No More Nitrate! Public Awareness Message of Cancerous Nitrosamines in Fertilzer Exposed Foods

Processed meats and foods have always had a cheap quality that draw the frugal people, like me to, the grocery isles with their vast availability and longevity on the shelves. But most food, organically speaking, was never supposed to last 4 months. The qualities that made ‘healthily foods’ available has spawned a new breed of cancer enzyme metabolizing organisms that would make a camel grow a tumorous third hump! No joke, a study published by the Journal of Alzheimers Disease suggested that nitriates found in processed foods increased risks of age related diseases such a Alzheimers, Parkinson’s disease and diabetes. *

Nitrates and nitrites are chemicals used to preserve food. These chemicals become nitrosamines in reacting with stomach acids which are known cancer-causing chemicals.


Mortality rates of peoples aged 74-85 in North America as a whole who lived through 1968-2005, found that age related diseases had increased during this time period, while age related diseases such as cerebrovascular disease had remained steady or had even declined.

Nitrogen consumption had increased by 230 percent due to fertilizers. Even more disturbing, fertilizer consumption doubled between 1960 and 1980, just preceding insulin-resistant epidemics that researchers later discovered. Toxins found in food increased 8x, relative to fast food sales during this time.

Because of this sudden sharp increase, disease incidence/prevalence rates, I believe, are directly due to exposure relations to nitrates rather then genetic aetiologies as consumption of industrial fertilizer traversed into fruits, vegetables and meats has increased our exposure to this toxic chemical.

I know how hard it is to find food of any significant nutritional quality is difficult to come by these days, requiring a watchful eye of your grocery isles, especially for us city folk! I can suggest listen for updates on nutritional news, wash your fruits and vegetables, choose organic when possible, cook your foods thoroughly…etc. We need our fruits and vegetables for their phytochemical properties but I, like all of you, would rather not be slowly poisoned!!

Be careful in the city, everything is out to get you!

*. Monte, Suzanne M., Alexander Neusner, Jennifer Chu and Margot Lawton. “Epidemilogical Trends Strongly Suggest Exposures as Etiologic Agents in the Pathogenesis of Sporadic Alzheimer’s Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, and Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis.” Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease 17:3 (July 2009) pp 519-529.