Things have to be real to be called food in my articles. You know, apples, oranges, avocado, chicken, sweet potatoes, pork, shrimp, almonds, mangos. Chemicals, artificial sweeteners, colors, dyes, fat blockers, preservatives, pesticides, plastics, paint thinners, oven cleaners, weed killers, and spider spray just don’t count as food.
Have you ever looked up the uses for some of these chemicals commonly found in our “food”? And what exactly is Yellow #5 or Blue #6? What purpose do aluminum, sodium benzoate, quinolone, carmoisine, and tartarazine 19140 serve in a body? I was reading a package the other day and its second ingredient was Sunset Yellow FCF15985 (E110).
I wasn’t sure if I was to bake, broil, or deep-fry “yellow,” so I decided to skip that ingredient for dinner. Many of these chemicals are designed to add color to your paint or remove stains from your carpets, to build navy ships and bulletproof vests. They are not food! Therefore, they should not be consumed. Use them to decorate your house and build bombproof shelters, but do not put them in your mouth.
The American Medical Society has coined a term for these industrial chemicals found in or sprayed on foods: obesogens. These obesogens disrupt normal hormonal balance and inhibit lipid (fat) metabolism.
Obesogens can literally make you fat! Sadly, and ironically, most “diet” packaged foods are loaded with obesogens. Do not eat them. If you still feel the need to ask why and are not concerned that the accumulation of these toxins might someday kill you, then let me give you another little fact to chew on.
FAST METABOLISM FACT
The liver both breaks down chemicals and metabolizes fat from food, from your butt, and from cholesterol. You choose how you want your liver to spend its day: breaking down the chemicals you are eating under the pretense that it is food, or burning off the fat from your butt, belly, chin, and thighs?
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