Jul 29, 2013

Top 5 BANNED foods





Yesterday, my buddy and controversial nutrition “Nerd” Nick
Pineault sent me this concerning article.

It turns out that a lot of banned foods end up in our grocery cart –
and contain hidden toxic chemicals that increase your risks of
disease and storing belly fat.

Read the article below and tell me what you think:

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Banned foods in your plate?
By Nick Pineault
Author and investigator, The Truth About Fat Burning Foods

Every day, Americans eat tons of dangerous banned ingredients, and
chances are you’re one of them.

I don’t mean to scare you, but to simply tell you the truth.


I’ve spent the last 7+ years researching how our food is made, and
discovered dark secrets I have to tell the world – even if it
makes me the most HATED expert by the big companies.

Here’s my top 5 banned ingredients that end up in most plates:

1) Ractopamine (in pork)

It’s banned in the European Union, China, and Taiwan – but Consumer
Reports found this dangerous drug in 20% of all pork products.

Oh, and as a side note – recent studies also found that 81% of all
supermarket meats in the US are contaminated with
antibiotic-resistant bacteria which damage your gut flora and slow
down your weight loss.

2) rBGH (in milk)

While Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel and all
European Union countries banned the use of rBGH, this hormone used
to increase cows’ milk product is still used in all 50 states.

The use of rBGH increases the levels of IGF-1 hormone in the milk
by at least 6 folds, increasing risks of various cancers.

3) GMOs (in almost everything)

Over 50 countries require labeling of GMO foods, and many of them
banned GMOs altogether.

In the US, GMO foods are NOT labeled – even if 91% of the
population feels like they should be. And because 90% of all soy,
corn, canola and sugar (sugar beet) in the US is now GMO, Americans
eat their weight in GMO foods each year.

The first-ever lifetime feeding study on the potential health risks
of GMOs was published in September 2012. The results of feeding
rats GMO corn for two years were very scary:

·         Some rats developed massive tumors that represent 25% of their body weight
·         Liver damage was up to 5 times higher in the GMO group than in the non-GMO group
·         Female rats that ate GMOs had a 3X higher risk of premature death

4) Potassium Bromate (in bread)

Called a cancer threat by the CSPI since 1999, banned from dozens
of countries, this ingredient is still used in bread these days.

5) Chloramphenicol (in honey)


This antibiotic used on honey bees has been banned in the US for
years, but can still be found in cheap supermarket honey (along
with heavy metals) that comes from China.

The concerning thing is that a recent study found that 75% or more
of all the honey in the U.S. may be Chinese honey sold as American
honey.

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Scary, I know. But I know you want to learn the dirty truth about food,
and to make the right choices. You can do just that here:

Part 2: DETAILED Diet Case Study




Alright, today I'm back as promised to finish the diet "critique" we left
off with yesterday.

To recap, my buddy and controversial nutrition “Nerd” Nick Pineault sent
me this controversial diet critique of one of his clients on the Paleo diet.

Yesterday I showed you Nick’s critique of his client "Mark"...here's a
sample of what Mark eats on a typical day:


Breakfast:  Cage-free omega-3 eggs with organic spinach

Snack:  Brown rice protein with some “Stevia in the raw”

Lunch:  Mixed greens, chicken breast and homemade olive oil dressing

Dinner:  Grass-fed beef steak seasoned with soy sauce and a medium
sweet potato

Evening Snack:  Berries with honey


We already covered her breakfast, morning snack, and lunch...and why
they all contained flaws...and today we're going to continue by analyzing
the rest of the menu: Nick’s dinner and evening snack choices.

Dinner:  Forget everything you heard about how red meat is fattening.
Grass-fed beef contains 2 to 4 times more omega-3, many times more
vitamins and minerals than the cheap supermarket kind, and is packed
with the natural fat burner CLA.

The problem is: some grass-fed beef are “grain finished”, which means
they are fattened with grains in the last month before being slaughtered.

This process may help the beef farmer make extra money – but it actually
changes the fat in your grass-fed beef from omega-3s to inflammatory
omega-6s and removes the CLA.

Way to pay the premium price for something that doesn’t contain what
it’s supposed to!

