A brother who practices holistic health with me once said, people who chew gum might as well chew rubber tires. But there is truth to this when you understand the fact that what both gum and automobile tires have in common is that they are both made from RUBBER!
If you’re chewing gum today you are chewing rubber and plastic. That’s right! Whereas chewing gum was originally made from tree sap (chicle from Mexican sapodilla trees), today’s commercial gums don’t have a trace of chicle in them.
Our modern day gums or chewing gums are made up of four major ingredients: Synthetic Rubber, Plastic, Sugar, and Coloring (dye). Modern day gums are produced from synthetic polymers, i.e. styrene-butadiene rubbers and polyvinyl acetate. The final product is composed of 60% sugar, 20% corn syrup, and only 20% actual gum material. Did you know that nylon (as in nylon stockings) is a polymer? This should give you an idea of what you’re putting into your mouth and chewing with gum.
Today’s chewing gums and bubble gums are predominantly SUGAR by volume. Seventy to eighty percent of most gums on the market today are sheer vehicles for sugar, the number one drug on the planet. Just as cigarettes are a conveyor for the addictive drug ‘nicotine,’ so is gum for sugar.
Modern commercial chewing gum originated in Bangor, Maine, in 1850. In 1859, Thomas Adams of New York used “chicle,” the dried latex material of the sapodilla tree of Central America to make chewing gum. Adams received a patent in 1871 for “chicle gum.” In 1885, William J. White of Cleveland, Ohio further refined and improved gum by adding corn syrup and flavoring the gum with peppermint, which was very successful.
In 1893, William Wrigley invented Juicy Fruit and Spearmint gums, greatly improving upon chewing gum. In 1900, Frank Fleer of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania placed a hard shell on gum and called in Chiclets. In 1906 Fleer would also go on to invent Bubble Gum and an employee of the Frank H. Fleer Company, Walter Diemer, would go on to invent the pink colored Double Bubble, bubble gum.
The first recorded history of mixing a gum with sugar can be traced to the Arab sugar traders who mixed the sugar with acacia, known as “gum Arabic.” There is great danger in chewing gum due to numerous toxic and poisonous chemicals used as ingredients in gum. Following are a few of the common harmful ingredient substances used in gum that makes gum harmful to human health.
Aspartame, a known carcinogen and the #1 brain carcinogen ever discovered by science, is a neurotoxin due to conversion into formaldehyde that is produced when aspartame reaches degrees beyond 86 degrees. It is a given or automatic for aspartame to convert into formaldehyde (embalming fluid) when inside the human body due to the natural body temperature of the human body being 98.6 degrees, ten degrees hotter than the turning point whereby aspartame converts into a neurotoxin.
Aspartame in gum is absorbed by the buccal mucosa of the mouth, gums, and the tongue. According to research, because aspartame is absorbed this way, it makes aspartame a far worse poisoning than if given or injected intravenously. The aspartame goes directly into the brain by passing the spinal cord and the blood-brain barrier when it is absorbed in the mouth. The smallest amount of aspartame (like what is contained in a piece of gum) is very dangerous and damaging to the health of the body. When aspartame is ingested into the digestive tract, it breaks down into numerous other poisons.
Aspartame is a silent weapon and a brainwashing agent used on the masses of unconscious people in the United States as well as other countries. It should be avoided at all costs! This chemical causes a plethora of diseases and disorders.
Saccharin is another artificial non-nutritive sweetener and just like aspartame is a known carcinogen. But this doesn’t stop it form being used as an ingredient in gum. Anything consumed that is a non-nutritive will eventually rob your body of nutrition. Like its cousin aspartame, saccharin is also a silent weapon and brainwashing agent. Saccharin should also be avoided at all costs.
High fructose corn syrup has been implicated in our modern epidemic of obesity and diabetes. It is true that people under the age of 45 are “Children of the Corn.” Like Stephen King’s thriller (movie) by the same name, they are reaping the consequences and dietary karma of the commercial food industry’s high fructose corn syrup.
HFCS is near used in everything from soda pop, bread, candy, gum, commercial fruit juices, and even meat. This was introduced into the American food supply as a cheap alternative to sugar. High Fructose Corn Syrup is found in fruit drinks like Capri Sun, Sunny Delight, Snapple, Hawaiian Punch, Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice and in most energy drinks. It is also found in chocolate drinks like Yoohoo, Arizona Tea, SoBe Beverages, cookies, ice cream, Campbell soup, Heinz Ketchup, Ragu, Aunt Jemima Syrup, Hershey's Syrup, Breyers Yogurt, Kraft Barbecue Sauce, Smucker's Preserves and some breakfast cereals.
