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March 23, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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All right, hello everybody and welcome.
This is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, joined by Jonathan Lansman today here in the Natural News studios.
And you may notice we have a lot of food and a lot of cereal products.
And we've got Mikey, yeah, the Mikey from the 1970s cereal television commercials on the screen behind us.
That's because today's episode is about cereals and children.
Not just cereals, but a few other things as well.
Basically food for children.
Jonathan, welcome to the show.
I notice you're hiding behind a giant box of kicks.
What's up with that?
Well, I'm not really hiding because, you know, this is something everybody could be proud of giving their children.
I mean, I'm reading on the back here.
It says, start the morning simply, start life right.
It also has something really cool here.
It says, great kicks taste equals happy kids.
Oh my gosh.
It must.
Because it says it right here.
It's got whole grains and it's got a check mark on the top.
A check mark.
This is real food, right, Mike?
I mean, you're the editor of naturalnews.com.
You know all about this stuff.
You research it.
Is there food in here?
Alright, well here's what's really in there.
Genetically modified corn.
That's right.
Even though, does it say whole grain guaranteed?
It's got a check mark.
It says whole grain corn, cornmeal, sugar, corn bran, salt, brown sugar syrup.
Brown sugar has got to be good for you.
Oh, of course it is.
Here, let's show them on the camera.
Look.
Look at the check mark right there.
Whole grain guaranteed kicks.
Kid tested, mother approved.
That's the slogan.
But you notice they don't say anywhere on this box genetically modified kicks.
Because our philosophy here is no GMOs, right?
No GMOs.
So we have to forget this.
Forget the kicks.
Toss it.
It's out of here.
Alright, let's go next to Kellogg's Frosted, because that was a General Mills product.
Let's go to Kellogg's product, and let me show people the two different boxes that we have here.
It's kind of interesting.
This is the box that Kellogg's had on the shelf before I did my documentary called The Blueberry Deception.
And you'll notice on the side, it's got blueberries right there, and it's talking about all these blueberries.
Well, after I expose the big lie, which is that there are no blueberries in this cereal, Nope.
They changed the right panel of their product to be this.
It's a did you know section and they changed the back also.
See?
This is what the back used to be.
This is what the back is now.
They took all the blueberries off the back but they kept them on the front.
Watch this.
In the old box, it says blueberry muffin naturally and artificially flavored with little blueberries here, even though there's no blueberries in it.
Now it says blueberry muffin naturally and artificially flavored in a harder to read color.
It made it smaller after about two million people saw that video of yours.
Exactly.
So this is a great example of a cereal that shows fruit on the box and it's even named after fruit, but the fruit isn't in it.
Alright, here's what's really in it.
Blue number two, that's a petrochemical derived artificial color.
That's not food.
No, that's not food.
Red number 40.
That's got to be food.
Got to be, because it's got 40.
It's got to be 40 something in there.
And corn syrup.
Corn syrup.
There we go.
Let's see.
Modified corn starch.
More corn.
More red number, 40, and more blue number, too.
Okay, that is what's called a blueberry-flavored crunchlet.
Wow.
A crunchlet.
It's made of sugar, corn cereal, soybean oil, which is usually genetically modified, modified corn starch, water, naturally and artificial flavors, glycerin, more corn syrup, and more artificial colors.
That's what you get in your blueberry frosted mini-wheats.
Can you imagine how many of these they sell and how many they wouldn't sell if they just put on the box?
Come and get your genetically modified organisms.
Yeah, good for your kids.
I bet Mikey likes it.
Let's move on.
Let's get these out of here.
Let's move on to Total Cereal, Total Blueberry Pomegranate.
This is classic right here.
That's the actual name of the cereal, Total Blueberry Pomegranate.
Guess what's not in this box, Jonathan?
Food?
Blueberries and pomegranates.
In fact, there are absolutely no blueberries and no pomegranates in this box whatsoever.
And the ingredients list shows us the same thing that we saw with the Kellogg's product.
Once again, here we go.
Red 40 Lake.
Blue 2 Lake.
That's the same thing as blue number 2, red number 40.
