The unhealthy foods the American people eat seem to have bad effects on their health. Scientists have never ceased to attempt a great deal to make food fully fit to eat but to no avail. Research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses are related to diet. People of different cultures are more prone to contract certain illnesses because of characteristic foods they consume.

As a matter of fact, bad contents in certain foods are not separate from how fond people are in using additives. Financial reasons might be behind the use of certain additives. To boost sales, people often use nitrates and nitrites to preserve colour in meats so that they become more saleable. However, these additives may cause certain illnesses. Once the meat is eaten, the substances will remain in your body for a very long time.

Sometimes, the additives that we eat are not all so direct. Farmers often give penicillin to cattle and poultry. The drug administered to these animals is not for medicinal purposes, but for financial reasons: The farmers are simply using this additive in order to fatten the animals for obtaining a higher price on the market. And when eaten, both colour-preserving substances in meats and fattening-substances in poultry and cattle cause many serious illnesses. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has tried continuously to control these unsafe uses of the substances; nevertheless, the practices continue.

Often, consumers are unaware of detrimental substances they ingest. They seem to remain in the dark and have no option but to consume those foods’ risky contents. Unluckily, farmers or others certainly realize the consequences of these substances to food but they go on doing it.