While researching information for my last blog entry, I encountered a New York Times article about how the European Union banned chemical ingredients that are STILL prevalent in American foods. The Times also mentioned chemicals "in the American home" that are banned elsewhere.
Since America is run by petroleum companies (which make cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, plastics, tires, and chemicals), corn companies, and sugar companies, it should be no surprise. Using "think tanks", they wile away hours of every day brainstorming ways to infiltrate and infect different marketplaces with their product. Psychopathic corporations, driven for ever-increasing profits, leach their unhealthy products everywhere that they aren't rooted out from.
Here are some household sources of poisonous Formaldehyde: air fresheners, plug-in fragrances, cleaning products containing Terpenes, paper towels, cigarettes, vehicle exhaust, furnaces, polyester, permanent-press bedding, pillow stuffing, upholstery, skin-care with certain preservatives, chemical hair straighteners, nail polish, nail polish remover (You might've seen the media blitz about health hazards of working in a nail salon). It's appalling to notice the quantity of permissible baby products that use them!
Tricky manufacturers might not use the word Formaldehyde. Instead, they use synonyms or similar chemicals: formalin, methanal, oxymethylene, urea, quaternium 15, methylaldehyde, methylene oxide, formic aldehyde, or phenol.
Cheaply-made furniture and flooring finds dubious uses for chemicals. Chromium VI is a known carcinogen found in leather tanning, fabric dyes, and cement. Sofas, mattresses, and cushions are often treated with TDCIPP, which is a carcinogen unwisely used as flame retardant--and known to cause cancer (and not work against flames)! Why is it still used? Chemical companies need to make sales profits. That's why. (Below is a Cancer warning for furniture!)
Phthalates are suspected cancer-causers, yet they're often used (cheaply) to make pricey vinyl flooring, vinyl siding, synthetic leather, laminate furniture, shower curtains, and window blinds. It's also used in food packaging!
PFAS (Polyfluoroalkyl substances) are commonly used to manufacture formica countertops and countertop sealers. That is crazy because PFAS are linked to serious health harm and can migrate from those surfaces to foods that are on them.
Most synthetic fibers for upholstery and carpets are byproducts of petroleum with harsh chemicals. It's cheap for manufactures to make them, but it's unwise for you to use them.
Stay away from things made with PVC vinyl and seek labels saying "phthalate-free". Check the labels of your furniture to see if it has any of them, and then replace them.
Other byproducts from petroleum include synthetic materials that are used for clothing and fabric. They are also toxic for the environment due to their manufacturing processes.
Other byproducts from petroleum include synthetic materials that are used for clothing and fabric. They are also toxic for the environment due to their manufacturing processes.
It's not a good idea to cover your skin with material made from a flammable liquid named Polymer Polyacrylonitrile, which is a cancer hazard... but that is what acrylic consists of. Polyester is made from carbon-intensive, non-renewable, and non-biodegradable ingredients. It contains a toxic substance named Antimony. Invented during the 1950s era of the innutritious Twinkie, Spandex is made with a harmful chemical: a carcinogen named polyurethane.
I've often seen people from foreign countries wince their faces at how sugary American foods are.
That's because the sugar and corn lobbyists do a fantastic job. Why else would you see Corn Syrup or Corn Syrup Solids on the ingredient list for sausages, biscuits, cookies, or juice? Why else do breakfast cereals weigh consumers down with sugar?
Basically, nearly all of the packaged foods in America are infected. They succumbed to behind-the-scenes deals to include unhealthy things in their legacy. Why else do nutritionalists warn us to stay on the outer permitter of supermarkets and avoid the "middle aisles" of processed foods?
Stupendously, they charge consumers to buy such crap, which doubly costs the consumer for medical remedies. Alas, remember that America is run by pharmaceutical companies, and you'll know why costly pills (against bad foods) is more prevalent than merely selling nutritious foods.
Look at the ingredient list for Stella D'oro spice cookies. Where are the spices? After the fortified bleached flour, fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, canola oil, et cetera. Deli meats are notoriously high in nitrates and sodium--which is injected directly into the meat. Just examining most the ingredients list (which doesn't include pesticides) of most American-made packaged foods should scare you.
4 slices of Oscar Mayer's smoked ham has more than half a day's sodium intake: 760 mg sodium. 2 slices of their turkey bacon seems healthier until you read the label: 360 mg sodium, which is more than regular pork bacon (with triple the number of ingredients)! Tyson chicken breast has 220 mg sodium, involving 15 ingredients to make its "FrankenChicken"!
