The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-9-12

Today, the director of Farmageddon, Kristin Canty, stops by to give you the inside story on what really happened during the Rawesome Foods raid and why her documentary is so important for every American to see! Plus, Thomas James of HempUSA.org stops by to discuss the amazing health benefits you could receive just by consuming hemp products on a regular basis.

Self Help:
Detoxify Your Body
Weight Loss Cure
Protect Yourself & Your Family

Health:
How Safe Are the Drugs in Your Medicine Cabinet?
Diet Sabotage: Nearly 1 In 5 Calorie Counts Wrong
Cargill Recalls Potentially Tainted Turkey
Study Shows That Hospitals Are More Dangerous Than Flying
Why ’100% Orange Juice’ Is Still Artificial
Prince Charles Branded a ‘Snake Oil Salesman’

Government:
Congress To Form The Debt “Super Committee”

Wealth:
Food Stamp Use Rises to Record 45.8 Million
Dow Plunges 500 Points
Global Stocks Tumble After U.S. Selloff
How to Survive the Stock Market’s Wild Ride
10 Signs The Double-Dip Recession Has Begun

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Is That A Crushed Bug In Your Frothy Starbucks Drink?

April 2, 2012

NPR

By Nancy Shute

“If you are still going to Starbucks, stop! Not only have they killed almost every mom and pop coffee shop, by now it’s been proven they are using crushed up beetles in their beverages. Gross!” –KTRN

Call it the tempest in the Frappuccino. Some Starbucks patrons have been distressed to learn that the chain’s Strawberry and Creme Frappuccino owes its pink coloring to crushed insects.

The coloring in question, cochineal, is made from a tiny white insect, Dactylopius coccus. When crushed, its body exudes a brilliant red color. Cochineal has been used as a coloring for foods and makeup for centuries.

It’s all natural. It’s approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Eating insects is newly trendy in San Francisco and Los Angeles. And, as NPR’s Martin Kaste has reported, cochineal is gathered off cactus by poor people in Peru, who use their earnings to feed their families and send their children to school.

So what’s not to like? A lot, apparently, if you’re a vegetarian.

A website, ThisDishIsVegetarian.com, reported on March 14 on the chain’s use of cochineal in strawberry Frappuccinos. Evidently a distressed barista sent a photo of the strawberry flavoring’s label, which listed cochineal.

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4 Common Products That Contain Carcinogenic Sugar

January 24, 2012

Activist Post

By Mike Barrett

“If you’re going to eat sugar – it really needs to be Organic Cane Sugar. Everyone should know this by now.” –KTRN

On average, Americans consume 475 calories worth of added sugars each day. That is about 30 teaspoons, or 5x more than even the American Heart Association recommends.

The disturbing aspect is that if nothing changes, the rampant sugar consumption continues, and cumulatively begins bearing down on your health in the form of diseases like diabetes and cancer.

Just how much sugar are you consuming on a daily basis?

Keep in mind that the recommended amount of sugar to consume on a daily basis is 25 grams.

Carcinogenic Sugar Hiding in 4 Common Food Products

It is common knowledge that soda, sweets, ice cream, and other similar foods are loaded with sugar. In fact, an average bottle of Coke contains over 60g of sugar, and an 8oz Snapple contains up to 23g of sugar. Similarly, a 16ox Starbucks Mocha Grande Frappuccino contains over 40g of sugar, and that is only one of the many popular products purchased very often by coffee lovers.

While it is fairly easy to avoid sugar by picking up on this common knowledge, there are still many foods that contain large amounts of sugar that the general population simply doesn’t know about. Some of these foods or products are:

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Corporate Marketers Now Stamping ‘Artisan’ On Factory Food Products To Make Them Appear Healthy

November 2, 2011

Natural News

By Ethan A. Huff

There is never a shortage of deception in the factory food industry, which jumps on seemingly every marketing bandwagon in order to retain customers and convince them that junk food is healthy and nutritious. The latest marketing absurdity is the food industry’s growing use of the word “artisan” on food branding, which deceptively evokes images of hand-made uniqueness in association with products that are really just mass-produced in a factory.

USA Today reports that major food brands like Frito-Lay, Domino’s Pizza, Starbucks, and even Fannie May candies have all adopted “artisan” brand lines that suggest a healthier, hand-crafted product that is more special than other products. But in truth, these products are not much, if at all, different from other product lines, other than that they are usually smaller in size and sold at a premium price.

