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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A
"Stealth Food" is even worse than it looks.</span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> A "Stealth Food" might even claim
to be good for you. A "Stealth Food" is a chemical wolf in
cheap clothing. Your supermarket shelves are full of Stealth
Foods. Want to add to the list? Email your favorites to me at <a
href="mailto:drsaul@doctoryourself.com">drsaul@doctoryourself.com</a></span> </p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>PAST WINNERS OF THE <b><i>DOCTOR YOURSELF “STEALTH
FOOD”</i> <i>AWARD</i></b> for SNEAKY JUNK FOOD:</span> </p>
<p><b><i><span style='font-family:Arial'>RICH CHOCOLATE OVALTINE</span></i></b>
<br>
<span style='font-family:Arial'>You’d expect Food, Drug and Cosmetic
Blue #1 to be an ingredient in marshmallows, right? Yeah, it’s
there to keep those sugar-laden pencil erasers from looking yellow after a
while on the shelf. And you do know that there is Red # 40 in
"Kraft Barbecue Sauce," don’t you? That way, they can use
fewer tomatoes and the stuff still looks good. And "Quaker’s
Life" cereal contains artificial yellow color. Do we dare ask what
real Quakers would think of putting yellow paint in little <span
class=SpellE>Mikey’s</span> breakfast bowl?</span> </p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>But the Doctor Yourself Tarnished Silver Award
for STEALTH FOOD goes to OVALTINE! Yes, "<span class=SpellE>Ovaltine</span>,"
the health food of my youth, can no longer be trusted: "Rich Chocolate <span
class=SpellE>Ovaltine</span>" in fact contains not one but all THREE
chemical colors: Yellow #6, Red #40, and Blue #1! </span> </p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>When I called them up (you can too:
1-800-442-0099) to say that it is just a tad inappropriate for a product with
a long reputation for quality to have THREE artificial colors on it, they
couldn’t have cared less. “Rich Chocolate <span class=SpellE>Ovaltine</span>,”
made by <span class=SpellE>Himmel</span> Nutrition, Inc., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Lake Worth</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">FL</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">33461</st1:PostalCode></st1:place>, is a good food turned bad by a
company that does not seem to care very much about what your child puts in
her stomach. The only part of "Rich Chocolate <span class=SpellE>Ovaltine</span>"
that is “rich” is the profit that <span class=SpellE>Himmel</span>
Nutrition is making at the expense of consumers that don’t read the
fine print on the label. Give ‘<span class=SpellE>em</span> a call and
tell them you will not buy it until they drop the food paint.</span> </p>
<p><b><i><span style='font-family:Arial'>HOT DOGS</span></i></b> <br>
<span style='font-family:Arial'>Children who eat hot dogs once a week double
their risk of a brain tumor. Youngsters eating other cured meats, such as
ham, sausage and bacon, had an 80 percent higher risk of brain cancer. This
study was done at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:PlaceName> at <st1:place w:st="on">Chapel Hill</st1:place>. Kids
eating more than twelve hot dogs a month (that's barely three hot dogs a
week) have nearly ten times the risk of leukemia as children who ate none.
This research was done at the University of Southern California School of
Medicine in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:City>. But
here is the very important good news: Children who ate hot dogs and other
cured meats, but who also took supplemental vitamins, had reduced cancer
risk. (Jean Carper’s syndicated column in Lancaster, PA<i>
Intelligencer-Journal</i>, Weds., June 22, 1994.) </span> </p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>Do you recall ever hearing anything in the
media about this?</span> </p>
<p><span class=GramE><b><i><span style='font-family:Arial'>YOUR</span></i></b></span><b><i><span
style='font-family:Arial'> KIDS' TOOTHPASTE</span></i></b> <br>
<span style='font-family:Arial'>AMERICAN SACCHARIN SCIENCE IS THE BEST MONEY
CAN BUY, and it has been bought off, all right. A substance that can
cause cancer has no business being allowed, ever, in the food supply. The
Delaney Amendment of the 1950's argued (based on the work of Harvey W. Wiley,
M.D., the first head of the FDA) that there is no such thing as a truly safe
dose of a harmful substance. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>If you question this, ask yourself: How
many drops of rat urine would you accept in your next glass of
lemonade? Twelve? Five? Two? Even half a drop of rat urine? Yet no
case whatsoever can be made that rat urine causes cancer. Sanitation an
issue, you say? OK, we'll boil the rat urine first. Now how many drops
would you accept in your next glass of lemonade?</span> </p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>Where am I going with this? We accept a
dose, albeit a small one, of a known carcinogen (saccharine) while we would
not accept a small dose of sterilized rat urine. Maybe you are thinking, “But
I don’t even use saccharin.” But maybe you do: read the
ingredients list on your toothpaste: saccharine is almost always in there. “But
I do not eat toothpaste!” you might say. Maybe you don’t .
