Food Additives that Don’t “Add” anything
Betcha you eat or would like to eat most of the foods whose additives are on this DO not EAT list.
Sodium Nitrate
A preservative, coloring, and flavoring used with meat products, sodium nitrate is commonly added to bacon, ham, hot dogs, luncheon meats, smoked fish, and corned beef to stabilize the red color and add flavor. Sodium nitrate prevents growth of bacteria, but studies have linked eating it to various types of cancer.
BHA and BHT
Butylated hydroxyanisole and butylated hydrozyttoluene are additional additives to red flag. They are used to preserve common household foods. Both keep fats and oils from going rancid and are found in cereals, chewing gum, potato chips, and vegetable oils.
Food Additives to Avoid
Propyl Gallate
Propyl gallate is another preservative to avoid, used to prevent fats and oils from spoiling and is often used in conjunction with BHA and BHT. This additive is sometimes found in meat products, chicken soup base, and chewing gum.
Another reason to avoid gum. Heh.
Monosodium Glutamate
Monosodium glutamate is an amino acid used as a flavor enhancer in soups, salad dressings, chips, frozen entrees, and restaurant food. It is commonly associated with Asian foods and flavorings.
Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil
Hydrogenated vegetable oil, also called partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and commonly known as trans fat, makes it onto our dirty dozen list because eating too much of it leads to heart disease.
Aspartame
Aspartame, also known by the brand names Nutrasweet and Equal, is an additive found in so-called diet foods such as low-calorie desserts, gelatins, drink mixes, and soft drinks. It also comes in individual packages used in place of sugar as a sweetener. Aspartame is a combination of two amino acids and methanol that may cause cancer or neurological problems, such as dizziness or hallucinations.
Food Colorings: Blue 1, 2; Red 3; Green 3; Yellow 6
You may think that all dangerous artificial food colorings were banned by the FDA long ago, but there are five still on the market that are linked with cancer in animal testing.
Olestra
Olestra, a synthetic fat known as the brand name Olean and found in some potato chip brands, prevents fat from getting absorbed in your digestive system. This often leads to severe diarrhea, abdominal cramps, and gas.
Overweight is something that just sort of snacks up on you. 
The 4 Food Groups: 
Pizza, Coffee, Chocolate and Ice cream.
Each day I try to enjoy something from each of the four food groups: the bonbon group, the salty-snack group, the caffeine group, and the “whatever-the-thing-in-the-tinfoil-in-the-back-of-the-fridge-is” group. 
The real difference between fat and thin people is that thin people…..
-avoid eating popcorn in the movies because it gets their hands greasy. Sheesh. 
-split a large combination pizza with three friends.
-think Oreo cookies are for kids.
-nibble cashews one at a time.
-think that doughnuts are indigestible.
-read books they have to hold with both hands. 
-become so absorbed in a weekend project they forget to have lunch. (Who could forget lunch?) 
-fill the candy dish on their desks with paper clips.
-think it’s too much trouble to stop at a special store just to buy chocolate.
-don’t celebrate with a hot-fudge sundae every time they lose a pound.
-think that topping brownies with ice cream makes too rich a dessert.
Ha! 
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June 5th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
The way these warnings and studies are, if you follow them to the letter because they ‘might’ kill you, you can’t eat anything and will just have to die of starvation.
Love the “That wasn’t chicken” picture, brilliant, i’m pilfering that, might use it one day for something.
June 5th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
I hate to tell you this, but some of that just isn’t true. People worry too much about a lot of it, and the CSPI (the misnamed center for science in the public interest — actually a group that wants to run our lives, eliminate all chemical additives in food, eliminate preservatives, eliminate meat consumption and otherwise run our lives for us) is one of the reason’s why.
Aspartame particularly gets a bad rap which is based upon fraudulent science and doesn’t cause dizziness or hallucinations.
We’ve really got to stop worrying about trace amounts of this or that in our food. Otherwise fear will lead us all to live out our lives in caves wearing nothing but dirt and our skin, huddled together for warmth because we’re afraid to light a fire for light and warmth because of the damage to the environment the carbon dioxide from burning those twigs will cause — if we can even live in the caves, because after all, they’re probably the habitat of some endangered species of blind crab that would be exterminated under our heels in the dark.
Oh wait… that’s apparently the ultimate goal of the left anyway, after they destroy our economies with regulations, and give us all free health care by taking the funding from people that exploit natural resources for that evil profit. But the health care is only temporary until we learn that we can’t exploit the rain-forest to find the ants that will save us from cancer because after all, those ants are endangered and besides we’ll offend the local witch-doctors.
June 5th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Without artificial sweeteners I would probably die thanks to the coma that sugars will put me into… unless I get regular injections of insulin and some oral pharmaceuticals to allow my body to actually use that insulin.
I HATE THE NANNY STATE!
June 5th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Meat, potatos, iced tea, ice cream!
The best diet book ever written was by Manuel Labore.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
“split a large combination pizza with three friends.”
