Friend,

To understand what pharmafood is, you have to go all the way back to my
early days as a chemistry student…

I can still vividly remember walking into my lab at grad school for
the first time. Instead of learning to be a chemist, I had become one. I
felt a sense of excitement at the thought of finally applying my passion
for chemistry to real life.

Like an astronaut admiring the dials and controls of the space shuttle, I
scanned the intricate glassware designed to withstand the temperature and
pressure extremes that come with the harsh environments of manipulating
matter with chemistry. Hundreds of chemicals with biohazard labels were
stored safely in dark brown bottles and jammed into tin cabinets. A shower
and its activation cord dangled nearby in case of a chemical spill—a
constant reminder that chemistry doesn’t give second chances.

Using the 119 elements of the periodic table—indivisible particles that
form ever more complex molecules and porous substances—I was set free to
yield a bounty of valuable products, whether they were brighter paints,
stronger soaps, barely-legal party drugs, better whiskey, or new medicines.
Anything was possible.

At the time, I had no idea that the food industry would be using this same
type of caustic laboratory environment to create addictive flavor mimics
and terrorize our food! This newly devised chemical conspiracy—driven by
chemists known as flavorists—has empowered the food industry and poisoned
the plates of “healthy" shoppers...

Flavorists use state-of-the-art drug design methods to manufacture flavors
stolen from nature—what I’ve term “pharmafoods”—that yield
dependency, overeating, and brand preference among consumers.

The overall goal is to use the pharmafoods to train your brain to crave
more. They aren’t artificial flavors because they rarely have taste and
are invisible to our taste buds. Former FDA commissioner David Kessler
admitted that these hidden chemicals “hijack our brain.” He was
referring to their ability to circumvent our innate ability to know when we
have eaten too much.

Health marketing claims such as “low fat,” “organic,” “gluten-free,” “natural,”
“reduced sugar,” “low salt,” or even “MSG-free” make it possible to
sneak these drugs into your shopping carts. That’s because each additive
can be cloaked as a natural product, since they’re technically derived
from them and used in small quantities!

Procter and Gamble became one of the first companies to put unapproved
drugs into our food for profit. They failed to obtain FDA approval for a
cholesterol-lowering drug called Olean because of its side effects of
leaching essential vitamins and minerals from the body.

As a back-up plan, they used the drug as a replacement to natural fats to
sell “fat-free” foods to millions of unsuspecting consumers…without the
satiating fats, junk food addicts crammed more down their throat, boosting
profits for the former drug. Today, millions are now eating it as a low-fat substitute
under the brand name Olestra, which is a key ingredient in snacks such as
Frito-Lay’s light potato chips and tons more.

The bait-and-switch is incredibly lucrative. Today, pharmafoods are worth
an estimated six billion dollars. When questioned about safety, the
industry boasts that “tiny quantities” are harmless. Yet, they lack the
studies to prove it.

Microwave popcorn is adulterated with pharmafood, too. In the 1980s,
the purportedly low-fat snack was made using the pharmafood known as “diacetyl”
(diacetyl-2,3-butanedione). The low-fat chemical smelled just like butter
and was designed not to “linger.” In other words, the fake buttery
sense disappeared from taste buds faster than real butter. Naturally, this
forced people to ravenously eat more.

As a result, even with ultra-low doses, diacetyl not only made people
fatter, but also gave rise to popcorn lung (bronchiolitis obliterans). This
is an irreversible, life-threatening lung obstruction that can lead to slow
suffocation. When diacetyl is inhaled (such as upon opening a freshly
popped bag of popcorn), diacetyl dismantles the lungs’ ability to carry
oxygen into the body.

Barbara Materna, the chief of the occupational health branch in the
California Department of Public Health told the New York Times that “the
airways to the lung [among factory workers] have been eaten up.”
Scientists studying the long-term effects of diacetyl also identified a
possible link between diacetyl and Alzheimer’s disease, as reported in
Chemical Research.

Despite this and numerous other instances, food mimics are still being
used, and more are on the horizon. In addition to sugar mimics like
high-fructose corn syrup, aspartame, and sucralose, newer types of
flavor-enhancing drugs known chemically as nucleotides, ribotides, and
alkamides strengthen addictive properties and increase the profits of the
pharmafood industry.

Thanks to the alchemists of flavor, tens of thousands of other chemical
flavors are cooked up and added to everything from Scotch to chicken,
peppermint, and kumquat in an attempt to get us hooked. Not a single one is
listed on food labels.

There are currently 80,000 chemical flavor mimics registered within the
United States! Yet under FDA regulation, none of the pharmafoods are
required to be listed on labels. Moreover, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency only requires testing for about two hundred of those
chemical flavors and has succeeded in banning only five of them.

Exposing the flavor industry and creating public awareness about how
we’re being chemically seduced are the only ways to curb the threat that
food mimics can pose to our health. Get my book, Over-The-Counter Natural
Cures Expanded (www.goo.gl/d8J8kW) to learn how to avoid pharmafoods and
reverse the indiscriminate damage caused by these flavor imposters.

Dare to Live Young,

The People’s Chemist
www.thepeopleschemist.com

P.S. High blood sugar, insulin resistance, Type II diabetes and obesity are
just a few of the side-effects that accompany the ingestion of pharmafoods.
One of the best ways to remedy this biological nightmare is with this milk
thistle and cinnamon combo: www.getcinnergy.com