How long have we been importing "additives" from China?

[SoCalDem]

I just started with kidney disease, but what if liver disease could also be connected?

Kidneys & livers are ALL ABOUT filtering toxins.. What if this melamine stuff has been in or gradually added to ALL foods with "additives"...

Perhaps someone "goofed" and put too much in the petfood and when a lot of pets started dying suddenly (smaller bodies..more acute risk), their dirty little secret was outed.


Look at your cupboards/freezers..check the ingredients of all the "convenience foods".. Is there melamine in some of those "aplhabet ingredients or even the basic ingredients?.. Are you sure?

How many years of bombardment by melamine does it take for a liver or kidney to fail?

I would be willing to bet that if kidney/liver biopsies were doone of the patients with diseases of those organs...melamine would show up.. wanna bet they never start testing for it?




http://kidneydiseases.about.com/b/a/007180.htm

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http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/kustats/index.htm#kp
some kidney disease statistics.. (could not find a comparabe graph indicating year-by-year stats)

[donco6]

1. Melamine wouldn't be listed on the ingredients.

Basically, they're using it as a fake protein extender, and ridding their country of non-biodegradable trash at the same time!

As those Guiness guys would say, "Brilliant!" (clink)

[SoCalDem]

2. I was wondering when we started importing chinese foodstuffs

and how the proportions of imports corresponded with the growth of kidney/liver disease..

A friend of mine is going to start work at a new dialysis facility, and he was told in orientation clases that they are building SEVEN new clinics because of the huge increase of dialysis patients..

Something's going on..

[donco6]

3. Also the growth in lymphoma.

They think it has an environmental trigger, but don't know what it is.

Good question. I wonder, too.