Lin Zhao 3O organic agriculture
Lin Zhao, researcher, doctoral supervisor, researcher of trace element research office of nutrition department of plastered people's liberation army general hospital (301 hospital) of Chinese, top ten "health education chief experts" of the Ministry of Health. Chinese deputy director of the Nutrition Department of the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, "Chief Expert of Health Education" hired by the Ministry of Health, and expert of preventive health care consultation of the Central Health Commission. He is currently the vice chairman of the Trace Element Branch of the Chinese Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the director and member of the Expert Committee of the Chinese Geriatric Health Care Society, the director of the Chinese Food Science and Technology Society, the director of the Trace Elements Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, the vice chairman of the "Magnesium" Research Society of the Chinese Biophysical Society, and the executive director of the Trace Elements and Food Chain Research Association of the Chinese Agricultural Society.
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"The people take food as the sky, and food as the safety first."
In 2006, the American writer Randall's book "A Hundred Years of Lies - How Food and Drugs Damage Your Health" was published, and after reading this book, I not only remembered an old Chinese saying: "The one who asks for things in the darkroom, Mo Liang in the fire, the ropeway in the world, mo liang in sincerity" The author used sharp writing to expose the lies that have harmed human health for a hundred years.
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<h2 class= "rich_media_title" > century-old lie about how food and medicine can harm your health</h2>
Author: (American) Fitzgerald, translated by Dan Hansong and Dong Ping
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Since 1906, when congress approved the Pure Food and Drug Act, the public has been deceived by a false sense of security that "chemistry has brought a better life to mankind" that "chemical synthetic substances made in chemical factories are not only equally non-toxic and harmless compared to natural foods and drugs, but will be more effective." ”
Under the guidance of the above philosophical ideas, western modern agriculture has emerged, and the method used is the direct supplementation of chemical fertilizers and the direct confrontation of chemical synthetic pesticides; while the direct supplementation of exogenous nutrients such as proteins, vitamins, minerals, trace elements, and the direct confrontation of chemical synthetic drugs such as antibiotics have become the concepts and methods based on modern medicine.
The principles of supply and demand in the economy, market profits and the forces of capital drive the development of the food industry. Since diet and health are manipulated by economic interests, from embryos to graves, humans sacrifice many factors of health. When people eat "foreign fast food", consumers exchange health for convenience, constantly harm health, and finally pay a large amount of medical expenses.
The Pure Food and Drug Act creates an illusion of food and drug safety that provides legal standards for countries around the world.
During World War I, American chemical companies profited from the production of poison gas and munitions. Faced with the title of "Merchant of Death," DuPont rebuilt the company's image of the chemical industry by hiring public relations consultants and psychologists, with the advertising slogan of the time: "Let chemistry ... Create a good life with good products. ”
Decades later, Monsanto, which supplied chemical agents during the Vietnam War, pushed the hype of "synthetics equal natural substances" to the extreme, boasting that "genetically modified foods" are "foods made by Mother Nature and those artificial products, and indeed there is not much difference." The only difference is the artificial ingredients. ”
From babies to graves, human diet and health are dictated by food companies, pharmaceutical companies, and chemical industry companies. The following chronology records the process of human beings sliding into the abyss over the past hundred years, accompanied by the abuse of food chemical additives.
The first stage, from 1900 to 1939, was to create a belief in chemically synthesized substances
At the beginning of the 20th century, human food became a testing ground for testing "making chemistry improve life", creating artificial sweeteners, monosodium glutamate, vegetable butter, "partially hydrogenated vegetable oil", and all kinds of chemical synthetic substances appeared on the stage of the modern food industry.
In 1900, the cancer mortality rate in the United States was only 3%, ranking tenth among the causes of death, and at the end of the 20th century, the cancer mortality rate in the United States reached 20% of the cause of death.
In 1900, the incidence of diabetes in the United States was less than one in a thousand, and asthma and related immune diseases were unheard of; breast cancer was very rare; in 1969, 1 in every 20 women had breast cancer.
At the end of the 20th century, 20 percent of U.S. citizens had diabetes, and there were 150 million people with asthma and related immune diseases worldwide; americans consumed sugar from 10 pounds per person per year to 147 pounds per year.
