Dr. Blaylock's Guide To Avoiding GMO Foods
Dr. Blaylock's Guide To Avoiding GMO Foods
Dr. Blaylock's Guide To Avoiding GMO Foods
Blaylock’s
Guide to Avoiding
GMO
FOODS
What you need to know to save yourself
and your loved ones from the hidden dangers
of laboratory-created “Frankenfoods.”
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Contents
13 Deciphering Labels
23 Where to Buy
• Take this booklet with you when you shop for food.
As you go through the store, check the different
sections of the guide so you know which foods
contain GMO ingredients.
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Introduction
Dangers of GMOs:
What You Need to Know
By Russell Blaylock, M.D.
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Avoiding GMOs
SOY
Used in soybean oil, lecithin, protein
powders, and vegetable protein
added to many packaged foods.
SUGAR BEETS
Refined into sugar.
CORN
Used to make corn syrup, corn oil,
and feed for many animals.
CANOLA
Made from the rapeseed plant, this
oil is a common ingredient in salad
dressings, mayonnaise, and snack
foods.
COTTONSEED
Oil is used to fry processed foods
such as potato chips. Common
ingredient in baked goods and
margarine.
1. Buy Organic
By law, organic foods may not contain GMOs, so
buying organic products is the best and simplest
solution.
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Organic Options
Organic Labeling:
Your Best Protection
Organic Crops
Must be grown without the use of synthetic
pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers. Organic crops are
not allowed to be genetically manipulated.
Organically Raised Animals
May not be given hormones or antibiotics, must
have 100 percent organic feed or pasture, may
never eat animal parts, and must have access to the
outdoors year-round.
The Organic Seal
Any product certified with
this seal contains at least 95
percent organic ingredients
and is 100 percent GMO-free.
Organic Products
Labeled Other Ways
100% Organic
Contains 100 percent organic
ingredients and is GMO-free.
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Sticker Shock
ORGANIC
[ GMO-FREE ]
Starts with 9.
Remember: “Starts
with 9, it’s fine.”
CONVENTIONAL
[ MAY BE GMO ]
Starts with 3 or 4.
Contains pesticides,
herbicides,
fungicides.
GMO
Starts with 8.
(This is rare. Sticker
code compliance
is voluntary and
food makers
prefer GMOs go
unlabeled.)
Deceptive Labeling
Marketers have become skilled at making a
product sound healthy when it’s really no better than
anything else on the shelves. Unlike organic labels
and the Non-GMO Project Verified seal, the terms
below don’t have clear definitions and are not backed
by any standards that indicate absence of GMOs.
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GMO Ingredients
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Meat, Poultry, Fish
IC
G
R A D without GMOs. No hormones
S S -F E
may be given to the animals.
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Dairy
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Processed Foods
Safer Bets
• Sweets and Soda: Look for products sweetened
with stevia.
• Pasta is generally GMO-free.
• Baking: Use non-GMO buttery baking sticks, goat
butter, organic butter or lard, coconut or palm oil.
• Frozen vegetables are safe bets, as long as they
aren’t corn, soybeans, zucchini, or yellow squash.
• Fruit and vegetable juices, if they are unsweetened,
ordinarily do not contain GMOs. Caveat: Citric acid,
a common preservative, can add GMOs.
• Snacks: Look for organic corn chips, popcorn (it isn’t
GMO if you pop it on the stove top without GMO oil
or in a hot air popper), or potato, rice, oat, or wheat
snacks made without GMO additives.
• Homemade salad dressing made with olive oil and
balsamic, cider, rice wine, or organic vinegars is
GMO-free. Non-organic vinegar is usually
distilled from corn and contains GMOs.
• Cooking oil: Choose olive,
coconut, or red palm oils.
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Shopping List
4 Steps to GMO-Proofing
Your Shopping List
Planning your next food shopping trip will help you
reduce GMOs in your diet. Here’s a four-step strategy:
1. Make a list of everything you plan to buy.
2. Check ingredients. Do this for each item on your
list that comes in a package, can, or bottle (check
the labels of the staples in your kitchen): If it is
certified organic, labeled “made with organic
ingredients,” or carries the Non-GMO Project
Verified seal, put a check mark next to it. If not,
look at the ingredient list for any of these words:
soy, sugar (not cane sugar), corn, canola, and
cottonseed. Mark those items with an X. If your
list has any remaining foods or beverages without
a check mark or X, compare ingredients in those
items to the list on page 12. If a product contains
any of these, mark an X next to it.
3. When buying fresh corn, zucchini, yellow
crookneck squash, edamame, or Hawaiian papaya,
make a note to choose organic or ask if the store has
verified that it’s non-GMO. These are usually GMO.
4. When shopping, find a non-GMO alternative to all
the items marked “X” on your list. And, buy organic
or hormone-free dairy products, organic or non-
GMO meats, and wild fish. This should significantly
reduce your GMO intake.
Non-GMO Swaps
If you can’t fill your shopping cart with organic
products or those that carry the Non-GMO Project
Verified seal, study the following table so you will be
well-informed to make appropriate non-GMO swaps.
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Dining Out
Safeway O Organics
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The Essential Guide to Protecting
Your Family From GMO Foods
Genetically modified (GMO) foods have been linked
to increased death rates, cancer, and a host of other
health issues. There are bans on these lab-created
“Frankenfoods” around the world — but not in the
United States, where they are in more than 75% of
foods and are not even required to be labeled.
Russell Blaylock, M.D., renowned health author and
editor of The Blaylock Wellness Report, has used his
decades of nutritional research to formulate this
definitive guidebook, which can help you and your
loved ones avoid the hidden dangers posed by GMOs.