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A few decades later, the Congress adopted the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act which, among other things, transformed the 45,000 food products into the average supermarket in wealth-to-say devices. Americans inexplicably banged. I'm changing. Why? The nutrition label can predict the size of the future of your pants and health care invoices.

Unfortunately, these labels are not as clear and straightforward as the 8-ball magic. Consider the list of ingredients: Food and Drug Administration has approved more than 3,000 additives, most of whom you have never heard of it. But the truth is, you do not have to know them. You just need to be able to analyze the bad things. Do this and you will have a good idea of ​​your future shaping, that you will end up overweight and unhealthy or prove to be fit, happy, and full of energy.

Here, I identified 8 ingredients that you do not want to see on the nutrition label. If you ask the products that contain them? As Magic 8-Ball would say: yes to point of signs.

This preservative is used to prevent rancidity in foods that contain oils. Unfortunately, BHA (butylhydroxyanisole) has been shown to cause cancer in rats, mice and hamsters. The reason the FDA did not prohibit, it is largely technical cancers in the all the pre-sitting rodent, a body that humans do not have. Nevertheless, the study, published in theJournal of Cancer Japanese Research, Concluded that the BHA was "reasonably should be carcinogenic" and as far as I'm concerned, which is enough reason to eliminate it from your diet.

You will find in: Fruity Pebbles, Cocoa Cailloux

These synthetic preservatives are used for inhibition mold and yeast in the power supply. The problem is parabens can also disrupt the hormonal balance of your body. A study inChemical Toxicology Food found that daily ingestion decreased the production of sperm and testosterone in rats and parabens were found in breast cancer tissues.

You will find in: Sundae Baskin-Robbins

I remouched before, but it should be repeated: do not confuse "0 g of trans fat" to be without trans fat. The FDA allows products to claim zero gram of trans fat as long as they have less than half a gram per serving. This means that they can have 0.49 grams per serving and still be labeled a trans fatty food. Considering that both grams are the most you need to consume absolute in a day, these fractions can add quickly. The revealing sign that your snack is dirty with things? Look for partially hydrogenated oil on the ingredient declaration. If it's everywhere there, then you ingesting who clogs the trans fat arteries.

You will find in: Shrimp Long John Silver Pop-Corn, Celeste frozen pizzas

Nitrites and nitrates are used to prevent bacteria from botulism causing and maintaining pink shades of processed meats, which explains why the FDA allows their use. Unfortunately, once ingested, nitrite can merge with amino acids (whose meat is a main source) to form nitrosamines, powerful carcinogenic compounds. Ascorbic and mainly erythorbic acid vitamin C have been shown to reduce the risk, and most manufacturers now add one or both to their products, which has helped. Yet the best way to reduce the risk is to limit your consumption.

You will find in: Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs, Bacon Hormel

This additive would not be dangerous if you made it the way with the water and the old sugar, above a stove. But the food industry follows another recipe: they treat sugar with ammonia, which can produce unpleasant carcinogenic substances. How are these carcinogenic compounds? A Science Center in the Public Interest Report stated that the high levels of caramel color found in the United States for approximately 15,000 cancers in the United States.

You will find in: Coca-Cola / Diet Coke, Pepsi / Pepsi Diet

Castoreum is one of the many nebula "natural ingredients" used for food flavor. Although it does not hurt, it is disturbing. Castoreum is a substance made from castor castor bags or anal odoriferous glands. These glands produce powerful secretions that help animals mark their territory in nature. In the food industry, however, 1,000 pounds of the uncomfortable ingredient are used every year to imbued foods usually vanilla or raspberry flavor with a particular flavor, musky.

You will find in: Potentially any food containing "natural ingredients"

Many flavored candy with fruit and sweet cereals do not contain a single gram of products, but rely on artificial dyes and aromas to suggest a relationship with nature. Not only do these dyes allow manufacturers to hide the brightly transformed food colors, but some shades have been linked to more serious evils. APediatric newspaper Yellow-related study at hyperactivity in children, Canadian researchers found yellow 6 and red 40 to be contaminated with known carcinogens and red 3 is known to cause tumors. The essential? Avoid artificial dyes as much as possible.

You will find it in: Lucky charms, bowling, jell-o

The hydrolysed vegetable protein, used as a flavor waterproof, is the vegetable protein that has been chemically chicked in amino acids. One of these acids, glutamic acid, can free free glutamate. When this glutamate joins free sodium in your body, they form a monosodium glutamate (MSG), an addendive known to cause adverse effects - headaches, nausea and weakness, among others - in sensitive persons . When MSG is added directly to the products, the FDA requires manufacturers to disclose its inclusion on the declaration of ingredients. But when this happens as a by-product of the hydrolysed protein, the FDA allows it to go not recognized.

You will find it in: Knorr noodle sides, funyuns