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10,000 B.C.

man first started eating a crude form of flat bread - a baked combination of wheat flour and water.

herding of goats is thought to have evolved about 10,000 years ago in the mountains of Iran.

8,500 B.C.

wheat and barley had been domesticated in the Levant The biggest change in man's food was when he invented grain farming.   ... stores the seeds, and consumes them throughout the year.  This never occurred in nature prior to man's intervention.

8,000 B.C. World Disaster - Obliteration of more than 40 million animals about this time

6,700-6,500 B.C.

man ground grains with rocks

2,000- 3,000 B.C.

Egyptians made yeast-leavened breads. Since wheat is the only grain with sufficient gluten content to make a raised or leavened loaf of bread, wheat quickly became favored over other grains grown at the time, such as oats, millet, rice, and barley.

1552 B.C.

 Egypt, cereal foods formed the main backbone of their diet from the predynastic period onward.

... many statues and pictures of ancient Egyptians who are well overweight.

In their embalming process, the ancient Egyptians used a mixture of substances, including methanol, which they obtained from the pyrolysis of wood.

Egypt... honey was used by the rich for a sweetener, but was probably too expensive for the poor.

Earliest known record of diabetes mentioned on 3rd Dynasty Egyptian papyrus

1100 B.C 

Soy did not become human food until late in the Chou Dynasty (1134-246 B.C.),miso.

500 B.C.

Roman Empire, Cloaca Maxima (big sewer) is built in Rome by Etruscan dynasty of Tarquins. As Rome grows, a network of cloacae (sewers) and aquaducts are built.

First antibiotic: moldy soybean curds used to treat boils (China).

process known for creating sugar, by pressing out the juice and then boiling it into crystals, was developed in India around 500 BC.

350 BC

Antiphanes writes about commercial baking with sifted flour

150 B.C.

Wheat - First bakers' guilds were formed in Rome.

Tofu came after miso. Legend has it that, in 164 B.C., Its most popular use was-and is-as a few bland little blocks in miso soup or fish stock.

65 B.C.

Norse water mills working in Asia 

542 to 767 A.D.

Use of coffee is known in Arabia

1180 - 1190

Windmills began to appear in Europe 

1104 to 1110 AD

natto and tempeh, entered the food supply around 1000 A.D.

plague killed more than 90% of Europeans

1100s  Variolation (inoculation with live virus) for smallpox first reported in China

1150 A.D.

refined white bread was used by the Church and the surplus sold to the nobility while the poor people ate dark bread

1388

Parliament passes an act forbidding the throwing of filth and garbage into ditches, rivers and waters. City of Cambridge also passes the first urban sanitary laws in England.

1553

Beck's Beer

1559

Tobacco introduced to Europe

1587

Introduction of potatoes to England

1611

European dairy cows arrived in America in 1611

1650

Coffee brought to England about this time

1662

Tea introduced to Britain

1690

first sugar refinery was built in New York City 

1693–1700

Climate: Oat harvest failed repeatedly in Scotland – widespread starvation

1704

Britain's annual per capita consumption of sugar was 4lbs in 1704

1713

By this year there are some 3,000 coffee houses in London (They drank it with SUGAR!)

1721

Variolation introduced into Great Britain by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

1750

By 1750 there were 150 cane refineries in Britain, producing some 30,000 tons of sugar each year.

1765

The potato becomes the most popular food in Europe

The first soybean plant hit North American soil. Initially, American soybeans were used to make soy sauce and soy noodles for export to England.

1767

Carbonated Water sold

1769

Diabetes mentioned in medical book

1776

first ice cream parlor opened in New York City in 1776

1777

Wheat was first planted in the United States - as a hobby crop.

1784

Invention of threshing machine by Andrew Meikle

1786

Molson beer

1790

Deep fat fryer invented

1791

Sugar prices rise steeply - England

1796

Edward Jenner inoculated James Phipps with cowpox, and calls the procedure vaccination (vacca = cow, in Latin)

1800

Britain's annual per capita consumption of sugar was 18lbs in 1800

1803

Ice Box Invented in Maryland by Thomas Moore who named his ice box "refrigerator"

1809

French confectioner Nicolas François Appert invents canning

1812

Donkin, Hall & Gamble manufacture first canned food in London More about: canned food

1816

England - Economic depression - rise in wheat prices

1816-1947

Smallpox

1820

World population reached 1 billion.

Saratoga Springs bottled water

Tomato is proven nonpoisonous

1831

The invention of the mechanical reaper by Cyrus McCormick made it possible to harvest wheat much more efficiently than by hand with scythes or sickles.

1847

Chocolate Bar - 1847 (Britain)

European crop failure

nearly all of the beef sold in America was grass-fed.

1852

Three quarters of all milk sold in New York in 1852 was slop milk. Slop is of little value in fattening cattle. It is unnatural food to them and makes them diseased and emaciated. But it made cows produce a lot of milk.

1855

Patent for powdered milk in UK More about: milk

1856

Condensed milk patented - 1856 (Gail Borden)

1861-1865 American Civil War

1866

production of dextrose from corn starch

Soy milk originated as a byproduct of the process of making tofu; the earliest reference to it as a beverage appeared in 1866.5

1867

Henri Nestlé created a nutritious product for infants that could be used by mothers who were unable to breast-feed.

1869

development of margarine by Mege Mouris in France 

1870

Compound lard introduced (mixed with veg oils), cottonseed oil used as food

Louis Pasteur creates the first live attenuated bacterial vaccine (chicken cholera)

1872

a factory, built in California, was finally able to successfully produce sugar in a profitable manner

1873

introduction of the roller miller at the World's Fair 

Between 1874 and 1884

Wheat - 5,000 Russian Mennonites settled in Kansas. They brought with them Turkey Red winter wheat.

1876

Budweiser beer (later becomes the 1st national brand)

Beer pasteurization

By 1876, the birth rate in Britain began to decline from 36/1000 to less than 14/1000 in 1941, at which time the National Loaf became compulsory (85% extraction, including the germ). In the next two years, the birth rate rose to 16/1000. Vitamin E deficiency was the suspected cause, since it was believed to have something to do with human and animal reproduction, and is destroyed in the refining of flour.

Premium soda crackers (later Saltines)

1879

First vaccine for cholera

1880

Using imported concentrates of lemon and lime, Pfizer begins manufacturing citric acid. (Used in soft drinks)

In 1880, about 1.5 million litres of wood alcohol were produced in the USA

1882

refined corn sugar or anhydrous sugar first produced,

Corn gluten animal feed was first manufactured 

1885

Dr. Pepper - 1885 (invention)

1886

Aluminum Cookware manufacture process invented - 1886 (Wear-Ever)

Coca Cola

1889

origin of the modern pizza

first commercial production of corn oil

1890

During the 1890s, the market for methanol (then better known as wood alcohol) increased as a commercial product and as a solvent for use in the workplace. It was included in many consumer products such as witch hazel, Jamaica ginger, vanilla extract and perfumes.

First vaccine for tetanus

Europe started to eat relatively saturated vegetable fats, as from coconut and palm oils

1894-1920

Dr. Nathaniel Potter...  pursued research in New York on three metabolic diseases: diabetes, gout, and nephritis.

1895

Sewage cleanup in London means the return of some fish species (grilse, whitebait, flounder, eel, smelt) to the Thames River.

Commercial pasteurization machines were first introduced 

1896

First vaccine for typhoid fever

1897

Campbell's Condensed Soup

Grape Nuts

the leading causes of death in the industrial world were infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, influenza, and pneumonia.

First vaccine for bubonic plague

1898

Pepsi Cola first sold

1899

Wesson oil

1900 

first vacuum packed coffee - 1900 (Hills)

Nearly a third to half of all babies born in the USA in 1900 never saw their 5th birthday. Whooping cough, dyphtheria, and both rheumatic fever and scarlet fever (strep throat gone really serious) were major killers.

Some experts claim that the hamburger was invented that year in New Haven, Connecticut.