And sucralose.
Oh, yeah.
Artificial chemical sweetener in here.
This is no food at all.
Look at this, Mike.
It says 100%.
I don't know if you can see it on the label here.
100% nutrition, Mike.
It's right on the front, too.
100% nutrition.
See?
Such deception.
One bowl, 100% nutrition.
What else?
Whole grain guaranteed.
Another check mark to make you think if you're a parent shopping for this.
It's been improved.
That you're getting something good.
This, get this out of here, man.
This is a darn good one.
The cereals are just falling.
It's where it belongs in a garbage dump.
Okay, what else?
Let's talk about something good.
Here's something.
This is the first time I've actually seen this product.
This is called Organic Puffs Finger Food for Babies, and it's the Happy Baby brand.
Check it out.
Check out the ingredients.
It's actually sort of a puffed Maybe even a freeze-dried.
Being good foods for babies.
Yeah, check out the ingredients.
Here we go.
Organic rice, organic whole oats, organic wheat, organic apple juice concentrate, organic whole grain brown rice, organic wheat starch, and organic banana.
Plus a few vitamins and minerals that they add in, a small amount, of course.
But that's a natural and organic food.
I think it's even USDA certified right there.
There's the logo, USDA. Organic Puffs, happybabyfood.com.
This is the kind of thing that's good for kids.
There are also some good cereals.
We should have brought some Nature's Path cereal.
I just didn't have them here.
But Nature's Path is the best cereal company.
It's truly organic.
It's truly non-GMO. And everything they sell is organic and non-GMO. You know Nature's Path, right?
Yeah, sure.
I mean, the major food companies, they should take note of this and maybe try to copy some of this.
Yeah.
Yeah, try to do something right.
Now, speaking of doing something right, I almost got that off camera.
Rhythm Superfoods.
Thank you, Sebastian.
Rhythm Superfoods.
This is a snack chip that's 100% truly natural, truly organic.
It's actually USDA certified organic.
It's dried kale chips with...
No MSG, no yeast extract, no excitotoxins, but it's got natural ingredients such as sunflower seeds, carrot powder, apple cider vinegar, onion powder, lemon juice concentrate, some spices and sea salt.
You know Rhythm Superfoods, right?
Yeah, you can make these things without artificial colors and dyes.
I didn't even know you could do something like this.
This is a miracle!
It's truly a miracle.
If you've been eating Doritos all your life, this is a miracle of health.
That's good.
Alright, another product we like is Annie's.
Or you want to go to Sun Chips?
Well, whatever you want to do next, that's fine with me.
Let's talk about Annie's.
We like Annie's.
Annie's Organic Ketchup.
Alright, if you're going to buy ketchup, folks, get something that's truly natural and avoid high fructose corn syrup.
Annie's Organic Ketchup is a good, trusted brand.
Of organic ketchup.
Now what's interesting though is I think even Hunt's and Heinz, they are now, or at least Hunt's is promoting no high fructose corn syrup right on their ketchup bottle.
Yeah, they're getting the message.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Yeah.
That shows the difference that we're all making, you and us and everybody out there who's talking about the links between high fructose corn syrup and diabetes and obesity, mood disorders, all these other things.
No high fructose corn syrup.
Let's see, what is anti-sweetened with?
You know, Mike, that's a really important point, too.
When people feel like they don't know how they're going to make changes, just vote with your dollars.
It's very powerful.
These companies may not seem like they're changing or moving, but they really are.
And the more we buy these kinds of products, the more they're going to listen to what we all are looking for.
That's true.
I've seen soup companies say no MSG. I've seen ketchup companies say no high fructose corn syrup.
I've seen other companies out there now saying no GMOs.
Yeah.
That's pretty amazing.
It's actually happening.
Anyway, this is sweetened with cane sugar, which is the better natural sweetener.
We used to drink cane juice down in Ecuador.
All right.
Don't let that go too far.
This is nice and polished.
It's actually a good surface.
We could throw shots of vodka across this table, too.
We should review a bunch of alcohol for another show.
Non-GMO, of course.
