Many foods today, particularly all processed meats, are preserved with these toxic chemicals. They are used on fresh meats to enhance the color. Even baby foods contain nitrates. Also, nitrate fertilizers, commonly used today, contaminate the soil and pollute the water supplies.
Nitrosamines, formed in the body from ingested nitrates and secondary amines, are extremely toxic and proven carcinogenic substances. They cause cancer in the liver, stomach, brain, esophagus, bladder, kidneys and several other organs. They also cause high blood pressure and heart disease.
Nitrates and nitrites interfere with the conversion of carotene into vitamin A in the body, and even destroy the body’s own storage of vitamin A.
Protection
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