Spring pollen allergies
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Tue Apr 7, 2009 8:35 am (PDT)
Spring allergies got you down lately?Support the adrenals with extra B-50 complex and Vitamin C,maybe double your usual usage, and extra pantothenicacid e.g. 500 mg, for a few days to a month as needed. And neti, neti, neti - daily during the time you're experiencingpollen allergies. After that, return to your maintenancefrequency.When the weather warms up, it's a good time for a gentlespring liver cleanse with fresh homemade juices andherbals. Life energies are rising throughout nature in the Spring.Participate with joy! :-)[Reference: my articles "neti", "spring liver cleanse",at url below.]
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Articles in Files.
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Monday, April 06, 2009
I learned THE HARD WAY last Saturday night to be MINDFUL of where I’m walking and BE AWARE what’s happening around me. I walked off a 2 ft. retaining wall in the dark and severely bruised my left foot, knee and shoulder, and my right hand and wrist. Three and a half days FLAT in bed slowed me down long enough to determine that what I’m doing with my life isn’t moving me forward toward MY GOALS.! OUCH!
So in the past 2 days I’ve made HUGE changes!! Let me tell you about some of them…
It all begins with getting my website and blog started after procrastinating nearly a YEAR. OK.. OK… so I’ve been sorta comfortable in this little box I have myself in… work, sleep, eat. 2 days (not together) to PLAY. Definitely NOT enough PLAY! And I seem to be missing a relationship in my life. Boy, am I excited about that! My significant other died several years ago and I’ve been on cruise - as far as my box lets me - but I’m bustin’ out the walls this week!!
You can see some of that evidence here on my website, plus I’m going to California the first weekend in May to attend a Women Building California Conference in Los Angeles (http://www.sbctc.org/). I worked as an ironworker in the San Francisco Bay Area for nearly 10 years, so I definitely AM qualified to attend, even tho I’ve been “retired” from welding since 2002.
I worked on almost ALL the high rises in downtown San Jose, CA from 1980-1989!
I’m working on a series of booklets called “What’s IN Your Lunch Bucket?” to take to the conference with me to help teach women in construction how to eat healthy and use essential oils, herbs and other natural means to get and STAY healthy! So stay tuned folks!!! It’s gonna be GOOD!
Sunday, January 14, 2007
THE 12 RULES OF SURVIVAL
By Laurence Gonzales
DeepSurvival.Com
http://www.deepsurvival.com
As a journalist, I've been writing about accidents for more than thirty
Years. In the last 15 or so years, I've concentrated on accidents in outdoor
Recreation, in an effort to understand who lives, who dies, and why. To my
Surprise, I found an eerie uniformity in the way people survive seemingly
Impossible circumstances. Decades and sometimes centuries apart, separated
By culture, geography, race, language, and tradition, the most successful
Survivors -- those who practice what I call "deep survival" -- go through
The same patterns of thought and behavior, the same transformation and
Spiritual discovery, in the course of keeping themselves alive. Not only
That but it doesn't seem to matter whether they are surviving being lost in
the wilderness or battling cancer, whether they're struggling through
divorce or facing a business catastrophe -- the strategies remain the same.
Survival should be thought of as a journey, a vision quest of the sort that
Native Americans have had as a rite of passage for thousands of years. Once
you're past the precipitating event -- you're cast away at sea or told you
have cancer -- you have been enrolled in one of the oldest schools in
history. Here are a few things I've learned that can help you pass the final
exam.
...........
1. Perceive and Believe
Don't fall into the deadly trap of denial or of immobilizing fear. Admit it:
You're really in trouble and you're going to have to get yourself out.
Many people who in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, died simply
Because they told themselves that everything was going to be all right.
Others panicked. Panic doesn't necessarily mean screaming and running
Around. Often it means simply doing nothing. Survivors don't candy-coat the
Truth, but they also don't give in to hopelessness in the face of it.
Survivors see opportunity, even good, in their situation, however grim.
After the ordeal is over, people may be surprised to hear them say it was
the best thing that ever happened to them. Viktor Frankl, who spent three
years in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps, describes comforting
a woman who was dying. She told him, "I am grateful that fate has hit me so
hard. In my former life I was spoiled and did not take spiritual accomplishments
seriously."
The phases of the survival journey roughly parallel the five stages of death
Once described by Elizabeth Kubler Ross in her book On Death and Dying:
Denial, anger, bargaining, depr ession, and acceptance. In dire
circumstances, a survivor moves through those stages rapidly to acceptance
of his situation, then resolves to do something to save himself. Survival
depends on telling yourself, "Okay, I'm here. This is really happening. Now
I'm going to do the next right thing to get myself out." Whether you succeed
or not ultimately becomes irrelevant. It is in acting well -- even suffering
well -- that you give meaning to whatever life you have to live.
2. Stay Calm ¬ Use Your Anger
In the initial crisis, survivors are not ruled by fear; instead, they make
Use of it. Their fear often feels like (and turns into) anger, which
Motivates them and makes them feel sharper. Aron Ralston, the hiker who had
To cut off his hand to free himself from a stone that had trapped him in a
Slot canyon in Utah, initially panicked and began slamming himself over and
Over against the boulder that had caught his hand. But very quickly, he
Stopped himself, did some deep breathing, and began thinking about his
Options. He eventually spent five days progressing through the stages
Necessary to convince him of what decisive action he had to take to save his
Own life.
When Lance Armstrong, six-time winner of the Tour de France, awoke from
brain surgery for his cancer, he first felt gratitude. "But then I felt a
second wave, of anger... I was alive, and I was mad." When friends asked him
how he was doing, he responded, "I'm doing great... I like it like this. I
like the odds stacked against me... I don't know any other way." That's
survivor thinking.
Survivors also manage pain well. As a bike racer, Armstrong had had long
training in enduring pain, even learning to love it. James Stockdale, a
fighter pilot who was shot down in Vietnam and spent eight years in the
Hanoi Hilton, as his prison camp was known, advised those who would learn to
survive: "One should include a course of familiarization with pain. You have
to practice hurting. There is no question about it."
3. Think, Analyze, and Plan
Survivors quickly organize, set up routines, and institute discipline.
When Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer, he organized his fight
against it the way he would organize his training for a race. He read
everything he could about it, put himself on a training schedule, and put
together a team from among friends, family, and doctors to support his
efforts. Such conscious, organized effort in the face of grave danger
requires a split between reason and emotion in which reason gives direction
and emotion provides the power source. Survivors often report experiencing
reason as an audible "voice."
Steve Callahan, a sailor and boat designer, was rammed by a whale and sunk
while on a solo voyage in 1982. Adrift in the Atlantic for 76 days in a
five-and-a-half- foot raft, he experienced his survival voyage as taking
place under the command of a "captain," who gave him his orders and kept him
on his water ration, even as his own mutinous (emotional) spirit complained.
His captain routinely lectured "the crew." Thus under strict control, he was
able to push away thoughts that his situation was hopeless and take the
necessary first steps of the survival journey: to think clearly, analyze his
situation, and formulate a plan.
4. Take Correct, Decisive Action
Survivors are willing to take risks to save themselves and others. But they
are simultaneously bold and cautious in what they will do. Lauren Elder was
the only survivor of a light plane crash in high sierra. Stranded on a peak
above 12,000 feet, one arm broken, she could see the San Joaquin Valley in
California below, but a vast wilderness and sheer and icy cliffs separated
her from it. Wearing a wrap-around skirt and blouse, with two-inch heeled
boots and not even wearing underwear, she crawled "on all fours, doing a
kind of sideways spiderwalk," as she put it later, "balancing myself on the
ice crust, punching through it with my hands and feet."
She had 36 hours of climbing ahead of her -- a seemingly impossible task.
But Elder allowed herself to think only as far as the next big rock.
Survivors break down large jobs into small, manageable tasks. They set
attainable goals and develop short-term plans to reach them. They are
meticulous about doing those tasks well. Elder tested each hold before
moving forward and stopped frequently to rest. They make very few mistakes.
They handle what is within their power to deal with from moment to moment,
hour to hour, day to d ay.
5. Celebrate your success
Survivors take great joy from even their smallest successes. This helps keep
motivation high and prevents a lethal plunge into hopelessness. It also
provides relief from the unspeakable strain of a life-threatening situation.
