Below are the 9 most recent journal entries recorded in kidslong's InsaneJournal:

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
4:40 pm	Is Aspartame A Good Idea? What is Aspartame? According to Wikipedia, aspartame is an artificial sweetener derived from aspartic acid, phenylalanine and methanol. The first two chemicals are naturally occurring amino acids and methanol is also known as wood alcohol, not the ethanol found in adult beverages. Where is it found? Aspartame is found in 6000 foods and beverages worldwide. It is also known as Equal, NutraSweet, and Canderel. You are most likely to consume it in a diet soda (even though most sodas are terrible for you). Read labels carefully if you wish to avoid aspartame. Why should I be concerned?  food additives Aspartame is something you should make an INFORMED choice about. Realize that it is a huge money maker so there is going to be a positive spin on it from many sources. Scientific literature and health professionals worldwide raise concern about aspartame safety. Be careful to investigate which journal is publishing the information and how the research was funded. Research that is funded by drug companies will tend to be favorable to drugs! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
9:35 am	Migraines and Aspartame – is There a Link? Aspartame is an artificial sweetener that gained immense popularity as a sugar-replacement, especially for people with diabetes. At the height of its popularity it could be found in approximately 6,000 foods and drinks, even in certain chewing gums and vitamin products. It is marketed under several different tradenames, including Nutrasweet, Canderel, Equal and Tropicana Slim. In the European Union its E-number (additive code) is E951. The controversy continues as to whether the artificial sweetener aspartame really is a migraine trigger or not. The manufacturers of NutraSweet strongly deny that there is a correlation, referring to research from Duke University which they say totally dismisses it as a possibility(1). They usually neglect to mention that they funded the study, which consisted of a one day dosage of aspartame or placebo to migraine sufferers. On the basis that the findings showed no statistical difference between the two groups’ incidence of headache that day, the aspartame backers claimed that the suggestion of aspartame causing headaches was unsubstantiated. The FDA have taken the study as conclusive proof, stating subsequently that there is nothing to substantiate the theory that aspartame is harmful to humans. The tradition of the FDA backing aspartame against all opponents started in 1981 when President Reagan took office. Reagan had close ties with Searle drug company which manufactured the additive, and he fired the FDA commissioner who had been blocking the approval, then appointing Dr Arthur Hayes to the position. A Board of Inquiry convened and recommended continuing to deny approval, citing the incidence of seizures and brain tumors in laboratory animals. Hayes approved the additive against the Board’s recommendation, and subsequently left the FDA for a position with Searle’s public relations firm. Aspartame accounts for 75% of ALL complaints to the FDA for a food additive – with even MSG running a poor second. Aspartame has been reported in some studies to contain a carcinogen (cancer causing substance) and is suspected by many scientists of causing problems ranging from brain tumors to epilepsy. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
9:20 am	Important foodstuff additive:citric acid Citric acid c6 HS exist in nature, orange, lemon, plum, peach, pear and FIG fresh fruit for example immature, using the acid is more. items with citric acid will be corn starch or that contains starch (such as corn, potato) by fermentation, and acid solution, purification and concentration, the crystallization process. Citric acid market place will be penetrating digesting of gardening option industry, gardening and sideline diet supplements value-added income industry. enhancement of citric acid market place can enhance gardening economy, enhance gardening income. Sodium citrate is absolutely a colorless, translucent crystals or whitened crystalloid powder, odourless, effective a pleasant acid using the comfortable air, gradually, have moist oxygen in ChaoXie sex. in accordance to completely different conditions, crystal crystal morphology any water that contains JieJingShui citric acid and citric acid. key diet supplements are no water, citric acid, citric acid (7) and diploma of c6 HS citric acid (2007), HZo c6 HS. water is low priced (below by sodium citrate 36.6 degrees Celsius) in aqueous option of crystallization precipitation, the separation using the product, quickly after lose humidity weight, melting 210.14 75 ° c, 70 a 1.542 density. positioned in lose humidity air, water, citric acid JieJingShui will escape the weathering. devoid of water, citric acid is greater using the aqueous 36.6 degrees of separation, molecular 192 crystallization. twelve and solidness 1. Rose. water into water, citric acid, citric acid 36.6 to the crucial temps and 0. Coincidence degrees Celsius. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
