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(courtesy of Brasschecktv.com and The Real Food Channel)
How to read food labels
What you read is NOT what you get
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd9XnyNGXGs
What you read is not what you get
If it comes in a bag, a box, a bottle, a can or other container, it may have started out as food, but somewhere all along the way it met the manufacturing process.
Some "foods" like glow-in-the-dark candy goo sold to children obviously aren't food and are highly manufactured products, but a great deal of normal-looking packaged food is also highly manufactured.
Manufactured food requires labeling. The items in the produce section of your grocery store don't.
As this video makes clear, when it comes to food labeling, deception is the norm.
A solution
By all means, bring a calculator to the supermarket and run the numbers as described in this video. You'll be in for a lot of surprises. A lot of what appears to be "healthy" by its labeling is, in fact, junk.
So what's a harried consumer to do?
Here's a suggestion: Get familiar with the produce section of your grocery store, one item at a time. Discover the bulk bins at your local health food store. Buy direct from the Ultimate Manufacturer*...you know, the guy in the long white robes who makes the sun shine and the plants grow.
Until the food industry succeeds in lobbying him out of existence, his creations are probably your safest bet.
* Your deity (or dieties) may vary in size, weight, form, sex, attire, location in the cosmos, or other factors. Consult your soul for further directions as needed.
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alchemiser
06-09-2009, 04:29 PM
Thanks for putting thank vid up coco :) always helps when an insider realises the truth & then shares it with the world!
I'll be sending it off to all my family in yet another attempt to get them to give up masses produce filth disguised as food.
Personally i never buy anything processed or prepared in anyway anymore, just a pity i had to get arthritis before taking the time to learn what was really in the food i was eating. :o
Alchemiser,
You're welcome. Yes, please spread the video! The more we are armed with information, the better off we are. We are the ones in charge of our health and eating decisions. I hope the video speaks to your family and friends.
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Wow very good post. I kinda figured they'd hide ingredients in products, but I never knew about this. I usually check nutrition facts before I buy food, but now I really know. Thanks man! :P
Wow very good post. I kinda figured they'd hide ingredients in products, but I never knew about this. I usually check nutrition facts before I buy food, but now I really know. Thanks man! :P
A real eye-opener, no? It's all legal per FDA guidelines. :(
I gotta wonder sometimes if those aren't the same guys who right tax code and legalese!
gripit
18-09-2009, 05:04 AM
Hi coco! :)
Yep, the FDA/Big Pharma/WHO aren't gonna win any truth tellin' contests anytime soon, fuckers.
Here in Canada, for extra fun, we have a label on many food products called 'Health Check' from the Canadian Heart Association (partners in genocide with Big Pharma/WHO etc). As soon I as I saw it, I thought SCAM. Sure enough, a couple months later, I watched this show called Marketplace on CBC. They actually expose quite a few scams. Anyhow, they discovered that the 'Health' Check symbol only appeared on products from companies that 'donated' money to the heart association! Also turns out that the vast majority of truly 'heart healthy' products did not have the label! Well, no kidding, they didn't pay for it...sigh...
Cheers :)
Hi coco! :)
Yep, the FDA/Big Pharma/WHO aren't gonna win any truth tellin' contests anytime soon, fuckers.
Here in Canada, for extra fun, we have a label on many food products called 'Health Check' from the Canadian Heart Association (partners in genocide with Big Pharma/WHO etc). As soon I as I saw it, I thought SCAM. Sure enough, a couple months later, I watched this show called Marketplace on CBC. They actually expose quite a few scams. Anyhow, they discovered that the 'Health' Check symbol only appeared on products from companies that 'donated' money to the heart association! Also turns out that the vast majority of truly 'heart healthy' products did not have the label! Well, no kidding, they didn't pay for it...sigh...
Cheers :)
You just reminded me that there are a number of products in the US - breakfast cereal immediately come to mind - with the 'heart healthy' symbol on it. Years ago I saw a doco that addressed the same thing - those companies pay the American Heart Association for the endorsement.
Cheers for the information and reminder! Evidently, US companies aren't the only ones engaging in that practice!
Also, there is a garlic supplement sold in the US and heavily advertised called Garlique. The adverts state that Garlique is very good for lowering cholesterol and garlic can be good for that.
I looked into this at the store a while back. Garlique has a certain percentage of an ingredient that naturally occurs in garlic to aid in cholesterol reduction - ok. I looked at some other garlic supplement brands. After reading a few bottle labels I found a brand that had a higher content of the naturally occurring ingredient and also contained more supplement pills and was a little less expensive than Garlique brand.
The difference? The brand that contained the greater amount of ingredient does not advertise or at least not at the level as Garlique brand.
Nothing beats real garlic, if one likes garlic.
gripit
18-09-2009, 07:10 PM
You just reminded me that there are a number of products in the US - breakfast cereal immediately come to mind - with the 'heart healthy' symbol on it. Years ago I saw a doco that addressed the same thing - those companies pay the American Heart Association for the endorsement.
Cheers for the information and reminder! Evidently, US companies aren't the only ones engaging in that practice!
Also, there is a garlic supplement sold in the US and heavily advertised called Garlique. The adverts state that Garlique is very good for lowering cholesterol and garlic can be good for that.
I looked into this at the store a while back. Garlique has a certain percentage of an ingredient that naturally occurs in garlic to aid in cholesterol reduction - ok. I looked at some other garlic supplement brands. After reading a few bottle labels I found a brand that had a higher content of the naturally occurring ingredient and also contained more supplement pills and was a little less expensive than Garlique brand.
The difference? The brand that contained the greater amount if ingredient does not advertise or at least not at the level as Garlique brand.
Nothing beats real garlic, if one likes garlic.
OK then, Health Check scam everywhere! :rolleyes:
Good info abut Garlique etc. I think a lot of those actually don't have the necessary levels of whatever makes garlic good for us. Something to do with some ingredient/chemical that breaks down after 1/2 hour of crushing/mincing etc. Can't recall :o
No matter though, as I looooooove garlic! :)