Elder said that once she had completed her descent of the first pitch, she
looked up at the impossibly steep slope and thought, "Look what you've
done...Exhilarated, I gave a whoop that echoed down the silent pass." Even
with a broken arm, joy was Elder's constant companion. A good survivor
always tells herself: count your blessings -- you're alive. Viktor Frankl
wrote of how he felt at times in Auschwitz: "How content we were; happy in
spite of everything."
6. Be a Rescuer, Not a Victim
Survivors are always doing what they do for someone else, even if that
someone is thousands of miles away. There are numerous strategies for doing
this. When Antoine Saint-Exupery was stranded in the Lybian desert after his
mail plane suffered an engine failure, he thought of how his wife would
suffer if he gave up and didn't return. Yossi Ghinsberg, a young Israeli
hiker, was lost in the Bolivian jungle for more than two weeks after
becoming separated from his friends. He hallucinated a beautiful companion
with whom he slept each night as he traveled. Everything he did, he did for
her. People cannot survive for themselves alone; there must be a higher
motive.
Viktor Frankl put it this way: "Don't aim at success -- the more you aim at
it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it." He suggests
taking it as "the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a
cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a
person other than oneself."
7. Enjoy the Survival Journey
It may seem counter intuitive, but even in the worst circumstances, survivors
find something to enjoy, some way to play and laugh. Survival can be
tedious, and waiting itself is an art. Elder found herself laughing out loud
when she started to worry that someone might see up her skirt as she
climbed. Even as Callahan's boat was sinking, he stopped to laugh at himself
as he clutched a knife in his teeth like a pirate while trying to get into
his life raft. And Viktor Frankl ordered some of his companions in Auschwitz
who were threatening to give up hope to force themselves to think of one
funny thing each day.
Survivors also use the intellect to stimulate, calm, and entertain the mind.
While moving across a near-vertical cliff face in Peru, Joe Simpson
developed a rhythmic pattern of placing his ax, plunging his other arm into
the snow face, and then making a frightening little hop with his good leg.
"I meticulously repeated the pattern," he wrote later. "I began to feel
detached from everything around me."
Singing, playing mind games, reciting poetry, counting anything, and doing
mathematical problems in your head can make waiting possible and even
pleasant, even while heightening perception and quieting fear. Stockdale
wrote, "The person who came into this experiment with reams of already
memorized poetry was the bearer of great gifts."
When Lance Armstrong was undergoing horrible chemotherapy, his mantra became
his blood count: "Those numbers became the highlight of each day; they were
my motivation.. . I would concentrate on that number, as if I could make the
counts by mentally willing it."
Lost in the Bolivian jungle, Yossi Ghinsberg reported, "When I found myself
feeling hopeless, I whispered my mantra, 'Man of action, ma n of action.' I
don't know where I had gotten the phrase... I repeated it over and over: A
man of action does whatever he must, isn't afraid, and doesn't worry."
Survivors engage their crisis almost as an athlete engages a sport. They
cling to talismans. They discover the sense of flow of the expert performer,
the "zone" in which emotion and thought balance each other in producing
fluid action. A playful approach to a critical situation also leads to
invention, and invention may lead to a new technique, strategy, or design
that could save you.
8. See the Beauty
Survivors are attuned to the wonder of their world, especially in the face
of mortal danger. The appreciation of beauty, the feeling of awe, opens the
senses to the environment. (When you see something beautiful, your pupils
actually dilate.) Debbie Kiley and four others were adrift in the Atlantic
after their boat sank in a hurricane in 1982. They had no supplies, no
water, and would die without rescue. Two of the crew members drank sea water
and went mad. When one of them jumped overboard and was being eaten by
sharks directly under their dinghy, Kiley felt as if she, too, were going
mad, and told herself, "Focus on the sky, on the beauty there."
When Saint-Exupery' s plane went down in the Lybian Desert, he was certain
that he was doomed, but he carried on in this spirit: "Here we are,
condemned to death, and still the certainty of dying cannot compare with the
pleasure I am feeling. The joy I take from this half an orange which I am
holding in my hand is one of the greatest joys I have ever known." At no
time did he stop to bemoan his fate, or if he did, it was only to laugh at
himself.
9. Believe That You Will Succeed
It is at this point, following what I call "the vision," that the survivor's
will to live becomes firmly fixed. Fear of dying falls away, and a new
strength f ills them with the power to go on. "During the final two days of
my entrapment," Ralston recalled, "I felt an increasing reserve of energy,
even though I had run out of food and water." Elder said, "I felt rested and
filled with a peculiar energy." And: "It was as if I had been granted an
unlimited supply of energy."
10. Surrender
Yes you might die. In fact, you will die -- we all do. But perhaps it
doesn't have to be today. Don't let it worry you. Forget about rescue.
Everything you need is inside you already. Dougal Robertson, a sailor who
was cast away at sea for thirty-eight days after his boat sank, advised
thinking of survival this way: "Rescue will come as a welcome interruption
of... the survival voyage." One survival psychologist calls that
"resignation without giving up. It is survival by surrender."
Simpson reported, "I would probably die out there amid those boulders. The
thought didn't alarm me... the horror of dying no longer affected me." The
Tao Te Ching explains how this surrender leads to survival:
The rhinoceros has no place to jab its horn,
The tiger has no place to fasten its claws,
Weapons have no place to admit their blades.
Now,
What is the reason for this?
Because on him there are no mortal spots.
11. Do Whatever Is Necessary
Elder down-climbed vertical ice and rock faces with no experience and no
equipment. In the black of night, Callahan dove into the flooded saloon of
his sinking boat, at once risking and saving his life. Aron Ralston cut off
his own arm to free himself. A cancer patient allows herself to be nearly
killed by chemotherapy in order to live.
Survivors have a reason to live and are willing to bet everything on
themselves. They have what psychologists call meta-knowledge: They know
their abilities and do not over or underestimate them. They believe that
anything is possible and act accordingly.
12. Never Give Up
When Apollo 13's oxygen tank exploded, apparently dooming the crew,
Commander Jim Lovell chose to keep on transmitting whatever data he could
back to mission control, even as they burned up on re-entry. Simpson, Elder,
Callahan, Kiley, Stockdale, Ghinsberg -- were all equally determined and
knew this final truth: If you're still alive, there is always one more thing
that you can do.
Survivors are not easily discouraged by setbacks. They accept that the
environment is constantly changing and know that they must adapt. When they
fall, they pick themselves up and start the entire process over again,
breaking it down into manageable bits.
Survivors always have a clear reason for going on. They keep their spirits
up by developing an alternate world, created from rich memories, into which
they can escape. They see opportunity in adversity. In the aftermath,
survivors learn from and are grateful for the experiences that they've had.
As Elder told me once, "I wouldn't trade that experience for anything. And
sometimes I even miss it. I miss the clarity of knowing exactly what you
have to do next."
Those who would survive the hazards of our world, whether at play or in
business or at war, through illness or financial calamity, will do so
through a journey of transformation. But that transcendent state doesn't
miraculously appear when it is needed. It wells up from a lifetime of
experiences, attitudes, and practices form one's personality, a core from
which the necessary strength is drawn. A survival experience is an
incomparable gift: It will tell you who you really are.
............
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By Laurence Gonzales
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By Laurence Gonzales
DeepSurvival.Com
http://www.deepsurvival.com
As a journalist, I've been writing about accidents for more than thirty
Years. In the last 15 or so years, I've concentrated on accidents in outdoor
Recreation, in an effort to understand who lives, who dies, and why. To my
Surprise, I found an eerie uniformity in the way people survive seemingly
Impossible circumstances. Decades and sometimes centuries apart, separated
By culture, geography, race, language, and tradition, the most successful
Survivors -- those who practice what I call "deep survival" -- go through
The same patterns of thought and behavior, the same transformation and
Spiritual discovery, in the course of keeping themselves alive. Not only
That but it doesn't seem to matter whether they are surviving being lost in
the wilderness or battling cancer, whether they're struggling through
divorce or facing a business catastrophe -- the strategies remain the same.
Survival should be thought of as a journey, a vision quest of the sort that
Native Americans have had as a rite of passage for thousands of years. Once
you're past the precipitating event -- you're cast away at sea or told you
have cancer -- you have been enrolled in one of the oldest schools in
history. Here are a few things I've learned that can help you pass the final
exam.
...........
1. Perceive and Believe
Don't fall into the deadly trap of denial or of immobilizing fear. Admit it:
You're really in trouble and you're going to have to get yourself out.