Hillshire Farm kielbasa has fructose corn syrup solids and 510 mg sodium. (doesn't sound like farm-fresh to me). One Tofurky hot dog spews 370 mg sodium! Their faux Italian Sausage variety has nearly as much salt as the real stuff: 620 mg sodium! Why buy that?!
Kraft is an infamous company covering supermarket shelves with unhealthy crap, and they stealthily own as many brands as Nabisco, Coca Cola, or Tyson.
Their iconic Macaroni & Cheese (powder) gives consumers more than 2 days' worth of trans fats per serving!
In 1958, the Delaney Amendment prohibited the FDA from approving food additives that are linked to cancer. Regardless, the tax-paid FDA still allows many substances that were in use before the amendment--considering them to have "prior approval and therefore not regulated as additives"! Such a lobbyist-bribery-induced piece of crime!
Potassium bromate and azodicarbonamide (ADA) are commonly used in American baked goods but are banned in Europe due to links to cancer. ADA is a whitening agent in dough and cereal flour that breaks down during baking into chemicals that cause cancer in lab animals. It's used in many chain restaurants' sandwiches and buns. The FDA says it is safe in "limited amounts".
BHA and BHT are flavor enhancers/preservatives that are severely restricted in Europe but widely used in American food products. BVO (brominated vegetable oil) is used in sports drinks and citrus sodas like Mountain Dew, but it's banned in Europe. It contains bromine, which is used in flame retardants.
The European Union bans bovine growth hormone, which the U.S. dairy industry uses to increase milk production. The EU bans ractopamine, which America uses to increase weight of pigs, cattle, and turkeys.
In Europe, food coloring dyes (Yellow #5 & 6 and Red #40) must carry warnings saying "may have adverse effect on activity and attention to children". Nothing like that in the USA.
Rice-A-Roni sells boxes of "Low Sodium" Chicken Rice. One cup still has 670 mg sodium?! Maybe they meant to say that it was "lower" than a cup of Goya's Fiesta Rice, which has 1,000 mg sodium and 320 calories from monosodium glutamate (a.k.a. MSG), maltodextrin, and sugar. 16 0f Lays "Kettle Cooked" potato chips give buyers as much fat as an order of McDonald's fries.
Regarding McDonald's, please also click here and read:
Pillsbury is as notorious as Entenmann's for "baked goods" with an abnormal "shelf life" like Twinkies. Just one of their canned biscuits--made with hydrogenated soybean oil--has 170 calories, 470 mg sodium, and 6 g of fat-- 13% of your daily intake of fat.
Pillsbury shrewdly sells a "Sugar Free" Brownie Mix, but laces it with artificial sweeteners acesulfame potassium, sucralose, and sugar alcohol maltitol. If chemical companies aren't involved in infesting food companies, how could such things appear on the ingredient list? How else could the FDA deem Aspartame to be safe, while innumerable independent studies challenge its safety?
How else could Gardetto's sell potato chips with caramel color, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, and BHT?
Speaking of "shelf life", Wonder Bread has 98 calories per slice, thanks to nutritionally empty enriched bleached flour and high-fructose corn syrup. Why is that in bread (the staple of humanity's historic diet)?
Equally bad are 2 slices of Arnold Whole Grains "Health Nut" bread: 240 calories. Maybe that's because the second ingredient is the same flour in Wonder Bread, which seems like false advertising. Continuing in its deceptive advertising, Arnold's 12-Grain bread has 220 calories per 2 slices because the wheat is whole grain, but the other 11 grains aren't. If a grain isn't "whole", you're paying for stripped-down grains with little fiber or micronutrients/vitamins, which is often chemically "fortified" to improve it. One slice of Pepperidge Farm "Hearty White" has 110 calories because it's made with simple-sugar flour devoid of all the benefits of whole wheat. Don't be fooled by the "farm" picture or "grandfatherly" voice in its commercials. One of their cinnamon raisin bagels has as many carbs as 5 slices of toast! Their Brown Sugar Cinnamon Swirl Bread packs five types of sugars.
Speaking of phony misleading ads, Ancient Harvest sells Quinoa Spaghetti... yet the primary ingredient is corn flour. El Sabroso sells Tortilla Chips with "real avocado" labelled on the front, but the ingredient list (on the back) says "avocado powder". How is this allowed?
