Saccharine ( cancer causing) It's in Toothpaste!

[benshelpmeet]

Dear brethren,

I found out reciently that all the tooth paste has saccharine in it! I was shocked !

When you read on the back where the ingredients are listed some say sorbitol (which is good) but '' keep reading down a bit '' and you come across the word sodium saccharine! It's in all our toothpaste. I through all of mine out and bought some expensive ( almost 3.00 Thoms of Main at Wal Mart ( its all natural and it works good. Also Mouth Wash has it in there, the yellow Listerine does not have saccharine in it ( I'm glad ) If Thoms of Main is too expensive you can make your own.

It's not candy or desert ( it's just for brushing your teeth) So grin and bare it. ;D

Homemade Toothpaste:

Baking soda ( main ingredient )

sea salt ( or regular salt )

Pepermint oil ( opt )

Peroxide (opt ) ( now if and when you add this it will get real fizzy


You can even just use baking soda all alone. We usually do that and it works very well.

For those of you who do not let that posion (Saccharine )in your bodies for any reason, I thought you would like to know.

note: the fastest way to get something in your bloodstreem is to disolve it under your toung. You may not swallow toothpaste but it can still get in your blood streem.

Interesting info on Floride:

The grim story behind Fluoridation

Millions of innocent people have been brainwashed by the aluminum companies to believe that by adding sodium fluoride to our drinking water and toothpaste we will reduce tooth decay. Fluorine made the atomic bomb possible. The only scientific way to free the quantities of fissionable Uranium 235, buried in the inert mass of its parent U-238, was to force uranium hexafluoride gas through gas through many acres of porous barriers, gradually concentrating it. This created a deadly toll and a terrible hazard from radiation. Fluorine is used as a standard roach and rat killer and is the number 1 pesticide.


It was in the year 1939 that a famous institute in the eastern part of America commissioned the institute’s biochemist to find a use for the sodium fluoride wastes produced by aluminum pot lines. Some 45 other industries had fluoride disposal problems, too. Many were tormented by expensive damage suits arising from the noxious effects of the poison on livestock and crops. Brick, steel, fertilizer, oil refineries, metal smelters, tile, ceramic plants, and many installations of Atomic Energy Commission were involved. The cost of elimination of the chemical was fantastically high. Couldn’t this by-product be put to profitable use instead?


Now, this biochemist was a clever a cunning man, and he came up with a big money-making idea: why not dissolve the stuff in drinking water? Now, this biochemist had absolutely no medical background and had made not one clinical research on the action of sodium fluoride in the body chemistry. His idea went over big with the companies who were bedeviled with the sodium fluoride wastes.


The next step was not hard. Turn the idea over to the advertising companies and let them brainwash the public mind that the greatest health measure in modern times had been discovered. Give a "sob story" to the American public. The American public is so very gullible. If it is scientific sounding, the public will bite - hook, line and sinker. So they used a tall tale that sodium fluoride in drinking water and toothpaste would prevent tooth decay in children. That line of sales talk hit a responsive chord. At last, a way to prevent tooth decay! Every intelligent and thinking person know that tooth decay comes from poor nutrition, especially the use of refined white sugar.


Big business and big business professional organizations have a way of sticking together. And remember, they have most of the news media with them because of the economic control exerted by the publishers’ chief source of income, advertising. So the great business and professional organizations, with the aid of newspapers, magazines, radio and television, blasted out the sodium fluoride to brainwash the American people. Any one who questioned the poisoning of drinking water and toothpaste with sodium fluoride was called stupid, dishonest, ignorant, uninformed, and backward! Most doctors and dentists surrendered to these powerful forces for fear of being discredited in their communities, although you can always find some honest and sincere professional men who fight for truth, no matter how others might ridicule them! Extreme pressures were put upon city and state governments to fluoridate the drinking water. Big business and big professional organizations which can act like the Mafia, do not take "No" for an answer! They know how to make state and city officials think their way.


