HOW YOU ARE ON THE WAY TO VERY SERIOUS ILLNESS.THAT MEANS EVERYONE

Processed foods can contain any number of the thousands of additives used by the food industry. Many are under the mistaken belief that such additives must have gone through stringent testing to prove their safety, but that's oftentimes not the case at all.

Shocking as it may sound, food additives are not automatically required to get premarket approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

, items that fall under the "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) designation are exempt from the approval process altogether. This is a loophole stemming from the 1958 Food Additives Amendment, which excludes GRAS items from the formal FDA approval process for food additives.

You might also recognize that this is how Monsanto and other agribusinesses snuck GMO foods into our food supply, as the FDA classified them as GRAS in 1992. 

Outdated Law Lets Unsafe Ingredients into the Food Supply

The problem is, the chemical concoctions used in processed foods today didn't exist in the 1950s when the amendment was written into law. At the time, it was meant to apply to common food ingredients like vinegar and baking soda—regular cooking ingredients known through their historical use as being safe.

Nowadays however, countless manufactured ingredients end up slipping through this loophole. Another part of the problem is the fact that food companies are allowed to determine, on their own, whether an ingredient is GRAS.

A company can simply hire an industry insider to evaluate the chemical, and if that individual determines that the chemical meets federal safety standards, it can be deemed GRAS.

At that point, the company doesn't even need to inform the FDA that the ingredient is used, and no independent third party objective evaluation is ever required.

Food additives are not automatically required to get premarket approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

According to Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), at least 1,000 ingredients are added to our food that the FDA has no knowledge of.

According to a CSPI investigation,these industry experts are a small tight knit group of scientists, many of whom have ties to the tobacco industry. According to Laura MacCleery, an attorney for CSPI:

"These are standing panels of industry hired guns. It is funding bias on steroids."

As if that's not bad enough, if a company does choose to notify the FDA, and the FDA disagrees with the company's determination that the item is GRAS, the company can simply withdraw its GRAS notification and go ahead and use it anyway, as if no questions were ever raised.

This legal loophole allows food manufacturers to market novel chemicals in their products based on nothing but their own safety studies, and their own safety assessments—the results of which can be kept a secret.Do you know that the type of food affects the emotional status of the human being and some processed types may cause diseases? There rises an important question "How food affects your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health?" Let's discover how food choices affect your health, increase your energy, and reduce your risk for and even reverse many chronic illnesses: The effects of food on the mind have been studied for many thousands of years by Oriental philosophers. When extremely poor-quality foods are eaten, their effects on the mind and emotions are much more dramatic—sometimes causing complete mental breakdowns and personality transformations. Processing takes a lot of nutrients out of the nutrient rich foods moreover processed foods are fortified with synthetics. Processed food is made from real food that has been put through devitalizing chemical processes and is infused with chemicals and preservatives. Beef jerky, canned tea, jam, hot dogs, and low-fat yogurt with sugar or aspartame are a few examples of processed food. Preservatives are also used as a type of additive used to help stop food from spoiling.

Do you know that the type of food affects the emotional status of the human being and some processed types may cause diseases?
There rises an important question "How food affects your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health?"
Let's discover how food choices affect your health, increase your energy, and reduce your risk for and even reverse many chronic illnesses:The effects of food on the mind have been studied for many thousands of years by Oriental philosophers.  When extremely poor-quality foods are eaten, their effects on the mind and emotions are much more dramatic—sometimes causing complete mental breakdowns and personality transformations.
Processing takes a lot of nutrients out of the nutrient rich foods moreover processed foods are fortified with synthetics. Processed food is made from real food that has been put through devitalizing chemical processes and is infused with chemicals and preservatives. Beef jerky, canned tea, jam, hot dogs, and low-fat yogurt with sugar or aspartame are a few examples of processed food. Preservatives are also used as a type of additive used to help stop food from spoiling.
Junk foods contain very little real food. They’re made of devitalized processed food, hydrogenated fats, chemicals, and preservatives. Canned breakfast drinks, cold/sugary cereals, doughnuts, drive-through foods, and soda are examples of junk foods. 

In the modern era, the scientists start to invent new techniques of food processing, and the food styles the people follow had changed. The scientists had not realized that such new styles would harm people as the percentage of physical and psychological diseases had increased because of processed foods.
Foods affect our mental and emotional state in two ways:

1. They either furnish or deplete vital nutrients upon which our mental and emotional health depend, and
2. They either do or do not produce toxic by-products, in the body which poison the brain and contribute to emotional problems.                                                                       

As for some examples, eating grapes furnishes the blood with readily-assimilated natural sugars and minerals that are conducive to mental activity; consuming white sugar, on the other hand, depletes the body of B-vitamins, and this leads to nervousness and mental depression. Eating fresh raw foods places little or no toxic matter in the body; whereas eating preserved and cooked foods saturates the bloodstream with toxins that poison the body and interfere with brain function.
We can deduce from the above observations that optimum nutrition for physical, mental and emotional health consists of selecting those foods that, first, can supply the body with all of its nutrient needs and that do not interfere with the nutritional balance, and, second, contribute little or no toxic by-products.
Food affects you mentally by affecting your body's chemistry. foods affect your memory and your ability to focus, think clearly, and relax. There are many ways in which foods you choose to eat effect you mentally, emotionally, and physically.
A study, conducted by a research team at College London, had concluded the possibility of having relationship between depression and consumption of processed foods as people who consume larger amounts of vegetables, fruits and fish are less exposed to depression.
The team who conducted the research says that this is the first time the relationship between depression and diet is being watched in Britain. The data of the diet of 3500 persons at the middle age were studied and then compared with the cases of depression after five years as published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. The people participated in the study were classified into two groups: first group's diet depends on vegetables, fruits and fish, and the second group's diet depends on processed and fatty foods
 Studies verified that canned meat products and foods containing preservatives and ready to eat meals (like Hamburgers, etc) have harmful effects on the person's emotional status, so if you want to enjoy emotional stability and quietness, have physical health and live longer you have to stay away from these foods.
Processed food and link with depression:
It was verified through this study that the percentage of depression in people who had larger amounts of natural foods is 26% less than people who had processed foods like Mortadella, Hamburgers and Junk foods, on the other hand, the percentage of depression among people consuming larger amounts of processed foods is 58% higher than people who consumed less amounts of these foods.
The scientists says that there is a research which concluded that people following the Mediterranean diet are less exposed to depression, also there are many researches that connect between the type of diet and the diseases of the humans. 
We need to increase self awareness by making healthy choices in eating to create healthier(physically or emotionally), more balanced, and fulfilling lives.