Where do the products come from? Why do foods such as cookies, chips, French fries, and fried wings provoke the development of cancer? Fixed price stores

Parting. Having received the news that my wife was leaving to stay with her parents, I went through: - denial (it can’t be that she left); - anger (how can you leave me alone?!); - bidding (she can’t stay, no, even if I stop throwing my socks away for this); - depression (I am lonely and no one needs me). I admitted that for seven whole days I would have to lead a bachelor’s life in a bachelor’s apartment.

Questions
Having closed the door behind my missus, I realized that separation was separation, and lunch was on schedule. The last time I had to survive on my own was during my student years. Then you could survive on dumplings every day, and cook pasta and stew on holidays. But what do bachelors eat when they are no longer young and their stomachs can no longer digest the bearing?

It turned out that the bachelor's refrigerator does not generate any notes. And where can I get a list of products? I'm starting to think that all these letters on the refrigerator did not appear on their own. An Internet search raised more questions than answers. Why must there be 6 kiwis in a bachelor’s apartment? Why do I need tomato paste if I can buy ketchup? What to do with gelatin?

Where do the products come from?
The list has been compiled, all surplus items such as a new drill have been crossed out, only a case of beer has been taken into account for the week (ours play football on Wednesday, and hockey on the weekend, you understand). In general, I am taking care of the family budget. But where to go with this list? When I was in a popular store for the first letter of the alphabet, I realized that it was better not to repeat this. I understood a lot then. If you think it’s difficult to fight for a piece of tiny cake for the whole office, then you haven’t tried to get sausage at a discount. If you think that the roads in Moscow are boorish, dummies and traffic jams, walk with your cart through the endless rows of this store. Supermarkets within walking distance do not take so much time and nerves, but there is not much choice there either. And I want to eat tasty and varied food. My wife says that we only eat healthy foods, so I’m used to certain brands and varieties that are not available in every Four or Six.

A miracle happened - each other saved the other!
Having reached a dead end, he went to a neighbor. Above me there is a young guy without a regular woman, he looks well-fed. I asked him if it’s because of the dumplings that he has such a healthy complexion or if his salary in restaurants is enough to eat every day? It turned out that he cooks himself. Okay, in our age of multicookers and video tutorials on YouTube, I can believe this. But I’m sorry that an active young man with a 5/2 job spends the whole evening at the grocery store. Opening the full refrigerator, he said that he goes to grocery stores from time to time and only out of impulse. Falling to my knees, I prayed: “Seryoga! Teach me, master! And then a new world opened up before me.

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It turned out that I also don’t have to go to the store - at work I send the list, and in the evening both I and the groceries go to my home. Well, that is. We are traveling separately, of course, but we are meeting at my place. Or I sit down to watch hockey and realize that after our team fights with the Canadians, I will need pancakes with maple syrup to fully celebrate the victory. But I don't run to the nearest store (have you ever seen maple syrup at the nearest store?). I just get both microwavable pancakes and syrup straight home!

And then the world community lay low, waiting for the secret to be revealed. Perhaps I will disappoint the most impressionable, but this is not magic and not the eighth wonder of the world (although I would argue with that). It turned out that there is home delivery of groceries and it is handled by instamart.ru (Seryoga says that it’s better to buy from them, but I trust Seryoga in such matters), this is an online grocery store in Moscow. In addition, the first delivery is free - it would be a shame not to try. In fact, there are not only products, but almost the entire Metro assortment, but let the wife deal with this upon her return.

I lived with Instagram so well-fed and freely that I climbed several steps in the pyramid of needs at once, stopped thinking about survival and began to make a plan on how to please my wife when she returns. What's the best gift? That's right, made with your own hands. And also one that will show that I can now do better than her in the kitchen. And I remembered how she set the table for the holidays. Salads, main courses, dessert - she’ll be surprised!

Surprise
A short search made me the owner of a book of her recipes with my favorite dishes marked, and there is also a list of products to order. While they were driving, I called a taxi to her train - I would meet her at home, at the festive table.

