Are you eating Artificial Foods?

Whole foods processed and “enhanced” with food additives are so now ubiquitous it’s as if this ‘Frankenfood’ is the new normal.

In other countries throughout Europe and beyond, the harmful effects of chemical additives have been recognized and therefore regulated or banned outright. Despite the fact that they’ve been linked to everything from cancer in lab rats to behavioral problems in children, many additives still remain on the FDA’s Generally Regarded As Safe (GRAS) list.

Ingredients List

With the GRAS list, you’re left having to navigate the convoluted jumble of unfamiliar words on the back of an ingredients list if you want to avoid eating them or feeding them to your family.

You don’t need a Ph.D. in chemistry to make sense of it all, you only need to remember this: if you can’t pronounce an ingredient, or don’t know that you would recognize it on its own then your body surely won’t recognize it.  Cutting out the chemicals in your food, is always the first step to feeling your grooviest.

Artificial Food Additives

For reference, here are the worst artificial offenders:

Artificial Colors

• Blue no. 1 and 2
• Citrus red no. 2
• Green no. 3
• Red no. 1, 3, and 40
• Violet no. 1
• Yellow no. 5 and 6

Artificial Sweeteners

• Aspartame (Nutra Sweet)
• Acesulfame K
• Neotame
• Sucralose (Splenda)
• Saccharine
• Sugar alcohols (sorbitol, xylitol, mannitol)
• Tagatose

Artificial Flavor Enhancers

• “Artificial flavors” (made up of some of the more than 1,500 synthetic flavors GRAS)
• Monosodium glutamate (MSG)

Artificial Preservatives

• Calcium propionate
• Disodium EDTA
• Nitrates and nitrites
• Potassium benzoate
• Potassium sorbate
• Sulfur dioxide
• Sodium propinate

Bottom Line

After getting the chemicals out of our food, my son’s asthma completely disappeared within a month and my headaches were gone!  Many kids diagnosed with ADHD are actually just sensitive to artificial dyes.

The bottom line is, if it sounds like a chemical instead of something from a garden…don’t eat it!

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Leann Forst, MBA, CHC, CEOC — Holistic Health Practitioner

Leann is a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner and Certified Essential Oils Coach. She holds a Master’s degree from Drake University and a Bachelor of Science from Upper Iowa University. Accredited by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners, Leann is an award winning author of 2 books “How to Get Your Kids to Beg for Veggies” and “100 Ways to Lose Weight”.

Born and raised as an Iowa farm girl, she moved to Texas in 1998 where she lives with her husband and 2 kids.

As a wife of a brain cancer survivor, Leann has a special interest in anti-cancer nutrition and detoxification. She works with individuals and groups, and speaks regularly at hospitals, schools and organizations. Leann’s goal is to teach people how to attain optimal health by getting to the root cause of chronic and inflammatory conditions, while using healing modalities such as essential oils. Click here to get Leann’s free report, “37 Cancer Facts You Should Know…But Probably Don’t”

Resources

A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives: Descriptions in Plain English of More Than 12,000 Ingredients Both Harmful and Desirable Found in Foods by Ruth Winter, M.S.

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