Food Causing Cancers
Researches found out that some common foods that we eat everyday causes cancer when you grow old. I'm not say not to eat these food but eat in moderation.
1. Hot dogs
Because they are high in nitrates, the Cancer Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can't live without hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitrate.
2. Processed meats and bacon
Also high in the same sodium nitrates found in hot dogs, bacon, and other processed meats raise the risk of heart disease. The saturated fat in bacon also contributes to cancer.
3. Doughnuts
Doughnuts are cancer-causing double trouble. First, they are made with white flour, sugar, and hydrogenated oils, then fried at high temperatures. Doughnuts, says Adams , may be the worst food you can possibly eat to raise your risk of cancer.
4. French fries
Like doughnuts, French fries are made with hydrogenated oils and then fried at high temperatures. They also contain cancer- causing acryl amides which occur during the frying process. They should be called cancer fries, not French fries, said Adams .
Fruits are good for your health
Pear & Banana - regulates sugar content.
- Pineapple + Apple + Watermelon -To dispel excess salts, nourishes the bladder and kidney.
- Carrot + Apple + Pear + Mango -Clear body heat, counteracts toxicity, decreased blood pressure and fight oxidization .
- Carrot + Ginger + Apple - Boost and cleanse our system.
- Apple + Cucumber + Celery - Prevent cancer, reduce cholesterol, and eliminate stomach upset and headache.
- Bitter gourd + Apple + Milk - Avoid bad breath and reduce internal body heat.
- Orange + Ginger + Cucumber - Improve Skin texture and moisture and reduce body heat.
- Apple + Cucumber + Kiwi -To improve skin complexion.
- Honeydew + Grape + Watermelon + Milk - Rich in vitamin C + Vitamin B2 - increase cell activity and str engthen body immunity.
- Tomato + Carrot + Apple - Improve skin complexion and eliminate bad breath.
Canned Meat Products a threat to one's Health
I have seen the news today in ABS CBN news channel that National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) will be currently testing chinese canned goods for melamine contamination. These products were tested by private testing laboratory to contain some trace elements of Cadmium and lead. This is good news for me because I always wanted to verify the integrity and quality of these products. Everytime I shop in Grocery store, I never forget to get one of these products in the shelves. As I search on in the internet, I have found out that some of these chinese products are recalled from Hongkong because it contains nitrofuran. But as of today, because of this news I will refrain from buying and eating these products from china. I dont want to risk my health just to satisfy my taste buds.
source: http://www.cfs.gov.hk/english/whatsnew/whatsnew_fa/whatsnew_fa_35_Recall_of_Canned_Luncheon_Meat.html
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Tilapia: a local fish is dangerous to health
I was surfing today in when i came across this article. Here how is goes ...
If you eat fish, chances are you've recently eaten tilapia, one of the most highly consumed types of fish in the United States. You might want to change the menu.
Researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have concluded that farm-raised tilapia--the kind typically sold in supermarkets--contains very low levels of the beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and very high levels of the potentially dangerous omega-6 fatty acids.
How dangerous is it? Eating tilapia could be far worse for your heart health than eating a hamburger, doughnuts or even pork bacon!
The double whammy of low levels of omega-3 fatty acids and high levels of omega-6 fatty acids could be potentially dangerous for some people with heart disease, arthritis, asthma and other allergic and auto-immune diseases that are particularly vulnerable to an "exaggerated inflammatory response." Inflammation is known to cause damage to blood vessels, the heart, lung and joint tissues, skin and the digestive tract.
"In the United States, tilapia has shown the biggest gains in popularity among seafood, and this trend is expected to continue as consumption is projected to increase from 1.5 million tons in 2003 to 2.5 million tons by 2010," write the Wake Forest researchers in an article published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
The team discovered that farm-raised tilapia, as well as farmed catfish, "have several fatty acid characteristics that would generally be considered by the scientific community as detrimental." Tilapia has higher levels of potentially detrimental long-chain omega-6 fatty acids than 80-percent-lean hamburger, doughnuts and even pork bacon. "For individuals who are eating fish as a method to control inflammatory diseases such as heart disease, it is clear from these numbers that tilapia is not a good choice," the researchers write. "All other nutritional content aside, the inflammatory potential of hamburger and pork bacon is lower than the average serving of farmed tilapia."
The heart healthy benefits of omega-3 fatty acids, found in abundance in salmon and trout, have been well documented--so much so that the American Heart Association recommends everyone eat at least two servings of fish a week. Just don't make one of those servings tilapia since it could actually do your body more harm than good.
--From the Editors at Netscape
Minimally I eat this kind of fish and especially the belly part of any fish. Belly of the fish especially the ones in bangus are very rich in cholesterol. So my advise to not to eat too much of these and most probably the steamed and grill but not the fried ones, cause it pays you to accumulate cholesterol in your body.
Killer Milk Powder
A third baby has died and the number sickened after being fed milk powder laced with an industrial chemical has soared five-fold to more than 6,000 in one of the worst food quality scandals to rock China.
The Health Minister Chen Zhu said: “As far as possible, minimise the harm to infants’ health from the contaminated milk powder.”
Hospitals were crowded with anxious parents seeking the free treatment promised by the government for their babies.Supermarket workers in many cities raced to pull tins of formula off shelves in a huge recall and amid fears the numbers of infants ill after drinking powdered milk adulterated with the compound melamine could rise. Minister Chen said more and more parents were expected to take their children to hospitals in the coming days.
The Government has announced that a fifth of 109 dairy manufacturers that have been checked had produced batches of milk products adulterated with melamine, used in plastics and fertilisers banned from foods. But the compound is rich in nitrogen, used to measure protein, and can be used to disguise milk that fails to meet standards or has been diluted.
source: timesonline.co.uk
Lets take a look on what is melamine on wikipedia
This article is about the chemical substance called melamine. The term "melamine" is also used to describe melamine resin, a plastic material.
Not to be confused with melanin, a pigment found in skin and hair.
Melamine is an organic base with the chemical formula C3H6N6, with the IUPAC name 1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine. It is only slightly soluble in water.
Melamine is a trimer of cyanamide. Like cyanamide, it is 66% nitrogen (by mass) and provides fire retardant properties to resin formulas by releasing nitrogen when burned or charred. Dicyandiamide (or cyanoguanidine), the dimer of cyanamide, is also used as a fire retardant.
Melamine is a metabolite of cyromazine, a pesticide. It is formed in the body of mammals who have ingested cyromazine.[2] It was also reported that cyromazine is converted to melamine in plants.[3][4]
USES
Melamine is used combined with formaldehyde to produce melamine resin, a very durable thermosetting plastic, and melamine foam, a polymeric cleaning product. The end products include countertops, dry erase boards, fabrics, glues, housewares and flame retardants. Melamine is one of the major components in Pigment Yellow 150, a colorant in inks and plastics.
Melamine is also used to make fertilizers.
Melamine derivatives of arsenical drugs are potentially important in the treatment of African trypanosomiasis[7]
Melamine use as non-protein nitrogen (NPN) for cattle was described in a 1958 patent.[8] In 1978, however, a study concluded that melamine "may not be an acceptable nonprotein N source for ruminants" because its hydrolysis in cattle is slower and less complete than other nitrogen sources such as cottonseed meal and urea.[9]
source: wikipedia
Comments:
Based on this incidence, can we conclude that Products(especially on milk products) from China are low of quality?
