Like Cigarettes, Like Food



In Short :

Cigarette smoke contains physically addictive beta-carbolines, and so does prepared food. And extra addictive substances are added to cigarettes, as well as to food products too ; when you quit smoking, the loss of addictive substances from cigarettes is compensated by consuming more prepared food, making you gain weight. (see diet suggestions)

Cigarette smoke contains mutagenic heterocyclic amines, and so does prepared food.

Cigarettes can be lethal, but prepared food is even more lethal, because it is absorbed in greater quantities.

Cigarette companies have to pay billions of dollars. How about the food manufacturers ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Detail :

 

 

 

Adding addictive substances

 

 

Milk protein

Did you ever wonder why so many food products contain milk protein ?

Food-manufacturers producing formula milk, know what milk protein contains. They know cow's milk protein includes opioid peptides (1). (see 13/zombie)

They also know that ,compared to mother’s milk, the bioavailibility of various minerals and metals in cow's milk is much lower. That's why they put so much more pro-oxidative metals in formula milk, hoping that the right amount of metals is absorbed. 

And they know protein quality of formula milk is 35% worse than protein quality of mother's milk. That's why formula milk has to contain more useless protein, but that extra protein requires more vitamin B2, B6 and folic acid levels. Therefore supplementary B6 and folic acid is advised.

And they also know formula milk does not contain the right growth factors, and there's nothing they can do about that. That's why they don't mention it on the label.

 

So ,what would you think that they did ,knowing that milk contains addictive opioid peptides ?

They were pre-calculating their profits of course;

 

If you can make everybody drink formula milk in their first, very vulnerable, years of their lives, they will be hooked on food products containing cow's milk-opioid peptides for the rest of their lives. Can you see the huge market they saw ?

And they continuously did ,and they still do, try to make women in the poorest countries give their babies formula milk.

And do you know who own those factories producing formula milk ?

Yes, .......large food-manufacturers.

 

They don't care that people in those poor countries have little money to buy formula milk ; they are creating a new market for all their other products. Profits guaranteed.

 

 

Wheat protein

And why do you think wheat is the most used grain in food products ?

Because wheat contains powerful opioid peptides (2), sometimes 100 times more powerful than morphine. (3) Even some meat products contain wheat-protein. To enhance taste ?

Of course adding both milk- and wheat protein works even better, guaranteeing higher sales.

 

 

Heated / Hydrolyzed protein

By heating wheat- and milk proteins, these become even more resistant against decomposing enzymes. Such (chemically) slightly-altered opioid peptides can be extremely hard to decompose, due to their unnatural composition, or by directly inhibiting decomposing-enzymes activity. (4)

Heating protein also originates beta-carbolines, and many of these beta-carbolines also inhibit enzymes decomposing opioid peptides. (5)

Beta-carbolines also are addictive, directly (6) or indirectly. (7)

Food manufacturers know all this of course. Years ago, a Nestlé spokesman declared that ''food manufacturers could use this information to sell more food''. (8)

Taste-enhancers for example are concentrated dehydrated proteins, containing lots of beta-carbolines. They therefore don't 'enhance taste’, but influence neurotransmitter-receptors. (9)

 

What does it take to create some very effective 'taste-enhancers' ?

Mix some protein (preferably wheat- or milk-protein) with sugars, and heat this thoroughly. And that's exactly what successful manufacturers do. And that's why the best sold candy is made by the same manufacturers, also producing best-sold rice and best-sold cat and dog food.

 

 

 

Mutagenic heterocyclic amines

Prepared food contains lots of different co-mutagenic and mutagenic heterocyclic amines, and so does cigarette smoke.

For example ;   

 

                   Cigarette smoke contains                   Prepared foods also contain

                   beta-carboline (10)                               beta-carboline (11)

                   Trp-P-1 (12)                                                 Trp-P-1 (13)

                   Trp-P-2 (14)                                                 Trp-P-2 (15)

                   4-aminobiphenyl (16)                                  4-aminobiphenyl (17)

                   MeIQx (12)                                                    MeIQx (18)

                   Glu-P-1. (19)                                                 Glu-P-1 (20)

 

Mutagenic heterocyclic amine concentration in prepared food can be much higher than in cigarette smoke. 100 grams (3.5 oz.) of prepared meat for example contain as much AalphaC as smoke of 812 cigarettes. And 100 grams of prepared meat contain as much of even-more-mutagenic MeAalphaC as the smoke of 1,050 cigarettes !!! (21)

 

 

 

Lethal

Considering the fact that we can eat food we need most,

and considering the fact that we don't have to do hard physical labor,

and considering the fact that we in general are protected against contagious diseases,

and considering the fact that we have access to specialized healthcare,

we all should die at the age of 120, when the heart simply stops beating.

And if you don't, and you don't smoke,

it very likely is because of the foods you have been eating.



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