• Modern Western diets have shifted dramatically from traditional saturated fats to polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) from vegetable oils, triggering metabolic slowdown and increased fat storage
• A higher ratio of saturated to unsaturated fats (like in butter) is metabolically favorable, while oils high in PUFAs are unstable and produce toxic compounds when heated. Even at room temperature or moderate heat (104 to 212 degrees F), PUFA-rich oils can oxidize and form harmful compounds, including during digestion in the body
• Smoke point is not a reliable indicator of cooking oil safety; oxidative stability and PUFA content are the key factors in determining an oil’s suitability for cooking. Tallow and ghee are best for high heat, while butter and coconut oil are ideal for medium heat. Olive oil should be used sparingly due to its high monounsaturated fatty acid content
• When vegetable oils are heated, they produce harmful compounds called Lipid Oxidation Products (LOPs), particularly 4-HNE, which are linked to neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular problems, cancer, and chronic inflammation
• Restaurant fried foods are particularly concerning as establishments typically reuse the same vegetable oil hundreds of times before replacement, leading to accumulation of toxic compounds that transfer directly to food

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/12/17/best-fats-for-cooking.aspx

Noni fruit, an ancient Polynesian healing remedy, has at least 76 potential health benefits backed by recent scientific evidence

Noni, a fruit grown from the Morinda citrifolia tree and a member of the coffee family, is a tropical fruit native to the Pacific Islands. Noni has been used for thousands of years as a natural healing remedy. In recent years, however, noni’s extract and juices have been proven to lower blood pressure, improve immunity, speed wound healing and increase physical endurance, among other health benefits.

https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/food-cooking/76-evidence-based-health-benefits-of-noni-1/

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) A new study from the University of California, San Francisco reveals that 100 percent of expectant mothers (sample size = 268) are contaminated with highly toxic synthetic chemicals. The study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, concluded, “Certain PCBs, organochlorine pesticides, PFCs, phenols, PBDEs, phthalates, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and perchlorate were detected in 99 to 100% of pregnant women.”

These chemicals are known to exhibit various harmful effects on human biology, covering everything from neurological and infertility problems to cancer and hormonal disorders. Many of the chemicals found in these women have been banned for not just years, but decades.

The poisoning of our bodies by chemical companies

Where do all these chemicals come from? Pesticides are sprayed on crops, of course, and the new so-called “Food Safety” bill passed by Congress does absolutely nothing to reduce pesticide levels of food (that’s not part of their definition of “safety,” apparently). In addition, S.510 actually places a new burden on U.S. farmers, shifting the competitive advantage to food importations from countries where the most toxic pesticides are still legal to use. (Yes, farms outside the U.S. can spray DDT on their crops, then import them into the USA for consumption.)

Phthalates are chemical plasticizers. Pharmaceutical pills are often coated with phthalates to give them a shiny finish. They’re also used in children’s toys, medical devices, personal care products, sunscreens and even sex toys. On the personal care side, phthalates are found in perfumes, eye shadow, liquid soap, nail polish and hair spray (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/art…).

Phthalates are known as “endocrine disruptors” because they interfere with normal endocrine system function — potentially leading to obesity and birth defects (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthal…).

Perchlorate, also known as the “rocket fuel chemical,” is used in the manufacture of automobile airbags and other vehicle parts. It’s also present in many fireworks, and is frequently found contaminating the water supply.

We could go on with more details, but here’s the point: We live in a toxic stew of synthetic chemicals — chemicals that the plastics industry and the American Chemistry Council tend to say are all completely harmless, of course. The FDA allows thousands of other chemicals to be used in food and personal care products, and the processed food manufacturers inject an alarming array of toxic chemicals into their foods (and food packaging materials).

The average U.S. consumer bathes their clothing in extremely toxic fabric softeners and perfumed laundry detergents that make them smell like walking fragrance factories. The exhaust air from dryer vents even pollutes the air in residential neighborhoods and apartment buildings.

With all this going on, is anybody really surprised that 100% of pregnant women are contaminated with toxic chemicals?

The Roman Empire poisoned itself with lead in the water supply. The American empire has decided to poison itself with the “miracle of modern chemistry” as found in all the pesticides, plasticizers, additives, preservatives and other chemicals that a typical first-world consumer poisons themselves with a thousand times a day.

You just gotta love Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Unilever and all the other consumer product companies using synthetic chemicals to manufacture personal care products. It is corporations like these, in my opinion, whose products are poisoning our bodies and contaminating our world with dangerous synthetic chemicals. That’s why I personally refuse to buy any products manufactured by such companies.