Because sugar loses 90% of the natural sugarcane nutrients during the refining process, it becomes a "pure thermal food". Excessive sugar intake is an important cause of diabetes, heart disease, stomach and duodenal ulcers, chronic infections and dental caries.
• In 1901, Monsanto invented saccharin,
• In 1908, Japanese chemists successfully extracted sodium glutamate, or monosodium glutamate, from seaweed
• In 1909, the German chemist Fritz Haber invented fertilizers
• In 1909, Procter & Gamble acquired a patent for "Liquid Vegetable Oil Curing Technology at Room Temperature".
• In 1910, the chemical product "margarine", which hydrogenated vegetable oil, was born. By 1950, the U.S. was consuming 8 pounds of margarine per capita a year, processed foods were increasing, and trans fatty acids "entered the daily diet of U.S. residents." [The United States has banned margarine, the World Health Organization has banned it, and the relevant Chinese departments are indifferent]
• In 1921, General Mills created a character named Betty Crocker to advise Americans to eat processed foods.
• In 1930, about 3,000 of the nation's 123 million people died of heart disease; by 1997, at least 727,000 of the 248 million people in the United States died of heart disease each year.
• In 1997, a paper published in the American Medical Journal confirmed that a new type of diabetes that was resistant to insulin, type 2 diabetes, was found to be prevalent throughout the United States.
• In the 55 years before 1935, only one case of cancer was detected among Eskimos in Alaska and Canada; by the 1970s, cancer rates were comparable to those in the United States and Canada because Eskimos had received processed foods.
• In 1938, Swiss scientists invented DDT and won the Nobel Prize; in the same year, British scientists synthesized the estrogen diethyl sterol (DES).
• From 1938 to 1990, the sperm count of human males decreased by about 50 percent and the incidence of testicular cancer tripled.
• The "civilized man" swallowed the "disease of civilization" and used his teeth to make a grave! During the Korean War, someone conducted an autopsy on a dead Soldier of the United States and North Korea who was about 20 years old, and was surprised to find that the degree of arteriosclerosis between the two was very different. About 77 percent of U.S. soldiers have arteriosclerosis.
The reason is that the difference in dietary structure has planted a "time bomb" in the body of American soldiers, which greatly increases the hidden dangers of cardiovascular diseases and hypertension in the future. Suffering from "civilized disease" in middle age and old age is not entirely due to unreasonable diet some time before the onset of the disease, but has already laid the root of the curse when they are young.
In the second phase, from 1940 to 1961, chemical additives changed the way humans lived
In 1941, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved diethylsterol (DES) for the treatment of menopausal women, which was later further expanded for pregnant women.
• In 1947, estrogen was used in the United States as an additive to livestock feed to increase fat and weight in animals, and was then called "the most important development in the history of human food production." If you eat beef regularly between 1947 and 1977, you will be exposed to a high level of estrogen , diethyl sterol " , which has been used as a feed additive in the United States for 30 years.
• In 1977, diethylsterol was shown to be carcinogenic and banned by the US FDA.
• After 1948, the use of monosodium glutamate (MSG) in the U.S. food industry doubled every decade. Traces of MSG can be found in processed foods and baby foods.
The third stage was from 1962 to 1973, when chemical synthetic toxins contaminated the human food chain
Beginning in 1963, it was found that the learning ability and test scores of American high school students were falling sharply every year. By the end of the 20th century, it was suspected that this might be related to the intake of synthetic chemicals such as food chemical additives.
In 1968, animal experiments on the safety of MSG at Washington University in St. Louis found that brain tissue damage was common after rats ate a large amount of MSG.
Just now, Professor Fu Hong's report said that the Beijing Municipal Government's "Beijing 2009 Annual Health and Population Health Report" Beijing is a foreign fast food is the hardest hit area, 70% of the fast food industry in Beijing is foreign fast food, and 40% of children in Beijing are now obese.
