Peace of Mind
28th April 2011, 20:07
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I just wanted to share an article I've read in I.D (Ideas & Discoveries) magazine. Thread title was my own idea. Hopefully this may be of some use to you.
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What does our food actually consist of? Of course it contains the fats, proteins and carbohydrates that give it its energy value, as well as vitamins, minerals, and trace minerals. That much we know. What’s less obvious, however, is that food not only contains nutrients, but also information, “Each food is like a file that holds a large amount of different types of information, “ says food researcher and nutrition specialist Anja Knumbe. When we eat something, we open this file with our “operating system”-our metabolism.
What happens next can be compared with the processes that take place in a computer hard drive. First there is an exchange of information. Consider this simple example: You’re eating chocolate. The information (sweet and creamy) signals the arrival of two important energy carriers, sugar and fat. Your body’s entire metabolism kicks in as soon as your tongue has read this data out of the “chocolate file.” Among other things, this is important because the body’s complete energy requirement always has to be calculated, analyzed. Aand organized in advance. That is the only way to ensure the proper supply of energy and avoid the production of an energy surplus. Put another way, this system is one of the main reasons we normally eat only as much as we need-and no more than that. But like a computer connected to the internet, our body’s metabolism is constantly exposed to danger. As long as the files are “clean,” there are no problems. But the files can also contain false and unreadable information, and in some cases this data begins to resemble the viruses and Trojans of the computer world.
You may have guessed that “clean data” for the body means basic foodstuffs that are unadulterated and untreated as much as possible. Our metabolism had been familiar with the data volume contained in apples and oatmeal for thousand of years. But the food industry is constantly adding new data in the form of artificial flavorings, softeners, dyes, and flavor enhancers that our metabolism is unable to classify. What’s more, the information content of food is being falsified by toxins in the environment, pesticides, and heavy metals.
Crime Scene: the supermarket shelf. “Buy me” the mayonnaise seems to shout at the customer. “I’m wonderfully creamy, fresh, low-calorie, and healthy!” Surveys have shown that most consumers believe what food products tell them-but are these products telling the truth? Just one look at the expiration date is enough to reveal how our mayonnaise defines “FRESH” and Creamy.” Fresh means the addition of preservatives, while creamy is archived through the addition of the emulsifier lecithin, which keeps the fat and water in mayonnaise from separating, but in the human body, lecithin takes on a completely different mission: Its chemical information can cause asthmatic reactions.
Sweetners are another common example of food dis-information. When “sweet data” reaches the metabolic system, the system repeats by releasing insulin to break down the sugar it’s expecting. Out metabolism was program to this more than 100,000 years ago-and intake of an artificial sweetner does nothing to change this. Sweetening substances like saccharin are in countless foods such as spreads and diet beverages. They are classic examples of Trojans that demonstrate how modern food products operate on several different levels of what is in some cases contradictory information, and then enter our bodies in order to carry out a type of secret mission.
How much information can our bodies process?
A study conducted by Susan Swithers and Terry Davidson of Purdue University in Indiana concludes that sweeteners are dangerous agents. He combination of a sweet taste and a lack of calories confuses the body to such an extent that it operates less effectively when digesting the meals and drinks that come later- and then begins demanding more. The result is a greater feeling of hunger that ultimately leads to obesity. And as we know, overweight individuals are more susceptible to severe systematic disturbances like diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis, and heart complications.
The problem isn’t limited to false signals, however: The large amount of data itself is increasingly becoming an issue. Many industrially produced food products have so many different additives and flavorings that the body can barely process them all. Some of the information is therefore deposited into one of the body’s many storage devices- the liver, for example, where the data then launches its dangerous program undetected. Like a computer virus, the artificial substances enter our operating system. The problem is that out protection programs (such as the immune system) can no longer keep up with the invaders. Just one simple piece of lemon cake contains hostile contains hostile information that employs a sly trick to penetrate our body’s most important firewall: the blood brain barrier. Once it has entered the brain, the data, which takes the form of aluminum, can lead to Alzheimer’s. Slowly but surely, it destroys our operating system in a war of attrition.
How our enemies infiltrate our body
Our food is in compatibility mode, which means our body takes it in and processes it. But undesired program components are also continually sneaking in with it. Nations have laws that regulate entry across their borders. Despite these regulations, undesired and dangerous elements like terrorists, criminals, and smugglers still manage to get in. And our bodies’ “immigration laws” don’t always function perfectly, either. If the operating system does not recognize an enemy as such, it will make no attempt to kick it out.
