The Dangers of Chewing Gum-You Might As Well Be Chewing Rubber And Plastic! (1201 hits)
A brother who practices holistic health with me once said, people who chew gum might as well chew rubber tires. But there is truth to this when you understand the fact that what both gum and automobile tires have in common is that they are both made from RUBBER!
If you’re chewing gum today you are chewing rubber and plastic. That’s right! Whereas chewing gum was originally made from tree sap (chicle from Mexican sapodilla trees), today’s commercial gums don’t have a trace of chicle in them.
Our modern day gums or chewing gums are made up of four major ingredients: Synthetic Rubber, Plastic, Sugar, and Coloring (dye). Modern day gums are produced from synthetic polymers, i.e. styrene-butadiene rubbers and polyvinyl acetate. The final product is composed of 60% sugar, 20% corn syrup, and only 20% actual gum material. Did you know that nylon (as in nylon stockings) is a polymer? This should give you an idea of what you’re putting into your mouth and chewing with gum.
Today’s chewing gums and bubble gums are predominantly SUGAR by volume. Seventy to eighty percent of most gums on the market today are sheer vehicles for sugar, the number one drug on the planet. Just as cigarettes are a conveyor for the addictive drug ‘nicotine,’ so is gum for sugar.
Modern commercial chewing gum originated in Bangor, Maine, in 1850. In 1859, Thomas Adams of New York used “chicle,” the dried latex material of the sapodilla tree of Central America to make chewing gum. Adams received a patent in 1871 for “chicle gum.” In 1885, William J. White of Cleveland, Ohio further refined and improved gum by adding corn syrup and flavoring the gum with peppermint, which was very successful.
In 1893, William Wrigley invented Juicy Fruit and Spearmint gums, greatly improving upon chewing gum. In 1900, Frank Fleer of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania placed a hard shell on gum and called in Chiclets. In 1906 Fleer would also go on to invent Bubble Gum and an employee of the Frank H. Fleer Company, Walter Diemer, would go on to invent the pink colored Double Bubble, bubble gum.
The first recorded history of mixing a gum with sugar can be traced to the Arab sugar traders who mixed the sugar with acacia, known as “gum Arabic.” There is great danger in chewing gum due to numerous toxic and poisonous chemicals used as ingredients in gum. Following are a few of the common harmful ingredient substances used in gum that makes gum harmful to human health.
Aspartame, a known carcinogen and the #1 brain carcinogen ever discovered by science, is a neurotoxin due to conversion into formaldehyde that is produced when aspartame reaches degrees beyond 86 degrees. It is a given or automatic for aspartame to convert into formaldehyde (embalming fluid) when inside the human body due to the natural body temperature of the human body being 98.6 degrees, ten degrees hotter than the turning point whereby aspartame converts into a neurotoxin.
Aspartame in gum is absorbed by the buccal mucosa of the mouth, gums, and the tongue. According to research, because aspartame is absorbed this way, it makes aspartame a far worse poisoning than if given or injected intravenously. The aspartame goes directly into the brain by passing the spinal cord and the blood-brain barrier when it is absorbed in the mouth. The smallest amount of aspartame (like what is contained in a piece of gum) is very dangerous and damaging to the health of the body. When aspartame is ingested into the digestive tract, it breaks down into numerous other poisons.
Aspartame is a silent weapon and a brainwashing agent used on the masses of unconscious people in the United States as well as other countries. It should be avoided at all costs! This chemical causes a plethora of diseases and disorders.
Saccharin is another artificial non-nutritive sweetener and just like aspartame is a known carcinogen. But this doesn’t stop it form being used as an ingredient in gum. Anything consumed that is a non-nutritive will eventually rob your body of nutrition. Like its cousin aspartame, saccharin is also a silent weapon and brainwashing agent. Saccharin should also be avoided at all costs.
High fructose corn syrup has been implicated in our modern epidemic of obesity and diabetes. It is true that people under the age of 45 are “Children of the Corn.” Like Stephen King’s thriller (movie) by the same name, they are reaping the consequences and dietary karma of the commercial food industry’s high fructose corn syrup.
