All those ingredients with a cross on food packaging to explain daily values,why are we already consuming them
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Don't hold your breath waiting on the government.  As past history has shown, they tend to be beholden to corporations who help them get re-elected, and not necessarily to you and me.  If you're not sure about an ingredient and you want to be safe, don't eat or drink it.\n\nIt goes without saying that you will be better off sticking to things that are as natural as possible, which is sometimes easier said than done.  Use some common sense and read up on the specific ingredients you're concerned about and make your own decisions.  I think you'll be disappointed if you're looking for someone to tell you what's good or bad because there are disagreements on many things.
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Because you have made up for it by eating 2 large pizzas 3 times a day.\n\nYou have provided so little information that no one (even a nutritionist) could give you an educated answer. Maybe some additional details would help...
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its a petroleum product . now they also make it from animal tal i.e. non edible oil coming as by product from slaughter houses
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on the nutrition table on the back of the box/bag of the product, there is a column that says how much trans fat is in it.
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Jesus himself said "You must eat my flesh and drink my blood to enter the kingdom of heaven" It is a spiritial food, not a food to curve our hunger. Only the devil himself would ask a deceiving question like that.
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500 years ago, Paracelsus, an early chemist, doctor and alchemist (which, at the time, was still a going concern) wrote (in German):\n\n"Alle Ding' sind Gift und nichts ohn' Gift; allein die Dosis macht, das ein Ding kein Gift ist."\n\nThis means:\n"All things are poison and nothing (is) without poison; only the dose makes that a thing is no poison." \n\nWhatever science may think of some of his stranger pursuits, the wisdom of this statement is undisputable.  Every substance will kill you if you ingest enough of it, even water.  (And, no, I'm not talking about drowning.)\n\nAny substance that can damage a DNA molecule can be a carcinogen.  This includes nearly every molecule, again, including water.  The only completely non-carcinogenic substances I can think of would be the noble gasses (helium, neon, etc.)  They are chemically inert and do not readily react with much of anything.  Even that's not completely safe because radon is a radioactive noble gas (so easily a carcinogen) and some of the others probably have radioactive isotopes.\n\nIt's worth noting that despite the earlier "answer", natural things are full of carcinogens.  Plants are filled with pesticides of their own creation.  Why not?  Plants don't like being eaten any more than you would.  Natural pesticides are simply the result of their evolution.  These pesticides are designed to, yes, KILL animals.  That includes you.  Of course, we don't eat the ones that have enough of those chemicals to kill us in the short term, and only a few of our foods (such as, I'm told, Okra, which supposedly has the highest levels of natural pesticides of any food regularly eaten by humans) have enough pesticides to be really worth avoiding.  Nonetheless, the chemicals aren't intended to be good for you and some of them do indeed contribute to cancer.\n\nFunny irony:  Plants grown "naturally" or "organically" have more natural pesticides than those grown by supposedly bad, unnatural modern techniques.  "Organically" grown plants are exposed to more insects, and the plants respond by pumping up excess carcinogens and other poisons into their tissues.  Plants protected by artificial, external pesticides have less trouble with pests, so don't produce as many poisons.  Guess what, you cannot wash off internal, natural pesticides like you can the artificial ones humans add.\n\nAgain, the dosage of these natural pesticides is still usually too small for concern.  Still, if you want my advice, avoid overpriced "organic" foods.\n\nRemember the Alar scare from quite a few years back?  Everyone worried about the Alar on apples being carcinogenic.  Everyone ignoring the plain fact that the supposedly dangerous aspect of Alar was that it broke down into unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH).  UDMH is found in much higher doses in supermarket mushrooms than found on treated apples.  The treated apples were banned, the mushrooms remain on the shelves to this day, protected by the strange and irrational sense of safety the phrase "all natural" gives to people.\n\nMind you, I'm not saying the mushrooms are dangerous.  They aren't.  Neither were the treated apples.  The dose makes the poison and neither has enough to worry about.  The news media likes scare stories, so it prints them without much regard for the facts of the issues.
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Yes it is. Most foods are processed or have preservatives to make it last longer. But our lifestyle dictated that change. There is still healthy food out there, but no one has time to buy and cook fresh food everyday. There are just too many things going on. The best thing I did and what alot of people can do is stop eating fast food. That is the worst for you.
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The bible was written by man and has been interpreted and twisted many times over.  Nobody really knows what the original books looked like.  Some of these things were surely taken out of context.  You can take anything and twist it into something it isn't.  Also lets face it times change.  Many believe the part of the bible (forgive me I cant give you an exact place) that tells you not to eat certain things such as animals with a split hoof (pork) were written for the protection of the people at the time.  Can you imagine what food poisoning rates must have been like before the fridge and stove?  Not to mention the safety practices of the FDA keeping our meat safe for us.  So the church asked us not to eat unsafe things.  Food poisoning still happens but I don't believe that I am going to hell for eating the pork chops in my freezer.  (of course some religions hold this belief very dear...please excuse me no offense intended) With religion you must have faith in what you believe.  God also gave us the wisdom to choose what we believe.  Are you asking us to tell you what to believe?  It sounds like you are having issues with your faith and are unsure where to place your belief.  I suggest you seek counseling within the church.  They can answer these questions for you.
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Life is like a box of chocolates....\n\nI eat the good ones (dark, hazelnut, caramel) then feed the rest to my family! ha ha!
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We are 'addicted' to fast/processed foods.  As long as food is convenient and tastes good, most people will continue to eat it.  It is human nature to 'believe' that 'tomorrow never comes'.  Also, I suspect most people are not really aware of the issue.
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Add more faith to your diet.
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because of the caffeine content in coffee, some teas, and some sodas- it is forbidden to use such "stimulants"\n\nand it has not been forgotten with the new testament- it has more so adapted to more hygienic treatment of animal products through the years- it used to be very unsafe to eat meat, especially certain cuts of meat or meat of questionable origins, that's why there were so many dietary restrictions- some people still hold fast to their dietary beliefs while others have changed with the times
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If you're human, you do.  The food you eat is broken down to make the energy you need to live.  The energy is measured in calories.
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I guess food is made of a multitude of elements joined together. If you could break down all the foods to simple elements, I guess you could then use the individual elements and make what ever you like, like the replicator in star trek lol. To prepare food, we usually go by taste, and not the element composition. That's juste my opinion.
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You are what you eat.\n\nIt's related to drugs/chemicals/subtances you intake. =P\n\nFood is medicine, medicine is food.
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what a fascinating question. try experimenting. eat different things each day and monitor the results. be sure to get back to us.
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1) WE GET FRUITS AND VEGETABLES FROM THEM ND THATS ALL I CAN THINK OF GO LOOK IN UR TEXT BOOK OR SUMTIN