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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 100
health care costs associated with smoking were estimated in 1980 to be US$16 billion (7% of
total national health care costs) and indirect mortality and morbidity costs were US$26
billion.”
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Processed Foods and Food Additives
The average American eats about 150 pounds of additives each year. Most
of these are sugar and salt. But almost 15 pounds are various other chemicals,
many of which have been created in the test tube.
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Robert Gorman, A Quick Guide to Food Additives
There are over 8,000 food additives. Many of these come from foods while others come
from inorganic sources. Not all food additives are safe. Many are known to have health risks but
their use is still permitted because they fill a particular need. In a 1981 interview of renowned
neuroscientist Dr. John Olney of Washington University, he said: “Chemicals marketed as food
additives are consumed without supervision by hundreds of millions, most of whom do not know
they are ingesting the additive, do not derive health benefits from it and have no understanding
of its adverse effects.”
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In A Quick Guide to Food Additives, Robert Gorman lists the following
potential health risks from food additives:
…allergic reactions, cancer, birth defects, genetic mutations, heart and
organ disease, spontaneous abortions, brain damage, nervousness, learning
disorders, behavior disorders, tooth decay, and other health problems.
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It was not always the case that the US government would permit additives with known
health risks to be used in our foods. In 1906 the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed. It
eventually became the responsibility of the Bureau of Chemistry to enforce this Pure Food Law.
The Bureau of Chemistry was headed by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley. The Pure Food law was
designed to protect the American food supply from dangerous additives. Under Dr. Wiley many
additives were eliminated from use, which resulted in purer and more wholesome food than is
typical today. It appears that Dr. Wiley was much more zealous than those in the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) today.
President Theodore Roosevelt fired Dr. Wiley and did away with the Bureau of
Chemistry in defense of his daily diet of saccharin, which Dr. Wiley had said was injurious to
health.
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Saccharin is made from toluene and petroleum, two toxic chemical substances. In 1977
the FDA linked saccharin to bladder cancer; in 1981 it was listed as a known carcinogen. In 2000
it was removed from the list of carcinogens.
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Dr. Wiley wrote an expose on his years with the Bureau of Chemistry and the corruption
he witnessed, it was published in 1929. The book was titled The History of a Crime Against the
Food Law, on the last page Dr. Wiley concludes:
If the Bureau of Chemistry had been permitted to enforce the law as it was
written and as it tried to do, what would have been the condition now? No food
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