During the cooking process, it turned out that I couldn’t do better than her in the kitchen. In general, this is a dangerous place. There is a cannonade of eggs in the microwave, the grater tears the skin off your fingers, mustard stains the last pair of clean socks, and boiling brew from the pan pours onto the stove. Guys, take my word for it, you don’t need to try to cook like your wife, we can’t do it! And if you do, make sure you have a patch and iodine at home.

Don't part with your loved ones
Everything ended well - I survived and even set a nice table. My wife said that everything was delicious (she is very polite), and I brought a bouquet prepared in advance, knelt in front of her and told her how much I missed her and how the house immediately became brighter with her arrival. And it’s not because I never want to cook for myself again, I just love it.

P.s. It turned out that my wife had already heard about Instamart, so I couldn’t surprise her. But, like a real man, I was the first to scout out this service and put purchases on stream. For which I have all sorts of thanks, and my wife - a few extra free hours a week.

Cheapness always attracts the opportunity to save money and spend money on something else. But products at low prices do not always meet all safety standards, and it is better not to waste money on your health. Therefore, you should find out in advance where the goods in the “all for 39” store come from before purchasing there. Nobody wants to bring toxic items into the house, especially when there are children in the family and concern for their health comes to the fore.

Fixed price stores

Networks with a fixed price for all goods appeared in Russia a long time ago and will exist for quite a long time:

• For some items, prices may exceed the market average, especially when it comes to food products.
• But in terms of tools and other household items, such shops have no equal; the prices for these goods are always much lower.
• Originality and low price allows you to attract enough buyers.
• But economic instability forces the price tag to change too often and, unfortunately, only upward.

It is at this moment that the question may arise in inquiring minds: “ But what is the cost of all these products, if even by selling everything for 39 rubles, the store makes a profit? ».

It should be taken into account that the final price includes advertising, rental premises, logistics services, and payment to hired personnel. It turns out that everything sold in such store chains costs pennies, but does this indicate a low level of quality?

Where do the goods on store shelves come from?

According to all modern standards, the country of origin must be indicated on any product. So you can get the answer to your question by visiting your nearest store and reading the labels. In most cases in China will be listed as the manufacturer, you can stumble upon goods from Russia, and recently - from Brazil:

1. It just so happens that right next door we have one of the most powerful industrial economies in the world with a workforce of many millions.
2. The cost of everything produced in China is not too high.
3. Even taking into account the costs of delivery and customs duties, the profit is enormous.
4. The only problem is that in China few people are interested in the quality of what is exported.
5. Our businessmen are also not always particularly conscientious; for the sake of their own benefit, they may well not notice a serious defect.

And although Rospotrebnadzor is trying to monitor the quality of products, the organization’s resources are not enough to check everyone.

And in terms of obtaining compensation and filing claims against the manufacturer, serious problems may arise. So think carefully before purchasing Chinese-made products. This country knows how to do quality work, but for good work it also demands appropriate payment. So far, not the best products are coming to our country.

Export from Latin America

Brazil and South American countries have recently among our potential friends and economic partners. So their products at low prices are gradually taking over the shelves of our stores. But the process is going too slowly and so far we can only say that:

• Such crafts are not much different from Chinese goods.
• At most, they can be considered as an alternative in case of interruptions in supplies from the Celestial Empire.
• In the technological aspect, Latin American countries have never been leaders, so most of their production is technically and morally outdated.
• There are even more problems with delivery, because in order to reach our shelves, goods need to cross the ocean.

So Russians may be interested in Brazil as an alternative resort and importer of grain crops. Otherwise, there is nothing there that cannot be found in Russia or any neighboring country.

Problems in the domestic economy

Despite the promoted theme of import substitution, there are not so many high-quality domestic goods in such stores.

All this puts our economy in a difficult situation. It cannot be called hopeless, because there are examples of states that began in much worse conditions and over the course of several decades they achieved success. But to change the economic situation and overcome the crisis, it is necessary paradigm shift in minds- a change in attitude towards domestic products, a willingness to develop something of our own rather than invest in foreign projects.

Already from such a basis you can start and do something of really high quality.

Where do the cheapest goods in stores come from?

Most of the products on the shelves of fixed-price stores come from three countries:

• China.
• Russia.
• Brazil.

