買ってはいけないお菓子 CAKES YOU SHOULDN’T BUY

買ってはいけないお菓子　

　最近の我が家の話題は毒入り食物だ。『買ってはいけないお菓子・買ってもいいお菓子』（渡辺雄二、大和書房）とか『食べてはいけない添加物・食べてもいい添加物』（同）によると、ほとんどの食品や菓子類に毒が入っているそうだ。
　そういえば近頃のジャガイモは何日放置しておいても芽が出ない、化学的に処置しているからだ。ざるそばも白っぽいのがある。なぜ白っぽくするのかわからないが、その方が上品に見えるとメーカーは考えているらしい。これは漂白剤が入っているのだ。遺伝子組み換え食品も有毒だそうだ。遺伝子組み換え食品とは何のことかわからなかったが、除草剤などを浴びても影響を受けないよう化学的処置をした野菜のことらしい。
　今日販売されている食品のほとんどに保存剤、着色剤、甘味料、香辛料、酸味料、酸化防止剤、増粘剤をはじめいろいろな添加物が入っている。それらが人体には毒だそうだ。厚生省の審査を通っているからと言って安心できない。
　もっとも、私自身は心室頻拍で薬を毎朝二種類服用しているが、薬の説明書を読むと猛毒と書いてある。副作用でかえって肺臓や甲状腺がやられるとか。今のところ症状は出ていないが、医者は「薬を飲まないのは論外です」と言う。飲みたくないけど飲まなくてはいけない。
　先日友達が言っていたが、その人の父親（８５歳）は毎朝５種類の薬を服用、昼はまた違う薬を４種類。夜は夜でまた薬づけ。体重がどんどん減っていって、３７キロになった。別の医者に診せたら「この薬は飲まなくていい、これも、これも」と言って最後は１種類になったそうな。それからしばらくして、体重は４６キロになったとか。
　恐ろしい世の中だ。

CAKES YOU SHOULDN’T BUY

A recent topic of conversation in my family (my wife and me) has been poisonous food. According to Kattewa ikenai okashi, Kattemoii okashi (Candies You Shouldn’t Buy; Candies You May Buy) written by Yuji Watanabe and published by Yamato Shobo, most of the candies and food sold in Japanese supermarkets contain poison.

I wondered a few months ago why potatoes did not sprout. They used to put out buds if they were left untouched for several days. Those buds were cut out before they were cooked for they were said to be poisonous. Recent potatoes are chemically treated so that they do not sprout. Some zaru-soba or buckwheat noodle today is not gray, but white gray. I don’t know why the color has changed, but probably the producers think white soba looks more elegant than gray soba. White gray soba, however, contains bleach, which is poisonous. Genetically modified vegetables are also poisonous. To tell you the truth, I did not know the meaning of “genetically modified,” but recently I have learned that they are chemically treated so that they are resistant to herbicide. That means they are heavily treated with chemical substances.

Almost all the food sold today in supermarkets contain chemical substances such as preserving agents, coloring agents, edulcorant, spice, acidulant, antioxidant, and thickening agents. They are poisonous. You can’t say you are safe as long as you eat the food that has gone through the screening by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

I myself take two tablets for abnormal cardiac rhythm every morning. The leaflet says the medicine is poisonous and could cause maladies of lungs and thyroid gland. I don’t want to take them, but the doctor strongly recommends me to do so.

The other day a friend of mine said that his father aged 85 had been taking several different kinds of medicine a day. He became feeble and his weight was reduced to 37 kilograms. So, he took his father to another doctor. Examining his father’s medicine, the new doctor eliminated all of them except one kind. Then his father became healthier and now weighs 46 kilograms.

We are poisoned by an overdose of chemicals.