A journal article, written in 1942, discusses the deterioration of the physique of the British, between the 18th century and the Boer War around 1900 (Alvarez, 1942). The most probable explanation was that they had come to depend too much on white flour and sugar, whereas their ancestors had eaten plenty of 'whole wheat flour.

1902

Karo corn syrup

1904

Iced Tea

Popcorn, hog dogs, ice cream cones, and peanut butter were introduced at the St. Louis World's fair.

Invention of Ginger Ale

1906

Instant coffee mass marketing

Alzheimer's Disease Discovered

Corn Flakes - Kellogg Company Founding

1908

Cellophane invented - Jacques E. Brandenberger

1st compulsory pasteurization law in Chicago

1910

In 1910, Americans were each eating about 210 pounds of wheat flour each year.

"bleaching flour and the evidence establishes that  nitrogen-peroxide gas was employed for that purpose and further establishes that that gas, nitrous acid, nitric acid, and nitrites of the kind which may   be produced by such treatment are poisonous and deleterious substances, and that these substances when taken in sufficient quantities will produce   poisonous action or death....its purpose evidently was to open wide the opportunities for bleaching flour and the promise that no action would be taken looking to a restriction of this process.... The result is that the millers who at first were unwilling to indulge in bleaching have been forced to bleach in order to maintain their trade ....Thus the very law which the Supreme Court has said was enacted chiefly to protect the public health has been turned into a measure to threaten public health and to defraud the purchasers of flour."

Brassiere - first US Patent [click here for good site about bras]

wood alcohol ...produced in the USA ...in 1910...over 3 million litres

1911

Crisco

“…when I graduated from medical school in 1911, I had never heard of coronary thrombosis"

soy oil used as food

hydrogenated all-vegetable-oil shortenings were introduced

Refined salt - Anticaking agents ... are hygroscopic chemicals which absorb humidity, keeping the salt crystals from sticking together.

1912

The 1st self-service grocery store opened in California.

hamburger buns

Oreo Cookie

1913

Production of Beecham’s Pills laxative reaches one million a day

1914

The war in Europe affected imported pasta from Italy and because of this, The U.S. started large scale production.

Nitrogen bichloride, also known as agene, was one of the earliest bleaching agents used on wheat flour. After 40 years of use, it was finally found to cause canine hysteria, and was outlawed 

Milk tank trucks

1914-1918 First World War (the "Great War"

1915

Lipstick - 1915 (US manufacture in tube)

Processed American Cheese was introduced to American stores by J.L. Kraft and Son.

1916

First electric refrigerator

first hamburger fast-food chain was White Castle 

1917

Mascara and Colored Powder (Helena Rubinstein)

Cholera vaccine

Typhoid vaccine (parenteral)

"The effects of drinking caffeine on an empty stomach and in a free state are far more dangerous than drinking an equal quantity of caffeine wrapped up with tannic acid in tea and coffee." From court records re: Coca Cola

1919

Homogenized milk sold successfully

The deadly "Spanish Flu" that killed 675,000 Americans in 1918-1919 was caused by VACCINATIONS!! Beginning in 1911, vaccinations were mandatory for U.S. military personnel. A lot of the dead were soldiers preparing to go overseas to fight the enemy abroad.

1920

Max Factor Makeup - 1920s (era of starting popularity)

1920's both the beef and pituitary hormone CJD crises were manmade. Scrapie, the sheep equivalent of BSE and CJD, has been around for more than two centuries. Somewhat differently, human spongiform encephalopathy was unheard of before two German physicians, Creutzfeldt and Jakob, independently reported the initial cases in the 1920s.

During the 1920s and 1930s ...Other methods for making acetic acid and methanol became cheaper.

The 1920s witnessed a "plastics craze", as the use of cellophane spread throughout the world.

70% of the US population baked their own bread.

When Kellogg rolled the tempered or softened wheat and let it dry, each grain of wheat emerged as a large thin flake.  The flakes turned out to be a tasty cereal.  In the years that followed cereal production and the varieties of cereals soared.  Even Wall Street got into the act and there was a cereal stock mania in the early 1920s! 

Soy became an important food crop 

Soymilk: By the 1920s and 1930s, it was popular in Asia as an occasional drink served to the elderly.6-8 The first person to manufacture soy milk in China was actually an American-Harry Miller, a Seventh Day Adventist physician and missionary.9

1921

iodized salt

First vaccine for diphtheria

1922

Malted Milkshake - (Walgreens - Ivar Coulson)

1923

Sanka, Welche's Grape Jelly and the Milky Way candy bar were introduced.

Coca Cola Six Pack

1925

Wesson oil

1926

First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)

1927

Kool-Aid

First vaccine for tuberculosis  and Tetanus

1928

broccoli introduced to U.S.

7UP

Laibach first uses embryo rescue to obtain hybrids from wide crosses in crop plants—known today as hybridization.

Rice Krispies

Velveeta cheese

1929

Commercial production of PCBs begins in the United States

introduction of thimerosal (a mercury-based preservative  by the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly

the population of autistic spectrum disorder children (ASD) was zero

Po' Boy sandwich

1930

World population reached 2 billion.

1930's Less known to the public is that fluoride also accumulates in bones. "The teeth are windows to what's happening in the bones," explained Paul Connett, Professor of Chemistry at St Lawrence University, New York, to these reporters. In recent years, pediatric bone specialists have expressed alarm about an increase in stress fractures among young people in the US. Connett and other scientists are concerned that fluoride-linked to bone damage in studies since the 1930s-may be a contributing factor. http://www.nexusmagazine.com/

Bisquick 

Jiffy Biscuit Mix

Wheat - Sliced bread had increased consumption of toast at breakfast.

Frank Mars introduced a chocolate-and-nut candy bar and named it Snickers

Michael Cullen opens America's first supermarket in Long Island, NY and names it King Kullen. Source: Supermarket Business, November 1995 (50th Anniversary Issue).

The first line of retail frozen foods go on display in Springfield, MA, with products manufactured under the Birdseye brand.

1931

Beech-Nut Baby Food There were 13 varieties.

1931 Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. ..radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients.

In Heart Disease, a medical textbook - Paul Dudley White, a famous research cardiologist, wrote: “… it may be stated as probable that close to two percent of the population of the northern part of the United States have heart disease of a degree sufficient to produce symptoms or signs.”  

1932

This is the year that many Americans were starving and and undernourished. The average wage earner only received about $17 a week

Skippy peanut butter

The first soy infant formulas in China were developed in the 1930s

1933

Polyvinylidene chloride or Saran also called PVDC - accidentally discovered by Ralph Wiley, a Dow Chemical lab worker

Prohibition has ended.

Re-diagnosis is a real phenomenon, and happens all the time. In the case of diphtheria this was rampant, and it is interesting to note that it was only the vaccinated cases of diphtheria which were diagnosed as something else. In some epidemics the figure of re-diagnosis reached 60% of cases. It is hard to see what sense can be made of statistics when they are based on inaccuracies of this sort".

The pertussis vaccine's ability to kill was first signaled in 1933 when T. Madsen reported two babies died within minutes of vaccination.

Hybrid corn, developed by Henry Wallace in the 1920s, is commercialized. Growing hybrid corn eliminates the option of saving seeds. and by 1945, hybrid corn accounts for 78 percent of U.S.-grown corn.

Twinkies

Ernest and Julio Gallo Wines were introduced this year!

1934 the depths of the Great Depression  1934 to 1937 — The Dust Bowl

1934

American Radiator Corp. manufactures an inexpensive low-temperature case that is available for lease at only $7.50 a month, making frozen foods more viable for retailers.

Yet, "In the thirty years ending in 1934, 3,112 people are stated to have died of chicken pox in England and Wales". The truth is that these people actually died of smallpox against which they had been previously vaccinated. Because of their vaccine status, however, their deaths were recorded as chicken pox.

The original lesson about the infectious nature of these brain diseases mad cow disease" or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans) came from a 1934 vaccine catastrophe in the UK which brought scrapie, or "mad sheep disease", to almost 5,000 out of 18,000 lambs within two years of their immunization against louping-ill virus infection.