Just now Fu Hong reported the data of the Beijing Municipal Government: Among the 18-79-year-old registered population in Beijing, 30.3% have hypertension, 8.6% have diabetes, 34.7% have dyslipidemia, and 1.3% have stroke; from 1998 to 2007, the incidence of malignant tumors has increased continuously for 10 years, with an average growth rate of 2.58%, and malignant tumors have become the first cause of death since 2007. The incidence of various diseases in Beijing is quite high, which is definitely related to the proliferation of "foreign fast food".
• In 1970, Americans spent $6 billion a year on McDonald's and fast-food chains; by 2001, Americans spent $110 billion a year on fast food, more than on music, videotapes, newspapers, magazines, movies, and books combined.
• In 1971, U.S. researchers discovered that mothers taking diethylsterol (DES) were associated with their daughters suffering from rare vaginal cancer. It is clear that taking diethylsterol during pregnancy can affect fetal development.
• In 1971, Japan synthesized "high fructose corn syrup" cheap sweetener, which was widely used in the beverage industry. In recent years, it has been found that this fructose can reach the liver intact without decomposition, although it does not raise blood sugar levels, but directly synthesizes fat in the liver. High fructose intake can cause hyperlipidemia and insulin resistance, inducing diabetes; it is also an important cause of hyperuricemia and gout. Because it does not produce a feeling of fullness and confuses the appetite center, it induces obesity. Children often consume foods high in fructose, which can impair learning and memory function.
• In 1972, the EPA banned the pesticide DDT because it can cause cancer in humans.
• In 1996, pediatricians reported at a meeting of the American Medical Association that half of his pediatric patients with ADHD were related to food chemical additives. When these children stopped consuming foods containing chemical synthetic colors, chemical synthetic flavorings, or chemical synthetic preservatives, symptoms improved significantly.
• The U.S. FDA banned the use of the carcinogenic artificial pigment Violet 1, a dye that has been used for the past 20 years to stamp tested pork.
I have been to Germany many times as a senior visiting scholar, my first visit to Germany was in the 1980s, my assistant was a German nutrition doctor, he took me to the supermarket, he pointed to the supermarket shelves very beautifully packed a variety of processed foods to me and said a word, he said: "Professor Zhao, all these processed products can only meet the needs of your two organs, can only meet your visual and taste needs, they can never meet your health needs." I've always kept this phrase in mind.
The fourth phase was from 1974 to 1997
*In the 1970s, fish and dairy products produced on factory farms in the United States contained growth hormone, antibiotics, and various pesticides. The rapid increase in processed foods contains various chemical additives, such as colors, preservatives, sweeteners, flavor enhancers, etc.
*In 1974, the U.S. FDA approved the artificial sweetener "aspartame", and a year later the FDA task force found that the data submitted by Searle concealed convulsions and brain tumors after the consumption of aspartame in animals, but the FDA did not ban the product.
*The 1975 World Livestock Congress reported that animals raised on factory farms contained 30 times more saturated fat than animals fed 30 years earlier.
*In a 1976 report to Congress by Arthur Upton, director of the American Cancer Institute, it was stated that half of all cancers in the United States were caused by dietary factors.
*In 1977, the National Institutes of Health first issued a warning (three warnings before and after) pointing to the prevalence of obesity in the United States.
From 1977 to 1994, the number of children enrolled in special education programs increased by 191 percent across the United States because of learning disabilities.
• In 1981, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the incidence of autism in children was only 4/00,000; But by 1996, 34/00,000 children were suffering from autism.
• In 1982, U.S. boys drank twice as much milk as soda, and by 2002, soda had become twice as much as milk. From 1982 to 1992, asthma mortality increased by 40 percent among young Americans.
• A 1983 report in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that aspartame can lead to weight gain because it stimulates the body to consume more high-calorie carbohydrates.
• In 1985, the "juice drink syndrome" was discovered in the United Kingdom, and the famous magazine "The Lancet" pointed out that 79% of children with ADHD could improve their condition after removing artificial colors and flavorings from their diet.
In 1986, the International Journal of Biosocial Research published a four-year survey: it was found that 803 public school cafeterias in New York City increased average academic performance by 15.7 percent if they reduced their intake of artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives.
