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Right now is the time to start cleaning up your gut for good. Yep, a lot of folks are looking forward to start really pigging out during the holiday season starting with Thanksgiving Day dinner. What's on your traditional and otherwise menu is not as important as the recipe ingredients your use for the turkey, stuffing, gravy, pies, salads, and all the delicious sensations you plan to serve.

Your Thanksgiving Day and every other day ought to be healthy as well as entertaining. If you choose to be healthy, here are 4 types of so-called foods you should avoid consuming at all. Do your own research and use common sense if you don't want to continue eating these truly toxic "food" items.

1. Genetically modified (GM) foods

Most people who shop at grocery stores don't read food labels and even for those of us who do, it's unclear if we're eating MonSatano genetically modified corn or soy crops and food additives like aspartame artificial sweetener which are made from genetically modified organisms (yes, think E. coli). Why? Because the FDA refuses to prove safety testing, which is the determining the ability of GM food crops to do harm to human health before consumption by the public, by government and independent labs. And because agribusiness lobbists have twisted the arm of the FDA into not requiring ingredient labels for genetically manipulated food crops. Even the names organic or natural appearing on food labels is deceptive: USDA Organic is a watered-down version of the organic standards set by grassroot activists. Learn more at http://organicconsumers.org/sos.cfm

All "food" in the marketplace is not food which is safe to eat, and thus is dangerous to make or accept a general rationalization regarding traditional or conventional foods and genetically manipulated food. Researchers in the USA and Europe have linked GM foods with the occurence of diseases such as cancer, autoimmune diseases, and dysfunctions of hormonal, nervous and reproductive systems, among others.

Accordingly, the AAEM calls for an immediate moratorium on GM foods, stating that "there is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects" and that "GM foods pose a serious health risk in the areas of toxicology, allergy and immune function, reproductive health, and metabolic, physiologic and genetic health."

2. Soy products

In addition to GM soy products other soy products are toxic to your health. Traditionally, soy products including soy sauce was fermented by the Orientals but today soy bean products and soy sauce are not fermented like miso, tempeh, and tofu. And "even the good soy products must be eaten in appropriate quantities," states Kaayla Daniel, PhD, CCN in the book The Whole Soy Story.
It's high time you found out the research and the politricks of the soy industry in this book for yourself.

Soy, hailed as the miracle health food, is full of toxic hype. Numerous clinical and epidemiological studies have directly linked soy products to a host of diseases and disorders ranging from malnutrition, brain damage, cancer, thyroid dysfunction, cognitive decline, immune system breakdown, fertility problems, reproductive disorders, cognitive decline, birth defects, allergies and kidney stones.

3. Food additives

Talk about Greek! Does anyone know what exactly are those chemical-sounding names on food labels? Or where they came from? Do most people even bother finding out or like some of us, simple don't purchase items when the labels are loaded with strange-sounding names like the ubiquitous monosodium glutamate (msg), aspartame, synthetic dyes, BHA, BHT, sulfites, potassium bromate, nitrates, nitrates, and the unknown purine flavor enhancers, olestra,...

Food additives are non-nutritive substances intentionally added to food items to enhance flavor, extend storage, improve appearance or texture. Yet, basic research scientists and clinicians link toxic substances like excitotoxins found in food additives to "development of several neurological disorders including migraines, seizures, infections, abnormal neural development, certain endocrine disorders, neuropsychiatric disorders, learning disorders in children, AIDS dementia, episodic violence, lyme borreliosis, hepatic encephalopathy, specific types of obesity, and especially the neurodegenerative diseases, such as ALS, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and olivopontocerebellar degeneration," according to Russell L. Blaylock, MD in an article entited Food Additive Excitotoxins and Degenerative Brain Disorders.

4. Nightshades

Nightshades are a diverse group of foods, herbs, shrubs, and trees in the family called Solanaceae which includes all potatoes (not sweet or yam), all tomatoes, all peppers (except black), tobacco, and gogi berries.

Craigsams.com states that "They all contain nicotine in some form, although it may be named solanine (potatoes), tomatine (tomatoes), alpha-solanine (aubergine) or solanadine (chillies and capsicums) but the nicotine content can cause a variety of physical, mental and emotional problems."

Bottom line: The nicotine in tobacco is so addictive that, even in small quantities, by inhibiting the breakdown of acetylcholine, stimulates increased activity of the acetylcholine receptors in the brain and this leads to increased flow of adrenaline. This increases the heart rate, blood pressure and leads to increased blood glucose levels. This mild increase in energy level is achieved, along with a reduced nervous sensitivity; producing a combination of calmness and stimulation.
This provides short term relief in the face of the stresses and pressures of modern life. In the longer term it puts a strain on the nervous system as the receptors are being overstimulated.

If you choose to take the time to research and test the impact of these foods yourself, you'll notice a immense increase in your health and well being once you've purged them from your diet and your body.

Happy Thanksgivinig to All!

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