Fluorine is one of the most potent poisons known to man. Selling of this poison is big business, and it swells the bank accounts of the big companies who in turn pay dividends to their stockholders. And to think that this money is made by selling a waste product! City drinking water and toothpaste is being rapidly fluoridated due to the powerful organizations who are sponsoring this mass poisoning.

Thoms of Main has Floride! Baking soda is for me!


I've known for years it causes cancer in rats. Thats enough info for me. I do not touch the stuff nor do I let my children. Bro. Ben does not like it eaither.

We do not use any artificial sweeteners.

Saccharine

www.bellaonline.com/articles/art15448.asp

www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/hl/nutr/food/alert08192004.jsp

Here is a new sweetener I've never heard of.

www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9607/31/nfm/sweeteners/

[Andrea]

Thanks Sister Darlene,
I had heard this before and we had starting buying our toothpaste at the health food store.. but now I will be trying the alternatives you posted.. thanks.. ;D

Also, when I take my kids to the dentist, I do not allow the flouride treatment to be done on them.

[benshelpmeet]

Your sure welcome! Glad to help.

[nightingale]

ok...I have never thought of toothpaste in that way before...but I went to my bathroom and got out my aquafresh and Zoe's Oral-B toothpaste for children, I read the back and sure enough there was the saccharine...and then to my surprise there was a warning label "If you accidentally swallow more than used for brushing, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away" I couldn't believe it, I am allowing my five year old to brush with a substance that has a warning label!
Thank you Darlene for the heads up....Love ya Debbie

[George]

That is a wise warning. I believe the warning should be extended to all artificial sweeteners.

One of the most widely used sweeteners currently is Nutrasweet (a brand name) also known as Aspartame. One of the things the FDA did NOT do when approving it's use for human consumption was to run any kind of tests on what happens to it when heated. Aspartame actually changes it's molecular structure when warmed. Unfortunately there are no end to products such as hot chocolate mixes and things of that nature which are marketed using Aspartame an designed to be heated. the compound produced when it is heated is a definite health hazard.

Another thing discovered about Aspartame is that is appears to cause epileptic-like seizures in some people. It is believed some people have a tendency toward such seizures but have not ever experienced one of them. The Aspartame appears to trigger such seizure activity.

The newest sweetener out on the market, and please forgive me for forgetting the name of it, claims to be made from sugar. While it may have sugar in it to begin with, certain molecules in the sugar are removed and replaced by CHLORINE!. Now I don't know about anyone else, but I certainly want to reduce the amount of chlorine in my system to the bare minimum I can. Eating this stuff routinely, no matter the commercial advertisements for it, cannot be good for one's health. In fact there have been a number of consumer lawsuits filed over it.

I believe that when mankind gets to messing with things and either coming up with new synthetic compounds or changing the molecular structure of naturally occurring compounds we are looking for trouble. One of the most common ways of decaffeinating beverages is through use of a chemical solvent! Excuse me? And people knowingly and willingly drink these things. If one has to consume any kind of decaffeinated beverage please make certain the label clearly states it has been accomplished using the water decaffeinating method.

Besides, I think that if The Lord wanted me to drink decaffeinated coffee He would have made it to grow without the caffeine in the first place. Ha! I am certain that one will stir up some comments!

Oh and folks, be careful wth that Sorbitol stuff also. Some people, including myself, have rather unpleasant gastro-intestinal distress when consuming that stuff. While it does occur naturally, when it is isolated and used either as the sole sweetener of the primary one in products it can cause some interesting problems.

Yours in Christ,
George

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Here's an article from the Hallejulah Acres weekly e-newletter on sugar. It's an eye opener.

(5) SUGAR - NUMBER TWO CAUSE OF PHYSICAL PROBLEMS

In Health Tips #411 through #414, we established
biblically and anatomically, that God designed man to be
nourished with the LIVING plant foods that He God had
created and placed in the Garden of Eden before the
creation of man. Then last week, in Health Tip #415, we
started a series of Health Tips revealing what happens when
we place into the body, substances God never designed the
body to ever have to deal with. You can read any or all of
these Health Tips by going to <http://www.hacres.com> and
clicking on "Hallelujah Health Tips" in the upper right
corner of our Home Page. Next, click on "Go To Archives: at
the top and access the year 2005 and click on Health Tip
#411, #412, #413, #414 or #415".