HFCS is near used in everything from soda pop, bread, candy, gum, commercial fruit juices, and even meat. This was introduced into the American food supply as a cheap alternative to sugar. High Fructose Corn Syrup is found in fruit drinks like Capri Sun, Sunny Delight, Snapple, Hawaiian Punch, Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice and in most energy drinks. It is also found in chocolate drinks like Yoohoo, Arizona Tea, SoBe Beverages, cookies, ice cream, Campbell soup, Heinz Ketchup, Ragu, Aunt Jemima Syrup, Hershey's Syrup, Breyers Yogurt, Kraft Barbecue Sauce, Smucker's Preserves and some breakfast cereals. High fructose corn syrup masquerades under the name of crystalline fructose in Glaceau Vitamin Water and some energy drinks. Naive teenagers guzzle this "poison" because they think it is good for them. Then they go on a diet and wonder why they are still gaining weight.
The various ‘color lake’ dyes, i.e. Blue Lake, Green Lake, Red Lake, and Yellow Lake are all derived petroleum and have also been classified as dangerous due to being carcinogenic (cancer causing). Lake dyes are usually used for textile dying and are thus an industrial agent. So what is an industrial agent doing in gum that is chewed in the mouth? I guess it really doesn’t matter because Americans will consume anything.
Petroleum is derived from rocks (stones). Rocks are not food, right? Well, I guess if you use petroleum to make gum it’s a food and especially if you ask the federal United States government (Congress). Believe it or not, but the federal government (Congress), U.S. citizens’ collective master, actually defines chewing gum as food.
Now since when have the U.S. Congressional members become certified food specialists? We’re in more bad shape than we think or know if we are allowing politicians to tell us what is food by defining what food is. Gum is made from SYNTHETIC rubber and plastic and therefore cannot be assimilated by the human body nor does rubber or plastic provide essential nutrients and therefore cannot repair the body, promote growth of the body, nor maintain the human body. Therefore, gum cannot be food!
The chemical BHT is used in gums as a preservative. Remember, anything that has to be preserved is DEAD! But hey, what’s the big deal, right? Aren’t the majority of American citizens (U.S. subjects) the walking dead? BHT is also used in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, JET FUEL, RUBBER, petroleum fluid, and EMBALING FLUID. Now what does this tell you?
Gums will also contain other sugars denoted be the suffix “-ose” and/or “-ol”, i.e. gluc(ose), sucr(ose), dextr(ose), and fruct(ose); or, mannit(ol), sorbit(ol), malit(ol), and xylit(ol). All of these sugars are suspect. Your ‘-ose’ ending sugars are derived from fruits and your ‘-ol’ ending sugars are derived from grains or even wood.
Xylitol would be the safest or least harmful to use unless you can find real fructose. Chewing gum destroys the teeth because of the constant chewing and grinding of the teeth to chew this crap. You cannot help the teeth with the chewing of gum, be it an unhealthy kind of gum, i.e., Wrigley's, Dentyne, Double Mint, etc., or a so-called healthy kind, i.e. Peelu.
Most people don't have a clue that they are habitually chewing gum due to tension. They have been trained that something must always go into the mouth, that they must always be chewing or chomping down on something. Many people have an oral fixation but are totally oblivious and unconscious of this fact.
Have you noticed that in most baseball games or contact sports gum is chewed? Most contact sports create tension due to aggression and these feelings make you grind your teeth. Gum is also insalubrious in that it causes your body to produce digestive juices (hydrochloric acid) in preparation of eating solid food, though you will not be eating any solid food despite the digestive juices produced due to chewing plastic called gum. Therefore, gum is a product that helps to fool your body, just like female birth control pills. But when your 6th Chakra (Third Eye) is closed it’s easy to embrace lies, because the demon (negative quality) of this chakra is LIES.
Folks, contrary to popular opinion, you cannot mask foul breath with gum. Chewing gum on top of foul breath is the equivalent of spraying perfume on dog feces. It defeats the purpose! Foul breath is the result of a toxic and polluted colon so gum can’t possibly help. This is yet another American urban dietary legend. Also, please know that you can’t whiten teeth by chewing gum, so all those brands that purport to whiten teeth while chewing or due to chewing are simply exploiting people with stained teeth whose teeth most likely became stained from drinking soda pop, drinking coffee, and/or smoking symbolic white phalluses called ‘cigarettes.’