1 single tortilla from Mission Wraps has 210 calories! That's crazy because a tortilla needs 4 ingredients: flour, water, oil, salt. But, there's has 30 ingredients! It's not a bakery; it's a laboratory for "food products". Similarly, Little Debbie's honey buns each give buyers 230 calories and 13 g fat. Of the 31 ingredients, partially hydrogenated oils appears twice. Her "Donut Sticks" have 230 calories each: more calories/fat/sugar than a Krispy Kreme! Hostess sells Mini Muffins, but a pouch of them carries 210 calories, 19 g sugar, and 8 g fat... more akin to dessert than breakfast.
Why are companies/industries with repeated Food Recalls permitted to continue their practices in America?
How do you explain that Coca Cola, which is sold to all ages, can also be a household cleaner?!
Its high acidity can also remove blood stains, loosen nuts/bolts that are stuck together, clean windows, remove gum from hair, defrost ice on windshields, shine coins, and remove paint splatter from furniture. Imagine how it works on your digestive system.
The next problem across America is that chains of restaurants and "big box stores" (both are always corporate-run) issue unhealthy foods... and charge you for them. Beware of any plateful of monochromatic beige food! It indicates that the food will COST your body nutrients to break it down, more than GIVE your body nutrition.
Bob Evans sells Country Fried Steak with eggs, grits, gravy, and biscuits: 1,500 calories, 102 g fat, 2,880 mg sodium. That's a whole day's worth of calories, and 2 days of saturated fat! They also sell cranberry pecan Chicken Salad with 2,590 mg of sodium and 42 grams of sugar--more sugar than a piece of pecan pie. Applebee's does worse by selling battered Fish & Chips: 1,750 calories and 128 g fat. Buffalo Wild Wings in their Thai Curry sauce has 2,560 calories and 8,140 mg of sodium (more than your entire recommended daily intake of sodium)! Thin-slice pizzas usually have as many carbs as regular slices... with much more sodium. California Pizza Kitchen sells a Jamaican Jerk pie with more sodium than 22 slices of Oscar Mayer hardwood smoked bacon! Cheesecake Factory refuses to reveal its menu's nutritional information, and it sells a Fettuchini Alfredo with 2,260 calories, 2,800 g of sodium, and more saturated fat than 50 eggs! Another company with enough money to do better is Chili's, which sells a Bacon Ranch Beef Quesadilla that include's your entire daily intake of calories and more fat than 10 hot dogs! Even eating half is 2.8 times the American Heart Association's recommended daily intake of saturated fat. Friendly's sells a platter of Clam Strips that has more carbohydrates than 19 chocolate chip cookies and more calories than 122 clams! (That's as bad as most Public School lunch programs).
On The Border charges customers for 2 days's worth of salt in their Fish Tacos: 4,700 mg sodium. Olive Garden is notorious for its sugary cocktails, salty seafood, and portions of pasta worth 976 calories each! (and one day's worth of trans fat--an artificial fat linked to heart disease)! Burger King sells a Bacon King Sandwich with a whopping 79 grams of fat (worse than 5 of their classic hamburgers) and 31 g of trans fat, which exceeds your daily limit). Aside from Chipotle's year of food recalls and food-born illnesses, it sells a classic Burrito that gives a day's worth of salt and more than that of saturated fat. The burrito gives buyers more calories than 6 whole-grain dinner rolls. Au Bon Pain sells "supposedly healthy" yogurt smoothies... with 46 grams of sugar--more than half of pint of Ben & Jerry's mint chocolate cookie ice cream.
Perkins Restaurant sells pancakes including 50 grams of sugar--more than 92 M&M candies! Topping that, Applebee's honey BBQ Wings has 51 grams of sugar (and 3,100 mg of sodium), as well as Onion Rings with 65 g of sugar (and 3,360 mg of sodium)! Pizza Hut sells honey BBQ Wings with 61 grams of sugar and 2,460 mg of sodium. P.F. Chang's orange peel Chicken contains 68 g of sugar, while its Spicy Chicken contains 90 g of sugar (which is like 14 frosting-filled Chips Ahoy cookies)! Chili's Caribbean Salad wallops buyers with 70 g of sugar, while its Honey Chipotle Waffles swim in 105 g of sugar. Kid-friendly Denny's sells a pancake breakfast with 81 g of sugar! Bob Evans sells blueberry pancakes with 85 g of sugar. Cheesecake Factory seems to be searching for ways to pour more sugar, so their Teriyaki Chicken has 96 g of sugar (like 16 Chips Ahoy cookies) and 3,993 mg of sodium, and their brûlée French Toast packs in 120 g sugar! With a holiday weekend's worth of sugar and two day's worth of sodium, Boston Market's half-rack BBQ Ribs = 105 g sugar and 2,960 mg sodium! In ONE serving!