Many people who in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, died simply
Because they told themselves that everything was going to be all right.
Others panicked. Panic doesn't necessarily mean screaming and running
Around. Often it means simply doing nothing. Survivors don't candy-coat the
Truth, but they also don't give in to hopelessness in the face of it.
Survivors see opportunity, even good, in their situation, however grim.
After the ordeal is over, people may be surprised to hear them say it was
the best thing that ever happened to them. Viktor Frankl, who spent three
years in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps, describes comforting
a woman who was dying. She told him, "I am grateful that fate has hit me so
hard. In my former life I was spoiled and did not take spiritual accomplishments
seriously."
The phases of the survival journey roughly parallel the five stages of death
Once described by Elizabeth Kubler Ross in her book On Death and Dying:
Denial, anger, bargaining, depr ession, and acceptance. In dire
circumstances, a survivor moves through those stages rapidly to acceptance
of his situation, then resolves to do something to save himself. Survival
depends on telling yourself, "Okay, I'm here. This is really happening. Now
I'm going to do the next right thing to get myself out." Whether you succeed
or not ultimately becomes irrelevant. It is in acting well -- even suffering
well -- that you give meaning to whatever life you have to live.
2. Stay Calm ¬ Use Your Anger
In the initial crisis, survivors are not ruled by fear; instead, they make
Use of it. Their fear often feels like (and turns into) anger, which
Motivates them and makes them feel sharper. Aron Ralston, the hiker who had
To cut off his hand to free himself from a stone that had trapped him in a
Slot canyon in Utah, initially panicked and began slamming himself over and
Over against the boulder that had caught his hand. But very quickly, he
Stopped himself, did some deep breathing, and began thinking about his
Options. He eventually spent five days progressing through the stages
Necessary to convince him of what decisive action he had to take to save his
Own life.
When Lance Armstrong, six-time winner of the Tour de France, awoke from
brain surgery for his cancer, he first felt gratitude. "But then I felt a
second wave, of anger... I was alive, and I was mad." When friends asked him
how he was doing, he responded, "I'm doing great... I like it like this. I
like the odds stacked against me... I don't know any other way." That's
survivor thinking.
Survivors also manage pain well. As a bike racer, Armstrong had had long
training in enduring pain, even learning to love it. James Stockdale, a
fighter pilot who was shot down in Vietnam and spent eight years in the
Hanoi Hilton, as his prison camp was known, advised those who would learn to
survive: "One should include a course of familiarization with pain. You have
to practice hurting. There is no question about it."
3. Think, Analyze, and Plan
Survivors quickly organize, set up routines, and institute discipline.
When Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer, he organized his fight
against it the way he would organize his training for a race. He read
everything he could about it, put himself on a training schedule, and put
together a team from among friends, family, and doctors to support his
efforts. Such conscious, organized effort in the face of grave danger
requires a split between reason and emotion in which reason gives direction
and emotion provides the power source. Survivors often report experiencing
reason as an audible "voice."
Steve Callahan, a sailor and boat designer, was rammed by a whale and sunk
while on a solo voyage in 1982. Adrift in the Atlantic for 76 days in a
five-and-a-half- foot raft, he experienced his survival voyage as taking
place under the command of a "captain," who gave him his orders and kept him
on his water ration, even as his own mutinous (emotional) spirit complained.
His captain routinely lectured "the crew." Thus under strict control, he was
able to push away thoughts that his situation was hopeless and take the
necessary first steps of the survival journey: to think clearly, analyze his
situation, and formulate a plan.
4. Take Correct, Decisive Action
Survivors are willing to take risks to save themselves and others. But they
are simultaneously bold and cautious in what they will do. Lauren Elder was
the only survivor of a light plane crash in high sierra. Stranded on a peak
above 12,000 feet, one arm broken, she could see the San Joaquin Valley in
California below, but a vast wilderness and sheer and icy cliffs separated
her from it. Wearing a wrap-around skirt and blouse, with two-inch heeled
boots and not even wearing underwear, she crawled "on all fours, doing a
kind of sideways spiderwalk," as she put it later, "balancing myself on the
ice crust, punching through it with my hands and feet."
She had 36 hours of climbing ahead of her -- a seemingly impossible task.
But Elder allowed herself to think only as far as the next big rock.
Survivors break down large jobs into small, manageable tasks. They set
attainable goals and develop short-term plans to reach them. They are
meticulous about doing those tasks well. Elder tested each hold before
moving forward and stopped frequently to rest. They make very few mistakes.
They handle what is within their power to deal with from moment to moment,
hour to hour, day to d ay.
5. Celebrate your success
Survivors take great joy from even their smallest successes. This helps keep
motivation high and prevents a lethal plunge into hopelessness. It also
provides relief from the unspeakable strain of a life-threatening situation.
Elder said that once she had completed her descent of the first pitch, she
looked up at the impossibly steep slope and thought, "Look what you've
done...Exhilarated, I gave a whoop that echoed down the silent pass." Even
with a broken arm, joy was Elder's constant companion. A good survivor
always tells herself: count your blessings -- you're alive. Viktor Frankl
wrote of how he felt at times in Auschwitz: "How content we were; happy in
spite of everything."
6. Be a Rescuer, Not a Victim
Survivors are always doing what they do for someone else, even if that
someone is thousands of miles away. There are numerous strategies for doing
this. When Antoine Saint-Exupery was stranded in the Lybian desert after his
mail plane suffered an engine failure, he thought of how his wife would
suffer if he gave up and didn't return. Yossi Ghinsberg, a young Israeli
hiker, was lost in the Bolivian jungle for more than two weeks after
becoming separated from his friends. He hallucinated a beautiful companion
with whom he slept each night as he traveled. Everything he did, he did for
her. People cannot survive for themselves alone; there must be a higher
motive.
Viktor Frankl put it this way: "Don't aim at success -- the more you aim at
it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it." He suggests
taking it as "the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a
cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a
person other than oneself."
7. Enjoy the Survival Journey
It may seem counter intuitive, but even in the worst circumstances, survivors
find something to enjoy, some way to play and laugh. Survival can be
tedious, and waiting itself is an art. Elder found herself laughing out loud
when she started to worry that someone might see up her skirt as she
climbed. Even as Callahan's boat was sinking, he stopped to laugh at himself
as he clutched a knife in his teeth like a pirate while trying to get into
his life raft. And Viktor Frankl ordered some of his companions in Auschwitz
who were threatening to give up hope to force themselves to think of one
funny thing each day.
Survivors also use the intellect to stimulate, calm, and entertain the mind.
While moving across a near-vertical cliff face in Peru, Joe Simpson
developed a rhythmic pattern of placing his ax, plunging his other arm into
the snow face, and then making a frightening little hop with his good leg.
"I meticulously repeated the pattern," he wrote later. "I began to feel
detached from everything around me."
Singing, playing mind games, reciting poetry, counting anything, and doing
mathematical problems in your head can make waiting possible and even
pleasant, even while heightening perception and quieting fear. Stockdale
wrote, "The person who came into this experiment with reams of already
memorized poetry was the bearer of great gifts."
When Lance Armstrong was undergoing horrible chemotherapy, his mantra became
his blood count: "Those numbers became the highlight of each day; they were
my motivation.. . I would concentrate on that number, as if I could make the
counts by mentally willing it."
Lost in the Bolivian jungle, Yossi Ghinsberg reported, "When I found myself
feeling hopeless, I whispered my mantra, 'Man of action, ma n of action.' I
don't know where I had gotten the phrase... I repeated it over and over: A
man of action does whatever he must, isn't afraid, and doesn't worry."
Survivors engage their crisis almost as an athlete engages a sport. They
cling to talismans. They discover the sense of flow of the expert performer,
the "zone" in which emotion and thought balance each other in producing
fluid action. A playful approach to a critical situation also leads to
invention, and invention may lead to a new technique, strategy, or design
that could save you.
8. See the Beauty
Survivors are attuned to the wonder of their world, especially in the face
of mortal danger. The appreciation of beauty, the feeling of awe, opens the
senses to the environment. (When you see something beautiful, your pupils
actually dilate.) Debbie Kiley and four others were adrift in the Atlantic
after their boat sank in a hurricane in 1982. They had no supplies, no
water, and would die without rescue. Two of the crew members drank sea water
and went mad. When one of them jumped overboard and was being eaten by
sharks directly under their dinghy, Kiley felt as if she, too, were going
mad, and told herself, "Focus on the sky, on the beauty there."
