Re: Avoid ascorbic acid and sodium or potassium benzoate combinations/Summer???

[Guest guest]

Thank you Summer,

This could explain why we have no luck with so many juices. I appreciate the

info. Will only buy those that are fresh or make them ourselves. This entire

concentration thing has won! We aren't buying anything with those words on it

at all!

What are you doing for tomato juice...for tomato sauce??? We too drink much

water...hopefully that isn't making us sick too! We don't have a filter...what

kind of filter do you use on your water supply if any?

Sincerely always enjoy what you write! Learn so much from you!

Antoinette (2 month entire family SCD/Celiac/asd)

Re: Avoid ascorbic acid and sodium or potassium benzoate

combinations

Just FYI...hard to know what preservatives are used in ingredients purchased

from wholesalers in making a juice or other product. The law seems pretty lax in

disclosure of ingredients from food manufacturers selling to other food

manufacturers. This is only addressing one solvent, and there are other possible

byproduct combinations not being addressed in the processing of commercial

juice.

Summer

http://www.ewg.org/issues/toxics/20060228/index.php<http://www.ewg.org/issues/to\

xics/20060228/index.php>

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Contact: EWG Public Affairs Staff,

Children's Drinks Contain Ingredients That Can Form Benzene

FDA silent despite knowledge of the problem

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[Guest guest]

" What are you doing for tomato juice...for tomato sauce??? "

Hi Antoinette -

I'm using Heinz tomato juice - it states on the front label that it is

not from concentrate.

However - food is big business... so who knows.

Lynn

[Guest guest]

Antoinette,

When we cut out all juices, including Tropicana and Welches, we did so much

better. Behavoir was better, concentration, learning. Really, processed juices,

besides the solvent issue, is nutritionally dead, its sugar water. It can feed

some types yeast.

We used to use the 's Tomato juice, but I grew suspicious of it,

because 's uses the full range of unhealthful additives in all their

other products, I don't trust their cross contamination issues, nor do I trust

they consistently obtain tomato concentrate without sugar. 's product

lines include Viasic Food Company, Fortun Food, Swift-Armour, Godiva, Pace,

Prego, Pepperidge Farm Cookies, Arnott's, Swanson Broths, and many many more,

including a recent partnership with Coca Cola for making another line of

products. All these foods have sugar, corn syrup, and often MSG in common.

We never would drink Tropicana Orange Juice. Have you seen the movie " A Civil

Action " ? We too, have lived through a similar experience, living on a superfund

where companies dumped their wastes and left them on our land, in our water, on

our roads, with no accountability. There are many superfund sites in all 50

states, do you live on or near one? I take it quite seriously, the very

companies polluting our land and water, dumping their carcinogenic wastes

wherever they can get away with it, seriously. Why on earth would such companies

willing to watch people suffer and die so they can make a product and make more

money be concerned about making and selling a truly healthful product? Why would

I trust Kraft Foods when they also make and sell cigarrettes? Why would I trust

Tropicana Juice and Playtex when they dump their wastes in water secretively,

letting young children and their families die slowly of cancer?

We want to blame the FDA, which is controlled by these companies, for

everything, but really, these companies have a soft spot...making money. I spend

all my money so they can have it all to make people sicker and sicker.

But that is all besides the point, back to SCD legality issues, 's,

Welches and Tropicana cannot be trusted to keep sugar and other ingredients out

of their products. I know it, my oldest son is a sugar meter.

To answer your question about what I use. During the summer I grow my own

tomatoes, and buy extra from local farms, I cook down into sauces and freeze.

During mid-winter, if I am in a pinch, I will go and buy Muir Glen Whole Peeled

Tomatoes. They do not contain any sugar, but that is the only one that I can

attest for. Not the Whole Peeled Plum Tomatoes, not the fire roastes, but only

the Whole Peeled Tomatoes. I am not saying they are SCD legal, I think it is

better for everyone to make their own foods from whole foods, and do their own

legwork for any processed products themselves, especially as ingredients change.

As I am moving along the SCD train, I am gradually making more things by

scratch, including cheeses. My family has healed best by obtaining fresh,

unprocessed local ingredients. I believe the food landscape in the grocers keep

changing for the worse, not being a static thing. I find my children even react

to sprays used on berries, and we all know that ethoxyquin used in sprays for

fruits and vegetables is a carcinogen. We can't afford to play around with food

trust anymore. And for that, we are recovering.

We buy our water from Crystal Springs. We live in a city of flouridated water,

and flouride binds with minerals in the diet, preventing their utilization.

Also, after the Harvard studies came out last year, indicating that flouride

supplementation in water use is a cause of a certain rare form of bone cancer in

adolescent boys, I said that's it.

Unless you buy a reverse osmosis system for your house, most filtering systems

filter over flouride, as it is a mineral. Any filter is better than no filter,

to get extra heavy metals and contaminates removed from the water. If I did not

live in a flouridated area, I would save my money and just use a basic water

filtering gadget. Flouride is also indicated in hypothyroidism, as flouride

binds to iodine, and gets pulled into the thyroid, but cannot be used, and there

is concern it may be partially responsible for rising carcinomas and cysts and

swelling of that organ.

Summer and Family, SCD 19 months

Bunce wrote:

Thank you Summer,

This could explain why we have no luck with so many juices. I appreciate the

info. Will only buy those that are fresh or make them ourselves. This entire

concentration thing has won! We aren't buying anything with those words on it

at all!

What are you doing for tomato juice...for tomato sauce??? We too drink much

water...hopefully that isn't making us sick too! We don't have a filter...what

kind of filter do you use on your water supply if any?

Sincerely always enjoy what you write! Learn so much from you!

Antoinette (2 month entire family SCD/Celiac/asd)

Re: Avoid ascorbic acid and sodium or potassium benzoate

combinations

Just FYI...hard to know what preservatives are used in ingredients purchased

from wholesalers in making a juice or other product. The law seems pretty lax in

disclosure of ingredients from food manufacturers selling to other food

manufacturers. This is only addressing one solvent, and there are other possible

byproduct combinations not being addressed in the processing of commercial

juice.

Summer

http://www.ewg.org/issues/toxics/20060228/index.php<http://www.ewg.org/issues/to\

xics/20060228/index.php>

*******************************************************

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 28, 2006

Contact: EWG Public Affairs Staff,

Children's Drinks Contain Ingredients That Can Form Benzene

FDA silent despite knowledge of the problem

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[Guest guest]

How do you make cheese? I noticed that my nre dehydrator mentioned

that it can make cheese, but didn't giv a recipe. How do you do it?

Colby

[Guest guest]

Eeek!

I am just learning how to make different types of cheeses. I am taking an

upcoming class through my county extension office on how to make different types

of goat cheese. The techniques are different cheese to cheese, cheddar, brie and

so on. There are many recipes for making cheese, I can't tell you the ones that

taste best or work yet. If you are interested in learning this, contact your

county extension office for information or for contacts for people/farms/classes

in your area.

I have found www.cheesemaking.com to be an invaluable resource. They sell a

good selection of cheese making books, also a cheese making video, and some

supplies. Ask your county extension office where to buy cultures and supplies

locally.

I am making my first batch of cheese, but I have no idea if it is going to

turn out right. lol It's an experiment.

Summer

burrow4him wrote:

How do you make cheese? I noticed that my nre dehydrator mentioned

that it can make cheese, but didn't giv a recipe. How do you do it?

Colby

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