Avoiding Food Additives

The food we purchase today, whether we like it or not, can contain food additives.  This is driven by the modern desire for fast, convenient foods and it means that preservatives, anti-bacterials, colourants and other food additives are virtually unavoidable if you eat processed or fast foods.

But what effect do these food additives have on the food concerned, its healthiness and ultimately, what effect do food additives have on you and your family?

There is a wide variety of food additives being used today and they are anything but easy to classify. Hundreds of different chemicals find their way into food additives and the only thing that can be said about almost all food additives is that they are not natural; almost all food additives are totally synthetic (man made) and therefore foreign to the body, and they have implications for the body's overall health and wellbeing.

Our bodies treat these artificial chemical compounds as foreign and don't accept them very well at all. Food additives are known to cause allergies, but many other food additives interact with one another and various other chemicals in the foods they are added to. This has created many different "food allergies", "food intolerances" and "dietary irritants", that were not seen 10 to 20 years ago. The adverse reactions are causing many people to suffer unnecessarily and have very poor quality of life, in some cases resulting in death.

The simple cause of these issues is today's reliance on fast, convenient foods and the food additives make it possible. These food additives are not natural and very little testing has been done to establish their safety in normal use and even fewer tests have been conducted with combinations of these additives! Have you noticed when you shop how many products have multiple food additives in them?

Virtually all foods that contain more than one additive have never been safety tested in combination!

We would assume that the regulatory bodies would ensure that food additives are fit for human health however this is not so.

Food additives like artificial sweeteners have been linked to cancers, HDD, anxiety attacks, depression, headaches and migraines. Monosodium glutamate, which has 22 derivatives (Names), has been linked to many health disorders such as MS, chronic fatigue syndrome and ADHD. Preservative 211, used in soft drinks, has been found to harm children's DNA.

These are only a couple of examples of what harm food additives can cause to human health.  Our advice is to purchase a good guide on food additives and their adverse health effects on health and wellbeing.

The latest research coming out of Europe has identified that children are up to 20 times more sensitive to chemicals than the current regulatory standards permit.

The best way to avoid exposure to food additives is to avoid junk food, fast food and conventional processed and packaged foods.  Certified organic process or manufactured foods do not contain artificial food additives.

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