When Saint-Exupery' s plane went down in the Lybian Desert, he was certain
that he was doomed, but he carried on in this spirit: "Here we are,
condemned to death, and still the certainty of dying cannot compare with the
pleasure I am feeling. The joy I take from this half an orange which I am
holding in my hand is one of the greatest joys I have ever known." At no
time did he stop to bemoan his fate, or if he did, it was only to laugh at
himself.
9. Believe That You Will Succeed
It is at this point, following what I call "the vision," that the survivor's
will to live becomes firmly fixed. Fear of dying falls away, and a new
strength f ills them with the power to go on. "During the final two days of
my entrapment," Ralston recalled, "I felt an increasing reserve of energy,
even though I had run out of food and water." Elder said, "I felt rested and
filled with a peculiar energy." And: "It was as if I had been granted an
unlimited supply of energy."
10. Surrender
Yes you might die. In fact, you will die -- we all do. But perhaps it
doesn't have to be today. Don't let it worry you. Forget about rescue.
Everything you need is inside you already. Dougal Robertson, a sailor who
was cast away at sea for thirty-eight days after his boat sank, advised
thinking of survival this way: "Rescue will come as a welcome interruption
of... the survival voyage." One survival psychologist calls that
"resignation without giving up. It is survival by surrender."
Simpson reported, "I would probably die out there amid those boulders. The
thought didn't alarm me... the horror of dying no longer affected me." The
Tao Te Ching explains how this surrender leads to survival:
The rhinoceros has no place to jab its horn,
The tiger has no place to fasten its claws,
Weapons have no place to admit their blades.
Now,
What is the reason for this?
Because on him there are no mortal spots.
11. Do Whatever Is Necessary
Elder down-climbed vertical ice and rock faces with no experience and no
equipment. In the black of night, Callahan dove into the flooded saloon of
his sinking boat, at once risking and saving his life. Aron Ralston cut off
his own arm to free himself. A cancer patient allows herself to be nearly
killed by chemotherapy in order to live.
Survivors have a reason to live and are willing to bet everything on
themselves. They have what psychologists call meta-knowledge: They know
their abilities and do not over or underestimate them. They believe that
anything is possible and act accordingly.
12. Never Give Up
When Apollo 13's oxygen tank exploded, apparently dooming the crew,
Commander Jim Lovell chose to keep on transmitting whatever data he could
back to mission control, even as they burned up on re-entry. Simpson, Elder,
Callahan, Kiley, Stockdale, Ghinsberg -- were all equally determined and
knew this final truth: If you're still alive, there is always one more thing
that you can do.
Survivors are not easily discouraged by setbacks. They accept that the
environment is constantly changing and know that they must adapt. When they
fall, they pick themselves up and start the entire process over again,
breaking it down into manageable bits.
Survivors always have a clear reason for going on. They keep their spirits
up by developing an alternate world, created from rich memories, into which
they can escape. They see opportunity in adversity. In the aftermath,
survivors learn from and are grateful for the experiences that they've had.
As Elder told me once, "I wouldn't trade that experience for anything. And
sometimes I even miss it. I miss the clarity of knowing exactly what you
have to do next."
Those who would survive the hazards of our world, whether at play or in
business or at war, through illness or financial calamity, will do so
through a journey of transformation. But that transcendent state doesn't
miraculously appear when it is needed. It wells up from a lifetime of
experiences, attitudes, and practices form one's personality, a core from
which the necessary strength is drawn. A survival experience is an
incomparable gift: It will tell you who you really are.
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006
SPECIAL EDITION ALERT!!!!!
http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron16.htm
BIG PHARMA TROJAN HORSES PERMEATE SUPPLEMENT INDUSTRY
By Byron J. Richards, CCN
December 5, 2006
NewsWithViews.com
Today I received an e-mail from the Natural Products Association (NPA) asking me to support the Dietary Supplement and Non-Prescription Drug Consumer Protection Act (the “AER bill”). Apparently they do not know I am one of the most outspoken critics of this legislation. I have already posted two articles on this topic for NWV, one in July and one in November. The NPA, formerly the NNFA (National Nutritional Foods Association), is the largest trade association for ingredient suppliers and health food stores. This group, along with CRN (the Council for Responsible Nutrition) has been taken over by Big Pharma and is selling out the supplement industry.
You as a consumer must weigh in on this subject before it is too late. Your options for effective natural solutions are in serious jeopardy. Immediate action is required to defend health freedom and your right to have therapeutic choices in natural health options.
Unfortunately, it is up to “we the American people” to save the supplement industry from traitorous groups pretending to be on your side. There is a serious attempt underway to push this bill through prior to the close of the lame duck session (apparently to end on December 8). Click here to take action now, tell your congressional leaders to vote no on S. 3546/H.R. 6168.
This is what the December 4, 2006, NPA e-mail stated:
We’re contacting you because an important bill may soon be voted on in Congress. This legislation, which the Natural Products Association – along with the other leading dietary supplement trade groups – supports, is, S. 3546 in the Senate and H.R. 6168 in the House of Representatives.
Yes, these are the names of the bills and they are rotten to the core for consumers and the supplement industry.
Contrary to what you may have heard, this legislation will not affect the availability of dietary supplements or lead to closures of health food stores.
Wrong, an outright lie! This legislation may drastically reduce the availability of therapeutic supplements by linking them with adverse effects actually caused by drugs. True, health food stores are not likely to close. They will keep selling the lower quality Big Pharma brands, like One-A-Day (Bayer) and Centrum (Wyeth). About 80% of the supplement market is not really concerned about your health; this includes big box stores, most network marketing companies, drug stores, super markets, and internet fly-by-night operations. Big Pharma knows these brands pose no competition to their monopolistic drug cartel. Rather, Big Pharma wants all effective nutrition off the market – the really great products that fix diabetes, resolve depression, prevent heart disease, enable weight loss, fix fibromyalgia, and help a person survive cancer treatment. Big Pharma wants a sick America and will do anything to keep people in poor health and on multiple toxic drugs.
It’s also important to remember that the legislation would require only serious – such as life threatening– experiences, not just any complaint, to be reported. And keep in mind that the government already tracks adverse experiences that could be related to dietary supplements.
The FDA is currently unable to properly track adverse events caused by drugs and does not even know which drugs are safe. Over 100,000 Americans are killed each year by drugs, and at least 3 million are injured so severely it requires hospitalization. The FDA already has an adequate MedWatch reporting system for serious adverse events for dietary supplements. The proposed bill calls for supplement manufacturers to keep track of all complaints any person reports, serious or not, a standard far stricter than truly dangerous drugs! This is absolutely absurd.
If such legislation becomes law it will be used as a vehicle for the FDA to remove supplements from the market based on hearsay data. There is no mechanism in place for any supplement company to collect health information on the person reporting, including existing medications or health history. This means the legislation can and will be used as a witch hunt against effective natural options for health. Certainly, the lawyers at NPA and those supporting this bill are licking their chops at all the business this legislation will generate for them.
What’s new is that manufacturers who get reports of consumers being seriously harmed by their products can’t keep them secret. While we believe such occurrences are extremely rare, if they do happen, reporting is the right thing to do.
True serious adverse events from dietary supplements are extremely rare and already covered by MedWatch. Any medical doctor or patient believing a supplement has injured them can easily fill out a MedWatch form. No one has any objection to serious AER reporting. That is not what this bill is really all about. It is about gutting DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994), the legislation that enables American consumers to have more options for health than in any other country in the world. By implying there is a safety problem (which there isn’t) and making supplement companies defend themselves, the burden of proof is shifted from the FDA to supplement companies, thereby drastically changing existing law in favor of Big Pharma and away from access to natural health options granted by DSHEA. The FDA already does what it can to discriminate against small and innovative companies.
If H.R. 6168 and S. 3546 are passed and become law, they will amend the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to require the reporting of “serious” adverse events for both over the counter (OTC) drugs and dietary supplements to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
That is true. However, there is no way to differentiate between drug-drug interactions, drug-nutrient interactions, or food poisoning, meaning there is no way to accurately judge what is causing a problem. Furthermore, the real issue is the safety of drugs, not supplements. Until the FDA has a working system for drug safety, there is no way for the FDA to judge supplement safety. There is a reason the Institute of Medicine reported that the FDA is dysfunctional and not able to protect Americans from harm. Its drugs!!!! – not vitamins.
