The food processing industry and its raw food supplier allies have been
clever at marketing their products as healthy while attacking the foods
they replace as unhealthy. And it has worked both ways.
Saturated
fats including coconut oil and real butter were demonized as obesity
producers and heart health hazards while trans-fatty acid hydrogenated
vegetable oils and margarine were marketed as substitutes that prevented
both obesity and heart attacks.
All were lies marketed without intervention from the the
Federal Trade Commission (FTA) or the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Yet
both agencies are quick to jump on scientifically confirmed health
claims from whole food providers such as those who grow and distribute
cherries and walnuts (
http://www.naturalnews.com/029698_censorship_FDA.html).
So
we are forced to separate fact from fiction and see our way through the
blizzard of lies and contradictions within the health foods field. As
basic rules, moderation and different foods for different folks makes
sense.
But marketing disinformation has vaulted questionable foods into undeserved health food status.
Foods to avoid that are marketed as health foods
Canola oil is not a healthy substitute for olive oil even if you
can find an organic cold pressed version of it without GMO
contamination. It's ubiquitous in processed foods and health
food stores cafes because its cheap.
Up
until the 1970s, there was no such thing as canola. They were
originally only rapeseed plants that produced a highly toxic oil
suitable for industrial purposes.
Through a nationally funded Canadian effort to stimulate its agricultural export commerce, the rapeseed was
genetically engineered to remove most of its toxic erucic acid.
Dr. Baldur Stefansson and his team at the
University of Manitoba
were the early pioneers of plant genetic engineering by creating LEAR
(Low Eucic Acid Rapeseed) in a lab in lieu of normal generational plant
hybrid breeding.
The more marketable name Canola was synthesized from Canadian oil (
http://www.naturalnews.com/029516_canola_oil_fraud.html).
Dr.
Stefansson went on to join Monsanto to develop glyphosate resistant
Roundup Ready canola seeds that have almost eliminated non-GMO canola
from agriculture. (1)
Questioning
soy is comparable to
kicking a hornet's nest. It's pro and con camps are uncompromising. Here
are some facts. Soy is not consumed as a meat or milk substitute in
Asia. It's a moderately eaten side dish that is usually fermented.
Traditional
Ayurveda medicine frowns on soy's digestibility unless it is fermented.
Tempeh, natto, miso, and some soy sauces are fermented. Most soy is
processed and GMO for starters. Roundup Ready soy plants can pass on the
most toxic form of glyphosate herbicide ever.
Be wary and cautious with
fish and other sea foods. There has already existed a lot of mercury and PBC contamination of seafood. That's been joined by BP's Gulf
oil and Corexit contamination and Fukushima's nuclear disaster spilling into the Pacific.
Farmed
fish and shrimp are akin to factory farmed beef and pork, full of
antibiotics to keep overcrowded and poorly fed creatures from becoming
diseased.
Here's a list of relative mercury contamination in wild fish (
http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/walletcard.pdf).
Agave nectar
is another hornet's nest. One side claims it's a traditionally used and
naturally derived syrup from agave plants. The other side claims it's
not traditional and that it's processed from the plant to leave out the
fiber that would make its high fructose level less harmful.
It
cannot be disputed that agave's fructose level is high, and the liver
does have issues processing concentrated amounts of fructose beyond what
normally appears in whole fruits.
Let's just say it would be
wise to stick with raw organic honey, molasses, and organic maple syrup
as sweet and healthy syrups.
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