Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Yeast extract is also used in so-called "natural" veggie burger products sold in grocery stores and health food stores. In fact, yeast extract is the No. 1 flavor additive of choice for food manufacturers who don't want to list MSG on their labels. Don't trust the labels that say "all natural" on the front. Read the ingredients and look for yeast extract.
TruthInLabeling.org lists yeast extract as an ingredient that always contains MSG: http://www.truthinlabeling.org/hiddensources.html
Learn the truth about yeast extract and other offensive food additives at Webseed: http://www.webseed. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| According to FDA law, grocery stores must display a sign noting that waxes or postharvest pesticides have been applied. Unfortunately, most stores do not comply with the law, and the FDA lacks the manpower to enforce it. Currently, the FDA has approved six different waxes for use on produce. Approved compounds include shellac, paraffin, palm oil derivatives, such as carnauba wax, and synthetic resins. These same items are used in furniture, floor, and car waxes. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 They can be found at recognized natural foods stores, and at an increasing number of regular chain grocery stores usually placed in sections designated as "natural" foods.
Or, if you like, you can carry around the definitive guide to food additives when shopping for foods, along with a magnifying glass so you can check the ingredients labels. However, in the interests of your time, stress level and sanity, make life easier by buying natural food brands that do not contain chemical food additives. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I don't know whether McDonald's uses sodium nitrite in its own products, but I do know that practically every packaged meat product sold in grocery stores contains sodium nitrite. I also know that the human body is designed to live well past 100. To die at any age under 50 requires a sustained poisoning effort: like consuming soft drinks, fried foods, red meat, refined white flour, added sugars, hydrogenated oils and so on. I wonder what ingredients are in a Big Mac these days? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Americans bathe themselves in toxic chemicals and they do it by buying and using products made by brand name companies that have premier shelf positioning at convenience stores, grocery stores and discount clubs.
One of the more curious personal care products on the market is Herbal Essences Shampoo by Clairol. Personally, I think this product is a joke because it's trying to exploit the word "herbal" to imply that the shampoo is healthy, even though it is primarily made with the same ingredients as other popular shampoos. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: There's a new product now available at grocery stores that deserves some attention for people who want to be healthy and avoid heart disease. The product is Nature's Way MacNut Oil (macadamia nut oil). It has most likely been introduced in response to the popularity of the Hamptons diet, which espouses the health benefits of macadamia nuts and macadamia nut oil. Without question, macadamia nut oil is very good for your health; not just your cardiovascular health, but also the healthy function of your nervous system. |
Alex Steffen
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 In a bright green world, every shop would stock a selection of equally appealing, yet far more responsibly created apparel at reasonable prices, much like standard grocery stores that now have an aisle or two of natural foods. But for now, we have to read labels and keep our eyes and ears open for new developments.
Look for the following practices and traits common to socially and environmentally responsible apparel: they traveled to hang in your closet. Unless the label explicitly says the garment was made under fair labor conditions, you can't be sure. |
| But look at that photo a bit more closely and you'll find health clinics, beauty salons, grocery stores, bars, restaurants, tailors, clothing stores, churches, and schools. In the midst of squalor and open sewage, the streets are lively and business is booming. What's more, study that shack in the center of the photo—the one made of mud and sticks. Is it simply decaying? Or is the family that lives there reconstituting it around themselves like a cocoon, transforming it
Right: Many of the world's children live in squatter settlements—like this one in Nairobi, Kenya—in emerging megacities. |
| The results of globalization go beyond the success that U.S. grocery stores have had selling water from Fiji. You can get a Coke in Fiji, or in any of two hundred other nations. In 113 countries, you can use that Coke to wash down a McDonald's hamburger —or, in India, a vegetarian McAloo Tikki burger. You can watch a Bollywood film on your Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi to London, where the video store has got all the hot new films from Lagos. And you'd probably need to go to Bhutan to avoid seeing ads for the newest Hollywood film. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They’re much better than eggs from the standard imprisoned chickens that we get in the common grocery stores.
We should eat more blueberries and all of these incredibly potent berries. We should eat more foods of all the different colors -- purple eggplants, orange carrots, yellow onions, red tomatoes, green peppers. We should just eat the colors of the rainbow in their natural form, because these colors are potent disease-fighting phytonutrients.