• Japan's petrochemical company used genetic engineering to create excellent acid supplements, resulting in 1,500 people becoming ill, including 40 deaths.
• In 1990, no state in the United States had more than 15 percent obese; the CDC declared that about 64 percent of U.S. residents were now obese.
• From 1990 to 1998, the incidence of diabetes in the United States increased by 33 percent.
• In 1993, the U.S. FDA approved the use of genetically engineered bovine growth hormone to increase milk production. After cows use hormones, breast infections become more frequent, so higher doses of antibiotics are taken. Antibiotics remain in milk and beef contaminate the human food chain.
• A 1994 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that the artificial sweetener aspartame contained in 1,200 foods can cause 88 symptoms of poisoning in humans.
• A 1995 report in Cancer Causes and Control found that children who consumed more than 12 hot dogs per month had a higher chance of developing leukemia. The reason seems to be that the meat is preservatively treated with nitrite in hot dogs.
• A genetically modified tomato called Flavr Savr was forced to withdraw from the market within a year of market because its nutritional value was too low and the intestinal pathogens could obtain antibiotic resistance from the tomato.
• In 1997, the American Journal of Pediatrics pointed out that of the 17,000 girls surveyed, 1/7 of white children and 1/2 of African-American girls enter puberty at the age of 8, with breast development and pubic hair growth. Surprisingly, 1% of white girls and 3% of girls of African descent develop these sexual characteristics by the age of 3. The cause of precocious puberty may be related to diet.
Artificial sweeteners make pregnant women premature.
Artificial sweeteners can cause harm to the fetus and increase the risk of preterm birth for pregnant women, and the EU-funded study followed 60,000 women and found that drinking beverages containing artificial sweeteners every day is related to the premature birth of pregnant women.
Studies have shown that beverages containing artificial sweeteners, such as aspartame, can harm the unborn fetus. British experts recommend that pregnant women should stay away from foods and drinks that contain artificial sweeteners. In the past, in the UK, it was very rare for pregnant women to give birth before 37 weeks of normal pregnancy.
But if pregnant women drank an average of 1 can of artificial sweeteners per day, the odds of preterm birth increased by 38 percent. If you drink more than 4 cans of drinks a day, the chance of preterm birth increases by 78%. The study was published in the journal American Society of Clinical Nutrition.
• In 2005, Indian medical scientists found that the incidence of esophageal cancer increased in people who consumed a large amount of carbonated beverages, and doctors speculated that it may be that the pressure of carbon dioxide caused stomach acid to flow back into the esophagus, thereby stimulating the esophagus and promoting the occurrence of esophageal cancer.
• Drink 2 cans of cola a day, sugar and phosphorus make body fluids sour, in order to maintain the acid-base balance, the human body has to use the calcium in the bones and teeth, resulting in bone calcium loss.
• A 2005 U.S. follow-up study showed that 60 percent of children who drank an average of one can of carbonated drinks a day were overweight.
• In 2006, in an effort to curb the growth of childhood obesity, the U.S. government issued a ban on the sale of carbonated beverages in primary and secondary schools.
• Over the past 30 years, the incidence of obesity has more than doubled in children aged 2 to 5 years and adolescents aged 12 to 19 in the United States, while the incidence of obesity in children aged 6 to 11 years has increased threefold!
The fifth phase was from 1998 to 2005, when the health hazards of chemical synthetic substances were increasing
The health problems associated with chemical additives at this stage have accumulated to a very serious extent, because more diseases occur due to food than ever before, and in 2001 the CDC of the United States announced that the number of diseases caused by food in the United States residents has doubled compared to 7 years ago. Renowned scholar Sapala pointed out that "will the fast food industry become another tobacco industry for mankind?" "This question has aroused deep thinking in the American media and people.
In January 2005, the Washington Post published Peter Giederman's article , "Fast Food Bites The Chinese Culture." A survey of 14,400 adults in 28 countries found that 41 percent of respondents in China ate "foreign fast food" at least once a week, compared with just 35 percent in the United States.