9:23 am	How Do Food Additives Affect Your Health? There are thousands of harmful food additives that we are consuming every day. Many of these food additives have been show to be harmful to our health. The information in this article will help empower you to know what to look for. In 1958 the government passed the Delaney Clause Food Additives Amendment which prohibited companies from adding known harmful chemicals to our food. But in spite of this, there are still dangerous chemicals that are still being added to our food and it is important to understand which chemicals these are and what the potential dangers are. The only defense we have as consumers is that all packaged food is required to list all the ingredients on the label. We need to educate ourselves and become familiar with the harmful food additives and read every label of the food we purchase. The challenge however, is that food companies tend to make finding these suspicious ingredients somewhat tedious, hiding them in hard-to-find areas of the package and making the print extremely small so as to discourage their discovery. The names of these chemicals themselves can complicate matters. These chemical names are long and foreign-sounding and people typically skip over them because they are tedious to try and read. The food producers are clever. They will intentionally use healthy-sounding phrases to dupe pepople into thinking that the product is free of chemical additives. For instance, “Natural Flavors” or “No Preservatives” are commonly found on packaged food products, but does this mean that the product is free of harmful food additives? Absolutely not. Again, you must check all the ingredients to determine whether a product is completely free of food additives. Here is a helpful tip that relies on basic common sense. If you are reading the ingredient list and you find it is long and loaded with long words that you are unfamiliar with, guess what? This product almost assuredly has plenty of chemical food additives. Here is a list of twelve food additives that you should definitely try and avoid. This is not an exhaustive list, however, these food additives have been linked to health concerns and harmful side effects. (Comment on this)
Friday, July 9th, 2010
10:59 am	Did not include qsauto bread will make in the management of stage industry standard Yesterday, the national association of guangzhou special baking industry association held in the baking food safety forum, concerned expert thinks, citizen does not need to talk about, as improver color scope prescribed by the state, use bread bread is safe and reliable. But since such compound additives bread than single additive complex, deputy secretary-general ChanZhiMing bakery industry association, many bakery enterprises are required to make bread baking industry association of industry standards and norms improvers compound additives production. The baked food industry association, said after the Mid-Autumn festival association with relevant departments and baking industry enterprise communication, to make the industry standard of the bread. "For in conformity with the provisions of the enterprise, we will produce legal support for some black sheep, we firmly clear". Improver. Not QS At the same time, the journalist visited guangzhou a-de road wholesale market, bread, food additive, etc. All this ban for bromate potassium food additives, also easy to find, but part of bread with such rice had additives labeling the QS marks, but not into the bread, and after searching QS management is not found, with other products, such as flavor of license impostor. Experts say, including many kinds bread, and different types have different effects, such as emulsifier can make more soft dough, "2005, most antioxidants are the use of potassium, because bromate, cheap, but in 2005, after all, basic disabled, cao, switch ADA glucose oxidase etc, although not as effective as bromate instead of potassium, but was very near." Baking industry expert committee XieYongKui said. "Everything" market additives, In a sale of food additive business, all kinds of food additives are filled with counter, besides all sorts of essence, pigment, biscuits leavening agent, emulsifier, fruity powder, powder, wang port for beef meatball over (make meat elasticity, bibulous inflation to cook food more refreshing soft slippery and after fresh)... You want the unexpected. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
11:47 am	Cysteine food additives Cysteine is a kind of amino acid, natural in food processing has many USES, it is mainly used for baking the dough improver, as the necessary ingredients. Making the ingredients include standard bread flour, water, salt and yeast, but, if every baked bread will remain the same quality, use only the composition is very difficult, because the quality of wheat flour, yeast activity, mixed degree and baking conditions change combined will affect the quality of the products. In order to improve the consistency of the quality of bread baking division, many use "dough improver", because so many people development, effectively dough improver to bread manufacture process and processing conditions, thus improving compensate the consistency of the quality of the bread. In particular, cysteine is a reductant, and it can promote the formation of gluten, reduce the time needed for mixing and medicinal energy, cysteine molecules through the change of protein and protein molecules between internal disulfide bond, weakened the protein structure, the protein that stretch. The bread is certain ability to gluten won the bubbles, bread can make bread has a good structure, low degree of mixed proteins or too weak and sticky leads to the dough and therefore can not be retained enough gas. Reduce mixing time to reduce costs, baked in large-scale product. Cysteine a reduced cost is very low, With cysteine another advantage is more easily wrapped and pressure, improve the dough on the baking process machines, and reduce the speed of transport of viscosity, make the dough softer. Cysteine also can be used in doughnuts, noodle products and some