What’s required now is something like a “food terrorist’s database”. Agencies like the FDA and the USDA are responsible for looking into the danger posed by the terrorists in our food. Whatever substance they don’t prohibit is considered to be harmless up to a maximum level that the agencies define. However, these agencies hardly ever examine the interaction of several additives in combinations like those found in nearly all food. That’s not surprising, given the fact that the food industry is one of the most powerful economic sectors in the world. This industry generates total annual revenues of approximately $1 trillion-even more than the nation’s defense budget! And just as generals keep military secrets, the food industry also attempts to “cloak” things.
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Now for some police work...
Suspect #1 Member of the Terror cell “Chewing Gum” Interrogation of Aspartame:
We came across your name in an old CIA file, where you were listed as a biochemical warfare agent.
It’s all lies. I was never deployed.
The chewing gum package tells a different story, my friend. What code name do you go by?
I have many different names: NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, Canderal, Sanecta…
And what’s your job?
I’m 200 times sweeter than regular household sugar. That’s why my success isn’t just limited to just candy and soft drinks. My job is to make products “light.”
And what’s your relationship with formaldehyde?
I don’t have one. That stuff is extremely toxic- I keep away from it!
What do you do when you get inside a body?
I break down into my basic components in the stomach: 40% aspartic acid, 50% phenylalanine.
And the other 10%?
I have no idea about that. Who’s interested in a measly 10%?
We are! You forgot to tell us that what’s left over is methanol-which breaks down into formaldehyde. And formaldehyde causes cancer!
Suspect #2: member of the terror cell “Instant soup”
Interrogation of Guanylic Acid:
What exactly are you doing in our soups?
Hey, I only enhance their flavor. If is wasn’t for me, a lot of soups would taste bland and boring.
Ok, so you work as a flavor enhancer. What’s your code name?
I also go by Guanosine monophosphate, but really, you can find me in every plant and animal cell. I’m harmless and up to 50mg of me is permitted in every 100 grams of food.
Where do you actually come from?
I’m made from guanine- it’s one of the four building blocks of DNA.
Guanine, huh. Isn’t that purine?
Uh, yeah.
In the body purines are converted into 2.5 times their amount in uric acid, which is how it gets in the blood!
Yeah, but there’s nothing wrong with that! They’re flushed out and excreted through the kidneys.
That’s what we cal gout. You’re busted!
Suspect #3 member of the terror Cell “Lemon Cake” Interrogation of Aluminum:
What are you doing in cake glaze?
I give it a wonderful silvery sheen. That sells more cakes. It’s as simple as that.
So you’re saying you work as a food coloring?
Yes, and I’m extremely popular. I do glaze for pastries and I also color licorice candies and other sweets.
Well, you’re strongly suspected of having planned an attack on our brain.
That’s not true. I’m innocent! The body only absorbs extremely small traces of aluminum, which can’t even get into the brain- that’s been scientifically proven! In fact, there’s not even a limit on how much of me people can consume.
Are you associated with Citric Acid?
Um,er…
We’re been looking into citric acid and it’s connection to you, and we’ve found that you two always show up together-on the labels of millions of food packages around the world. You’re gonna tell me this is a coincidence? What have you and citric acid been planning?
Nothing. We just work together. I make the cake look good, she makes it taste good.
Stop holding back-we know there’s more!
OK,OK. Citric Acid told me she can get into the brain because the blood-brain barrier doesn’t notice her.
So she’s a smuggler who can jump the border without being detected-and she takes you with her.
Only on very rare and exceptional occasions.
That’s a lie! She repeatedly smuggles you in. Our investigators have found aluminum deposits in the brain of Alzheimer patients. We figure they came from you, and now you’re given us the name of the smuggler to prove it.
Suspect #4: Member of the terror cell “ Corn” Interrogation of the T25 Gene Sequence:
You were arrested at the scene, correct?
Yes. So? What was the problem?
Genotypes were manipulated!
That’s terrible, but what’s it got to do with me?
Your genotype was also altered.
No. You’re talking about two different things. I was modified to make me resistant against weed killers. That makes me easier to grow.
You’re not allowed into some European countries, isn’t that true?
Yes. Austria, for example. Because the Austrians think any genetically modified food automatically means a potential terrorist attack. Those people are totally paranoid!
Oh, you think so, huh? Well, we know from animal testing tat female mice that were fed genetically modified corn displayed reduced fertility. Their insulin regulation system was also altered.
And how do you figure I did that?
That’s what we want to find out.