“The word artisan suggests that the product is less likely to be mass-produced,” says Tom Vierhile, innovation insights director at Datamonitor, a research company that recently conducted an investigation into the “artisan” phenomenon. “It also suggests the product may be less processed and perhaps better tasting and maybe even be better for you.”

Datamonitor found that, within the past five years, a whopping 800 new food products have emerged on the market bearing “artisan” labels, and that the rate of new “artisan” products being released every year is increasing. In 2007, less than 80 new food items branded as “artisan” were unveiled, while nearly 200 were unveiled in 2010.

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The Secret Ingredient In Your Orange Juice

August 16th, 2011

Food Renegade

By: KristenM

Do you buy orange juice at the store? If you do, I’m sure you’re careful to buy the kind that’s 100% juice and not made from concentrate. After all, that’s the healthier kind, right? The more natural kind? The kind without any additives? The kind that’s sold in the refrigerator section so it must be almost as good as fresh-squeezed orange juice?

If I’m describing you, then you’re either going to hate me or love me by the time you’re done reading this post. The truth is, that orange juice you feel so good about buying is probably none of those things. You’ve been making assumptions based on logic. The food industry follows its own logic because of the economies of scale. What works for you in your kitchen when making a glass or two of juice simply won’t work when trying to process thousands upon thousands of gallons of the stuff.

Haven’t you ever wondered why every glass of Tropicana Pure Premium orange juice tastes the same, no matter where in the world you buy it or what time of year you’re drinking it in? Or maybe your brand of choice is Minute Maid or Simply Orange or Florida’s Natural. Either way, I can ask the same question. Why is the taste and flavor so consistent? Why is it that the Minute Maid never tastes like the Tropicana, but always tastes like its own unique beverage?

Generally speaking, beverages that taste consistently the same follow recipes. They’re things like Coca Cola or Pepsi or a Starbucks Frappuccino. When you make orange juice at home, each batch tastes a little different depending on the oranges you made it from. I hope you’re hearing warning bells in your head right about now.

The reason your store bought orange juice is so consistently flavorful has more to do with chemistry than nature.

Making OJ should be pretty simple. Pick oranges. Squeeze them. Put the juice in a carton and voilà!

But actually, there is an important stage in between that is an open secret in the OJ industry. After the oranges are squeezed, the juice is stored in giant holding tanks and, critically, the oxygen is removed from them. That essentially allows the liquid to keep (for up to a year) without spoiling– but that liquid that we think of as orange juice tastes nothing like the Tropicana OJ that comes out of the carton. (source)

In fact, it’s quite flavorless. So, the industry uses “flavor packs” to re-flavor the de-oxygenated orange juice:

When the juice is stripped of oxygen it is also stripped of flavor providing chemicals. Juice companies therefore hire flavor and fragrance companies, the same ones that formulate perfumes for Dior and Calvin Klein, to engineer flavor packs to add back to the juice to make it taste fresh. Flavor packs aren’t listed as an ingredient on the label because technically they are derived from orange essence and oil. Yet those in the industry will tell you that the flavor packs, whether made for reconstituted or pasteurized orange juice, resemble nothing found in nature. The packs added to juice earmarked for the North American market tend to contain high amounts of ethyl butyrate, a chemical in the fragrance of fresh squeezed orange juice that, juice companies have discovered, Americans favor. Mexicans and Brazilians have a different palate. Flavor packs fabricated for juice geared to these markets therefore highlight different chemicals, the decanals say, or terpene compounds such as valencine.

The formulas vary to give a brand’s trademark taste. If you’re discerning you may have noticed Minute Maid has a candy like orange flavor. That’s largely due to the flavor pack Coca-Cola has chosen for it. Some companies have even been known to request a flavor pack that mimics the taste of a popular competitor, creating a “hall of mirrors” of flavor packs. Despite the multiple interpretations of a freshly squeezed orange on the market, most flavor packs have a shared source of inspiration: a Florida Valencia orange in spring.

Why aren’t these flavor packs listed as ingredients?

Good question! As with all industrial foods, it’s because of our convoluted labeling laws. You see, these “flavor packs are made from orange by-products — even though these ‘by-products’ are so chemically manipulated that they hardly qualify as ‘by-products’ any more.” (source) Since they’re made from by-products that originated in oranges, they can be added to the orange juice without being considered an “ingredient,” despite the fact that they are chemically altered.

