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Top 10 hazardous cosmetic products to avoid if you want to protect your family from harsh chemicals

June 27, 2023 -

While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the authority to regulate ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products, the agency often does not exercise it. Instead, the FDA tasks companies manufacturing and marketing cosmetics with ensuring their safety.

According to the FDA website, "neither the law nor FDA regulations require specific tests to demonstrate the safety of individual products or ingredients." Meaning, there are no required tests to conduct. The ...

Check out these 7 food additives that are BANNED in Europe but commonly used in the U.S.

November 17, 2023 -

One such additive is 1) titanium dioxide, a whitening agent often added to American flour, bread, candy, boxed macaroni and cheese, canned soup and prepackaged baked goods.

In May 2021, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) determined that titanium dioxide could be genotoxic, meaning it has the potential to impair DNA or chromosomes.

Titanium dioxide also breaks down into nanoparticles that can trigger inflammation, pulmonary damage, fibrosis and lung tumors ...

Why GLUTEN is so much WORSE for your health than you might have thought (op-ed)

4 days ago -

In America, research regarding the safety of food for humans to consume is done by certainly one of the most corrupt government-run agencies ever, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA). Even the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) aren't quite as insidious and nefarious, responsible for leading more humans down the path of self-destruction through adulterated food and contaminated medicine.

Gluten research is polluted with Google-driven ...

World’s most popular pizza joint – Pizza Hut – testing out new compostable, round box, BHA/BHT-free meats, antibiotic-free chicken, and no MSG

October 28, 2019 -

Now, don’t go getting too excited. Pizza Hut has been bragging about their “commitment to quality food …” since 58 years ago, but “quality” dairy and meat products, well, those are kind of oxymorons, when you’re talking about animal fat clogging your veins and arteries, not to mention processed oils and bread conditioners, and we could go on and on. Then there’s MSG (monosodium glutamate) and partially-hydrogenated vegetable oils, which “The Hut” used to utilize in their secret ...

Ten food label entries that should send you running

March 15, 2013 - naturalnews.com printable article

Ten food label entries that should send you running

Sodium nitrate and sodium nitrite

Butylated hydrozyttoluene (BHT) and Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA)

Propyl gallate

Monosodium glutamate (MSG)

Hydrogenated vegetable oil

Aspartame

Acesulfame-K

Food colorings 1, 2, 3, and 6

Olestra or olean

Potassium bromate

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Scientists find the moringa leaf to be an effective preservative for meat

November 06, 2018 -

The act of preserving food is unarguably as old as the human race. It stands to reason: Food begins to spoil the moment it's harvested from crops or culled from livestock. To get around this predicament, our ancestors made the best of the methods available to them, be it extreme heat or cold, and live through the lean season. It's what also helped them settle in places and build communities.

More recently, meat preservatives have been the industry standard for prolonging ...

Food preservatives and chemical additives found to promote obesity… is this why America is so overweight?

September 03, 2017 -

In the new study, published in Nature Communications, the researchers tested butylhydroxytoluene (BHT), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), and tributyltin (TBT). BHT is a fat-soluble preservative that is usually added to foods and cosmetics to slow down autoxidation; PFOA is a man-made chemical that is common on cookware to make it more resistant to heat, grease, and stains; and TBT is used as a stabilizer in plastic products.

For the experimental part ...

Essential oils could replace chemical additives in preserving meat products

October 11, 2006 - naturalnews.com printable article

Essential oils could replace chemical additives in preserving meat products

"The results of my research support the idea that new food ingredients from plant kingdom are of interest for the meat industry," lead author Mario Estvez. "Using "functional ingredients" such as those containing flavonoids are excellent options to enhance the nutritional and technological properties of a wide range of foods."In the study, the researchers studied ...

CHEMICALS LIST: Toxic ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products

March 23, 2023 -

Some of them are intentionally added as ingredients, while others are contaminants. Research has linked exposure to metals to immune, nervous system and reproductive toxicity.

Here is a short list of toxic chemicals found in cosmetics.Carcinogens

Some of the carcinogenic impurities common to personal care product ingredients include the following:

1,4-dioxane. Research conducted by the Environmental Working Group showed that 22 percent of all cosmetics may ...

Green tea found to have practical antioxidant applications for preserving stored food

November 22, 2019 -

Lipid oxidation reduces the commercial shelf-life of food products – affecting their color, flavor, and texture, as well as decreasing the nutritional quality of food – all of which reduce the acceptability by consumers leading them to reject the product.

In their study, the research team examined the antioxidant potential of freeze-dried green tea in hamburgers. They treated hamburgers with a placebo, butylhydroxytoluene (BHT), and three different levels of ...

Outlawed bread chemicals in Europe are somehow considered perfectly safe by FDA in the USA

June 02, 2019 -

Potassium bromate (an oxidizer also called bromate flour) helps bread rise while fueling cancer cells of the kidneys and thyroid. Azodicarbonamide (ACA or "AZO"), the chemical compound used to make those bubbles in plastic and foam, is also used to bleach bread white. The human consumption implication? Again, cancer.BREAD CHEMICALS: Brazil, China, and European Union ban obvious cancer-causing industrial chemicals from their bread

Most humans would object to eating industrial ...

Candy carcinogens: Petroleum-based additives are being used in popular children’s candy

April 03, 2019 -

A study in the journal Clinical Pediatrics examined just artificial food colors, and found these harmful chemicals in 96.3 percent of candies, 94 percent of fruit-flavored snacks and 89.7 percent of drink mixes and powders. When children's and adult foods were examined together, 43.2 percent of all products were made with artificial colors. Fresh produce was the only food category not made with artificial colors (yes, that means meat, dairy and baked products may all contain ...