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8 Foods Even The Experts Won’t Eat. By April McCarthy.

8 Foods Even The Experts Won’t Eat

Originally published on Preventdisease.com. Food scientists are shedding light on items loaded with toxins and chemicals–and simple swaps for a cleaner diet and supersized health. Experts from different areas of specialty explain why they won’t eat these eight foods. Clean eating means choosing fruits, vegetables, and meats that are raised, grown, and sold with minimal processing. 8 Scary Hidden Ingredients in Processed Foods. 5 Reasons NOT To Use Commercial Cooking Sprays. When was the last time you ate something that could double as a fast acting soap scum remover for your shower?

5 Reasons NOT To Use Commercial Cooking Sprays

If you responded never, you may want to rethink your answer the next time you’re in the kitchen and reach for your favorite cooking spray. In fact, cooking spray aficionados like to point out a multitude of uses, many of which have nothing to do with eating. 9 Not-So-Safe “Healthy” Foods You Should Avoid. Dr.

9 Not-So-Safe “Healthy” Foods You Should Avoid

Roundup: The Male Contraceptive Hiding In Your Food. (NaturalNews) The dirty truth about glyphosate, the active chemical in Monsanto's Roundup herbicide formula, keeps rearing its ugly head, this time in a new study published in the journal Free Radical Medicine & Biology.

Roundup: The Male Contraceptive Hiding In Your Food

According to this latest indictment of Roundup, researchers affirmed that Roundup is essentially a destroyer of fertility, particularly in men, and at levels far below what is commonly found as residue in the conventional food supply. Six Signs You Are Gluten Intolerant & Don't Know It. More than 55 diseases have been linked to gluten, the protein found in wheat, rye, and barley.

Six Signs You Are Gluten Intolerant & Don't Know It

It’s estimated that 99% of the people who have either gluten intolerance or celiac disease are never diagnosed. Master List For Sources Of Gluten.

GMO - Genetically Modified Food

Is Soy Toxic? Why Do Govts Recommend It Now When They Didn’t A Decade Ago? By MARCO TORRES If we analyze the food guide and government advice on nutrition over a decade ago and compare those advisements to what is recommended today, there is one big difference–one specific food crept up onto the radar of public health officials as if it had some kind of miraculous nutritional benefit for the public.

Is Soy Toxic? Why Do Govts Recommend It Now When They Didn’t A Decade Ago?

The problem is, 80 percent of this food is genetically modified, contains toxic phytochemicals and is linked to digestive distress, immune system breakdown, allergies, ADD and ADHD, higher risk of heart disease and cancer, malnutrition, and loss of libido. Bhutan To Be First Country to Go 100% Organic. Weston Price Philosophy - Traditional Nutritional. This is the diet that Dr.

Weston Price Philosophy - Traditional Nutritional

Weston A. Price recommended, based on years of travelling, researching and studying traditional societies as they were in the process of changing from their native diets to western processed foods. Characteristics of a Traditional Diet 1. The diets of healthy primitive and nonindustrialized peoples contain no refined or denatured foods such as refined sugar or corn syrup; white flour; canned foods; pasteurized, homogenized, skim or low-fat milk; refined or hydrogenated vegetable oils; protein powders; artificial vitamins or toxic additives and colorings. Environmental Working Group.

EWG's 2012 Guide To Pesticides In Produce™ EWG analyzed pesticide residue testing data from the U.S.

EWG's 2012 Guide To Pesticides In Produce™

Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration to come up with rankings for these popular fresh produce items. All 48 foods are listed below from worst to best (lower numbers = more pesticides) Note: EWG analyzed pesticide tests of 48 popular produce items. ALL Bluefin Tuna Caught In California Are Radioactive ... DO NOT EAT TUNA — THE CITIZEN'S COLUMN. Over a year ago, in May of 2012, the Wall Street Journal reported on a Stanford University study.

ALL Bluefin Tuna Caught In California Are Radioactive ... DO NOT EAT TUNA — THE CITIZEN'S COLUMN

Daniel Madigan, a marine ecologist who led the study, was quoted as saying, “The tuna packaged it up (the radiation) and brought it across the world’s largest ocean. We were definitely surprised to see it at all and even more surprised to see it in every one we measured.” Another member of the study group, Marine biologist Nicholas Fisher at Stony Brook University in New York State reported, “We found that absolutely every one of them had comparable concentrations of cesium 134 and cesium 137.” That was over a year ago. The fish that were tested had relatively little exposure to the radioactive waste being dumped into the ocean following the nuclear melt-through that occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March of 2011. Radioactive cesium doesn’t sink to the sea floor, so fish swim through it and ingest it through their gills or by eating organisms that have already ingested it. Gulf Seafood Deformities Raise Questions Among Scientists And Fisherman.

While the true extent of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill was not known for about 4 years, as Al Jazeera notes in the video above, the repercussions of BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico may become apparent more quickly.

Gulf Seafood Deformities Raise Questions Among Scientists And Fisherman

Discovering eyeless shrimp, lesioned fish and other mutated and underdeveloped seafood, fisherman in the Gulf are pointing fingers at the BP spill. Biologist Dr. Darryl Felder told the news agency that Gulf seafood populations are dropping at alarming rates and that species richness is "diminished. " Food Security. GMO FOODS. Radiation Chart Infographic.