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Many of our processed foods contain something called carrageenan.

Carrageenan is a vegetable gum that our FDA labels as “generally accepted as safe.”

Don’t confuse that with an endorsement of safely, they just find that the hazards aren’t enough for them to stop it being used in our food.

But the problem is that carrageenan causes cancer.

This isn’t just something we’re saying based on small amounts of evidence.

It’s a known fact.

When researchers want to give rats cancer, they inject them with carrageenan.

Then they use this carrageenan cancer to study whatever they’re studying.

Yes, that’s right.

Scientists know that carrageenan causes cancer and we’re still eating it in our food.

You can find it just about everywhere — it’s in virtually all prepared foods and processed foods.

You’ll also find its friends xanthan gum, guar gum, and other so-called vegetable gums.

The animals fed the carrageenan diet had a higher incidence of colorectal tumors.

The undegraded carrageenan in the diet had an enhancing effect in colorectal carcinogenesis in rats.

In other words, it’s clear that carrageenan causes cancer in rats.

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They’ve known how terrible carrageenan is since the 1970s, but the food industry continues pouring these vegetable gums into virtually every food.

When I go to buy ice cream, there are only one or two kinds that do not have these harmful vegetable gums in them.

There are only one or two brands that I’ve found that do not have them.

I’ll be sticking to my Haagen-Dazs (R) vanilla — you might want to do the same.

So now let’s get into what’s wrong with these gums.

I specifically picked carrageenan because it’s the most common gum that I see, and has been extensively studied for a long time.

Remember, all these findings about carrageenan dangers can probably be applied to the other vegetable gums as well.

So carrageenan is a seaweed extract that thickens things.

In ice cream, it prevents ice crystals from forming, and it makes sauces and bottled dressings thicker and more appealing.

Here are some of the foods containing carrageenan (hint: about all of them except what you cook yourself.)

At least 25 animal studies show significant or severe harm from carrageenan.

Here’s just an extract of some of them:

Carrageenan contributes to, or even or causes ulcerative colitis.

It causes cancer in the colon and lesions in the intestines.

Several investigators have noted the resemblance between the ulcerative lesions and accompanying inflammatory changes induced by carrageenan and the clinical spectrum of
ulcerative colitis.

Carrageenan’s side effects include massive inflammation in the gut.

It literally gums up the cells — filling them with ever expanding, almost infectious particles.

The same thing has been seen over and over again in studies.

Guinea pigs fed just a few grams a day exhibited severe carrageenan inflammation in their gut.

Carrageenan seems to feed the worst of the bacteria in the gut — causing harmful bacteria to multiply out of control.

And if that isn’t bad enough, it’s been shown to infiltrate the body through the gut.

Trace amounts of undegraded carrageenan have been reported to cross the intestinal barrier, with accumulation in intestinal lymph nodes.

So when we eat carrageenan, some of the undigested particles of it leave our intestine and travel to other parts of the body.

Our body was not designed to use carrageenan this way.

In fact, it’s extremely harmful for anything to cross the intestinal barrier other than nutrients we need to be absorbing.

With these findings, it’s entirely possible to consider carrageenan as one of the reasons for the explosion in intestinal issue diagnosis.

We’re seeing an astonishing number of new colitis and ulcerative colitis cases.

Since carrageenan and other vegetable gums are so prevalent, it’s possible that this is the reason we’re suffering so many gut issues.

A review of many studies shows that it causes cancer:

Because of the acknowledged carcinogenic properties of carrageenan in animal models, the widespread use of carrageenan in the Western diet should be reconsidered.

Yes indeed.

It should be reconsidered… in fact, it should be banned.

Until that happens, you should carefully examine labels on everything you buy.

And you should definitely not eat any product with vegetable gums in it.

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