While the Natural Products Association understands that the mandatory reporting requirements of the AER bill will add to manufacturers’ record keeping responsibilities, we believe the bill will benefit the industry in the long run.
This opinion must be coming from the lawyers that stand to make a fortune defending supplement companies from frivolous attacks relating to non-serious adverse events. Also, doctors will attempt to blame vitamins for the devastating side effects of their commonly prescribed medications. Dangerous drugs, like statins, are in widespread use and making many Americans very ill and even causing premature death. When someone has heart failure from taking statins, doctors will try to blame it on vitamin E. It would be a major travesty to pass legislation that allows the side effects of dangerous drugs to be reported in such as way as to remove safe and effective supplements from the market. The Big Pharma goal is to maintain its monopoly at any cost. It is an agenda based on drug sales and a callous disregard for human life.
First, by helping to change the perception by critics of the dietary supplement industry that it is not well regulated.
This is the Big Lie. The truth is that supplements are safer than food. Supplements are not drugs. Critics of the dietary supplement industry are all getting a pile of money from Big Pharma and they pretend to be upset about network marketing companies making bogus health claims, companies with a history of paying off Senators Hatch and Harkin for protection. Since most of these companies that seemingly cause problems are members of CRN and NNFA, why don’t these junk trade organizations clean up their own members? There is no need to put out of business the many nutritional companies providing a true quality service to millions of Americans in true need of real help, unless of course you are simply trying to put your own competition out of business.
Second, over time, the recordkeeping and reporting requirements will substantiate what many in the industry have been saying all along – that the safety record of dietary supplements is exemplary, especially when compared to other health-related products.
Obviously, true serious AERs will be very infrequent, unlike the several thousand people dying each week at the hands of Big Pharma. However, the recordkeeping requirement for non-serious adverse events opens the door for unlimited FDA harassment of any company. Since the FDA is currently bought and paid for by Big Pharma, that is a huge problem.
Ultimately, safety reporting is the right thing to do for a responsible industry that puts consumers first.
In a world where Big Pharma and the FDA have spent decades trying to obliterate competition, such a naïve statement is designed to appeal to “reasonableness” and “political correctness.” NPA has no concept of integrity to the US Constitution or what makes America great. If anyone wants to believe the utopian garbage put forth by NPA, try to get the statement to apply to Big Pharma.
The e-mail is then signed by the Natural Products Association. Yes, not one person in this pathetic group had the nerve to put their name on this embarrassing e-mail. I wonder who wrote it. Was it Senator Hatch’s younger son who works at NPA? Was it Senator Hatch’s older son who lobbies for NPA? Or was it one of the Big Pharma members sitting on the NPA board? Companies supporting this horrid legislation and the related anti-American globalization agenda of Codex Alimentarius include Mannatech, Herbalife, Shacklee, Now Foods, Dr. Weil Vitamins, Jarrow, and many more.
Besides faxing, phoning, and e-mailing Congress to vote no on S.3546, any person purchasing supplements should demand that whomever they buy supplements from is not a member of CRN or NPA. Health food stores and ingredient suppliers should withdraw from these bogus Big Pharma pro-globalization organizations. If you need more facts to convince you of the magnitude of this problem, read my book Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA’s Betrayal of America. If you buy supplements from such companies or stores then answer this simple question: why are you paying money to be shot in the back?
© 2006 Truth in Wellness, LLC - All Rights Reserved For Health Freedom, John C. Hammell, President International Advocates for Health Freedom 556 Boundary Bay Road Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA http://www.iahf.com jham@iahf.com 800-333-2553 N.America 360-945-0352 World As always you will find more information about the topics covered in this newsletter on our web site at http://www.leaflady.org/ (http://www.leaflady.org/ ), and on our blog at http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com (http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/ ).
herbalYODA Says! is written by Gayle Eversole, DHom, PhD, MH, NP, ND. Creating Health Institute, celebrating 50 years in natural healing, blending science with the natural healing arts, brings it to you as a public service, as part of our long established Health Matters© educational publications.
CHI is a tax-exempt, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. We ask that you consider helping us continue our work through your tax-deductible donation.
CHI Copyright © 2006. All Rights Reserved.
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BIG PHARMA TROJAN HORSES PERMEATE SUPPLEMENT INDUSTRY
By Byron J. Richards, CCN
December 5, 2006
NewsWithViews.com
Today I received an e-mail from the Natural Products Association (NPA) asking me to support the Dietary Supplement and Non-Prescription Drug Consumer Protection Act (the “AER bill”). Apparently they do not know I am one of the most outspoken critics of this legislation. I have already posted two articles on this topic for NWV, one in July and one in November. The NPA, formerly the NNFA (National Nutritional Foods Association), is the largest trade association for ingredient suppliers and health food stores. This group, along with CRN (the Council for Responsible Nutrition) has been taken over by Big Pharma and is selling out the supplement industry.
You as a consumer must weigh in on this subject before it is too late. Your options for effective natural solutions are in serious jeopardy. Immediate action is required to defend health freedom and your right to have therapeutic choices in natural health options.
Unfortunately, it is up to “we the American people” to save the supplement industry from traitorous groups pretending to be on your side. There is a serious attempt underway to push this bill through prior to the close of the lame duck session (apparently to end on December 8). Click here to take action now, tell your congressional leaders to vote no on S. 3546/H.R. 6168.
This is what the December 4, 2006, NPA e-mail stated:
We’re contacting you because an important bill may soon be voted on in Congress. This legislation, which the Natural Products Association – along with the other leading dietary supplement trade groups – supports, is, S. 3546 in the Senate and H.R. 6168 in the House of Representatives.
Yes, these are the names of the bills and they are rotten to the core for consumers and the supplement industry.
Contrary to what you may have heard, this legislation will not affect the availability of dietary supplements or lead to closures of health food stores.
Wrong, an outright lie! This legislation may drastically reduce the availability of therapeutic supplements by linking them with adverse effects actually caused by drugs. True, health food stores are not likely to close. They will keep selling the lower quality Big Pharma brands, like One-A-Day (Bayer) and Centrum (Wyeth). About 80% of the supplement market is not really concerned about your health; this includes big box stores, most network marketing companies, drug stores, super markets, and internet fly-by-night operations. Big Pharma knows these brands pose no competition to their monopolistic drug cartel. Rather, Big Pharma wants all effective nutrition off the market – the really great products that fix diabetes, resolve depression, prevent heart disease, enable weight loss, fix fibromyalgia, and help a person survive cancer treatment. Big Pharma wants a sick America and will do anything to keep people in poor health and on multiple toxic drugs.
It’s also important to remember that the legislation would require only serious – such as life threatening– experiences, not just any complaint, to be reported. And keep in mind that the government already tracks adverse experiences that could be related to dietary supplements.
The FDA is currently unable to properly track adverse events caused by drugs and does not even know which drugs are safe. Over 100,000 Americans are killed each year by drugs, and at least 3 million are injured so severely it requires hospitalization. The FDA already has an adequate MedWatch reporting system for serious adverse events for dietary supplements. The proposed bill calls for supplement manufacturers to keep track of all complaints any person reports, serious or not, a standard far stricter than truly dangerous drugs! This is absolutely absurd.
If such legislation becomes law it will be used as a vehicle for the FDA to remove supplements from the market based on hearsay data. There is no mechanism in place for any supplement company to collect health information on the person reporting, including existing medications or health history. This means the legislation can and will be used as a witch hunt against effective natural options for health. Certainly, the lawyers at NPA and those supporting this bill are licking their chops at all the business this legislation will generate for them.
What’s new is that manufacturers who get reports of consumers being seriously harmed by their products can’t keep them secret. While we believe such occurrences are extremely rare, if they do happen, reporting is the right thing to do.
True serious adverse events from dietary supplements are extremely rare and already covered by MedWatch. Any medical doctor or patient believing a supplement has injured them can easily fill out a MedWatch form. No one has any objection to serious AER reporting. That is not what this bill is really all about. It is about gutting DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994), the legislation that enables American consumers to have more options for health than in any other country in the world. By implying there is a safety problem (which there isn’t) and making supplement companies defend themselves, the burden of proof is shifted from the FDA to supplement companies, thereby drastically changing existing law in favor of Big Pharma and away from access to natural health options granted by DSHEA. The FDA already does what it can to discriminate against small and innovative companies.
If H.R. 6168 and S. 3546 are passed and become law, they will amend the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to require the reporting of “serious” adverse events for both over the counter (OTC) drugs and dietary supplements to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
That is true. However, there is no way to differentiate between drug-drug interactions, drug-nutrient interactions, or food poisoning, meaning there is no way to accurately judge what is causing a problem. Furthermore, the real issue is the safety of drugs, not supplements. Until the FDA has a working system for drug safety, there is no way for the FDA to judge supplement safety. There is a reason the Institute of Medicine reported that the FDA is dysfunctional and not able to protect Americans from harm. Its drugs!!!! – not vitamins.
While the Natural Products Association understands that the mandatory reporting requirements of the AER bill will add to manufacturers’ record keeping responsibilities, we believe the bill will benefit the industry in the long run.
This opinion must be coming from the lawyers that stand to make a fortune defending supplement companies from frivolous attacks relating to non-serious adverse events. Also, doctors will attempt to blame vitamins for the devastating side effects of their commonly prescribed medications. Dangerous drugs, like statins, are in widespread use and making many Americans very ill and even causing premature death. When someone has heart failure from taking statins, doctors will try to blame it on vitamin E. It would be a major travesty to pass legislation that allows the side effects of dangerous drugs to be reported in such as way as to remove safe and effective supplements from the market. The Big Pharma goal is to maintain its monopoly at any cost. It is an agenda based on drug sales and a callous disregard for human life.
First, by helping to change the perception by critics of the dietary supplement industry that it is not well regulated.
This is the Big Lie. The truth is that supplements are safer than food. Supplements are not drugs. Critics of the dietary supplement industry are all getting a pile of money from Big Pharma and they pretend to be upset about network marketing companies making bogus health claims, companies with a history of paying off Senators Hatch and Harkin for protection. Since most of these companies that seemingly cause problems are members of CRN and NNFA, why don’t these junk trade organizations clean up their own members? There is no need to put out of business the many nutritional companies providing a true quality service to millions of Americans in true need of real help, unless of course you are simply trying to put your own competition out of business.
Second, over time, the recordkeeping and reporting requirements will substantiate what many in the industry have been saying all along – that the safety record of dietary supplements is exemplary, especially when compared to other health-related products.
Obviously, true serious AERs will be very infrequent, unlike the several thousand people dying each week at the hands of Big Pharma. However, the recordkeeping requirement for non-serious adverse events opens the door for unlimited FDA harassment of any company. Since the FDA is currently bought and paid for by Big Pharma, that is a huge problem.
Ultimately, safety reporting is the right thing to do for a responsible industry that puts consumers first.
In a world where Big Pharma and the FDA have spent decades trying to obliterate competition, such a naïve statement is designed to appeal to “reasonableness” and “political correctness.” NPA has no concept of integrity to the US Constitution or what makes America great. If anyone wants to believe the utopian garbage put forth by NPA, try to get the statement to apply to Big Pharma.
The e-mail is then signed by the Natural Products Association. Yes, not one person in this pathetic group had the nerve to put their name on this embarrassing e-mail. I wonder who wrote it. Was it Senator Hatch’s younger son who works at NPA? Was it Senator Hatch’s older son who lobbies for NPA? Or was it one of the Big Pharma members sitting on the NPA board? Companies supporting this horrid legislation and the related anti-American globalization agenda of Codex Alimentarius include Mannatech, Herbalife, Shacklee, Now Foods, Dr. Weil Vitamins, Jarrow, and many more.
Besides faxing, phoning, and e-mailing Congress to vote no on S.3546, any person purchasing supplements should demand that whomever they buy supplements from is not a member of CRN or NPA. Health food stores and ingredient suppliers should withdraw from these bogus Big Pharma pro-globalization organizations. If you need more facts to convince you of the magnitude of this problem, read my book Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA’s Betrayal of America. If you buy supplements from such companies or stores then answer this simple question: why are you paying money to be shot in the back?
© 2006 Truth in Wellness, LLC - All Rights Reserved For Health Freedom, John C. Hammell, President International Advocates for Health Freedom 556 Boundary Bay Road Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA http://www.iahf.com jham@iahf.com 800-333-2553 N.America 360-945-0352 World As always you will find more information about the topics covered in this newsletter on our web site at http://www.leaflady.org/ (http://www.leaflady.org/ ), and on our blog at http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com (http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/ ).
herbalYODA Says! is written by Gayle Eversole, DHom, PhD, MH, NP, ND. Creating Health Institute, celebrating 50 years in natural healing, blending science with the natural healing arts, brings it to you as a public service, as part of our long established Health Matters© educational publications.
CHI is a tax-exempt, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. We ask that you consider helping us continue our work through your tax-deductible donation.
CHI Copyright © 2006. All Rights Reserved.
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Myrrh (Commiphora myrrha): Germany's Commission E has endorsed
powdered myrrh for the treatment of mild inflammations of the mouth
and throat because it contains high amounts of tannins. Myrrh
improves digestion, diarrhea and immunity. It treats coughs, gum
disease, wounds, candida, overactive thyroid and scanty
menstruation. Used for: amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, menopause, cough,
asthma, bronchitis, arthritis, rheumatism, traumatic injuries,
ulcerated surfaces, anemia, pyorrhea. Used to kill yeast (10
capsules daily).
Myrrh is used internally for stomach complaints, tonsillitis,
phayrngitis and gingivitis, and externally for ulcers, boils and
wounds. Acts directly and rapidly on peptic glands to increase
activity, in this way increasing digestion. Promotes absorption and
assimilation of nutrients. Good for obesity and diabetes. For inner
ear infections, combine equal parts of echinacea and mullein with one-
part myrrh to make a tea.
Increases circulation, stimulates flow of blood to capillaries.
Clears out mucus-clogged passages throughout the body. Antiseptic to
mucus membranes, regulates secretions of these tissues. Good for
glandular fever, fever symptoms like cold skin, weak pulse.
Research suggests that it can lower blood cholesterol levels.
In China, it is taken to move blood and relieve painful swellings.
For an infusion that might help prevent heart disease, use 1 teaspoon
of powdered herb per cup of boiling water. Steep 10 minutes. Drink
up to 2 cups a day. Myrrh tastes bitter and unpleasant. Add sugar,
honey and lemon or mix it into an herbal beverage blend to improve
flavor.
powdered myrrh for the treatment of mild inflammations of the mouth
and throat because it contains high amounts of tannins. Myrrh
improves digestion, diarrhea and immunity. It treats coughs, gum
disease, wounds, candida, overactive thyroid and scanty
menstruation. Used for: amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, menopause, cough,
asthma, bronchitis, arthritis, rheumatism, traumatic injuries,
ulcerated surfaces, anemia, pyorrhea. Used to kill yeast (10
capsules daily).
Myrrh is used internally for stomach complaints, tonsillitis,
phayrngitis and gingivitis, and externally for ulcers, boils and
wounds. Acts directly and rapidly on peptic glands to increase
activity, in this way increasing digestion. Promotes absorption and
assimilation of nutrients. Good for obesity and diabetes. For inner
ear infections, combine equal parts of echinacea and mullein with one-
part myrrh to make a tea.
Increases circulation, stimulates flow of blood to capillaries.
Clears out mucus-clogged passages throughout the body. Antiseptic to
mucus membranes, regulates secretions of these tissues. Good for
glandular fever, fever symptoms like cold skin, weak pulse.
Research suggests that it can lower blood cholesterol levels.
In China, it is taken to move blood and relieve painful swellings.
For an infusion that might help prevent heart disease, use 1 teaspoon
of powdered herb per cup of boiling water. Steep 10 minutes. Drink
up to 2 cups a day. Myrrh tastes bitter and unpleasant. Add sugar,
honey and lemon or mix it into an herbal beverage blend to improve
flavor.
Monday, November 13, 2006
Friday, November 10, 2006
Kale & Potato Soup
Posted by: "Suzanne" suziesgoats@yahoo.com suziesgoats
Date: Thu Nov 9, 2006 7:26 pm ((PST))
Kale and Potato Soup
By Cait Johnson, author of Witch in the Kitchen
Kale belongs to the same cancer-fighting family that includes broccoli and cabbage, but its sweetness and superior cold-weather keeping qualities make it a popular autumn ingredient. Kale and Potato Soup, with its moony potatoes and earthy kale, would have made a perfect potluck offering for a recent full moon celebration around a bonfire. It is simple earthy cooking at its best: the kale and tender potatoes combine beautifully with onions and garlic to make a simple soup rich in vitamins, minerals, and pleasure.