Ten powerful ways to protect yourself from toxic chemicals

If you want to protect yourself from these toxic chemicals, here’s how to do it:

#1) Don’t put anything on your skin you wouldn’t eat! Avoid all mainstream consumer skin care, cosmetics and personal care products, period! Need soap? Try natural, organic brands like Dr Bronner’s, AnnMarie Gianni or Pangea Organics.

#2) Don’t eat foods made with chemicals you can’t pronounce. Read the ingredients labels. If the list of ingredients is too long and complex to figure out, it’s probably made more with chemicals than actual food.

#3) Don’t poison your body with over-the-counter drugs or prescription pharmaceuticals. If you do need to use medication for short-term emergency use, be sure to detoxify your liver afterwards.

#4) Detox your liver, kidneys and colon at least once a year. You can do this with a juice fast combined with detox supplements such as those offered by www.GlobalHealingCenter.com or www.BaselineNutritionals.com (get professional guidance from a naturopath before fasting).

#5) Drink more water. Most people simply don’t consume enough water to effectively remove toxins from their bodies. If you don’t like water by itself, drink fresh vegetable juices such as celery or cucumber juice (which are actually structured water).

#6) Cleanse your body with parsley, alfalfa, red clover, chlorella or chlorophyll. All these substances can help cleanse your body and eliminate toxic substances that may be detrimental to your health.

#7) Don’t fill your home or apartment with products that off-gas toxic chemicals: Air fresheners, perfumed candles, particle board furniture, carpets, glues, etc.

#8) Don’t cook on non-stick cookware. These are the worst! Invest in quality copper-clad stainless steel pans and use those. They’ll last a lifetime and they don’t contaminate your body with chemicals. Don’t eat at restaurants that use non-stick cookware. (That’s just about every restaurant in the world, it seems…)

#9) Buy certified organic products. In the USA, the USDA Organic Seal is a trusted seal that genuinely indicates organic quality (both in foods and personal care products). Don’t be fooled by brand names that use the word “organics” in their name but aren’t really organic. For example, “Bob’s Organics” may or may not actually be organic. The Organic Consumers Association (www.OrganicConsumers.org) can keep you posted on what’s what.

#10) Get the cancer out of your laundry! Stop washing your clothes in toxic brand-name laundry detergents, and stop using brand-name fabric softeners or dryer sheets. Do you have any idea what chemicals are used in those products? The truth would astonish you.

And, of course, keep reading NaturalNews.com to stay up to speed on what’s really good for you versus things that actually threaten your health. There is absolutely no question that the average chemical contamination of NaturalNews readers is far below that of typical American consumers.

Stay healthy by staying informed. Don’t become another contaminated victim of the chemical industry.

(Tom: I was sent this by a friend. I know the reference to vegetables containing less than 10% of the minerals they had decades ago is a generalisation. For some minerals the loss is greater, for some it is less than 10%. But it may be an average. That is why I add minerals to my bars and powders: http://www.fulvicminerals.com.au/)

The chemical and mineral compositions of our blood, and saline fluids have an amazing similarity to seawater. As an embryo in our mother’s womb, we are encased in a sack, filled with this saline fluid.

Seawater contains 84 mineral elements. These same 84 mineral elements are found in our bodies. Modern science has determined that 24 of these elements are essential for life, although many believe that a proper balance of all 84 elements in our bodies is necessary for good health. Whenever a dietary deficiency of any of these elements occurs, the cells in our bodies lose ions. A loss of ions in our cells causes imbalances, a breakdown of the cell regeneration and growth process, and loss of the cells themselves, which leads to nervous disorders, brain damage, muscle damage or illness. Therefore, it is vital to your health to have the proper mineral balance in the saline and ion composition of your blood and these compositions must be maintained within very precise limits. Many illnesses and poor health conditions have been traced to a deficiency of minerals, ironically the minerals that are found in sea salt.

The Modern Salt Making Process: The salt consumed today is made by several large industrial companies. The same salt is, for both, industrial use, and human consumption. 93% of their production goes for industrial purposes, 7% for food use. The process is started with salt, which is mined from large underground salt deposits that were left behind when the inland seas evaporated millenniums ago. Seawater, is also used for the production of salt which is then refined. This is where the problems begin, at least in terms of your health. The salt is refined to remove impurities, making it more attractive and uniform in appearance, and to extract most of the mineral elements. When the refining process is over the salt looks great, flows more easily out of your saltshaker, but 82 of the 84 trace elements have been extracted.
Why do the large industrial companies do this? The largest customer (industrial processors) who buys 93% of their product only requires a salt that contains sodium and chloride. They do not need the other 82 elements; and several of the minerals that are extracted have great commercial value. Therefore these elements are removed from the salt to be sold as an additional value-added by-product. Examples are Boron that is sold to make anti-knock petrol additives, and chemical fertilizers, along with Magnesium, which is sold to manufacturers of light metal alloys and explosives. The chemicals and minerals removed from salt are also used to make plastics. As a result of this unfortunate situation, what we now know as common table salt is only sodium chloride; all of the other beneficial elements have been removed.