In this week's Health Tip, we are going to continue
examining what happens when we place into our physical
bodies, foods (so-called), that God never designed our
physical bodies to ever have to deal with or process. But
before we get started, I want to refresh our memory with
the closing words of Health Tip #414: "LIVING FOOD FOR A
LIVING BODY! God had it right from the very beginning! See
Genesis 1:29. Remember, it was God who created a LIVING
organism (physical body), comprised of LIVING cells, that
He designed to be nourished with LIVING food!"

Last week, in Health Tip #415, we looked at the horrible
things that happen when we place into these physical bodies
we each possess, foods of ANIMAL origin. Today, I want us
to look at what happens within our physical bodies when we
place REFINED SUGAR into them.

2. SUGAR

After animal products, which we took a long look at in
last week's Health Tip #415, the next most popular DEAD,
FIBERLESS, and good-for-nothing KILLER food of our day is
refined SUGAR! However, it is not a food substance at all,
but rather a dangerous poison. Yet it is consumed by almost
everyone in America, on a daily basis, and it does horrible
things within the body. It is also something God never
intended our physical bodies to ever have to contend with.
The only sugar God designed our physical bodies to ever
have to deal with were the natural sugars found in the
LIVING, raw fruits and vegetables, that He, God, created
and placed in the Garden!

Are you aware that a hundred years ago, the average annual
intake of refined sugar was approximately 5 pounds per
person per year? Today, the average annual intake of
refined sugar is around 170 pounds per person per year.
That means that if a person is consuming the Standard
American Diet (SAD), that person is placing into their God
made physical bodies, over 50 teaspoons of refined sugar
each and every day of their life. Thus a person who lives
to the age of 70 will have placed into their body, during
their lifetime, some 12,000 pounds of refined sugar. Well,
let's take a look at what all that sugar is doing within
our beautiful, God designed, physical body?

(1) REFINED SUGAR IS A DEAD FOOD

Refined sugar originated in a living plant, which
contained its complete complement of enzymes, but by the
time it reaches the refined sugar stage, all life has been
destroyed, and it has become a very DEAD food. Let's look
for a moment at what they do with the original sugar cane
or beet as they turn the living sugars found in the plant,
into a refined, DEAD, product. The following information
was taken from a newsletter written by Charlotte Gerson:

"Sugar is a basic element in starchy food, however,
processed sugar is a completely different matter. The sugar
we purchase in the supermarket for personal consumption is
processed sugar. This kind of sugar is heated up in chalk-
milk, so that calcium and protein are extracted. After the
process, it becomes alkaloid, destroying all vitamin
content. In the second phase the sugar is mixed with acid
chalk, carbonic gas, sulfur dioxide and finally with
natrium bicarbonate. The mixture is cooked and cooled off
several times and thereafter crystallized and centrifuged.

The dead mass is then treated with strontium hydroxide.
Subsequently it arrives at the refinery where it is passed
over chalk carbon acid to clean it. Dark coloring is
removed by adding sulfuric acid and then it is filtered
with bone charcoal. Finally, it is colored with
Indathrenblue or the highly toxic Ultramarine. This
product's chemical composition is C12H22O11, which you can
buy in shops as 'pure cane' sugar."

(2) REFINED SUGAR CONTAINS NO FIBER

Another important thing to understand about refined sugar
is that just like we saw with foods of animal origin, sugar
is devoid of all fiber. Let's remember here, that God
designed our bodies to move food through a very extensive
digestive tract through means of fiber, and foods
containing no fiber create problems.

(3) REFINED SUGAR IS FRAGMENTED

Through heating and mechanical and chemical processing,
all vitamins, proteins, fats, enzymes - indeed - every
single nutrient is removed until nothing but pure white
sugar, pure 'naked calories,' pure refined carbohydrate
remains. Sixty-four food elements are destroyed in the
processing. Fragmented foods set up nutritional imbalances
that precipitate health problems galore.

