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silvermason16 said:Edward Price73, don't come around here acting like a jerk... 🙂

Is it even legal to be wrong... 🙄 Based on what we've got...
Wrong info? ...maybe...

so, what's actually the deal with the difference between E300 and E330...

In the US, they allow like 48 different emulsifiers on the approved list, but over in...
Europe has like 75 of those emulsifiers on their approved list...

Looks like more testing is on the way... just another list to deal with...
keep it short...

I ain't twitching, number one...
Number two... don't believe everything you read in the papers. Journalists are just vultures looking for someone to crucify... they just want a headline, and the truth? Usually nowhere near it...
So you say you read about it online, mentioned some clinic in Düsseldorf... Honestly, people, someone already said this before me: anything actually researched and proven has to be published in scientific journals. And getting that paper out? It’s a total nightmare... It has to be damn good if you want a shot at somewhere like Nature or Science... Anyway, totally lost my train of thought...
Look, if E330 was actually cancer-causing, you wouldn't be out there eating margarine or sipping on a Coca-Cola and all that other junk... That "E" number thing is just an EU regulation to make everything easier to track, it doesn't mean anything bad...
Take citric acid, or whatever that "acidity regulator" E330 nonsense is... if you see E330 on the label, a Chinese person, an American, or even a Frenchman knows exactly what they're getting. But call it an acidity regulator? Nobody’s gonna know what that means... since there's more than just one...
If I remember right, E100-200 are dyes, E200-300 are emulsifiers, and E300-400 is acidity regulators, antioxidants, blah blah blah... Don't call me out if I'm wrong, my memory's shot...
Just take everything with a grain of salt... double check before you spit... 👋

Take everything with a grain of salt; everyone is just sharing their own perspective,
as far as (so far 😉 ) goes, though—no hard feelings intended,
☕

silvermason16, you have a killer avatar 👏

Authentic seasonal 😉

A few years back, I had this colleague who was basically living on Coca-Cola every single day, just drinking massive amounts of it. She eventually went in for a routine checkup, and her doctor straight up told her she had to cut back immediately because consuming that much is actually terrible for your bone density...
Has anyone else heard a version of this story before?

shadowgardener12 said:I mean, if we’re talking about actual progress, I feel like food should be part of that conversation too... but honestly, people are eating way worse garbage now than they were even 400 years ago... so where’s the progress in that? We've just got this massive wave of low-nutrient, mass-produced junk... and then everyone tries to fix the damage caused by that food by popping pills... it's all just big 😉

You're totally right, it’s all just one giant business model designed to squeeze every cent out of us...

The way food is chemically engineered nowadays basically forces you to overeat way past the point of being full.
Like, if you eat a bunch of bananas or apples or anything else fresh and unprocessed, your body—through your taste buds, I guess—eventually signals that you need to switch things up.
But why doesn't that happen when you're slamming chocolate bars, potato chips, or that fast food stuff they churn out at McDonald's...? Why is it that the more you eat that kind of crap, the more you crave it?

All that chemical processing is rigged to make you eat more, which leads to overconsumption, and at the end of the day, it’s just a way to pump up profits at the expense of the consumer.

This whole industry just keeps churning out basically the same stuff in different packaging; that lack of variety leads to terrible nutrition, and bad nutrition is what drives obesity and all these diseases.

Even cigarette manufacturers have messed with the chemical makeup of tobacco just to make it more addictive.
Back in 2001, Philip Morris bought up some of the biggest names in kids' snacks (including brands like Ritz and Philadelphia). That move turned Philip Morris into the second largest food company on the planet, right after Nestlé.

The food industry pulls in about a trillion dollars a year these days; meanwhile, the "disease industry" is looking at the next trillion (actually closer to 1.4 trillion). These two sectors are pretty much feeding off each other in a really sneaky way, because a huge chunk of modern illness is directly caused by the crappy nutrition provided by the food industry.

