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http://mastcelldisorders.wallack.us/yabb/YaBB.pl General Mast Cell Disorders Discussion >> Nutrition >> Genetically Modified Foods Video. Free to view until 9/22. http://mastcelldisorders.wallack.us/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1348073328 Message started by kimtg68 on 09/19/12 at 05:48:48

Title: Genetically Modified Foods Video. Free to view until 9/22.
Post by kimtg68 on 09/19/12 at 05:48:48

The movie at the attached link contains the most compelling scientific information I've seen to answer the question, "Are genetically modified foods really bad for us?" This video is free to watch until Sept 22, 2012. PLEASE watch this! It's amazing information and I feel VERY important for everyone to see!!!!!!! Especially those of us with so many food intollerances and our disorders/diseases. Hope you gain much insight from this as I did!

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/09/15/genetic-roulette-gmo-documentary.aspx

Title: Re: Genetically Modified Foods Video. Free to view until 9/22.
Post by Doozlygirl on 09/19/12 at 08:38:13

I watched it the other night and am HORRIFIED! I urge you all to take the time and see if it makes sense in your journeys. In connecting my dots, my GI issues started in 1996, the year the GMOs were introduced into the US food supply. Could that be a coincidence? Not likely!

Please fee free to share this with everyone, but especially to those in California. There is a referendum November 6 in California, which if passed, all GMO products would have to be labeled as GMO. This would effect the rest of the country, since companies wouldn't make these changes just for one state.

Thanks for posting, Kim.

Title: Re: Genetically Modified Foods Video. Free to view until 9/22.
Post by Joan on 09/19/12 at 17:30:23

Unfortunately, it's impossible to label all GMO foods as such, because cross-pollination has made, for example, all corn into GMO corn. I've read it's the same for soybeans and other GMO food. I contacted a blueberry producer at one time about their use of pesticides, and the rep told me that the organic and non-organic fields of blueberries are next to each other and harvested on the same equipment.

I think it's always good to take as many variables as possible out of the health equation. I have no doubt that GMO anything isn't as good for us as the original food. But, I can trace my GI problems back much further than the 1990s, and mast cell disorders have existed for a long time before that. They just had different names. They may be a trigger, but probably not the only trigger.

One GI mast cell specialist makes a case that the introduction of antibiotics has caused the rise of mast cell related GI problems. He proposes that when they are taken often between the ages of 4 and 8, when the immune system and natural flora are developing, some or all of the natural bacteria that should populate the GI tract are destroyed and can't ever be reproduced.

I try to buy heirloom varieties of vegetables and use about 99% organic produce and other foods. Still that doesn't guarantee a stray gene hasn't gotten into the mix. :'( So sad what's happened to our food.