Ramparts magazine noted many years ago that the western world is slowly eating itself to death. Our food is often adulterated with thousands of different synthetic flavors, colors, thickeners , acidifiers, bleaches , preservatives, package contaminants, antibiotic, and poisonous pesticides. Food and tobacco companies spend billions of dollars each year promoting health damaging products, contributing t o the high incidence of cancer and various forms of liver, kidney ,heart, and lung disease. Although many argues that the scientific evidence is not conclusive enough to ban other than the most obviomain legal. As us hazards, many scientists believe that we are dealing with a human time bomb because the most damaging effects are likely to be long-term. Ingested toxins may well have an influence on mutations of the human gene pool ,producing irreversible damage in generations to come