We should eat sunshine, actually. We should consume it into our skin. We should consume more water. We should get more fruits. |
Byron J. Richards
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 Large food distributors set up contracts with grocery stores and give them better prices for their low-quality meats and many other foods. As part of the deal, these grocers sign agreements that they won't sell locally produced foods in their stores. This is an anti-competition scam that is helping multinational agribusiness destroy our rural communities. The New Hunter-Gatherer has a social responsibility to help change this situation through purchasing decisions. If we don't do this, high-quality food may soon disappear entirely from our food supply. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| HOWTO SELECT AND STORE
Basil can often be found fresh in grocery stores. This is the easiest way to purchase and use basil, as it is much more aromatic when fresh. Look for crisp, vibrant green leaves with no signs of decay. Basil can also be easily grown in pots and can be kept inside for one year, pruned regularly to prevent flowering.
Fresh basil should be lightly rinsed and stored in the refrigerator wrapped in a slightly damp paper towel for up to one week. It may also be frozen, either whole or chopped, in airtight containers. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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| Highly processed, packaged foods that require little to no preparation fill the majority of space in our grocery stores. Convenience foods boasting that you can "just pop it in the toaster or microwave," or better yet, "just open the package and eat it," are common fair. But while convenience, supersizing, superpricing and slick advertising may initiate the first purchase, taste is what will keep 'em coming back for more. Thus there is the emergence of yet another vast industry within the food industry; the business of flavoring. |
| As a result, a few regular grocery stores, including one right near my house, stock a good amount of natural food brands as well. I love shopping at this supermarket because it carries most everything I can get at the health food store, in addition to all the most popular pseudofood brands. That way I can keep up with what's being made available on both fronts.
For example, I was recently drawn to investigate a box of frozen fruit pops because it was a brand I would normally never recommend, and yet it boasted 100% Natural on the front of the box. |
| Eating only natural brand processed foods available at natural foods stores and also increasingly found at conventional grocery stores will greatly reduce the chances of running into these health robbers. However, check labels carefully to ferret out fake health food brands as we discussed earlier. These substances are not food, don't eat them! |
| Also be sure to take advantage of the many pre-washed bagged salads, herbs, baby carrots and other chopped raw, veggies now available at grocery stores. Once again, check labels to be sure nothing has been added as a preservative, which is sometimes the case. Similarly, you will want to keep plenty of raw fruit around for a sweet and easy snack. These ready-to-eat raw foods are the healthiest fast foods out there.
When you do head out the door, be sure to pack it in! |
Jack Challem
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 Trader Joe's
Trader Joe's is a chain of high-quality specialty retail grocery stores, with many organic, gluten-free, and wholesome products. For more information and the locations of Trader Joe's stores, go to www.traderjoes.com
Wild Oats
Wild Oats, a national chain, emphasizes natural and gourmet foods. Their meat departments offer free-range meats. For more information call (800) 494-WILD or go to www.wildoats.com. |
Michele Simon
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 Regulating Junk Food Marketing to Children
You want that nag factor so that seven-year-old Sarah is nagging Mom in the grocery stores to buy Funky Purple. We're not sure Mom would reach out for it on her own.1
—Kelly Stitt, senior brands manager, Heinz catsup division
Susan Linn is about the most mild-mannered, calm, and reasonable person you could ever meet. Not to mention, she has devoted her entire career to helping children. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 Why isn't there labeling in the grocery stores, in every grocery store in this country?
E: Well, there isn't labeling because the FDA banned it. And in my 1995 book The Safe Shoppers Bible, we published information on some four thousand consumer products, food, cosmetics and household products and showed that in the majority of those in common use, there are avoidable toxic and carcinogenic ingredients, while safe non-mainstream alternatives are available.
A: Why isn't there labeling?
E: To all intents and purposes, it has been banned. A: Why is that a ban? |
The Editors of FC&A
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| Look for fresh greens at farmers' markets or grocery stores. They should have firm stalks and must be washed before cooking. Keep in mind that fresh greens can cook down to about a quarter of their original volume.
