Thursday, February 19, 2009

Mike Adams - The Truth About Aspartame, MSG and Excitotoxins

The interview in pdf

Some parts:

"When you increase the glutamate level, cancer just grows like wildfire, and then when you block
glutamate, it dramatically slows the growth of the cancer."


"Mike: Wasn't there some research that came out recently that supports all this by establishing a
correlation between leukemia and aspartame?
Dr. Blaylock: Yes."

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Editorial: Obama should put food safety under one roof

President Barack Obama has a lot on his plate these days. But he should move quickly to create a single agency with the sole purpose of ensuring the safety of the nation's food supply.

The inefficiency of the current system boggles the mind. The Department of Agriculture receives 80 percent of the money allocated by Congress to ensure food safety, but it only regulates 20 percent of the supply — meat, poultry and eggs. The Food and Drug Administration gets the other 20 percent of the money to watch over everything else.

The FDA is inspecting less than 1 percent of food imports. It continues to botch its handling of salmonella outbreaks like the peanut butter fiasco that first surfaced in November, and it hasn't checked on the accuracy of nutrition labels in 10 years.

If that doesn't meet Obama's criteria for eliminating or altering ineffective programs, what does?

The president has said he hopes to appoint a new FDA commissioner in the next week. The first assignment should be to put food safety under one roof and separate it from drug safety, a very different challenge. The National Academy of Sciences first made that recommendation 10 years ago.

The next priority is a tracking system for all food products and for food-borne illness. The salmonella outbreak from tainted peanut butter has sickened 575 people in 43 states. Every year more than 50 million Americans become ill from food. Enough is enough. If the food




industry doesn't volunteer to help pay for enough independent inspectors and surveillance systems, then the government will have to levy fees.

Former President George W. Bush saw the FDA as such a low priority that he didn't have a permanent commissioner in place for more than half of his years in office. It shows. Obama has a lot of catching up to do.

Friday, February 6, 2009

Hawaii is Leading the Way in Battle to Ban Harmful Sweetener - Aspartame

Hawaii is Leading the Way in Battle to Ban Harmful Sweetener - Aspartame
By Stephen Fox, 2/5/2009 12:00:40 PM We have bills to ban Aspartame in both houses in Honolulu; the one in the Senate, SB576, sponsored by Senator Kalani English, has 13 more cosponsors, or 56% of the 25 member Hawaii Senate.

There is also a Hawaii Senate Resolution sponsored by Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland which directly requests the as-yet-unappointed new FDA Commissioner as well as Health and Human Services Secretary-designee, Tom Daschle, to rescind the approval for aspartame. Because we have concentrated on the Senate and are in good shape there at the moment, I believe, where we must concentrate is the Hawaii House Health Committee.

The corporate lobbyists and retail merchants' association will be fierce opponents of this legislation and will fight it tooth and nail, like bringing in really sick diabetics to testify, who cry around about what they would have to do to sweeten their food with an artificial sweetener, neurotoxin and carcinogen like aspartame?

Count on this, for sure: the world's largest Aspartame manufacturer, Ajinomoto, will bring in a bunch of very expensive high power lobbying muscle, like they did in New Mexico when an almost identical Senate Bill to ban aspartame was eviscerated by lobbyists and corporate attorneys for the manufacturers.

Thus, we need real grassroots connections in Hawaii. People who can give up an hour or two to send emails to Hawaii lawmakers and asking friends and family there to get involved, please do, so the corporate lobbyists for the world's largest food poisoner won't stop this important consumer protection bill.

Friday, January 30, 2009

Lunches


whole rice+ cucumber salad+ cow beef



whatercress and spinash salad+ pasta+grilled burger

These are pictures of my lunches in the 29 and 30 of January.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

FDA Should Reconsider Aspartame Cancer Risk, Say Experts

A new long-term animal test from an Italian cancer institute raises serious safety questions about the artificial sweetener aspartame, which is marketed generically as well as under the NutraSweet and Equal brand names.

A dozen toxicology and epidemiology experts and the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest are calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to immediately review the study, which found increases in lymphomas, leukemias, and breast cancers in rats.

If FDA concludes that aspartame does cause cancer in animals, the agency is required by law to revoke its approval for the controversial sweetener, which is used in Diet Pepsi, Diet Coke, tabletop packets, and countless other foods. Read the entire release here.

