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Are nitrosamines part of your diet?
If you eat breakfast sausage, hot dogs, bacon, bologna, picnic ham and other luncheon meats, they are! These nitrosamines come about when you eat sodium nitrite. Sodium nitrite is a chemical additive used to give these meats a “healthy” reddish color so they don’t look the pale gray they are in their normal state. Sodium nitrite is also a preservative. When you eat sodium nitrite the body can turn it into toxic chemicals called nitrosamines. These nitrosamines are very carcinogenic and are even used by researchers to cause cancer in lab animals. According to one study that monitored children who ate a lot of foods containing sodium nitrite, they had 4 times the risk of brain tumors and 7 times the incidence of leukemia compared to those children who did not. A new study from the University of Hawaii showed a 6700% increase in pancreatic cancer in individuals eating frequent meals containing sodium nitrite. (http://www.newstarget.com/007024.html) Sodium nitrite is a legal food additive. In the 1970’s there were attempts to ban its use but reviews by “scientific committees” prevailed and the product is legal. But then the same types of “scientific committees” find mercury fillings safe, and amphetamines for children safe and Premarin safe. So one has to use ones own judgment about such things. Personally, I’m not buying the safety on this one. Since processed foods are on my list of foods to avoid, we stick with the real organic meats and let the packaged foods with chemical additives products alone.
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