Granola has an amazing PR team! America believes that clumps of granola glued together with sugar is somehow healthy. One cup of Quaker Oat's granola cereal injects buyers with 420 calories, 10 g fat, and 26 g sugar... equivalent to 3 servings of Cookie Crisp cereal!
In stark contrast, Chile enacted laws requiring food manufacturers to put big black "warning labels" prominently on their packaging to warn about ingredients and unhealthy nutritional values.
Using mandatory packaging redesigns and marketing restrictions, the Chilean government constrained companies--who use such unhealthy ingredients--from using cartoon characters to lure children as consumers. (Just like Camel cigarettes had to stop using its cartoony phalanx-resembling camel so near the candy in convenience stores). Chile banned trinket toys from being given "free" to buy the unhealthy foods. New laws stop the sale of junk food in public schools and prohibits such things from being advertised during television shows for young children. Brands with high sugar content, like Coca Cola, now have an 18% tax... one of the steepest taxes in the world.
Naturally, the corporations applied their resources to (no, not making the foods healthier) thwarting the Chilean government. The government insisted, persevered, and won. Hooray for them! After all, why do foreign countries want obesity from American companies who get virtual "American government subsidies" to make their products cheaper than fruits/vegetables, to lure low-income buyers?
Pillsbury shrewdly sells a "Sugar Free" Brownie Mix, but laces it with artificial sweeteners acesulfame potassium, sucralose, and sugar alcohol maltitol. If chemical companies aren't involved in infesting food companies, how could such things appear on the ingredient list? How else could the FDA deem Aspartame to be safe, while innumerable independent studies challenge its safety?
How else could Gardetto's sell potato chips with caramel color, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, and BHT?
Speaking of "shelf life", Wonder Bread has 98 calories per slice, thanks to nutritionally empty enriched bleached flour and high-fructose corn syrup. Why is that in bread (the staple of humanity's historic diet)?
Equally bad are 2 slices of Arnold Whole Grains "Health Nut" bread: 240 calories. Maybe that's because the second ingredient is the same flour in Wonder Bread, which seems like false advertising. Continuing in its deceptive advertising, Arnold's 12-Grain bread has 220 calories per 2 slices because the wheat is whole grain, but the other 11 grains aren't. If a grain isn't "whole", you're paying for stripped-down grains with little fiber or micronutrients/vitamins, which is often chemically "fortified" to improve it. One slice of Pepperidge Farm "Hearty White" has 110 calories because it's made with simple-sugar flour devoid of all the benefits of whole wheat. Don't be fooled by the "farm" picture or "grandfatherly" voice in its commercials. One of their cinnamon raisin bagels has as many carbs as 5 slices of toast! Their Brown Sugar Cinnamon Swirl Bread packs five types of sugars.
Really??????????
Why are companies/industries with repeated Food Recalls permitted to continue their practices in America?
How do you explain that Coca Cola, which is sold to all ages, can also be a household cleaner?!
The next problem across America is that chains of restaurants and "big box stores" (both are always corporate-run) issue unhealthy foods... and charge you for them. Beware of any plateful of monochromatic beige food! It indicates that the food will COST your body nutrients to break it down, more than GIVE your body nutrition.
Bob Evans sells Country Fried Steak with eggs, grits, gravy, and biscuits: 1,500 calories, 102 g fat, 2,880 mg sodium. That's a whole day's worth of calories, and 2 days of saturated fat! They also sell cranberry pecan Chicken Salad with 2,590 mg of sodium and 42 grams of sugar--more sugar than a piece of pecan pie. Applebee's does worse by selling battered Fish & Chips: 1,750 calories and 128 g fat. Buffalo Wild Wings in their Thai Curry sauce has 2,560 calories and 8,140 mg of sodium (more than your entire recommended daily intake of sodium)! Thin-slice pizzas usually have as many carbs as regular slices... with much more sodium. California Pizza Kitchen sells a Jamaican Jerk pie with more sodium than 22 slices of Oscar Mayer hardwood smoked bacon! Cheesecake Factory refuses to reveal its menu's nutritional information, and it sells a Fettuchini Alfredo with 2,260 calories, 2,800 g of sodium, and more saturated fat than 50 eggs! Another company with enough money to do better is Chili's, which sells a Bacon Ranch Beef Quesadilla that include's your entire daily intake of calories and more fat than 10 hot dogs! Even eating half is 2.8 times the American Heart Association's recommended daily intake of saturated fat. Friendly's sells a platter of Clam Strips that has more carbohydrates than 19 chocolate chip cookies and more calories than 122 clams! (That's as bad as most Public School lunch programs).