So, what should you do about it?

First off, I must ask: Why are you drinking juice?? Juice removed from the fruit is just concentrated fructose without any of the naturally-occurring fiber, pectin, and other goodies that make eating a whole fruit good for you. Did you know, for example, that it takes 6-8 medium sized apples to make just 1 cup of apple juice? You probably wouldn’t be able to eat 6-8 medium apples in a single sitting. (I know I can barely eat one!) But you can casually throw back a cup of apple juice, and you would probably be willing to return for seconds. That’s why fruit juice is dangerous. It’s far too easy to consume far too much sugar.

So, my first piece of advice is to get out of the juice habit altogether. It’s expensive, and it’s not worth it.

My second piece of advice is to only drink juices that you make yourself, and preferably ones that you’ve turned into a healthy, probiotic beverage (like this naturally-fermented lemonade my own family enjoys). Sally Fallon Morrell’s Nourishing Traditions cookbook (pictured at right) has several lacto-fermented juice coolers that are pleasant, albeit expensive. (I especially like the Grape Cooler, Raspberry Drink, and Ginger Beer.) Want to make juicing easier? See here for where to buy juicers and Vitamix blenders.

And finally, opt out of the industrial food system as much as you can. If you learn anything at all from this post, it should be that you never know what’s in your food unless you grow it, harvest it, or make it yourself. Second best (and more practical for many, including myself) is to pay somebody I trust to do it — like the farmers at my Farmer’s Market, the cattle rancher I buy my annual grass-fed beef order from, or the chef at my local restaurant who’s willing to transparently answer questions about how he sources ingredients and what goes into the dish I’m ordering.

Click here for the full report from The Food Renegade

The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-13-11

Today, the director of Farmageddon, Kristin Canty, stops by to give you the inside story on what really happened during the Rawesome Foods raid and why her documentary is so important for every American to see! Plus, Thomas James of HempUSA.org stops by to discuss the amazing health benefits you could receive just by consuming hemp products on a regular basis.

Self Help:
Detoxify Your Body
Weight Loss Cure
Protect Yourself & Your Family

Health:
How Safe Are the Drugs in Your Medicine Cabinet?
Diet Sabotage: Nearly 1 In 5 Calorie Counts Wrong
Cargill Recalls Potentially Tainted Turkey
Study Shows That Hospitals Are More Dangerous Than Flying
Why ’100% Orange Juice’ Is Still Artificial
Prince Charles Branded a ‘Snake Oil Salesman’

Government:
Congress To Form The Debt “Super Committee”

Wealth:
Food Stamp Use Rises to Record 45.8 Million
Dow Plunges 500 Points
Global Stocks Tumble After U.S. Selloff
How to Survive the Stock Market’s Wild Ride
10 Signs The Double-Dip Recession Has Begun

Everything Kevin:
Become An Insider!
Stand with KT!
Kevin is on YouTube!
Sign Up For Kevin’s FREE Podcast
Follow Kevin on Twitter
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-5-11

Today, Kevin delves deep into how scary America really is and why doing your homework before believing complete nonsense is so essential if you want to be successful. Plus, the director of Farmageddon, Kristin Canty, stops by to give you the inside story on what really happened during the Rawesome Foods raid and why her documentary is so important for every American to see!

Health:
Cargill Recalls Potentially Tainted Turkey
Study Shows That Hospitals Are More Dangerous Than Flying

Update:
A Small Rawesome Foods Victory

Wealth:
Food Stamp Use Rises to Record 45.8 Million
Dow Plunges 500 Points
Global Stocks Tumble After U.S. Selloff
How to Survive the Stock Market’s Wild Ride

Everything Kevin:
Become An Insider!
Stand with KT!
Kevin is on YouTube!
Sign Up For Kevin’s FREE Podcast
Follow Kevin on Twitter
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Food Prep Firm Recalls Food; Halts Operations Temporarily

August 2nd, 2011

AJC.com

By: Fran Jeffries

A company in Lawrenceville that supplies foods for RaceTrac, Starbucks and other retail outlets has recalled numerous products — sandwiches, parfaits, wraps, plates and salads — because of potential lysteria contamination.