Royal Crown Cola

1935

Beer Can (Kreugers)

The Pellagra Incident. After millions of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two decades, the U.S. Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease.

Yellow Fever vaccine

soy oil was major ingredient in shortening  

1936

Insulin resistance (type 2) is identified in 1936.

1937

More than 2 million homes in America have refrigerators.

First vaccine for typhus

Ragu Spaghetti Sauce, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, and of course SPAM! (not the computer kind) 

1938

Polytetrafluoroethylene or PTFE tradenamed Teflon - Roy Plunkett

"Vaccination programs were instituted in the late 1930s, and the first handful of autistic babies were noted in the early 1940s. ---Harris Coulter Ph.D.

The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act is passed by Congress

In Germany, 1000-grain weight has increased by about 40% between 1938 and 1971, resulting in a larger wheat endosperm - and therefore proportionally more starch and protein, yet less vitamins and minerals (Thomas, 1990).

1939

And, to top it off, the first instant coffee was born. It was Nescafe!

Kentucky Fried Chicken 

The first precooked, frozen meals are introduced by Birds Eye.

1939-45 Second World War (the "Peoples War")

1940

1940-1980s. Shortening consumption increased dramatically, Soy Oil Passes Cottonseed Oil (1940-59).

Heart disease became commonplace. The rate of heart disease increased so sharply between the 1940 and 1967 that the World Health Organization called it the world's most serious epidemic.

1940

The first MacDonalds opened in San Bernadino, California. 

In Denmark, during World War II, due to a food crisis, many domestic animals were slaughtered and their grain rations fed to humans. Consumption of white bread was stopped, and replaced by a bread made from a wholemeal of 67% rye, 21% oats, and 12% bran, called Kleiebrot. Consequently, the death rate fell to the lowest level ever registered in Europe. There were significant declines in the incidence of high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney problems, diabetes, and cancer, and there were no cases of digestive troubles

"She showed us a graph, from a medical journal, that proved how effective antibiotics and immunization had been in eradicating scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough and measles. But this doctor's copy of the graph started in 1940, and we had already seen the fuller graph, which started in 1850 and showed that in all four diseases, a steady decline had been happening long before the introduction of either immunization or antibiotics. So that doctor had made a conscientious decision based on a graph that had been deliberately falsified".

flour enrichment program was instituted to compensate for wartime shortages of other foods

the first Dairy Queen opens in Joliet, Illinois.

1941

WWII forces Americans to ration food

First use of antibiotics

South Carolina is the first state to mandate enrichment of white bread with vitamins and minerals.

Japanese planes sprayed bubonic plague over parts of China.

Cheerios Cereal comes into being

M&M Candy

Coke - First use as a brand name

1942

Unsaturated Polyester also called PET patented by John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson

Chemical Warfare Services begins mustard gas experiments on approximately 4,000 servicemen.

K-Rations The rations contained: compressed graham biscuits, canned meat, cigarettes, sugar, Wrigly Chewing Gum

1943

Leo Kanner at John Hopkins Medical Center diagnosed the peculiar behavior associated with autism in eleven kids for the first time

1943

There can be no doubt but that coronary heart disease has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, where it is now responsible for more than 50 per cent of all deaths….”

1944

Waksman isolates streptomycin, an effective antibiotic for tuberculosis.

1944 When a severe pollution incident occurred downwind of the E.I. DuPont de Nemours Company chemical factory in Deepwater, New Jersey. The factory was then producing millions of pounds of fluoride for the Manhattan Project whose scientists were racing to produce the world's first atomic bomb. .. complaints of injury to their health reverberated through the corridors of power in Washington and triggered intensive, secret, bomb program research on the health effects of fluoride. http://www.nexusmagazine.com/

1945

Earl Tupper invents plastic food containers and founds the Tupperware Company!

1945-1955 Much of the original proof that fluoride is safe for humans in low doses was generated by A-bomb program scientists who had been secretly ordered to provide "evidence useful in litigation" against defense contractors for fluoride injury to citizens. http://www.nexusmagazine.com/

in Switzerland, Hans Asperger identified another subgroup of high-functioning autistic children with Asperger's Syndrome.

The Chinese almost never ate boiled or baked soybeans or cooked with soy flour except in times of famine. Modern soy products such as soy protein isolate (SPI), TVP, soy-protein concentrate, and other soy-protein products made using high-tech industrial processes, were unknown in Asia until after World War II.4

First vaccine for influenza

The end of WWII and the beginning of America's baby boom. Between 1945 and 1960 the population increases by 40 million, a whopping 30 percent rise.

Newburgh's water was fluoridated, and over the next 10 years its residents were studied by the New York State Health Department.

1947

 polyethylene is used to make such common items as soda bottles, milk jugs and grocery and dry-cleaning bags in addition to plastic food storage containers.

1947 The CIA begins its study of LSD as a potential weapon for use by American intelligence. Human subjects (both civilian and military) are used with and without their knowledge.

development of large-scale cattle feedlots near irrigated grain fields, especially in southwestern Kansas... and grain-fed cattle increased from less than half a million in 1955 to around two million by the 1970s  beef “revolution”

The first microwave oven is introduced, called the Radarange.

1948

One million homes in the United States have television sets.

But, it was the 1948 published case study by Byers and Moll that gave the strongest warning that children were suffering brain inflammation within 72 hours of pertussis vaccination and being left with various kinds of brain damage.

ultra-high temperature pasteurization was introduced

Paul Muller is awarded a Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering the insect-killing properties of DDT.

1949

The ancestry of channel catfish farm-stocks is still unknown, but the majority of them are believed to have originated from Oklahoma stocks around 1949. Farm raised fish started. Fish were fed grain.

Charlotte, NC became the first city in the state to fluoridate public water supplies.

70% of milk sold in the United States is homogenized.

U.S. Army begins 20 years of simulated germ warfare attacks against American cities, conducting at least 239 open air tests.

1950

President Harry Truman says government and industry should join forces in a battle against death-dealing smog.

There has been a 17-fold increase in Type I diabetes, from 1 in 7,100 children in the 1950s to 1 in 400 now. (2004)

(1950 - 1953) The U.S. Army releases chemical clouds over six American and Canadian cities. Residents in Winnipeg, Canada, where a highly toxic chemical called cadmium is dropped, subsequently experience high rates of respiratory illnesses (Cockburn and St. Clair, eds.).

In Great Britain, the polio epidemics peaked in 1950, and had declined 82% by the time the vaccine was introduced there in 1956.

The first self-propelled grain combines (machines that harvest grain) were introduced during World War II and they enabled U.S. farmers to produce substantially more grain)  the supply of grain-fed cattle soared.

In order to determine how susceptible an American city could be to biological attack, the U.S. Navy sprays a cloud of Bacillus globigii bacteria from ships over the San Francisco shoreline. According to monitoring devices situated throughout the city to test the extent of infection, the eight thousand residents of San Francisco inhale five thousand or more bacteria particles, many becoming sick with pneumonia-like symptoms (Goliszek).

Milk vending machines

Dr. Joseph Strokes of the University of Pennsylvania infects 200 female prisoners with viral hepatitis to study the disease (Sharav).

Feedlots. Chickens, pigs fed ONLY grain. Cows fed grain and alfalfa.   

Dunkin' Donuts - 1950

By the time 1950 rolled around "breakfast" cereal was a mainstay of the American diet.

1952

Coffee Creamer  (Pream)

First vaccine for polio

No-cal Ginger Ale, 1st sugar-free soft drink

Kentucky Fried Chicken

Fish Sticks

1953

Iced Tea, Instant

Plastic wrap was invented in 1953.

Sep 26: Sugar rationing ends in Britain (after nearly 14 years)

The AEC performs a series of field tests known as "Green Run," dropping radiodine 131 and xenon 133 over the Hanford, Wash. site -- 500,000 acres encompassing three small towns (Hanford, White Bluffs and Richland) along the Columbia River (Sharav).

