8 Biggest Red Flag Words on Packaged Foods

Sadly, at this juncture, the FDA is hardly a credible or reliable source of trustworthy info on the matter, as they are funded in large part, by pharmaceutical companies. "Let thy food be thy medicine" (Hippocrates, "the father of medicine") is a wise way to walk from the get go. As far as the body goes, if it's not perishable, it's not food, so mostly this list is a sensible one.

"Unfortunately, the FDA thinks that ONLY drugs can "prevent, diagnose, or treat" a "disease". So, no matter how many natural or homeopathic remedies there are that may work just as well if not better than the "drug" for it, it will never be "FDA approved"."
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Dear god... Are you people fúcking retarded or are comments like that being posted for Irony or Sarcasm?

1. "homeopathic" means "Nothing but water". The idea behind homeopathy is the concept of "Water Memory" so fúcktards like you should believe that the water you get out of the tap can cure, literally, everything since the earth is a Closed System in terms of water so the same water that you are drinking today was pissedoút of a dinosaur millions of years ago and has come in contact with every single chemical, plant, and animal to have ever existed.

2. Vitamins and Supplements are not not regulated by the FDA because of a little law pushed through by the Leftist, Hippy, Homeopathic fúcktards passed by using scare tactics called "The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994".

"The DSHEA, passed in 1994, was the subject of lobbying efforts by the manufacturers of dietary supplements and restricted the ability of the FDA to exert authority over supplements so long as manufacturers made no claims about their products treating, preventing or curing diseases. According to Consumer Reports, "The law has left consumers without the protections surrounding the manufacture and marketing of over-the-counter or prescription medications" and it became the FDA's responsibility to prove that a supplement wasn't safe. While pharmaceutical manufacturers must demonstrate their products are effective as well as being safe, supplement manufacturers are not required to demonstrate efficacy."

It was pushed through by the multinational corporations that manufacturer and advertise "dietary supplements" making Scar-Adds showing a guy going downstairs to his kitchen one night and having the DEA bust into his home with automatic weapons drawn as they slam him to the ground and she shouts out "But it's ONLY VITAMIN C!" then the voice over said something like "You don't want the GOVERNMENT telling you what you can and can't put in your own body, do you?" and it faded to black. I was 12 years old at the time and remember thinking "This is the biggest load of búlls--- I've ever seen... This CAN'T pass! And yet their scare tactics worked and now we have fúcktards like "Robin J. Sky" spouting nonsense about how the Feds are keeping the cure for everything hidden FOR PROFITS *GASP* when it was the Supplement Companies that wanted to keep their SNAKE OIL on the shelves and scam consumers out of BILLIONS of dollars each and every year.

You people understand that there is NO OVERSIGHT if you call it a "Supplement", right? That if a pill says it contains "10% Essential Oils of my åss" they can sell it as something that may help you be happier, right? Since "Happier" isn't something that can be quantified and, therefore, called into question the efficacy of their product...

Or how about their claims of "10% Essential Oils of my åss" don't need to be verified by the manufacturer? That each pill may have 90% or may have absolutely nothing... Not a single trace of the product claimed... and there is NOTHING anyone can do about it because it is not regulated by the FDA...

I find it sickening yet hilarious that you morons will laugh your åss off when you hear about how the Chinese are drinking horse snot because they think it will give them an erection then go shell out $50.00 on a bottle of Shark Cartilage that claims it might, possibly, in some alternate dimension, be helpful in preventing the possible development of cells that may, possibly, in an alternate universe, turn into something that might seem like cancer...

Even after it became debunked... Both the idea that Shark Cartilage cures cancer OR that taking pills orally will allow ANY of the chemicals said to be in the pills to actually reach the bloodstream and make it to any potential cancer cells.

Your ignorance is so frustrating because you get your lies from people that are out to con you out of your money by telling you that they are right because "The Bad Guys" are trying to steal your money!

Has no one ever looked around a Whole Food's supplement department and seen Magic Crystals on sale for $50.00? A $0.50 hunk of quartz hanging from $0.05 worth of string with a $0.15 base-metal clasp?

$0.70 worth of quartz sold for $50.00 because it claims to "Open your mind to the universe" and it's THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES that are trying to steal from you?

How much weed do you have to smoke to be THIS STUPID?

Seriously... I'd like to quantify EXACTLY how much damage ones brain must suffer before this all makes sense.

The general public will fall for anything. Americans would be much better off if they understood labels and stopped eating processed food. It is the reason we are a fat and sick nation!

This is how government works. If you liberals don't get that through your skulls, there will be more of the same in more aspects of your life.

I was told that if you could not say what you read on the label that you should not buy it and if you did notunderstand what the ingredient was you should not buy it. Well there are a lot of things out there on the market that you cant say or are not good for you and yet people still buy them. It use to be never like this everything was done at home and people had more trust in every thing. Things have gotten to easy for us in this world. It depends on what I am making to what sugar I need to use.

I am glad I study about Natural Doctor and Herbal... And because of that, then I never want to drink or eat package food. I always make a fresh juice or food. So make your food as your medicine and make medicine as your food. Fresh Juice and fresh Juice is the best!
And use an organic fruit and organic vegetable.

