Wheaties: so much metal that flakes can be lifted with magnet

[dlevere]

Wheaties: Breakfast of champions, highest of all cereals in fiber, vitamins, minerals, and so much metal that each flake can be lifted with magnets.

By Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) Wheaties breakfast cereal, manufactured by General Mills, has been found to contain so many microscopic fragments of metal that individual flakes can be lifted and carried using common magnets, a Natural News Forensic Food Lab investigation has found and documented. Photos of the microscopy investigation are posted now at labs.naturalnews.com

A video demonstrating Wheaties flakes clinging to magnets has also been posted at YouTube:

The metal bits are added to Wheaties cereal to enhance the nutritional profile and claim a higher iron content on the label, but lab director and food scientist Mike Adams is skeptical of the formulation. "Adding shards of metal to a cereal is not nutritionally equivalent to nutritive minerals formed during the growth of grain-producing plants," he explains. "Bioavailability is vastly different."

Adams believes adding metal fragments to a cereal mix in an effort to claim a higher nutritional content on the box is "inherently deceptive" and points out that the manufacturer, General Mills, has also sold other deceptively-labeled cereals such as "TOTAL Blueberry Pomegranate" which contains no blueberries nor pomegranates.

And here are some of the microscopy photos showing metal fragments in the Wheaties cereal (look for the small metallic shapes)

[bungholio]

I haven't read anything from NaturalNews in forever. A year of reading from that site is like somebody telling you every single thing in this world is engineered to kill you and only an elite group of rich people get healthy food and water while there's a conspiracy that they are killing us all and have the greatest technology and control the entire world.

[dlevere]

Today was the first day that I found out about that site. I do have some Corn Flakes in my kitchen, though. And I grow vegetables in my back yard.

[bungholio]

That site is incredibly paranoid. Nothing but conspiracies. He's probably right, but I can't read from that site any more because it turns me into a nervous wreck. Reading it will give you rabies.

[Pyriel]

It's completely hit and miss with them. I hate it when people refer me to that site because it's always like a homework assignment.

For instance, they'll have a headline that says something like, "Study Shows That Wheat Causes Autism". When you read their article it looks like a solid case, but then you find out that the scientific quotes aren't from the paper. They're from a press release that a like-minded group of activists (usually one of their affiliates, and occasionally someone who advertises on or in conjunction with the site) put out, containing their flawed interpretation of the paper. Quotes that appear to be from interviews with the scientists are just trussed up interpretations from people similarly aligned. And they frequently go four layers deep on the practice. That is, they'll support the conclusions they've drawn on the paper they're discussing by dragging in the conclusions they drew on two or three other papers, without really pointing out that each of them has little to do with the other. Usually, all they have in common is that Natural News or someone else interpreted them in a way that made them sound damning. When you finally manage to dig up all the actual papers, you find that the first one is a statistical analysis of 4,000 kids showing that wheat might be more irritating to the guts of autistic children than you'd expect. Two of the other papers are by the same woman, and it's just her, publishing the stories of individual children in dubious journals, in between periods where she's writing books about how the very world around us is just itching to give us autism. Everything from electricity, to mountain streams, to chemtrails is the cause.

My cousin is a big pot-legalization advocate. I mostly agree with him, but he loves to send me articles from Natural News, proving that cannabis cures cancer. A couple of years ago he sent me one headlined just that, and the author actually stated that he, "couldn't imagine a course of therapy that included cannabis that failed to result in a cure", or words to that effect. The study being trumpeted, when I finally found it, was done on something like 12 rats (experimental group), who had highly concentrated cannabinoids injected directly into their brains to test the reactions of a particular type of brain cancer. No rats were cured. I think four or five saw reductions in the size of their tumors, so that's promising. Another few had no detectable growth. Five of them died. Not only did they misrepresent the study as being something directly applicable to humans, they completely inflated the results because the so-called reporter didn't read anything but the friendly group's press release.

This is sort of interesting, but what he's doing isn't proper science in that video. He looks at close-up pictures, and, as far as I can tell, just assumes that anything of a different color is something terrible. The website he created uses metrics that Adam made up a year ago to assess the foods being investigated, and Adams has no meaningful scientific credentials I'm aware of. The whole thing stinks of crank.

Edit: Reading through his explanations for a couple of the metrics he invented, several of his methods are considered proprietary. Har har. You can't do that, and expect to be taken seriously by the medical or scientific community.

[dlevere]

This is a much better site

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/

[physicspolice]

Mike Adams is not a food scientist. This is a kids science experiment.

These are not metal "fragments" or "shavings" but clumps of food-grade iron powder.
This bio-available iron can prevent dietary anemia, a common and preventable disease.

http://thephysicspolice.blogspot.com...erishment.html

[Pyriel]

Heh. Sounds about par for the course.

I forgot to mention that another big assumption of that site is that additives of any kind are automatically poison. If it didn't come from grinding up a plant that's part of the recipe, or directly from a free-range animal, it had might as well be cyanide. Your cereal is supplemented with vitamin B-5? Well, one way of synthesizing that in a lab involves some formaldehyde, so here's a story with all the ways formaldehyde can wreck your body and kill you. A tactic roughly akin to explaining the awful results of drinking sea water to put you off buying table salt.

If I remember correctly, Adams is into homeopathy too, so it wouldn't be too outrageous (for him) if he reckons a foodstuff that passed within smelling distance of anything remotely toxic remembers the shape of the poison.

[bungholio]

If I remember correctly, Adams is into homeopathy too,

Majorly. That, spirituality, ancient Chinese secrets, conspiracies that say every little thing on this planet is engineered to kill us, and is all done by a special few on this planet that seem to predict and control every little aspect of this planet for their benefit and amusement. School shootings, Boston bombing, Batman theater massacre, 911, and every little thing is orchestrated by the government to fool the masses into doing things to give up your freedoms and move to a society of slaves catering to a wealthy controlling few according to him. There's bizarre indecisive contradictions thrown in too. I remember when about 2 years ago there was something about cops hunting this other cop that shot people or something. He started off with "How could the cops let him do this? They are trying to kill us and are worthless fools that can't do their jobs and blah blah blah." Within 2 weeks that changed to calling that cop a hero and victim and all of the other cops were now the mindless criminals trying to hunt him down and it was all a psi-op. There's a whole lot about "Them", the controllers of the universe. Mike Adams is insane


It's a bad place for paranoid schizophrenics like me. It will make you rabid and insane.If I'm looking for something interesting to read I just go to www.scienceblog.com