Actually kevin is on to something. There are no strong studies linking this as a carcinogen. There is plenty of bad stuff out there and additives are silly. But this does have evidence that it can fight cancer and lots of viruses. HIV and Aids is a virus. Whether it cured it would depend on the severity and the persons immune system. Sounds crazy but Kevin is on track. This is the last food additive i would be concerned about… lets start with EDTA and Artificial food coloring…. Sugar in general.
In short BHT has too many benefits to be really worried about it. And im a health NUT! I eat mostly raw veggies, and do eat a little grassfed meat or fish at night. One more thing. People do buy this and take this as a supplement for a multitude of reasons.
Thanks for posting the above links, Dab!! Pretty much the same conclusion that I have found while researching BHT. But, it seems that no one else on this site has bothered to look it up for themselves. Very sad. Not surprised…. Bad mouthing BHT is not disinfo. I have avoided preservatives for years because my lips or eyes will swell up but today I inadvertently got some BHT ensure enough my lip swelled up.
That is why I am here researching, I was watching a video that claimed it is an antiviral. The only way to be sure you are not consuming chemicals and supplements is not to eat anything at all. Good luck! Just make your own food from whole foods raised properly: organic or homegrown produce, pasture-raised meats and poultry, wild seafood, pasture-raised dairy and eggs. Then learn how to cook it right — not difficult and delicious. Saying chemicals in our food is bad just makes educated people ignore you.
What you really mean is synthetic or extracted additives which may be harmful. Also probably not as simple or straightforward as you think. Nor do the manufacturers of such products for that matter. Google Dr. Sebi and learn the truth. This black man has cured cancers, aids, blindness, paralysis, high blood pressure,etc… With seeded fruits, vegetables and alkaline water! And this He did in ! There are many innocuous products used as ingredients in dangerous products.
Great post! I just decided to do a look up because I know BHT is in a lot of preserved meats and other products. Most natural sunscreens make your skin look white. Back to the drawing board…. No one said anything about your skin colour, relax. Zinc makes your skin white. So many are so quick to pull the race card! Nona, please display your intelligence, or lack there of, elsewhwere.
If you do not understand after reading this far, then any further attempt to enlighten is meaningless as it will surely be overly difficult for you to understand. Please put your card back in your pocket.
Amazon has it. Makes 8oz jar. Melt the coconut and beeswax over low heat. Remove from heat and cool just a bit, then add the D to the olive oil and pour in and stir.
Pour some into a mixing bowl and whip; add some ZnO and whip. Continue until all oil mixture and ZnO is in the bowl. Whip until it cools, add EOs, whip; scrape, rest, whip.
Continue until all is cooled, whipped, and incorporated. Scoop into an 8oz jar. Rub it in when you use it, it is very waterproof and the white totally disappears if you rub it in a bit. Check yourself of course for pinking, but this works better than expensive store bought.
I reccomend cereals from health stores like Whole Foods, or Sunset. You know, we should be glad that the companies are made to list these additives so we can avoid them. Like, between the time you buy the cereal, and later they might use it I dunno.
Also, if the company uses shortening, oil, or any other ingredient containing these preservatives these do not have to be listed separately since it part of that specific ingredient. Please keep in mind these preservatives can be used on the inside of the packaging and not be listed as an ingredient; however, every time you shake your cereal out of its box, take a cookie out of a package, etc… you could be exposed yourself to these ingredients as well.
I love frosted mini wheats with the fruit filling. I ate a bowl of it last night, then decided to check out the ingredients. Freaking BHT is in it. I mean, is BHT really that necessary? And contrary to popular belief, and the commercials, Kashi is all GMO. Take citric acid that is non fruit derived. Look up that…. Derived from mold and produced in enormous quantities by a drug company who sells it to food manufacturers. Be cautious fellow humans! Nothing to do with fooling anyone, just a different product.
I am now disposing of it! And this poison is in most chewing gum products in major stores here in the US. Even though that may be true it may not please remember Kashi is still a GMO food, they use genetically modified ingredients in every product, with the exception of there elusive organic products they say they sell, but I never see them in stores where I am.
