They Looked Into This Popular Breakfast Cereal. This is What They Found…

Wheaties breakfast cereal contains so much metal fragments that the flakes could be lifted and carried away by using ordinary magnets, according to an investigation conducted by the Forensic Food Lab of Natural News. The investigation report has documented the existence of the fragments and provided images and a detailed video at the lab’s website. Being conducted as a joint effort between Natural News and the Consumer Wellness Center, the study is a part of an ongoing series of tests. It was aimed at testing popular foods, herbs, dietary supplements and groceries to find out their heavy metal offering.

What are They Saying?

Mike Adams, the lead scientist of the project explains that the findings reveal that the popular cereals do not contain high amount of toxic heavy metals. The study also revealed that the cereals contain considerably lower amount of heavy metals compared to the amounts of superfoods, herbs and other fresh produce type of foods. However, he also added that the absence of high amount of toxic metals does not indicate that the cereals do not contain any other harmful substance or they are more nutritive than others. Rather, cereals that are produced in traditional ways could include different forms of herbicides and pesticides. Some of the most popular cereals are manufactured from genetically modified substances. An interesting finding of the study points out that the cereals with lowest composition of heavy metals are the ones which lack nutritive elements like selenium and zinc.

Adams explained that the higher amount of processing of the refined cereals lowers the rate of heavy metal composition. For ordinary people, he recommends eating minimally processed cereals, which are produced from organic ingredients. Though they could include a slightly higher level of heavy metals, they come with all the beneficial nutrients. Foods with higher level of toxic metal could incur damages to different organs of the body including the brain and the kidneys. Lead could end up with lowered IQ level, while Cadmium could lead to Kidney damage and Arsenic is well-known as a cancer-increasing substance.

Are Heavy Metals Useful For Us?

Some people tend to validate the presence of heavy metals in cereals by arguing that children need more nutrition than grown-ups and more nutrition couldn’t do any harm to the adults too. But this is not true as the intoxicated foods are supplemented with an excess amount of metals. Some researchers even claim that the excessive amount of iron added in cereals lead to lymphatic tissue cancer and leukemia. While they are growing fast, children couldn’t store too much iron in their body. They have a large amount of iron at birth, but that amount decreases gradually as they grow up.

While we generally tend to know about the existence of arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury, there are lots of other heavy metal substances too. Though they are easily found in our natural environment and some are actually needed for our body, high dose of these metals could be detrimental for our body. They can have a negative impact on our mental function, disrupting the regular thinking process. They can have serious impact on our decision making process too. As a result of high intake of these heavy metals, we can experience a reduced capacity or completely damaged central nervous system. They will lead to a state of low energy. An excess amount of heavy metals could make us feel tired and less capable of performing our usual actions. While long-term exposure to these toxic metals could lead to cancer, they can also pave the way for Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease.

What to Do?

At this point, you may think that as the harmful effects of these toxic heavy metals are so evident, they should be banned completely. However, in reality, the process is not as simple as that. Even if we can magically manage to prevent the intake of all these heavy metals, enough toxic substances are already released on the environment which can cause poisoning and other diseases for our future generations. While the government is taking little to no steps in controlling these toxic heavy metals, it is up to the ordinary people to save themselves. Though a person individually is not capable of doing anything substantial, there are some ways which can remove these harmful elements from our body. Medical processes like nutritional therapy, detoxification protocol, oral chelation could be helpful in this regard.