Tests show radioactive iodine in children's bodies in Utah -- an apparent legacy of atomic testing.

1954

Styrofoam the trademarked form of polystyrene foam insulation, invented by Ray McIntire for Dow Chemicals

Teflon non-stick resin.

McDonald's

Burger Chef - 1954

Burger King - 1954

1955

The home microwave is introduced.

 mid-1950's, the technology for commercially preparing low conversion products such as maltodextrin and low DE syrups was developed from corn

Diabetes starts to increase at an alarming rate

In fact by 1955, still eight years before the start of this vaccine, there had been a 97% decline in the death rate from measles since the turn of the century!) What is more, medical authorities have since acknowledged that the 1963 measles vaccine was a complete failure!

Inactivated polio vaccine licensed

Herbert Shelton comments on the polio epidemics: "Polio epidemics are very largely physician made. Great numbers of cases of illness diagnosed as polio are not". Shelton goes on to say: "The apparent disappearance of polio as a result of vaccination was brought about by a clever juggling stunt. Before the Salk vaccine was introduced, thousands of cases of polio were diagnosed each year in children who had no polio.

Acetaminophen - went on sale in the United States in 1955 under the brand name Tylenol.

Did the huge increase in asthma start now because of the introduction of acetaminophen? Studies indicate there may be a strong link.

1956

World's first commercial nuclear electric power plant is opened at Sellafield in the United Kingdom.

Imperial margarine

(1956 - 1957) U.S. Army covert biological weapons researchers release mosquitoes infected with yellow fever and dengue fever over Savannah, Ga., and Avon Park, Fla., to test the insects' ability to carry disease. After each test, Army agents pose as public health officials to test victims for effects and take pictures of the unwitting test subjects. These experiments result in a high incidence of fevers, respiratory distress, stillbirths, encephalitis and typhoid among the two cities' residents, as well as several deaths (Cockburn and St. Clair, eds.).

1957

The U.S. military conducts Operation Plumbbob at the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Operation Pumbbob consists of 29 nuclear detonations, eventually creating radiation expected to result in a total 32,000 cases of thyroid cancer among civilians in the area. Around 18,000 members of the U.S. military participate in Operation Pumbbob's Desert Rock VII and VIII, which are designed to see how the average foot soldier physiologically and mentally responds to a nuclear battlefield ("Operation Plumbbob", Goliszek).

1957-58

"Asian flu" H2N2 Pandemic

1958

Aluminum Can

Pizza Hut - 1958 founding in Wichita, Kansas

The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) drops radioactive materials over Point Hope, Alaska, home to the Inupiats, in a field test known under the codename "Project Chariot" (Sharav).

In Germany, for instance, chemical oxidizing agents were banned - in flour

Jif Peanut Butter (used hydrogenated fat to make it creamy)

1959

First Diet Cola

Six New England states reported increases in polio one year after the Salk vaccine was introduced, ranging from more than doubling in Vermont to Massachusetts' astounding increase of 642%. In 1959, 77.5% of Massachusetts' paralytic cases had received 3 doses of IPV (injected polio vaccine).

1960

World population reached 3 billion

Coca Cola in Cans

Robert Cameron introduces the Drinking Man's Diet, which claims people can lose weight by eating steak and drinking red wine. Cameron subsequently undergoes coronary bypass surgery. 

Soy Oil Shortening Rules Supreme (1960-1982).

1960-83 period the use of chemical additives increased.

The first tub margarine and vegetable oil spreads were introduced to the American public

In the 1960's approximately 5 percent of children in the U.S. were overweight.

Lots of folks believe that the primary reason for these differences in "body styles" is that people did more physical labor back then.  For a fact they were more physical, but by a long shot diet plays a larger role in obesity and chronic disease than does exercise.

children received on average one or two vaccines

The percentage of Staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin in 1960 was 13%

Staph. aureus was a scourge of hospitals. In 1980, it was nearly unknown. The reason for the decline is a mystery.

1961

UK, soy-based infant formulas

Monovalent oral polio vaccine licensed.

Sprite soft drink

Coffee-Mate non-dairy creamer

1962

Mashed Potatoes, Instant

1963

Beer Keg, stainless steel

Soft Top Aluminum Cans

Weight Watchers founded

New wheat varieties developed by Norman Borlaug increase yields by 70 percent.

Trivalent oral polio vaccine licensed

(1963 - 1966) New York University researcher Saul Krugman promises parents with mentally disabled children definite enrollment into the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, N.Y., a resident mental institution for mentally retarded children, in exchange for their signatures on a consent form for procedures presented as "vaccinations." In reality, the procedures involve deliberately infecting children with viral hepatitis by feeding them an extract made from the feces of infected patients, so that Krugman can study the course of viral hepatitis as well the effectiveness of a hepatitis vaccine (Hammer Breslow).

1963 The mass vaccination campaigns of the 1950s and '60s may be causing hundreds of deaths a year because of a cancer-causing virus that contaminated the first polio vaccine, according to scientists. Known as SV40, the virus came from dead monkeys whose kidney cells were used to culture the first Salk vaccines.  Those born between 1941 and 1961 are thought to be most at risk of having been infected.

 medical authorities have since acknowledged that the 1963 measles vaccine was a complete failure!

1964

Diet Pepsi

First vaccine for measles

Arbys - 1964 (Boardman, Ohio)

1965

Aspartame is the technical name for the brand names, NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure. Aspartame was discovered by accident in 1965, when James Schlatter, a chemist of G.D. Searle Company was testing an anti-ulcer drug. Aspartame was approved for dry goods in 1981 and for carbonated beverages in 1983.

As part of a test codenamed "Big Tom," the Department of Defense sprays Oahu, Hawaii's most heavily populated island, with Bacillus globigii in order to simulate an attack on an island complex. Bacillus globigii causes infections in people with weakened immune systems, but this was not known to scientists at the time (Goliszek, Martin).

1964-1965 - 20,000 cases of Congenital Rubella Syndrome occurred during the largest rubella epidemic in the United States.

1966

Federal Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (truth in packaging law)

Gatorade

Whole wheat flour is produced by recombining ground bran with endosperm flour, but the germ is usually left out

U.S. Army scientists drop light bulbs filled with Bacillus subtilis through ventilation gates and into the New York City subway system, exposing more than one million civilians to the bacteria (Goliszek).

1967

Most TV broadcasts are in color. 

Dr. Irwin Stillman publishes the Quick Weight Loss Diet, .. cutting carbohydrates and consuming large quantities of water. 

The first commercial shipment of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS)

First vaccine for mumps

1968

Big Mack introduced - McDonalds

DDT is shown to be estrogenic in mammals and birds.

1968-69

"Hong Kong flu" H3N2 Pandemic

Rubella vaccine licensed - 57,600 rubella cases reported this year.

1969

Diet 7-Up

Approval for irradiation of wheat and wheat flour for disinfection was granted in 1969 in Canada

1970

our use of refined sugar and corn sweeteners increased 15 pounds per person between 1970 and 1990

Pepsi is first to introduce the 2-liter bottle

Americans' increased fat and oil intake by almost 12 pounds a year between 1970 and 1986, in spite of the fact that we decreased fat intake from meats and dairy products.

Robert Choate, nutrition expert, tells a Senate subcommittee that breakfast cereals aren't good sources of nutrition. The publicity prompts producers to fortify their products with vitamins and other nutrients.

First vaccine for rubella

Anthrax vaccine manufactured by the Michigan Department of Public Health.

1971

The FDA has classified glutamates in the Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) category of additives. FDA bases its statement on a non-scientific report, published in 1971, whose falsehood has been repeatedly verified and exposed publicly.

An article entitled "Viral Infections in Man Associated with Acquired Immunological Deficiency States" appears in Federation Proceedings. Dr. MacArthur and Fort Detrick's Special Operations Division have, at this point, been conducting mycoplasma research to create a synthetic immunosuppressive agent for about one year, again suggesting that this research may have produced HIV (Goliszek).