This monotony is due either with a low production cost or with no duties and support for the domestic economy. Whose goods to buy is up to you. But when purchasing Russian goods, you invest every ruble in your manufacturer, leaving capital in the country.

But this does not mean that it is necessary to abandon quality goods in favor of domestic ones. Healthy competition forces companies to develop, come up with something new and constantly improve the level of quality. And it would be stupid to sacrifice your own comfort and encourage low-quality products just out of a sense of patriotism.

The times have long passed when it was better not to know where the goods in the “Everything for 39” store come from. Everything imported and sold in the Russian Federation subject to control, varying levels of thoroughness. And although there is no 100% guarantee yet, almost everything that you can find on the shelves of your nearest store is absolutely safe.

Video about products from FixPrice: Everything for 39 rubles

In this video, Alena will talk about her purchases at the FixPrice store, how she bought 8 products for 39 rubles, and what quality they are:

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I took the time to google it for you: A large study conducted by a group of physiologists from the Harvard School of Public Health, working under the leadership of Dr. En Pan, MD, showed that the fears of vegetarians are absolutely justified: consumption of red meat is clearly correlated with a higher risk of death from cardiovascular diseases, certain types of cancer and metabolic diseases, and replacing mammalian meat with fish and poultry, on the contrary, significantly reduces this risk. In their analysis of the long-term effects of a meat diet, En Pan and his colleagues relied on a statistical study whose scale was impressive: a total of 37,698 men and 83,644 women took part, whose health status along with diet was monitored for 28 years in the second group and 22 years old - in the first. During this time, 23,926 deaths were recorded in the two study groups, of which 5,910 were from cardiovascular diseases and 9,464 from cancer.

The study found that overall life expectancy dropped by 13% when eating a daily serving of freshly cooked meat slightly smaller than the size of the palm, and by as much as 20% when consuming a daily serving of pre-cooked meat—one hot dog or two strips of bacon. For diseases that caused death in both groups, the dependence of risks on red meat consumption was as follows: the risk of cardiovascular diseases increased by 18% and 21% for fresh and processed meat, respectively, and cancer - by 10% and 16%.

Lyon, France, October 2015.









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WHO/IARC. Estimates of consumption of red meat and meat products: www.who.int
WHO/IARC. Questions and answers about the carcinogenicity of red meat and meat products: www.who.int

Almost none. However, do not rush to put minuses, but first read to the end. You can also express your thoughts on this matter, I will be happy to discuss it.

Briefly: the article that Leska is talking about is questionable, WHO does not recommend becoming vegetarians, and the dangers of meat specifically are poorly studied.

The "China Study" is what can rightly be called complete nonsense. Detailed scientific criticism: https://youtu.be/TKD5XEm1TtA

There is a report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2015/pdfs/pr240_E.pdf, where we read: “red meat as probably carcinogenic to humans” - “red meat, Possibly carcinogenic to humans." We pay attention to the word “possibly”, i.e. is not a fact.

It also mentions the carcinogenicity of processed meat. Processed meats include bacon, sausage, hot dogs, salami, corned beef, beef and ham jerky, and canned and sauce-based meats. Now tell me, how many of you didn’t know that hot dogs are harmful? There is no problem excluding them from your diet. True, here you can cite studies on how positive emotions affect life expectancy. Here's a new challenge for you, vegans: measure the harm of processed meat, taking into account the positive emotions it brings. Of course, it doesn’t work for everyone, there are exceptions everywhere, but that’s another question.

But The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, International Agency for Research on Cancer) has it. Since when are these the same thing? Substitution of concepts again?

Here it is worth noting an interesting WHO quote from the page on the carcinogenicity of meat: http://www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/

"22. Should we be vegetarians?

Vegetarian diets and diets that include meat have different advantages and disadvantages for health. However, this evaluation did not directly compare health risks in vegetarians and people who eat meat. That type of comparison is difficult because these groups can be different in other ways besides their consumption of meat."

My translation is the following, you can offer yours:

"22. Should we be vegetarians?

Vegetarian diets and diets that include meat have various health benefits and disadvantages. However, this assessment does not directly compare health risks among vegetarians and people who eat meat. This type of comparison is difficult because these groups may be different in other ways than their meat consumption."

