Poisonous Pop

3 Surprising Reasons to Give Up Soda - Yahoo Health - Men's Health

Artificial sweeteners and food dyes have been linked to brain cell damage and hyperactivity, and research has shown that people who drink diet soda have a higher risk of developing diabetes.

Some popular soda brands, including Mountain Dew, use brominated vegetable oil—a toxic flame retardant—to keep the artificial flavoring from separating from the rest of the liquid. This hazardous ingredient—sometimes listed as BVO on soda and sports drinks—can cause bromide poisoning symptoms like skin lesions and memory loss, as well as nerve disorders.

Genetically engineered ingredients (like high fructose corn syrup) have only been in our food chain since the 1990s, and we don't know their long-term health impacts because the corporations that developed the crops never had to test them for long-term safety. Case in point: Some recent findings suggest that genetically engineered crops are linked to digestive tract damage, accelerated aging, and even infertility!


Ensuring hazard-free foods - The Financial Express (Bangladesh)

Monosodium glutamate, or tasting salt, as it is commonly known, is imported and used extensively in Bangladesh, by both high-end and low-end caterers, as a food-enhancing additive, unaware that it is a potent neurotoxin and has been banned in many countries in the world. Sodium cyclamate is another harmful substance (banned abroad) but advertised and sold here as being 'a hundred times sweeter than sugar.' A variety of so-called sweeteners for diabetics and 'diet' addicts, are widely used, such as aspartame and nutrasweet, known to be quite harmful in the long run. But these are being consumed without question, as are so-called energy drinks which are reportedly laced with addictive chemicals.

There is no alternative to educating and mobilising the end-consumers against the marketing of harmful substances like these in the name of food, drink and medicines.

Jillian Michaels brings it all together in January SELF: exercise, diet and more - The Examiner

She bans some foods - Aspartame, saccharin, sucralose (all are on the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s “avoid” list. ); iron, which should be limited to intake from natural and fortified sources to the daily value, 18 milligrams; and Monoacylglycerol which shows up in some baked goods, ice creams and more, often as mono- or diglyceride on the label.