Food for thought?!

October 4, 2011 0 Comments

Food for thought?!

This week I ran across some articles on food additives and food
substitutes. It got me thinking about the word “food.” I realized I
didn’t have a good definition of it. So I looked in Webster’s:

"food (fÁd), n.

1. any nourishing substance that is eaten, drunk, or otherwise taken
into the body to sustain life, provide energy, promote growth, etc."

Is sucralose (Splenda) food? Is Aspartame (Nutrisweet) food? Is MSG
food?

Not according to this definition. If they are not food, then
they don’t sustain life, provide energy, or promote growth. We could
call them "anti-food."

If you’d like to see some opinions on how they may actually
be "anti-food" and harm life, decrease energy and inhibit
growth, take a look at the following articles.

"Autism and ADHD Linked to Addictive Food Additive" by John and Michelle
Erb

For the last fifty years, the medical community has been baffled by
the rise in
cases of Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder and Autism. These two
diseases, unheard of before 1950, have been striking an increasing number of
children. Physicians have been unable to explain to parents why their
children are suffering these maladies despite there not being any family history
of the
disorder.

Finally these parents will know the answer. Thanks to John Erb, a
developmental disorder researcher and author of the book "The Slow
Poisoning of America," the cause of ADHD and Autism is no longer a mystery.

"These diseases appear to be caused by a food additive commonly
known as MSG or Monosodium Glutamate," John Erb explains. "MSG
is added to
food because of its addictive qualities, it is nicotine for food. It
is highly
reactive in the human brain and other organs."

MSG and its related ingredients have been found in increasing amounts in
processed and fast foods. Almost every restaurant and most processed
foods from snacks and soups to ready made meals have glutamate in them in
some form or another. MSG has no nutritional value. Scientific
studies have
shown that food laced with the MSG cause people to eat more of it, and faster,
than food without it.

"Corporations use this knowledge to sell their products. Their competition
uses MSG, so they keep adding it in larger amounts to keep up with them," John Erb comments. The FDA has no limits on how much MSG can be added
to foods, even though as little as two tablespoons of it has been shown to
cause epileptic convulsions and death in animals such as dogs.

MSG is a highly reactive amino acid. It is used by scientists in studies
to
purposely cause death to areas of the brain and is fed to rodents to make a
strain of obese and pre-diabetic test subjects. MSG is classified as
a neurotoxin: too much of it introduced to the brain can cause rapid cell
death. It
is this kind of destruction that John Erb states is the cause of ADHD and
Autism. He came to this conclusion after reviewing hundreds of medical
journal articles detailing the ways in which glutamate affects organs such
as
the brain. According to John Erb, "When a woman becomes pregnant,
the
placental barrier is not fully formed in the first month of fetal development. The
chemicals the mother eats can go directly to the developing child. The
glutamate stimulates rapid growth in the brain, creating ADHD symptoms. Too
much glutamate over-stimulates areas of the brain, resulting in neuronal cell
death. This destruction to the neurons results in the symptoms categorized
as Autism."

MSG is used in almost every institutional setting across the country. From
hospitals to school cafeterias to elderly care facilities, MSG is being added
to
mass produced food to increase its palatability. Women are being exposed
to a major toxin that can cause irreparable damage to their child even before
they discover they are pregnant.

Shocked by his discovery, John Erb met with Dr. Thomas Ward, Nova
Scotia’s Deputy Minister of Health, a pediatrician who specialized in
Neonatology. When Mr. Erb explained to Dr. Ward about the dangers of
MSG, Dr. Ward replied, "I know how awful the stuff is, I would never touch
it." When
John Erb pressed the Deputy Health Minister to remove it from all food
products, Dr. Ward said that it was an issue for the federal government, and
suggested that Mr. Erb take his book "The Slow Poisoning of America" to the
federal government and "Hit them over the head with it."

John Erb took his discovery to Dr. Susan Bryson, head of the Autism
Research Center in Halifax, and one of the leading Autism scientists in
Canada. She was amazed by his findings, and confirmed that current studies
being done by the National Institute of Health show that the cause of Autism
has been linked to a toxin invading the embryo’s brain stem at as early as
twenty days after conception. The NIH had not yet identified the toxin,
but
thanks to John Erb’s discovery, they now know the direction in which to focus
their research.

"The sooner people know that MSG can cause ADHD and Autism in
their unborn children, the sooner they can take steps to avoid being
another victim of the steadily increasing numbers of these disorders," John
Erb states. Autism,
unheard of before 1950, (MSG was introduced to the American diet in 1948) has
now risen to epidemic proportions with one in every 200 children born with
the affliction.

"There may be a genetic component deciding who is stricken with ADHD and
Autism, otherwise when you consider the rampant use of MSG in today’s diet,
every child would be born with either ADHD or Autism. But if the growth
curve
keeps going the way it has, it won’t be long before this is the case."

MSG has been hidden in food ingredient lists as hydrolyzed vegetable
protein, autolyzed yeast extract, soy protein isolate, and many other names.
Every year, the amount of this substance hidden in foods rises astronomically. Just
because the name MSG does not appear on the label does not mean that the
food does not contain the excitotoxin glutamate.

"People should demand that the food industry, both restaurants and food
manufacturers, remove the added glutamate in all its forms from anything we
ingest," John Erb states emphatically. "The fact that they add
it to make us
addicted to their food is appalling enough, but considering it is doing terrible
damage to our children, for that there is no excuse. The sooner these
corporations are held accountable for poisoning us, the sooner we can
eradicate ADHD and Autism from the maternity wards across the nation."

To order John and Michelle Erb’s book please visit their web site at:
http://www.spofamerica.com/

Some authors have even classified Aspartame as a disease. To find
out more about it read this: http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects.html

And the new kid on the block, Splenda. Here is all you want to know
about it. http://www.sweetpoison.com/newsletter/december-2003.html

Bottom line:

Splenda? Research in animals has shown that sucralose
can cause problems such as: