Halloween: Getting Tricked by Treats with disturbing ingredients
Trick or Treating season is here! Read about the top 5 most popular Halloween Candy with scary ingredients.
Turns out we’re tricking our kids by conditioning them into thinking they’re getting a “treat” when in reality they are getting poison wrapped in bright colors. It’s time to start reading the labels, specially when feeding your children that can’t do their own due diligence. Re-empowering ourselves with knowledge and conscious decision making is more important now than ever. No more blind following the masses that are blindly following themselves into life long subscriptions to treat symptoms caused by poor lifestyle choices. Follow yourself and your own intuition and maximize the quality of life you have in this life time.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
TBHQ: Controversial preservative that may harm the immune system and increase the risk of food allergies.
Vanillin: Artificial vanilla flavor made from wood or petrochemicals.
Artificial Flavors: Chemical mixtures produced by fractional distillation and chemical manipulation of various chemicals like crude oil or coal tar.
Sugar: Can lead to heart disease, cancers, type 2 diabetes and being over weight.
Vegetable Oils (Palm Oil, Shea Oil, Sunflower Oil, Palm Kernel Oil, Safflower Oil): Rich in polyunsaturated fats that our body is not meant to consume. The cause mutations in the cells and clog the arteries and cause inflammation. Depending on how its made, it can release toxic chemicals linked to cancer and even the degeneration of the brain.
Citric Acid: Lab made Citric Acid is made with black mold and it’s believed that the microscopic waste products left behind by the fungus aren't entirely eliminated causing chronic illness.
2. Skittles
8 Artificial Colors: Yellow 5 Lake, Yellow 6 Lake, Red 40 Lake, Blue 2 Lake, Blue 1 Lake, Yellow 6, Yellow 5, Blue 1. Linked to hyperactivity in children and can disrupt the immune system.
Corn Syrup: A heavily processed form of Sugar made from the starch of GMO corn.
Titanium Dioxide: European Union’s top food safety agency says this is no longer safe for human consumption!!
Citric Acid: Lab made Citric Acid is made with black mold and it’s believed that the microscopic waste products left behind by the fungus aren't entirely eliminated causing chronic illness.
Sugar: Can lead to heart disease, cancers, type 2 diabetes and being over weight.
Bioengineered food ingredients(AKA GMO’s): It is believed that consumption of these genetically engineered foods can cause the development of diseases which are immune to antibiotics. The main concerns around GMOs involve allergies, cancer, and environmental issues.
What is a GMO? Click Here.
3. Snickers
Sugar: Can lead to heart disease, cancers, type 2 diabetes and being over weight.
Corn syrup: A heavily processed form of Sugar made from the starch of GMO corn.
Palm Oil: Rich in polyunsaturated fats that our body is not meant to consume. The cause mutations in the cells and clog the arteries and cause inflammation. Depending on how its made, it can release toxic chemicals linked to cancer and even the degeneration of the brain.
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4. KitKat
Sugar: Can lead to heart disease, cancers, type 2 diabetes and being over weight.
Vegetable Oil (Palm Oil, Shea Oil, Sunflower Oil, Palm Kernel Oil, Safflower Oil): Rich in polyunsaturated fats that our body is not meant to consume. The cause mutations in the cells and clog the arteries and cause inflammation. Depending on how its made, it can release toxic chemicals linked to cancer and even the degeneration of the brain.
Wheat Flour: Raises cholesterol levels, clogs the arteries, disrupts the blood sugar level, causes mood swings and irritability and increases your cravings for more food. It also causes a fatty liver, high blood pressure and atherosclerosis.
Corn Syrup Solids: Is a key factors in today’s obesity epidemic, linked to heart disease, increases your risk of fatty liver disease, linked to diabetes, can increase the risk of other serious diseases, contains no essential nutrients.
Vanillin: Artificial vanilla flavor made from wood or petrochemicals.
5. Twix
Palm Oil: Rich in polyunsaturated fats that our body is not meant to consume. The cause mutations in the cells and clog the arteries and cause inflammation. Depending on how its made, it can release toxic chemicals linked to cancer and even the degeneration of the brain.
Enriched Wheat Flour: Gives you a sugar spike and crash without any nutritional value as nutrients are stripped from the bread. The American Heart Association notes that refined grains are missing the whole package of nutrients and fiber that make a food healthy.
Sugar: Can lead to heart disease, cancers, type 2 diabetes and being over weight.
Corn Syrup: Is a key factors in today’s obesity epidemic, linked to heart disease, increases your risk of fatty liver disease, linked to diabetes, can increase the risk of other serious diseases, contains no essential nutrients.
A heavily processed form of Sugar made from the starch of GMO corn.
Modified Corn Starch: High in calories and carbs but low in essential nutrients. May also increase blood sugar levels and harm heart health.
The way the media promotes these candies for children is absolutely criminal. This is why it is crucial to question what you are told, investigate what is advertised to you on such a large scale, and make your own conclusions. Not that surprising that it’s Flu season, when there is holiday after holiday of sugar and chemicals lowering the immune system. I call this Sugar Poisoning season.
Some Healthier Alternatives?
