Hidden Nasties In Our Food

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“The relatively sudden acceptability of the idea of non-genetic transmission doesn't mean that Lamarck has been rehabilitated by the scientific establishment; it could just be that it's the most politically acceptable way to explain the outbreaks of deadly disease caused by the industrialization of foods and the exposure of the population to dangerous levels of radiation.” -Ray Peat

 

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“The unsaturated oils in some cooked foods become rancid in just a few hours, even at refrigerator temperatures, and are responsible for the stale taste of left-over foods. (Eating slightly stale food isn't particularly harmful, since the same oils, even when eaten absolutely fresh, will oxidize at a much higher rate once they are in the body, where they are heated and thoroughly mixed with an abundance of oxygen.)” -Ray Peat

 

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“Heart damage is easily produced in animals by feeding them linoleic acid; this "essential" fatty acid turned out to be the heart toxin in rape-seed oil. The addition of saturated fat to the experimental heart-toxic oil-rich diet protects against the damage to heart cells.” -Ray Peat

 

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“For a few years, an antithyroid drug was found to make the livestock get fat while eating less food, but then it was found to be a strong carcinogen, and it also probably produced hypothyroidism in the people who ate the meat.” -Ray Peat

 

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“With regard to the pomegranate seed’s antimicrobial properties, increasing the percentage of added pomegranate seed powder (PSP) decreased the standard plate and minimum yeast and mold counts in an ice cream formulation process.”

Nutritional and Bioactive Components of Pomegranate Waste Used in Food and Cosmetic Applications: A Review

Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) is a fruit that is rich in bioactive compounds that has a biowaste (rind and seed) with the potential to be converted into value-added products in a wide variety of applications. Recent studies have demonstrated the potent ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[David PS]

‘All-natural’ Simply Orange Juice has high toxic PFAS levels, lawsuit alleges

Coca-Cola claimed juice was healthy despite toxic ‘forever chemicals’ levels ‘hundreds of times’ above federal limits, suit says

www.theguardian.com

 

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“We have to remember that the arguments made for aspartame, monosodium glutamate, aspartic acid, and tryptophan--that they are like the amino acids that make up natural proteins--are dangerously false. In the case of amino acids, balance is everything. Aspartic and glutamic acids promote seizures and cause brain damage, and are intimately involved in the process of stress-induced brain aging, and tryptophan by itself is carcinogenic.” -Ray Peat

 

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“While the toxic unsaturated paint-stock oils, especially safflower, soy, corn and linseed (flaxseed) oils, have been sold to the public precisely for their drug effects, all of their claimed benefits were false. When people become interested in coconut oil as a "health food," the huge seed-oil industry--operating through their shills--are going to attack it as an "unproved drug." -Ray Peat

 

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“Most of the images and metaphors relating to coconut oil and cholesterol that circulate in our culture are false and misleading. I offer a counter-image, which is metaphorical, but it is true in that it relates to lipid peroxidation, which is profoundly important in our bodies. After a bottle of safflower oil has been opened a few times, a few drops that get smeared onto the outside of the bottle begin to get very sticky, and hard to wash off. This property is why it is a valued base for paints and varnishes, but this varnish is chemically closely related to the age pigment that forms "liver spots" on the skin, and similar lesions in the brain, heart, blood vessels, lenses of the eyes, etc. The image of "hard, white saturated coconut oil" isn't relevant to the oil's biological action, but the image of "sticky varnish-like easily oxidized unsaturated seed oils" is highly relevant to their toxicity.” -Ray Peat

 

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“The anti-obesity effect of coconut oil is clear in all of the animal studies, and in my friends who eat it regularly. It is now hard to get it in health food stores, since Hain stopped selling it. The Spectrum product looks and feels a little different to me, and I suppose the particular type of tree, region, and method of preparation can account for variations in the consistency and composition of the product. The unmodified natural oil is called "76 degree melt," since that is its natural melting temperature. One bottle from a health food store was labeled "natural coconut oil, 92% unsaturated oil," and it had the greasy consistency of old lard. I suspect that someone had confused palm oil (or something worse) with coconut oil, because it should be about 96% saturated fatty acids.“ -Ray Peat

 

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“Human exposure of lead includes eating food or drinking water with lead. For example, lead can leach out of water pipes in some older homes with lead solder. However, airborne exposure is also possible through the deterioration of lead-based paints. Inside the human body, lead can damage nearly every organ and system (ATSDR 2007a). Nonetheless, the primary organ system affected by lead toxicity in adults and children is the nervous system. In fact, long-term exposure decreases the performance of the nervous system in adults. Lead causes weakness of the fingers, wrists, and/or ankles (ATSDR 2007a). Likewise, exposure not only increases in blood pressure in middle-aged and older people but also can cause anemia. High level exposure of leads can severely impair the function of the brain and kidneys in adults or children, leading to death (ATSDR 2007a). From exposure to lead, pregnant women are at risk of a miscarriage and male reproductive organs responsible for making sperm may be damaged.“

Causes of Cancer: Heavy Metals & Coffee Enemas | Dr. Ceaser

Metals contribute to the formation of cancer in many ways. It is important for every cancer patient to have proper provoked heavy metal...

drceaser.com

 

[Peatress]

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2023-01-03

FS2 will use rust fungi as a program test case. Rice is not susceptible to fungal rust pathogens; however, many other important cereal crops are, including corn. Despite this type of phenotypic variation between cereal species, many key genetic and biochemical pathways are widely conserved across members of the grass family. Because of their economic impact, cereal rust diseases are monitored using plant and field-level data during the growing season through snapshot Agriculture Department surveys, and are scouted via cultivation and harvest equipment, drones, smartphones, and other devices with cameras or sensors. FS2 aims to develop validated models to systematically identify earliest observable features of key damage pathways irrespective of the activating agent.