The Lawrenceville operation of Chicago-based Flying Foods Group’s recall is an expansion of one that began on July 19 at the request of the USDA. The expanded recall includes products made for Core-Mark Atlanta Division, RaceTrac and Starbucks. Core-Mark Atlanta Division products were distributed to retail outlets in Alabama, Georgia and Florida.

Production at the Lawrenceville facility has been voluntarily suspended pending a full investigation into the source of the problem, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

The recall was begun after sampling and testing conducted by the Georgia Department of Agriculture revealed the presence of Listeria monocytogenes in one of the products, according to the FDA.

No illnesses have been reported. Listeria monocytogenes is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms, such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women, according to the FDA website. Check here for an extensive list of products that are affected in the recall.

RaceTrac has pulled all Flying Foods products from its shelves, the retailer said in a statement. RaceTrac officials said that on July 25, 2011, the retailer removed all products prepared and provided by Flying Food Group from its 65 Georgia stores.

Starbucks products were only distributed to retail outlets in Alabama and Georgia. Headquartered in Atlanta, RaceTrac operates more than 300 convenience stores in five Southeastern states.

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America’s “Healthiest” Fast-Food Breakfasts

March 2nd, 2011

Health.com

By: Nicole DeCoursy

Used to be, when you grabbed breakfast on the go, it was a diet disaster: nothing but fat-and-calorie bombs like butter-soaked croissants and jumbo muffins. Now, it’s much easier to do right by your body: Fast-food legends like McDonald’s and IHOP, as well as newbies like Cosi and Panera Bread, offer surprisingly healthy options that are filling, light, and much easier on your arteries.

No. 1 Spinach Florentine Breakfast Wrap (Cosi)

“When you wake up, your body hasn’t had fuel for about 10 to 12 hours,” says Dr. Gerbstadt, one of our judges. So this standout refuels you and keeps you satisfied so you don’t overnosh the rest of the day. “With most other breakfasts, you would need to add another food to get this much protein,” Dr. Gerbstadt explains. “Plus, the fiber content is much higher than you’d usually find in such a high-protein meal.”

Calories 334; Fat 21g (sat 8g); Protein 24g; Carbohydrate 21g; Fiber 11g; Sodium 516mg

Room for improvement: The fat content is on the high side (since the wrap is made with eggs), so eat low-fat fare throughout the day—or split this hearty pick with a friend.

No. 2 Protein Artisan Snack Plate (Starbucks)

This Starbucks sampler scores high for having all the components of an ultra-satisfying breakfast—protein, fiber, whole grains, and fresh produce, says panelist Frances Largeman-Roth, RD, Senior Food and Nutrition Editor at Health. You get to nibble on yummy fare—hard-boiled egg, cheddar and apple slices, multigrain muesli bread, grapes, and honey peanut butter spread—in the right portions, Largeman-Roth explains.

Calories 370; Fat 19g (sat 6g); Protein 13g; Carbohydrate 36g; Fiber 4g; Sodium 470mg

Room for improvement: Along with all that protein and fiber, you get 19 grams of fat. Tip: Eat half of either the honey peanut butter spread or the cheese.

No. 3 Berry Topper Ideal Meal (Jamba Juice)

“It really is an ideal meal because it meets all of your nutrient needs,” judge and nutrition expert Robin Miller says. It’s made with yogurt and soy milk, great sources of calcium and vitamin D—two nutrients women often lack. Also blended in are vitamin C–packed strawberries, blueberries, and bananas. And the organic pumpkin flaxseed granola gives you a dose of healthy fats for heart health.

Calories 300; Fat 4.5g (sat 0.5g); Protein 9g; Carbohydrate 59g; Fiber 7g; Sodium 85mg (for 12 ounces)

Room for improvement: Stick to the small (12-ounce) size—larger serving sizes load on the calories.

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Dow Falls Below 10,000 As Worries Escalate

August 25, 2010

CNBC

Stocks were lower for a fifth straight day Wednesday amid worries about the economic recovery but pared losses amid gains in homebuilders, tech and some consumer names.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down about 20 points, reclaiming 10,000. Earlier, the blue-chip index had fallen below that level. This came after a four-day losing streak in which the Dow lost a total of 3.6 percent.

Caterpillar [CAT  64.10  -0.94  (-1.45%)   ], Disney and Bank of America led the index laggards while Home Depot and McDonald’s were among the gainers.