In other words, to assess the risk of cancer from meat directly, you need to take into account not only nutrition, but also ecology, genetics, lifestyle, even the rhythm of life (for example, nervous tension), etc. In any case, WHO does not say that we need to become vegetarians.

And now about Leska’s answer

Lifestyle and dietary guidelines from the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research (WCRF/AICR):
Animal products.
Limit your consumption of red meat and avoid eating canned meat:
- The average consumption of red meat in the population should not be more than 300g (11 oz) per week, and much less if it has been canned/processed.
- People who eat red meat (beef, pork, lamb) should eat no more than 500g (18 ounces) per week, and much less if it has been preserved (smoking, salting, drying, adding chemical compounds for the purpose of preservation).
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Published by The Lancet Oncology on 26 October 2015.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)/World Health Organization (WHO) has assessed the carcinogenicity of consumption of red and processed meat.
Lyon, France, October 2015.
“The working group classified processed meat consumption as a 'human carcinogen' and listed it as a Group 1 carcinogen based on sufficient evidence for colorectal cancer. Additionally, positive associations with consumption of meat products were found for gastric cancer. The task force also classified consumption of red meat as a "probable human carcinogen" and included it in Group 2A carcinogens. In the review process, the working group took into account all known relevant data, including substantial epidemiological studies showing a positive association between red meat consumption and colorectal cancer, with strong mechanistic evidence. Red meat consumption is also positively associated with pancreatic cancer and prostate cancer."
A working group of 22 scientists from 10 countries assessed more than 800 epidemiological studies that examined the association of cancer with consumption of red meat or processed meats.
Red meat refers to mammalian muscle, such as beef, veal, pork, lamb, horse, goat or ground meat, including frozen and cooked. Processed meat includes meat that has been salted, smoked, cured (cured), or subjected to other processing processes to improve flavor or increase shelf life or preservation. Meat products that contain pork or beef, but also contain other red meat, poultry, organ meats (such as liver), or organ meats such as blood.
Red meat contains a large amount of proteins of biological significance, important microelements such as B vitamins, iron (free iron and heme iron), zinc. The fat content of red meat varies depending on the species, diet of the animal, age, sex and breed. Meat processing, such as curing (curing) and smoking, results in the formation of carcinogenic chemicals, including N-nitroso compounds (NOC), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs). High-temperature cooking of meat, such as frying, grilling, barbecuing, produces the highest amounts of these chemicals.
Depending on the country, the proportion of the world's population consuming red meat ranges from less than 5%, all the way up to 100%, and for processed meats, from less than 2% to 65%. For those consuming red meat in the world, the average intake is approximately 50 - 100g per person per day, with higher intakes of over 200g per person per day.
Of greater concern is evidence from 14 large epidemiological cohort studies showing a positive association of red meat consumption with colorectal cancer. Positive associations were seen in groups with high versus lower red meat consumption in half of these studies, including cohorts from 10 European countries covering a wide range of meat consumption and other large cohorts in Sweden and Australia. Of the 15 informative case-control studies, seven reported positive associations of colorectal cancer with high red meat consumption. Positive associations of colorectal cancer with meat consumption were reported in 12 of 18 cohort studies from Europe, Japan and the USA. Supporting evidence came from 69 informative case-control studies. Meta-analyses of colorectal cancer studies in 10 cohort studies reported a statistically significant dose-response relationship, with a 17% increase in risk per 100g/day of red meat and an 18% increase in risk of colorectal cancer with consumption of 50g/day of processed meat.
Positive association data were also available for more than 15 other cancers. Positive associations have been seen in cohort and case-control studies between red meat consumption and pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, and between meat consumption and stomach cancer.
Based on a large body of evidence, supported by studies in diverse populations, the finding of a positive association of meat consumption with colorectal cancer makes the possibility of bias unlikely. Most of the task force's researchers concluded that there is sufficient evidence that consumption of processed meat is carcinogenic. The possibility of bias cannot be ruled out with the same degree of confidence for data on red meat consumption alone, as no clear association was seen in several high-quality studies, where confounding with other diets and lifestyle risks is difficult to rule out. The working group determined that there is limited evidence of the carcinogenicity of consuming red meat alone. There is also ample evidence in experimental animals for the carcinogenicity of consumption of red meat and processed meat. In rats fed colon cancer initiators and low-calcium diets containing either red meat or processed meat, the occurrence of precancerous colon lesions is increased. Evidence of carcinogenicity was assessed as moderate to strong for red meat and processed meats, mainly in the gastrointestinal tract. A meta-analysis published in 2013 reported a modest but statistically significant association between consumption of red or processed meat and adenomas (precancerous lesions) in the colon and rectum, which was consistent across studies. For genotoxicity and oxidative stress, evidence was moderate for red or processed meat consumption. In humans, observational data showed small but statistically significant associations with APC gene mutation or promoter methylation, which were identified in 75 (43%) and 41 (23%) of 185 archival colorectal cancer samples, respectively. In three human intervention studies, changes in markers of oxidative stress were associated with consumption of red meat or processed meats. Substantial mechanistic support was available for several meat components, such as N-nitroso compounds (NOCs), heme iron, and heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs). Consumption of red meat and processed meat in humans induces NOC formation in the colon. High red meat intake (300 or 420 g/day) increased levels of DNA adducts putatively derived from NOC in desquamated colonocytes or rectal biopsies in two intervention studies. Heme iron mediates the formation of NOC and lipid oxidation products in the gastrointestinal tract of humans and rodents. Meat processed at high temperatures contains heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs). GAAs are genotoxic; the degree of genotoxicity is greater in humans than in rodents. Meat that is smoked or cooked over a heated surface or open flame contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). These chemicals cause DNA damage, but there is currently little direct evidence that this occurs as a result of meat consumption.
Overall, the working group classified processed meat consumption as a "human carcinogen" and listed it as a Group 1 carcinogen based on sufficient evidence for colorectal cancer. In addition, positive associations with meat product consumption were found for stomach cancer. The panel classified red meat consumption as a "probable human carcinogen" and listed it as a Group 2A carcinogen. In its analysis, the task force took into account all relevant evidence, including substantial epidemiological studies showing a positive association between red meat consumption and colorectal diseases. cancer and strong mechanistic evidence.Red meat consumption is also positively associated with pancreatic cancer and prostate cancer.