INGREDIENTS
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 medium onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 large potatoes, chopped
2 teaspoons dried thyme
6 cups vegetable stock
1 bunch kale, rinsed, stemmed, and coarsely chopped
Dollop of sour cream and sprinkling of toasted pumpkin seeds, optional garnish
1. Heat the olive oil in a large soup pot over medium heat, add onion and garlic, and saute, stirring occasionally, until onion is softened, being careful not to brown the garlic. Add potatoes, stirring to coat with oil. Sprinkle with thyme.
2. Add stock and bring to a boil, then cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 10 minutes. Add kale and continue cooking another 15 minutes, until potatoes are soft and kale is tender.
3. Lightly mash the potatoes with a potato masher and serve soup in warmed bowls with a dollop of sour cream and a sprinkling of pumpkin seeds, if desired.
Serves 6.
Posted by: "Suzanne" suziesgoats@yahoo.com suziesgoats
Date: Thu Nov 9, 2006 7:26 pm ((PST))
Kale and Potato Soup
By Cait Johnson, author of Witch in the Kitchen
Kale belongs to the same cancer-fighting family that includes broccoli and cabbage, but its sweetness and superior cold-weather keeping qualities make it a popular autumn ingredient. Kale and Potato Soup, with its moony potatoes and earthy kale, would have made a perfect potluck offering for a recent full moon celebration around a bonfire. It is simple earthy cooking at its best: the kale and tender potatoes combine beautifully with onions and garlic to make a simple soup rich in vitamins, minerals, and pleasure.
INGREDIENTS
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 medium onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 large potatoes, chopped
2 teaspoons dried thyme
6 cups vegetable stock
1 bunch kale, rinsed, stemmed, and coarsely chopped
Dollop of sour cream and sprinkling of toasted pumpkin seeds, optional garnish
1. Heat the olive oil in a large soup pot over medium heat, add onion and garlic, and saute, stirring occasionally, until onion is softened, being careful not to brown the garlic. Add potatoes, stirring to coat with oil. Sprinkle with thyme.
2. Add stock and bring to a boil, then cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 10 minutes. Add kale and continue cooking another 15 minutes, until potatoes are soft and kale is tender.
3. Lightly mash the potatoes with a potato masher and serve soup in warmed bowls with a dollop of sour cream and a sprinkling of pumpkin seeds, if desired.
Serves 6.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
This just in from Frederic Patenaude:
Have you ever experienced the benefits of a "Green" Cleanse?
I know it may sound weird, but it's one of the best things you can do for your health.
I try to do this at least once a year.
During an entire week, have nothing but fruit and green smoothies.
Usually by the end you'll be bursting with energy and enthusiasm (and looking a lot better too!).
This is something you can do on your own, but often it's best to have support and coaching.
I wanted to let you know that as part of our Green for Life Program, we're offering a Group Cleanse which starts November 13, the week before Thanksgiving!
This 7-day event will take you on a journey of cleansing and transformation, as the group who signed up GREEN FOR LIFE will get to go on a "Green Cleanse" each appropriate to her own health and desire.
This is a *live* event with coaching, that you can do from the comfort of your home.
===> http://www.GreenForLifeProgram.com
This cleanse will help you overcome cravings, detoxify, release some weight (if necessary), and experience more vitality, and get in control of your eating habits.
After that, I don't know when the 'Green Cleanse' will be offered again. Probably not before the spring.
To sign up now, go to:
http://www.GreenForLifeProgram.com
(Jan's note: I'd also recommend buying the GREEN FOR LIFE book and you can continue your greens regimen throughout the year. Loose those unwanted pounds - EASILY - and gain FABULOUS ENERGY!!)
Have you ever experienced the benefits of a "Green" Cleanse?
I know it may sound weird, but it's one of the best things you can do for your health.
I try to do this at least once a year.
During an entire week, have nothing but fruit and green smoothies.
Usually by the end you'll be bursting with energy and enthusiasm (and looking a lot better too!).
This is something you can do on your own, but often it's best to have support and coaching.
I wanted to let you know that as part of our Green for Life Program, we're offering a Group Cleanse which starts November 13, the week before Thanksgiving!
This 7-day event will take you on a journey of cleansing and transformation, as the group who signed up GREEN FOR LIFE will get to go on a "Green Cleanse" each appropriate to her own health and desire.
This is a *live* event with coaching, that you can do from the comfort of your home.
===> http://www.GreenForLifeProgram.com
This cleanse will help you overcome cravings, detoxify, release some weight (if necessary), and experience more vitality, and get in control of your eating habits.
After that, I don't know when the 'Green Cleanse' will be offered again. Probably not before the spring.
To sign up now, go to:
http://www.GreenForLifeProgram.com
(Jan's note: I'd also recommend buying the GREEN FOR LIFE book and you can continue your greens regimen throughout the year. Loose those unwanted pounds - EASILY - and gain FABULOUS ENERGY!!)
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Humans living far beyond planet's means: WWF By Ben Blanchard
Tue Oct 24, 6:29 AM ET
BEIJING (Reuters) - Humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and will need two planets' worth of natural resources every year by 2050 on current trends, the WWF conservation group said on Tuesday.
Populations of many species, from fish to mammals, had fallen by about a third from 1970 to 2003 largely because of human threats such as pollution, clearing of forests and overfishing, the group also said in a two-yearly report.
"For more than 20 years we have exceeded the earth's ability to support a consumptive lifestyle that is unsustainable and we cannot afford to continue down this path," WWF Director-General James Leape said, launching the WWF's 2006 Living Planet Report.
"If everyone around the world lived as those in America, we would need five planets to support us," Leape, an American, said in Beijing.
People in the United Arab Emirates were placing most stress per capita on the planet ahead of those in the United States, Finland and Canada, the report said.
Australia was also living well beyond its means.
The average Australian used 6.6 "global" hectares to support their developed lifestyle, ranking behind the United States and Canada, but ahead of the United Kingdom, Russia, China and Japan.
"If the rest of the world led the kind of lifestyles we do here in Australia, we would require three-and-a-half planets to provide the resources we use and to absorb the waste," said Greg Bourne, WWF-Australia chief executive officer.
Everyone would have to change lifestyles -- cutting use of fossil fuels and improving management of everything from farming to fisheries.
"As countries work to improve the well-being of their people, they risk bypassing the goal of sustainability," said Leape, speaking in an energy-efficient building at Beijing's prestigous Tsinghua University.
"It is inevitable that this disconnect will eventually limit the abilities of poor countries to develop and rich countries to maintain their prosperity," he added.
The report said humans' "ecological footprint" -- the demand people place on the natural world -- was 25 percent greater than the planet's annual ability to provide everything from food to energy and recycle all human waste in 2003.
In the previous report, the 2001 overshoot was 21 percent.
"On current projections humanity, will be using two planets' worth of natural resources by 2050 -- if those resources have not run out by then," the latest report said.
"People are turning resources into waste faster than nature can turn waste back into resources."
RISING POPULATION
"Humanity's footprint has more than tripled between 1961 and 2003," it said. Consumption has outpaced a surge in the world's population, to 6.5 billion from 3 billion in 1960. U.N. projections show a surge to 9 billion people around 2050.
It said that the footprint from use of fossil fuels, whose heat-trapping emissions are widely blamed for pushing up world temperatures, was the fastest-growing cause of strain.
Leape said China, home to a fifth of the world's population and whose economy is booming, was making the right move in pledging to reduce its energy consumption by 20 percent over the next five years.
"Much will depend on the decisions made by China, India and other rapidly developing countries," he added.
The WWF report also said that an index tracking 1,300 vetebrate species -- birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammals -- showed that populations had fallen for most by about 30 percent because of factors including a loss of habitats to farms.
Among species most under pressure included the swordfish and the South African Cape vulture. Those bucking the trend included rising populations of the Javan rhinoceros and the northern hairy-nosed wombat in Australia.
(Additional reporting by Alister Doyle in Helsinki)
Tue Oct 24, 6:29 AM ET
BEIJING (Reuters) - Humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and will need two planets' worth of natural resources every year by 2050 on current trends, the WWF conservation group said on Tuesday.