biscuits production, product, in Pisa homocysteine may reduce the level of housing contraction, after products increased when the volume of dough baking. Except in baked goods, cysteine can also widely used, and the role of sucrose flavor, cysteine could produce meat, poultry products used in the fragrance and flavor of other needs to improve. In the body, cysteine could produce glutathione, glutathione is the most important and the strongest antioxidant, therefore homocysteine as a supplement may sometimes, in the future, as we understand the nature of amino acids, nutrition increases homocysteine may also used in functional food. Cysteine antioxidant properties have other function, the surface coverage cysteine fruit exposure to air will become brown. Used in food production cysteine mainly comes from people or animals, now, the world market has 80% of homocysteine in China, mainly from the person's hair, and some extracted from the skins of animals is the hoof and etc. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
10:02 am	Biomass power project in hubei fangxian county It is reported, by Hong Kong guangdong international Co., LTD. Will invest $3 billion people's governments with fangxian county development cooperation biomass cogeneration project 8 in shiyan formally signed. According to understand, this project with a total investment of 30 million yuan, installed three million kilowatts (2 sets of 75t/h boiler creatures stalk, 15MW 2 sets of heating steam generator), 2 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity and heat capacity 100t/h. Realization of 160 million yuan, annual output value realization 2000-3000 yuan, tax for solving the employment 100 people. Engineering plan is divided into two periods, with power and heating first priority, Using waste production phase horse with biological organic fertilizer projects. 250 acres of land use planning in fangxian county, township and village hongta LiWan construction time two years at the end of June, construction plan. This project in fangxian county can better use of abundant biological fangxian county and abandoned timber resources such as straw, low carbon cycle economy, promote energy conservation and environmental protection. But can effectively relieve fangxian county electric power and resolving problems concentrated heating, further improve the living environment, promote the urban grade, benefit posterity. (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
9:45 am	Coal gasification principle Coal gasification refers to the equipment in particular in coal, under certain temperature and pressure of the coal gasification agent (such as organic and steam/air or oxygen, etc.) in a series of chemical reactions, solid coal into contains CO, H2, such combustible gas and CO2 CH4 and N2 process of flammable gas etc. Coal gasification, must have three conditions, namely the gasifier, gasification, heat supply, landscapes themselves. Gasification process of pyrolysis reaction including coal gasification and combustion reaction,. Coal pyrolysis refers to the coal from solid phase into the gas and solid, liquid phase product process. Coal gasification and combustion reaction include two reaction type, namely the gas-solid reaction and homogeneous gas instead. Different gasification process on the properties of different requirements, so choose gasification process, considering the characteristics of coal gasification and its effect is extremely important. The properties of coal gasification reactivity mainly includes coal, sex, sexual, thermal stability slagging, mechanical strength and partical size and moisture, ash and sulfur content, etc. Coal gasification technology can press pressure, gasification, gasification process etc, heating way according to the classification of coal gasifier is within and between the gasification contact, mainly include: 1) fixed bed gasification in gasification process: coal gasifier, gasification by top, bottom of the gasifier agent of coal gasification agent and upstream relative to the gas, coal feeding speed, slow down, and even can be regarded as stationary, so called fixed bed gasification, But in fact, the coal gasification process is in slow moving downward, the speed of moving bed for gasification. 2) it is based on granularity fluidized-bed gasification for 0-10mm coal gasification small particles as raw materials, in the gasifier and suspended in the air, the vertical rise in boiling coal granule condition of coal gasification, thus make the bed, easy to control the temperature uniformity, improve the efficiency of gasification. 3) air bed gasification. It is a kind of flow gasification, with 100um for gasification agent will granularity of pulverized coal gasifier below, also can bring in pulverized coal to be made, then use the pump into coal-water slurry gasifier. Coal ash melting in higher than its temperature and gasification combustion agent and gasification in liquid form, ash discharge machining. 4) melting bath bed gasification. It is by adding and gasification agent into a tangent direction highspeed higher temperature and high stability of molten pool, the part of slag, kinetic energy into molten pool to do things, spiral rotation and gasification. Currently the gasification process has no development. Above all, for the underground gasification process gasification. Coal gasification technology is widely used in the following fields: 1) as industrial gas General calorific value for 11-1350 calories, atmospheric pressure of hot gas fixed bed gasifier, fluidized bed gasifier can be made. Mainly used for steel, machinery, health, building materials, textiles, food and so on department to heating furnace and furnace, various products or semi-finished products or directly heated. 