High fructose corn syrup masquerades under the name of crystalline fructose in Glaceau Vitamin Water and some energy drinks. Naive teenagers guzzle this "poison" because they think it is good for them. Then they go on a diet and wonder why they are still gaining weight.
The various ‘color lake’ dyes, i.e. Blue Lake, Green Lake, Red Lake, and Yellow Lake are all derived petroleum and have also been classified as dangerous due to being carcinogenic (cancer causing). Lake dyes are usually used for textile dying and are thus an industrial agent. So what is an industrial agent doing in gum that is chewed in the mouth? I guess it really doesn’t matter because Americans will consume anything.
Petroleum is derived from rocks (stones). Rocks are not food, right? Well, I guess if you use petroleum to make gum it’s a food and especially if you ask the federal United States government (Congress). Believe it or not, but the federal government (Congress), U.S. citizens’ collective master, actually defines chewing gum as food.
Now since when have the U.S. Congressional members become certified food specialists? We’re in more bad shape than we think or know if we are allowing politicians to tell us what is food by defining what food is. Gum is made from SYNTHETIC rubber and plastic and therefore cannot be assimilated by the human body nor does rubber or plastic provide essential nutrients and therefore cannot repair the body, promote growth of the body, nor maintain the human body. Therefore, gum cannot be food!
The chemical BHT is used in gums as a preservative. Remember, anything that has to be preserved is DEAD! But hey, what’s the big deal, right? Aren’t the majority of American citizens (U.S. subjects) the walking dead? BHT is also used in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, JET FUEL, RUBBER, petroleum fluid, and EMBALING FLUID. Now what does this tell you?
Gums will also contain other sugars denoted be the suffix “-ose” and/or “-ol”, i.e. gluc(ose), sucr(ose), dextr(ose), and fruct(ose); or, mannit(ol), sorbit(ol), malit(ol), and xylit(ol). All of these sugars are suspect. Your ‘-ose’ ending sugars are derived from fruits and your ‘-ol’ ending sugars are derived from grains or even wood.
Xylitol would be the safest or least harmful to use unless you can find real fructose. Chewing gum destroys the teeth because of the constant chewing and grinding of the teeth to chew this crap. You cannot help the teeth with the chewing of gum, be it an unhealthy kind of gum, i.e., Wrigley's, Dentyne, Double Mint, etc., or a so-called healthy kind, i.e. Peelu.
Most people don't have a clue that they are habitually chewing gum due to tension. They have been trained that something must always go into the mouth, that they must always be chewing or chomping down on something. Many people have an oral fixation but are totally oblivious and unconscious of this fact.
Have you noticed that in most baseball games or contact sports gum is chewed? Most contact sports create tension due to aggression and these feelings make you grind your teeth. Gum is also insalubrious in that it causes your body to produce digestive juices (hydrochloric acid) in preparation of eating solid food, though you will not be eating any solid food despite the digestive juices produced due to chewing plastic called gum. Therefore, gum is a product that helps to fool your body, just like female birth control pills. But when your 6th Chakra (Third Eye) is closed it’s easy to embrace lies, because the demon (negative quality) of this chakra is LIES.
Folks, contrary to popular opinion, you cannot mask foul breath with gum. Chewing gum on top of foul breath is the equivalent of spraying perfume on dog feces. It defeats the purpose! Foul breath is the result of a toxic and polluted colon so gum can’t possibly help. This is yet another American urban dietary legend. Also, please know that you can’t whiten teeth by chewing gum, so all those brands that purport to whiten teeth while chewing or due to chewing are simply exploiting people with stained teeth whose teeth most likely became stained from drinking soda pop, drinking coffee, and/or smoking symbolic white phalluses called ‘cigarettes.’
In closing, I am doing my best in helping Black people, to become conscious; however, in America, we are simply hit with a barrage of attacks with toxic weaponry and agents in almost every aspect of life here in the Matrix of the United States. We are chewing ourselves into abstract and astronomical stupidity and dumbness.
Posted By: Sister Juanita From Memphis
Saturday, July 5th 2014 at 4:58PM
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