Are You Aware of GMOs in Your Food?

Label GMOs, Committee for the Right to Know, is a political action group that strives to bring awareness to the public regarding genetically modified (GMO) foods. Label GMOs is spearheading an upcoming ballot initiative in California to require companies to label foods that contain GMO products.

80% of foods in the U.S. grocery stores are made with GMO ingredients.

Currently, food companies are not required to label foods that contain GMOs. We think they should be - do you?

Check out Label GMOs' YouTube channel to watch their

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Feeding Soybeans to Poultry

There are many types of beans including soybeans that are used as ingredients in bird diets. In general, all beans and peas are good protein and energy sources for birds. The primary problem with their use is that they must be processed prior to feeding.

Most are members of the legume family of plants. One characteristicof these plants is that the fruit (beans) contain enzyme inhibitors that interfere with the digestion and utilization of nutrients in the diets. If beans are used, they must be roasted or steamed to destroy the antinutritional factors. All commercial soybean meals are processed in this way before being sold as feed ingredients. Raw soybeans should never be fed to poultry or game birds.

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Soy & It’s Potentially Harmful Side Effects…

They have conveniently ignored the existent soy risks. So what exactly are the different soy side effects?

Phytic Acid Content

Soy contains large quantities of phytic acid, which when introduced into the body after consumption, prevents the body from absorbing essential minerals and vitamins in the digestive tract. This can conduce to several deficiencies and health problems even though the person is consuming a diet rich in essential vitamins and minerals.

Absorption of minerals like calcium, iodine, iron gets hampered and these essential and important minerals are for the proper functioning of our body.

Hormone Supplier

Soy contains high amounts of plant compounds that are similar to the female hormone estrogen called phytoestrogens.

Often post-menopausal women take soy products in order to control hot flashes and problems associated with hormonal imbalances. Thus, here we see that soy furnishes our body with hormones. 

However, what about babies, children and young women who do not require this hormone addition? The extra hormone content could trigger early puberty in children, which may conduce to cancer. Young women consuming a lot of soy are at a greater risk of breast cancer.

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They hailed it as a wonderfood.

Soya not only destroys forests and small farmers - it can also be bad for your health

Anderson's 'eureka' moment arrived when a complex analysis of the samples she was working on revealed that the seminal liquid surrounding the slower-moving sperm contained chemicals called isoflavones. These compounds are also known as phyto-oestrogens or plant-oestrogens because they mimic oestrogen, the powerful female hormone.

These highly active compounds are found in large concentrations in soya. Indeed such are the doses of these chemicals, a woman drinking two glasses of soya milk a day over the course of a month will see the timing of her menstrual cycle alter. It has been estimated that infants who are fed soya formula exclusively receive an amount of oestrogen equivalent to five birth control pills every day.

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Unravelling medical

LIAM explains hospital and surgical insurance – what it covers and some of its major limitations

Asid benzoik dalam mi - utusan online

Asid benzoik dalam mi

PULAU PINANG 25 Nov. -

Persatuan Pengguna Pulau Pinang (CAP) mendedahkan wujud penggunaan asid benzoik secara haram dalam pelbagai jenis mi yang mampu memudaratkan kesihatan manusia.
Presidennya, S.M. Mohamed Idris berkata, penggunaan asid tersebut dikesan pada mi kuning, hor fun dan kuetiau di 30 gerai yang menjual barangan itu di beberapa lokasi di negeri ini.

Menurutnya, kajian itu dibuat pihaknya sejak seminggu lalu, selepas menerima satu contoh hor fun yang mengandungi asid tersebut daripada seorang pengguna di Selangor yang bimbang mengenai tahap kualiti
makanan berkenaan.

Katanya, mengikut Akta Makanan penggunaan asid itu atau bahan pengawet tidak dibenarkan sama sekali, terutama untuk semua jenis pasta dan mi termasuk kuetiau, hor fun,mihun, laksa, makaroni dan spageti.
''Laporan Pertubuhan Kesihatan Sedunia mendapati penggunaan asid itu boleh menyebabkan pelbagai jenis penyakit antaranya asma, rhinitis dan alergi selain dikaitkan kepada gejala hiperaktif di kalangan
kanak-kanak.

''Dalam satu kajian ke atas beberapa sukarelawan yang diuji dengan dos asid benzoik selama beberapa hari mendapati mereka ini mengalami sakit kepala, lemah serta kepedihan yang teruk," katanya pada sidang
akhbar di sini hari ini.

Menurut Akta dan Peraturan Makanan 1983, penggunaan asid benzoik hanya dibenarkan dalam pemprosesan makanan seperti pes cili, produk kacang soya yang ditapai, belacan, pati minuman, jeruk atau buah-buahan yang dikeringkan.

Selain daripada pati minuman yang memerlukan cairan, tahap maksimum yang dibenarkan oleh undang-undang dalam makanan ini ialah tidak boleh melebihi 1,000 parts per million (ppm) dalam apa jua keadaan sekalipun.

Justeru, CAP menggesa Kementerian Kesihatan untuk menjalankan pemeriksaan segera bagi mengawal penggunaan asid benzoik secara haram dalam mi dan juga mengawal penjualannya kepada orang awam kerana ia mudah didapati di kedai.

''CAP juga menghantar surat dan hasil kajian ini kepada pihak kementerian supaya tindakan tegas dan segera dapat diambil.

''Pesalah perlu dihukum dengan menggenakan denda serta penjara yang maksimum supaya mengingatkan peniaga betapa pihak kerajaan serius dalam menangani masalah ini," ujarnya.

Sumber: http://paramedik.bbfr.net/t4434-asid-benzoik-dalam-mi-utusan-online

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AWAS para surirumah : Jangan gunakan minyak sapi QBB. Sijil halal diragu!

KUALA LUMPUR, 23 Ogos:

Persatuan Pengguna Pulau Pinang (CAP) menggesa Kementerian Perdagangan Dalam Negeri, Koperasi dan Kepenggunaan supaya menarik balik dengan segera penjualan minyak sapi QBB yang dijual di Malaysia.

Presidennya, SM Mohamed Idris (gambar) berkata, ini berikutan penarikan balik status halal minyak sapi yang telah ditarik balik oleh Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (Jakim) berdasarkan bahawa ia mengandungi elemen yang meragukan.

Katanya, CAP telah berhubung dengan Jakim berhubung kesahihan status halal minyak sapi sejak Julai tahun ini.

“Dalam jawapannya kepada CAP yang bertarikh 20 Ogos 2010, pihak Jakim telah memaklumkan kepada CAP bahawa mereka sedang menarik balik status halal minyak sapi itu sehingga mereka yakin dengan status halal produk itu,” ujarnya dalam kenyataan kepada Harakahdaily, petang ini.

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