Right now, I guess you could say humans are caught in a trap, squeezed between two massive giants: the mass-market food industry and Big Pharma, which together create this incredibly powerful "disease industry."

James Newman4 said:Right now, people are caught in a massive trap set by two giant sectors: mass-market food companies and Big Pharma. Together, they’ve built a powerhouse industry centered entirely around "sickness."

That's terrifying! 😕

look... McDonald's isn't food...😉

Grace Flores85 said:Exactly.👍 I mean, what really trips me out is how people who chug multivitamin supplements actually believe they’re doing something. It's just a plain old placebo effect, honestly. It’s kind of sad. Every single doctor and scientist I ever sat through a lecture with at my university told us the same thing. Big Pharma is basically just a massive money-making machine, nothing more, and people are just being naive about it.🙂

That’s why you have to learn how to tell the difference between actual natural remedies and the stuff manufactured by the pharmaceutical industry just because they're racing to see who can grab the most cash.

First off, you gotta realize that what we call "healthcare" is actually just a business model built entirely around sickness. Our medical industry today has almost nothing, if anything, to do with actual health. All this massive amount of money we pour into medical care goes toward managing disease and treating symptoms. There is so little focus on prevention—on actually becoming stronger or healthier. When you go to medical professionals today and say, "Hey, my arthritis is acting up, my vision is blurry, and I can't hear well," they just shrug and say, "Oh, you're just getting older—age, age, age, age." But really, those are usually just symptoms of a terrible diet.

The actual facts regarding nutrition, vitamins, minerals, and dietary supplements are pretty much the polar opposite of everything you've heard from the medical establishment; for a lot of people, it flies right in the face of how they were raised. There is just so much misinformation floating around that it’s totally natural to be skeptical. Those multivitamin supplements sold by big pharma companies don't have any real connection to nature or natural vitamins, because even if they claim to have the "same" molecular makeup as what you find in nature, these synthetic versions don't even come close to having an actual effect on the body.

The whole pharmaceutical thing is just one giant business, and for them, the sick person is the client—the person they live off of and make their profit from. A patient who actually gets healthy is, unfortunately for them, a lost customer!

Most of the drugs on the market are designed to deal with the symptoms of a condition rather than curing the illness itself, let alone addressing the root cause that triggered the problem in the first place.

And that guarantees those pharmaceutical houses a steady stream of clients (and obviously, patients) for life!

From what I know, you can't really hurt yourself with a massive dose of Vitamin C like what's in Coca-Cola; your body just won't absorb all of it and ends up flushing the excess out through your urine.

A huge amount of Vitamin C shouldn't be enough to mess up a urine test either.

The only link I see between the two is that high doses of Vitamin C (kind of like Vitamin D, actually) are proven to cause kidney stones—specifically calcium oxalate stones—which then lead to more frequent infections.

But... on the other hand... I don't get how that doctor thinks Coca-Cola is causing an infection when doctors literally prescribe specific amounts of Vitamin C to treat urinary tract infections because it stops bacteria from growing.

shadowgardener12 said:unfortunately, that's just how it goes. i guess it's because Science has this role that everyone just blindly accepts—mostly because people don't actually get how any of it works. it’s kind of become this way for the government to manage all the gullible folks, sort of like how religion used to function. since everything is just too complex for people who only learn about products from the news... it's way too complicated to understand how studies are actually conducted, or why they don't present the facts they don't want you to see..

It's pretty trivial if you look at things like vitamin absorption or other supplements; what you take them with really matters. like, you have to take magnesium or calcium separately. same goes for iron, otherwise they just bond together and get flushed out. and vitamin C and magnesium are the same way, they shouldn't be taken together for the body to use them right.

We should probably start with a super simple formula, just a really basic nutrition philosophy. We need to start with food science. You have to actually start with real food. All these ideas about artificial stuff, chemical ingredients, supplements, or replacements... I mean, they're just wrong. The body needs actual food.

