Taste

January 30, 2003

In a message dated 1/30/2003 11:32:33 AM Eastern Standard Time,

writes:

> ,

> Try warming a little of the milk...stir/shake in the enzymes, then

> fill it up with the cold milk (if that is how he likes it-cold) the

> enzymes will mix much better in at least luke warm liquid. I do this

> with my daughter's juice. No Chunks (ick)

>

> --

>

sorry sent a blank email before this!! but anyhow......thanks I

will try this. It definately was a bad taste!!

November 22, 2005

NewsTarget.com

printable article

Taste inflation

revealed: why sugar, salt and fragrance make you stupid

America is a nation that suffers from

"taste inflation." Virtually all prepared foods in this country,

whether they're restaurant foods or convenience foods, are made with

such outrageous levels of salt, sugar and MSG that

they can only be called extreme foods suffering from taste inflation.

What do I mean by taste inflation? If

you

studied newborn babies and were able to analyze their chemical taste

sensors, you'd find they were able to experience a broad range of

various tastes – the bitters in green leafy vegetables, the

natural fruit sugars in apples

and berries, and even the sweetness in cashews or tomatoes. But when

you introduce them to standard American foods – infant formula, and

then later in life, candy bars, fast food, soft drinks, etc. –

you basically obliterate their natural taste senses, desensitizing them

to the flavor subtleties found in natural foods.

You end up with people who can really only taste two things: Sugar and

salt. That's why, in our country, most prepared or processed food is

loaded either with one or the other.

Just go to any restaurant, especially

those family chain restaurants,

and try to order a bowl of soup. You mostly just get salt and MSG.

There's hardly any other flavoring in the soup, since the physical

matter in there has been so overcooked that it's just dead food with no

taste subtlety remaining at all. These restaurants have to depend on

salt and MSG to make these soups palatable to mainstream consumers.

Personally, I can't touch a soup made by anything other than a gourmet

restaurant, and canned soups found at the grocery store are also loaded

with salt. Food manufacturers are adding so much salt to everything

that millions of people are suffering from hypertension.

Sweet, redefined

We also have sugar inflation in this

country. A loaf of bread was once actually bread, not cake. Today,

there's so much sugar in bread that it's basically just sponge cake. A

muffin was once actually a muffin, and corn

bread once tasted sort of like corn. Today, muffins are just cake in

the shape of muffins, and corn bread is just corn-flavored cake. Even

our bagels don't taste like bagels anymore; they're just bagel-shaped

cake. And what do I mean by cake? I mean a bread-based product loaded

with sugar and white

flour. When it comes to bagels, you also get some hydrogenated oils

(see related ebook on hydrogenated oils)

in there, just to make sure your cardiovascular health

takes a beating, too.

Everywhere you go, you're inundated

with these salts and sugars. You can't even buy a decent chocolate

bar at a health food store these days without getting chocolate that's

loaded with sugar. Whatever happened to enjoying the bitter taste of cacao

as it comes out of nature? I've actually tasted cacao, and it's bitter!

But at least we could sweeten it with stevia instead of loading it up

with sugar, because most of the chocolate people are buying in this

country is just a sugar bar with a hint of chocolate. It's funny that

people think of chocolate as a health food, so they go out and buy

chocolate candy bars, which is of course an absurd way to enhance their

health.

Taste inflation affects brain function

What is the net result of all this taste

inflation? You might be fascinated by this, because it's more than just

the desensitizing of your taste to the natural flavors and subtleties

in organic foods.

My theory is that obliterating the subtleties of taste makes people

stupid,

and I mean this quite literally. By impairing the tongue's sensitivity

and by taking away the brain's full spectrum of possible sensations and

stimulation, you actually impair a person's cognitive function

and learning ability. You make them less aware.

I think this is why we have a general

lack of lucidity in the population. I think a lot of it goes back to

the taste inflation problem in this country. Because let's face it, if

you stuck a person in a room and blasted them with loud music 24 hours

a day, they would be unable to hear the subtleties of sound around

them. They couldn't go out in nature, for example, and listen to

crickets or birds or butterflies. They couldn't even appreciate the

subtleties in classical music.

Well, we're doing the same thing with

our

taste buds. By obliterating the subtleties and overpowering our taste

buds with heavy doses of sugar and salt on a daily basis, we numb

our tongues and our minds.

In fact, I've found that people who tend to eat more processed and

sugary foods are, indeed, operating at a lower level of intelligence.

Maybe stupid people just tend to eat a lot of processed foods,

or maybe processed food makes people stupid. Perhaps a whole cycle is

set up: Stupid people start eating processed food, it makes them even

more stupid, so they buy more processed food; then, they're on a

downward spiral. Pretty soon, they're just an average American

consumer, zoning out from reality and buying whatever products are

advertised on television

because they taste good.

