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Consumer health advocate Mike Adams (aka "The Health Ranger")
has a beef against shoppers buying processed meat this Christmas.
And to show people exactly what they're getting when they purchase
processed meat products, he's posted a shockingly disgusting photo
tour of a typical processed meat Christmas gift product: The 48-Oz.
Hillshire Farm "Yard-O-Beef" Summer Sausage. The photos
are available online right now at:
http://www.newstarget.com/phototour_yardobeef_1.html
Using a special macro lens and camera
flash unit, Adams was able to capture
the Yard-O-Beef product in astonishing
detail: Black specs emerge with frightening
clarity, fat blobs ooze out of tissue
caves, and string-like tissue strands
seem to be reaching skyward from the
surface of the meat products. The images
were so frightening that Adams mixed
a collage of the photos with a trash
beat music track and posted the video
on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjNGFvqxUSM
Virtually all processed meat products
contain sodium nitrite, Adams says, and
that chemical additive has been linked
to pancreatic cancer, colon cancer and
breast cancer. The World Cancer Research
Fund recently completed a review of over
5,000 studies on the link between meat
consumption and cancer, concluding that
there is no safe level of processed meat
consumption and that all consumers should
avoid processed meat forever (unless
they want cancer). This is the first
time that any large global health group
has specifically warned consumers about
the health dangers of processed meats.
"The most diseased people I've
seen are also consumers of processed
meat products," Adams said. "It's
very clear to me, based on considerable
research, that consuming processed meat
greatly enhances your risk of various
cancers. This stuff is not only disgusting;
it's also a very clear danger to your
health!"
Boycott Processed Meat Products
Adams urges all shoppers to boycott processed
meat products this Christmas season,
opting instead for eco-friendly, all-natural
gifts such as superfoods from companies
like www.Sunfood.com or www.TransitionNutrition.com
or www.GoodCauseWellness.com
Adams also reminds consumers that if
they give gifts made of processed meats,
they are indirectly giving people an
increased risk of pancreatic cancer and
colon cancer. "Giving someone a
gift of processed meat is actually more
like a curse than a gift," Adams
said. "And beyond the cancer issue,
there's also the increased risk of heart
disease as well as the environmental
implications of following a meat-based
diet. Getting rid of meat in their diet
is the single most powerful thing consumers
can do right now to protect the planet
against global warming and climate change."
For those consumers who still choose
to purchase meat, Adams urges them to
check the ingredients labels for "sodium
nitrite" -- the chemical additive
that many researchers believe to be responsible
for much of the increased cancer risk
of processed meat products. "Eating
sodium nitrite is quite simply dangerous
to your health," Adams said. "Consumers
who still want to eat meat products should
look for nitrite-free meats, which are
often available in the frozen foods or
natural foods section of a grocery store." Adams
eats no meats other than wild salmon
and follows a largely raw foods / living
foods diet. His own health statistics
are posted online at www.HealthRanger.org
See the processed meat photos at:
http://www.newstarget.com/phototour_yardobeef_1.html
View the processed meat video at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjNGFvqxUSM |
