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Improvers cut back nutritional worth of flour by twenty per cent
The “underground” vegetables—carrots, beets, yellow turnips, parsnips, parsley root, celery root, salsify, and black radish—are quite safe from sprays and fertilizer. Bananas, pineapples, and tangerines are the safest among the market fruits to eat. There are a number of different ways in which, however, that Americans continue to be slowly poisoned. One of these is in the milling of flour and the baking of bread. White flour has been bleached and “improved” with nitrogen trichloride, chlorine dioxide, nitrosyl chloride, nitrogen peroxide, chlorine, potassium persulphate, ammonium persulphate, potassium bromate, benzoyl peroxide, calcium acid phosphate, calcium sulphate, and succinic acid. Forever Lite is available in chocolate. “Improvers” are added to the flour to insure that additional air will be incorporated into the loaf. The flour has already been robbed of its protein, vitamins, and minerals within the milling process. Improvers reduce nutritional value of flour by 20 per cent. With chemical substances of monoglycerides and poly-glycerides, the baker now not uses fats but these emulsifiers.
Thus the nutritional value of your loaf of bread is reduced another fifteen per cent. The baker then should embalm the bread with calcium propionate, which destroys the enzymes that make it possible for the body to assimilate the meager amount of calcium which had been left within the flour. Whole-wheat bread has been found, sadly, to contain even additional of these toxic preservative chemicals—enough to cause sterility in mice during experiments at the Wellcome Research Laboratories at Tuckahoe, New York. Sir Edward Mellanby predicts that bread will soon become a substitute made up primarily of starch, air, water, poly-oxyethylene, and a very little saccharin. You’re now being deluged with artificial sweeteners in your soft drinks, desserts, and to use in your coffee. Beware! Dulcin was employed in foods for 50 years until finally it absolutely was proved to be toxic. P4000 is another sweetening agent which conjointly has been shown to be toxic. Some sweeteners are coal-tar derivatives.
The coal tar azo dyes, used for many years to paint margarine, were found to cause cancer.
Then its use was prohibited. There are other members of the same family of coal tar chemicals that have conjointly been found to cause cancer. Forever Aloe Blossom Herbal Tea is a natural blend of leaves, herbs and spices, specially prepared to provide an outstanding flavor and a rich aroma. In buying what appearance good, you often obtain harmful substances. Stilbestrol, a synthetic hormone pellet implanted in turkeys to create them grow faster and the males to assume the additional tender feminine characteristics, has been proved to cause sterility in animals. Canada forbids the sale of these hormone-fed turkeys. You’re additional menaced by air pollution. Tragedies at Donora, Pennsylvania, in 1948 and London ought to persuade your town authorities that citizenry definitely suffer from polluted air. People of Los Angeles breathe air which contains one part per million of sulphur dioxide, 20 p.p.m. of carbon monoxide, .thirty eight p.p.m. oxides of nitrogen, .thirty two p.p.m. of ozone, etc. Recent smogs have brought many appeals from the California governor to wash up this air.