amyl acetate, amyl butyrate, amyl valerate, anethol, anisyl formate, benzyl acetate, benzyl isobutyrate, butyric acid, cinnamyl isobutyrate, cinnamyl valerate, cognac essential oil, diacetyl, dipropyl ketone, ethyl butyrate, ethyl cinnamate, ethyl heptanoate, ethyl heptylate, ethyl lactate, ethyl methylphenylglycidate, ethyl nitrate, ethyl propionate, ethyl valerate, heliotropin, hydroxyphrenyl- 2-butanone (10% solution in alcohol), ionone, isobutyl anthranilate, isobutyl butyrate, lemon essential oil, maltol, 4-methylacetophenone, methyl anthranilate, methyl benzoate, methyl cinnamate, methyl heptine carbonate, methyl naphthyl ketone, methyl salicylate, mint essential oil, neroli essential oil, nerolin, neryl isobutyrate, orris butter, phenethyl alcohol, rose, rum ether, undecalactone, vanillin and solvent.
If this sounds like the next a-bomb or something, your are wrong. It is the constituent elements of a strawberry milkshake available at your friendly, neighbourhood McDonalds. Ouch. I wonder which has more nourishment – semtex eaten raw or the strawberry milkshake. Ultimately they both sound equally explosive!
You should check out two books: “Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser and recently published “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollen. Both deal with the “ingredients” in American food (and specifically fast food).
Have you checked out the warning labels on let’s say the Garnier hair colour products – the one’s that are touted as being all natural? Those almonds are pure poison I tell you. It’s really crazy what all these guys are selling us. I quit using shampoo over a year ago for precisely this reason. A hippie friend of mine told me that the human body doesn’t need shampoo. Its been looking after itself for millenia now. And he was right. There was some irritation as the body coped with the new deal and now everything is tickety boo. Admittedly, I do wear my hair short and have to keep them clean, but ask any rasta hippie if he has dandruff and you will find out how remarkably adaptable the human body is.
Quitting shampoo altogether might seem a bit extreme, but the point is that pretty much everything they try to sell you these days is just shit dressed up to look good. Do yourself a favour and quit using these things.
Thnx vikram will do. The guardian had a series of very frightning articles on fast & processed food. And coming from a family where meals are cooked, fresh, twice a day – it is quite a downer in terms of appetite.
Hiya Sid
i very rarely use shampoor. much prefere shikai kai or arita nut. and anti dandruff is a definite no-no. it causes scalp dryness and dandruff:)
Its funny when we criticise american food. I know a lots wrong with the Mc D kind of cooking. So everyone loves analysing that and how unhealthy it is and all that. Like as if we were all very healthy otherwise. I don’t eat a lot of McD but i can manage to eat unhealthy irrespective of what cuisine am eating. I don’t think the indian food we are eating is much healthy anyways. I mean, how many healthy Indian food eating Inians do I know – not many. I really don’t know any body who is very healthy. No one. I mean, aren’t we the people who belive a fat baby is a healthy baby. And for us eating more means eating right. And how many times have i heard my family elders says, “When we were in kerala we din need any gym or anything, and we would eat so mch, just one person would eat a whole jackfruit!” And so they believe that cuisine is really healthy. But its really b.s. I don’t thinkw e have adapted well to urban times in the last 50 years that we have migrated from villages, and a lot of manual labour that we did we dont do anymore. Our food has stayed the same, but the amount of labour we do is a lot less. So i am more interested to know if eating all that sambhar and rice and all that coconut and stuff is healthy to my lifestyle. Of course living in Mumbai we eat everything. I just think we are talking about american food so much cos someone has written a book on it or made a film, so there is some content for reference. Anyways, i believe if a person’s gonna be unhealthy he’l be unhealthy whatever type of food u give him. I mean, how many people discuss whats wrong with vada pav and samosa. and there arent many healthy people i know. The last healthy person i knew in my family was my grand father who passed away some 6 years ago.
Any food by the way has chemical constitutents, even the healthy stuff. McD’s milkshake may not be the best thing around (and I don’t eat at MD) but its important that natural and processed foods are not simplistically diffrentiated on the basis of a chemical list. If chemical names were all that are required to scare of the public there is nothing one can eat. Ditto natural cleansers – for example shikakai has saponins which function fairly similarly to your average shampoo surfactant.
eta whatever you want and exercise. if it suits your body you won’t fall sick.