Yeah, I actually don't drink.
People know I don't drink.
Cheddar chips.
So that's not going to work.
Alright, I do drink my smoothie.
I got my organic avocado.
There's absolutely no vodka, I promise.
Alright, here's one that we don't like.
Sunchips, it says all natural.
This bag is loud, so we gotta watch out how loud this is.
It says all natural right here, but guess what?
What's in it?
Genetically modified corn.
There you go.
Whole corn, not organic, not non-GMO. Plus, check this out, it also has yeast extract in it.
Well, you probably can't see it on the camera, but it has yeast extract in it.
Yeast sounds natural.
Ah, but the extract.
See, what they do is they grow these yeast cultures in a nasty vat of material, then they extract the free glutamate, and it becomes a hidden source of MSG, or free glutamate, a monosodium glutamate type effect.
Right, MSG has a lot of names.
People have got to educate themselves on what it is.
It's hidden in plain sight.
It's right on the labels.
Yeast extract is huge, folks.
Watch out for yeast extract.
And it's in a lot of products that are sort of marketed as if they're natural or if they're vegetarian.
You'll find it in vegetarian hamburger patties.
Look at this.
Sunchips says, naturally delicious.
So they're trying to use the word natural in their packaging.
And, you know, people know the sun is natural, so it's sun chips.
Almost like you're getting a tan or getting some vitamin D, you know, it's got that sort of association.
Yeah, it's important to understand all this stuff that you're talking about, it's all perfectly legal to do this.
It has nothing to do with what's healthy.
That's right.
So just using words just all in the right way and putting it nice on the label to deceive the public.
That's right.
And in any case, we don't like sun chips.
Get them out of here.
All right.
Gone.
Next, Mountain House Storable Foods.
This is a camping food product that I found while shopping at Walmart for toxic products.
And there's a lot of them there, by the way.
Oh, you've got to love the instant meal products like Ensure.
What's the other one?
Oh, yeah.
Those are enriched beverages for people who find it hard to get their nutrition day to day.
They want them to suck down Ensure.
Yeah.
It's like milk protein.
In fact, they sell infant formula at Walmart.
I don't even think it's milk anymore.
It's casein.
They have the casein and then the high fructose corn syrup.
But Walmart sells infant formula that is over 40% corn syrup.
Yeah, I'm going to show that on camera too.
But this, Mountain House.
What's wrong with Mountain House?
Well, check out the ingredients.
This is their enriched, what is this?
Yeah, what's the first three ingredients?
Spaghetti with meat sauce.
Yeah.
Alright.
Enriched spaghetti, which is nothing that terrible about that.
Tomato paste, cooked beef.
No, but right away when it says enriched, you know what they're trying to tell everybody right there?
Yeah, it's a processed, refined pasta.
There's nothing to it.
It's not even a valuable anything and they've got to enrich it.
They're already admitting it's got no value.
But here's what I want to point out to people that's on this is hydrolyzed vegetable protein, another hidden source of free glutamate or MSG. Yeah, and you put the word vegetable right in the middle just to make you feel nice and comfortable at home.
Right, like it's vegetables.
This is basically extracted soy protein typically.
This is not the cooking that you had from your mother when you were at home.
And then it has torula yeast.
Torula yeast is another little keyword that companies use to put in chemical taste enhancers.
Torula yeast, it's the new one they're using.
I've been a food scientist and it's amazing what they talk about.
These guys work on it night and day trying to introduce chemicals onto your tongue to trick you into thinking that you're eating proteins or fats or all of these things.
So your brain and your body feels like you're having some food when in reality it's all chemicals and it's all faking you out.
That's right.
And they're proud of it.
This is what they do all the time.
If you think about the 1970s when Mikey was eating this cereal, that was healthier than the stuff people are eating today because they didn't have genetically modified corn.
It was actually food ingredients.
Yeah, it was actual food.
Back then, even though, and you know, the cow's milk back then didn't have as many hormones and didn't have as many antibiotics in it as they have today.
Yeah, it's more polluted now.
Yeah, so this was actually probably a wholesome meal according to today's standards.
