Comments on: 12 Food Additives To Avoid

By: Why Eat Whole Foods?

Why Eat Whole Foods? — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:07:51 +0000

[...] organ damage, and heart disease, to name a few unpleasant conditions. Here’s a handy list of Twelve Food Additives To Avoid, complete with pretty [...]

By: boda blogs

boda blogs — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:48:23 +0000

[...] damage, and heart disease, to name a few unpleasant conditions. Here’s a handy list of Twelve Food Additives To Avoid, complete with pretty [...]

By: Why Eat Whole Foods? | BODA Blog

Why Eat Whole Foods? | BODA Blog — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:46:50 +0000

[...] damage, and heart disease, to name a few unpleasant conditions. Here’s a handy list of Twelve Food Additives To Avoid, complete with pretty [...]

By: Tiamat

Tiamat — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:11:44 +0000

MSG = sodium + glutamate. One is an ion we need for our bodies to function properly (e.g. proper renal function), the other is an amino acid (what we build proteins out of). Neither of these things, in moderation, is bad for you. In fact, eating lots of MSG is pretty equivalent to eating lots of salt – not good for you, certainly, but nothing something you need to eliminate from your diet.

By: graham

graham — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:52:31 +0000

for heaven sake! Terms such as Blue 1 etc to name food dyes are just about useless. Use simple terms ok, but give the more universal and more correct names as well. otherwise we think you don’t really know what you are talking about

By: OChem

OChem — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:09:23 +0000

Unfortunately, the alternative to all those nitrates & nitrites in meat is botulism poisoning.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:48:21 +0000

There are people who don’t care about eating healthy, and that’s their problem. Some people are so addicted to their junk food they don’t want to change, and that’s their problem. EVERYBODY knows how to eat healthy, naturally, but most CHOOSE NOT to give up the crap they eat. No sense in trying to advise people on how to eat healthy. Obviously if they cared they would do it. The people here are just cry-babies “what will I eat?”, “where’s the science to back this up?”, “all these additives are safe”, and on & on.

By: John Pitchers

John Pitchers — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:10:58 +0000

The shear abundance of additives going into our foods is literally making us sick. And the corporations force feeding it to us don’t care. Diseases like autism and asthma and disorders like hyperactivity have jumped in relation to the introduction of additives to our food. This is a huge issue and in the years to come as the general awareness increases we will see some drastic change… and hopefully lawsuits against greedy, immoral food manufacturers.

By: Patricia G

Patricia G — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:39:45 +0000

It really isn’t that the average adult is living longer, it is that overall the average life span of all people is longer because we have reduced infant and child mortality by preventing many of the killer childhood diseases. In the past, those individuals who survived childhood were quite hardy and lived much longer than 40 years. And, they probably ate a lot better than most of us do now!

By: irrelevant

irrelevant — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:53:39 +0000

1. i’m a career chemist.

2. sugar/HFCS should be REDUCED, but we americans are fat–this is what leads to health problems. there is no proven inherent risk in the consumption of either (in appropriate quantities).

3. table salt and sea salt carry the same health risks b/c they are the same compound. actually, the processing that takes place to make the “unnatural” salt leads to a significantly less impure form (though neither is really bad…again, fat americans). subbing one for the other isn’t going to buy you any extra time.

4. always be skeptical of the equation of human health with mouse health. we have wildly different metabolisms and living conditions. while it may seem scary to hear that mice get cancer from what you eat, it may not necessarily be relevant (for example, many drugs effective in mice don’t do a damn thing in humans…hit the literature). that being said, lots of things that kill mice do kill us too…i’m not saying that dioxins won’t fill you with tumors here…