(4) REFINED SUGAR IS HIGHLY ACIDIC

Like animal source foods, refined sugar is also 'acid
forming.' This means that the body must take vital alkaline
minerals, calcium being the most plentiful, from the body's
cells to metabolize refined sugar. This high sugar use,
along with the consumption of animal products, causes the
body to take so much calcium from our bones and teeth that
the bones become osteoporotic and teeth decay.

(5) REFINED SUGAR CREATES BLOOD SUGAR DISORDERS

One pound of apples contains 263 calories, whereas, one
pound of candy has 1800 calories. Refined sugar in junk
foods is concentrated far beyond what the human body was
ever designed by God to ever have to process at one time.
Thus the body has to somehow deal with this incredible
large amount of sugar if it is going to survive. The body
does deal with it, but in doing so, it often results in
physical problems called DIABETES and HYPOGLYCEMIA.

DIABETES - In Health Tip #415 we learned that the primary
cause of diabetes was the fat contained in animal products.
But when a diabetic consumes refined sugar, the pancreas
has difficulty producing adequate insulin when the blood
sugar rises. Concentrated amounts of sugar cause a rapid
rise in blood sugar. Chronic intake of sugar eventually
exhausts the pancreas as it tries to compensate. Thus the
diabetic is condemned to having to take ever-increasing
amounts of insulin to compensate. Diabetes is the 'Number
Three Killer Disease," in America, preceded only by
cardiovascular related diseases and cancer.

HYPOGLYCEMIA - is the flip side of diabetes. Hypoglycemia
occurs when the body still has a fairly strong pancreas.
The body overreacts to a concentrated sugar intake and
releases too much insulin from the pancreas. Blood sugar
levels then plummet far below the normal stable level. The
suffering Hypoglycemic often experiences fatigue;
headaches; mental depression, and irritability. These
symptoms are often dealt with by the intake of some more
refined sugar, and so the Hypoglycemic is often caught in
an endless cycle that often causes the pancreas to wear out
from all of the constant over stimulation - which often
results in Diabetes, because now the sufferer cannot
produce sufficient insulin for normal metabolic activities.

(6) REFINED SUGAR PROMOTES EMOTIONAL INSTABILITY

After a "sugarholic" has consumed a box of candy, or bag
of cookies, or any large amount of refined sugar, they know
how self-abused and depressed they feel. Sadly, studies
reveal a strong link between juvenile and adult criminal
offenses and sugar addiction. Similar research reveals a
link between mental illness and sugar abuse. And
hypoglycemic reactions, for the very sensitive consumer,
promote extreme irrationality, emotional instability, and
oftentimes aggressiveness. Recent studies are revealing
that sugar may be as involved in mental illness, divorce,
and crime as alcohol has been found to be. Depression is
also one of the most rapidly growing problems in our
society today, and refined sugar is one of the major
contributing factors! ADD and ADHD are running rampant
among our children and even some adults! It is a problem
doctors are trying to treat with drugs, such as Ritalin.
Isn't it a sad commentary, that these emotional problems,
that were caused by the very toxic and poisonous, addictive
drug (poison) called refined sugar, are then treated with
another poison, a doctor prescribed drug! How sad! You
mother's who are having a problem with your child's
behavior might consider removing all sugar from their diet.

(7) REFINED SUGAR CONTRIBUTES TO HEART DISEASE

Fat is not the only contributing factor in heart disease.
Large amounts of refined sugar cause the insulin in the
body to convert blood glucose (sugar) into fatty acids and
triglycerides. Those on a high-sugar diet show
significantly higher levels of fat in their blood than
those who eat no refined sugar. This high fat content in
the blood is directly related to the development of plaque
build-up within the arteries, and ultimately, to hardening
of the arteries.

