Diet and Nutrition, GM Food, HEALING ACTIVISM

Health impacts of GM foods – Part II

1 Comment 13 December 2009

Health impacts

of GM foods – Part II

Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor

(Healingtalks) Here is the second part of our blog synopsis of the health impacts of GM Foods. Each of these GM-food health impacts is discussed in much greater detail at www.raw-wisdom.com/50harmful

RESURGENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

This was the conclusion of an article in The Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease Journal. It is due to the ultiple impacts of forming new viral and bacterial strains via transfers of genetic materials to micro-organisms in our mouth, larynx, stomach and intestines.

INCREASED FOOD ALLERGIES
The loss of biodiversity has grown in parallel with the rise in food allergies. Life innately reacts to mechanically-produced foods in our modern factory-farming agriculture.

BIRTH DEFECTS, INFERTILITY, AND SHORTER LIFE SPANS
Both experiments with cows and rate have shown higher birth defects when fed genetically modified foods. Other studies have shown infertility, immune problems, organ deformities, and accelerated aging – why the American Academy of Environmental Medicine called for a total moratorium on the planting and release of GMOs.

INTERIOR TOXINS
Certain GM foods have internal pesticide toxins, such with BT corn and BT soy. This is the first time in history that cell-interior toxicity has being sold to the unwary consumer.

LOWERED OR CORRUPTED NUTRITION
Several studies have shown that certain GM foods have both lower vital nutrients and much higher levels of bacteria, pus and allergens.

NO REGULATED HEALTH SAFETY TESTING
Given that GM foods represent the most radical alteration of our diet in human history, the US government, led by the Bush administration, has embarked on a highly irresponsible policy of not requiring any significant safety testing of GMOs and genetically modified foods.

UNNATURAL AND UNLABELED FOODS
According to the FDA’s own studies, pleotropic effects and unpredictable alterations occur at frequencies of 30% in GM Foods. Yet Congress mandated the FDA to require labeling if “there is something tangibly different about the food that is material to the consequences which may result.”

RADICAL/WHOLESALE CHANGE AND CONTROL OF DIET
Human diets have evolved for thousands of years yet in the last decade we’ve introduced such radical, violent and widespread changes in our food supply, with no significant safety testing. About 10 companies now control 40-50% of all seed and food production in the US and it is projected that 90% of processed foods will soon have GM food ingredients (up from 2/3rds.

TAKING ACTION
Give the adulteration of the modern food supply, this is why we increasingly recommend eating organic foods as much as possible. We also lobby companies and the government to stop the process.