I have posted a List of dangerous additives in Food.
Now one on dangerous ingredients in Food.
Palm Oil When a regular fat like corn, soybean, or palm oil is blasted with hydrogen and turned into a solid, it becomes a trans fat. These evil anti-nutrients help packaged foods stay “fresh,” meaning that the food can sit on the supermarket shelf for years without ever getting stale or rotting. Eating junk food with trans fats raises your “bad” LDL cholesterol and triglycerides and lowers your “good” HDL.These fats also increase your risk of blood clots and heart attack. Avoid palm oil and other trans fats like the plague, and kiss fried foods goodbye too, since they’re usually fried in one of these freakish trans-fatty oilsShortening Ditch any food that lists shortening or partially hydrogenated oil as an ingredient, since these are also evil trans fats. In addition to clogging your arteries and causing obesity, they also increase your risk of metabolic syndrome. Choose healthier monounsaturated fats, such as olive, peanut and canola oils and foods that contain unsaturated omega-3 fatty acids instead.When a whole grain is refined, most of its nutrients are sucked out in an effort to extend its shelf life. Both the bran and germ are removed, and therefore all the fiber, vitamins, and minerals. Because these stripped down, refined grains are devoid of fiber and other nutrients, they’re also easy to digest — TOO EASY.They send your blood sugar and insulin skyrocketing, which can lead to all sorts of problems. Replace processed grains with whole grains, like brown or wild rice, whole-wheat breads and pastas, barley, and oatmeal.Corn Syrup The evil king of all refined grains is high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). The amount of refined sugar we consume has declined over the past 40 years, but we’re consuming almost 20 times as much HFCS. According to researchers at Tufts University, Americans, for example, consume more calories from HFCS than any other source. It’s in practically EVERYTHING.Artificial Sweeteners Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal), saccharin (Sweet’N Low, SugarTwin), and sucralose (Splenda) may be even harder on our metabolic systems than plain old sugar. These supposedly diet-friendly sweeteners may actually be doing more harm than good! Studies suggest that artificial sweeteners trick the brain into forgetting that sweetness means extra calories, making people more likely to keep eating sweet treats without abandon. Scan ingredient labels and ban all artificial sweeteners from entering your mouth.Blue, Green, Red, And Yellow The artificial colours blue 1 and 2, green 3, red 3, and yellow 6 have been linked to thyroid, adrenal, bladder, kidney, and brain cancers. Always seek out foods with the fewest artificial chemicals, especially when shopping for your kids. Look for colour-free medications and natural food products that don’t contain artificial colours like these.
I am posting some dangerous additives that are used in Fast Foods, Packeted Food, Ready to eat.Check the composition of the Product and avoid those that contain the following ingredients.
For the side effects of these additives, check Wiki ,FDA,webmd sites.
Strange are the places people choose to hide Narcotics.
Christie Harris This Oklahoma woman was sentenced to 25 years after smuggling not only meth in her butt, but also a gun in her vagina.Alexis Clancy This Florida woman was allegedly caught with a hypodermic needle stowed away in her anus.Cocaine Diapers Priscilla Pena and Michelle Blassingale were arrested at JFK Airport after arriving from the Dominican Republic in late January. Drug-sniffing dogs allegedly detected something. Authorities said Pena had seven kilos of cocaine in silver plastic, wrapped around her butt like a disposable diaper.Ashley Bellamy Bellamy allegedly hid 36 vials of crack cocaine in her vagina to stay out of police custody. But officers noticed that the Philadelphia woman was walking funny, and she admitted to her hiding place. “The woman says, ‘I have crack up in my vagina,’ and she pushed out 36 vials of crack cocaine that were in a bag,” Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said.Crack, Pot Found In Man’s Prosthetic Leg Jose Santiago is accused of hiding 2.5 grams of crack cocaine and 2.8 grams of marijuana inside his prosthetic leg.Man Allegedly Ties 89 Bags Of Drugs To Penis A traffic violation by Ray Woods, 23, caught the attention of Pennsylvania police, who then discovered Woods was packing something quite large: 89 bags of heroin and cocaine tied to his penis.
In a new report to be published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 6 patients ended as a result of using blow developing purple-colored patches of necrotic skin on their ears, nose, cheeks and other parts of the body.’ All this courtesy of most drug dealers favorite cutting agent– levamisole (which in English translates to animal de-wormer), which makes it in about 70% of the stash floating the US. At present the irritations have been turning up in the NYC and Los Angeles area. Not that will necessarily stop most die hard New Yorkers and Los Angelinos from using the good shit.