Your body needs a ton of food every single day. Proteins, carbs, fats—those are measured in decagrams or grams. But, the body VITALY AND NECESSARILY needs nutrients that are measured in thousands or even millionths of a gram—every single day. Vitamins (even the name "vita" tells you they're essential for life), and trace minerals like iron, zinc, chromium, and selenium. We have to KEEP UP the nutrition process, the body's healing process, the whole complete and total nutrition thing by making sure our bodies get micro-nutrients—every single day!

It isn't just about tossing in a few vitamins or minerals here and there whenever we feel like it (like, oh, a little vitamin C here, maybe some calcium, iron, or beta-carotene there). That's basically just throwing money away without getting any real results. This is precise science. Because, vitamins and minerals have to be in a form that actually exists in nature; they have to be natural equivalents, they have to be balanced, bioavailable, and assimilable at the cellular level!

Modern nutritional science is moving toward plant science—PLANTS IN NUTRITION!

The healing power of plants has been known for thousands of years. From ancient times to now, healers have used plants as medicine. But it's only really in the last 15 years or so that we've become aware of the ADVANTAGES AND BENEFITS OF PLANTS IN DAILY DIETS. Why? Plants are the only source of fiber, they're natural sources of vitamins and minerals, and they're loaded with botanical factors called "antioxidants" that protect the body from radiation, polluted water and air, and disease. Antioxidants are what stop the body from aging prematurely. And they help the body feel strong and vital.

And most importantly, using plants in your diet and the healing process triggers the natural DETOXIFICATION process. You have to clean the toxins and impurities out of your body from the inside so you can actually let it heal!

All of this is basically rebuilding the global healthcare system. And doing it in the opposite direction. From the bottom up. Starting with the people who want to get healthy, stay healthy, and use natural food, natural minerals, natural vitamins, and plants to make it happen.

James Newman4, you starting a nursery or something?😛

Brenda Lee50 said:James Newman4, are you selling plants?😛

Probably just the kind that are legal in Amsterdam.😁

Brenda Lee50 said:James Newman4, you selling plants now?😛

Nah, I'm mostly just moving Coca-Cola around... 😉
I've got some cheap shipments of Coca-Cola on semi-trucks, but I guess I figured out that I probably need to talk trash about something first if I actually want to move any product (instead of just being all positive about it), so hopefully I'm heading in the right direction here.. 😁

ps: Coca-Cola is the best .. 👍 😁

Kimberly Davis52 said:Rachel Brooks63, check your DMs.

I mean, yeah...

James Newman4, my man!

Do you honestly—like, seriously—think we're such total idiots that we wouldn't realize you're just a clone of MacGregor?

Rachel Brooks63 said:Yeah, I am.

Hey, James Newman4, my man!

Do you seriously, seriously, seriously think we’re such massive idiots that we wouldn't notice you're just a total clone of MacGregor?

Look, man, I don't really know you or anything, but that’s exactly what Mac was just warning me about... honestly, think whatever you want, I guess. It's your constitutional right or whatever. 😉

ps: the three of us could totally go grab some Coca-Cola, just shoot me a DM if you're down... 🙂

Rachel Brooks63 said:I am.

James Newman4, my old friend!

Do you honestly, truly, actually think we're such idiots that we wouldn't realize you're just a clone of MacGregor?

😂 🤣 😂 Yeah, total clone! That's his new handle now.

Rachel Brooks63, 🙂

but man, their tactics are just impossible to read—I ran into MacGregor in town and he told me they actually kicked him off this forum... honestly, it’s enough to make you lose your mind 😂

Sarah Gomez52 🙂

Rachel Brooks63 said:but his strategy is impossible to read: I ran into MacGregor downtown and he told me they kicked him off this forum... honestly, it's enough to drive you crazy 😂

Sarah Gomez52 🙂

and yet he's still out there pushing it 🙂 maybe he moved to the suburbs 🤣