Essential vitamins you might be missing
You know vitamins play an important role in your overall health. Some even guard you from stroke. But don't stock your medicine cabinet with bottles of pills. You can find the vitamins you need in fruits, vegetables, and other delicious foods.
Vitamin C. This antioxidant vitamin gets an "A" for its ability to prevent stroke. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 They are often found in the "sports" sections of health food stores, and quite often in grocery stores. These liquid drinks can be quite tasty and are similar to milkshakes. They are not only for those who are into sports. Because they are usually fortified with vitamins and minerals, don't forget to include these in calculating your daily intake of nutrients to prevent overdosing.
Q See anorexia nervosa and bulimia in Part Two. See also hypothyroidism in Part Two for the self-test. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So green was meaning green, and so they incorporated that into Dean Foods, and now the Silk brand of soymilk is one of the biggest sellers in Starbucks and grocery stores; it's everywhere. And the margins on that business were running around 20 percent; the margins on the milk and dairy business that made up most of Dean's products were around about 2 or 3 percent. So green means green today. A lot of people really appreciate that; they're willing to pay more or to pay more for a higher quality product or for something that benefits the planet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In contrast to that, most of the foods that are available in grocery stores (and certainly at restaurants) are really unhappy foods. They are foods that have been grown in unnatural environments. They've been bombarded with pesticides or herbicides. They have not been given clean water and, more importantly, have been planted and harvested under a system of greed, exploitation and corporate farming. Then, they've been processed and had their nutrients stripped away. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We have the best selection of health food stores and healthy grocery stores of any country in the world. Of course, it depends on what city you're in. If you are in St. Louis, you're not going to get a very good selection at the grocery store compared to what you might find in San Francisco, for example, or Seattle. But if you're in the right city and you're at the right store, you have a fantastic selection of fresh produce in this country.
Stores like Wild Oats and Whole Foods deserve praise for providing healthy, fresh produce on a daily basis at reasonable prices. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We're in most of the health food stores throughout the country, including Whole Food stores and Ralph's grocery stores.
Mike: Wonderful. Thank you! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's the walk or run for a cure! At grocery stores, cashiers ask if you want to donate a dollar to help find the cure. Other retailers want to sell you fashion-minded colored bracelets that raise money to find the cure. There's always someone who wants your money in exchange for the hope that your dollar will somehow help them "find a cure" for some awful disease.
I have a very big question to ask about all of this. This has literally been going on for decades. Researchers have been searching for a cure for cancer since the late 1960s, and for other diseases since at least the 1970s. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 It can be purchased in grocery stores.
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Other spices that have been used with success include ginger and turmeric, the rhizomes so popular in Indian cooking. Ginger in particular has had a reputation for hundreds if not thousands of years as being beneficial for digestive problems of all sorts. It may be most noted and best studied for preventing nausea due to motion sickness, but it is also a traditional remedy for gas.
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Q. Whenever we cook beans we include a small piece of fresh ginger root. It adds flavor and avoids the problem with gas. Maybe it will help someone else.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 A prescription drug cannot reverse the toxicity of the foods that you have been buying and consuming from grocery stores each and every day of your life.
As people take Acomplia in a desperate effort to pursue the mythology of this drug, they are only going to do themselves more harm. They are going to wind up in a situation where they are still obese, they still have body fat, they still have high cholesterol, they still have diabetes and heart disease and cancer. And now they're spending $400/month on a synthetic chemical that has other side effects that are yet unknown. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You can get organic vegetable broth from Trader Joe's, health food stores, or even many of the finer grocery stores that have a natural health section. The key is to get organic vegetable broth that does not contain excitotoxins. These are ingredients that cause neurological disorders because they overexcite and harm nerve cells. Those ingredients are MSG, yeast extract, autolyzed yeast extract, hydrolyzed vegetable proteins, and other similar ingredients. Warning: watch out for broth products made by Kitchen Basics. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, if you want to make all food healthier, set up prayer stations where people of all sorts of different religions and spiritual backgrounds either meditate or pray over the food as it passes by them on its way out to the grocery stores. By praying over the foods, you alter the memory of the water in those foods. You make those foods happier, more balanced, and more calming. |
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