Counters study author Noah Craft, MD, PhD, Los Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; ” “We believe these cases of skin reactions and illnesses linked to contaminated cocaine are just the tip of the iceberg in a looming public health problem posed by levamisole.”
And then there’s the fun stuff coming out of Russia, krokodil (“Крокодил” or “crocodile”), an opiate cooked out of gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acide, and red phosphorous” plus the key ingredient, codeine. According to a report out of animalny the stuff is 10 times harder than normal heroin and three times cheaper (a winning combination if you can fathom it).
What makes krokodi all the more appealing is its delicious ability of disfiguring you around the point of injection and leaving you looking like a bloated monkey with gangrene. Not sure how you’ll explain that one or the at the office.”
A homemade drug that causes severe damage to the flesh of those who use it has reportedly shown up in the U.S.
According to doctors at Banner Poison Control Center, two cases of the drug have been reported in the state in the past week.
“As far as I know, these are the first cases in the United States that are reported… We’re extremely frightened,” Dr. Frank LoVecchio, the co-medical director at the center, told KLTV.
Users filter and boil the drug before injecting it. Although LoVecchio said users believe the process removes the impurities, they are wrong.
Once injected, the drug causes damage to blood vessels and tissue that cause flesh to rot from the inside out. The horrific sores that some users develop resemble crocodile skin, which lends the street drug its name. The average life expectancy of a krokodil user is about three years, according to KSAZ.”
The Organised War on Drugs is about a hundred years old.
Look at the use of Drugs Statistics.
The Global picture
Globally, it is estimated that in 2010 between 153 million
and 300 million people aged 15-64 (3.4-6.6 per cent of
the world’s population in that age group) had used an illicit
substance at least once in the previous year. The extent of illicit drug use has thus remained stable, but the estimated
15.5 million-38.6 million problem drug users (almost 12
per cent of illicit drug users), including those with drug
dependence and drug-use disorders, remain a particular
concern.
It is also estimated that there were between 99,000 and
253,000 deaths globally in 2010 as a result of illicit drug
use, with drug-related deaths accounting for between 0.5
and 1.3 per cent of all-cause mortality among those aged
15-64.
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Moreover, it was estimated that in 2008 there were
16 million injecting drug users worldwide and that 3 million (18.9 per cent) of them were living with HIV, though
no new figures are available after 2008. Global prevalence
of hepatitis C infection among injecting drug users in 2010
was 46.7 per cent, meaning that some 7.4 million injecting drug users worldwide are infected with hepatitis C.
And some 2.3 million injecting drug users are infected
with hepatitis B. Evidence is also emerging that non-injecting drug use is also associated with an increased risk of HIV infection, principally due to unprotected sex.”
With estimated annual prevalence of cannabis use in 2010
ranging from 2.6 to 5 per cent of the adult population
(between 119 million and 224 million estimated users aged
15-64), cannabis remains the world’s most widely used
illicit substance (see figure 1). There may be shifts in cannabis use between the drug’s two principal forms, resin and
herb, and there is even evidence of the increasing popularity of synthetic marijuana among young people in some
regions, but in general annual prevalence of cannabis use
remained stable in 2010…”
Money Spent on War On Drugs.
Nations, especially the US has been spending huge money on War on Drugs.
Federal Drug Control BudgetUS Dollars (In Millions)
– Year –
– Total –
Demand Reduction
% of – Total –
Supply Reduction
% of – Total –
Domestic Law Enforcement
International
Interdiction
2004
19,188.4
8,579.0
44.7%
10,609.4
55.3%
7,051.7
2,008.7
1,549.0
2005
20,371.6
8,798.2
43.2%
11,573.4
56.8%
7,267.5
2,432.2
1,873.7
2006
21,133.1
8,775.2
41.5%
12,357.9
58.5%
7,538.9
2,923.2
1,895.8
2007
22,175.1
9,056.6
40.8%
13,118.5
59.2%
7,881.9
3,045.2
2,191.4
2008
22,497.1
9,244.9
41.1%
13,252.2
58.9%
8,286.7
2,967.0
1,998.5
2009
25,579.5
10,332.7
40.4%
15,246.8
59.6%
9,017.1
3,697.1
2,532.6
2010
25,887.1
10,443.2
40.3%
15,443.9
59.7%
9,190.9
3,658.0
2,595.0
2011
25,731.6
10,563.8
41.1%
15,167.8
58.9%
9,093.6
3,706.7
2,367.5
2012
26,209.6
10,664.8
40.7%
15,544.8
59.3%
9,505.4
3,901.0
2,138.4
TOTAL
208,773.1
86,458.4
41.4%
122,314.7
58.6%
74,833.7
28,339.1
19,141.9
% Chg/2004-2012
+36.6%
+24.3%
—
+46.5%
—
+34.8%
+94.2%
+38.1%
For more Statistics and information on Drug abuse,pattern age group please refer the links at the end of the Post.