On The Border charges customers for 2 days's worth of salt in their Fish Tacos: 4,700 mg sodium. Olive Garden is notorious for its sugary cocktails, salty seafood, and portions of pasta worth 976 calories each! (and one day's worth of trans fat--an artificial fat linked to heart disease)! Burger King sells a Bacon King Sandwich with a whopping 79 grams of fat (worse than 5 of their classic hamburgers) and 31 g of trans fat, which exceeds your daily limit). Aside from Chipotle's year of food recalls and food-born illnesses, it sells a classic Burrito that gives a day's worth of salt and more than that of saturated fat. The burrito gives buyers more calories than 6 whole-grain dinner rolls. Au Bon Pain sells "supposedly healthy" yogurt smoothies... with 46 grams of sugar--more than half of pint of Ben & Jerry's mint chocolate cookie ice cream.
Perkins Restaurant sells pancakes including 50 grams of sugar--more than 92 M&M candies! Topping that, Applebee's honey BBQ Wings has 51 grams of sugar (and 3,100 mg of sodium), as well as Onion Rings with 65 g of sugar (and 3,360 mg of sodium)! Pizza Hut sells honey BBQ Wings with 61 grams of sugar and 2,460 mg of sodium. P.F. Chang's orange peel Chicken contains 68 g of sugar, while its Spicy Chicken contains 90 g of sugar (which is like 14 frosting-filled Chips Ahoy cookies)! Chili's Caribbean Salad wallops buyers with 70 g of sugar, while its Honey Chipotle Waffles swim in 105 g of sugar. Kid-friendly Denny's sells a pancake breakfast with 81 g of sugar! Bob Evans sells blueberry pancakes with 85 g of sugar. Cheesecake Factory seems to be searching for ways to pour more sugar, so their Teriyaki Chicken has 96 g of sugar (like 16 Chips Ahoy cookies) and 3,993 mg of sodium, and their brûlée French Toast packs in 120 g sugar! With a holiday weekend's worth of sugar and two day's worth of sodium, Boston Market's half-rack BBQ Ribs = 105 g sugar and 2,960 mg sodium! In ONE serving!
Granola has an amazing PR team! America believes that clumps of granola glued together with sugar is somehow healthy. One cup of Quaker Oat's granola cereal injects buyers with 420 calories, 10 g fat, and 26 g sugar... equivalent to 3 servings of Cookie Crisp cereal!
In stark contrast, Chile enacted laws requiring food manufacturers to put big black "warning labels" prominently on their packaging to warn about ingredients and unhealthy nutritional values.
Using mandatory packaging redesigns and marketing restrictions, the Chilean government constrained companies--who use such unhealthy ingredients--from using cartoon characters to lure children as consumers. (Just like Camel cigarettes had to stop using its cartoony phalanx-resembling camel so near the candy in convenience stores). Chile banned trinket toys from being given "free" to buy the unhealthy foods. New laws stop the sale of junk food in public schools and prohibits such things from being advertised during television shows for young children. Brands with high sugar content, like Coca Cola, now have an 18% tax... one of the steepest taxes in the world.
Naturally, the corporations applied their resources to (no, not making the foods healthier) thwarting the Chilean government. The government insisted, persevered, and won. Hooray for them! After all, why do foreign countries want obesity from American companies who get virtual "American government subsidies" to make their products cheaper than fruits/vegetables, to lure low-income buyers?
None of this is surprisingly, and most Americans don't care.
I'm sure that commenter was disgusted by America's president serving Fast Food at the White House.
The people who don't care are the same ones who will karmically start the New Year by dumping trash on their cities and covering them in garbage.
I'm sure that commenter was disgusted by America's president serving Fast Food at the White House.
The people who don't care are the same ones who will karmically start the New Year by dumping trash on their cities and covering them in garbage.
