocerebellar degeneration.
This rest of the article is below and it has some great information about what it does to your neurons and why alzheimer's is increasing.
http://www.thewolfeclinic.com/newsletter/newsletter0011.html
ENZYME FACTS:
All fresh and raw foods have naturally-occurring enzymes.
Cooking food can destroy up to 85 percent of the original nutrients, and it destroys 100 percent of the enzymes in that food.
If you eat food with NO enzymes in it, your body must produce ALL the enzymes required to digest that food.
If you continually eat the same foods every day, your body becomes depleted in the enzymes required to digest that particular food. This creates "allergy" to that food.
Our bodies are not designed with the ability to create enough enzymes to process (digest) a diet consisting of mostly cooked foods.
Undigested foods create toxins in our body, lowering our pH balance to an acidic state.
Undigestable foods (due to lack of enzymes) are the largest contributing factor to asthmatic conditions.
Many hormonal functions (and hormonal balances) are affected by your body's pH balance. Lack of the specific digestive enzymes necessary to process your "chosen" diet can throw your hormones "out-of-whack".
By eating foods with their enzymes intact (fresh and raw) and by supplementing cooked foods with enzyme capsules, we can help slow abnormal and pathological aging processes.
Enzymes are destroyed by heating to as low as 118ºF. When we continually cook our foods, we deprive our bodies of the enzymes in the food which provide digestion. This shortfall is made up by the pancreas which has limited ability to produce enzymes as well as to perform the other functions, such as providing insulin and playing a major role in the operation of our immune system. Our bodies can accommodate an occasional cooked food, but when we continually destroy enzymes by cooking, the pancreas will double in size in an attempt to keep up with the demand and then it simply quits from exhaustion.
When this happens, the body, in trying to do the best it can with what it has, opens the pores of the gut and passes incompletely digested food into the blood stream. Two important things occur as a result. The body builds imperfect cells from imperfectly digested food, and the body doesn’t recognize the large particles as food, but as invading foreign particles, and raises antibodies to fight them. The body actually fights the food that we eat. This fight can result in many physical symptoms such as irregular heart beat, ringing in the ears, itchy skin, irritability, and on and on. Every system in our body can be effected.
Not the best link on emzymes, but I did it as a quicky..lol But you can get the idea there.
Originally posted by Grate the Vraya
I've heard aspartame causes cancer, but I never researched it. Does anyone really know how healthy it is? I mean it's only been in existence for, like 20 years, right? How could we really know its long term effects?
More is known about aspartame than anything else you could possibly put into your body with the possible exception of water. It's not a matter of how long it's been around for, it's a matter of how much people have done actual studies of it. Because of the hysteria around it there have been ridiculous numbers of studies.
As for Russell Blaylock his work is almost entirely self published (ie no one has gone through a checked that there aren't massive errors in it) and rejected by everyone else that knows anything about the subject. He's also a fan of Ludwig von Mises so we know that facts don't mean anything to him.
Originally posted by Deja~vu
http://www.thewolfeclinic.com/newsletter/newsletter0011.htmlENZYME FACTS:
All fresh and raw foods have naturally-occurring enzymes.
Cooking food can destroy up to 85 percent of the original nutrients, and it destroys 100 percent of the enzymes in that food.
If you eat food with NO enzymes in it, your body must produce ALL the enzymes required to digest that food.
If you continually eat the same foods every day, your body becomes depleted in the enzymes required to digest that particular food. This creates "allergy" to that food.
Our bodies are not designed with the ability to create enough enzymes to process (digest) a diet consisting of mostly cooked foods.
Undigested foods create toxins in our body, lowering our pH balance to an acidic state.
Undigestable foods (due to lack of enzymes) are the largest contributing factor to asthmatic conditions.
Many hormonal functions (and hormonal balances) are affected by your body's pH balance. Lack of the specific digestive enzymes necessary to process your "chosen" diet can throw your hormones "out-of-whack".
By eating foods with their enzymes intact (fresh and raw) and by supplementing cooked foods with enzyme capsules, we can help slow abnormal and pathological aging processes.
Not the best link on emzymes, but I did it as a quicky..lol But you can get the idea there.
Quotes from Edward Howell the man who believe "enzymes" are a mystical life force, built his concept of biology on discredited work from the 20s and 30s, thought that digestion happened in the mouth, and advises people to search for the magic life enzymes using Kirilian photography.
Yes, this site seems like it uses credible sources.