So you got nothing on me-just circumstantial evidence. Well, I don’t see any reason to stay here anymore. Good Day!
Suspect #5: Member of the terror cell “Jam” Interrogation of Carrageenan:
You work as a thickening agent?
Yes, I make sure marmalade stays nice and solid and jelly-like.
I’m completely harmless-ask anybody. What’s the problem anyway?
Scientists claim you can cause ulcers and allergies.
You’re got me mixed up with someone else. I think you are talking about little brother.
Little brother?
Yeah-he looks like me, just a lot smaller. Some people call him degraded Carrageenan, or poligeenan.
And why is he so dangerous and you’re not?
The small size of his molecules makes it easier for him to penetrate intestinal mucosa and cause ulcers.
You see him once in a while?
No, never. We don’t talk.
So you consist solely of harmless carrageenan?
Well, ok-there are always tiny traces of degraded carrageenan. But it’s minimal amounts…provided you don’t heat me up.
Why? What happens then?
Then I turn into my little brother.
Ok, we’ve found you on a marmalade-coated cookie. If you turn into your little brother there, We’ll arrest you.
Suspect # 6: member of the terror cell “ Cucumber” Interrogation of Dieldrin:
You’re one of the dirty dozen!
Yes, I’m one of the 12 toxins banned by the Stockholm Convention in 2001. No one’s allow to use me, sell me, or manufacture me.
We thought you’d be taken out of commission in America decades ago!
That’s true. I haven’t been allowed to work here for a long time.
And why is that?
I alter genes, might possibly be carcinogenic, and can even damage embryos in the womb.
So what are you doing in a cucumber in the year 2011?
I’m a sleeper- I’ve gone underground. No one can stop me.
Where have you been hiding out?
In just about every farm field in the nation. I inconspicuously collect in bodily tissue, which allows me to worm my way into practically every food chain.
We’re going to put a stop to that now.
Never gonna happen: I’m like a phantom. No jail, no prison walls can hold me.
Suspect # 7: member of the terror cell “ Chips” Interrogation of The Azo Dye Sunset Yellow FCF:
Your code name is FD&C yellow 6—we found it on a list of ingredients for a pudding. In fact, in Germany the labels say the following: Can impair children’s activity and their ability to focus.” Is that true?
Yes- that’s no secret.
So you alter children’s minds?
Uh, yes.
And you’re still being used?
Yes, of course, because I lend products a wonderful orange-yellow color. But there are limits on how much of me can be used-A maximum of 90mg per pound of chips, for example.
Was an acceptable daily intake (ADI) amount also issued for you?
Yes, .45 mg per pound of body weight.
Wait! A kid could easily consume that maximum-a handful of chips is all it would take!
Yeah. But that’s not my problem!
You are affiliated with the food colorants tartrazine, Quinoline Yellow, Azorubine, Allura Red AC, and Cochineal red A?
We’re a big family and all of us are made from petroleum.
And all of you have had maximum dosages placed on you?
Yes, but they are all independent of one another.
How often do you work with other members of your family?
It depends on the desired color shade. Together we can create beautiful red tones.
At a nice childs birthday party with chips, gummy bears, gelatin, and peanut puffs?
Yep- we’re all there.
And when you’re done. The bomb explodes in those kids heads: The azo colorant compounds get together to set off a devastating psycho bomb!
Suspect # 8: “frozen Pizza” Interrogation of Potassium Nitrite:
You can’t keep me here! The law is clear on this.
You really think we wont interrogate you? You’re required by law to be listed on the ingredients list on the package.
Yes I do think that, I’m only in the pepperoni—I’ve got nothing to do with the pizza it’s on. That’s why I feel I shouldn’t have to reveal my presence.
What have you got to hide?
I’m a pickling salt. I make salami and pepperoni keep longer, and give them a nice red color.
You’re suspected of causing cancer!
That’s absurd! Millions of people eat me every day.
Precisely. We believe you’re planning a global attack.
You can’t prove anything!
You say your job is to color meat red. How exactly does that work?
I alter the structure of the protein building blocks in the natural colorants.
You mean you bond with amino acids.
Yeah, so what?
And what happens when you’re heated?
I turn into nitrosamines.
Yes, and those cause cancer!
OK, but who heats up salami and people just put me on bread
This pepperoni is also salami-and it’s here on a pizza. So you’re busted, Pal!
Suspect # 9 “Tomato” Interrogation of Methomyl:
We found you in the supermarket. How did you get there?
Well, you know I travel a lot. I have a lot of friends like tomatoes, oranges, lettuce,kiwis,strwberries,apples, peppers, pineapples, plums, grapes…they took me along with them.