In closing, I am doing my best in helping Black people, to become conscious; however, in America, we are simply hit with a barrage of attacks with toxic weaponry and agents in almost every aspect of life here in the Matrix of the United States. We are chewing ourselves into abstract and astronomical stupidity and dumbness.
Feel free to email me at sisterjuanita@yahoo.com regarding your health questions or concerns.
Saturday, July 5th 2014 at 5:02PM
Sister Juanita From Memphis
Hello,
What do you say in the churches when you speak? I take it that you are a Christian, are you?
Saturday, July 5th 2014 at 5:08PM
Harry Watley
Stress is a big problem in this society. What is a good healthy remedy for stress?
Saturday, July 5th 2014 at 5:29PM
Steve Williams
Mr. Watley, I am from the family of positivity and balance, and of right support.
Mr. Williams, I highly recommend Vitamin B tablets, especially B5, as well as vitamin C, are the two most important anti-stress vitamins. Vitamin B5 is found in whole grains, beans, avocados, and vegetables. Vitamin C is very high in food such as camu camu, citrus fruits, kiwi, papaya, and bell peppers.
I plan on offering more healthy remedies for stress in my next writing.
Saturday, July 5th 2014 at 5:45PM
Sister Juanita From Memphis
Ms. Juanita,
I do not ascribe to astrology as a way of guidance. However, I will be the first to say that my zodiac sign (Taurus) fits my personality over 80% and that is a high percentage that arouses my curiosity about astrology. I do not dismiss it.
About what you say at the churches when you speak will give me an insight of your spiritual intelligence. Right off the bat you showed a lack of confidence by answering my question with a question. In my experience it tells me you're not confident or else you would have been bold and answer my question what do you say when you speak in churches.
I am very confident and have twice the faith in God as the Jewish Jesus and the Arab Mohammed had! You don't necessarily have to answer my question if you feel shaky.
Mr. Watley, I am not showing a lack of confidence at all otherwise I wouldn't be here speaking to you today. Whether I am a Christian or part of another religious affiliation is not relevant here, what is important to me as a Black Woman, a Mother Of Civilization is educating as many people as possible on the science of proper nutrition.
Just walk down the street or visit a church on Sunday and you will see the manifest evidence of our ignorance of dietary laws. Where do we start to address the problem? We have to start with the Church, being that it is the spiritual head of the black community. It is not an easy task to get up and speak in front of a congregation full of people every Sunday for at least 10-15 minutes, and issue pamphlets (reading material to take home) where they can began the practice of changing their dietary habits and encourage their children to do the same. Sad thing is, many of the pastors and preachers don't eat properly themselves. I do have a plan, however, and I am working it daily, so they may hopefully change their eating habits before it is too late. Especially the young people.
Sunday, July 6th 2014 at 3:00PM
Sister Juanita From Memphis
Mrs. Juanita,
You asked, where do we start addressing these problems. You said that the manifestation of our dietary ignorance is evidence. I agree with you. What I can do is give you the answer to where we should start addressing these problems.
With all due respect our diet is not important right now since we do not control our foods. It makes sense to me that if we/Black Americans had a country of our own our dietary and health problems would permanently be resolved. Analytically and scientificly what should be on our minds is having a country of our own to be a sovereign people and a legitimate nation soon.
Your approach is a never ending solution, but as I said if we had a country of our own it would permanently put an end to a hundred percent of our problems. Our problem is divine and it is manifested in our very poor conditions for over 500 years. Black Americans are a new race of people.
Again, we must start with having the disire to become a sovereign people in a country of our own! What I am encouraging is the same thing that Prophet Moses encouraged up the Children of Israel. The problem was not dietary. We have the same singular problem, Mrs. Juanita! desiring and imagining Black Americans having a country of our own is that too tall an order for you to wrap your head around?