 

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“From year to year, the percentage of samples contaminated by each of the most prevalent pesticides rose. For example, in 2013, only 15.7% of the 688 samples tested were found to contain Bifenthrin, a neurotoxic pyrethroid insecticide. In 2021, 36.7% of the 177 samples tested were found to contain Bifenthrin.

The average number of pesticides per sample increased from 1.43 in 2013 to 2.14 pesticides per sample in 2021.”

Pesticides in Butter Getting Worse, Not Better - GMO / Toxin Free USA

With the usual fanfare, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its most recent annual Pesticide Data Program (PDP) report with data gathered from the agency’s annual testing program during 2021. The test selections are limited and the foods and commodities tested are rotated each...

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Pesticides in Butter

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[Rinse & rePeat]

“The first and most basic thing to know about fluoride is that not all fluoride is created equal. There are many types—both naturally occurring and synthetic—that you will come across while researching water. The most common misconception is that the small amounts of natural fluoride found in water are extremely harmful. This natural version of fluoride is called calcium fluoride and is usually found in soil. With any sort of spring or natural source of water there will always be trace amounts of calcium fluoride. Of course, like anything else consumed in extreme excess, this type of fluoride does have the potential to cause health problems. This is most commonly an issue in rural parts of India where the consumption of groundwater along with elevated levels of calcium fluoride caused an outbreak of skeletal fluorosis, or a calcification of the joints that can cause discomfort and deformity.
Another one of the most common types of fluoride is sodium fluoride. This is a synthetic, industrial version and has been shown to be far more harmful. Although there is still much speculation surrounding the topic, it is widely believed that the sodium fluoride that is found in consumer products, pesticides, and drinking water contains cancer-causing properties. In its purest form, sodium fluoride is actually capable of eating through concrete. Although sodium fluoride was the first compound to be used within our country’s tap water system in 1945, it has since been changed to a different compound called fluorosilicic acid.“

An Explanation of the Different Types of Fluoride

Confused regarding the different types of fluoride? Here is the 411 on each kind as well as how they could impact your health if consumed.

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[S.Holmes]

Sorry if this is a repeat (no pun intended). Simply PFAS: Lawsuit Claims ‘All Natural’ Orange Juice Brand Contains Toxic Forever Chemicals - EcoWatch

 

[Rinse & rePeat]

Sorry if this is a repeat (no pun intended). Simply PFAS: Lawsuit Claims ‘All Natural’ Orange Juice Brand Contains Toxic Forever Chemicals - EcoWatch

I hadn’t seen this posted before. I use to drink this brand 15+ years ago. I didn’t realize it is owned by Coca Cola….


“If a product is titled “Simply Orange Juice” and advertised as “all natural,” you would reasonably expect that it contained freshly-squeezed orange juice, water and little else. You certainly wouldn’t expect it to contain unsafe levels of toxic forever chemicals linked to health ailments from immunosuppression to reproductive problems to cancer.

Yet that is exactly what the Coca-Cola-owned Simply Orange products contain, according to a class action lawsuit filed in a New York federal court on Dec. 28 of last year, giving the lie to its natural claims.

“In reality, Plaintiff’s testing has revealed that the Product contains per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, a category of synthetic chemicals that are, by definition, not natural,” the lawsuit states, as Top Class Actions reported.“

 

[S.Holmes]

I hadn’t seen this posted before. I use to drink this brand 15+ years ago. I didn’t realize it is owned by Coca Cola….


“If a product is titled “Simply Orange Juice” and advertised as “all natural,” you would reasonably expect that it contained freshly-squeezed orange juice, water and little else. You certainly wouldn’t expect it to contain unsafe levels of toxic forever chemicals linked to health ailments from immunosuppression to reproductive problems to cancer.

Yet that is exactly what the Coca-Cola-owned Simply Orange products contain, according to a class action lawsuit filed in a New York federal court on Dec. 28 of last year, giving the lie to its natural claims.

“In reality, Plaintiff’s testing has revealed that the Product contains per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, a category of synthetic chemicals that are, by definition, not natural,” the lawsuit states, as Top Class Actions reported.“

I have 3 unopened bottles of Simply Orange in my fridge and unopened they will remain. Is there any food or beverage left that we can trust?

 

[Rinse & rePeat]

I have 3 unopened bottles of Simply Orange in my fridge and unopened they will remain. Is there any food or beverage left that we can trust?

I know right?

 

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“In November, 1995, an international conference was held to study the problem of "Environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals," and to devise strategies for increasing public awareness of the seriousness of the problem. Their "Statement from the work session" says "New evidence is especially worrisome because it underscores the exquisite sensitivity of the developing nervous system to chemical perturbations that result in functional abnormalities." "This work session was convened because of the growing concern that failure to confront the problem could have major economic and societal implications." "We are certain of the following: Endocrine-disrupting chemicals can undermine neurological and behavioral development and subsequent potential of individuals...." "Because the endocrine system is sensitive to perturbation, it is a likely target for disturbance." "Man-made endocrine-disrupting chemicals range across all continents and oceans. They are found in native populations from the Arctic to the tropics, and, because of their persistence in the body, can be passed from generation to generation." "...many endocrine-disrupting contaminants, even if less potent than the natural products, are present in living tissue at concentrations millions of times higher than the natural hormones." "The developing brain exhibits specific and often narrow windows during which exposure to endocrine disruptors can produce permanent changes in its structure and function." -Ray Peat