I do know that most of the intelligent

people I've ever met are very careful about what they expose themselves

to in terms of their senses. They don't blow away their ears with loud

music; they don't destroy their sense of taste by overloading it with

salt and sugar. They certainly don't wear a lot of perfumes and

cologne, because people also dumb down their senses through the sense

of smell. When a person loads up on all kinds of fragrance products,

including dryer sheets (which is really nothing more than laundry perfume, by the way),

perfumed lotions, shampoo

that's loaded with perfume and brand name soaps and deodorants

that have even more perfume, they dull their sense of smell so much

that they cannot even sense the subtleties of smell in the world around

them, and thus they become mentally numb. They actually lose

intelligence. Pretty soon they're just another zoned out person

reacting to consumer marketing messages.

Silence is golden: Practice sensory

silence to re-inflate your senses

If you want to be healthy, intelligent

and have a high degree of awareness about what's happening in the world

around you, as well as what's going on in your own body, it's important

to have sensory acuity. To have sensory acuity, practice some silence;

auditory, olfactory and taste, as well.

You can deflate your taste

inflation (bring it back to normal) if you are currently suffering from

dulled senses caused by eating standard American foods. For example, if

you bite into a donut and aren't absolutely disgusted by how sweet it

is, then you are currently suffering from taste inflation. If you go

visit a restaurant and order a bowl of soup, or if you eat some canned

soup from the grocery store and aren't completely bowled over by the

amount of salt in that soup, then you are currently suffering from

taste inflation. But you can reverse it by slowly eliminating the

assault on your senses through manufactured foods, smells and consumer products.

By eliminating these high-salt and

high-sugar foods from your diet, and by eliminating the high-perfume

products marketed by the personal care and cosmetics

industries, you can in fact greatly enhance your sensory acuity. And if

you do that for several months, you will surprise yourself one day.

You'll be able to eat unprocessed and unflavored foods, and you

will find yourself really being amazed by how much flavor they offer.

For example, grow your own cilantro, put the fresh-cut cilantro in your

mouth, and relish that amazing taste experience! Chewing on raw, fresh

macadamia nuts is

absolutely amazing. It's a very rewarding and delicious taste

experience, because these nuts have their own sweetness built right in.

If you get off sugar products for a long enough time, you will find

that an apple is the sweetest dessert you could ever imagine wanting,

and is absolutely delicious, juicy and satisfying, all by itself.

Why sugar and corn syrup are not part

of my diet

This is the state that I live in every

day. I haven't had a piece of dessert for, I don't know, at least six

or seven years now, and I couldn't imagine touching one. I don't crave

one because just looking at it horrifies me, knowing it's basically

just sugar and white flour fluffed up to take up as much space as

possible.

To me, dessert means eating an apple

or a bowl of grapes.

That is the most satisfying dessert I can ever imagine. Or maybe if I'm

getting really luxurious, I'll blend up some avocados, stevia, and soy milk

into a delicious smoothie and chug that down. Maybe I'll even throw in

some macadamia nut oil, rice protein, fresh strawberries, or fresh blueberries.

You can't beat that, as far as I'm concerned. But it's important to

note that you cannot get to a state in which you can even appreciate

those tastes without giving up the assault on your senses posed by

high-sugar, high-salt products. Most Americans have, quite

literally, destroyed their sense of taste.

They can get it back, but it's going to take giving up the offensive

foods and substances that are now considered everyday items in the

American diet.

Taking extreme taste to the next level

And remember, all the food marketing

companies out there are going to try to get you hooked on even more

intense flavors and tastes, because they have to outdo the previous

batch of food products.

As peoples' senses become numb, they need even more stimulation to get

excited and take notice of foods. That's why we now have "extreme

nachos" loaded with MSG, a chemical taste enhancer that has harmful

effects on the nervous system.

We see MSG in so many foods because

people no longer have the sensory acuity to even notice tastes. They

have to use these artificial chemicals to get peoples' tongues to

register anything. And this is why we even see these chemicals used in

natural food products. Check the ingredient labels on those foods, and

you'll find autolyzed yeast extract, hydrolyzed vegetable protein

and other additives. These are all different forms of monosodium

glutamate, or chemical taste enhancers, designed to get your tongue to

notice you're eating something. And they're only used because you've

blown away your sense of taste via taste inflation.

Highly offensive to healthy humans

If you were to take any of these foods or

personal care products found in America and give them to indigenous

tribes, they wouldn't even touch them. You couldn't pay these people to

drink carbonated soft drinks, eat a muffin or wear cologne. They

wouldn't do it, because to them, it would be so highly offensive that

it would probably cause them to vomit. But in America, we're so used to

it as a population that we think it's normal. It's not normal; it's

taste inflation. And it's a sensory assault basically created by food

companies, personal care product companies, cosmetic companies, soft drink companies,

restaurants and fast food

chains, as well as other players in the food and consumer products

markets.

So remember, if you want to boost your

intelligence, or maintain the current intelligence that you have, give

up these high-salt, high-sugar products. Give up all these artificial

fragrances in your life. Boost your sensory acuity and open yourself up

in terms of awareness and connection with the environment

around you. You will be smarter, wiser, and healthier. You'll also

expand your sensory acuity to levels you may have never thought

possible.

Thanks for reading. This is Mike

, the Health Ranger, reporting for Truth Publishing.

