Dear Ones,

I am creating this health alert myself. This is something I have known for years and years, but in my research on health subjects, have found that the people that do studies have now completed enough studies to prove conclusively what has always been the truth.

 

I'm sure you've all heard that cooking in aluminum pots and pans is bad for your health, as well as cooking with teflon coated pans, which creates flu-like symptoms because of the toxic fumes that are released into your food when the teflon gets heated.

 

I was watching a "caring for your pets" channel one day and the pet expert was talking about exotic birds, which many people have as pets. He was cautioning owners of exotic birds not to have them caged or perched in close proximity to the kitchen if you are cooking with teflon because these toxic fumes are lethal to birds. (Remember the old technique of taking a canary or parakeet into the mines, and if the bird died there were toxic fumes in the mine or tunnel that required that humans put on their gas masks and be evacuated to avoid breathing toxic fumes? Same principle working here.)

 

The pet expert recommended that humans not be cooking with Teflon coated pans at all because even low heats will release enough fumes to be lethal to a bird, so it can't be good to release these toxins into the air and food. Some companies who make Teflon coated ware has label warnings that if the Teflon coating becomes scratched or chipped, to discard the damaged item to prevent toxins from being released into your foods. DUH. Why even use them? Is easy clean up worth the risk? Apparently so. People are now being programmed to the convenience of cooking in aluminum foil pouches (especially wrapping foods for easy barbequing) or lining your baking pans with aluminum foil for easy clean-up. People hate to use what my grandma called "elbow grease" to scrub pans clean. I know I hate to scrub pans, but I think I would hate Alzheimers worse. But aluminum foil and pans and Teflon coating is not the reason for my health alert.

 

Aluminum has now been linked by the experts Alzheimers disease. But it isn't just the aluminum foils and pans that are the culprits. Antiperspirants and make-up contain aluminum!  They might as well call it "Alzheimers in a bottle"! In fact, that is what I was saying, loud enough for the other store patrons to hear when I was looking for aluminum free deoderant at Walmart the other day. Every label said "Active ingredient, Aluminum ________ (insert the fancy term for the type of aluminum used in each product... there is more than one kind.)

 

 

Anyway, back to my expedition to find an inexpensive deoderant that is aluminum free. Addidas sells an aluminum free deoderant that is expensive. But I found a small container of aluminum free Addidas at Walmart. They only had one fragrance, so no selection at all, but it is aluminum free and cost $1.94 for 1.6 oz of it. 

 

Health experts recommend that we become "label readers" to avoid transfats, preservatives, sugars, sodiums, etc. Now you need to extend that to ANYTHING you put on your skin, as well as in your mouth and avoid products with aluminum. I wonder if lotions and creams have aluminum in them. Well, I'm off to read some labels.

 

PS~ all, ALL man made sugar substitutes have been found to cause damage to neurotransmitters of the brain, causing short term memory loss. There are very few processed products that don't have minute amounts of fake sugar in it, because it also is more addictive than natural sugars, and also actually increases your appetitite! So much for diet drinks!

 

I would recommend not eating commercially processed foods of any type because part of the "processing" is to add sugar substitutes to the product. They even add it to cigarettes! But then cigarettes aren't good for you for way more reasons than sugar substitutes. 

 

Diabetics should be using Stevia, which is a safe sugar that is natural, made of Stevia leaves. They do not "process" Stevia... they just grind the leaf or make a liquid from the leaf. There is a trick to using Stevia though. It only takes a few drops or a tiny bit of the powder to sweeten your food. If you add too much... oooh, pucker time! I once bought some unsweetened cranberry juice and sweetened it with some liquid Stevia. I didn't realize that you have to do that the day before, to allow it time to absorb. I kept adding Stevia because the juice didn't taste sweet enough. But the next day, when I went to taste the juice... WHOA! I had to add three bottles of unsweetened cranberry juice before it was at the right level of sweetness! Stevia is expensive, but a little goes a LONG WAY!

 

I realize that processed foods is a way of life and a welcomed convenience in our lives, but getting back to basics is becoming more and more necessary these days in order to maintain a healthy body.