Avoid these genetically modified foods to protect your health
September 18, 2007 on 11:35 am | In Uncategorized |Twenty years taking health insurance applications and watching more and more clients health decline at younger and younger ages combined with some health issues of my own has taught me that the food we eat makes a TREMENDOUS difference in our ability to maintain a healthy immune system and prevent chronic and degnerative diseases.
Eating anything that is not completely natural can not be properly assimilated by our bodies and is toxic. This includes genetically engineered or genetically modified foods(GM).
Today according to the American Agricultural Economics Association in their fourth quarter newsletter “Choices”, in 2005, it was estimated then that 60-70% of foods found in grocery stores accross the United States contained genetically modified ingredients.
Originally the FDA in 1992 was going to require labeling if food was substantially altered but it was NOT required to mention that this had anything to do with genetically modified ingredients being added- only that the food characteristics had changed. Then in 2001 this so-called labeling requirement was made voluntary which it continues to be today in spite of confirmed studies that GM peas cause lung damage in mice - (http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8347)-
the off spring of rats that were fed GM soy died. In 1996 long term safety tests conducted by the UK government found rats that were fed potatoes engineered to produce their own insecticide “developed precancerous growths in their digestive tracts” and suffered “inhibited development of their brains, livers, testicles and partial atrophy of the liver, enlarged pancreas and immune system damage”. It was also determined that the damage was due to the genetic engineering process.(http://www.seedsofdeception.com/DocumentFiles/119.pdf)
In fact there are 65 documented health risks(http://www.seedsofdeception.com/utility/showArticle/?objectID=1040) described in a book called GENETIC ROULLETTE by Jeffrey Smith.
Which are the foods that are genetically modified? Here isa very comprehensive list on the Truefood.org website: http://www.truefoodnow.org/shoppersguide/guide_printable.html