Overview:

Taste inflation revealed: why

sugar, salt and fragrance

make you stupid

Source:

http://www.newstarget.com/012556.html

-- Peace be with you,

Don "Quai" Eitner

"Spirit sleeps in the mineral, breathes in the vegetable, dreams in the animal and wakes in man."

Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. ~Baptiste Molière, Le Malade Imaginaire

The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb

November 22, 2005

I will say this about perfumes, fragrances. I can hardly stand to go in public anymore. My entire family is like this. We have lived on a farm for so long, and our only scents are essential oils, and now when we go in public we all get raging headaches from the perfumes people bathe in.

Smog isn't any better. We can see the air. People from the city have no idea what we mean--but if I can see it, I can prepare for a terrible headache and itchy burning eyes. Many of these folks are the same ones who've never seen the stars for all the city light.

Flo

May 9, 2008

>

> Last night 9pm was my first dose of LDN. I put it under my toung

(as

> sugested by the compounding pharmacy) and went to sleep. I woke up

> around 10pm with a horrid taste in my mouth!! The taste was still

> there this morning but less. It this typical of LDN? I do mean

horrid!

>=========

What pharmacy is having you use a sublingual LDN?

Naltrexone is terribly bitter. Get LDN compounded and put in capsule

form.

May 11, 2008

Hi,

have never heard that you have to put the pill under your tounge. I just take it with a glass of water. The taste dissapears immediately.

Then I just brush me tooth. ;-) Ingrid

[low dose naltrexone] TasteLast night 9pm was my first dose of LDN. I put it under my toung (as sugested by the compounding pharmacy) and went to sleep. I woke up around 10pm with a horrid taste in my mouth!! The taste was still there this morning but less. It this typical of LDN? I do mean horrid!------------------------------------

May 12, 2008

The last two nights I took the pill with water. Much better that

way. I talked with the compounding pharmacy, they had included a slip

of paper on sublingual pill taking. Just an error. I am looking

forward to see health benefits of LDN. Loretta

>

> Hi,

> have never heard that you have to put the pill under your tounge. I

just take it with a glass of water. The taste dissapears immediately.

> Then I just brush me tooth. ;-)

> Ingrid

>

> [low dose naltrexone] Taste

>

> Last night 9pm was my first dose of LDN. I put it under my toung

(as

> sugested by the compounding pharmacy) and went to sleep. I woke up

> around 10pm with a horrid taste in my mouth!! The taste was still

> there this morning but less. It this typical of LDN? I do mean

horrid!

>

> ------------------------------------

>

September 19, 2010

No, NutriiVeda tastes great! I like both the chocolate & the vanilla. Actually,

I prefer it with water & Zrii --than milk. It's true that kids' taste buds are

more acute than ours so picky eaters (not that your son is) tend to take longer

to assimilate to it. That is why it may be necessary to put it in no bake

cookies or Rice Krispie treats etc. Once they are eating it for several weeks,

then try again in a shake or pudding or juice, etc.

Warmest wishes,

Barbara , M.S., CCC-SLP

www.helpmespeak.com

410-442-9791

Ask me about NutriiVeda!

On Sep 19, 2010, at 5:04 PM, " mykitkate " <mykitkate@...> wrote:

> I just read you saw greater surges with fish oils than NV, and I read other

people saw greater surges with NV than fish oil. I was impressed by the surges

you saw on NV that you wrote below but you don't say what you saw on fish oil?

We make sure our son gets his fish oils every day. Do you let your child go on

and off fish oils too? I don't think I'd let my son go off NV if he regressed,

even if I had to hide it in everything he ate. Does it taste that bad there's no

way to hide it in something? Kate

>

> >

> > My son (3 1/2 years) has been on and off NV since March. He had some amazing

initial gains--potty training, sleeping through the night, singing,

articulations, imaginative play, jummping. Then he just refused his NV drink.

Well, he started waking in the night and regressed in pottying, but did not have

horrible behaviors problems. He also lost some smoothness in his speech. I got

him back on it and those things smoothed out. Then several weeks later, we

traveled and he wasn't getting it and the same things happened. His speech was

harder to understand, he was having accidents and not sleeping well. But again

no more toddler than anytime before. Both times he did not lose singing, but

didn't sing as often and didn't lose imaginative play, but seemed to need more

prompting to make up stories. It was like he was dulled, but not broken--if that

makes sense. The last time he was off NV, he regressed in pottying and is still

regressed although he's taking it again in the form of peanut butter cookies.

> >

> > So off of NV he's duller and harder to understand, but either he doesn't

care that much or he doesn't notice. Either way he's not lashing out in

frustration or really behaving any worse than normal. And each time he goes off,

he doesn't regress to where we was...just back a few steps and he gains them

back within a few weeks of being on NV again.

> >

> > Liralen

> >

>

September 19, 2010

It doesn't taste bad to me. And my son first drank it up with no issues, but

after several weeks he just refused it and won't take it in anything but the no

bake cookies. I don't understand it, but that's how it is. He is a picky eater,

so maybe he picked up on the fact that I really wanted him to have it? I don't

know.

Liralen

> > >

> > > My son (3 1/2 years) has been on and off NV since March. He had some

amazing initial gains--potty training, sleeping through the night, singing,