What’s your name?
Some people call me Methomyl. My commercial names are Lannate and Nudrin.
We don’t have a dossier on these names.
Well, I’m Chinese, but I work mostly in South America. Take a look at a company called Haihang Industry Co.LTD—one of the world’s largest chemical suppliers.
OK. But here it says you’re a pesticide
Yes, that’s my job. I kill caterpillars, worms, beetles, and plant lice, and make sure fruit and vegetables look tasty and appetizing.
If you do such helpful things, why do you have such a bad rap?
I have only a very restricted work permit in the United States.
How come?
Well, The thing is I don’t just kill insects. I also tend to have a very carcinogenic effect on humans. I damage the nervous system and alter genes.So you’re a killer.
Yes- so what?
We caught you red-handed in a whole bunch of supermarkets!
That’s true, but I wasn’t working there. My work took place in the farm. Even the European Union has set limits for consuming me. It’s all on the books-check it out yourself: Traces of me up to a maximum of .1mg per pound of food are permitted there. Go ahead, look!
But you’re already more than 1,000 percent over that limit just in grapes! All it takes is 20 grapes or a large tomato salad per child.
That’s the grapes fault. My part ended after the planting and growing was done. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got some place to be. But don’t worry: We’ll be seeing each other again soon…
Suspect # 10 “ Pork Cutlets” Interrogation of Carazolol:
Haven’t we been around psychiatric wards a lot?
Yes, that’s right. I’m often used as a medication to fight depression and schizophrenia.
You got any side effects?
I slow down heartbeat, I can cause erectile dysfunction, and I can raise cholesterol levels I the body.
Do you have any other jobs?
I ride with pigs to the slaughterhouse-you know, I make sure they don’t flip out on the way.
I can imagine how you got into those cutlets, then
Yes, but it’s not my fault! It’s the farms and the slaughterhouses. A lot of times they don’t wait as long as they are supposed to before killing the pigs. That means I don’t have enough time to break down in the pig’s bodies.
So there’s nothing you can do about it, is that what you’re saying?
Hey, guns don’t kill people, people kill people-know what I mean?Yeah, well we caught you with a smoking gun.
That may be, but I didn’t pull the trigger. I’m innocent and I’m leaving!
Suspect #11 “ Salad Dressing” Interrogation of Tocopherol:
I think you got the wrong guy, I’m extremely healthy and also useful?
What do you do?
I preserve the fat and protect the vitamins in healthy oils. Even after they are opened.
We found traces of you in millions of human bodies. Can you explain how that happened?
I’m in many kinds of salad dressings. I’m even allowed in unlimited amounts in organic products because I’m considered a naturally occurring substance.How exactly do you carry out your function?
Healthy fatty acids can be easily oxidized instead, so the fatty acids remain unchanged. That’s why you’ll often find a huge amount of me in oils.
And what happens when you get inside a body?
I protect fat there, too, as well as amino acids,from oxygen.
You protect all amino acids-the building blocks of protein?
Yes.
That means thrombocytes, too, which like all other cells consist of proteins. Those small platelets clump together to enable clotting at the site of a wound. If they encapsulated and cannot touch, the body’s ability to form clot is reduced!
Suspect # 12: “Soda” Interrogation of Sodium Cyclamate:
You’re sweet.
Oh, thank you! I hear that often. In fact I’m 35 times sweeter than household sugar.
And yet so slim.
That’s my job: I’m sweet but won’t make you fat.
How exactly does that work?
No one really knows why I’m sweet. The only thing that’s clear is that the human body is incapable of splitting me apart, which means it has no way to use me to obtain energy. That’s why I have zero calories.
Nevertheless, you’re prohibited from entering the United States. Why is that?
I’ve been banned there since 1969 because there were some suspicions that I caused bladder cancer and possibly even colon cancer. But to this day there’s no conclusive proof of this, except maybe where extremely high doses of me were involved. That’s why I’m still being used in Europe.
What you’re saying is, if you can’t be broken down in the body, you pass through the bladder and colon unchanged?
Yes.
Do you happen to like bacteria by any chance? Like enterobacteriaceae, enterococci, clostridium- things like this?
No, I hate them. They destroy me and can sometimes turn me into cyclohexylamine.
You know that this substance is extremely corrosive and highly toxic, and that high doses of it lead to cardiac arrest?
Yeah, so?
The bacteria I just mentioned are frequently found in the human digestive tract-which makes you responsible for poison substance attacks on the body!