Now some States have started legalizing marijuana, admmitting that the War on Drugs is not yielding results and more illicit Drug and more usage is reported.
The idea to scale down th War on Drugs is gaining ground.
The commission presented a 20-page report, the first sentence of which read: “The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world.” Nadelmann wrote the sentence, as well as the report’s entire executive summary. He advised the commission, and he also searched for high-profile members.
One of the speakers at the press conference in the Waldorf Astoria was an amiable man with glasses: César Gaviria, the president of Colombia from 1990 to 1994. While in office, he did almost everything except fight a war. Colombia was what Mexico is today: a country hijacked by drug lords.
“An irrational and pointless drug policy was partly responsible for that period,” says Gaviria today.”
The war on Drugs intensified during the Nixon Era.
In 2010, about 200 million people took illegal drugs. The numbers have remained relatively constant for years, as has the estimated annual volume of drugs produced worldwide: 40,000 tons of marijuana, 800 tons of cocaine and 500 tons of heroin. What has increased, however, is the cost of this endless war.
In the early 1970s, the Nixon administration pumped about $100 million into drug control. Today, under President Barack Obama, that figure is $15 billion — more than 30 times as much when adjusted for inflation. There is even a rough estimate of the direct and indirect costs of the 40-plus years of the drug war: $1 trillion in the United States alone.
In Mexico, some 60,000 people have died in the drug war in the last six years. US prisons are full of marijuana smokers, the Taliban in Afghanistan still use drug money to pay for their weapons, and experts say China is the drug country of the future.
Taking into account the high cost of War OnDrugs and the results it has produced the thought is on legalising the Trade of Drugas.
When about 30 national leaders met in Cartagena, Colombia, in April 2012 for the Summit of the Americas, there was only big, behind-the-scenes topic: a new drug policy. Suddenly Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was saying: “If the world decides to legalize (drugs) and thinks that that is how we reduce violence and crime, I could go along with that.”
General Otto Pérez Molina, president of Guatemala, wrote: “Consumption and production should be legalized but within certain limits and conditions.”
Uruguayan President José Mujica said: “What scares me is drug trafficking, not drugs”.
Vicente Fox, the president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006, wanted to wage the “mother of all wars” against organized crime, sending the Mexican army into the drug war. Today, Fox says that the war was a “total failure.”
In fact, sitting in Nadelmann’s office in Manhattan, it really is difficult to imagine a world without the drug war. A future in which marijuana and cocaine are legal and can be purchased in pharmacies or specialty drug shops? A life in which everyone decides for him- or herself: Am I going to take this drug? How much am I going to take? How do I protect my children?
It isn’t an easy thing to imagine. In fact, the very thought of it creates a gut-wrenching feeling, and it makes you ask yourself questions like: Legalizing drugs? Are you folks nuts?”
Sane Policy.
Gambling, Prostitution, Drinking and use of Intoxicants have been a part of Man since time immemorial.
Investing money on something to prohibit which a Man wants to do, is not a sound idea.
The best is to legalize it and provide adequate safeguards for individual’s health.
Despite this, if some one wants to poison himself to death, one can do nothing.
Jhon Velásquez, aka “Popeye,” was a brutal killer as head of security for Pablo Escobar, head of Colombia’s Medellín cartel until his death in 1993A man works in a coca lab in Putumayo: None of the materials or equipment needed to produce cocaine are expensive, sophisticated or hard to obtain. The end product is cocaine hydrochloride, or pure cocaine. A good laboratory with a well-trained team can produce 500 kilograms (1,100 lbs.) a day
Be careful !!!! At the airport or close to any Customs checkpoint, never accept or help somebody to hold his/her bottle of water or other objects, even for elderly person or pregnant women. You could be arrested for cocaine or illegal drugs possession!
Watch this attached video by the US Customs….. you will understand how smart cocaine dealers are nowadays” -Youtube
This warning has come from an officer working at the airport.
At the airport never help anybody to hold, even for a short time, his or her water bottle or anything.
If you happen to buy a water bottle at the airport, please check the bottle. BEWARE of fake water bottles.
At the airport or close to any customs service, never accept or help somebody to hold his/her bottle of water or other objects, even for an elderly person or a pregnant women. Tell them to put the bottle on the floor.
You could be arrested for cocaine or any illegal drugs possession. In Singapore, that means death penalty!
Watch this attached video by the US Customs. (Cocaine dealers are very smart ).
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