I met with many executives and managers of distribution companies that sold soap, shampoo, diapers, hair dyes, spare parts for commercial vehicles, fuels and lubricants and motorcycles, hand tools (screwdrivers, files, etc.), textiles , shoes, paper, vegetable oil, rice, steel and whatnot.

Although each distribution line is absolutely convinced of its uniqueness and the uniqueness of its problems, there are always many common themes in our discussions with them.

One of the biggest mistakes distributors make is addressing the problem of “slow-selling items.” Ultimately, all slow-selling products are gradually getting rid of under the correct slogan of “optimizing the product line.”

If you're even remotely involved in the distribution industry, you're familiar with this ongoing problem, so I'd like to ask you a simple problem:

Some people answer: A is a slow-selling product, and B is a hot-selling product.

Now let me tell you that the information I gave you is not enough to answer!

The missing information is that the inventory of Item A is about 50 units, and the inventory of Item B is 1,000 units.

Well, which one is slow? Obviously B!

Why has the picture changed? Is it bad that “only” 50 units of A are sold per week? (Maybe that's his entire market.) And you're willing to give up Product B because it's a slow-moving product?

Most likely, the distributor is not concerned about selling 50 units of A per week (as long as his share contribution or pass in TOC parlance) is positive. What bothers him is that every day he sees shelves (or reports in his program, depending on whether he is in a warehouse or sitting in a cozy office) with a huge inventory of product B.

So, how to convert a slow-moving product into a hot one?

So-called slow-moving goods are created by themselves, because purchases of this product exceed the rate of its sales. Since we can create a slow-selling product, we can prevent its occurrence. Any product can be a hot seller if the sales-to-inventory ratio (also known as inventory turnover) for that product is high.

