PROTECTING OUR FOOD

Yesterday, the Daily Camera Newspaper featured some articles on GMO’s (Genetically Modified foods), which I was very happy to see. I wanted to talk about this problems, and how it is impacting our health and especially our children.

Gentically modified foods are playing havoc with our immune systems, AND are routinely fed to animals that we eat. These food products have neurotoxins that have been genetically put into the DNA. They show up in most of the foods that are purchased across our country, since our government has been bought by Monsanto, DuPont, and Bayer. (Previously employed by Monsanto, some of these folks now work for the FDA, not to mention the billions paid by lobbiests to politicians.) By law, food companies in the United States do not have to label food products that contain GMO’s, (in contrast with Europe where they are strictly banned or have to (by law) label foods that contain GMO’s.) Nowadays, 80% of corn, soybeans, cotton, conola oil and sugar beets are now genetically modified, which is really shocking. (This included all those foods sweetened with high fructose corn syrup.) I recommend my patients only purchase products that say “certified organic” or “no GMOs”.

Steps You Can Take to Protect Your Family:

Thank you to allergykids.com website

Reduce your family’s exposure to processed foods. Eat food with ingredients that your grandmother wold have used.
Purchase organic eggs, as they are not from chickens fed corn engineered to produce its own insectisides.
Cook with olive oil instead of butter, margarine or vegetable oil.
Avoid conventional soy and corn products (vegetable oil, high fructose corn syrup) since most are genetically engineered.
Look for meat and poultry that not injected with antibiotics and additional hormones.
As recommended by the British Dietetic Association, avoid exposing infants under the age of 12 months to conventional soy.
Consumer organic foods during pregnancy in order to reduce your exposure to pesticides (recently linked to autism and gestational diabetes.
Look for rBGH free milk. RBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone) is a genetically engineered, synthetic chemical hormone that is not allowed in milk in most developed countries given its link to breast and prostate cancers.
When discussing vaccines with your child’s pediatrician, especially vaccines grown in eggs, request the informational leaflets that accompany the vaccines as they discuss autoimmune conditions like food allergies in detail