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Drifting away from Nature

January 11, 2010 Manish Chandra Pathak

It appears that we are drifting significantly away from the nature in our day to day life. It could be matter of discussion
whether really we are? There have been incidents, research reports, and findings which clearly indicates the side effects
of food habits, preservatives and additives - which are constituent of our daily life now.

There is a fallacy behind Antibiotics. When Penicillin was discovered in 1940s it was welcomed as wonder drug but it
didn´t work for ever. Only within 2-3 years penicillin resistance were reported. And then started a never ending race
between human and bacteria, we tried to develop better and better synthetic and semi synthetic antibiotics. And
Bacteria kept on developing multi-directional resistance.

In last 10 years the number of vultures, the natural scavengers, has decreased significantly in south Asia. The reason
found is a medicine Diclofenac, a medicine used for livestock treatment, is toxic to vultures when they feed on
contaminated carcasses, causing kidney failure and death.

The vast majority of additives and preservatives appear to be safe. They have been tested by many laboratories
throughout the world before being used in foods. However, individuals may be "sensitive" to various additives and
preservatives. The adverse reaction may appear in the form of asthma, hayfever, urticaria, etc. Currently, there are
estimated three thousand chemical additives which we consume. Many of them are mutagens, which causes disruptions
of the genetic code which are responsible for over 15,000 inheritable, genetic disorders. Sadly, they may have a drastic
consequence to our grandchildren. What toxicology testing cannot accurately predict is the long-term combined effect of
3,000 additives and environmental toxins on children, the elderly, newborn, the fetus, and people with cancer. The
combined effect of these toxins on humans is unknown.

A carefully designed study released in The Lancet, a leading British medical journal, showed that a variety of common
food dyes and the preservative sodium benzoate — an ingredient in many soft drinks, fruit juices, salad dressings and
other foods — causes some children to become more hyperactive and distractible than usual.

There are evidence that a popular skin cream 'triggers allergies. Study of more than 5,000 people presenting to
dermatology clinics with skin problems found that two per cent were allergic to the preservative chloroacetamide, found
in Redwin Sorbolene Lotion, a top-selling moisturiser.

None of us will consume water containing Arsenic. But we eat Chicken which has Arsenic. Chickens are fed with Arsenic
to stimulate growth, increased egg production and give the chicken attractive skin.

Potatoes may seem untouched by chemicals but because of their bad habit of sprouting, they are coated with the
chemical inhibitor, maleic hydrazide, which has caused cancer in laboratory animals.

Mono Sodium Glutamate (MSG) is known to cause death of neurons. At present, the average consumer eats over one
gram of MSG per day. When pregnant women eat MSG, it crosses the placenta too. When MSG was fed to growing rats,
it reduced their growth rate by 16%. The effect on the human fetus is still unknown! When MSG report was published,
Gerber, Beech-Nut, and Heinz took monosodium glutamate out of their baby foods.

Former UK MP Oona King suspected diethylstilbestrol (DES) for her infertility. She said "my mother was given a
synthetic oestrogen called diethylstilbestrol (DES) when she was pregnant with me. It´s associated with a high risk of
cervical cancer and reproductive abnormalities in the children of the women who received it. It´s possible it had
something to do with it". DES is a female sex hormone still used to fatten the cows weeks before the slaughter.

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