. . <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>but your kids do. CHILRDEN <span
class=GramE>UNDER</span> SIX INVOLUNTARILY SWALLOW AS MUCH AS A THIRD OF
THEIR TOOTHPASTE. If they brush every day, that’s 365 small doses of a
carcinogen a year. Any dentist will tell you that saccharin chemically does
nothing to prevent tooth decay. So it should be taken out.</span> </p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>Wish to be heard? Call the toothpaste
manufacturers and tell them to take saccharin out of their products, or you
will not buy them. </span> </p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>Start with the two biggest sellers:
Colgate: 1-800-468-6502 and Crest: 1-800-492-7378<span class=GramE>
Additional</span> phone numbers for other brands are welcomed.</span> <br>
</p>
<p><b><i><span style='font-family:Arial'>DY <span class=GramE>SALUTE</span>
TO VALENTINE’S DAY</span></i></b> <br>
<span style='font-family:Arial'>Those little candy hearts with “I LUV U”
and “BE MINE” on them have a special, super secret: they make
great children’s paints! I like to try this with kids: Have them
collect their candy hearts, especially the purple ones. Grind them up,
combine equal parts water and powdered candy, and stir. Get out a
model-sized paintbrush and white paper and have the children write their
names in food paint. It works all too well. Then ask the kids what
it does to their stomachs. Listen carefully to their answers and
insights.</span> </p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>But there’s more! When I
taught junior high, I wondered where the girls’ rather weird colored
hairdos came from. The girls '<span class=SpellE>fessed</span> up: they dyed
their hair with <span class=SpellE>Kool</span> Aid.</span> </p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>Not a new idea, it turns out. In <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Wizard of Oz </i>movie, the animals
used to portray the “Horse of a Different Color” were colored,
from fetlock to mane, with a mixture of Jell-O powder.</span> </p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>In summation, I concede that artificial colors
are great for dying horses’ hair and painting pictures. But I am
not convinced that we should voluntarily EAT paint. So read every label
and vote with your dollars. Then send the only message that carries any
weight in the food industry: DO NOT PURCHASE ANY FOOD THAT CONTAINS AN
ARTIFICIAL FOOD COLOR.</span> <br>
</p>
<p><b><i><span style='font-family:Arial'>“CELESTE” PIZZA FOR ONE</span></i></b>
<br>
<span style='font-family:Arial'>Okay, nobody is likely to consider a frozen
pepperoni pizza to be a health food, but even junk food eaters deserve simple
honesty in packaging, just as cigarette smokers deserve an ingredients list
on a pack of smokes. That would make a pretty big pack, as there are hundreds
of chemical goodies in processed tobacco, but back to microwave pizza: Good <span
class=SpellE>ol</span>’ Madison Avenue portrays a nice, smiling
gray-haired “Mama Celeste” on the front of the box. I
rather doubt if that’s the CEO of the company. Maybe she is a model,
but it is just a corporate image and truth is not important. But this
is: Also “modeling” on the pizza box’s back cover is a
beautiful full-color shot of “Mama” Celeste’s “quality”
ingredients, “bursting with flavor” and “authentic Italian
taste and quality,” including “delicious cheese.” Only
problem is, the fine print on the side of the box very quietly tells us that
the number two ingredient in the pizza’s topping is “cheese
substitute.” You have to read very carefully to find this statement,
and even then, many folks do not realize that ingredients are listed by
weight, largest to smallest. So the second ingredient is a huge one.