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Peace
I just wanted to share an article I've read in I.D (Ideas & Discoveries) magazine. Thread title was my own idea. Hopefully this may be of some use to you.
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What does our food actually consist of? Of course it contains the fats, proteins and carbohydrates that give it its energy value, as well as vitamins, minerals, and trace minerals. That much we know. What’s less obvious, however, is that food not only contains nutrients, but also information, “Each food is like a file that holds a large amount of different types of information, “ says food researcher and nutrition specialist Anja Knumbe. When we eat something, we open this file with our “operating system”-our metabolism.
What happens next can be compared with the processes that take place in a computer hard drive. First there is an exchange of information. Consider this simple example: You’re eating chocolate. The information (sweet and creamy) signals the arrival of two important energy carriers, sugar and fat. Your body’s entire metabolism kicks in as soon as your tongue has read this data out of the “chocolate file.” Among other things, this is important because the body’s complete energy requirement always has to be calculated, analyzed. Aand organized in advance. That is the only way to ensure the proper supply of energy and avoid the production of an energy surplus. Put another way, this system is one of the main reasons we normally eat only as much as we need-and no more than that. But like a computer connected to the internet, our body’s metabolism is constantly exposed to danger. As long as the files are “clean,” there are no problems. But the files can also contain false and unreadable information, and in some cases this data begins to resemble the viruses and Trojans of the computer world.
You may have guessed that “clean data” for the body means basic foodstuffs that are unadulterated and untreated as much as possible. Our metabolism had been familiar with the data volume contained in apples and oatmeal for thousand of years. But the food industry is constantly adding new data in the form of artificial flavorings, softeners, dyes, and flavor enhancers that our metabolism is unable to classify. What’s more, the information content of food is being falsified by toxins in the environment, pesticides, and heavy metals.
Crime Scene: the supermarket shelf. “Buy me” the mayonnaise seems to shout at the customer. “I’m wonderfully creamy, fresh, low-calorie, and healthy!” Surveys have shown that most consumers believe what food products tell them-but are these products telling the truth? Just one look at the expiration date is enough to reveal how our mayonnaise defines “FRESH” and Creamy.” Fresh means the addition of preservatives, while creamy is archived through the addition of the emulsifier lecithin, which keeps the fat and water in mayonnaise from separating, but in the human body, lecithin takes on a completely different mission: Its chemical information can cause asthmatic reactions.
Sweetners are another common example of food dis-information. When “sweet data” reaches the metabolic system, the system repeats by releasing insulin to break down the sugar it’s expecting. Out metabolism was program to this more than 100,000 years ago-and intake of an artificial sweetner does nothing to change this. Sweetening substances like saccharin are in countless foods such as spreads and diet beverages. They are classic examples of Trojans that demonstrate how modern food products operate on several different levels of what is in some cases contradictory information, and then enter our bodies in order to carry out a type of secret mission.
How much information can our bodies process?
A study conducted by Susan Swithers and Terry Davidson of Purdue University in Indiana concludes that sweeteners are dangerous agents. He combination of a sweet taste and a lack of calories confuses the body to such an extent that it operates less effectively when digesting the meals and drinks that come later- and then begins demanding more. The result is a greater feeling of hunger that ultimately leads to obesity. And as we know, overweight individuals are more susceptible to severe systematic disturbances like diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis, and heart complications.
The problem isn’t limited to false signals, however: The large amount of data itself is increasingly becoming an issue. Many industrially produced food products have so many different additives and flavorings that the body can barely process them all. Some of the information is therefore deposited into one of the body’s many storage devices- the liver, for example, where the data then launches its dangerous program undetected. Like a computer virus, the artificial substances enter our operating system. The problem is that out protection programs (such as the immune system) can no longer keep up with the invaders. Just one simple piece of lemon cake contains hostile contains hostile information that employs a sly trick to penetrate our body’s most important firewall: the blood brain barrier. Once it has entered the brain, the data, which takes the form of aluminum, can lead to Alzheimer’s. Slowly but surely, it destroys our operating system in a war of attrition.
How our enemies infiltrate our body
Our food is in compatibility mode, which means our body takes it in and processes it. But undesired program components are also continually sneaking in with it. Nations have laws that regulate entry across their borders. Despite these regulations, undesired and dangerous elements like terrorists, criminals, and smugglers still manage to get in. And our bodies’ “immigration laws” don’t always function perfectly, either. If the operating system does not recognize an enemy as such, it will make no attempt to kick it out.