DES is linked to vaginal cancer in daughters whose mothers had taken the drug during the first three months of pregnancy.

US wheat consumption reaches all-time low of 110 pounds in 1971

Measles, Mumps, Rubella vaccine licensed (MMR).

Starbucks - (founding)

Research identified a new, previously unknown enemy of dental health, plaque, and produced methods for combating the problem.

Routine smallpox vaccination ceases in the United States.

1972

Half the TVs in homes are color sets.

Magnavox's Odyssey, the first home video game system

Scientists at Beecham Research Laboratories discover amoxicillin and launch Amoxil, to become a widely-used antibiotic.

Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, promotes ketosis, in which a semi-starving body burns fat for fuel.

First fluoride mouth rinse program started in Robeson County schools. North Carolina

1973

At age 25, Richard Simmons begins his career as fitness guru, video master and author by opening a Beverly Hills restaurant and exercise studio. 

1974

World population reached 4 billion.

The first product is scanned --- a pack of Wrigley's gum at Marsh Supermarkets in Troy, OH

Canola Oil - Marketed first in 1974

First vaccine for chicken pox

The incidence of AIDS infections in Africa coincides exactly with the locations of the W.H.O. smallpox vaccination program in the mid-1970's (London Times, May 11, 1987).

1976

the joint KGB-CIA chemical warfare experimentation program began in Philadelphia at the American Legion Convention. ... Aerosol spray cans containing poisoned room freshener were used to selectively saturate the atmosphere of the Legionnaires.... Two of the active ingredients in the poison that produced the Legionnaires Disease were plutonium and zirconium

Swine Flu: largest public vaccination program in the United States to date; halted by association with Guillain-Barré syndrome.

elderly people began dying of heart attacks shortly after taking swine flu shots, But the Government quickly assured us that their deaths didn't really matter at all, that they would have died anyway; and the swine flu inoculation program went right back into high gear.

1977

The Polyethylene Terephthalate (PETE) container only became available during the last two decades with its use for beverages entering the market in 1977.

First vaccine for pneumonia (Streptococcus pneumoniae)

1977: National Academy of Sciences expresses concern about possible link between water fluoridation and osteosarcoma in young males.

1978

The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet, by Dr. Herman Tarnower, is the latest of the popular high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets. 

First vaccine for meningitis (Neisseria meningitidis)

By 1978, the rate of autism had increased four times, going from the previous rate of 1-in-10,000 to 1-in-2,500.

Fluzone, the current flu vaccine that is made by Aventis pasteur, was licensed.

the CDC added the triple shot MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) to the growing baby immunization program.

One-half of 1% of men were functionally sterile in 1938. Today it has reached between 8-12% (an over 15-fold increase). "Functionally sterile" is defined as sperm counts below 20 million per milliliter of semen. 

The CDC begins experimental hepatitis B vaccine trials in New York. Its ads for research subjects specifically ask for promiscuous homosexual men.  A few months after 1,083 homosexual men receive the vaccine, New York physicians begin noticing cases of Kaposi's sarcoma, Mycoplasma penetrans and a new strain of herpes virus among New York's homosexual community -- diseases not usually seen among young, American men, but that would later be known as common opportunistic diseases associated with AIDS (Goliszek).

1979

The restrictive Pritikin Program recommends a high-fiber diet with less than 10 percent of calories from fat, no added salt or sugar and regular aerobic exercise. 

Last wild-virus polio transmission in the U.S.

1979, the Alzheimer's death rate was 0.2 per 100,000 people

...soy protein isolate (SPI) ... SPIs appear in so many products that consumers would never guess that the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) decreed in 1979 that the only safe use for SPIs was for sealers for cardboard packages.23

Hong-Kong-based soymilk maker Vitasoy introduced their soymilk to the United States

1980

Infant Formula Act of 1980

children received 8-9 vaccines

The first AIDS case appears in San Francisco (Goliszek).

"Cigarette consumption in the U.S. has increased 3-4 fold from 1940 to the beginning of the 1980's."

Meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine, groups A, C, Y, W135 combined (Menomune)

Dietary Guidelines for Americans is first released.

Diarrhea is a common side effect of the six-week Beverly Hills Diet, which starts dieters off with 10 days of nothing but fruit and water. 

The CDC continues its 1978 hepatitis B vaccine experiment in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, St. Louis and Denver, recruiting over 7,000 homosexual men in San Francisco alone (Goliszek).

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis afflicts 300,000 American children (2001). Twenty-five years ago (1980) this disease was so rare that public health officials did not keep any statistics on it.

1981

Lean Cuisine is introduced.

NutraSweet® was introduced for the 'second' time Aspartame was invented by the G D Searle Co. acquired by Monsanto in 1985. For 16 years FDA refused to approve it until 1981 when Commissioner Arthur Hayes overruled the objections of a Public Board of Inquiry and the protests of the American Soft Drink Association and blessed it. The tests submitted by Searle were so bad the Department of Justice, initiated prosecution of Searle for fraud.

Equal put on the market

Dr Miguel A. Baret of the Dominican Republic removed milk from 360 children's diets, because cow's milk has a specific protein that can cause diabetes, especially in children. They drank juice laced with aspartame instead and many developed "abnormal restlessness, lack of concentration, irritability and depression." When Dr Baret removed it: "The results were astonishing. Their symptoms disappeared in 4-6 days in ALL of them!"

The CDC acknowledges that a disease known as AIDS exists and confirms 26 cases of the disease -- all in previously healthy homosexuals living in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles -- again supporting the speculation that AIDS originated from the hepatitis B experiments from 1978 and 1980 (Goliszek).

the prospective UCLA/FDA study published in Pediatrics in 1981 comparing DT and DPT vaccines would find that 1 in 875 DPT shots is followed by either a convulsion or collapse shock episode within 48 hours of vaccination.

1982

The word “Internet” is used for the first time.

Diet Coke comes on the market.

Manufacturers begin formulating their products to have less salt in response to nation's sodium problem.

Hepatitis B vaccine becomes available.

In 1982, children were given only three vaccines: live oral polio vaccine (Lederle, sole source); MMR vaccine (Merck, sole source); and DPT vaccine (Wyeth, owned by American Home Products; Lederle, owned by American Cyanamid; and the Canadian corporation, Connaught shared the DPT market).

In the USA, 1982, the states of Maryland and Wisconsin reported whooping cough epidemics. Health officials blamed these outbreaks on un-vaccinated children. Yet, Dr Anthony Morris, an expert of bacterial and viral diseases, found laboratory confirmation to verify whooping cough diagnosis in only 21 out of 84 cases. Further to this, 82 of those 84 cases were in vaccinated children.

1983

The Commodore 64 is introduced. It is the most powerful video-game console to date and the least expensive.

Pneumococcal vaccine, 23 valent

Men experiencing infertility were found to be employed in agricultural/pesticide related jobs 10 times more often than a study group of men not experiencing infertility.

1984

Since the 1980s, Monsanto has become the world leader in genetic modification of seeds and has won 674 biotechnology patents, more than any other company.

Coronary heart disease had grown to be the number one cause of death for women. 

FDA approved the sale of Ibuprofen as an over-the-counter drug.

2002 - The switch away from aspirin to acetaminophen in children, the result of aspirin's association with the devastating neurologic illness Reye's syndrome, therefore, resulted in a population with higher average PGE₂ levels and potentially greater susceptibility to allergic diseases such as asthma (37). Arguing against this provocative theory is that the asthma epidemic also involves adults who use aspirin. Finally, no independent association of acetaminophen use with the asthma epidemic in children has yet been determined.

One study found the peak incidence of SIDS occurred at the ages of 2 and 4 months in the U.S., precisely when the first two routine immunizations are given,[4] while another found a clear pattern of correlation extending three weeks after immunization. Another study found that 3,000 children die within 4 days of vaccination each year in the U.S. (amazingly, the authors reported no SIDS/vaccine relationship), while yet another researcher's studies led to the conclusion that half of SIDS cases--that would be 2500 to 5000 infant deaths in the U.S. each year--are caused by vaccines.[4]

1985

HFCS became the sweetener of choice for the soft drink industry in the U.S.