You lost me.
June 5th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Send Posts, Please!…
Where has the time gone? I started this morning to move my old posts to my site, and it’s almost 6pm! I’m just working on one site, at that. I would like to have something good for my readers to check. Would you please help me while I continue…
June 5th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Ha ! and woot !
You know my Angel …. I am a natural man.
Meat comes from the butcher who has his own smoke house … fresh and lean cuts with just the right hang time. Cold cuts all made in the shop natural smoked and no preservatives. You should try the store made turkey breast roll!! Yumm.
Local bakeries too many to shop them all.
Don’t fear the coffee .. buy good beans and grind em fresh … make it strong and drink it black.
Beer! The foundation of civilization. Anyone who doesn’t appreciate beer has no taste and may be barbarian or a Ludite.
Wine … a gift from the ancient gods. Never say no to a gift from any of the ancient gods.
When the natural man cooks …. the results are pure and purely delightful.
Home made breads! Oh yes…and so much other delectable stuff
Cheers!
June 5th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Open Topic: The USAF Bloodletting…
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June 5th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
I’m gonna die of something or other one day. Might as well enjoy life before I go. So I don’t care what additives cause cancer or not. All I care is if the food tastes good.
June 5th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
I like my food fresh and un-fooled around with.
June 5th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
I’m with you Katie. If God tells me when I die, “Edge…you know you really should have stayed away from those hot dogs,” I’ll say, “Yah you’re right…but have you ever had one?”:)
June 5th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
The Grassfire Rebellion…
Podcast Show Notes
Grassroots conservatives are taking the GOP back by storm in Idaho and Virginia.
An insurance company refuses to pay for a patient’s treatment, but they do offer to fund an assisted suicide for her.
An absurd airport security …
June 5th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
The Grassfire Rebellion…
Podcast Show Notes
Grassroots conservatives are taking the GOP back by storm in Idaho and Virginia.
An insurance company refuses to pay for a patient’s treatment, but they do offer to fund an assisted suicide for her.
An absurd airport security …
June 5th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
The Grassfire Rebellion…
Podcast Show Notes
Grassroots conservatives are taking the GOP back by storm in Idaho and Virginia.
An insurance company refuses to pay for a patient’s treatment, but they do offer to fund an assisted suicide for her.
An absurd airport security …
June 6th, 2008 at 4:04 am
So is Obama’s win really so Historic?…
Oh I know the stock answer, that being that he is the first black presidential candidate. Well half black anyway.
So yea, I get the point that he has done what no one else has done. But so did Hillary. We had history o…
June 6th, 2008 at 8:13 am
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June 6th, 2008 at 9:17 am
i can personally attest to the olestra report – thinking i was doing something healthy for my children when they were small, got them a bag of the chips containing this – they BOTH developed the stomach cramps and worse!
i’m with you in the chocolate and caffeine department.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:07 am
I agree with MK, Angel. It’s impossible to follow these warnings to the letter, but it helps to grow a lot of one’s own food, as I do, and to eat out as seldome as possible.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Murder Most Foul!…
But what else is there to do? I’ve been kept awake nights and am finding myself plotting and planning what to do about this idiot……
June 6th, 2008 at 10:24 am
OK, this should be a Monday post. Now I feel guilty going into the weekend!!
June 6th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Obama’s Pro-Israel Stance Abandoned…
Via JW.Obama got cheers from AIPAC yesterday. Too bad he didn’t mean a word of it….
June 6th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Oh, well. I’m gonna die riddled with disease, I guess! LOL!
June 6th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
NEWS & OPINION ROUNDUP (6 JUNE 2008)…
Still no smoking gun with the now famed but elusive Michelle Obama "Whitey" tape. Maybe someone’s waiting on 4th of July? I’m watching the Free Republic thread for any signs of life.
Some coverage of that pathetic disg…
June 6th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
If only people knew how often “that wasn’t chicken” actually applied… Chicken is good for you, but only after it is skinned and de-fatted. Chicken fat is exponentially worse for you than beef fat, if it is consumed.
Another great one, Hot Rod. Have a delightful weekend!
June 6th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
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June 7th, 2008 at 3:26 am
Moderation and lots of exercise – that’s how my wife has lost 30 pounds and I’ve lost 25 pounds.
The problem is that preservatives and processed food is all around us, and we often just don’t pay attention to what is in our food supply. Of course, to get food that doesn’t contain preservatives costs more, but you really should know what you put into your mouth…
June 7th, 2008 at 7:23 am
Now that you killed my week-end, I’ll submit my post of the week.
Big Breaking News!
Two Of The World’s Greatest Intellectual Genius’s Have Endorsed Barack Obama!
Stevie Wonder and Bob Dillon have both endorsed Barack Obama. This shocking news was obtained when being interviewed in Denmark, where Dillon stopped over in a hotel during a tour of Scandinavia.