What’s required now is something like a “food terrorist’s database”. Agencies like the FDA and the USDA are responsible for looking into the danger posed by the terrorists in our food. Whatever substance they don’t prohibit is considered to be harmless up to a maximum level that the agencies define. However, these agencies hardly ever examine the interaction of several additives in combinations like those found in nearly all food. That’s not surprising, given the fact that the food industry is one of the most powerful economic sectors in the world. This industry generates total annual revenues of approximately $1 trillion-even more than the nation’s defense budget! And just as generals keep military secrets, the food industry also attempts to “cloak” things.
continue in next post...
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Peace
¤=[Post Update]=¤
Now for some police work...
Suspect #1 Member of the Terror cell “Chewing Gum” Interrogation of Aspartame:
We came across your name in an old CIA file, where you were listed as a biochemical warfare agent.
It’s all lies. I was never deployed.
The chewing gum package tells a different story, my friend. What code name do you go by?
I have many different names: NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, Canderal, Sanecta…
And what’s your job?
I’m 200 times sweeter than regular household sugar. That’s why my success isn’t just limited to just candy and soft drinks. My job is to make products “light.”
And what’s your relationship with formaldehyde?
I don’t have one. That stuff is extremely toxic- I keep away from it!
What do you do when you get inside a body?
I break down into my basic components in the stomach: 40% aspartic acid, 50% phenylalanine.
And the other 10%?
I have no idea about that. Who’s interested in a measly 10%?
We are! You forgot to tell us that what’s left over is methanol-which breaks down into formaldehyde. And formaldehyde causes cancer!
Suspect #2: member of the terror cell “Instant soup”
Interrogation of Guanylic Acid:
What exactly are you doing in our soups?
Hey, I only enhance their flavor. If is wasn’t for me, a lot of soups would taste bland and boring.
Ok, so you work as a flavor enhancer. What’s your code name?
I also go by Guanosine monophosphate, but really, you can find me in every plant and animal cell. I’m harmless and up to 50mg of me is permitted in every 100 grams of food.
Where do you actually come from?
I’m made from guanine- it’s one of the four building blocks of DNA.
Guanine, huh. Isn’t that purine?
Uh, yeah.
In the body purines are converted into 2.5 times their amount in uric acid, which is how it gets in the blood!
Yeah, but there’s nothing wrong with that! They’re flushed out and excreted through the kidneys.
That’s what we cal gout. You’re busted!
Suspect #3 member of the terror Cell “Lemon Cake” Interrogation of Aluminum:
What are you doing in cake glaze?
I give it a wonderful silvery sheen. That sells more cakes. It’s as simple as that.
So you’re saying you work as a food coloring?
Yes, and I’m extremely popular. I do glaze for pastries and I also color licorice candies and other sweets.
Well, you’re strongly suspected of having planned an attack on our brain.
That’s not true. I’m innocent! The body only absorbs extremely small traces of aluminum, which can’t even get into the brain- that’s been scientifically proven! In fact, there’s not even a limit on how much of me people can consume.
Are you associated with Citric Acid?
Um,er…
We’re been looking into citric acid and it’s connection to you, and we’ve found that you two always show up together-on the labels of millions of food packages around the world. You’re gonna tell me this is a coincidence? What have you and citric acid been planning?
Nothing. We just work together. I make the cake look good, she makes it taste good.
Stop holding back-we know there’s more!
OK,OK. Citric Acid told me she can get into the brain because the blood-brain barrier doesn’t notice her.
So she’s a smuggler who can jump the border without being detected-and she takes you with her.
Only on very rare and exceptional occasions.
That’s a lie! She repeatedly smuggles you in. Our investigators have found aluminum deposits in the brain of Alzheimer patients. We figure they came from you, and now you’re given us the name of the smuggler to prove it.
Suspect #4: Member of the terror cell “ Corn” Interrogation of the T25 Gene Sequence:
You were arrested at the scene, correct?
Yes. So? What was the problem?
Genotypes were manipulated!
That’s terrible, but what’s it got to do with me?
Your genotype was also altered.
No. You’re talking about two different things. I was modified to make me resistant against weed killers. That makes me easier to grow.
You’re not allowed into some European countries, isn’t that true?
Yes. Austria, for example. Because the Austrians think any genetically modified food automatically means a potential terrorist attack. Those people are totally paranoid!
Oh, you think so, huh? Well, we know from animal testing tat female mice that were fed genetically modified corn displayed reduced fertility. Their insulin regulation system was also altered.
And how do you figure I did that?
That’s what we want to find out.
