Five Common Food Additives That Can Damage Your Brain b4in.org/q4oG By Deane Alban Eating mostly whole foods as nature intended is the best recipe for a brain-healthy diet. This minimizes consumption of food additives, some of which are bad for your brain. But most of us, even with the best intentions, eat food that comes in a can or a box at least once in awhile! The FDA allows 3,000 additives to be used in the US food supply. Reading labels is a good place to start for avoiding these additives, but this can be confusing. Not all additives are unhealthy. You will find everyday items on the list like salt, vitamin C, and acetic acid (vinegar). You’ll also find long-winded names like Eleutherococcus senticosus which may sound suspicious, but is actually the healthy herb ginseng. But some of the worst health offenders aren’t required to be on the label! I’ve ferreted out a handful of additives that are known for harming the brain. Here is my “Hit List”, plus ways to easily avoid exposure. Five Common Food Additives That Can Damage Your Brain Aspartame This artificial sweetener is bad news any way you look at it. Currently, there are 92 categories of complaints filed against aspartame with the FDA. And ironically, it is highly suspected of making people who use it fatter! Original studies were falsified to hide the fact that animals fed aspartame developed seizures and brain tumors, but the FDA approved it anyway. (Seems like they care more about big business than your well-being.) Aspartame is made up of three brain-damaging chemicals — aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol. Learn how these chemicals affect your brain in Warning! This Sweetener May Affect Your Memory, and Worse… Formerly known as Nutrasweet, but now called AminoSweet, this is one of the easiest brain-damaging chemicals to avoid since it is clearly labeled. Sucralose While the affects of aspartame have been well-publicized, those of the artificial sweetener sucralose are not as well known. Sucralose is marketed as Splenda whose ads say “made from sugar so it tastes like sugar.” What the ads don’t tell you is that sucralose is sugar bonded to chlorine, making it a toxic chlorocarbon! Some common neurological side effects are headaches, migraines, dizziness, brain fog, anxiety, depression, and tinnitus. Another side effect is weight gain which rather defeats the point! Sucralose prevents nutrient absorption and reduces the amount of good bacteria in your intestines by 50%. This leads to an overabundance of bad bacteria which has numerous negative affects on your brain including damage to the hippocampus, the part of the brain where memory is stored. Learn more about how your brain health and digestive health are connected here. Stop drinking diet soda or eating foods with this or any other artificial sweetener. You’ll be better off going back to sugar! My favorite healthy sweetener is SweetLeaf Stevia. Use it to sweeten foods and drinks with zero calories, naturally. Diacetyl Americans love their popcorn, munching down 17.3 billion quarts of popped corn each year! But home-popped microwave popcorn usually contains butter flavoring with the additive diacetyl. It’s already established this chemical causes a serious condition called “microwave popcorn lung”. More b4in.org/q4oG
Posted on: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 12:28:29 +0000
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