(8) REFINED SUGAR LEADS TO ADDICTION AND WEIGHT GAIN

Sugar is highly caloric in its pure form, but then it is
often combined with something containing high fat, like
shortening, along with some salt, producing a tempting
goodie like candy, fudge, or a donut. Often these high
sugar foods are consumed with a high sugar drink, like soda
pop. All of this sugar contributes to weight gain. Recently
I read that if a person consumes just one 12-ounce can of
soda pop a day, the 11-teaspoons of sugar in that soda pop
could add 12 pounds to their weight in just one year.
Furthermore, because of the way it plays havoc with
emotions, refined sugar is highly addicting - it works
exactly like a protoplasmic poison, a drug. This means that
once a sugarholic sufferer has given into this crystalline
sweetness, they can't stop the addiction. And if they dare
face withdrawal, the 'sugar blues' give them no peace until
they return to the sugar, and resign themselves to remain
fat.

Refined sugar is every bit as addictive as nicotine and
alcohol! We have found that when a person decides to adopt
The Hallelujah Diet, they usually do not have a great deal
of difficulty eliminating the animal products, white flour
products, table salt, or even caffeine (which is another
addictive drug), but many find that the most difficult
substance to eliminate is refined sugar. Sugar has a
powerful addictive influence upon many people. Have you
ever noticed that children, who are allowed to have candy,
are always asking for more, while never being satisfied no
matter how much you give them? It is because their bodies
have become addicted to sugar and there bodies are
screaming for a fix.

(9) REFINED SUGAR COMPROMISES THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

Let's remember that the immune system is what God built
into each of our physical bodies to protect us from the
germs, viruses, and bacteria of this world. It is our first
line of defense! Refined sugar is an immune system
suppressant! In other words, refined sugar cripples and can
even knock out this first line of defense. Does that not
give us a clue as to why so many people experience
infections, colds, the flu, along with other flu like
symptoms, and more? This editor hasn't experienced a cold
or the flu, since eliminating refined sugar, and adopting a
basically living plant source diet 30 years ago!

(10) SUGAR CONTRIBUTES TO A MYRIAD OF OTHER PHYSICAL
PROBLEMS

Refined sugar is associated with malnutrition and
decreased resistance to disease. Refined sugar impacts
quality of life as it increases the severity of PMS;
decreases cognitive or intellectual function, especially in
children; sugar also contributes to our current epidemic of
heart disease, and so much more.
Following is just a partial list of other health problems
related to the intake of refined sugar: Acne, addiction to
drugs and caffeine, alcoholism, allergies, anxiety,
behavior problems, binge eating, bloating, bone loss,
Candidiasis, depression, difficulty concentrating, eczema,
edema, emotional problems, fatigue, food cravings, hormonal
problems, hyperactivity, insomnia, menstrual difficulties,
mental illness, mood swings, premature aging, psoriasis,
and the list goes on and on.

To summarize, refined sugar and products made with it, are
the second most often cause or contributing cause of the
physical problems being experienced today. Refined sugar
products are all DEAD, and FIBERLESS, and following animal
source foods, the second most popular of the deadly, KILLER
foods of our day. No wonder God says: "My people are
destroyed for lack of knowledge." Isn't it a sad
commentary, that instead of dealing with our physical
problems by dealing with their causes, and eliminating
those causes, we deal with their causes and symptoms, with
the consumption of other poisonous drugs! All because we
have failed to nourish our physical bodies the way that God
designed in Genesis 1:29!

To be continued...

Hallelujah Acres is a Christian Ministry that teaches
health from a Biblical perspective! Hallelujah Acres is
trying to help the Christian community (as well as anyone
else who will listen) realize that God's ORIGINAL diet, as
given by God in the Bible, in Genesis 1:29, was God's
perfect plan for the proper nourishment of his human
creation. Multitudes have made this diet change that we
teach here at Hallelujah Acres, and experienced
normalization of weight, as well as the elimination of
almost all their physical problems. For more information,
visit our website at <http://www.hacres.com> or call (704)
481-1700.

[benshelpmeet]

Thank you for the sugar information.


Homemade toothpaste recipe...

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