The question is why is this simple logic not adopted by most companies? This is due to the fact that in these companies the movement of inventory is based not on pulling, but on pushing to the market. If we push inventory, we end up with very high inventory levels for some SKUs (relative to sales rates) and very low inventory levels for other SKUs.

We can achieve high turnover of all SKUs only if we have a pull distribution system, or, in simple terms, a rapid replenishment system that can respond to fluctuations in demand over very short time horizons. The system should have a built-in automatic blocking mechanism that reduces or stops the purchase of a specific SKU when demand for it drops. Solving the Theory of Constraints helps match the rate of inventory flow throughout the supply chain with the rate of actual demand at the end point of sales.

Now I hear: “That’s all the theory”!

I agree, this is a theory and a very good one. By the way, did you know that in order for a hypothesis to be called a theory, it must repeatedly pass specially designed tests to fail? This means that there is really nothing more practical than a good theory.

I got a little distracted. Let me echo the reservations of many managers working in the distribution industry:

1. We cannot implement a pull system because our sales will decrease.
2. Is it applicable in our industry?
3. Are there any examples of successful implementation in our region?

The first caveat leads to a new paradigm shift discussion: “The more you push, the less you sell.” You can't believe in this new paradigm? What if I prove it to you?

I should describe this paradigm in more detail, and also discuss the other two caveats. I would suggest you first read my article “How to Increase Sales while Cutting Inventory by Half” to understand the complete solution.

What foods contain hormones?
Our body is protected from many harmful substances that enter it with food (such as harmful food additives) - it can neutralize and remove small amounts of harmful substances before they have time to cause serious harm to health. But we are defenseless against hormones in food!
You can find out what additives are present in a particular product - it is written on the packaging. The presence of hormones in food products is not reported anywhere.
This is why it is so important to know which foods contain hormones.
To answer this question, let's figure it out:
Where do the hormones in foods come from?
what hormones are contained in the products?
Which hormones from food affect the human body and which do not?
Where do the hormones in foods come from?
Hormones are used in livestock and fisheries:
o when raising animals for meat,
o to increase the weight of fish and change sex,
o to increase milk yield,
o in egg production.
When growing plants, hormones (plant sex hormones) are also used to accelerate the ripening of fruits and vegetables.
Plants also contain phytohormones - substances that exhibit some properties of human hormones.
What hormones are contained in foods?
Hormones are not completely destroyed when foods are cooked. Therefore, all the hormones originally present in meat, milk, eggs, vegetables and fruits remain there, although sometimes in smaller doses. Steroid hormones are least destroyed by heat treatment. As a result, food products contain the following types of hormones:
Male and female hormones are found in meat (beef, pork, chicken).
Female hormones are found in milk and eggs.
Thyrostatics are drugs that interfere with the production of thyroid hormone. Contained in meat.
Plant sex hormones are found in vegetables and fruits.
Phytoharmones - the most famous is the phytoestrogen contained in soy. Other phytohormones are present mainly in medicinal herbs.
Which hormones from food affect the human body and which do not?
Animal sex hormones are identical to human hormones. Thyrostatics too. Thus, all hormones used in animal husbandry are capable of influencing the human body. When entering the human body with food (meat, milk, chicken eggs), these hormones are perceived by him as his own.
Plant sex hormones, used to accelerate the ripening of vegetables and fruits or to change the sex of a plant, have no effect on the human body.
The influence of phytoestrogen and other phytohormones on humans depends on many different factors. In some cases, phytohormones may be useful. On the other hand, they can cause serious harm to health. In practice, phytohormones are hormonal medicines and should be treated with great caution. We will examine this issue in more detail in a separate article on phytohormones.
To summarize, we can say that humans are influenced by almost all hormones contained in products of animal and plant origin, except for plant sex hormones.
Now we are ready to answer the question asked at the beginning of this article - which foods contain hormones?
Hormones that can harm our health are contained in the following foods:
in meat (beef, pork, chicken, etc.),
in milk and dairy products,
in eggs
in soybeans and products made from soybeans.
The following foods do not contain harmful hormones:
in vegetables, fruits, cereals and other plant products, except soybeans,
in the meat of animals raised without the use of hormones (in the countryside),
in eggs from village chickens,
in milk from a village cow.
A controversial issue is the harm of fish grown with the use of hormones.