The CBOE volatility index, widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, was above 27.

Disney[DIS  31.66  -0.48  (-1.49%)   ] shares fell 1 percent following news that the company is in talks with Apple [AAPL  239.10  -0.83  (-0.35%)   ] about renting TV shows to viewers for 99 cents each through iTunes.

Dell [DELL  11.746  0.161  (+1.39%)   ] shares rose following news that Hewlett-Packard [HPQ  38.4106  0.0206  (+0.05%)   ] has begun talks with 3Par. HP is offering $24 a share for the data-storage company, which trumps Dell’s $18-a-share offer by a wide margin. There has been some speculation that Dell might raise its offer.

Internet stocks are among the few bright spots on the board today, with Google and eBay both higher. Wireless stocks are also higher, with Motorola, Leap and Qualcomm all higher.

In other merger news, Rio Tinto [RTP  47.90  -0.03  (-0.06%)   ] is apparently not planning a bid for Potash [POT  145.6025  -3.5075  (-2.35%)   ]. The Canadian fertilizer maker is said to be seeking alternative offers to the $130-a-share offer from BHP Billiton [BHP  64.93  -0.49  (-0.75%)   ]. For its part, BHP slapped down speculation, that it would make a higher bid.

On the economic front, new-home sales dropped 12.4 percent to a 276,000 annual rate in July after a 12.1-percent increase in June.

This followed a dismal housing report on Tuesday that showed existing-home sales fell 27.2 percent last month to their lowest pace in 15 years.

Investors were piling into homebuilder stocks, with many up 2 and 3 percent, following several research notes yesterday, including one from Citigroup, that now may be the time to get in on housing stocks. KBHome [KBH  10.35  0.31  (+3.09%)   ] and Toll Brothers [TOL  16.89  0.70  (+4.32%)   ] were both up about 4 percent. Earlier, Toll Brothers reported it swung to a profit, helped by tax benefits.

American Eagle shares [AEO  13.36  0.87  (+6.97%)   ] jumped more than 6 percent even after the teen retailer reported lower earnings as high inventories fueled discounting.

A few consumer names were also higher, including Home Depot [HD  28.05  0.27  (+0.97%)   ], Starbucks [SBUX  23.11  0.29  (+1.27%)   ] and JCPenney [JCP  20.44  -0.13  (-0.63%)   ].

And in the morning’s other economic news, orders for durable goods, big-ticket items like refrigerators and cars, rose 0.3 percent but fell well short of the 2.8-percent increase expected. Excluding transportation, orders fell 3.8 percent.

Talk of a double-dip recession has accelerated in recent weeks, with Gluskin Sheff economist David Rosenberg going so far as to say this is a depression, not a recession.

But several market pros in the past few days have offered a counterpoint, saying they don’t think the signs of worsening are there.

“We’ve got a very soft economy—it’s a constant disappointment, but we don’t think we’re going to have a double-dip because the most cyclical sectors of the economy are already in the basement,” David Kelly, chief market strategist at JPMorgan Funds, said on CNBC.

Strategist David Kass, founder and president of Seabreeze partners, agrees.

“I just can’t be that negative right now,” Kass said. “If you look at cyclical areas of the economy … It’s hard for me to expect material economic weakness in the second half of this year and into 2011,” said Kass, founder and president of Seabreeze Partners.

Meanwhile, central bankers, economists and other officials from around the world headed to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to assess the economic outlook at the Federal Reserve’s annual retreat.

Crude oil fell toward $71 a barrel after a report showed a 4.1-million barrel jump in crude supplies, more than double of what was expected. Retail gasoline prices are also falling heading into the Labor Day holiday, with the national average around $2.70 a gallon.

Gold rose to an eight-week high above $1,240 an ounce as the dollar fell against the euro and economic concerns fueled interest in the metal as a safe haven. Gold miners including Barrick Gold [ABX  45.00  1.22  (+2.79%)   ] and Newmont Mining [NEM  58.37  1.25  (+2.19%)   ] rose more than 2 percent.

FedEx [FDX  78.03  -1.06  (-1.34%)   ] shares dropped about 2 percent following news that the package-delivery giant is suing New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo, seeking to stop an investigation of the company. The company said Cuomo has exceeded his authority in seeking information on rates, routes, and price information.

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