Cancer for Many, Profits for a few

Cancer for Many and Profits for a few



Sodium nitrite and sodium nitrate added to cured meats and smoked fish as a color fixative combine in meat and in the stomach to form a powerful carcinogen (cancer-producing substance). This fact puts the profit motive of the food industry and the health of the American public squarely into opposition and thus far the government regulatory agencies are supporting the food industry.

Sodium nitrite and nitrate can be poison. Nitrites combine with blood to form a pink pigment which does not carry oxygen. They have a number of other ominous side-effects. Nitrites combine with amines to form nitrosamines, among the most potent carcinogens known.

Nitrites are likely to combine with amines in the stomach to form nitrosamines. Animals of all kinds, fed nitrites and amines, develop cancer in various parts of their bodies. These nitrosamines are sometimes present in nitrated food even before we ingest it.

Why are nitrites used in our food? Nitrites are traditionally used as color fixers. Meat producers argue that they are needed as preservatives.

The government seems too weak and divided to curtail the usage of Nitrites. What is the public to do for its protection?

Alphonso Smith, writer for HEALTH MATTERS and internet marketer Go to:
http://www.myvemma.com/alphonso and www.ourtopchoices.com