He added: “You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.” And this brilliant comment was made without reading any notes or from reading off of a Teleprompter. Freud could have written this passage, and it would have gone down in history.
One has to wonder where does this Stroke of Genius originates from. No one would have guessed it, but lurking just over the horizon was this creative genius.
Also at a private performance at London’s Hard Rock Cafe , Stevie Wonder dedicated his classic ‘Signed Sealed Delivered’ to Obama and compared him to John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
Where he said: “I’m very optimistic about the world, and I believe that most people want to see a united people of the United States, and so I believe that he is the one that will do that.
“Ah yes, what marvels a genius can do.
Yes folks, both Bob Dylan and Steven Wonder crawled out of their caves to give his endorsement to Barack Obama, Now I can see why Stevie Wonder was give the name “Stevie Wonder” for he is truly a “Wonder”.
One can only wonder who will be next? Perhaps, Iron Mike Tyson?
June 7th, 2008 at 9:10 am
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June 7th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Excellent Blog, “Women” When you get into non political issues, you are a very talented blogger.
I particularly like your intermingling words with pictures
June 7th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
coffee is lifeblood. And I am jonesing hard for some Little Caesar’s
June 7th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
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June 7th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Beginnings and Endings…
Last Tuesday, there was a general expectation that Barack Obama would clinch the Democratic nomination. As a superior life form, I don’t want to look foolish, so instead of discussing the end of Hillary’s campaign before any votes were counted,……
June 7th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
ASPERTAME CAN BE A PROBLEM!! Perri, I get stroke symptoms, very mild..tingling, numbness on one whole side and face, from aspertame. I can ONLY have Splenda..caffeine also causes this ridiculous syndrome “body migraine!” I’ve had to go to ER a few times when it’s become worse because you never know if it’s just the migraine or something I need to be seen for. Hate to share personal med stuff, but ASPERTAME CAN BE A PROBLEM, TRUST me!!
Angel, you’re taking the fun out of eating, but you do it with such adorable one-liners and fantastic illustrations, I don’t mind!! LOVE your work in blogging, it’s unique and great to read..always. z
June 7th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Angel: One correction, NutraSweet and Equal (the same thing) are completely different from Splenda, which you have in your image. Splenda is actually not artificial, but made from some form of sugar (don’t ask me the specifics). Also Perri Nelson is correct, from the studies conducted on rats, a human would have to eat an entire house full of NutraSweet every hour of every day, before they would see any side affects of any kind. Most of these are scare tactics simliar to that of NutraSweet. The amounts you would have to eat would be impossible for a human to consume.
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June 8th, 2008 at 1:08 am
British government discriminates against Christianity, favors Islam…
“The Church of England claims the British government lacks a strong
moral direction, discriminates against Christians and favors Islam in
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June 8th, 2008 at 2:45 am
Since I stopped worrying about ingredients in my food I am far happier and healthier.
June 8th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Z wrote, “ASPERTAME CAN BE A PROBLEM!!” It sure can! It gave me terrible palpitations. Now that I have long since banned it from all my food intake my palpitations are gone.
I eat regular foods, low fat, low cholesterol, low sodium, low corn starch and syrup – whenever I can, but the key is not really what you eat. It is how much you eat.
All things are ok in moderation. If people learned moderation we would not see the health issues people experience due to gluttony.
So I eat my two tacos, drink my caffeine free Sprite and don’t worry about it.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
NEWS AND OPINION ROUNDUP (8 JUNE 2008) EXCLUSIVE MICHELLE OBAMA "WHITEY" VIDEO REVEALED!…
WE FINALLY FOUND IT, MICHELLE OBAMA’S RACIST SPEECH REVEALED!
Iran and the problem of Evil
The "Media Reform Conference" should be wrapping up today. What a wonderful weekend filled with leftist media types plotting to silence con…
June 8th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Hmm…I survive on a diet of mainly coffee, cigarettes and cookies.
60 years old, very fit, blood pressure normal, cholesterol and blood-sugar levels normal, no known medical problems…just slightly underweight for my height.
The genes have it!
June 8th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
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June 8th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
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June 9th, 2008 at 8:51 am
NEWS & OPIONION ROUNDUP (9 JUNE 2008)…
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June 15th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
The only snack food I buy is semi-sweet morsels and peanuts. Makes a good trail mix. I snack on it when my appetite is not good (illness). Otherwise i cook everything myself. Pizza, creole potato chips, tortilla chips and gourmet meals. My wife does not even want to go to restaurants, she says no ones cooking is better than mine and it is healthy. Not low calorie, just healthy. I wonder if I could get challenged to a throw down? Nah, I don’t have just one specialty dish. hehe
We do not worry too much about what we eat, we worry too little about what we stuff in our mouths. But, it is not the governments job to save us from ourselves. products like aspertame and olsetra were made for people that do not understand restraint. I will take sugar and fat over chemicals any day.
You want to live on fast food, it is fine with me. But, I would be the wrong person to complain to when you are fat, broke and sickly. ;^)
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