A small example of this; my local health food store sells these gluten free muffins and rolls sold as healthful with corn syrup as the first ingredient, not to mention a bunch of other GMO laden products you can find in every aisle. If more people shopped like that then organic food and locally grown food would be more affordable. Start small if you have to, but at least start.
On another note, I think that people need to understand the reason foods like corn are GMO is so they will live through the round-up pesticide and weed control sprayed all over them… Normal corn cannot. Many of my medications have changed in appearence or size over the past ten years and never have I known it to be a dangerous thing!
I only found out because, I ran accross this article and remembered the pamphlet that comes with my prescriptions every month identifying the change in ingredients in my pills. The active ingredient the reason I take it. D Chewables has BHT in it and taking it forever and thinking it was good for me, great!! I have trouble taking big pills, so this is why I opted for chewables.
Anyone have any advice for healthy alternatives, I have osteoporosis. Mika taking ANY pills is not normal to begin with! Please take a moment to google Dr. Alkaline diet is the only way, peace and love. It is so aggravating trying to find a safe product for ourselves and our pets.
Got home and saw it has BHT in it also. Educate yourself. There goes my favorite snack. Whether in it or in the packaging material, it cant be good either way. I did not realize that corn is the main ingredient in our foods the meat we eat is now corn-fed, the majority of preservatives we ingest have a corn derivitive and our government is subsidizing these farmers to mass-produce corn.
AND conveniently enough, the key figures at the FDA also happen to be have been key figures in the few major food companies that dominate the marketplace.. I nearly lost my son at 18 mos to E-Coli and subsequent H. AND, to combat this problem..
Wish I had known all this when my son just turned 20 was born… I feel like I have been unknowingly poisoning him all this time…. All the negative side effects listed in this post are just as true for an alcoholic beverage. Also, just because a chemical has versatile used, does not make it dangerous or unhealthy.
Every application listed to make BHT seem harmful also uses water in the same processes. LA and Jackie. Toluene is a much different compound than butylated hydroxytoluene. Think of chlorine and sodium chloride. One is incredibly toxic and dangerous, while the other is table salt.
Scientific names are means of identifying the structure of a compound, not its uses, benefits or harms. I agree we should eat healthier and less processed foods.
I just thinks its ridiculous to think that everything out there is going to kill us. BHT is present in these mixtures of chemicals for the same reasons it is in foods- as an antioxidant. Additionally, it should be kept in mind that data from the MSDS is mostly relevant to workers handling large quantities of product.
For example, a worker who must measure amounts of this from a barrel cold accidentally inhale a large amount of dust. I stopped drinking water because I found out the Nazis also drank it… does this mean I can drink water again? Apparently, most chemical food additives are bad for migrainers but BHT is by far the worst. My neurologist has me on a migraine diet [which is actually mostly healthy foods!
OrganicPusher: For those who happen to be on a migraine diet, vegan or vegetarian diets are pretty much impossible. That can lessen effectiveness of argunents, if not backfire. Consider water — also used in weed killers, paint, radiator fluids, toilet cleaner, artificial maple syrup, window cleaner…. Awful stuff! Another great source for a sunscreen is Cocanut Oil, that you cook with.
It takes a little bit, but it is a natural barier and will allow vitamin D to be created on your skin naturally. U can find it in any health food store. Completely natural And it allows you to brown, without burning. BHT is proving to be very helpful in curing hepatitis-C. Google it. I agree, all chemicals [and many plants] have the ability to sicken or kill depending on dosage.
However, there are certain things than are almost universal in the American diet which are almost impossible to avoid. Have you ever noticed how many items have soy in them, for instance? Soy protein, soy lecithin, soybean flour, vegetable [ie, soybean] oil? This is also true [to a lesser extent] for BHT. For those of us who are barred from ingesting those items due to allergies or illness, it makes a diet miserable.
I could give you an example of my daily menu [only dinner varies… ever], but it would depress me. Life is sweet as it is. I dont need to have all this crap added to make it taste good. God has given us so much and we have ruined it.