"About 200 million people in China are currently overweight and 60 million are obese," the article said. Public health experts believe that the increasing consumption of 'foreign fast food' is the primary reason for the increasing incidence of diabetes and hypertension in China. ”
More than a hundred years ago, the Western powers slaughtered and robbed China as a piece of fat, and guns and opium were useless, making our ancestors the "sick man of East Asia." After a hundred years of bloody struggle, the three mountains have finally been overthrown, and now no one dares to bully us easily, but because of the disregard for the "aggression of food culture" in the West, in the process of eating and drinking "foreign fast food" again and again, it hurts the health of the Chinese nation!
A 2004 report in the American scientific journal Public Health revealed the fact that between 1974 and 1997, a survey of ten Western countries, including the United States, found that nine countries had a tripled mortality rate from brain diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and motor neuron disorders.
The researchers believe that the most likely cause is food additives in various processed foods that lose their natural properties — that is, chemical synthetic substances and pesticide contamination in foods. Processed foods appear to be the main culprit in toxicity, as in the ten countries studied, only Japan did not increase mortality from brain diseases.
The reason is that the Japanese eat a lot of natural foods, and their diet structure is healthier than that of Westerners. When Japanese citizens move to Western countries and begin to eat a large number of processed foods that have lost their natural attributes, especially American fast food, the incidence will exceed the overall incidence in Japan.
The Germans offered to eat their grandmother's bread, and the Germans found that they bought bread from the market every day and ate three kilograms of food additives in their stomachs a day. With the development of the food industry, the application of chemical synthesis additives is becoming more and more extensive, because the safety of food additives is not 100%, unreasonable use will endanger health.
The preparation of traditional Chinese staple foods basically does not use additives, and steamed buns are an example. The bread not only has 2.5% to 3% salt, but also adds dough conditioners, leavening agents, moisturizers and many other additives, according to statistics, every year every German only consumes commercially available bread, to ingest about 3 kg of different chemical additives. So now the Germans are proposing to eat "grandmother's bread" without chemical additives.
It is generally believed that food and beverages with the word "milk" are made of fresh milk, and there is fresh fruit with the word "fruit". Therefore, strawberry milkshakes in fast food restaurants are quite popular. But the British "Guardian" article pointed out that the so-called "strawberry milkshake" is formulated with 59 kinds of chemical raw materials, which contain neither strawberries nor fresh milk.
Fan Zhihong of the Food College of China Agricultural University pointed out that the same is true of the strawberry milkshakes sold by Chinese foreign fast food restaurants. There are four types of chemical ingredients: one is flavor, to use more than 40 kinds of compounds to exquisitely blend out the strawberry flavor, such as fennel brain, maltol, etc.; the second is the pigment, in order to obtain strawberry color, add chemical synthetic red pigment; the third is stabilizers and thickeners, in order to taste smooth and delicate, add guar gum, carrageenan and phosphate, etc.; fourth, sweeteners, in order to dispense cool sweetness to add fructose syrup and so on
There are 35 types of food additives in China's commodity classification, and the specific categories are as follows:
Flavor enhancers, defoamers, leavening agents, colorants, colorants, emulsifiers, enzyme preparations, coating agents, preservatives, stabilizers, sweeteners, chelating agents, disinfectants, curing agents, fillers, salt substitutes, reducing agents, filter aids, antioxidants, food flavors, acidity regulators, nutritional enhancers, microbial preparations, anti-caking and desiccant, bleaching, oxidants, gum base agents, thickening and gelling agents, solvents and co-solvents, water retention and moisturizers, binders and plasticizers, salt quality improvers, dough quality improvers, Anti-stick, mold release and lubricants, others.
At present, there are 2500 kinds of food additives in China, and more than 10,000 kinds of foods containing additives. For example, fuqiang powder is added to the whitening agent benzoyl peroxide; the production of bread using potassium bromate, potassium iodate and other dough improvers; the production of biscuits added to the leavening agent sulfurous acid or sodium metabisulfite; instant noodles add preservatives and antioxidants; meat products in the production of color agent nitrite; edible oil added antioxidants.
Interpreting illegal chemical additives
After the melamine incident, the Ministry of Health published the second batch of "list of non-edible substances that may be illegally added to food", including leather hydrolysate, potassium bromate, β-lactamase, and dimethyl fumarate.
