9 Ingredients to avoid in processed foods

[Muse]

• Artificial Colors <-- 1970 "Food Pollution" article
• Artificial Flavorings <-- 1970 "Food Pollution" article
• Artificial Sweeteners <-- 1970 "Food Pollution" article
• Benzoate Preservatives <-- 1970 "Food Pollution" article
• Brominated Vegetable Oil
• High Fructose Corn Syrup
• MSG <-- 1970 "Food Pollution" article
• Olestra
• Shortening, Hydrogenated and Partially Hydrogenated Oils <-- 1970 "Food Pollution" article

Around 1970 I encountered an article entitled "Food Pollution" in one of the prominent progressive magazines, maybe Mother Jones (did it exist then?). It was a great article, blew my mind, and I clipped it and reread it several times. I don't think I have the article any more, but most of the things on that list were discussed at length. Yes, even then, it was known, but far from widely known, and today of course this information is widely known. I believe that the 1970ish article also listed mono and diglicerides, BHA and BHT.

Edit: According to Wikipedia, Mother Jones inception was 1976, so the article must have appeared in one of its predecessors.

 

[MrMatt]

Whoa, you missed the most dangerous chemical of them all, Dihydrogen Monoxide! DHMO can kill you if it's inhaled; prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage; it has been found in biopsies of precancerous tumors; and it's actually a major component of acid rain and it corrodes metals. That's right - SOMETHING COMMONLY IN YOUR FOOD IS KNOWN TO CORRODE METAL.

When a college professor handed out a petition to ban DMHO I was one of 3 people in the class to not sign it. He was my environmental sciences teacher. Basically he said "be cautious, but look behind the hype"

 

[nageov3t]

well, if the 1970's said it... brb, throwing away all my condoms and buying some coke.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Thanks for the info. Lately I've been avoiding HFCS and eating mostly meals I cook myself with fresh ingredients.

 

[Muse]

Tony Hicks in today's paper on fast food joints trying to out-do each other in offering unhealthy food:

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_14891072

"Fast-food places are trying to outdo each other for the most blatantly anti-healthy food they can dream up."

 

[nageov3t]

Tony Hicks in today's paper on fast food joints trying to out-do each other in offering unhealthy food:

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_14891072

the double down really isn't as unhealthy as people make it out to be.

given the option, I'd pick a piece of grilled chicken over 2 slices of white bread most days.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Thanks for the info. Lately I've been avoiding HFCS and eating mostly meals I cook myself with fresh ingredients.

Have fun wasting your time. I'm not a shill for the corn lobby, just monitor your sugar intake. "Sugar": HFCS, cane sugar, beet sugar, anything that's a 50/50-ish sucrose/fructose. Anyone who believes the nearly immeasurable difference between HFCS and "natural sugar" makes it magically more potent or dangerous is a tard; it's cheaper and they can put it in drinks easier, the only truth to the entire argument is the taste difference, and even then only to assholes like myself.

EDIT: FWIW, Monster (gotta drink less of that shit) has ZERO fructose in it (werd?). It's sweetened with sucrose and glucose...I wonder how they got pure sugars in there.

 

[Gibsons]

Have fun wasting your time. I'm not a shill for the corn lobby, just monitor your sugar intake. "Sugar": HFCS, cane sugar, beet sugar, anything that's a 50/50-ish sucrose/fructose. Anyone who believes the nearly immeasurable difference between HFCS and "natural sugar" makes it magically more potent or dangerous is a tard; it's cheaper and they can put it in drinks easier, the only truth to the entire argument is the taste difference, and even then only to assholes like myself.

EDIT: FWIW, Monster (gotta drink less of that shit) has ZERO fructose in it (werd?). It's sweetened with sucrose and glucose...I wonder how they got pure sugars in there.

I imagine they get the glucose from (surprise) corn. Corn sugar is mostly glucose, so if it's left alone, there ya go.