Sunday, July 6th 2014 at 4:29PM
Harry Watley
Mr. Watley, you say the following "With all due respect our diet is not important right now since we do not control our foods."
I beg to differ!
There are a lot of things that we cannot control in life. We cannot control the weather, the air that we breathe, and we can’t control our foods. But we CAN, in this day and time, control what we put into our mouths. Many people don’t realize today the reason they don’t feel well and the reason they don’t have any energy. They’re dealing with headaches and allergies and sometimes even more serious, chronic illnesses, simply because of what they’re putting into their system everyday.
A hundred years ago, we didn’t have the heart disease and the cancer that we have today. What’s changed? Our diet. Black Americans lead the world in heart disease. We have more cancer here per person than any other nation. We are the heaviest country with more people (especially Black people) overweight. Some of this is hereditary, but much of it is because of the poor habits that we’ve developed concerning eating and because of the food that we are choosing.
We live off of much more processed, refined foods than we did during slavery; foods that have chemicals and preservatives to keep us from starving but they’re not necessarily good for us. We’ve developed bad habits of eating junk foods, eating too much food, and not drinking enough water. All of these things can be harmful to us.
That is why I am trying to interest our people in getting back to being the healthiest, disease free people around.
Sunday, July 6th 2014 at 5:35PM
Sister Juanita From Memphis
Mrs. Juanita,
You haven't gotten my point yet! Black Americans descendents of plantation slaves are living in America totally controlled by White Americans since White Americans owns this country.
Black Americans has no say so over how White America grows and process the country's food supply. My point is that on the other hand if Black Americans had a reasonable and fertile portion of this continent that we could call our very own country with borders then we could have control on our diet because Black Americans will have complete control over the foods we grow and process for I will Black American country.
What I was trying to do was encourage you to have the mind to permanently resolve all of our problems not just our dietary problems. To do this the only permanent solution is that we should think and desire to have a country of our own soon! What say you?
You should join me in accomplishing this great task and at the same time continue with your dietary program, but keep in mind and work towards the goal of our permanent solution to have a country of our own.
Black Americans who go into divinely inherit from the northern borders of North Carolina into the Gulf of Mexico and from the middle of the Mississippi River into the Atlantic Ocean is going to become Black America's country in my life time.
Mr. Watley, one day I may join you in accomplishing this task of yours but from the vantage point that I'm looking from, I have to say "No, thanks." I understand you want to work towards the goal of our permanent solution to have a country of our own but there's a better way to go about it Beloved.
Maybe if I got more positive news in regards to your program my thoughts would change, I have no feelings about it just thoughts. But I wish you health and peace, and love my brother.
Monday, July 7th 2014 at 8:13PM
Sister Juanita From Memphis
Sister Juanita From Memphis,
Well said, well said. You put that issue to rest with style, you was gentle, direct and stayed on point.
Thank You again for sharing your health information on Black In America, keep on posting Sister Juanita From Memphis,
You and I want something good for our Black American people. Your concern is our diet/foods. I want our complete freedom/sovereignty; a country of our own since I am Black America's first genuine prophet!
Now, if what you want is not our permanent solution we are not making any gains am I right. Either my solution is better than yours or yours is better than mines. It is baffling to me that you, Mrs. Juanita would not want Black Americans to be a sovereign people in a country of our own to worship God, pursue life, liberty, happiness and prosperity in our own way and at our own hands.
This means we will have our own Black American prophet, religion and religious book.
It is not a rational and analytical to think that you could make a dent in Black America's poor diet in White America's country. This country belongs to White America just like France belongs to the French people. Our diet is just a part or a piece of our complete problems. It is poor strategy to solve parts and pieces when you have the opportunity to solve the entire problem at one time.
If we intelligently approach our problems we have no other intelligent choice but to desire to become a nation in a country of our own as the children of Israel did! There is no vantage point you have solving a problem in pieces and parts. Our only permanent solution is that we must desire to become a nation and our opportunity is now and it is going to happen.
When you said maybe if you got more positive news your thoughts may change. That is intelligence. I hope you stay intelligent!
