The multibillion-dollar refined-food industry has gained such power that it keeps people in ignorance and literally controls the health of our nation. Its relentless radio, television, newspaper, and magazine advertising reaches like the life-crushing tentacles of an octopus into every home. Half the space in our beautiful markets is given to health-destroying products which fill shoppers' baskets to a frightening degree. Hundreds of magazines and newspapers, depending on advertising income from the foodless food industry, have carried articles and syndicated columns--clever mixtures of truth, misinformation, and propaganda--particularly designed to prevent the slightest interest in nutrition from interfering with enormous profits.

The refined-food industry, by giving untold millions, also controls a vast amount of nutritional research. Much of it is valuable indeed, but information that might harm sales goes unreported and problems whose solution could decrease profits remain un-investigated. Though most scientists are dedicated, scrupulously honest individuals, a few doctors, well paid by the vested interests, have become extremely vocal in proclaiming the excellence of the American diet. People attempting to alert the public are subjected to vicious sneer and smear campaigns. referred to as alarmists, and their books are widely publicized as "not recommended." The late Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, was thus shamefully attacked, her compassion for humanity damned as being "unscientific."

Invariably the propaganda articles state that America is the best-fed nation in the world, that our life expectancy is increasing, and that our diet is better than it was a generation ago, always implying that everyone enjoys maximum well-being, Americans are the most abundantly fed but their diet is far from the best nutritionally, Because fewer people die during childhood, millions are reaching the later years, but the life expectancy of a 40-year-old American is near the lowest in the world. Government figures show how much our diet has "improved." Hydrogenation now causes the destruction of 850 million to 1 billion pounds of essential fatty acids annually, a loss any nation clutching at a diseased heart can ill afford; and in only four years, the consumption of soft drinks increased 21 per cent; candy, 17 per cent; white flour, baked goods, macaroni, and packaged cereals 16 per cent each. The national expenditure in one year alone for foods supplying almost no nutrients was over 13 billion dollars. Though such foods produce disease rather than health, the misleading propaganda about them is believed by most of our citizens. Hard facts, however, are not altered in the slightest by anyone's desire to distort or ignore them or to keep them hidden.

How mercilessly the foodless food industry distorts truth is shown by a typical article extolling the "monumental success" of "enriched" white flour. The most of the pantothenic acid, folic acid, biotin, cholin, inositol, vitamins B6 and E are discarded in the milling. The "airy snow-white loaf" has been further damaged by being bleached. Losses of iron, cobalt, potassium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, copper, and molybdenum range from 50 to 87 per cent. The amounts of vitamins B1, B2, niacin, and iron returned to the ridiculously labeled "enriched" flour are far less than the quantity occurring naturally. Adding a few B vitamins can induce deficiencies of the B vitamins not supplied. And a nation's health can improve, as did England's during both world wars, despite tremendous stress when refining of grains is prohibited.

With callous indifference to suffering, the "health" value of packaged cereals is similarly extolled, yet the same nutritional losses occur as in the refining of flour but are even greater because of harm done by heat. Numerous rapidly increasing diseases could be prevented by the nutrients discarded from wholesome grains, which cumulatively can be a tremendously rich source of nutrients, particularly for youngsters.

Another typical example of how ruthlessly the refined food industry ignores the truth is the advertising of foods sweetened with cyclamate and saccharine as "dietary," implying such healthfulness that people believe them to be nutritious. The National Research Council warned against using these sweeteners in 1955 and again in 1962, saying their safety could not be guaranteed. Yet more than 100 "dietary" foods now contain them; and 200 million cases of nutrient-free soft drinks sweetened with cyclamate, many also high in caffeine and harmful acids, were sold last year. A person using such drinks may ingest as much as 5 grams--an entire teaspoonful--of cyclamate daily. It is known to destroy vitamin C; and some physicians believe that soft drinks cause serious liver damage. The toxicity of artificial sweeteners has been studied, but the maximum tolerance has not been found and liver biopsies have not been taken before and after long-term use.

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David Crawford is the CEO and owner of a Male Enhancement Products company known as Male Enhancement Group which is dedicated to researching and comparing male enhancement products in order to determine which male enhancement product is safer and more effective than other products on the market. Copyright 2010 David Crawford of Male Enhancement Products This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.