Eat like a Brasilian!!!!
 

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Good thing she didn't go to Minas Gerais. Most of our food is made from scratch, but that's not all, most of our food is processed in a different way. How different you ask? I'll give my city as an example. Every morning the milk guy used to go by, talk about fresh milk, the taste is fantastic. We also buy a lot from the local farmers that produce legumes, vegetables, meats and fruits. All organic and not small portions either. Now, big cities are gaining weight. Why you ask? Fast food. Make your food from scratch my friends and see how much better it'll make you feel and the taste is a plus.

Want to know a little strange thing. My daughter eats a Brasilian candy called Pacoca (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa%C3%A7oca (The corked shaped ones are her favorites)). It's made out of peanuts and yes she's allergic to peanuts. How do I know she's allergic to it? A few years back, I bought a Snickers bar and when I got home at around 9pm she saw it and took a small bite. She didn't like it, but after she went to bed, I went into her room like I usually do at around 12 and 1am to find my daughter swelling up in various places such as her forehead, back, belly and legs. Well, I woke her up, gave her some Claritin and rushed her to the hospital. There they told me she had an allergic reaction to the Snickers bar, but I told them (The doctors) it never happened with another candy made out of peanuts from Brasil. They thought it was very strange and I think something is up with a lot of the foods we buy here. My question is, could it be just the peanuts in the Snickers bar or something else that caused the allergic reaction?

Lutach, did she go into anaphylaxis? It doesn't sound like she did...

I've got no real experience will allergies but I'm sure I've read that you can have a latent allergy that may flare up at times without warning or it may also be the peanut concentrations in Pacoca is lower than Snickers??

No she didn't. The peanut concentration in a single Pacoca that she loves to eat is more then the little bite she took from the Snickers bar. Picture this, that round box comes in 2 sizes. I usually buy the one with double the amount of Pacoquinha, mainly because I love that stuff and one day I couldn't find the box. Comes to find out she hid it and ate half in less then half an hour. She did get a stomach ache, but that was it and it passed after she did #2 and no allergic reaction. The thing is, before I came to the US I never heard of a few things like: Flu (I got the Flu for the first time when I took the vaccines for school here in the US), allergies (Only seen it with my daughter) and Autism.

That's very interesting. With all the garbage we consume that has been genetically modified/sprayed with poison/processed I have no trouble believing that there may be a fundamental difference between a Brazilian peanut and an American peanut. If you've done any research into the chemical slurry that passes for food here, you know that most of it isn't fit for a lab rat. Much of the G.M. foods have very little 'beta testing' before they are FORCED onto the market. Google 'Olestra' for a wonderful example.

I have heard and read many times that people who had never been sick became critically ill after a jab. There is a video on YT of a girl who developed a severe muscle condition after taking the first part of the swine flu vaccine. Many thought it was a hoax, but it did gain national media attention. They want to make this shit mandatory. Not just the shots we get as children, but every shot there is.

Too many people still put their faith 100% in the medical industry blindly.

On the other hand if you want to eat 'organic' (still can't believe there needs to be a category for REAL food) it can be costly and hard to find. Who is it that wants us to be in bad health all the time? Maybe the industry that stands to gain the most from it.

Even growing your own "real" food has become almost impossible. How do you know what you're getting for seeds? We've all become ignorant participants in this experiment, and there will be real consequences. We won't have much idea what we are doing to ourselves until it's way too late I'm afraid.

I have to agree with everything you said. This summer though, I did manage to find some real good seeds and grew my own stuff like tomatoes, peppers, beans and many herbs (Not the smoking type :lol:). The taste brought me back to the goodness of the food I used to eat in Brasil. I'm going to get some info and when I do, I'm going to show it to all of us and hopefully it'll change just a bit on how we all look at things we put in our bodies.

I would punt on her not being allergic to the nuts but something else. You don't know what goes into junkfood these days.... or baby milk, do you remember a while back the babies in china that were having problems and dying. It was melomine, the stuff they use as bench tops. It was very close to the protien in the milk so the company cut corners to save money.

That same melomine is in the white part of the snickers bar. When you go into it there is so much shit to beware and steer clear of. I hope people in general start taking more informed action to weed out these black-hearted companies. There are many things I won't eat any more ie snickers, and my much loved tim tams.

I'm not one to jump on the conspiracy bandwagon & vaccinations are a very sensitive subject for you Lutach for obvious reasons so please don't think I'm attacking you by asking this - should I assume that you believe you would not have contracted seanonal influenza if you remained in Brasil maintaining your diet?

No doubt processed food generally offers low nutritional values & at worst is almost deadly (I'm thinking palm oil, MSG etc) but pp3310 how do you know melomine is in snickers, it's not listed as an ingredient?

I tried looking up my old emails so I could back up my claim but I've deleted it. It was just a guy who got on his horse about this specific sort of stuff. All those numbers at the and of the ingredients list is where they hide it all, example- the brown colouring in the buiscut in tim tams is carconagenic (shown on the news a fews months back). My wife has a list of the worst numbers to look out for. It doesn't get used while shopping but when we get home, if it doesn't pass the test we still consume it but won't get it again.

I'd love to see the worst numbers list, we happily avoid the "nasty" products at home & I'm absolutely staggered at how many kid specifc products are just chemical concoctions...it's a sad world when food becomes a case of caveat emptor

Knock yourself out

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I love this subject, so you're not attacking me at all. Here's how things work. In Brasil, I hardly got sick and never had the flu. I do have family in the pharmaceuticals and hospital business that are gathering the information that will put an end to this. What happened to me was crazy. I had to take a vaccine to attend school and a few minutes after the shot, I got sick. Had a fever and spent 2 weeks home with the flu. Back then, I didn't know if it was the flu shot, but I'm going to search to see which vaccines it is.

I might send a few things to Brasil and see what kind of stuff is in it. I would like to know what ingredient in the Snickers bar gave my daughter the allergic reaction and would also get results from the Pacoca to make things even a bit.

Nice one...didn't realise you were in Aus, where abouts?

A vaccine is a very small dose of the virus you're trying to protect yourself from. It is meant to stimulate the immune system to grow a resistance to it.

With the swine-flu vaccine available my wife asked around about it. Not one of the medical friends and asosciates surveyed said they will take the vaccine. That was enough for us, no vaccines.

Good luck with your daughter Lutach

Perth:smile:

Yeah it sure is. But processed food goes back many years, we are just seeing it steadily worsen. Corporate greed will trump all, including human health. MSG, right along with Aspartame are two of the major contributors to ailments that are often misdiagnosed. I happen to be hypersensitive to MSG, small amounts trigger a headache. Well that's the same "headache" they used to call Chinese Food Syndrome. Because the Chinese restaurants would use it in high proportions. MSG has been shown to corrode the blood-brain barrier, as well as being a major cause of low attn span, irritability and restlessness. So what I was saying above about misdiagnoses really does matter, how many people are on the Ritalin because they eat ramen noodles every day? I used to love em, now I know if I have some I will be more or less a zombie the rest of the day. Not knowing any better, I might be the one on Ritalin or some other bizarre evil substance.

We have little blue pills to get you hard, we have little green ones to get you to sleep, we have a red one for your depressed DOG fer chrissakes..

This ain't the world some of us grew up in.