That's almost organic.
It was better.
That's why they figured they had to enhance it now, you know, going into the 80s and the 90s and stuff.
They had to make it even better.
Anyway, Mountain House also, check this out.
It has textured soy flour.
Soy?
Yeah.
There it is again.
Sounds like food.
Genetically modified.
Soy is the normal ingredient that they use when they're buying soy.
Now, genetically modified organisms, don't they?
Well, we're going to get rid of this, right?
We are.
Toss it.
Toss it.
There we go.
No GMO. Don't they put like pesticides in that and they inject it right into the food, right?
It sounds yummy for the seed to have pesticides in it.
Well, the BT corn, for example, grows its own pesticides in the kernels.
That sounds safe.
So that when the bugs eat the corn, they die from neurological damage.
That's how it kills the bugs.
You know, it's an amazing thing.
I was shocked that I spoke to Eric Herm.
He's a farmer here in Texas.
He was saying how when he buys these genetically engineered seeds, not that he does, but when farmers do that, they actually don't grow their crops any better at all.
These big agri-companies, they're selling it to these farmers like, this is great.
Buy GMO seeds.
It's going to make crops grow better.
Everything's going to be so much better.
And the farmers, they're spending so much more money on the seeds, but their crops aren't much better at all.
Crops are failing.
This is the other big story, is that the genetically modified corn crops, the BT corn crops, are failing across the nation.
Farmers are going bankrupt.
In India, they're committing suicide.
Do you know they're talking about these bags costing $300, $350 a bag for the seeds?
And regular farmers would just go out and cultivate their own seeds to plant something like $30 to $50.
That's all it is.
So now they're buying this stuff.
Inflated prices, and you're dependent on Monsanto.
It's going right into the kids' cereals.
That's the big thing.
Show a poison.
The poison's going right into the cereals.
So, parents, please, educate yourself about this.
Yeah, just say no to GMOs, all right?
Educate yourself about this issue.
Educate yourself when you're buying cereals that advertise fruit on the front.
Make sure it actually has fruit in it.
Oh yeah, here's some more good products.
Let's talk about this.
Nutiva, chia seeds.
Is that what these are?
Yeah, the chia seeds.
We like Nutiva.
They've got hemp seeds, chia seeds, coconut oil.
John Rulak is the founder of Nutiva, a great company.
Very good products.
Check those out.
And I want to mention this product.
This is actually a body deodorant from Crystal.
What's the company here?
TheCrystal.com.
And what's interesting, this is like a natural deodorant.
What's interesting about this is you notice it's kind of a pink color and it has a little pink ribbon on top.
Can you see the pink ribbon?
Now, a woman shopping for this might think, oh, that supports breast cancer research.
Yeah, I never understood that, though.
We're supporting breast cancer.
That's actually what they say.
Yeah, I know.
Just think about the language.
They're not supporting the end of breast cancer.
No, support breast cancer.
Why would you want to support breast cancer?
No, it doesn't make any sense.
I know that's not what they say they mean, but listen to the language.
Yeah, but the point is that this doesn't have any affiliation with Komen, which is good, because I do not buy anything that is affiliated with Komen, and I don't think you should either, because that money doesn't really go to cure cancer.
That's a whole different story.
What about the little ribbon?
This ribbon is a clever little indicator that I think is meant to say that if you use this instead of your regular deodorants, you're going to help prevent breast cancer, because regular deodorants, Jonathan, contain aluminum.
And aluminum is, yeah, you don't want that right near your lymph nodes, right near your breast tissue.
Regular deodorants contain toxic cancer-causing chemicals.
So if you avoid those and you use something like this, you're going to help prevent breast cancer.
All due respect to everybody out there, I made a really nice video a long time ago that really talked about how you could really prevent cancer.
It was that campaign by buying fried chicken.
Oh yeah, Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Yeah, I mean, whatever fried chicken.
I think it's just a great idea.
If you buy a lot of fried chicken, you probably reduce the likelihood of women getting breast cancer, don't you think?
So, yeah, I mean, you know, buckets for a cure, that's just one example.