Source

Day 28 jan menu

PA1:a bowl with : 100 gr of natural yogurt + 4 almonds + 1 whole rice cookie+ 20 gr of avocado

PA2:nothing

A: grilled sea bass grelhado with cucumber and tomato salad

L:whole rice cookie+ almonds

J: seafood+ whole rice

C: 3 almonds

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Day 27 jan menu

B1: a bowl with : 100 gr of natural yogurt + 4 almonds + 1 whole rice cookie+ 20 gr of avocado

B2: whole rice cookie

L: grilled salmon with whole rice

S:whole rice cookies + almonds

D:spinach soup+grilled burger+ whole rice

My Lunch today



Grilled sea bass (just add some salt) .
Cucumber and tomato salad seasoned with olive oil,sider vinegar and oregano.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

My breakfast




Examples of lunches


  • grilled salmon( only with salt and oregon) with brown rice ( 80 gr)
  • 3 Grilled chicken legs with spaghetti (80gr)

Almonds Aid Weight Loss and Lower LDL Cholesterol



Nuts contain lots of fat, and many people still operate under the idea that fat makes you fat, so nuts are often sunned. However, review of the data from the Nurses' Health Study shows that frequent nut eaters are thinner on average than those who almost never consume nuts.

One reason nuts help with weight loss is their nutrient density. A body that is well nourished no longer craves food. The traditional American diet is so depleted of the nutrients needed by the body that the body continues to send hunger signals. In response to these signals, more nutrient deficient food is eaten and more hunger signals are sent. It is a vicious circle that leads to steady weight gain as the years go by. Eating nutrient rich almonds and other nuts breaks this vicious circle allowing for the feelings of fullness and satiety to set in.

In a study published in the International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders, researchers found that adding almonds to a low calorie diet can help overweight individuals drop pounds more effectively than a low calorie diet high in complex carbohydrates. Of 65 overweight participants, those that ate the almond enriched low calorie diet consumed 39% of their calories in the form of fat. Participants that ate the low calorie diet high in complex carbohydrates consumed only 18% of their calories from fat. Both diets supplied the same number of calories and equivalent amounts of protein.

Read the full article here

Reading Food Labels

food label
There it is a typical food label. How can we see if we can eat it?

Look at the Carbohydrate part it says 23 gr, this is not a problem. What you have to look is in the sugar part, in this case it says 1 gr. It means is very low sugar food, usually i choose foods with 5 gr or lower. Normally i eat with 1 or 2 gr like almonds.

So the important part is the sugar in the carbohydrates, not the carbohydrates themselves.

Then if you have a food with very high calories i try not to eat much of it. In this case you have 130 , its not much.




The Truth about MSG Monosodium Glutamate Clinical Nutrition

Diet Soda Makes People Fat? - Clinical Nutrition

Low GI foods

The Glycemic index (also glycaemic index) or GI is a measure of the effects of carbohydrates on blood glucose levels. Carbohydrates that break down rapidly during digestion releasing glucose rapidly into the bloodstream have a high GI; carbohydrates that break down slowly, releasing glucose gradually into the bloodstream, have a low GI. For most people, foods with a low GI have significant health benefits.

Source

This means if you eat low GI foods your cravings wont knock at your door. I try to eat Low and Medium like whole rice and spaghetti.

Classification GI range Examples
Low GI 55 or less most fruit and vegetables (except potatoes, watermelon), grainy breads, pasta, legumes/pulses, milk, products extremely low in carbohydrates (fish, eggs, meat, nuts, oils)
Medium GI 56 - 69 whole wheat products, brown rice, basmati rice, orange sweet potato, table sugar
High GI 70 and above corn flakes, baked potato, watermelon, most white rices (eg, jasmine), croissant, white bread, extruded cereals (eg, Rice Krispies), straight glucose (100)


In the Buxi diet foods with High GI are not allowed. Remember only to eat food above 69 level of GI, but mostly above 55
See a small list of the various levels( the red ones are high GI, orange Medium, Green Low):

* Yoghurt without sucrose (27)
* Fructose (32)
* Lentils (38)
* Whole milk (39)
* Damascus dry (44)
* Butter beans (44)
* Skim milk (46)
* Yogurt with sucrose (48)
* Apple (52)
* Pear (54)
* brown rice (55) - i saw sometimes has a Medium GI too

* Apple juice (58)
* Spaghetti (59)
* All Bran (60)
* Orange (62)
* Lactose (65)
* Peach canned (67)
* Peas (68)
* Baked beans (69)

* Yam (73)
* Orange Juice (74)
* Kiwi (75)
* Sweet potatoes (77)
* Oats (78)
* Popcorn (79)
* Manga (80)
* Muesli (80)
* White Rice (81)
* Banana (83)
* Bean soup (84)
* Ice cream (84)
* Chocolate (84)
* Cakes (87)
* Sucrose (87)
* Cookies (90)
* Couscous (93)
* Maize (98)
* Crackers (99)
* Wheat flour (99)
* White Bread (100)
* honey (104)
* Wheat cooked (105)
* French fries (107)
* Corn Flakes (119)
* Baked potato (121)



where is glutamate (msg) hidden ?

