“I mean, they do test these things, right? Yes — no food additive, in general, goes into a product until it undergoes extensive testing. No matter how insane-sounding the substance, if it’s fundamentally bad for you (i.e., poisonous), there isn’t really much of a chance you’ll find it in your breakfast cereal.”

They do test it (somewhat). And in some/most cases they DID test it. Al lot of the test were done in the 50ties and 60ties and they did not have the means back then to test it thoroughly. But they still use those same test results to justify their products. Even when they know the ingredients are not good for you.

Please people make an effort to educate yourself about this stuff because it can seriously effect your life. And besides…knowing what the big corporates and the pharmaceutical industry has done and is still doing to us can only beneficial to everyone.

For instance read: The Hundred-Year Lie (Randall Fitzgerald ISBN:9780452288393).
How to protect yourself from the Chemicals That Are Destroying Your Health.

And better yet, read about the research that Corinne Couget did about E-Numbers.

Grtz and Bon Appetit

Two years ago, I decided to learn how to cook and got an excellent cookbook written by the Dietitians of Canada that is all about healthy options and is filled with nutritional information. All the meals come from basic ingredients with no additives or preservatives and within a few weeks of following the recipes, my digestive problems were gone. But then I had to go back to school again and returned to my old eating habits, and the digestive problems returned. I’ve since reverted back to eating healthy again and I feel great. I couldn’t believe the change I experienced in my overall health simply from cutting out processed food.

I still eat processed food on occaision, be it due to a time constraint or just plain weakness for the taste of some of the foods, but real food has certainly won me over purely out of personal experience.