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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 101
products in our country would have any trace of benzoic acid, sulfurous acid or
sulfites, or any alum or saccharin, save for medical purposes. No soft drink would
contain any caffeine, or theobromine. No bleached flour would enter interstate
commerce. Our foods and drugs would be wholly without any form of
adulteration and misbranding. The health of our people would be vastly improved
and their life greatly extended. The manufactures of our food supply, and
especially the millers, would devote their energies to improving the public health
and promoting happiness in every home by the production of whole ground,
unbolted cereal flours and meals.
The resistance of our people to infectious diseases would be greatly
increased by a vastly improved and more wholesome diet. Our example would
be followed by the civilized world and thus bring
to the whole universe the
benefits which our own people had received.
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As Dr. Wiley so aptly stated, if the US had maintained a wholesome, natural, and healthy
food supply, we would have been an example of healthful living for the whole world. Instead we
are just the opposite. When additives are tested for safety, consideration and testing is not done
on its potential danger when combined with certain other additives. Therefore, it seems little if
anything is known of the cumulative effect of all the additives in use. Although the cumulative
affect is not known, it is known that many additives in use are injurious to health. A sample
listing of these includes: nitrites, BHA and BHT, Sulfites and some artificial colors.
Nitrites are used in the preserving, flavoring and coloring of bacon and other processed
meats. It was discovered that: “Nitrites used to cure bacon were converting to nitrosamines even
before cooking,”
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and that, “Nitrite combines with natural stomach and food chemicals
(secondary amines) to [also] create nitrosamines.”
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Nitrosamines are some of the most powerful
cancer causing agents.
BHA (Butylated hyroxyanisole) and BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) are used in foods
as preservatives, stabilizers and antioxidants; they are the most widely used antioxidants.
Research indicates that both BHA and BHT may be harmful to the kidney, it may be harmful to
the brain of offspring (causing abnormal brain patterns) and they are promoters and
cocarcinogens. Promoters and cocarcinogens work with other carcinogens to accentuate cancer
growth.
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Sulfites—during the 1980s there was a growing number of adverse reactions to sulfites
that included diarrhea, hives, nausea, respiratory arrest, loss of consciousness and death (as of
1999 sulfites were believed to have caused 17 deaths). Sulfites have been banned for use on fresh
vegetables and fruit.
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Artificial colors—since 1900 artificial food colors have been repeatedly removed from
the market because of their detrimental effects on health, cancer promotion has been the greatest
concern. Many artificial colorings are made from coal-tar. One of these is FD & C Red No. 3,
which is known to be carcinogenic and suspected of causing genetic damage; its use in food is
still permitted.
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