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Food Additives - Update
Submitted: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 11:22
I've just received my newsletter from Additive Alert - containing interesting news about companies that are changing recipes to reduce known harmful additives, and a list of lobbying ideas to work on together, plus some good news about bread. I'm pasting the link to the newsletter online for anyone that is interested -
Additive Alert Newsletter (online)Also, I recently tried to buy mayonaise and was surprised to find it has the harmful additive antioxidant 320 (it seems to be in a lot of food unfortunately). I was so dismayed, I returned home without buying any mayonaise and got onto the Additive Alert website to find out if they had any recommendations as to what brands were safe - I found a section called
Foods we Love and quickly found out which brand was safe (ie. contains no additive 320, nor other harmful additives), and of course, it was on the shelves but I had missed it (ugly jar on top shelf!). Only problem is its in a huge glass jar, so I just have to decant into a more user-friendly plastic squeeze bottle (better for travel and kids). But better that I think that pump the kids full of things that are going to potentially cause long term harm. I honestly can't ignore this sort of thing, when cancer seems to be the biggest killer of humans and the probability of us getting cancer has been so much higher since we introduced so many manufactured foods into our diet - I'm more than happy to make a bit of effort to use different brands on the advice of such research.
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"the probability of us getting cancer has been so much higher since we introduced so many manufactured foods into our diet"
Interesting perspective - I'd always heard the probability of cancer was higher since the introduction of modern medicines & healthcare which now allows us to live long enough to get cancer (instead of dying of something else first!)
You guys are legends..Thanks for all this..Bookmarked it..Feel healthier already..Have to check how good old baked beans rate these days.Sure keeps you out of mischief;-) RockyOne
Hi David & Michelle,
Just looking around and going with the flow - found this post and do agree with your stand whole-heartedly. Had a look at the Additive Alert site, thanks for that. We have made great efforts to maintain high levels of nutrition when we're travelling which means buying fresh stuff, cooking a lot, and using the fridge wisely. We carry dry grains, root vegies & fruit in a sling, cans of things like chick peas, meat cryovac packed and so forth. We also keep things in the fridge that travel well such as red capsicum and celery rather than lettuce This means we avoid as many additives as possible. The supermarket list is mostly loo paper and rolled oats :-)
We also attend to hygiene well - good wash-ups, no plastic plates with scores in them that harbour nasties, and so on.
Good eating!
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