Leather hydrolysate: May be added to dairy products and milk-containing beverages to increase protein content. It is a leather hydrolyzed protein that is hydrolyzed by chemical methods, melamine, although commonly known as "protein essence", is not a protein, in order to drill the loophole of protein detection methods, leather hydrolysate is a real protein, added to food detection is more difficult. Because the raw material comes from the corner waste of the tannery, potassium dichromate and sodium dichromate containing tanned leather will contaminate dairy products, and human absorption can cause poisoning and make joints loose and swollen.
Potassium bromate: In 1914, the Ward Roasting Company and the University of Pittsburgh research project generated a patent for potassium bromate for use in the American baking industry. It can affect the structure and rheological properties of the dough during the fermentation, awakening and baking of the dough, enhance the strength and elasticity of the gluten, and improve the baking effect of bread. It has been used for more than 90 years. In 1983, a Japanese study found that about fifty parts per billion of bromate remained in bread; animal experiments confirmed carcinogenic effects on mice. A 1992 report by the World Health Organization (WHO) identified potassium bromate as a carcinogen.
The United Kingdom first legislated on April 1, 1990, banning potassium bromate; subsequently, the European Union, Australia, Malaysia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong and Taiwan have banned it. Shortly after the introduction of potassium bromate in China, it was forced to ban it in 2005.
Potassium bromate is inexpensive, not only whitening flour, but also making poor quality flour into fluffy, not easy to collapse, good-looking bread, so it is still used by some unscrupulous producers.
β-lactamase: Added to dairy products to prepare "no anti-milk". Β-lactamase has been used as an antibiotic decomposer in milk since the 1950s. In 1984, at the 79th annual meeting of the American Dairy Science Association, the University of Wisconsin reported on the use of β-lactamase to break down antibiotic residues in milk as an efficient and easy method.
In 2001, patents were submitted to the World Intellectual Property Organization for approval. In 2007, Hangzhou Beidou Biotechnology Co., Ltd. applied for a patent "A β-lactamase, its preparation method and its application" (CN 101089178A), which describes in detail the preparation of β-lactamase and the application of antibiotic residue decomposition in milk. Because β-lactam antibiotics are widely used to treat bovine mastitis and bacterial infectious diseases. The state stipulates that milk for a period of time after the use of antibiotic drugs shall not be used for human consumption. The Standards for the Purchase of Fresh Milk also stipulate that antibiotics shall not be detected in fresh milk. However, as far as the current dairy cattle breeding environment is concerned, it is difficult to meet this requirement, so there is an "antibiotic decomposer" on the market, and the ingredient is β-lactamase.
• The use of β-lactamase to break down antibiotics in milk carries the following risks:
First, the safety of β-lactamase and whether it can be added to food is still inconclusive;
Second, after decomposing β-lactam antibiotic drugs, other harmful substances may be introduced;
Third, this practice condones the misuse of antibiotics in the feeding process of dairy cows.
Dimethyl fumarate: Dimethyl fumarate is an anti-mildew preservative developed in the United States in the 1980s, commonly known as mold king, mold buster, can inhibit more than 30 kinds of mold, yeast, fungi and bacteria, especially for Botulinum and Aspergillus aflatoxin has a good inhibitory effect. As a preservative is widely used in food, beverages, feed, Chinese herbal medicines, cosmetics, fish, meat, vegetables, fruits and other products of mildew, anti-corrosion, anti-insect, preservation, such as cakes, moon cakes and spicy snacks and other baked foods, the use of its fumigation and bacteriostatic characteristics, sublimated dimethyl fumarate will form a gas bacteriostatic small space, the risk is that many people have allergic reactions to this volatile gas, China has been explicitly prohibited from use.
