Food Additives

Three Shocking Ways Packaged Foods Are Contaminated

Corey Rennell | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Bpa, Healthy Food, Produce, Food Contamination, Nutrition, Gluten Free, Food Additives, Diet and Nutrition, Peanut Allergies, Food Dyes, Vitamin E, Soy, Green News
Corey Rennell

Packaged foods acquire long shelf lives when their chemical properties are manipulated so that bacteria cannot grow. While this gives a perception of safety and sterility, it actually means that ingredients of any quality can be used and the food will never go bad.

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Pink Slime and Beyond: 5 Implications

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Onqi, Nutrition, Dr. David Katz, Food Additives, Food, Nuval, Pink Slime, Ground Beef, Diet, Ingredients, Nutrients, Meat Pink Slime, Pink Beef Slime, Beef Slime, Diet and Nutrition, Healthy Living News
David Katz, M.D.

Pink slime happens to have been outed. But what other things that you never knew you never knew were in your food are still finding their way into you, and your kids?

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Top 10 Reasons
to Avoid Processed Foods

Maria Rodale | Posted 03.13.2012

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Maria Rodale

by guest blogger Tyler Graham, coauthor of The Happiness Diet 1: Deciphering food label ingredients leads to unappetizing results. Take the innocuous...

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Packaged Food Is Mystery Food, Part I: Additives

Corey Rennell | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Food Additives, Packaged Foods, Health Food, Nutrition, Diet and Nutrition, Preservatives, Healthy Food, Natural Health, Food and Additives, Additives in Food, Processed Foods, Custom-Diet-and-Nutrition, Healthy Living News
Corey Rennell

Modern food science has discovered that by using chemical additives we can now make old food appear almost as good. As a result, additives are now used in nearly every packaged food. This trend lies at the heart of our health problems.

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NRDC Lawsuit Finally Prompts FDA to Agree to Determine Safety of BPA

Sarah Janssen | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Bpa, Bisphenol A, Fda, Nrdc, Food Additives, Bpa Lawsuit, BPA Cancer, Bpa Food Additive, Bpa Bpa Fda, Green News
Sarah Janssen

More than three years ago, NRDC filed a petition with FDA asking it to ban the use of BPA as a food additive. Now, FDA has agreed to give us an answer -- 41 months after the petition was filed.

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Feds Propose Clearer Food Labels On Meat Additives

AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Food News, Beef, Meat Additives, Agriculture, Food Additives, Green News, Poultry, Food, Pork, Agriculture Department, Food Labels, Green News

WASHINGTON -- The Agriculture Department wants consumers to know when there's less chicken in their chicken. A proposed rule aimed at food companies ...

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Obesity, MSG and Rats

Beverley Golden | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: John Erb, Overweight, MSG and Obesity, Food Additives, Dr. George Schwartz, Excitotoxin, Dr. Russell Blaylock, Obesity, Msg, Obesity & Health Crisis, MSG & Rats, Childhood Obesity, Rats--Obesity, Monosodium Glutamate, Nutrition, Home News
Beverley Golden

The information I uncovered, about the relationship of MSG to obesity, was both eye-opening and shocking.

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What Is 'Lecithin'? Deciphering The Ingredients Label (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Many food ingredient lists are headache-inducing and leave us wondering what we're actually consuming. Do you know what Tertiary Butylhydroquinone is,...

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"Meat Glue": EU's Approval Of Food Additive 'Thrombin' Freaks Swedes Out

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Processed Food, Food, Composite Meat Product, Glue, Meat Glue, Meat, Sweden, Food Additives, Transglutaminases, Green News

Swedish consumer groups and politicians are united in alarm over the approval of thrombin, known as "meat glue," an animal-derived additive that proce...

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Hold the MSG: Food Triggers for Epilepsy and Other Neurological Illnesses

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.17.2011

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Alison Rose Levy

For neurological illnesses, a body of scientific research demonstrates that certain food additives contribute to excessive nerve cell firing, and thus may possibly trigger neurological incidents.

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The Most Common Disease You've Never Heard Of

Randall Amster | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Anemia, US Military, Military, Newborns, Health, Screening, Food Additives, Racism, Food, Genetics, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Soy, g6pd, Malaria, The Balanced Life, Healthy Living News
Randall Amster

G6PD is an essential enzyme that is lacking in people with this widespread genetic disorder, and its absence leads to a condition that is closely related to other forms of anemia.

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What Do You Think About the Purity of the "Organic" Label?

Wendy Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Usda, Organic Standards, National Organic Standards, Organic, Nutrients, Food Additives, Green News
Wendy Gordon

There is debate brewing around the integrity of the term "organic," fueled by the growing list of products approved by the National Organic Standards Board, that consist of non-organic substances.

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True Food: A Love Poem

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Politics of Food, Family Values, Children, Food Crisis, Health, Food Additives, Food, Autism, Children's Health, Healthcare, Family, Allergies, Healthy Living News
Robyn O'Brien

As headlines swirl and climates whirl/ And Wall Street finds its feet/ There's one refrain that doesn't change/ "Mommy, what's there to eat?"

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The Big Risk of Insanely Small Nanoparticles in Our Food

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marguerite Manteau-Rao

For now, until the FDA and the USDA get their acts together, when it comes to food and our health, it seems that we, the people, are once more on our own.

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Food Coloring, Preservatives Make Children Behave Badly

Reuters | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Food Coloring and Preservatives Children Hyper Behavior, Food Additives, Healthy Living News

Certain artificial food colorings and other additives can worsen hyperactive behaviors in children aged 3 to 9, British researchers reported on Wednes...

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Food Additives Cause Hyperactivity In Children

Financial Times | Jenny Wiggins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Artificial colourings and additives can cause hyperactivity in children, the UK's food safety watchdog will warn for the first time today. The Food S...

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