Some vids about just how terrible trans fats, MSG, and aspartame are. So much evidence is known of how bad they are, yet they’re all still legal. The whole of it just speaks to how sketchy the system is, and how we should be so wary of anything processed or artificial lest find ourselves guinea pigs of the FDA. Not just with foods either but all kinds of chemicals that we are poisoning the earth with.
Trans fats: The scary thing about trans fats is that even if it says 0g on the label, the FDA allows it to be up to 0.4g and it’ll be rounded down to 0 for the label. You very rarely see anything containing any grams of trans fat according to the label, but I’d be willing to bet that tons of products have it snuck in there and they get to round down to 0. They probably lower the serving size to accomplish this too. A person could eat 6 servings of such things in a day, that could be over 2g of trans fats all the while the label said 0. Again it could also come at a restaurant and you’d never know it. “hydrogenated” or “partially hydrogenated” oils. Avoid them! It’s a shame that whole cities (like NYC back in 2006) place bans before the FDA even thinks of it.
MSG: The scary thing about MSG (other than of course how bad it is for you) is how it’s disguised so innocuously as other things in ingredient lists. Like “hydrolyzed vegetable protein”, “autolyzed yeast”, “hydrolyzed yeast”, “yeast extract”, “soy extract”, “protein isolate”, even just as “spices”, or “natural flavorings”. Be deligent with your label reading, or better yet avoid that processed crap all together. But it’s ALSO served up in restaurants, you gotta be diligent.
(watch parts 2a, 2b, 3, 4)
Aspartame: This vid series is called Aspartame and MSG are Poisoning Us, but it’s really just about aspartame and how it causes brain tumors and various other things. It’s kinda long but near the end is a pretty sad story about how a woman was convicted for poisoning her husband who died of methanol poisoning, the actual suspicion being that it was from the component of aspartame. Stevia gets mentioned in the credits; it’s a joke how aspartame is still approved for food use but stevia isn’t.
(watch parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
Or this 60 Minutes piece which kind of sums up the above aspartame material in 10 minutes.
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