So you got nothing on me-just circumstantial evidence. Well, I don’t see any reason to stay here anymore. Good Day!
Suspect #5: Member of the terror cell “Jam” Interrogation of Carrageenan:
You work as a thickening agent?
Yes, I make sure marmalade stays nice and solid and jelly-like.
I’m completely harmless-ask anybody. What’s the problem anyway?
Scientists claim you can cause ulcers and allergies.
You’re got me mixed up with someone else. I think you are talking about little brother.
Little brother?
Yeah-he looks like me, just a lot smaller. Some people call him degraded Carrageenan, or poligeenan.
And why is he so dangerous and you’re not?
The small size of his molecules makes it easier for him to penetrate intestinal mucosa and cause ulcers.
You see him once in a while?
No, never. We don’t talk.
So you consist solely of harmless carrageenan?
Well, ok-there are always tiny traces of degraded carrageenan. But it’s minimal amounts…provided you don’t heat me up.
Why? What happens then?
Then I turn into my little brother.
Ok, we’ve found you on a marmalade-coated cookie. If you turn into your little brother there, We’ll arrest you.
Suspect # 6: member of the terror cell “ Cucumber” Interrogation of Dieldrin:
You’re one of the dirty dozen!
Yes, I’m one of the 12 toxins banned by the Stockholm Convention in 2001. No one’s allow to use me, sell me, or manufacture me.
We thought you’d be taken out of commission in America decades ago!
That’s true. I haven’t been allowed to work here for a long time.
And why is that?
I alter genes, might possibly be carcinogenic, and can even damage embryos in the womb.
So what are you doing in a cucumber in the year 2011?
I’m a sleeper- I’ve gone underground. No one can stop me.
Where have you been hiding out?
In just about every farm field in the nation. I inconspicuously collect in bodily tissue, which allows me to worm my way into practically every food chain.
We’re going to put a stop to that now.
Never gonna happen: I’m like a phantom. No jail, no prison walls can hold me.
Suspect # 7: member of the terror cell “ Chips” Interrogation of The Azo Dye Sunset Yellow FCF:
Your code name is FD&C yellow 6—we found it on a list of ingredients for a pudding. In fact, in Germany the labels say the following: Can impair children’s activity and their ability to focus.” Is that true?
Yes- that’s no secret.
So you alter children’s minds?
Uh, yes.
And you’re still being used?
Yes, of course, because I lend products a wonderful orange-yellow color. But there are limits on how much of me can be used-A maximum of 90mg per pound of chips, for example.
Was an acceptable daily intake (ADI) amount also issued for you?
Yes, .45 mg per pound of body weight.
Wait! A kid could easily consume that maximum-a handful of chips is all it would take!
Yeah. But that’s not my problem!
You are affiliated with the food colorants tartrazine, Quinoline Yellow, Azorubine, Allura Red AC, and Cochineal red A?
We’re a big family and all of us are made from petroleum.
And all of you have had maximum dosages placed on you?
Yes, but they are all independent of one another.
How often do you work with other members of your family?
It depends on the desired color shade. Together we can create beautiful red tones.
At a nice childs birthday party with chips, gummy bears, gelatin, and peanut puffs?
Yep- we’re all there.
And when you’re done. The bomb explodes in those kids heads: The azo colorant compounds get together to set off a devastating psycho bomb!
Suspect # 8: “frozen Pizza” Interrogation of Potassium Nitrite:
You can’t keep me here! The law is clear on this.
You really think we wont interrogate you? You’re required by law to be listed on the ingredients list on the package.
Yes I do think that, I’m only in the pepperoni—I’ve got nothing to do with the pizza it’s on. That’s why I feel I shouldn’t have to reveal my presence.
What have you got to hide?
I’m a pickling salt. I make salami and pepperoni keep longer, and give them a nice red color.
You’re suspected of causing cancer!
That’s absurd! Millions of people eat me every day.
Precisely. We believe you’re planning a global attack.
You can’t prove anything!
You say your job is to color meat red. How exactly does that work?
I alter the structure of the protein building blocks in the natural colorants.
You mean you bond with amino acids.
Yeah, so what?
And what happens when you’re heated?
I turn into nitrosamines.
Yes, and those cause cancer!
OK, but who heats up salami and people just put me on bread
This pepperoni is also salami-and it’s here on a pizza. So you’re busted, Pal!
Suspect # 9 “Tomato” Interrogation of Methomyl:
We found you in the supermarket. How did you get there?
Well, you know I travel a lot. I have a lot of friends like tomatoes, oranges, lettuce,kiwis,strwberries,apples, peppers, pineapples, plums, grapes…they took me along with them.