Our so called food, is not food in the real sence. It is a mix of mostly chemicals for which the corporations are making big bucks, which in turn pay off or for polititions, to get relected so they can get more money and the wheel just keeps turning. Even if we eat from the produce isle, most
of what you get is genetically enegineered food, grown by ConAgra. These so called fresh foods
do not contain the nutrition that they once did, so now we need to supplement. It is so complicated
to try and eat healthy even if you are not a junk food freak. Organic food is the way to go and it is hard to find all that you need. It is also very expensive to buy. So if you are feeding a family, you have to have deep pockets. I was diagnosed last year with stage 3 ovarian cancer and let me tell you, I have looked hard and long into my diet. Cancer, diabeties, high blood pressure etc. is in
epidemic porportions in this country. The "Big Pharm" companies have turned our doctors into legal
pill dispensers. They know little to nothing about nutrition. It is up to the individuals to seek out information and eat a healthy diet. If we stop buying the junk in the supermarkets, maybe we all will stay healthy and be disease free. Eat with your brain and not with your emotions, be in good health!

A whole food plant based diet wins every time. I suggest watching the movie "Forks Over Knives"

Oh yes, to Beep, who left the long comment above, HDL is actually good for you. But the small compact LDL is bad, while the big fluffy LDL is good. You want high HDL, because it is often a marker of physical fitness. You can raise it by exercising regularly. You're right about the carbs, though.

They forgot the label "zero grams trans fat" (per serving). Whenever you see this, it means there are trans fats present, only below the 0.5 gram per serving threshold designated as the limit for claiming the "zero grams" property. When a product says "no trans fat," that is more likely to mean there is actually no trans fat. I cringe when I see the ZGTF label and then note the partially hydrogenated oils on the ingredients list. Makes me want to call "liar" on the food companies, but we all know that anyway.

You are lame Yahoo for not posting the last submission...and you allow crappy articles like this to be published on your site full of lies and misinformation from the FDA...YOU SUCK!

To all that are dissing the sugar-free products due to them containing aspertame: look up aspertame on wikipedia and you will see that aspertame got a bad rep due to an internet hoax in 1995 and NO studies have shown it to be harmful AND it's approved for use in 100 countries. Sugar consumption will make you pack on pounds and can lead to a myriad of health problems including diabetes & hypertension.
What you really should be avoiding is fat-free products, those are horrible for you.

Of course the FDA is gonna say that food should not be used to treat disease. If people turned to actual healthy food that isn't contaminated by all the chemicals and crap that are added in today, we wouldn't have to resort to the drugs that are pushed on us everywhere. Never mind that the majority of drugs have side effects that can be worse than the actual symptom that they are supposed to be treating. Oh, and lets not forget the massive amount of money that is made by the pharmecutical companies day after day. As long as there are companies making money, who really cares right? f--- the FDA.

Hahahahaha! Cherrios as a replacement for cholesterol lowering drugs? Statins are completely useless in the first place. High cholesterol does not cause heart disease (lack of exercise, smoking, and bad genes do), however those with heart disease, or risk factors for it do tend to have higher cholesterol. Lowering cholesterol does absolutely nothing beneficial for your heart; those Statins even come with a disclaimer that they do not reduce the risk of heart disease! Apparently scientists missed the memo: correlation does not equal causation, and treating the (completely benign) symptoms does not fix the problem.

Which ties into the scam of low fat diets. Sure some fats are bad for us. Trans fats (which I won't get into in high detail because we all know by now that the are unhealthy, and absolute disaster to the body). There is absolutely nothing wrong with saturated fats, sure some are healthier than others, but none of them in moderation will hurt you. In fact, these fats are absolutely essential to a healthy and happy body. Want to find a cause of the epidemic of Clinical Depression? Take a look at the low fat diet craze; fats are essential for our brains to produce the chemicals we need to be happy. No/low fat = and inability for the body to create the correct levels of Seratonin and Norepinephrin (and yes I'm sure I misspelled those).

But I digress, high fat diets do not cause heart disease. As for the issue of plaques, actually, they aren't caused by cholesterol either. They are caused by the proteins that carry cholesterol where it needs to go. There are two types of these proteins, HDL and LDL. The low density type, LDL won't hurt you, it's big and fluffy. HDL, the high density type, which is small and compact, is the type that can push past the blood vessel walls and build up into plaques. It's also important to understand that these proteins can only push past the cell walls when heart disease is already happening, or well on it's way. Guess which type of foods cause high levels of HDL? It isn't meat, fats, or any food containing a lot of cholesterol, get this, it's actually carbohydrates. So those Cherrios that you think is great for your heart, might be doing more harm that good. While they might lower cholesterol, they're also chalk full of the same building blocks that can cause plaques. So if you have high cholesterol, as that can be a warning sign of heart disease (but NOT a cause), you're only pumping your body full of the substance that can create plaques. Good job health care industry, good job.

Truth and mis-truth in the same article. The author says, "Be suspicious of any food label that claims to be the next wonder drug." If you can read the local and national press news, you would realize you should be VERY suspicious of any prescription or non-prescription drug that claims with the FDA's blessing that it is the next wonder drug. Read how many people die from these wonder drugs, many times having complicatoins for the same problem the drug claims to fix. Believe it or not, or die believing the lie. Food can heal regardless of what the FDA beauracrats might say. Do you really believe that prior to prescription drugs people in the past have been falling over dead waiting for the modern doctor to come riding in on a white horse with a bagful of prescription drugs?!

Pfft...biggest red flag...product contains soylent green....

china everything on this side of the planet comes from china

the FDA is a bought and paid for, corrupt organization that should be dragged out and chased out of the country. they are much worse than useless, and are responsible for thousands of deaths.

Wow, who is protecting the rights of us, consumers? I don't think anyone who has been elected democratically.. our politians represent themselves to the higher bidder (read lobbist).
This is a great article. At least it points out what to look for... when avoiding the evil in foods!

why cant we just require the honest to goodness truth, not lies and tricks