The long-term fight against the misuse of chemical whitening agents in flour. The use of food additives in China, due to the pursuit of commercial interests, the abuse is quite serious, some enterprises illegally use chemical additives, in 2008, the melamine incident that shocked the country is clear evidence. The use of flour whitening agents endangers consumers, harms production enterprises, plagues regulatory authorities, and damages the image of the government, which is a veritable social hazard. Deputies to the National People's Congress and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference have proposed at the two sessions for eight consecutive years to ban the chemical whitening agent of flour, but it has not yet come to fruition. Online surveys found that almost 100 percent of citizens agree to a ban on flour whitening agents. Flour brighteners have long been banned in many countries. The use of flour whitening agents is an artificial chemical pollution of the staple food of hundreds of millions of people, and there are hundreds of harms and no benefits! It is only conducive to the production and sales units and their accomplices who use whitening agents to make huge profits.
Today, Mr. Feng Ping, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference [CPPCC], could not attend the meeting because of something, and he asked me to convey to you that Minister Chen Zhu of the Ministry of Health is very concerned about the abuse of flour chemical whitening agents and personally conducts investigations and studies, which fully reflects the great importance attached by the leaders of the Ministry of Health to food safety. This is in sharp contrast to the so-called food safety experts who call banning whitening agents "a trivial matter"!
Wang dongfang weekly magazine, October 28, 2008: "Chinese version of food additives"
In the 1970s, China's food industry only used about 65 kinds of food additives such as alkaline noodles, baking soda, monosodium glutamate, etc.; in 1990, there were only 20 types of food additives in the country, a total of 178 kinds; now there are 35 types of food additives in the country, more than 2500 kinds. Data provided by China Food Additives and Ingredients Association: In 2007, the existing types of additives have reached more than 2,300 kinds, and the total output of chemical additives in the country is as high as 5.24 million tons, from which sales revenue is 52.9 billion yuan.
In the "Northern Xiaguang Food Additive Supermarket" of several thousand square meters in Xinfadi, Beijing, more than 2,000 kinds of food additives are placed on simple shelves. Bottled, bagged, liquid, powdered, dazzling. "Our lives are inseparable from food additives," said Zhang Lisheng, manager of the company's R&D department. "Everyone has to eat hundreds of food additives every day, which is definitely not an exaggeration.
For example, a piece of freshly baked bread, the bread improver we produce is an additive that general bread manufacturers use, and there are more than 20 kinds of additives in this bag alone. When it comes to bakery recipes, there are dozens of flavors. If it is brioche bread, the supplier of brioche has added antioxidants, pigments, etc., you analyze the bread flour, the whitening agent is definitely indispensable. So the production of a bread, from beginning to end, is estimated to use 50 to 100 additives. "Zhang Lisheng is like a number of family treasures.
In August 2010, the 21st World Congress against Cancer reported that cancer mortality in China has increased by 80% in the past 30 years, with 1.8 million people dying of cancer every year, and now about 800 to 1.2 million people die of sudden heart disease every year. China's health expenditure soared from 14.32 billion yuan in 1980 to 984.33 billion yuan in 2006, an increase of 68 times. About 30% to 60% of China's poor population is "poor due to illness, or returning to poverty due to illness".
Therefore, strengthening preventive health care is an important task to promote "poverty alleviation" and achieve a harmonious society. Hopefully, you will be more vigilant about chemical additives in processed foods, and "suspicion" is the first step in the fight against the abuse of chemical additives. Therefore, strict legislation, strict supervision, and the elimination of the abuse of food chemical additives are related to the interests of the country and the nation, and are closely related to the health of the people.
This year, the Ministry of Health has a particularly good initiative to require all food additives to be labeled. The abuse of chemical additives on the market can not be ignored, there is no one to supervise the food additives on the market, and the price is a bottle of 15 yuan, 500g of "a drop of incense" under the label of "hot pot perfume". Claiming that "a drop of incense" can bring out any flavor you like, the scope of use includes rice noodles, spicy hot pot, hot pot and so on. "A drop of incense" at the farmers' market is popular. Many small restaurants and well-known restaurants are used. Enter "a drop of incense" in Taobao, you can find 189 pieces, ranging from a few yuan to dozens of yuan, such as "a drop of incense" magic oil, spicy "a drop of incense" and so on. Excessive additives will lead to food safety hazards, long-term consumption of "a drop of incense" prepared soup, will damage the liver. With just one drop, the water becomes a broth with a flavor comparable to a slow-simmering soup. This rather amazing food additive is called "a drop of incense". Its adhesion and permeability are particularly strong. Applying a little on the back of your hand will not disperse after 5 hours, and repeated washing with hand sanitizer and soap will not help. Smelling this smell for a long time is uncomfortable. According to China Quality News, food experts concluded that "a drop of incense" is a chemical synthetic additive. I think that to supervise the abuse of these food additives, we must prevent problems before they occur, we must go to the front, and we must not always deal with accidents.
