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  1. I'm curious as to why you recommend avoiding low fat milk and cheese. This is because high fat contains more polychlorinated dioxins and furans. These inadvertently created chemicals come from the burning of plastics and paper; industrial and medical wastes, and have contaminated some herbicides like 2,4=D. Burning fossil fuels also creates dioxins. They are never purposely created, but inadvertently created and concentrates each step of the way in the food chain, with the greatest known source in fatty animals.

    Whole fat dairy even if it's organic, receives dioxin from long grazing being downwind or downstream from a toxic source of emissions, like a medical waste or garbage incinerator.

  2. Honora Renwick says:

    Can we have the original source for this article? It is strange that it is missing. I can't find it on the net either. For all we know this article could have been engineered by the wild salmon industry. BTW, I don't doubt for a minute that it isn't true but I would like to know more about the original article that inspired this one.

    1. Lisa Schuster says:

      Top 7 Supermarket Foods to Avoid

      By Emma Sgourakis

      Food Matters, March 3, 2011

      Straight to the Source

      For related articles and more information, please visit OCA's Health Issues page

      JUST LOOK UP HER NAME. SHE IS A CERTIFIED NUTRITION COACH. THERE'S LOTS OF MATERIAL ON HER IF YOU DO A QUICK SEARCH.

  3. Becca,

    I am assumming that the recommendation for whole orgainic milk is comming from a growing movement within the nutrition community stemming from the Weston A Price Foundation spearheaded by Sally Fallon that people should consume raw, unpasturized, unhomoginized whole milk. They argue that animal products come with fat and that is how we should eat them. And that animal fats supply vitamins A and D needed for the assimilation of protein. Whereas consumption of lowfat milk, egg whites and lean meat cause deficiencies of fat soluble nutrients.

    But really I think that if you have fat elsewhere in the diet that you will still absorb those nutrients and that lowfat dairy products may be useful for those trying to lose weight.

    Thank you for the information about the dioxins in the milk. It was very imformative.

    Personally, I don't consume any dairy.

    It's hard to get enough vitamin D from dietary sources, so I take a D3 supplement of 3,000 IU's a day unless it is summertime and I've been out in the sun and then I skip it. In spite of what Sally Fallon claims it is not hard to absorb a D3 supplement. I eat a faw brazil nuts (for the fat and the selenium) when I take it; and in two months' time I went from 9 n/g d/l to 35 nano grams per deciliter (from crically low to optimal).

    I was unaware about the canned tomatoes, they're one of the few canned items I buy (organic). But it makes sense, I already won't store tomato produts in tupperware beacause I was aware that the acids cause the chemicals in the plastic to leach out. So now what to do? I froze some fresh ones last year that I lightly boiled and removed the skins and diced, but I still stored them in freezer bags because glass frequently cracks in the freezer. I'd like to buy nothing but fresh organic, but canned are usually cheaper (and that's an issue for me). Anyone have nay good ideas?

    1. I grow my own tomatoes and freeze them in plastic bags. When I need them, I run them under the hot tap to crack the skins so that I can peel them off, then I put them in my stews and soups.

  4. Lee Kresser says:

    I was curious about the tomato topic. Since I avoid HFCS or FCS, I make my own tomato ketchup. I buy tomato paste in the small cans and ONLY buy where it says "tomatoes". Sometimes some brands say more than just "tomatoes", and I don't buy them. My question is: If canned tomatoes have the issue of leaching the BCA, and since the acid from whole tomatoes is different than paste, will the BCA leach out into processed tomatoes like the paste?

    1. Anonymous says:

      You can get the paste in tubes (near anchovie paste)

  5. It makes me cringe that product we pay a premium for because it has been organically raised or grown ends up being packaged in plastics or other stuff from which toxins leach into the food thereby negating the term "organic", or at least negating the reason we buy the organic product in the first place which is to avoid toxic chemicals. e.g. organic peanut butter in plastic jars, organic milk in plastic bags, tin linings that contain toxic chemicals, etc. etc. Why can't we go back to glass, and recycle it?

  6. M. Joanne Telasco says:

    Whether or not one beleives the word of the Bible, which I do, I beleive as well that it is best to lean on the side of caution than to go solely on blind faith. Education on all the things we ingest is far more use of God's Intelligence than repetition of verse in trying to outweigh the good works we do. We should be praying and doing all the same not against oneanother.

