Is Your Diet Toxic?

ByTom White

CleansingMatters.com

Is Your Diet Toxic?

• If you eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables you might think your diet is healthy…

• ….but you could be deficient in minerals and consuming toxic produce.

Nutritionally Bankrupt Foods

• Soil in North America has up to 85% less minerals in it than it did 100 years ago.

• Fertilizers and modern intensive farming have sterilised the top soil and led to nutritionally bankrupt fruits and vegetables

"You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a mineral deficiency." - Dr. Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Prize

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Toxic Cocktail of Pesticides

• Residue remains in fruits/vegetables & creates a toxic cocktail inside your body.

• Contaminates soil and air, leaching into groundwater, or running off into streams, lakes, rivers and oceans.

Problems with Pesticides

• Over 110,000 pesticide poisonings reported each year (US)

• Pesticides can cause health problems, such as:– Birth defects– Nerve damage,– Cancer

Dirty Dozen: Fruits and Veg with the Highest Pesticide Use

• Peaches• Apples• Sweet bell peppers• Celery• Nectarines• Strawberries

• Cherries• Pears• Imported grapes• Spinach• Lettuce• Potatoes

12 Cleanest Foods (Foods with Least Pesticides)

• Onions• Avocados• Frozen sweet corn• Pineapples• Mangos• Asparagus

• Frozen sweet peas• Kiwi• Bananas• Cabbage• Broccoli• Papaya

EXAMPLE: Packaged Salad: What's in the bag?

• 2/3rd of consumers purchase packaged salads

• Salad washed in chlorine (20 times stronger than the average swimming pool)

• Nutrients destroyed by Modified Atmosphere Packaging

Organic V’s Non-Organic: Which is Better?

Watch out for confusing food labels:

Genetically Modified Foods: Safe or Not?

• We don’t know: Not a single clinical trial of any GM crop has ever been published.

• Studies have shown GM foods can be: – Allergenic– Toxic– Carcinogenic– Anti-nutritional

GM Crops: Would You Eat Them?

• Toxic pesticides from GM food crops found in unborn babies.

• Up to 75% of foods in a US grocery store contain GM ingredients

Top 5 Most Grown GM Crops:

• Corn

• Soy bean

• Sugar cane

• Tomatoes

• Potatoes

Foods that often contain GM ingredients

• Canola Oil

• Soy Sauce

• Frozen Pizza

• Frozen Dinners

• Dry Cereal

• Baby Formula

• Canned Soups

What Can You Do?

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