Food Additives: Protect Your Family From Cancer-Causing Chemicals

There are more than 3000 different food additives that are purposefully added to our food supply. Some of them are known to cause cancer!

How is this possible?

Even though the Delaney Clause of the 1958 Food Additives Amendment states that any additives shown to cause cancer in humans or animals are not permitted to be added to our food, political pressure has caused the FDA to relax these standards and allow “small amounts” of cancer causing substances to be used in foods.

But that’s not the worst of it…

Not only are known carcinogens allowed in your food, but certain food additives can cause allergic reactions in some people. Other additives may be harmful to certain groups of people such as pregnant women, infants, people with high blood pressure and people with kidney problems.

There’s even more bad news…

Even if all of the food additives used in our foods were safe individually, rarely does any food have only one additive in it. Testing for additive safety has been done for individual additives, not for combinations of additives. Additives that are safe individually may be harmful in certain combinations. Nobody knows the effects of the many different additives used in the thousands of different combinations.

It’s enough to make you afraid to eat packaged foods of any kind.

How can you protect you and your family?

The good news is…food labels for packaged foods must list the ingredients. The not-so-good news is that finding the ingredients on the label and being able to read them can be a challenge. They’re often hidden under a flap of packaging material in very tiny print, barely readable without a magnifying glass.

And many of the ingredients have extremely long and complicated names like ethyl methyl phenylglycidate or ferric sodium pyrophosphate. Words that don’t mean anything to anyone unless they have a chemistry degree. So even if you pull out your magnifying glass and read the small print, it still wouldn’t do you any good.

Here’s something else to watch out for…“stealth” listing of the ingredients. Often the package has statements like "NATURAL FRUIT FLAVORS, with Real Fruit Juice," or ALL NATURAL INGREDIENTS and NO PRESERVATIVES ADDED. This does not mean there are no harmful additives in the product. There very well could be. By using these words, the manufacturer hopes you'll think these are healthy, natural products and buy them.

The easiest way to protect yourself and your family is to know how to read the labels and what it means as far as your health is concerned. You don’t need a college education to do that. Nor do you need to do hundreds of hours of research. All you need is… FOOD ADDITIVES: A Shopper’s Guide To What’s Safe And What’s Not.

The “Rosetta Stone” of Food Label Gobbledygook

Just like the Rosetta Stone enabled historians to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics, FOOD ADDITIVES: A Shopper’s Guide To What’s Safe And What’s Not enables you to translate the mind-boggling, scientific chemical names of food additives into a simple rating system so that you know what’s safe and what isn’t. It’s small booklet that you can carry in a purse or pocket when you go to the grocery store. You can read the list of ingredients and compare each additive with the additives listed in this book—before you buy. In just seconds, the average person can find out if an additive in the food they're buying is harmful. It's clear, concise and easy to use.