  7. Thank YOU for providing this information and article about our food.

    On the other hand…Very much agree with Joanne's comment. Sorry to offend the poster, Pip, although I thought the subject was about food and the types of healthy foods we need to purchase…NOT religion. I, too, believe in the Bible and respect your right of free speech and of religion, but it is unrelated to the topic and consumed too much space for comments ABOUT the subject. Peace…Do not be pushy about preaching, out of the blue.

  8. lauralynn says:

    Pip,

    I too am a believer however, people do not listen when they are beat upon by the word.

    Remember too please that our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and we are to take the best care of it that we know how. Being ignorant of the facts is being neglectful of our duty to take care and share.

    Anyway, there is a time to speak and a time to listen. Bless you!

  9. Dwan Buddin says:

    I can my own tomatoes. I cold pack them whole or quartered and then pressure can in a pressure canner. Hopefully…it's healthier!

  10. Ermintrude says:

    It seems everyday more and more items appear on the "Do not eat" list. At least my family has left the meat food chain, and not buy farm direct. It took awhile to figure out how to do that since we don't know any farmers, then we found home grown cow, found a farmer we liked and eat better for less. Anyone know a potato farmer?

  11. Well you had me about the food and the GMO crap. But when you started on the 9/11 stuff I tuned you out.

    1. Bt toxin makes crops toxic to pests, but it has been claimed that the toxin poses no danger to the environment and human health; the argument was that the protein breaks down in the human gut. But the presence of the toxin in human blood shows that this does not happen. here is the info…

      1. Cry1Ab, a specific type of Bt toxin from genetically modified (GM) crops, has for the first time been detected in human and fetal blood samples. It appears the toxin is quite prevalent, as upon testing 69 pregnant and non-pregnant women who were eating a typical Canadian diet (which included foods such as GM soy, corn and potatoes), researchers found Bt toxin in:

        * 93 percent of maternal blood samples

        * 80 percent of fetal blood samples

        * 69 percent of non-pregnant women blood samples

        Writing in the journal Reproductive Toxicology, the researchers noted:

        "This is the first study to reveal the presence of circulating PAGMF [pesticides associated with genetically modified foods] in women with and without pregnancy, paving the way for a new field in reproductive toxicology including nutrition and utero-placental toxicities."

    2. Anonymous says:

      you need to do some serious research and not be afraid of the truth.911 was not the first time the government was involved in false flag events

  12. Dustin Ottman says:

    Ok, but do you have to yell?

  13. HOW DID ALL THIS TURN INTO A FRIGGIN BIBLE CLASS? JEEZ………………………………

  14. I purchase all my food from a local health food store. (not Whole Foods) In the store there is a list of additives they do not allow in their foods, No Hormones, No HFC, No Antibiotics. Notably absent was No GMO's. I asked the manager why the signs did not state No GMO’s and he stated they could not keep GMO's out and that even Organic contained GMO’s. What I have read and researched stated Organic does not contain GMO’s. Is this true or not? I know USDA and FDA are corrupt but are the Organic farmers corrupt also?

    1. Anonymous says:

      When the wind blows, pollen from GMO crops growing upwind of an organic crop can blow on an organic crop and contaminate it. There can also be contamination from shipping in railroad cars, or even in a warehouse. The wind contamination is so prevalent that Monsanto has constantly been suing farmers who were unlucky enough to be downwind of their crops for patent infringement. Since Monsanto's GMO seeds are patented, they claim the farmers whose seeds were contaminated owe Monsanto money. Obscene but true.

    2. Anonymous says:

      I don't think so. I buy directly from the farmers as a produce manager for a health food store….wind, water, bees…they can all track poisons and pesticides without the farmer knowing…or the customer. That's why we must stop it altogether…

  15. Most of those foods I don't eat except for the canned tomatoes and apples. I love making paleo chili and I make it using canned tomato sauce and sundried tomatoes. Very disappointing.

  16. Can we also refuse any extraneous packaging ? Can we ask that we go to a system of buying from a green grocer , a baker, a fishmonger ,a butcher , a cheese shop and not super stores. No offense to the owners of the following but instead of all the cupcake , fried chicken, donut, ice cream and burger stores cropping up, its time for health and that we see our food as medicine and our medicine as food ( Hippocrates)

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