Beware: The Hidden Dangers Lurking in Your Fruit and Vegetable

Dear Reader,

In a time when alternative medicine is fighting for all it is worth to be recognised as an effective form of medicine, it doesn’t help when mainstream medicine continues to slate natural healthcare. I wish they’d at least do their homework before they launch their one-sided, misinformed attacks.

The truth is, if Big Pharma, the media and mainstream medicine had their way, we'd all be taking a daily statin with our breakfast... we all know where that would land us — riddled with side effects such as muscle weakness and liver damage.

Antioxidants can seriously harm your health..

The latest media onslaught deals a massive blow to antioxidants... The recent biased and scientifically unsupported article, would make anyone (who believed it) bin their antioxidant-rich vitamin supplements without a second thought...

It’s ridiculous to say the least!

Here are just some of the claims being made about the so-called dangers of antioxidants:
*Vitamins C and E, and beta-carotene are not beneficial for your health and might even be dangerous... though the author failed to say what these so-called dangers are...
*Neutralize the immune system.
*Interfere with immune-system cells (such as white blood cells) that fight cancer and infections!?
*Vitamin A, beta-carotene and vitamin E, used for primary or secondary prevention may increase overall mortality.
*Impair fertility.
*Here’s a good one... antioxidants found in tea, red onions, apples and artichokes, aggravate and possibly trigger kidney cancer...
*A Natural protein (Nrf2 found in vegetables) that boosts antioxidant levels may promote atherosclerosis, or clogging of the arteries.

If you choose to believe all that, then you don’t need to read any further; and should throw away all the fruit and vegetables in your kitchen immediately. After all, if you follow what Newsweek says, in this instance, Nature is out to harm us all...

Debunking this codswallop

At the beginning of the article, the author quotes a blogger (only identified as, David Bradley, a UK chemist and science writer) saying: “It’s always struck me as odd that you would want to ingest extra antioxidants anyway, given that oxidising agents are at the front-line of immune defence against pathogens and cancer cells... Suffice to say that taking antioxidant supplements ... may not necessarily be good for your health if you already have health problems.” Based on that premise Newsweek built their entire argument... not on the opinion of a professional or respected medical journal or even a qualified professor in the field of nutrition... No, on the views of a blogger! Delve a bit deeper, and you’ll find two very good reasons why

Newsweek’s inflammatory codswallop can be easily debunked:
1. The so-called science writer, chemist and blogger as well as the author (like many so-called ‘healthcare professionals’) - have a complete lack of understanding of how antioxidants work inside the body.

2. Most of the studies supporting their argument used the wrong form of antioxidants (as is the case with many vitamin and supplement studies) to begin with, and on top of that, the majority of these studies were animal or laboratory studies.

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...and another thing You know the 5-second rule?

If you drop food on the floor, you can pick it up within 5 seconds and still eat it.

I wonder if the five-second rule is in effect at drug manufacturing plants? If you drop a batch of pills on the floor, would the policy be that what you can scoop up in five seconds would still be usable? I wouldn't be surprised.

Previously I told you how a peek behind the curtain at two very ugly pill mills (Johnson & Johnson and the GlaxoSmithKline plant in Puerto Rico) showed how these Pharma Factories are contaminated and mismanaged.

So with drug manufacturing plants located all over the world, what do you suppose the chances are, that they are all operating in pristine hygienic conditions?

I'm guessing, the odds aren’t great...

A US report reveals that the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seriously dropping the ball in domestic and overseas drug plant inspections. When officials examined a list of FDA priority inspection sites in foreign countries, they estimated that little more than 10 per cent were inspected in 2009. At that rate, it is estimated that it would take nine years to inspect the remaining sites on the list.

Also, out of more than 3,750 sites, nearly 2,400 had never been inspected at all. Most of those sites are in China and India. Just imagine what might be going on at all those sites. On second thoughts, maybe it’s better not to. Until next time,

Usman Mughees Qazi Editor