Hormones in meat
The scale on which meat is produced is enormous. If all these cows, pigs and chickens grazed in the meadow for years before being slaughtered, gaining weight naturally, there would simply be no room left for people on earth. And this is not an exaggeration, but rather an understatement.
In reality, many farm animals destined for meat spend their entire lives in cages and pens. Cows usually spend only a few months in the fields before being sent to feedlots. Calves, piglets, and chickens are slaughtered at a very early age... but at the time of slaughter they weigh quite a lot.
Hormones in meat:
Why are hormones used when raising animals for meat?
What hormones are used when raising animals for meat?
Why are hormones in meat dangerous?
How to get rid of hormones in meat and meat products?
Why are hormones used when raising animals for meat?
Every kilogram of meat is money. Everything is very simple: the faster the animal gains the required weight, the less costs will be required for its maintenance, and the higher the profit will be.
How can you make an animal gain unnaturally large amounts of weight in an unnaturally short time? First, the animals are locked in cramped cages where they have no room to move. As a result, energy is not wasted on movement - everything goes into gaining mass. Due to lack of movement, the muscles atrophy and the meat becomes soft. Animals are fed unnatural food containing proteins in the form of bone meal, for example. But all this would not be enough if hormones did not exist.
What hormones are used when raising animals for meat?
In Europe and Russia, the use of hormones in animal husbandry is prohibited, but... no one checks compliance with this ban. Is the ban on the use of hormones enforced? Unlikely - the paddock is too large. In America, hormones are allowed. Mainly female and male sex hormones are used. Female hormones can be administered to males, and male hormones to females. The result is “average” sex animals that quickly gain unnaturally high weight.
Here are some of the hormones used in animal husbandry:
Female sex hormone estrodiol and its synthetic analogue. The hormone estrodiol has a strong feminizing effect.
Pregnancy hormone progesterone and its synthetic analogue. This hormone prepares the body for pregnancy and gestation - it increases appetite and slows down the movement of food through the digestive tract to allow the body to absorb more nutrients.
The male sex hormone testosterone and its synthetic analogue. The hormone testosterone promotes muscle growth.
Why are hormones in meat dangerous?
Female and male sex hormones (estradiol and testosterone), as well as the pregnancy hormone progesterone, used in raising animals for meat, are identical to human ones. These hormones act on people in the same way as on animals.
Here is a sample list of problems caused by hormones:
Hormones have carcinogenic properties - they can lead to breast cancer and prostate cancer).
Hormones can disrupt hormonal balance.
Hormones cause allergies and other autoimmune diseases.
Hormones disrupt reproductive function in both men and women.
During pregnancy, hormones cause disturbances in the development of the fetus.
Hormones are especially dangerous for children and teenagers.
How to get rid of hormones in meat and meat products?
There is an opinion that by boiling the chicken and draining the first broth, you can get rid of most of the harmful substances. On the other hand, I have not found a single study on whether it is possible to get rid of hormones in meat in this way. I am inclined to agree with the opinion of those who believe that hormones remain where they were.
What should those who do not live in the village and do not raise chickens on their own, without the use of hormones and other chemicals, do? The only way out is to reduce your meat consumption. Since it is impossible to remove excess hormones from food that have entered our body, nor to neutralize their effect.
Bad fish?

