Shocking Revelations
Yet the reality of the matter is quite the opposite. An American team of researchers decided to prove to
the world once and for all that factory-made breakfast cereals are truly man’s super-food. So they fed the
common breakfast cereals enriched with the most important vitamins and minerals to young, healthy
laboratory rats. The researchers divided a total of 240 rats into two groups; one group received cereal and
water and the other one normal food and water. The experiment lasted for 45 days. The result was totally
unexpected and devastating. The rats that were fed with cereals, which according to common nutritional
sense and advertising should have turned them into strong and vital grown-up rats, were close to death.
They suffered from fatty livers, anemia and high blood pressure. In a separate experiment, rats were fed
with cornflakes, which consisted of useless cornstarch and white sugar. In this group some of the animals
died.
The researchers had expected that the animals would grow faster with cereals, yet they did not grow at
all, and some of them even lost weight. Especially the rats which received cereals with high sugar content
(sugar is thought to be fattening), had the least growth rates. This is a summary of the results:
¾ The products that contained the least amounts of fat significantly increased the cholesterol levels of
the rats. Some products were able to lower the rats’ cholesterol levels but also caused fatty livers.
¾ Those rats that were fed with cereals containing only small amounts of salt increased their blood
pressure whereas the ones that received cereals with higher salt contents lowered their blood
pressure.
¾ Some of the products were enriched with iron, which should have raised hemoglobin
concentrations in the blood of anemic animals. However, the results took the researchers by
surprise: 1) There was no connection between higher intake of iron and hemoglobin levels. The rats
stayed anemic despite ingesting large amounts of iron. 2) Those rats that had little iron in their
blood deposited excessively large amounts of iron in their liver, which led to worsening of anemia
(for a similar reason it is very questionable to give extra iron to people who suffer from anemia).Poison That Tastes And Looks Like Food
The main conclusion we can draw from this experiment is that the purely theoretical approach to diet
and nutrition (using food tables and daily nutritional recommendations) has not only been insufficient to
raise the standard of health in the population but has in fact caused more harm and confusion than is
currently assessable. Sanctified by theories of nutrition, which in actuality contradict the body’s natural
responses to food, the food industry has been given the green light to produce anything that fulfills the
official nutritional requirements, even if the “foods” have a poisoning effect and create havoc in the body.
There is no legislation to test man-made foods on animals before giving them to millions of human
beings. The average consumer takes it for granted that the food produced by a reputable company must be
safe for human consumption, even if it contains plastic. (Using animals to find out whether these foods
are poisonous or not is cruel and I don’t advocate animal testing. I have reasons to believe that all man-
made foods have harmful effects on the human body, and I therefore recommend to avoid eating them.)
Not all governments support this disconcerting trend. According to an August 2004 issue of the
Guardian, some few health-conscious governments in Europe that are less dominated by the food industry
and big pharmaceutical companies, are beginning to protect their people from obvious harmful practices.