Chemical additives such as aluminum hydroxide & aluminum silicate are then added to bleach the salt whiter and prevent water absorption while the salt is in it’s packaging, making the salt flow freely; iodine and iodine stabilizers are also added, but this is another interesting story. Why? Because the chemical additives, which prevent the refined salt from absorbing water, whilst packaged, also prevent the refined salt from being properly absorbed in your body. This is why we are constantly being told how harmful table salt can be.

These chemical additives present in refined salt cause it to be difficult for our bodies to absorb and process. As a result, deposits of refined salt build up in our bodies. Some of it may be deposited in the joints of our bones. If so, arthritic problems may eventually develop. Some may be deposited along the walls of our veins, arteries, lymph system ducts, or in our brain, urinary tract, sexual organs, or glandular system. This may eventually lead to brittleness of these areas, loss of function, high blood pressure and impairment of bodily vitality.

It is interesting to note that, fish from the ocean will die quickly if placed in a solution of refined salt and water. The sodium chloride, or table salt, as we know it, is actually poisonous to them.

Are you Salt Starved? Many of us definitely use too much salt in our diet. We crave it. This is because our bodies crave the 82 missing elements, which are absent from our table salt, and our bodies send the message to consume more salt. But the salt we consume doesn’t have these 82 elements, so our bodies send the message out again “eat more salt!” Thus a destructive cycle exists which leads us to again consume too much sodium chloride, which due to the refining process, cannot be properly processed by our bodies. This then allows harmful salt deposits to form in our bodies, and thus, great stress is placed on the overall function of our body as it struggles to operate without the other 82 missing elements.

Many of these 82 missing elements are only trace elements, and are therefore required, by our bodies, in only very small amounts, however, many believe that a deficiency of these trace elements contribute to many illnesses of today.

Minerals and Your Health: Originally our bodies received the minerals it needed from two sources; plants and salt. The plants received their minerals from the soil. We then ate the plants, as grains, vegetables and fruits: now let us look at what has happened. In the last 50 years or so, mankind has stepped in and interfered with the natural system, by introducing artificial fertilizers. Man learned that by applying artificial fertilizers, which contain only nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium, he could cultivate larger areas of land, increase his yield per acre, and greatly improve his productivity. The problem here was that the eighty or so other minerals, which the plants took from the soil, were not replaced by the artificial fertilizer. So our soils have gradually become mineral depleted, which means that the plants grown in these soils are also mineral deficient. Studies have shown that the vegetables of today contain only 10% of the nutrition of vegetables grown 50 years ago.

If we can no longer get the minerals we need for optimum health from the plants we eat, and we no longer get the minerals we need from the refined salt we have been eating, what is to be done?

Many people have gone to mineral supplements to erase mineral deficiencies in their diet. These synthetic supplements cannot offer the complete range of minerals you need and are always less effective than consuming minerals in their natural form. Read the label of your mineral supplement. Do you read on the label that the mineral supplement contains 84 minerals? Probably not, therefore they are mineral deficient. Some mineral supplements have only 10 or 12 minerals in them. Many supplements provide minerals in forms that are not readily metabolized in your body, in addition, some minerals, especially certain trace minerals, can be harmful if taken artificially, in large doses.

This is why natural unrefined sea salt is so good for us! It comes in “precise dosages” that are perfectly matched to the mineral composition of our body. The minerals are in an organic form that is completely absorbable by our body, and you cannot take an excess dosage since all salt in excess of your needs is naturally expelled from your body.

Salt and Kidneys: The kidneys are greatly affected by the long-term consumption of refined salt. Natural salt assists bodily liquids to freely pass through all body membranes, including the kidney’s blood vessels and glomerulus. Refined salt, however, may restrict the flow of fluids, causing edema and chronic kidney problems. Eventually, insoluble crystals of haemoglobin form in the kidneys, possibly resulting in kidney failure.

Are You Convinced Yet? So maybe you will use natural unrefined Sea Salt from now on. The next issue is how to obtain a good quality Sea Salt. Choose carefully, for much of the salt sold as sea salt in your health food stores and elsewhere is also refined, and therefore not desirable. Read the label thoroughly, searching for salt that is unrefined and unprocessed. It is worth the effort! Foods cooked with natural salt taste better; you will be supplying your body with necessary minerals and trace elements, and your salt craving will be lessened.

Source: Salt Of The Earth

In the 1960s, just 14% of Americans were overweight (Flegal et al., 1998).

Today, a staggering 74% of adults are battling excess weight, and 43% are classified as obese (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2022).

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