Worldwide obesity epidemic starts

Animated video about obesity in USA - excellent - uses CDC data

mid 1980's,

The FDA gave a license to Praxis Biologicals for the first HIB vaccine for use in 24 month old children and, shortly after, Lederle and Connaught also were given licenses to manufacture HIB vaccine.

The book DPT: A Shot in the Dark by Coulter & Fisher was published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, documenting scientific evidence for DPT vaccine-induced brain and immune system dysfunction and included more than 100 new original case histories.

1986

Documents are leaked to Greenpeace showing EPA agreed to demands from the paper industry to keep results of National Dioxin Survey secret.

Chernobyl, world's worst nuclear power accident occurs at a plant in Ukraine.

We had more wheat in this country than we knew what to do with  Therefore, wheat became cheaper than corn and the pet food companies started making kibble from wheat instead of corn. .. suddenly my colleagues and I were talking about how sick dogs and cats were... Suddenly, every dog had allergies, immune-mediated diseases, and cancer, not just the usual suspects. When I went to school the subject of allergies (atopy) was just another lecture, not the lecture. In an instant, the mutts from the pound were just as riddled with allergies as the pure-breeds.

Licensure of first recombinant vaccine (hepatitis B)

First anticancer drug produced through biotech: interferon.

The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act establishes a no-fault compensation system for those injured by vaccines and requires adverse health events following specific vaccinations be reported and those injured by vaccines be compensated.

Mad cow disease - Britain

1987

World population reached 5 billion.

First approval for field test of modified food plants: virus-resistant tomatoes

Snapple introduces bottled iced tea

Soy Milk

The 1986-1987 North Carolina School Oral Health Survey Monograph was published and distributed nationwide. Major findings included: Caries decline continues; 80% of decay filled; 85% of remaining decay is pit and fissure; sealants underutilized; 80% of remaining decay in 25% of North Carolina children.

Approximately 75% of U.S. homes are being being found to contain the pesticide chlordane in the breathable air. Of significant concern, over 5% of homes built before March of 1988 have been found to have air levels of the pesticide chlordane above the "safe" level of 5 micrograms per cubic meter. (In homes built before 1980 this is over 20%!).

1988

The liquid diet, Optifast, made famous by Oprah Winfrey's 67-pound weight loss, becomes infamous when Winfrey gains all the weight back and then some.

Lower fat dairy products gain widespread acceptance

1989

Nintendo releases the handheld Game Boy for $109.

Two-dose measle vaccine recommendation

1990

USDA introduces the Food Guide Pyramid.

huge rise in allergic reactions to soy

children were routinely given 10 vaccinations

1989-1991 Major resurgence of measles in the United States - 55,000

increasing use of soy products in processed foods during the 1990s 

The FDA allows the U.S. Department of Defense to waive the Nuremberg Code and use unapproved drugs and vaccines in Operation Desert Shield (Sharav).

A study of 1,909 women in Connecticut found the risk of not conceiving for 12 months (the usual definition of infertility), was 55% higher for women drinking 1 cup of coffee per day - 100% higher for women drinking 1 and one-half to 3 cups and 176% higher for women drinking more than 3 cups of coffee per day.

The CDC and Kaiser Pharmaceuticals of Southern California inject 1,500 six-month-old black and Hispanic babies in Los Angeles with an "experimental" measles vaccine that had never been licensed for use in the United States. Adding to the risk, children less than a year old may not have an adequate amount of myelin around their nerves, possibly resulting in impaired neural development because of the vaccine. The CDC later admits that parents were never informed that the vaccine being injected into their children was experimental (Goliszek).

1990: National Cancer Institute finds osteosarcoma rates in young males to be higher in fluoridated vs unfluoridated areas. The National Toxicology Program peer review process of fluorides in Research Triangle Park (NC) reaffirms the importance of the appropriate use of fluorides.

Typhoid vaccine (oral)

Licensure of first polysaccharide conjugate vaccine (Haemophilus influenzae type b)

The United States sends 1.7 million members of the armed forces, 22 percent of whom are African-American, to the Persian Gulf for the Gulf War ("Desert Storm"). More than 400,000 of these soldiers are ordered to take an experimental nerve agent medication called pyridostigmine, which is later believed to be the cause of Gulf War Syndrome -- symptoms ranging from skin disorders, neurological disorders, incontinence, uncontrollable drooling and vision problems -- affecting Gulf War veterans (Goliszek; Merritte, et al.).

1991

U.S. sales of salsa surpass those of ketchup by $40 million.

Last wild-virus polio case in the Western Hemisphere

Universal infant hepatitis B vaccination recommended for all infants

Robert Pritikin, following in his father Nathan's footsteps, publishes The Pritikin Weight Loss Breakthrough as part of the new Pritikin Program.

Acellular pertussis vaccine (DTaP) licensed for use in older children aged 15 months to six years old.

1992

Food irradiation begins in Florida

Physician Niels Skakkebaek publishes a paper demonstrating that human sperm counts may have declined 50 percent over the last 50 years.

1993

The FDA approved aspartame as an ingredient in numerous food items that would always be heated to above 86°degrees F (30°Degrees C). An act that can only be described as "unconscionable"

..minute amounts of soy "hidden" in regular food had caused four of the total of five deaths caused by allergic reactions in Sweden between 1993 and 1996

Japanese encephalitis vaccine

A unanimous US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals decision affirmed the right of seven adults and children who contracted polio from the oral polio vaccine between 1979 and 1987 to recover damages from the federal government because the FDA permitted vaccine manufactured by Lederle Labs to be released to the public even though the vaccine failed to meet FDA safety standards.

1994

Dr I G C Robertson, Senior Toxicologist at the Auckland School of Medicine, wrote that soy is so toxic that soy formulas required unnecessary juggling. His opinion......he could "see no good reason to feed it to a baby" 

A Dental Public Health Residency project involved a scientific study to evaluate the effectiveness of the school water fluoridation (SWF) and fluoride mouthrinse (FMR) programs. North Carolina

Based on study results, school water fluoridation program discontinued.

Polio elimination certified in the Americas

1995

High-protein diets make a comeback. In Enter the Zone, Barry Sears recommends eating lots of protein, fruits and vegetables, while greatly reducing carbohydrates, such as pastas, breads, rice and potatoes. The book sells approximately 400,000 copies. 

Varicella vaccine licensed

Hepatitis A vaccine licensed.

1996

without public notice, the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame allowing it to be used in everything, including all heated and baked goods.

Acellular pertussis vaccine licensed for infants

... bioengineered food ... becomes an inescapable aspect of modern life. Approximately two-thirds of all processed food now on U.S. supermarket shelves has ingredients that have been genetically rearranged through biotechnology. This year, more than two-thirds of the American soybean crop and about one-quarter of the corn was grown from genetically altered seeds, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The Department of Defense admits that Gulf War soldiers were exposed to chemical agents; however, 33 percent of all military personnel afflicted with Gulf War Syndrome never left the United States during the war, discrediting the popular mainstream belief that these symptoms are a result of exposure to Iraqi chemical weapons (Merritte, et al.).

Protein Power, by Michael and Mary Eades, claims the amount of carbohydrates required by humans for health is zero. 

Barry Sears' follow-up to Enter the Zone, titled Mastering the Zone, spends 18 weeks on Publishers Weekly Bestseller list. 

Fen-Phen (fenfluramine and phentermine) is the diet pill of choice with an estimated 6 million Americans taking the appetite suppressant. Fen-Phen is pulled from the shelves in September 1997 because 25 percent to 30 percent of the people who took fenfluramine experienced some heart valve damage. 