I’ll say right away that I eat fish. I don’t eat meat, milk and eggs, but I do eat fish. However, there are many commercially available fish that have been raised with hormones and that have been dyed (since farmed fish is pale in color, it is often dyed to make it look like sea-caught fish). The harm of artificially colored fish is beyond doubt. But is fish raised with hormones harmful?
Indeed, hormones are used when growing fish. Let's figure out what hormones are used for and is fish grown in this way harmful?
1. Hormonal injections are often used to stimulate female maturation. Is this fish harmful?
In this case, the offspring grown from the eggs of a stimulated female are no different from the usual ones. There is no need to talk about the dangers of such fish due to hormones.
2. Using feed with hormones to invert the sex of fish. Is this fish harmful?
In fish, sex is not determined at the moment of fertilization of eggs. In the early stages of development, it is possible to change the sex of the fish.
What is it for? In some fish species (such as carp and salmon), females grow faster than males. And in other species (for example, catfish), males outstrip females in growth. Accordingly, in fish farms they prefer to breed, mainly, female carp and salmon and male catfish. To obtain a predominantly female fish population, female hormones - estrogens - are used. And, if it is necessary to increase the percentage of males, then male hormones - androgens - are used.
Hormones for gender change act only for a certain, rather short period. There is no point in further use of hormones. Thus, artificially sexed fish do not contain any additional hormones.
3. Use of hormones to accelerate growth. Is this fish harmful?
I have not found reliable information about the use of hormones to accelerate the growth of fish. However, it is possible that such a practice exists. If any hormones are used during the entire period of growing fish, then it is obvious that such fish will be harmful.
4. Is fish caught in the sea and fresh water harmful?
Marine and freshwater fish may contain mercury, heavy metals, radioactive substances and organochlorine compounds that have carcinogenic properties. Therefore, although such fish are not grown with hormones, they may be more harmful than those grown in artificial reservoirs.
Hormones and dairy products

How much milk does a modern selectively bred dairy cow produce? At least 10 times more than what is needed to feed a calf. The productivity of a dairy cow is only 30% dependent on genetics. The remaining 70% comes from feeding. Such an amount of milk cannot be produced on plant food that is natural for herbivorous animals. Therefore, high-calorie feeds are used, with various artificial additives, waste from the fishing industry and bone meal, which cause digestive and metabolic disorders in cows. But milk yield can be increased by another 40% by adding synthetic growth hormones.
Hormones and dairy products
What hormones are contained in milk and dairy products?
The effect of dairy products on human growth hormone.
The danger of increasing growth hormone levels.
What hormones are contained in milk and dairy products?
In 1993, the FDA approved recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), a synthetic bovine hormone (injected into dairy cows) that stimulates milk production, and consumer groups are still concerned about it.
By itself, the hubbub of rKGR does not have a noticeable effect on human health. The real concern is that manipulating growth hormones in cows may increase levels of another hormone, insulin-like growth factor (IGF), which can mimic human growth hormone in dangerous proportions. In practice, studies have shown that the milk of cows vaccinated with the hormone rKHR contains ten times more IGF than the milk of cows not vaccinated with such a hormone.
The effect of dairy products on human growth hormone.
While consumption of large quantities of milk and other dairy products contributed to an increase in human IGF levels in the blood, this increase may not be the result of a direct effect of animal IGF levels or IGFs found in these products. This is because the amount of IGF in dairy products—whether they come from rKHR-vaccinated cows or not—is nothing compared to the amount of IGF naturally in your body.
“Just to get the daily amount of IGF secreted from saliva and the gastrointestinal tract, you would have to drink about 95 liters of milk,” says Terry Etherton, Ph.D., professor of dairy and animal sciences at Pennsylvania State University and author of a food biotechnology blog. .
So, if the amount of IGF in milk is negligible, then how does consuming milk increase our IGF? As Dr. Willett explains, milk as a whole (which contains proteins, sugars, minerals, and other hormones) may somehow influence the human body to produce its own IGF.
The danger of increasing growth hormone levels.
High levels of IGF in the blood (regardless of the reasons for its occurrence) have been associated with an increased risk of breast, prostate and other cancers in humans. In a 2004 study, patients with above-average IGF levels had a 50 percent greater risk of developing prostate cancer and a 65 percent greater risk of developing hormone-related breast cancer during premenopause than patients with below-average IGF levels. .
According to Walter Willett, MD, director of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, many factors (including genes, smoking and fat intake) contribute to cancer, but “it is quite possible that at least part of that risk is related to with IGF levels,” especially where prostate cancer occurs.
Finally, I would like to add that since milk is intended for babies, it itself contains growth hormones. These hormones are necessary for a growing body, but can be dangerous for an adult. Growth hormones found in dairy products can stimulate the growth of malignant cells.
The article was written using materials from the site mixednews.ru.

Material taken from http://health4ever.org/


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