Don't lose my point! It is strategically intelligent to solve a problem with one shot then in pieces and parts. What I want you to do if I may out think me because that's what I'm doing to you and it's a good thing since we are on the same side. It would be a win-win for our Black American people. If you can outthink me I will join you. On the other hand if I out think you should join me.
We are looking for a permanent solution. Dr. King did not have it and our permanent solution is not in our diet is in the way think and reason. We are not intelligent people and
Mr. Watley, I try to see the good in everyone I encounter and believe there is a wonderful person inside of you. However, you just need to come off that trip that you're some kind of unique individual who the scriptures prophesied about. It casts you in a "holier than thou" light and makes you appear to be another in a line of people craved for attention and recognition and some lofty title.
Beloved you're no more and no less divine than I (Sister Juanita) am, so if you just come off that trip, I believe you would become a more effective teacher and have more people to pay attention to what you have to say.
Sister juanita, such grace you show. I see you will help us.
Tuesday, July 8th 2014 at 1:19PM
Steve Williams
Mrs. Juanita,
You are not paying attention to what I am saying. This is why I know you haven't grasped what I'm saying yet and that is because what I am saying is a brand-new and only the first genuine prophet of Black Americans would know to say the things I say starting with my first revelation that prophets are racially different.
Let me show you how you haven't grasped what I am saying is because you said this, "However, you just need to come off that trip that you're some kind of unique individual who the scriptures prophesied about." Mrs. Juanita I never said any scripture prophesied about me because I am not in other people's scriptures. I am not written of in the Bible and I am not written of in the Quran. Neither I nor Black Americans are in any one's scriptures. When the time comes Black Americans will write our own scriptures as the Jewish and Arabian people has done and is evidence in the Torah/Old Testament for the Jewish people and for the Arabian people you have the Quran. When a prophet has been anointed to the people only then can a people write scriptures. Our religion is named LIFE and it means resurrection. Only a first time prophet of a people has the divine authority to give religion to his people. Prophet Abraham was the first prophet of the Jewish people and Prophet Abraham gave the Jewish people Judaism. Mohammed was the first prophet for the Arabian people and Prophet Mohammed gave the religion of Islam to his Arabian people. I am Black America's first genuine prophet and I have the divine authority to give Black Americans our religion and I have.
The name of our religion is LIFE and it means resurrection. My divine authority is in God. The same God that gave Prophet Abraham the religion of Judaism and Prophet Mohammed was given the religion of Islam and to me God gave the religion LIFE. This is how people come by their religion. In other words, if your prophet did not give you the religion that you are now practicing then you are wrong because you have the wrong religion Mrs. Juanita, I am not craving attention I have the attention of God and you and the rest of my Black American people have my attention so all three elements are sitting pretty; Black Americans, God and Prophet Harry. That is the order in which things go. Black Americans first then God second then the prophet last.
Having said all this. Let us get back to the original issue. I am not implying that you stop what you are doing because what you doing are good. What I am trying to do to you a shuffle your brain parts around to see things analytically, scientifically and rationally to have no doubt that our only permanent solution is that we become a sovereign nation of people in a country of our own and it's going to happen.
Black Americans in my lifetime is going to divine inherit from the northern borders of North Carolina into the Gulf of Mexico and from the middle of the Mississippi rebel into the Atlantic Ocean will become Black America's country. Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty we are free at last.
Sure, White America will take a hard but it won't be long before they will be wishing us well and glad that we are finally free and out of their hands and responsibility
Once again you are trying to HIJACK Sister Juanita of Memphis fantastic blog full of health information to better the lives of our people who have physical, life or death health conditions.
This is what I call disrespect for our people, when they come to share credible information and here you come with your BS. Who gives a damn about your view point anyway, if you want to make a point, start a blog.
Oh By The Way that's could be the reason why you are here in the first place. You have no one to talk with!
Sister Juanita From Memphis had beautifully stated that we can control what we put into our mouths and we also can control what comes out of our mouths as well.
If you missed the gentile way she put things, now hear this: TAKE YOUR BS AWAY FROM THIS BLOG AND GET LOST.
