Avoid Foods with Artificial Additives

There are lots of very good reasons why people should avoid eating foods that contain any artificial additives. Most of those reasons are health related and if you are serious about maintaining good health, you should also get serious about reading the labels on all foods that you buy at the supermarket because they can tell you a lot about what you are buying and if you don't like what you are seeing, then the simple answer is to not buy it.

That would be great if all the ingredients that go into packeted and canned food were labeled so that the average person could understand what all those names and "E" numbers really were, but we are still a long way off from the food industry watchdogs having the strength to enforce a more fuller disclosure about what is actually in that food and what side effects each additive can cause and not only that but what side effects the combination of all the additives in that item of food can cause.

The answer to that last one is that no one actually knows.

That's right, no one has actually gone ahead and tested the combined additives on humans before putting those cocktails into foods. So we could all be eating ourselves into early graves and not even know it!

Okay, granted the chances of that happening are slim, but I'd prefer a slim chance to be NO chance by having all combinations of the additives that were going into every specific item of food to be tested together in the same amounts that are going into that food. That's the only way to be sure there are no additional dangers when certain chemicals get together with certain other food ingredients.

Until that day arrives and I can pick up a can of something and read the label that tells me that the "E" this and "E" that plus that "flavoring" (which anyone with a curious mind already knows is code for Monosodium Glutamate or MSG) is certified safe for my kids to eat, then I'm not going to put it in my shopping basket. Do you want to risk your kid's health through ignorance? Its what we are all doing because we trust a food industry that has already been proved to be sadly lacking in the testing stage to make sure the stuff they are selling us us safe. Look at how long it took them to remove "sunset yellow" coloring from the food!

So you can't trust the food industry because their prime aim is profit, not your health or the health of your kids.

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