I just think it's a great educational tool, teaching women, families, anybody who cares about, you know, this whole issue of breast cancer and getting rid of it from our planet.
If we just buy a lot of fried chicken, we're going to be all right.
I think Coleman should change their slogan to bucket loads of BS. That would be a little more appropriate.
Have some pink TP or something.
But look, this is crazy.
If anybody out there thinks you're going to cure cancer by eating fried chicken, right?
You're insane.
This is totally insane.
You've got to pick up a piece of this stuff and actually feel it in your hands and look at it.
I'm telling you, it's not food.
It's slippery, greasy, nasty.
You just go to my video.
You see people, like, when I show it to them outside the health food store where I was, and I say, do you think this will cure breast cancer?
They jump away like it's an alien creature or something.
They get scared.
Jonathan did a really great video on this.
Go to naturalnews.tv and search for his video.
What do you call it?
KFC for the Cure?
Or YouTube.
You can check it out on YouTube as well.
It's there.
You just got to search for it.
Kentucky Fried Chicken Cure for Cancer.
Look, if they're going to promote this as curing cancer, why not just have little pink crack pipes and crack for the cure?
Your little crack dealer can give you something.
They give a little kickback to Komen.
Komen crack for the cure.
You know, why not?
It's just as stupid as this.
No, no, no.
You're a great marketing consultant.
There's a lot of places where, you know, Coleman could really get more money so that we could fight breast cancer.
They should hook up with the crack dealers.
We should have mobile vans with that radiation machine.
What do they call that?
The mammograms.
Oh, mammograms.
Yeah, the ones that cause cancer.
They should go through all the neighborhoods and just give it out for free to women.
Well, they do.
That's where your money goes.
When you buy the fried chicken, the money goes to Komen to pay for the mobile mammogram vans that target poor black neighborhoods in America because they know that when black women get breast cancer, it's far more serious and far more lucrative for the cancer treatment industry that gives money to Komen for the cure.
You know, another thing is I'm spending a couple minutes with you here.
I'm getting really confused about this.
Prevention of breast cancer is getting this radiation machine in front of you, put your breast in there, and then just like bombard it with radiation.
How does that help you to prevent breast cancer?
I'm just not getting it yet.
With all these millions of dollars, all this research, and we're supposed to just...
Test women, if they've got it or not, that's prevention?
But hey, Jonathan, McDonald's and Coca-Cola, they sponsor diabetes walks for the cure.
So clearly, drinking soda and eating junk food must prevent diabetes, just like eating fried chicken prevents cancer.
And then good dental care is going to the office, get your cavities taken care of, let them rip out your tooth, let them put amalgams in with all that mercury, and then you're all That's right.
When you check out and you pay, you can just get a lollipop at the end and go into your car.
That's health care.
That's health care.
Yeah, it's just like freedom.
Freedom is giving up your rights.
Sure.
Just give up the Bill of Rights.
You don't need any of those first ten amendments especially.
Just give those up and then you're free.
Well, if I can't speak at all, you know, and be afraid of speaking my mind...
Why would you need to speak?
Well, that will make me feel much safer, right?
The government can tell you what to say.
Komen for the Cure, they're liked by the government and the National Institutes of Health.
Their message is what's approved.
Why would you want to say anything else?
Yeah, it would probably be, you know, we got to be careful.
If I was going to say that breast cancer won't be reduced by eating fried chicken, I might be viewed as some sort of radical.
I think you're a radical, a possible terrorist, Johnson.
I better change my views immediately and get counseling.
Well, have some of the cereal, the genetically modified cereal.
It will re-engineer your brain.
I will.
It'll really light me up at night, too, I'm sure, when it's dark as well.
Yes, indeed.
All right, well, thanks for watching, folks.
We hope you enjoyed this helpful segment.
Was this an educational piece?
I'm not sure.
I think we're just goofing around, basically.
But trying to offer some information at the same time.
Let's go get some pink fried chicken.
What do you say?
Yeah, I'm feeling very hungry.
Thanks.
All right, let's go.
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