To make sure you buy the right fat burning beef, look for “pasture-raised
beef” or “grass-fed AND finished beef”.


Evening Snack:  There’s no such thing as fat burning sugar, but certain
natural sugars like honey are less fattening than processed sugar.

But watch out: a recent study by Food Safety News found out that 75%
of the honey sold in the US may be fake and potentially contain the
banned antibiotic chloramphenicol and dangerous heavy metals.

Always make sure your honey is real by buying it locally, and always
buy raw honey instead of the pasteurized kind that’s nothing more than
pure sugar.

As you can see from Nick’s analysis of Mark’s diet – chances that you’re
consuming a lot of fattening foods without even being aware of it.

Let me tell you, this is just the tip of the Iceberg. Nick showed me hundreds
of other shady and scammy foods that end up in your fridge.

If you'd like to learn how to learn the truth about food and transform
your kitchen from fat-storing to fat burning in less than 24 hours, my
good friend Nick Pineault tells you how here:

Diet Case Study




Nick the “Nutrition Nerd”  Pineault sent me this diet critique of one of his
clients who’s on the Paleo diet.

The little-known truths he revealed made my jaw drop…

Here's a sample of what Nick’s client, Mark, eats on a typical day:


Breakfast:  Cage-free omega-3 eggs with organic spinach

Snack:  Brown rice protein with some “Stevia in the raw”

Lunch:  Mixed greens, chicken breast and homemade olive oil dressing

Dinner:  Grass-fed beef steak seasoned with soy sauce and a medium
sweet potato

Evening Snack:  Berries with honey


What Mark is doing right (Nick’s comments):

Mark’s Paleo diet is off to a good start because he focuses on natural
whole foods. He’s eating “cleaner” than 99% of people eating this way.

What Mark is doing wrong:

Okay, let's take this meal by meal.

Breakfast: Mark was doing the right thing trying to buy healthier eggs,
but he got scammed by marketing terms.

“Cage-free” has no legal definition in the US, which probably means his
eggs are produced by hens crammed by thousands inside small barns –
making eggs with a fraction of the nutrition.

The second problem with those eggs is the added omega-3.

You see, the Center for Science in the Public Interest's independent lab
tests revealed that they contain less than half of the omega-3 claimed
on the packaging.

But it doesn’t really matter anyway, because the omega-3 in them is
ALA (from the flax hens are fed with), which is 800% to 3300% less
absorbable than the form of omega-3 naturally contained in healthy
eggs (EPA and DHA).

If you want eggs that contain multiple times more nutrients than these
cheap cage-free eggs, stick with pasture-raised eggs – which means
that hens are allowed to roam around outside like they’re supposed to.

Snack:  Let’s put it that way: this brand of stevia is a huge scam.

Stevia In The Raw contains 95% dextrose – also known as… pure sugar.
Because the FDA allows any food that contains less than 4 calories per
serving to be labeled as “calorie-free”, this product shows portion sizes
of 0.5g – 1/8 of a teaspoon – and continues to claim it contains 0 calories.

Instead of buying this forfeit brand, stick with any brand that only shows
stevia on the ingredients list.

Lunch:  It’s true: olive oil is a great source of healthy fats and anti-aging
compounds... but only if you buy the right kind.

In 2010, Consumer Reports – one of the most credible and influential
non-profit organizations fighting for consumer rights in the US – revealed
that around 20% of all olive oils are fake and have been mixed with other
cheap oils.


This terrible scam has been confirmed yet again in 2012, when the UC
Davis Olive Center found out that only 27% of all olive oils passed the
quality test to be labeled “extra virgin” – the best and most nutritious
kind there is.

So again, without even being aware of it, your olive oil might contain
up to 100% vegetable oil – filled with fattening trans fats.

This is already getting pretty long, so I'm going to pick things up
tomorrow and let Nick talk about Mark’s choice of dinner and evening
snack tomorrow (fyi, they also suck and I'll tell you why).

In the meantime, if you'd like to learn more SHOCKING truths about
“healthy” foods in your pantry, my buddy Nick Pineault gives you some
awesome tips here:

==> Learn the Truth About Fat Burning Foods