What’s your name?
Some people call me Methomyl. My commercial names are Lannate and Nudrin.
We don’t have a dossier on these names.
Well, I’m Chinese, but I work mostly in South America. Take a look at a company called Haihang Industry Co.LTD—one of the world’s largest chemical suppliers.
OK. But here it says you’re a pesticide
Yes, that’s my job. I kill caterpillars, worms, beetles, and plant lice, and make sure fruit and vegetables look tasty and appetizing.
If you do such helpful things, why do you have such a bad rap?
I have only a very restricted work permit in the United States.
How come?
Well, The thing is I don’t just kill insects. I also tend to have a very carcinogenic effect on humans. I damage the nervous system and alter genes.So you’re a killer.
Yes- so what?
We caught you red-handed in a whole bunch of supermarkets!
That’s true, but I wasn’t working there. My work took place in the farm. Even the European Union has set limits for consuming me. It’s all on the books-check it out yourself: Traces of me up to a maximum of .1mg per pound of food are permitted there. Go ahead, look!
But you’re already more than 1,000 percent over that limit just in grapes! All it takes is 20 grapes or a large tomato salad per child.
That’s the grapes fault. My part ended after the planting and growing was done. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got some place to be. But don’t worry: We’ll be seeing each other again soon…
Suspect # 10 “ Pork Cutlets” Interrogation of Carazolol:
Haven’t we been around psychiatric wards a lot?
Yes, that’s right. I’m often used as a medication to fight depression and schizophrenia.
You got any side effects?
I slow down heartbeat, I can cause erectile dysfunction, and I can raise cholesterol levels I the body.
Do you have any other jobs?
I ride with pigs to the slaughterhouse-you know, I make sure they don’t flip out on the way.
I can imagine how you got into those cutlets, then
Yes, but it’s not my fault! It’s the farms and the slaughterhouses. A lot of times they don’t wait as long as they are supposed to before killing the pigs. That means I don’t have enough time to break down in the pig’s bodies.
So there’s nothing you can do about it, is that what you’re saying?
Hey, guns don’t kill people, people kill people-know what I mean?Yeah, well we caught you with a smoking gun.
That may be, but I didn’t pull the trigger. I’m innocent and I’m leaving!
Suspect #11 “ Salad Dressing” Interrogation of Tocopherol:
I think you got the wrong guy, I’m extremely healthy and also useful?
What do you do?
I preserve the fat and protect the vitamins in healthy oils. Even after they are opened.
We found traces of you in millions of human bodies. Can you explain how that happened?
I’m in many kinds of salad dressings. I’m even allowed in unlimited amounts in organic products because I’m considered a naturally occurring substance.How exactly do you carry out your function?
Healthy fatty acids can be easily oxidized instead, so the fatty acids remain unchanged. That’s why you’ll often find a huge amount of me in oils.
And what happens when you get inside a body?
I protect fat there, too, as well as amino acids,from oxygen.
You protect all amino acids-the building blocks of protein?
Yes.
That means thrombocytes, too, which like all other cells consist of proteins. Those small platelets clump together to enable clotting at the site of a wound. If they encapsulated and cannot touch, the body’s ability to form clot is reduced!
Suspect # 12: “Soda” Interrogation of Sodium Cyclamate:
You’re sweet.
Oh, thank you! I hear that often. In fact I’m 35 times sweeter than household sugar.
And yet so slim.
That’s my job: I’m sweet but won’t make you fat.
How exactly does that work?
No one really knows why I’m sweet. The only thing that’s clear is that the human body is incapable of splitting me apart, which means it has no way to use me to obtain energy. That’s why I have zero calories.
Nevertheless, you’re prohibited from entering the United States. Why is that?
I’ve been banned there since 1969 because there were some suspicions that I caused bladder cancer and possibly even colon cancer. But to this day there’s no conclusive proof of this, except maybe where extremely high doses of me were involved. That’s why I’m still being used in Europe.
What you’re saying is, if you can’t be broken down in the body, you pass through the bladder and colon unchanged?
Yes.
Do you happen to like bacteria by any chance? Like enterobacteriaceae, enterococci, clostridium- things like this?
No, I hate them. They destroy me and can sometimes turn me into cyclohexylamine.
You know that this substance is extremely corrosive and highly toxic, and that high doses of it lead to cardiac arrest?
Yeah, so?
The bacteria I just mentioned are frequently found in the human digestive tract-which makes you responsible for poison substance attacks on the body!
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