Artificial food additives

Countless food additives such as preservatives, artificial sweeteners, flavors and colors are administered our food and make it thus, at best, useless and dangerous in the long term for our health. A natural, real food is, paradoxically, to procure increasingly rare and difficult in the era of food industry. She is one of the main principles of sustainable health. Nevertheless grasp sometimes processed foods? Then reading the label of great value to your health. Below we present some of the food additives that you may encounter while and before that you should keep your body as far as possible.

Experiments have shown that sweet taste, regardless of the calorie content, promotes appetite and looking like consumption of sweet foods triggers , which logically leads to weight gain. The artificial sweetener aspartame is the strongest effect attributed. Other strong artificial sweeteners include acesulfame potassium, sucralose and saccharin. However, weight gain is still relative a harmless side effect of artificial sweeteners.

Aspartame.

Aspartame is a sweet tasting neurotoxin . The amino acids in aspartame attack the cells to overcome the blood-brain barrier and thus reach the brain cells. The result is a toxic cell stimulation (excitotoxicity), which is also in the additive glutamate (MSG) is the case.

Sucralose.

Sucralose affects the digestive enzymes , whereby the barrier function of the intestine is altered. This process is involved in the development or exacerbation of inflammatory responses in the intestine. In research it was also found that sucralose destroyed up to 50% of the good bacterial flora in the gut.

Without a doubt: artificial sweeteners affect worse on your health than sugar and fructose.

Synthetic trans fats.

Synthetic trans fats are often included in foods that contain hydrogenated vegetable oil, such as crackers, chips, supermarket bakery and all fried foods.

Synthetic trans fats are responsible, which are known markers for most chronic diseases for the causing inflammation.

As an example, a study led in 2010, were studied in the postmenopausal women with the result that those who had a 30% higher susceptibility to ischemic attacks with the highest daily amount of synthetic trans fats.

Synthetic trans fats favor the following additional health problems:

• Cancer: You disrupt enzymes that your body needs to fight cancer.
• Diabetes: They disrupt the insulin receptors in the cell membrane.
• Decreased immune function: reduce your immune response.
• Problems with reproduction: You disrupt enzymes that are needed to produce sex hormones.
• Heart disease: your intake of trans fats should be as low as possible. There are no proven “safety margin”.

Artificial flavors.

Artificial flavor, both unnatural additive included as well as a mixture of hundreds of different additives.Künstliches Erdbeer-Aroma enthält zum Beispiel fast 50 chemische Inhaltsstoffe.

Monosodium Glutamate (MSG).

This flavor enhancer often with Chinese food associated, but is actually in many other processed foods such as frozen foods and salad dressings, snacks, chips or meat.

MSG is a excitotoxin: it can react on the cells, leading to cell damage. MSG causes brain dysfunction and damage in varying degrees – and possibly even triggering or worsening of learning disabilities, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Artificial colors.

As of July 2010, most foods that contain artificial colors were marked in the European Union by warning signs: “may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children”. The British government asked in 2009 food manufacturers about because of health concerns, most artificial colors to remove them from food.

Results of studies conducted by the chemical industry itself:

• Red number 40: the dye most commonly used can interfere with the immune system in mice sensitive tumors can arise quickly, there was also a connection with the induction of hyperactivity in children found.
• Blue Number 2: used in sweets, drinks, animal feed, and more, is associated with brain tumors.
• Yellow Number 5: using any of these baked goods, candy and cereal is contaminated not only with several cancer-causing chemicals, it is also associated with hyperactivity, hypersensitivity and other behavioral changes in children.

Corn syrup (HFCS).

It is often said that corn syrup is no worse than sugar, but that’s not the case. It includes free forms of monosaccharides fructose and glucose, so can not be seen as a biological equivalent to sucrose (sugar).

Fructose is metabolized primarily by the liver, because the liver is the only organ that serves as a transporter for this. In the conventional containing fructose diet of the West lives a considerable amount of fructose are exposed, the need to process them.

Too much fructose is directed in the liver the same health problems like alcohol and other toxins. And just like with alcohol also, the fructose is converted directly into fat and stored in fat cells, leading to a malfunction of the mitochondria (mitochondrial disorders), can lead to overweight and obesity disorders.

As a standard recommendation for fructose consumption applies: Keep the total daily fructose consumption below 25 grams. It is also advisable to limit the intake of fructose from fruit up to 15 grams or less, because we eat almost every day except in fruit “hidden” sources of fructose , for example, in beverages and processed foods.

15 grams of fructose containing two banana or 1/3 cup raisins.

Remember: contains a can of Coke 40 grams of sugar, at least half of which is composed of fructose, so that alone this a can of Coke or lemonade exceeds the daily needsv.

Preservative.

Preservatives extend the shelf life of food. butyl hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylhydroxytoluene hydroxytoluene (BHT) are preservatives that affect the neurological system of the brain, leading to behavioral changes and may promote cancer.

Tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) is a chemical preservative and so deadly that even 5 grams of it be enough to reach the lethal effect.

The preservative sodium – found in many soft drinks, fruit juices and salad dressings -bewirkt proven and measurable, that children are more hyperactive and distractible.

Sodium nitrite: a preservative commonly used in hot dogs, sausage and bacon, is associated with higher rates of colon, stomach and pancreatic cancer.

The list is not exhaustive, however … unfortunately …

If food is processed, lost not only valuable nutrients. There are also natural fibers structures and the natural flavors destroyed. After such processing results in a bland final product that most people would not eat. So have at this point the food producers nutrients, flavors, color and texture add to make processed food palatable.

But is that reason enough to embark on the ubiquity of plastics in our own food and to refrain from fresh, wholesome food? The value of one’s health is the correct answer.