Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Dr. Oz: The Hidden Danger in Your Drinks


Northville Prompt Weight Loss

On the Fast Food Insiders show, you saw what hidden ingredients might be lurking on your salad or in your milkshake, but what you might not know is that your beverage contains an ingredient that has been banned in 100 countries around the world.

Brominated vegetable oil (also known as “BVO”) is found in sports drinks and citrus-flavored sodas
.  It is a chemical that keeps two liquids mixed together.  It acts as a binding agent, also known as an emulsifier, and it prevents the flavoring and other ingredients found in our drinks from separating and floating to the surface.

It makes sense on a certain level, as we don’t want our drinks to look like a separated salad dressing with ingredients floating to the top. But this appearance might come with a hidden side effect.  According to nutritionist Mira Calton and her husband Jayson Calton, Ph.D., “Because it competes with iodine for receptor sites in the body, elevated levels of [brominated vegetable oil] may lead to thyroid issues, such as hypothyroidism, autoimmune disease, and cancer,” Calton says. As if that wasn’t scary enough, BVO's main ingredient, bromine, is considered a toxic chemical. It's been linked to all kind of health concerns, including organ system damage, birth defects, schizophrenia, and hearing loss, which explains why it's been removed or banned from food and drinks in more than 100 countries... Read More

From Oli G
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