Standard American Diet

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Modern Farming
[WWW]How Much Petroleum Oil Do You Eat? ....a system that in 1940 produced 2.3 calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil-fuel energy it used into one that now takes 10 calories of fossil-fuel energy to produce a single calorie of modern supermarket food. Put another way, when we eat from the industrial-food system, we are eating oil and spewing greenhouse gases. This state of affairs appears all the more absurd when you recall that every calorie we eat is ultimately the product of photosynthesis — a process based on making food energy from sunshine. There is hope and possibility in that simple fact.

Energy Bars
[WWW]Hyperbole Meets High-Tech: Slick Sales Talk and Modern "Energy Bars" With the exception of the fats, most of the ingredients used in energy bars are waste products

Synthetic Pharmaceutical Medications
[WWW]Medical care is 3rd leading cause of death in U.S.
[WWW]Man Succumbs To 7-Year Battle With Health Insurance
[WWW]Former Shill for Big Pharma Tells the Truth About Drug Testing
[WWW]The Plan for the Food Supply (comic)
[WWW]Statistics prove prescription drugs are 16,400% more deadly than terrorists
[WWW]Actual Cost Of Making These Popular Prescription Drugs

Tooth Decay
[WWW]Everyday Culprits of Tooth Decay

Artificial Sweeteners
[WWW]How Aspartame Became Legal - The Timeline
[WWW]Original Aspartame Toxicity Studies
[WWW]The Sweet Secret of Stevia Is this for real?

Side Effects
[WWW]10 Food Side Effects You May Not Know

GMO
[WWW]Seeds of Deception [WWW]The REAL Reasons You Want to Avoid Genetically Modified Foods

Food Like Substances
[WWW]From Lab to Lunch: Chemicals They Call Food
[WWW]Eleven Worst Foods Americans Eat Daily
[WWW]Dirty Secrets of the Food Processing Industry

Commercial Food Guides
[WWW]A Fatally Flawed Food Guide
[WWW]THEY'VE TURNED THE FOOD PYRAMID ON ITS HEAD!

MSG
[WWW]MSGTruth.org
[WWW]HIDDEN SOURCES OF PROCESSED FREE GLUTAMIC ACID (MSG)

Adulterated Milk
[WWW]The Whole Truth About Milk
[WWW]Bovine Growth Hormone
[WWW]Freudian Sips: The Last Days of Udder

Additives
[WWW]Remove Food Additives From Hyperactive Children's Diets, Experts Suggest Data published in 2007 showed that normal (not hyperactive) children were significantly more hyperactive after they ate a mixture of food colourings and a preservative (sodium benzoate), with obvious implications for children with ADHD.

Cosmetics
[WWW]Risks of Talcum Powder

Antibacterial Soaps
[WWW]Health warning antibacterial soaps
[WWW]Can We Get Too Clean?

Hydrogenated Oil
[WWW]Deadly fats: why are we still eating them?

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