There are a lot of foods that can contain the ingredient glutamate on labels, but sometimes its hard to identified them because that can have different names ( because of the percentage of the amount)

I found one article in a website where you can read the full name list, see it here. I just put here some of them:


These ALWAYS contain MSG
Glutamate Glutamic acid Gelatin
Monosodium glutamate Calcium caseinate Textured protein
Monopotassium glutamate Sodium caseinate Yeast nutrient
Yeast extract Yeast food Autolyzed yeast
Hydrolyzed protein
(any protein that is hydrolyzed)
Hydrolyzed corn gluten Natrium glutamate (natrium is Latin/German for sodium)

I cant stop eatting! How do i start?

Its normal if you are eating now cans of coke, pizzas and burgers and you cant stop eating. That's the sugar,glutamate and some times aspartame that makes you eat almost every hour of the day. Don't worry, i used to eat a pizza at breakfast and i am now with no cravings. That is possible!


Ok, there are two ways to start this diet:

  1. Imagine you want to start a diet in the next Monday. you will eat in the weekend all the candies and sugary food you most like until you cant stand to look at them no more. Be aware that diabetics cant do this "tactic". In Monday, you will be so full of candies that you dont even are going to miss them. So you start the diet with no pain, and your body in a few days will be clean from sugar and the other "addictive" ingredients . The cravings just go away. If you fell a bit cravings just eat almonds.
  2. If the first way doesn't work, you can take some chromium pills, i don't wont to sell nothing so i wont tell any specific brand. Just be careful not to buy any that has many ingredients with the chromium. you take it for about 2 weeks and your cravings just calm down and you start the diet quietly.
Good Luck!
Publicar mensagem

Study Links MSG To Obesity In Humans


Cheesy-flavored tortilla chips and frozen pizzas, these foods and thousands of others have one ingredient that helps make them taste so good, MSG, or monosodium glutamate.

"It's a pretty powerful flavor enhancer," says nutritionist, Melanie Pearsall. "You're eating a lot of MSG and you probably don't even realize it. It's just a baseline across a lot of foods."

Some people already avoid MSG, thinking it can cause headaches, but a new study suggests it could be contributing to more serious problem: America's expanding waistline.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina followed people in rural China, they all ate the same healthy foods, some used MSG, and others did not.

"We analyzed the data and found that those who used MSG are more likely to be overweight than non-users," says Dr. Ka He, of the University of North Carolina.

Read the full article here

Day 26 Jan

Menu

B1: a bowl with : 100 gr of natural yogurt + 2 almonds + 1 Brazilian nut+ 1 whole rice cookie+ 20 gr of avocado

B2: 2 almonds + 1 whole rice cookie + water

L: sea food + lettuce salad

S:almonds+ whole rice cookie+ bit of avocado

D: home made spinach soup ( no msg ) + scrambled eggs + whole spaghetti

S:3 almonds

Buxi diet

Yes, that's it! I just invented a diet that really works! I have lost about 22 lbs in less then 3 months without felling cravings.

The problems of diets are two, the food sucks like broccoli( i really ate) and they make us have cravings for foods like pizza and burgers.

I Found that there are some ingredients that make you increase your appetite for bad food and dislike good food.

If you don't eat them, you just do your diet for months without eating any junk food or candies and you don't even remember they exist. Believe me. You just have to quit those 3 ingredients and your cravings disappear. Maybe it will cost you in the first 2 days but then you are free and your diet just goes nice.

the 3 ingredients are : Sugar, glutamate and aspartame. Get rid of them and you get thin!
My normal food intake is:

Breakfast : natural yogurt with almonds,whole rice cookie and avocado



Lunch and dinner: grilled meat or fish with 80 grams of whole rice or whole pasta ( cooked only with water and salt)
Between meals and at night you can eat almonds, tea without any sugar or aspartame , whole rice cookies or any food with low GI.
You can see i don't eat any processed food, just simple ones.
Good luck