Food Contamination - The Other Side Of Your Food
The latest research indicate that children with diabetes type 2 and type 1 (sometimes referred to as adult-onset diabetes or juvenile diabetes) is on an acute upward rise in every age group in every nation. In the United States a twenty-percent increase in newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes is expected by the year 2020 if present trends continue—new type 1 diabetes are expected to double in the next few years.

Overview
Several decades ago, I once had the pleasure to have met a very wise old minister. He regularly provided food products to lots of people in his neighborhood. During a conversation a certain young man walked by, and the old minister said quietly… see that young man their, he has a four year degree and when his parents died they left him an inheritance. Within a few months he was broke and ain’t got noth’in. See, that just goes to show you, you can educate a fool, and you still ain’t got noth’in!

Food Poisoning What You Buy At The Market Can Kill You
Research Stats
Recent Center For Disease Control (CDC) statistics published in the NY Times this week indicated that approximately 76 million people in the United States suffer from food related illnesses each year, of which 300,000 are hospitalized, and another 5,000 actually die from food delivered to your local grocery market. The things now being served on the dinner table and fast-food establishments must all come under close scrutiny. Some of these foods and chemicals in the foods are under suspect to be the cause the rapid rise diabetes—particularly type 1 diabetes. Also, let not forget to include an additional segment of unreported illnesses from those American without proper health care. This could perhaps add millions more to these dire food poison facts and statistics.

Grading the Food Industry Safety Performance

F is for... Flunked, Failer, Flopped

Analyzing Those Numbers
Seventy million? Seventy million food poisoning cases? Who do we blame this one on, the Russians or Chinese—the Chinese seem to be a popular target of blame these days? If these statistics are in fact true that would translate into a nearly one to four (1:4 ratio.) Keep in mind, there are only 300 million citizens in the USA. This represents a total failure of our food processing industry. These reports are not rare cases, but based on the regularity of news reports, they are business as usual in the food industry. No wonder other nations refuse to import our meat or other food products.

Graphically Speaking
Russian Roulette With Your Food
Put two bullets in a gun magazine point it at your mouth. If these statistics are in fact true—that 5000 people are killed by contaminated food, then the USA food industry is threatening its citizens with the same results as using that gun. The food industry is a bigger threat than all the terrorists being headlined in the press. The food industry kills more people in one year than the 3000 who died in the 2001 terrorist attack. Our food industry kills 5000 people a year for an estimated total of 45,000 since the 2001 terrorists attack, that’s almost ten times the 4000 plus soldiers killed in action since the war-on-terror began.

Nitty Gritty Solution
Prevent Your Kid From Becoming A Newly Diagnosed Diabetic
I am an Instructional Designer/Flash Programmer by profession. To help combat the fat food culture being pushed onto our young children, I created the first series of a children books called Run Tippy Run. This series of Run Tippy Run - "Draw Me Healthy" publications, will attempt to introduce a green diet concept to young children. The gOne Raw Diet will benefit their panceras.

Fact Review
(Several thousand people died every year from eating food purchased from the grocery stores (known fact-but no heavy media attention.)

Alert Status Rating
We give the food industry an Alert Status of RED!

A is for... Alert, Action, Awareness

Conclusion
With a constant delivery of contaminated food for consumption, our food industry is more dangerous to us than the war-on-terror. We need to become aware of this serious situation. We need to make our children aware as well.

What To Do Next - Organic Foods
By following a 50% vegetable, all organic raw smoothie diet, I have avoided the type 1 prognosis all togethet. No insulin injections of anykind.

Recommended Resources
View Food Inc Movie – Learn about the horrible source of your food.

Food Poisoning - NY Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/f/food_safety/index.htm

Kids can read Run Tippy Run book free online at...
www.daystarbooks.com (click the red button when the webpage appears.)