What are the short term and long term health effects of eating PRESERVATIVES that are in foods?

Question

I am asking this question b/c I get a minor headache when I eat some foods with preservatives. Also, I usually experience a similar minor headache when I eat foods with MSG (mono-sodium-glutamate).

Answer 1

My understanding is perfectly intact, sound, and complete. Mr. Forkyou is flat wrong, programmed for and by profit minded corporations. It is of no consequence to me that he is delusional, but it is wrong that he has disseminated incorrect information that could affect some innocent person. Therefore I must rectify things.

Real salt does not come out of a test tube. It is a natural substance, and is essential. It has dozens of minerals that feed you. The pathetic addition of iodine to processed salt after it is rendered into a denuded anti-nutrient is at best a joke. That salt is flat dangerous to your health. Read the ingredients on your salt label. Why do food producers have such a psychotic need to alter or destroy what nature creates? It's as if they can't bear to let us find out, that we can not only live without them and their profitable companies, but would be infinitely better off without them.

Get sea salt or any natural unprocessed salt folks, it's actually good for you. The poison in the round cardboard with handy pour spout is an assault on your body.

Laboratories can chemically reconstruct many natural things, but they fail miserably at mimicking nature and cannot reproduce the full health benefits inherent in natural sources of nutrition. Every day more research is being published that bears this out.

Mr. Forkyou seems to believe there is no difference between artificially manufactured chemicals and the chemicals made by nature. How obtuse. One is natural, the other is not. That makes them different. What kind of naivety (or arrogance) does it take to believe that what human beings manufacture is equal to what nature creates? He would have us believe that a few decades of white men in white coats have attained such magnificence that they know better than nature itself about life's complex chemical processes and how to define "healthy". Let's compare track records. Nature produced a thriving healthy planet teeming with life forms that it also nourishes. It wastes nothing, and does not pollute. Nature also recycles everything. Science plus business are so brilliant they've nearly destroyed everything nature created. Right, some white dudes with some big ol' smarty pants college degrees and a few test tubes are more qualified than nature to feed our bodies (and get rich doing it). And we should trust them. Delusional.

People have indeed been finding ways to extend the life of their foods for millennia, but they were perfectly able to do it without artificial chemicals or laboratories or Monsanto. Nature provides many ways to achieve food preservation without shoving carcinogens down your throat.

Yes, beef is aged. And? Forky perhaps missed the gist of the paragraph. It is about fresh being better than not fresh. Poultry is never "aged", nor is fish, nor are eggs. There are more beasts than moo cows. He brought this up because…?

Dozens of additives are put into foods because processing removes every last bit of living nutrition. It is arrogant and naive to see this as a favor being done for you. In fact if industry did not attempt to re-inject a few of the same handful of artificially created "vitamins" back into foods they would have no nutritional value whatsoever, and the evidence of ill health would be immediate and obvious. They do this only for themselves and to try to downplay the fact that they've destroyed your food. Then they have the nerve to suggest it's healthy and extra special now. People cannot deflect mental conditioning, and with repetition and constant exposure, they eventually accept the heinous as if it were normal. If you think 'natural' is weird or in some way dubious, they've won, I rest my case. Hail advertising, how rich it has made them at your expense.

Most chemical additives are by no means healthy, they are a threat to human health.
This is the talk of the proponents of the food additives industries, who earn vast fortunes at the expense of the health of Americans. They don't eat their own foods, but they sure want you to. The plastics and in-edibles you ingest unknowingly every day, every time you eat their frankenfoods, those are good for you! Chemicals are healthy! A little carcinogen won't hurt you, don't be silly. It's wholesome and nutritious! If this stuff wasn't making them filthy rich do you think they'd do it?

The modern 'miracles' of profitable science are no substitute for common sense.

Answer 2

Scientists are still studying the long term effects of preservatives in your daily diet. I do know that prolonged exposure to food dyes, etc, can cause an allergy to them later on in life. The same may be true of preservatives. I can and make my own jelly and can my own veggies for the year at harvest time. I feel much better about myself physically and mentally. If you are worried, eat all natural. It's better for you anyway!

Answer 3

It's not very good for you, I will say that. Most preserved foods have what called "hydrogenated fats". Anything that has that is poison to the body, but we still use it because it makes things last longer for marketing. As for the effects? It certainly has long term effects. Going organic was the best thing I did for myself. It's slightly more expensive, but worth it in the long run.

Answer 4

YOU know the scientist are still doing studies. But some they say cause cancer.