"secrets of processed foods"

http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/additives/
This is an article from the SUSTAINABLE TABLE published on September 2009. This article explains what processed foods are. It gives the regulations on types of additives such as preservatives, and flavorings. “Most processed foods rely on these additives to restore flavor that is lost in processing or create new flavors altogether. McDonald's, for example, adds "chicken flavor" to its Chicken McNuggets” .It also denounces the safety of such products. Unfortunately, some food and color additives have induced allergic reactions while others have been linked to cancer, asthma, and birth defects. “The FDA requires that all ingredients be listed on a food's label, but additives are often listed without specificity, as "spices" or "flavorings," making it impossible for consumers to determine what, exactly, they are eating.”

Pollen’s book: Omnivore ‘s dilemma
This book begins by reflecting on America’s collective eating disorder. A disorder mostly consisting of a people obsessed by largely unhealthy foods . The United States, as a big melting pot of a variety of cultures and food traditions has lost touch with eating over the last fifty years or so.” Much of what we see in the grocery store or eat at the table is drastically different from the food that we’ve been eating for thousands of years due to processing”( http://fastfoodreviewed.com/page/2/) . This has led to major food related health issues like obesity, type 2 diabetes and my personal favorite, food bourn illnesses.

http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/10/19/all-the-health-risks-of-processed-foods----in-just-a-few-quick-convenient-bites.htm
This is a newsletter from Steven Gortmaker, a professor of society, human development, and health at the Harvard School of Public Health. It announces that Processed foods have, indeed, been implicated in a host of chronic diseases and health conditions such as diabetes, obesity ,heart disease and cancer that are currently plaguing the nation. In fact, a “ seven-year study of close to 200,000 people by the University of Hawaii found that people who ate the most processed meats (hot dogs, sausage) had a 67 percent higher risk of pancreatic cancer than those who ate little or no meat products”. It concludes by saying that some additives effects are unknown because they were not tested