Great Post!! I just started eating some snack, and was looking up the ingriedients at the side of the box, and read that BHT is added last to the snacks packaging. I was curious what it was, and.. Well… here I am!! I have one more in the list of hundreds of chemicals and materials to avoid. Thanks to your website! Great stuff!! Thank you!!! A chemical is a chemical. No way around it folks. Critically think about it. I have been using BHT for 31 years and have had nothing but excellent results.
I will continue to use it until I die. I use it as a life extention material and to control herpes. I have not had a outbreak of herpes for more than 30 years and only then because I let my supply run out. It is effective against all lip coded viruses and is use as a super antioxidant.
I am glad I saw your comment in all these posts. But then I found this article and was reconsidering. Now I am not sure if to go for it or not. For cold sores I have used Campho Phenique for 64 years. As soon as I notice the tingling, or have have a sore or blister develope I apply it several times a day. It takes away any pain, too. The virus that causes cold sores lives dormant in your body.
Every time you have an outbreak, IF you have a healthy immune system, the virus gets weaker. I know from experience that this is true. I too was trying to buy products that listed only one or two simple ingredients. It looks so innocent. Interesting comments from those who use it to control hepati. BHT has been shown to kill lipid enclosed viruses eg warts,hepatitis c and herpes. I copied and pasted the following from the naturalnews. In studies BHT has caused various disorders in animals, such as reduced body weight, increased blood cholesterol levels, and birth defects.
America is consuming mass amounts of chemicals put in foods and drinks. Both BHA and BHT are carcinogens that are prominent in potato-chips, cookies, cakes, carbonated drinks, chewing gum, shortening, lard, vegetable oils, margarine, cheese spreads, ice cream, dry cereals, cosmetics, and medical drugs. I no longer purchase products from giant companies like Kelloggs, Nabisco, ConAgra, etc.
In order for them to mass produce their crap and protect their profits they use mass produced ingredients like GMO corn, wheat, and soy and additives BHT! I would advise everyone to start shopping elsewhere to find better food choices. These products are not on the shelf at your local chain grocery store and certainly are not carried at Walmart.
Eating safer, healthier food involves more time, money and effort not only cooking but shopping too. Protecting the agricultural and pharmaceutical giants that own them by the suppression of the truth. That is their one and only purpose. To those that it helps then more power to ya — but for those of us that have been having issues with one thing or another, glad it has been an eye opener for what is most likely causing that issue to start with — I am so sick of our corrupt government and what it is doing to our health as well as our country — MAY GOD HELP US ALL!
I agree we should all do our research! We presently so not have GMO wheat. There has been some Research but nothing commercially available. If someone has a disease and studies show a certain chemical helps, and you trust the studies, go for it. That does not mean I want it in my food. Studies show that chemotherapy helps kill cancer, so we should put those chemicals in our food and water and maybe we can eradicate cancer!
Its also in Chewing Gum. I just googled this because I saw it on the ingredient list on Trident White gum. Guess where I just found it? Like our infants need this garbage? Add in the artificial flavor and color and we have wonderful chemical cocktail to feed our babies! Crap…gonna have to check my advil. Gonna have to make some serious changes…consider everything I touch or put on my body.
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Investigating Healthy Snacks Lesson Plan. When fats and oils in food, fats that are liquid are room temperature are called oils are exposed to the air, oxidation occurs — the same process that causes old cars to rust. As previous Food Facts articles have mentioned, fats and oils have three long carbon chains.
The more kinks in the chain, very generally speaking, the healthier and more fluid the fat is. Unfortunately, when it comes to what makes a fat or oil rancid, the chemical bonds responsible for the kinks equate to a weakness in the fat's armor. Over time, oxygen in the air attacks the bond, which can transform the fat into a variety of chemicals, many of which smell foul and can be toxic. Enter the antioxidants. Though the U. BHA is a chemical food additive that helps prevent foods that contain oils from going rancid.
The U. Department of Agriculture allows food manufacturers to add BHA to foods as long as they adhere to guidelines that dictate how much is used. The Department of Health and Human Services, however, cautions humans to avoid BHA because certain studies show that it's potentially dangerous.
Many brands of breakfast cereal contain BHA to help preserve the grains and help them last longer before going rancid or stale.
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