"If you really love your Chinese or Sushi take-out, you might want to sit down for this.
Soybean meal and often corn starches are rapidly reduced to their component amino acids using a high-tech process known as “rapid hydrolysis” or “acid hydrolysis,” which involves heating defatted soy proteins with eighteen percent hydrochloric acid for 8 to 12 hours, then neutralizing the brew with sodium carbonate.
The result is a dark brown liquid — a chemical soy sauce.
When mixed with some genuine fermented soy sauce to improve its flavor and odor, it is called a “semi chemical” soy sauce. Sugars, caramel colorings and other flavorings are added before further refinement, pasteurization and bottling.
The rapid hydrolysis method uses the enzyme glutamase as a reactor. This creates large amounts of an unnatural form of glutamic acid that closely resembles that found in MSG. In contrast, production of genuine old-fashioned soy sauce uses the enzyme glutaminase to form naturally occurring glutamic acid..." read more
Researchers at National Jewish Health have discovered specific molecular and signaling events by which vitamin D inhibits inflammation. In their experiments, they showed that low levels of Vitamin D, comparable to levels found in millions of people, failed to inhibit the inflammatory cascade, while levels considered adequate did inhibit inflammatory signaling. They reported their results in the March 1, 2012, issue of The Journal of Immunology.
"This study goes beyond previous associations of vitamin D with various health outcomes. It outlines a clear chain of cellular events, from the binding of DNA, through a specific signaling pathway, to the reduction of proteins known to trigger inflammation," said lead author Elena Goleva, assistant professor of pediatrics at National Jewish Health. "Patients with chronic inflammatory diseases, such as asthma, arthritis and prostate cancer, who are vitamin D deficient, may benefit from vitamin D supplementation to get their serum vitamin D levels above 30 nanograms/milliliter."
And Peaceful Activists Are Treated As "Terrorists"
According to a recent ASPCA survey, 94% of Americans agree that food animals deserve to be free from abuse and cruelty. Yet in most states, food animals are specifically excluded from laws prohibiting cruelty to animals!
Factory farmed animals are fed routine doses of antibiotics, whether they are sick or not. Eighty percent of all antibiotics used in the U.S. are fed to livestock, and factory farms have become breeding grounds for antibiotic resistant bacteria, which are killing nearly 100,000 Americans every year. We’ve turned our farms into biological weapons factories.
Worst of all, in 2006 the U.S. government caved into the food industry and passed the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. Now people who protest factory farms through peaceful civil disobedience can be arrested and punished as terrorists. Are you willing to put up with this?