I once visited a factory in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, this factory employed a lot of returning Doctors, when I went to visit, they blindfolded me, let me smell, he said what do you smell now, I smelled the smell of barbecue and other more than a dozen smells, and then I took off the blindfold cloth and found a bunch of notes hanging on his experimental table, all of which were the smell of artificial chemical flavors.
The use of food chemical additives should be subtracted: Professor Li Lite, a well-known food expert, pointed out: "Many practices are blind now, similar to "Handan toddler". Now almost all of the world's largest additive companies are developing in China, doing everything possible to sell his additives, in this case do not think independently, do not research, blindly use these things. It will cause a lot of problems.
Because foreign countries are more advanced than China in terms of additives, they have a lot of information, and some additives that are questioned and cannot be sold abroad have run to China to sell; the current additive industry is the most profitable and profitable industry in the food industry. Food additives are allowed to be used by foreign countries, and as much as people add, we use them, and we have no evaluation. ”
In many processed foods, natural nutrients and antioxidants are lost, and chemical additives replace healthy natural substances, which are absorbed in synergy with chemicals absorbed from water, air and consumer products, weakening the immune system and inducing disease.
"Prejudice is farther from the truth than ignorance", consumers will never oppose the rational use of food additives, for the sake of health, the use of chemical additives must be subtracted. What is available but cannot be used, it must be resolutely not used; those who can use less must be used less. That is in the interest of the people.
I have here a passage from a European scholar, "If what we eat is wrong, then no doctor can help us, and if what we eat is correct, then what is the use of a doctor?" ”
I call on us to guide the whole nation to scientifically and rationally consume food, adhere to the traditional dietary structure of the Chinese nation, and use ecological civilization to transform industrial civilization!
Mr. Sun Yat-sen, the great pioneer of the democratic revolution, pointed out: "After the facts of China's modern civilization were solved, the progress of eating and drinking alone is still beyond the reach of civilized countries. This is what Mr. Sun said in the article "Founding Strategy".
This is China's healthy traditional fermented food, Chinese traditional fermented food connotation and its importance, the variety of types, is rare in the world. The divergent enlightenment of the globalization of Korean kimchi, I think it is very important to cherish the food culture of my own nation, because the nation is the world.
Health is GDP, our country's development over the years, so much contribution, the contribution of capital is 28%, the contribution of technological progress is 3%, the other 69% are from the contribution of China's healthy labor force, so "health is GDP!" "It's true.
I used to love to eat squeezed vegetables, and now I buy small packages of squeezed vegetables that definitely have additives, such as lemon yellow, sweeteners, etc. Last year, I bought two pieces of packaged, unprocessed natural squeezed vegetables, and I can't understand now, why is the factory now using chemical additives without restrictions? Why is there no regulation?
When food safety problems arise, people's first reaction is not to eat this food. However, in the face of the abuse of food chemical additives, individual self-protection awareness is not necessarily effective.
A little attention reveals that processed foods on the market are full of chemical additives, unless you are completely isolated from the industrialized, urbanized lifestyle, which is impossible for the vast majority of people.
As individual consumers, the only thing that can help us get rid of this threat is to rely on the power of the public and refuse to add excessive chemical additives to food! As Professor Wu said just now, we must also rely on the power of the law to prohibit the abuse of chemical additives!
Perhaps, the gradual reduction of food chemical additives may mean higher production costs, but what does this mean compared to the health of Chinese? I believe that what we gain as a whole will definitely be more than what we lose.
Because health is GDP!
Therefore, only by ensuring the health of the whole nation can we maintain the sustainable development of the national economy and have a bright future for the Chinese nation.