Far, far down the ingredients list, there is an entry for mozzarella cheese,
which is a minor ingredient only. And in the photograph? Not a single
shot of the chemical formula for cheese substitute . . . <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>but a nice glossy color picture of a nice
big wedge of real cheese, tucked amongst peppers, mushrooms, onions and
tomatoes.</span> </p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>Mama won’t come to a toll-free
phone, evidently, but you can write “her” at Mama Celeste
Consumer Affairs, 1000 St. Louis Union Station, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><span class=GramE>St</span>. Louis</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">MO</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">63103</st1:PostalCode></st1:place>. </span>
</p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>And while you are at it, you might want to
read up on each of the no fewer than SEVEN artificial preservatives in this “Pizza
for One (TM).” </span> </p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>Pizza for One? How about “Chemistry
101”?</span> </p>
<p><b><i><span style='font-family:Arial'>CHICKEN SHADES<span class=GramE> <span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'> </span></span></span></i></b><br>
<span style='font-family:Arial'>Hens by the thousands raised in such
claustrophobic, crowded cages that the birds will literally peck each other
to death. To reduce prison-yard aggression in chickens, red tinted
contact lenses are now marketed for poultry workers to slip into the <span
class=SpellE>birdy’s</span> eyes. It takes a trained operator
just a few seconds per bird, the manufacturer claims. I do believe I
have my nomination for the World’s Worst Job. </span> </p>
<p><b><i><span style='font-family:Arial'>CHICKEN KEESTERS<span class=GramE> <span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'> </span></span></span></i></b><br>
<span style='font-family:Arial'>There is so much colon bacterial
contamination in chicken meat that there is now a product to close off the
bowels of dead chickens. It is called “<span class=SpellE>Rec-Tite</span>,”
and it is essentially super glue for chicken anuses. And I am NOT making this
up. </span> </p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>Bon appetite! </span> </p>
<p><b><i><span style='font-family:Arial'>FROOPS POPS</span></i></b> <br>
<span style='font-family:Arial'>You expect candy to be full of junk, and
colored candy especially so. And you are right. But I do believe we have the
all-time winner in FROOPS POPS for the “food” with the most
artificial colors ever: NINE. They are: Red 3, Red 40, Red 40 Lake, Blue 1,
Blue 1 Lake, Blue 2, Yellow 5, Yellow 5 Lake, and Yellow 6. What’s
really neat is that the candy so colored only has one actual color to look
at: red. For it is a peppermint lollypop! </span> </p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>Let’s all write to the American
Candy Company (makers of FROOPS POPS) and tell them how much we admire their
work: American Candy Company, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Selma</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">Alabama</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">36701</st1:PostalCode></st1:place> </span>
<br>
<span style='font-family:Arial'> </span> </p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>The Doctor Yourself Award for STEALTH FOOD
Manufacturer of the Decade goes to <b><i>GENERAL MILLS, INC.</i></b></span>
</p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>Good <span class=SpellE>ol</span>’ <b>CHEERIOS</b>.
I ate them when I was a kid, and you did too, I’ll bet. Today,
regular Cheerios are even better, as they are lower in sugar than in the old
days. Of course they contain a lot more salt, but <span class=SpellE>pobody’s</span>
<span class=SpellE>nerfect</span>. And the other flavors of
"Cheerios" (so-called “Honey” Nut, and “Apple”
Cinnamon) have lots of sugar. And precious little honey or apple.
But FLEA POWDER CHEERIOS are the flavor you probably have not heard about . .
. even though you may have already tasted them back in 1994.</span> </p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>Yes, FLEA POWDER. The chemical <span
class=SpellE>chloro-pyrifos-ethyl</span> (which also kills ticks and
termites) was sprayed on oats used to make no less than 16 different General
Mills, Inc. cereals. Not 16 boxes, but 16 varieties, amounting to 160
MILLION BOXES, including TRIX, BOOBERRY and LUCKY CHARMS (“Ooh, now
look at what they ‘<span class=SpellE>ave</span> in wit’ me Lucky
Charms: pink dead fleas, yellow dead ticks, and blue dead termites!”) </span>
</p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>Of course there are precious few insects in
General Mills’ cereals, because they check for them. But in 1994
General Mills (with annual sales of about 9 BILLION dollars) did NOT check
for pesticide residues. L. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Robert</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Lake</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, director of
policy and planning in the Food Safety division of the FDA) said, “One
of the things bothering us about the General Mills incident is it went on for
an extended period of time, and they didn’t know. It means they
didn’t have a good system for checking oats.” (<i>The Washington
Post</i>, August 21, 1994)</span> </p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>The <i>Post</i> continues, “By the
time the company found out about the illegal spraying, 110 million boxes were
on the shelves in grocery stores and consumers’ homes.” “People
had already fed it to their children,” said FDA’s Mr. Lake.</span>
</p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>So what happened next? A massive product
recall? A series of Saturday morning cartoon-time TV announcements to not
buy, and not eat "Cheerios" that you already bought? No such
luck. “We didn’t want to raise an alarm for no good reason
and scare people, but we didn’t want to fail to warn them either.”
said Dr. Lynn Goodman, assistant administrator for pesticides and toxic
substances at the Environmental Protection Agency. Well, certainly no one was
alarmed, for there was no recall at all. The <i>Post</i> continues, “The
two government agencies decided not to press the company to recall the
cereal. ‘We were concerned that a recall would have been very
disturbing to parents . . . We did not want to cause a public panic.’” </span>
</p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>Well, THAT certainly makes me feel better!</span>
</p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>General Mills now checks for pesticides.
Good. But who checks General Mills? If a company can sell 110
million boxes of contaminated cereal, and nothing at all happens, what does
this say about our government’s real interest in food safety?</span> </p>
<p><span style='font-family:Arial'>(The full text <i>Washington Post </i>article,
expertly written by Sharon Walsh, appeared August 21, 1994. Your public
librarian can get you a photocopy through interlibrary loan.) </span> <br>
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