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mother, baby & child April 2011 thousand other drugs may and Butylated hydroxyanisole can clearly be seen as harmful
sound. According to Saunders, and Butylated hydroxytoluene food preservative,” she says,
while the body is designed (BHA and BHT) are the synthetic “Carboxymethylcellulose is a
to detoxify harmful and toxic antioxidant preservatives that stabiliser, also used in salad
chemicals from cells, the have caused cancers in rats. dressing, cheese spreads and
problem however is that the ”The food preservative BHA is chocolate milk and has shown
capacity of the body to eliminate used in meats, baked goods, to produce tumors in eighty
these chemicals is limited and cereals, snack foods, and beer,” percent of rats injected with it.”
soon becomes overwhelmed. she explains. Brominated oils, adds Saunders,
“This accumulation of are used as a preservative for
chemically-synthesised Another preservative is bottled fruit juice that also give
substances disrupt the bio- mono-glceryides and di- them lengthier shelf life and are
chemistry of hundreds of billions glceryides used to preserve harmful food preservatives that
of microscopic living cells which foods like cookies, cakes, have serious side effects. “They
make up the body,” she says pies, bread, peanut butter, cause changes in heart tissue,
and they can change the natural dry roasted nuts, vegetables enlargement of the thyroid,
chemistry which results in cancer, packaged with sauce, kidney damage, decrease in
diabetes, heart disease, kidney shortening, and margarine liver metabolism and also cause
disease, allergies, diverticulitis, which Saunders tells have side withered testicles,” she says
emphysema, stomach ulcers, effects that cause birth defects and in fact some countries like
premature aging, impotence, and cancer. “Propyl gallate, Canada, Holland, and Germany
hypoglycemia and arthritis. a preservative used in meat have banned brominated oils in
“In fact, the combined effect products, vegetables packaged the production of bottled drinks.
of these toxins on humans is with sauce, pickles, vegetable Sodium nitrate, commonly used
unknown,” she says. shortening and oils as also in as preservative for ham, bacon,
chewing gum, are known as sausage and bologna gets
What’s In Our Food harmful preservatives as they converted into nitrous acid when
may cause birth defects and liver consumed and is suspected
The food industry aims at damage,” she says and sulfites, of inciting stomach cancer.
making products look and taste the common food preservatives “Germany and Norway have
appealing without thought for fruits, dried fruit, canned banned the use of this harmful
to the products’ nutritional olives and peppers, corn syrup, food preservative declaring
value, tells Saunders, “It is cornstarch, wine vinegar, and it a toxin,” explains Saunders
time for parents to educate wine have side effects in form and the last is citric Acid which
themselves and make well of headaches, joint pain, heart is artificially produced using
informed decisions about what palpitations, allergies, and sulfuric acid. “This is also a
goes into their trusting little cancer. harmful food preservative with
one’s mouth.” To start, just a side effects such as asthmatic
few of the better researched Maleic hydraside, the harmful attacks and allergic reactions,”
killers include: benzoates which food preservative (in fact a she says however, naturally
Saunders explains are used as chemical inhibitor) is used to occurring citric acid is a safe
preservative for pickles, flour, preserve potatoes to prevent food preservative.
margarine, fruit purees, and them from sprouting. It has
fruit juices and can trigger resulted in cancer in laboratory CREDITS:
allergies and may cause brain animals, tells Saunders, Brenda Saunders
damage. “Bromates is another while propylene glycol and Homeopath
common food preservative carboxymethylcellulose are used The Dubai Herbal and Treatment Centre
used in white flour and bread to make ice cream. “Propylene 04-3351200
which destroys nutrients and glycol is the same substance
can cause diarrhea,” she says, that is used in antifreeze and
paint remover and therefore it
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