can be toxic to the
human nervous system.
Fresh food reverses
their negative impact.
Good nutritional eating seeks to reduce the amount of chemical additives consumed in food — food additives are synthetic substances inserted into food to help preserve it and “enhance” its flavor or color.
it's important to read labels and look for food additives
Dr. Russell Blaylock, a prominent neurosurgeon, in his book Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills explains how certain food additives can negatively affect the development of a child’s nervous system. He further states that these same chemical food additives may precipitate neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s disease, ALS and even Alzheimer’s disease.
Reducing Food Additives in Our Daily Diet
Have you ever wondered why certain fast foods and processed foods taste so good? They usually contain flavor enhancers which are added under misleading names that sound harmless.
These flavor enhancers are in almost all packaged foods with names like textured vegetable protein, sodium caseinate, spices, carrageen and many more unfamiliar names. Dr. Blaylock calls these chemicals “excitotoxins” because they cause certain brain cells to get excited and begin to fire off signals rapidly. The brain cells can be so active that they become exhausted and die off, leading to the neurodegenerative diseases.
Infant formulas and toddler processed foods can be loaded with flavor enhancers which may be harmful to the developing brains of our children.
Nutritional Eating: Fresh Is Best!
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It’s important to understand that canned foods have lower nutritional value than fresh foods, and that there are potential issues from the plastic liners used in cans and the chemicals that they might leak into the food. We have an abundance of children with attention deficit disorders, autism, mood disorders and mental illnesses. Practitioners have seen children with seizure disorders that when taken off processed foods and fed Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) and organic homemade baby food had a disappearance of their seizures.
I have worked with adults with debilitating neuromuscular degenerative diseases that show not only a stop in the progression of their disease but at least partial recovery with only changes in diet and lifestyle along with the addition of certain nutrients. It’s a known fact that a person with multiple sclerosis can get significantly worse for days or weeks after eating just one meal with flavor enhancers.
There are specific nutrients that have neuro-protective properties however the best thing you can do is to go back to eating real food. I am a strong proponent to eating fresh, locally grown vegetables and fruits. I look forward to seeing you at the local farmer’s market!
Thanks for this very informative response. It is truly amazing the amount of toxins we can beunknowingly exposed to on a daily basis.
Jim
Thanks for this helpful article, Jim. With your help and in small steps, I’m learning that there are an abundance of fresh foods that I can enjoy and now I’m inspired to move increasingly toward cooking fresh or eating raw. It takes some planning and acquiring of new habits, but my health is worth the effort! Interestingly, Harvard recently did an experiment to measure the impact of canned foods:
75 volunteers consisted of students and staff from the Harvard School of Public Health. They were divided into two groups:
One group ate a 12-ounce serving of canned soup (vegetarian), one a day for five days. Then they washed-out for two days. This was followed by a same-sized portion of 100% freshly-made soup once a day for five days.
The other group did the same, but the other way round; starting off with daily freshly made soup, followed by a two-day washout, and then five days of daily canned soup.
The urine sample results from the two groups were similar, and showed that at the end of the five days on canned soups their BPA urine concentrations were 1,221% higher, compared to levels at the end of five days on freshly-made soup.
Previous studies have linked elevated BPA levels with adverse health effects. BPA is an organic compound used to make plastic and epoxy resins. BPA is an estrogenic – it has properties which can mimic the effects of the human hormone estrogen. BPA is added to the lining of foods and drinks cans and, according to studies, interferes with reproductive development in animals, including humans. BPA levels in humans have been associated with a higher risk of developing several diseases and conditions.
A 2009 study on Chinese workers in BPA factories found that workers were four times more likely to report erectile dysfunction, reduced sexual desire and overall dissatisfaction with their sex life than workers with no heightened BPA exposure. BPA workers were also seven times more likely to have ejaculation difficulties. They were also more likely to report reduced sexual function within one year of beginning employment at the factory, and the higher the exposure, the more likely they were to have sexual difficulties!