FDA approves Olestra, the first fat substitute, for use in snack foods

1997

First weed- and insect-resistant biotech crops commercialized: Roundup Ready® soybeans and Bollgard® insect-protected cotton

The fact that blacks experience earlier puberties than whites is not a racial difference but a recent phenomenon

Sequential polio vaccination recommended

between 1997 and 2002, the percent of Americans diagnosed with diabetes increased by 27 percent.

Researchers at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (or USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick in Frederick MD have reconstructed and modified the H1N1 Spanish Flu virus, making it far more deadly than it ever

Cargill established a Health & Food Technologies unit to develop health-promoting ingredients such as soy protein isolates with isoflavones.

The major causes of death in the United States in 1997 were heart disease, cancer (of the breast, colon, and lung), and stroke

Last major community water system fluoridated in Hendersonville, NC.

Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution is a slightly modified version of his 1972 book, referring to insulin as the "fat-producing hormone." Atkins' recipes call for heavy cream, butter and cheese and recommend bacon and eggs for breakfast everyday. 

Eat for Your Type, by Dr. Peter D'Adamo, argues that blood type is an evolutionary marker of which foods each person will process well and which will be useless calories. 

Dr. Bob Arnot's Revolutionary Weight Control Program hits the stands, calling refined carbohydrates the dietary equivalent of "crack" because "you need them all day in order to feel good." 

SugarBusters, by H. Leighton Steward, Morrison C. Berthea, Sam S. Andrews and Luis A. Balart, claims all sugar is toxic and that potatoes, corn, white rice, white bread, sodas and beer must be completely eliminated from the diet. SugarBusters spends 25 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. 

A study from the science journal, Public Health, described in 2004 how the incidence of death from brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and motor neurone disorders, was found to have tripled in nine Western countries, including the U.S., during the period 1974 to 1997. The most likely causes researchers identified were exposure to pesticides sprayed on crops, synthetic chemicals from the processed foods that we consume, and industrial chemicals used in almost every aspect of our modern lives.

Chemtrail spraying begins

U.S. girls are reaching puberty at younger ages than ever before. In the 1990s, breast development -- the first sign of puberty in girls -- at age 8 was considered an abnormal event that should be investigated by an endocrinologist. However, by 1999, following a 1997 study that found almost half of African Americans and 15 percent of whites had begun breast development by age 8, the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society suggested changing what is viewed as “normal.”

one percent of all girls show signs of puberty before the age of three - 1997 report in the Journal of Pediatrics 

The percentage of Staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin  in 1997 was 99%

1998

SPLENDA® Brand Sweetener was approved 

In 1998, the U.S. ranked 28th out of 38 countries with available statistics for infant mortality.

Andrew Wakefield, M.D. and colleagues in Britain published a study presenting clinical evidence for an association between MMR vaccine, intestinal bowel dysfunction and autism.

In 1998 the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reported 5476 SIDS deaths in the United States of infants under one year of age. In 1989 the number of SIDS deaths was 5634.

Irradiation of meat is approved by the FDA.

Thomas himself was involved in a [chemtrail] case in Espanola, Ontario, in the spring of 1998. Residents there had been complaining of “severe headaches, chronic joint pain, dizziness, sudden extreme fatigue, acute asthma attacks and feverless ‘flu-like’ symptoms over a 50-square-mile area [which] coincided with what they termed ‘months of spraying’ by photo-identified US Air Force tanker planes.”

1999

World population reached 6 billion.

First rotavirus vaccine licensed.

West Nile Virus - brand 'new' mosquito-borne virus

In 1999, 57 percent of the American soybean crop and 33 percent of the corn crop were genetically modified.  Other products that are genetically engineered include cheese, canola, cotton, milk, peanuts, peppers, potatoes, and tomatoes.

Finland, which, from 1973 to 1999 had the highest recorded incidence of heart attack in middle-aged men in the world, also has a high calcium-to-magnesium ratio in the diet at 4 parts calcium to 1 part magnesium.

Combination vaccines: To complete the 1999 Recommended Childhood Schedule in the United States,^1,2 a minimum of 13 separate injections are needed to immunize a child from birth to age six years, using vaccines licensed in the United States as of April 10, 1999.

HFC  per capita consumption in the US was more than 45 pounds per year in 1999

2000

First genetically modified food in British supermarkets - tomato puree More about: GM foods

Children now receive 33 vaccines before they enter school – a huge increase. 

autism rate mushroomed yet again to 1-in-250.

In particular, USDA has lifted the 30% limitation on soy protein in meat/meat alternatives and loosened the restrictions for reimbursing soymilk as a non-dairy alternative in school meals. In 2000, USDA changed its regulations to allow soy protein to fulfill 100 percent of the meat/meat alternate component in the child nutrition programs.

The U.S. Air Force and rocket maker Lockheed Martin sponsor a Loma Linda University study that pays 100 Californians $1,000 to eat a dose of perchlorate -- a toxic component of rocket fuel that causes cancer, damages the thyroid gland and hinders normal development in children and fetuses -- every day for six months. The dose eaten by the test subjects is 83 times the safe dose of perchlorate set by the State of California, which has perchlorate in some of its drinking water.

Alzheimer's isn't even plotted before 1979.  In 1979, the Alzheimer's death rate was 0.2 per 100,000 people.  By 2000 it was 18.0 per 100,000, making it the eighth leading cause of death.  For a 21-year period, such a jump -- almost 100 times -- is astronomical.  From barely noticeable in 1979, to epidemic proportions today.

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (Prevnar) recommended for all young children.

Rotavirus vaccine withdrawn from the market as a result of adverse events.

"The vaccines contain not only live viruses but also very significant amounts of highly toxic substances such as mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde.  Could this be the reason for the upsurge in autism, ADHD, asthma, arthritis, Crohn’s disease, lupus and other chronic disorders?"---Dr Rimland

2001

In fact, 99 percent of the ingredients in any given product can remain absent from labels thanks to the legal protection of “trade secrets,” as these ingredients, by law, can be buried under the generic term, “inert” or “other.” The secret code for cover-up in food labels is either “flavorings” or “natural,” and the absence of any reference to the fact that most of our processed food is genetically modified is also perfectly legal.

Foot and mouth outbreak in Britain - over 4 million animals culled More about: meat

2001: Harvard Case-Control Study Finds Strong Correlation between Fluoridation and Osteosarcoma in Boys:

New York City Administration of Children's Services (ACS) sends out an Apr. 22 press release admitting that foster care children were used in experimental AIDS drug trials, but says that the last trial took place in 2001

World Trade Center, Pentagon and Flight 93. Within a year, 358 firefighters and five emergency medical service personnel involved in the WTC rescue and recovery efforts will be placed on medical leave or light-duty assignments due to respiratory problems

since soy formula has been in the marketplace, parents and pediatricians have reported growing numbers of boys whose physical maturation is either delayed or does not occur at all.

many physicians and many mothers have commented on their observation that girls seem to be maturing much earlier than they did 30 to 40 years ago. ... Many scientists believe that earlier puberty is caused, in part, by the widespread exposure to pesticides and other chemicals that have qualities like estrogen.

Terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City. Within weeks, DOD officials suggested terrorists had weaponized smallpox and anthrax that could be used to attack and infect large numbers of Americans. In the name of national security, eventually drug company and government officials persuaded Congress to pass legislation (Homeland Security, MSEHPA, Bioshield, BARDA) giving sweeping new emergency powers to federal and state public health officials while appropriating billions of dollars to develop experimental bioterrorism and pandemic flu vaccines.

Indeed, data left out of the headlines and buried in the report revealed higher incidences of allergies and asthma, and higher rates of cervical cancer, polycystic ovarian syndrome, blocked fallopian tubes, and pelvic inflammatory disease.89 Although thyroid damage from soy formula has been the principal concern of critics for decades, the researchers excluded thyroid function as a subject for study. Not surprisingly, this study was funded in part by the infant-formula industry.

At the same time, Congress yielded to drug company lobbyists and public health officials seeking liability shields for drug companies and vaccine administrators to absolve them from legal responsibility for vaccine injuries and deaths that occur in the future when the Secretary of Health declares a public health "emergency" and orders mass use of experimental vaccines.