2) as a civilian gas General calorific value in 3000-3500 calories, less than 10%, except CO coke oven gas and also available with direct gasification furnace, applicable scrooge. With direct coal-burning, not only can obviously improve the civil gas with coal efficiency and reduce pollution, but also can greatly convenient people life, has the good social efficiency and environmental benefits. For safety, environmental protection and economic factors into consideration, the requirement of H2, civil gas CH4 and other hydrocarbons combustible gas content should as far as possible, in order to improve the high calorific value of coal gas, But the content should be CO poisonous. 3) as chemical synthesis and the fuel gas synthetic material Early in the second world war, Germany was adopted as torre fee (Fischer Tropsch) synthetic aviation fuel -. With chemical and carbon - chemical synthesis technology development, and obtained by coal gasification syngas, direct synthesis of various chemicals route has become the basis of modern chemical synthesis, including synthetic ammonia, methanol synthesis, methane and acetic anhydride, dimethyl ether and synthetic liquid fuels, etc. Chemical synthesis of calorific value, mainly for the gas composition etc have CO and H2, general Texaco gasifier, Shell gasifier relatively appropriate. At present the ammonia, methanol production more than 50% of coal gasification from synthetic process. 4) as metallurgy reduction The gas CO and H2 strong reduction. In metallurgy industry, use gas can be directly reduction of iron ore reductive into sponge, In nonferrous metals industry, nickel, tungsten, magnesium and copper and metal oxide can also be used for smelting reduction of gas. Therefore, the reduction of metallurgical gas gas content requirements. CO 5) as a combined cycle power gas Integrated gasification combined cycle power (hereinafter referred to as the IGCC) refers to the coal gasification, under pressure in the gas produced by high temperature flue gas purification, after burning gas turbines driving, waste gas produced high-pressure steam turbines driving superheated steam. Used for the gas calorific value of IGCC not high demand, but for gas purification degrees - such as dust and high demands of sulfide. With the development of coal gasification generally adopted supporting IGCC fixed bed pressurized gasification furnace), scrooge (air bed gasification (Texaco), pressure airflow (guangdong) pressure fluidized bed gasifier Shell gasification technology, gas calorific value of around 2200-2500 calories. 6) for coal gasification fuel cell Fuel cell is made from natural gas or coal gas, etc, H2 fuel (chemical) through electrochemical reactions directly into electricity generation technology of chemistry. At present mainly consists of phosphate (PAFC molten carbonate (), MCFC), solid oxide (SOFC), etc. They combined with high coal gasification technology is the IG - MCFC IG and its power efficiency SOFC - 53 can reach. 7) coal gasification Hydrogen is widely used in electronics, metallurgy, glass production, chemical synthesis, aerospace, coal liquefaction and direct hydrogen battery, etc, the world 96% of hydrogen from fossil fuels. And coal gasification plays a very important role, is commonly coal into CO and H2, then through transform reaction will CO convert H2 and H2O, will rich hydrogen gas by low temperature separation or by pressure swing adsorption and membrane separation technology, can obtain the hydrogen. 8) CTL source Regardless of coal liquefaction and direct indirect oxidation, is inseparable from the coal gasification. Coal liquefaction coal gasification needs, and optional coal gasification process also include fixed bed Lurgi pressurized gasification, pressurized gasification and pressure fluidized bed gasification process flow. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
10:26 am	FOOD EDTA ZoundryDocument Food-grade EDTA is added as a food supplement by the American Heart Association as a method of removing heavy metals from the body approved. EDTA in the beans, dressing and poor, have applications in food and beverage. 1 beans In the food processing industry, absorbing heavy metals or EDTA isolated so that they will not respond and food enzymes. Canned beans, EDTA for the Elimination of metal may have been added during processing, or from their own taste. With EDTA as the raw material of canned beans Some examples include white kidney beans, red kidney beans, black-eyed peas. 2 dressings and poor EDTA was added mayonnaise, sauces, salad dressings and sandwich spreads for several reasons. It is used to increase shelf life and maintain flavor and odor control harmful. Such as copper and iron metal ions dressing like mayonnaise, margarine and salad dressings, because they will reduce the fats and oils, and then change the product's flavor, making it unpalatable soy sauce issue, can not be used. When the EDTA addition of the product is that it will bind the metals so they can no longer respond, and create problems. 3 drinks The use of EDTA as a food additive in a variety of beverage processing stage in order to achieve concrete results. It is mainly used for milk, drinks and beer. EDTA, retains the flavor of full fat milk and stop can turn into a thick condensed milk. In soft drinks, EDTA required to maintain the flavor and the perfect amount of carbonation, beer, EDTA stop emission known as a potential problem brewing. Boiling, when the beer bubbles or air bubbles, which will destroy the product if you do not control. (Comment on this)