Mr. Watley, I am paying attention to what you are saying, however like I stated earlier, until I get more positive news in regards to your program --such as what charities you give to the community, what services you give that heals the community--I cannot help. Again I wish you love and success in your endeavors.
Tuesday, July 8th 2014 at 9:36PM
Sister Juanita From Memphis
Mrs. Juanita,
The difference between our thinking is whether our dietary needs are more important than our own complete salvation e.g. our sovereignty in a country of our own is our complete salvation. How difficult is that to understand?
I am for your dietary program! Let me say it again, I am for your dietary program, but what I am saying is that our foods is not as important as our complete salvation. I am for our complete salvation first and that would seem to me that I am show when more intelligence than you are and I am supposed to be more intelligent than you are because I am your prophet as well as all Black Americans. I am for reaching for a permanent solution and our only permanent solution is that we must desire to become a sovereign people. How could you argue against that?
You asked me about charity organizations. I’ll tell you again that I am a real live prophet to Black Americans only. I am a prophet anointed by the same God that anointed Prophet Jewish Jesus and the Arab Mohammed. Prophets are concern about resolving the biggest problem of their people first and smaller problems will resolve themselves. That is all that I am saying and I don’t understand why you are not agreeing with me.
I do not understand why you would not agree with me that our permanent solution is a country of our own. The first thing having our own country indicates is unity of 41 million Black Americans that is in poor health because we don't control our food sources. But, if we were in our own country we Black Americans would be controlling our food sources which would make a big dent in our poor health and failing dietary needs.
I am simply presenting to you the question is it strategically in our favor to resolve our biggest problem first rather than the multiple of small problems and dietary is one of the smaller problems Black Americans have!
Mrs. Juanita continue informing us of our poor diet and astrology. Astrology is very interesting to me as well as your advising us on how to naturally/organically treat our specific ills. One of my biggest problems is my cholesterol. Cholesterol runs high in my family on my father's side. So I am enjoying your blogs. But, I want you to keep in mind that our only permanent solution is our desire to unite and have a country of our own!
You say that I am disrespecting our people, when they come to share credible information and here I come with my BS. You say who gives a damn about my view point anyway; if you want to make a point, start a blog. We also make points by inter-acting on other member’s blogs, stupid! Mr. Gray I really wish you would stop haunting me! I believe I have credible information as well. You believe you have credible information as well. But when you compare and contrast your credible information against my credible information is where the rubber hits the road and your credible information does not stand up against mines and it shouldn't because I am our prophet and not you!
I can see you have disrespect for our Black American people rather than me because you want be a block to my divine information to our people and I called that extreme contempt for our Black American people. How can we advance? You are just a deacon and you are jealous and envious of me because I am a prophet.
What you know from the Jewish Bible is not greater than what God has given me to raise and lead Black Americans out of our bondage and slavery here. In White America as Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt 4000 years ago. The same God today has begun to do the same thing for Black Americans as was done for the children of Israel.
You should care about my point of view because it's a view that will unite Black Americans. As a prophet I have prophesied that Black Americans in my lifetime will come into our own country. I have described where our country will be.
Mr. Gray you are on the wrong side of history making still claiming the Jewish Jesus as your Lord and Savior and you are not a Jewish man. Psychologically you are putting yourself down and behind the Jewish people. Psychologically you are making your mind belief that you are less than the Jewish people when all people are equal in God's eyes. Since prophets are racially different the Jewish Jesus cannot be your prophet/Lord and Savior. All prophets must come out of their own race and Jesus did not come out of the Black American race. You are extremely ignorant and stupid!
Lastly, Mr. Gray aren't you subliminally disrespected Mrs. Juanita to order me off her blog? If I am to be ordered off Mrs. Juanita's blog don't you think it is Mrs. Juanita's right to do so and not your right?
How many times must Sister Juanita From Memphis tell you like the lady she is to GET LOST HARRY.
1. Beloved you're no more and no less divine than I (Sister Juanita) am, so if you just come off that trip, I believe you would become a more effective teacher and have more people to pay attention to what you have to say.
2. --I cannot help.
Again I wish you love and success in your endeavors.
