Many brands of apple juice contain the silkworm gene, and grapes can contain a virus gene.The tobacco gene is now used in lettuce and cucumbers and the petunia gene is used in soybeans and carrots.Trout, salmon, catfish, bass and even shrimp, are also genetically ‘enriched’.Multinational corporations are rapidly changing our food and nobody seems to be able to stop them.Soy products have made it into the food industry big time.Soy has been praised as the miracle food that will save the world.However, in spite of impressive nutritional content, soy products are biologically useless to the body, for reasons explained below.Today, soy is contained in thousands of different food products, which has led to a massive escalation of disease in both developed and underdeveloped countries.Eating soy, soy milk, and regular tofu increases risks of serious health conditions.In addition, soy is a common food allergen.This would be the estrogenic equivalent of at least five birth control pills per day.Only properly fermented soy products, such as miso and tempeh, provide soy nutrients that can easily be absorbed.Soy acts more like a drug, not a food, upsetting the body’s entire hormonal balance.This is enough reason to avoid soy at any cost.The newborn needs them to grow, women take them to be happy, men use them to maintain or increase potency, athletes ingest them to stay fit, and older people take them to become younger or to avoid the flu.Even foods are categorized into good and bad, depending on how many vitamins they contain.Ever since vitamins were produced synthetically, they were made available in every drugstore or health shop around the world.An estimated 80 million to 160 million people take antioxidants in North America and Europe, about 10 to 20 percent of adults.Just pop in a couple of those colorful vitamin pills a day and your health is taken care of, or so the ad slogans tell you.And so we act obediently, out of fear of risking our lives.Accordingly, we spend billions of dollars on vitamin pills each year to fight off every kind of ill from the common cold to cancer.The magic food supplements have become an insurance policy against poor diet, and nobody has to feel guilty anymore over eating junk food.As seen in the sales figures, the public believes that the more vitamins you take, the healthier you become.But are vitamins really that good for your health?Antioxidant vitamins taken by tens of millions of people around the world at least won’t lead to a longer life, according to an analysis of dozens of studies that adds to evidence questioning the value of the popular, largely synthetically produced, supplements.The Cochrane organization is a respected international network of experts that does systematic reviews of scientific evidence on health interventions.For the new report on antioxidants, published in the Journal of the American Medical Aossociation in 2007, the researchers first analyzed 68 studies involving 232,606 people and found no significant effect on mortality.Sodium and water are essential to maintain sodium levels and hydrate the body, but too much of either can seriously upset the body’s electrolyte balance.Over consumption of vitamin A, for example, can cause loss of hair, double vision, headaches, and vomiting in women, all indications of vitamin poisoning.If a woman is pregnant, the supplement can even harm her unborn baby.As we will see, vitamins can even endanger a person’s life.In the beginning of the 17th Century, Japan was afflicted with a disease, called beriberi, which killed many people.By the year 1860, over one third of Japan’s marines had fallen ill with symptoms of weight loss, frequent heart complaints, loss of appetite, irritability, burning sensations in the feet, lack of concentration, and depression.The symptoms quickly disappeared whenever rice, Japan’s most important staple food, was replaced with other foods.Thirty years later the Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman conducted an experiment feeding chicken white rice.The chicken developed a number of symptoms such as loss of weight, weakness, and signs of nerve infection, which Eijkman interpreted as being beriberi.The symptoms disappeared again when the chicken were fed brown rice.But, as it turned out, beriberi wasn’t caused by vitamin B1 deficiency.People no longer suffered from beriberi once they discontinued eating rice altogether.Japanese marine soldiers died within three days after consuming white rice, yet it takes much longer than that to develop a B1 deficiency.The origin of this mysterious disease was revealed when in 1891 a Japanese researcher discovered that beriberi is caused by the poison citreoviridine.Citreoviridine is produced by mold in white rice that is stored in filthy and moist environments.As soon as they returned to their normal diet, even without B1, the symptoms spontaneously disappeared.It has become very popular and is now routinely added to many foods.Niacin is supposed to safeguard us against diarrhea, dementia and the skin disease pellagra.Pellagra is more widespread among people who eat maize, though not everyone who eats maize gets pellagra.Pellagra was found to be caused by food poisoning through spoiled maize.Besides the great importance given to taking extra niacin today, this substance, just like vitamin D, is not really a vitamin at all since it can be produced by the body.The nutritional experts in different countries however, have different opinions about how much of each vitamin your body must have.An American, for example, is supposed to take at least 60 mg of vitamin C, whereas a British citizen is considered better off taking only 30 mg.A Frenchman will only remain healthy if he consumes 80 mg of this vitamin, whereas Italians are told they need 45 mg.These figures are ‘adjusted’ every few years, although our bodies’ basic nutritional requirements have not changed over the past several thousand years.Nobody really knows how many vitamins are good for us because the requirement, physical constitution and absorption rate for vitamins differ from person to person.