Mothers who lived near crops where certain pesticides were sprayed faced a 40 to 120 percent increase in risk of miscarriage due to birth defects. "20% of all cases where the male is the only contributing factor to infertility can be corrected by lifestyle."

2002

Fat, lard & beef tallow, butter & margarine, oil, salad & cooking oils, and shortening consumption increased over 38 pounds per person since 1990 [These are mostly refined oils and hydrogenated fats]

6.5% of American adults have diabetes. That's up from 5.5% in 2001.

Researchers announce successful results for a vaccine against cervical cancer, the first demonstration of a preventative vaccine for a type of cancer.

infant mortality increased from a rate of 6.8 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2001 to a rate of 7.0 per 1,000 births in 2002, the first year since 1958 that the rate has not declined or remained unchanged

Nearly two out of three Americans are overweight. Half of these overweight Americans are frankly obese. This is twice as much obesity as in 1976-1980.

Lyme disease vaccine withdrawn from the market by the manufacturer because of lawsuits and lack of demand for the vaccine.

Morgellons disease is a name given in 2002 by biologist Mary Leitao to a condition characterized by a range of cutaneous (skin) symptoms including crawling, biting, and stinging sensations; finding fibers on or under the skin; and persistent skin lesions (e.g., rashes or sores).

2003

Since 1950, soft-drink consumption per capita has quadrupled, from about 11 gallons per year to about 46 gallons in 2003--nearly a gallon a week per person.

In 2003-04, 17.1% of children and adolescents 2-19 years of age (over 12 and a half million) were overweight, and 32.2% of adults (over 66 million) were obese. Almost 5% of adults were extremely obese.

First live attenuated influenza vaccine licensed (FluMist) for use in 5 to 49 year old persons.

The dog food departments of these companies collect what is known as 4-D meat (read: dead, diseased, dying or disabled). This meat porridge may also include euthanized animals from animal shelters (still containing the chemical that killed them) and roadkill to which all manner of food additives and preservatives have been added in abundance to complete the recipe.

Fitzgerald points out that the poisoning of our pets has been going on for so long, that illnesses Pitcairn never saw in younger animals when he came out of vet school in the 1960s, are so common, vets graduating today, think it is normal to see these diseases in young animals. Keep in mind, lots of vets sell the same low quality commercial pet food to you while you’re in their clinics for medical advice for your animal pal.

The CDC recommended that children 6 to 23 months of age receive an annual flu vaccination.

In 1967, Americans ate 114 pounds of sugar and sweeteners a year per capita, nearly all of it as either raw or refined sugar. In 2003, each person consumed about 142 pounds of sugar per year.

Several clinical studies demonstrate that the glutamates can cause severe nervous depression and schizophrenia. ..and suicidal proclivity, mainly in young people.

2003-2004: A mini-epidemic of a more severe type of influenza caused by the A/Fujian strain occurred around the world,  Without informing the public that the flu vaccine did not contain the strain of flu causing severe flu that season, the CDC heavily publicized child flu deaths in the fall of 2003 and Americans stood in long lines that fall and winter to get flu vaccine, which caused a vaccine shortage and subsequent CDC-recommended rationing of flu vaccine supplies. 

Since high-fructose corn syrup was developed more than 30 years ago, consumption of the sweetener, which flavors everything from soda pop to ranch dressing, has skyrocketed. Now Americans down about 61 pounds a year each.

The first confirmed case of mad cow disease in the United States

First Adult Immunization Schedule introduced.

2004

The low-carb diet craze peaks in February when 9.1 percent of Americans claim to be on the diet

Between 1999 and 2004, there was a significant increase in the prevalence of overweight among girls (13.8% in 1999 to 16.0% in 2004. There was no change in obesity among women (33.4% in 1999 to 33.2% in 2004).

Inactivated influenza vaccine recommended for all children 6 to 23 months of age.

"The number of American children suffering from life threatening peanut allergies has doubled in the past five years and the number of Americans with food allergies has risen from 6 million to 11 million. This runs parallel with the doubling of asthma, learning disabilities, ADHD; the tripling of diabetes

Junk Food Nation Hamburgers, pizza, potato chips, soda, cake, candy and alcohol now make up one-third of the American diet.

Humana, the German parent company of baby-formula distributor Remedia, has agreed to pay $100 million to the 17 families of children who died or whose health suffered as a result of a vitamin-deficient soy-based baby formula....

Pediarix,a vaccine that combines the DTaP, IPV, and Hep B vaccines, into one shot, is approved.

and a 200 to 7,000 percent increase in autism in every state in the U.S. during the past 20 years. As more and more vaccines are mandated to prevent more and more infectious diseases in early childhood, more and more Americans are stuck on sick. 

There has been a 17-fold increase in Type I diabetes, from 1 in 7,100 children in the 1950s to 1 in 400 now.

2005

USDA estimates 2005 per capita HFCS consumption, adjusted for loss during transport, processing and uneaten food—which presents a more accurate figure of what we eat—was 42.2 lbs per year.(22) Per capita sugar consumption in 2005 was 45.2 lbs per year.

Diabetes is the sixth most common cause of death in the United States and was the fifth most common cause in New York City in 2004

Boostrix and Adacel, Tdap vaccines, are approved for teens.

Menactra, a new meningococcal vaccine is approved for people between the ages of 11 to 55 years of age.

I have Morgellons disease. The CDC has deemed the over 2000 registered as having this as suffering from Delusional Parasitosos. I can assure you the last eight years of scarring on my body begs to differ.

2006

RotaTeq is a new rotavirus vaccine from Merck.

ProQuad is a new vaccine that combines the MMR and Varivax vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, and chicken pox into a single shot.

Gardasil, the first HPV vaccine is approved.

rate of children diagnosed with ASD has increased again to 1-in-166 (autism)

2007

Recent research, reported at the 2007 national meeting of the American Chemical Society, found new evidence that soft drinks sweetened with HFCS may contribute to the development of diabetes because it contains high levels of reactive compounds that have been shown by others to trigger cell and tissue damage that cause diabetes.

American children were being told by government health officials and pediatricians to get 48 doses of 14 vaccines by age six and 53-56 doses of 15 or 16 vaccines by age 12. In May 2007, CNN Money reported predictions that vaccine industry sales will more than double by 2010.

A booster dose of Varivax, the chickenpox vaccine, is now recommended for all children.

The recommended age for Flumist, the nasal spray flu vaccine, was lowered to two years.

Maryland's governor and public health officials, fed up with the unwillingness of over 2,000 parents to have their children vaccinated, invoke gunpoint medicine yet again by threatening the parents with arrest and up to 30 days of imprisonment if they don't submit their children to state-mandated vaccinations. The children and parents are later rounded up at a county courthouse, guarded by attack dogs and security personnel, while a district Judge oversees the mass injection of schoolchildren with vaccines that contain toxic mercury.  http://www.NaturalNews.com/022242.html

2008

In case you forgot, or never knew in the first place, the number one source of calories in the U.S. is high fructose corn syrup.  Let me restate that so you can more fully appreciate the impact of this fact.  Dietary fat has 250 percent more calories than sugar, but even with this major disadvantage, the food that most people get MOST of their calories from is HFCS, primarily in the form of soft drinks. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that the consumption of high fructose corn syrup was just over 40 pounds per year, per person, as of 2007. It accounts for roughly 41 percent of all caloric sweeteners consumed in the U.S.

But if the very cell lines which have
provided the foundation for breast cancer research for the past
quarter century have now been conclusively shown to be melanoma cells, not breast cancer, how solid or trustworthy is the evidence on which
current breast cancer treatment is based? Evidence built on such
flawed foundations more closely resembles hearsay than science.

Kinrix, a combination of DTaP and IPV that can be used for children between the ages of 4 and 6 is approved.

Pentacel, a combination of DTaP, IPV and Hib is approved.

Rotarix, a two dose rotavirus vaccine is approved.