Fw: Dangers of Food Irradiation

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Very Important Health Alert:

QN Lab's Health Activists

From: Ted , QRA Certified Nutritionist

We have long pointed out that you should never purchase nutritional products that have been delivered to you or to a "health food" store by any carrier other than UPS. UPS is the only carrier that guarantees they will not irradiate their packages. Now comes more Nutritional News about the use of irradiation and the fact that irradiation kills the nutrient content of living source foods and nutritional products.

There's a new plot underway to sterilize your food and destroy the nutritional value of fresh produce. The latest push comes from USDA researchers who conducted a study to see which method more effectively killed bacteria on leafy green vegetables like spinach. To conduct the study, they bathed the spinach in a solution contaminated with bacteria. Then, they tried to remove the bacteria using three methods: Washing, chemical spraying and irradiation. Not surprisingly, only the irradiation killed nearly 100 percent of the bacterial colonies. That's because radiation sterilizes both the bacteria and the vegetable leaves, effectively killing the plant and destroying much of its nutritional value while it kills the bacteria.

The USDA claims this is a huge success. By using radiation on all fresh produce, they claim, the number of food-borne illness outbreaks that happen each year could be substantially reduced. It all makes sense until you realize that by destroying the nutritional value of all fresh produce sold in the United States an irradiation policy would greatly increase the number of people killed by infections and chronic diseases that are prevented by the natural nutrients found in fresh produce! The USDA, you see, has zero recognition of the difference between living produce and dead produce. (Just as many folks do not recognize the difference between living source nutritional products and dead synthetic "nutritional" products. Read more about this on our qnlabs.com website.} To uneducated government bureaucrats, pasteurized or irradiated vegetable juice is identical to fresh, raw, living vegetable juice. They believe this because they've never been taught about the phytonutrients,

digestive enzymes and life force properties that are found in fresh foods, but that are destroyed through heat or irradiation.

Even a simple leaf of spinach contains hundreds of natural phytonutrients that help prevent cancer, eye diseases, nervous system disorders, heart disease and much more. Every living vegetable is a powerhouse of disease-fighting medicine: But when you subject these fruits and vegetables to enough radiation to kill 99.9% of the pathogens that may be hitching a ride, you also destroy many of the phytonutrients responsible for these tremendous health benefits!

This means that while irradiating food may decrease outbreaks of food-borne illnesses, it will have the unintended consequence of increasing the number of people who get sick from other infections (and chronic diseases) due to the fact that their source of living source nutrients has been destroyed. For many Americans, you see, salad greens are their one remaining source for phytonutrients. Given their diets of processed foods, junk foods and cooked foods, there are very few opportunities for these consumers to get fresh, phytonutrient-rich foods into their diet. By destroying these thousands of healing phytonutrients, irradiation will leave many consumers defenseless against modern society's many health challenges.

We suggest you contact you U.S. Representatives and Senators to tell them you oppose the irradiation of produce that has been proposed by the USDA.

(If you have nutritional questions, you can contact Ted on his personal phone line, (210)326-2705. If you get his voice-mail, leave a message, and Ted will return your call. This is a FREE SERVICE for all QN Labs Health Activists.)

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