Populations of many species, from fish to mammals, had fallen by about a third from 1970 to 2003 largely because of human threats such as pollution, clearing of forests and overfishing, the group also said in a two-yearly report.
"For more than 20 years we have exceeded the earth's ability to support a consumptive lifestyle that is unsustainable and we cannot afford to continue down this path," WWF Director-General James Leape said, launching the WWF's 2006 Living Planet Report.
"If everyone around the world lived as those in America, we would need five planets to support us," Leape, an American, said in Beijing.
People in the United Arab Emirates were placing most stress per capita on the planet ahead of those in the United States, Finland and Canada, the report said.
Australia was also living well beyond its means.
The average Australian used 6.6 "global" hectares to support their developed lifestyle, ranking behind the United States and Canada, but ahead of the United Kingdom, Russia, China and Japan.
"If the rest of the world led the kind of lifestyles we do here in Australia, we would require three-and-a-half planets to provide the resources we use and to absorb the waste," said Greg Bourne, WWF-Australia chief executive officer.
Everyone would have to change lifestyles -- cutting use of fossil fuels and improving management of everything from farming to fisheries.
"As countries work to improve the well-being of their people, they risk bypassing the goal of sustainability," said Leape, speaking in an energy-efficient building at Beijing's prestigous Tsinghua University.
"It is inevitable that this disconnect will eventually limit the abilities of poor countries to develop and rich countries to maintain their prosperity," he added.
The report said humans' "ecological footprint" -- the demand people place on the natural world -- was 25 percent greater than the planet's annual ability to provide everything from food to energy and recycle all human waste in 2003.
In the previous report, the 2001 overshoot was 21 percent.
"On current projections humanity, will be using two planets' worth of natural resources by 2050 -- if those resources have not run out by then," the latest report said.
"People are turning resources into waste faster than nature can turn waste back into resources."
RISING POPULATION
"Humanity's footprint has more than tripled between 1961 and 2003," it said. Consumption has outpaced a surge in the world's population, to 6.5 billion from 3 billion in 1960. U.N. projections show a surge to 9 billion people around 2050.
It said that the footprint from use of fossil fuels, whose heat-trapping emissions are widely blamed for pushing up world temperatures, was the fastest-growing cause of strain.
Leape said China, home to a fifth of the world's population and whose economy is booming, was making the right move in pledging to reduce its energy consumption by 20 percent over the next five years.
"Much will depend on the decisions made by China, India and other rapidly developing countries," he added.
The WWF report also said that an index tracking 1,300 vetebrate species -- birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammals -- showed that populations had fallen for most by about 30 percent because of factors including a loss of habitats to farms.
Among species most under pressure included the swordfish and the South African Cape vulture. Those bucking the trend included rising populations of the Javan rhinoceros and the northern hairy-nosed wombat in Australia.
(Additional reporting by Alister Doyle in Helsinki)
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Raw Living Foods Home Study Program
Thinking about a lifestyle change? NOW is the time to do it! The kids are back in school, vacations are over, and it's going to be easier to find a bit of time for yourself again.
Surrounded, as we are, with increasing toxicity in our food and environment, eating a pure and healthy diet is more important than ever. That's why the Raw Living Foods Movement is growing so fast.
There's a lot more to being a Raw Fooder than eating fruits and veggies. Dietary variety, purity, balance, sprouting and personal detoxification are important, too. Now you can learn about the Raw Living Foods Lifestyle in the comfort and convenience of your own home. Learn how to detoxify your body, what to eat, why to eat it, and how to prepare yummy raw food meals that leave you feeling full and satisfied. The home study version of the Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Lifestyle includes over 45 hours of video instruction, and a comprehensive manual.
The Raw Living Foods Lifestyle has been taught by a series of visionaries in the past century. Dr. Ann Wigmore used it to cure herself of colon cancer in the 1950's, and then taught it for decades at Hippocrates Institute in Boston and Creative Health Institute in Michigan, where she taught others to heal themselves naturally.
If you can't get into a residential program, then the home study program is for you. There's so much material in the home study program - 15 lessons, 30+ videos, 350+ page handbook - that you'd have to spend at least a month at a place like Creative Health to learn as much.
The First Lesson is Free - Examine the program in your home for 30 days. Even if you don't elect to continue your subscription, the first lesson is still yours to keep.
SPECIAL BONUS - Extended!
When you order the complete raw living foods lifestyle Home Study Program this week we'll also include over $100 worth of bonus materials:
Personal Raw Coaching: 30 minutes of free coaching and consultation (by telephone) with Hiawatha Cromer, "The Wise Woman of Raw Foods"
Bonus Book: "Green for Life," by Victoria Boutenko (read the Book Review)
Bonus Video: "Greens can Save Your Life," with Victoria Boutenko (2 Tapes or DVDs)
Bonus Video: "Dr. Ann Wigmore's Kitchen," with Dr. Ann and Dr. Flora van Orden III
Bonus Video: "Out of the Ordinary," with Robert Taylor, Steven Gibb and Dr. Jim Carey
Bonus Book: "Finding Health in Hodunk," by Thom Hartmann
Bonus Video: A surprise title.
For purchase information and more details, please visit chiDiet.com/lessons.htm.
What people are saying about the home study program: http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/feedback_home_study_program/index.html.
Thinking about a lifestyle change? NOW is the time to do it! The kids are back in school, vacations are over, and it's going to be easier to find a bit of time for yourself again.
Surrounded, as we are, with increasing toxicity in our food and environment, eating a pure and healthy diet is more important than ever. That's why the Raw Living Foods Movement is growing so fast.
There's a lot more to being a Raw Fooder than eating fruits and veggies. Dietary variety, purity, balance, sprouting and personal detoxification are important, too. Now you can learn about the Raw Living Foods Lifestyle in the comfort and convenience of your own home. Learn how to detoxify your body, what to eat, why to eat it, and how to prepare yummy raw food meals that leave you feeling full and satisfied. The home study version of the Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Lifestyle includes over 45 hours of video instruction, and a comprehensive manual.
The Raw Living Foods Lifestyle has been taught by a series of visionaries in the past century. Dr. Ann Wigmore used it to cure herself of colon cancer in the 1950's, and then taught it for decades at Hippocrates Institute in Boston and Creative Health Institute in Michigan, where she taught others to heal themselves naturally.
If you can't get into a residential program, then the home study program is for you. There's so much material in the home study program - 15 lessons, 30+ videos, 350+ page handbook - that you'd have to spend at least a month at a place like Creative Health to learn as much.
The First Lesson is Free - Examine the program in your home for 30 days. Even if you don't elect to continue your subscription, the first lesson is still yours to keep.
SPECIAL BONUS - Extended!
When you order the complete raw living foods lifestyle Home Study Program this week we'll also include over $100 worth of bonus materials:
Personal Raw Coaching: 30 minutes of free coaching and consultation (by telephone) with Hiawatha Cromer, "The Wise Woman of Raw Foods"
Bonus Book: "Green for Life," by Victoria Boutenko (read the Book Review)
Bonus Video: "Greens can Save Your Life," with Victoria Boutenko (2 Tapes or DVDs)
Bonus Video: "Dr. Ann Wigmore's Kitchen," with Dr. Ann and Dr. Flora van Orden III
Bonus Video: "Out of the Ordinary," with Robert Taylor, Steven Gibb and Dr. Jim Carey
Bonus Book: "Finding Health in Hodunk," by Thom Hartmann
Bonus Video: A surprise title.
For purchase information and more details, please visit chiDiet.com/lessons.htm.
What people are saying about the home study program: http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/feedback_home_study_program/index.html.
Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce
from the Environmental Working Group
For years, you've been able to choose foods with less fat or fewer additives. Now, with EWG's 4th edition of the popular Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce, you can minimize your chemical exposure in the produce aisle.
EWG always recommends organic, but we know you can't always find it. Our new Guide features the 12 fruits and veggies with the most and least pesticides so you'll know which ones to buy organic, and which conventionally-grown ones are okay when organic isn't available.
How'd we do it? EWG analyzed over 42,000 of the latest government tests for pesticide residues on commonly-eaten fruits and vegetables. We then ranked the results based on six measures of pesticide loads, after washing and peeling. Click here to download your printer-friendly PDF Guide now.
There is growing consensus in the scientific community that small doses of pesticides and other chemicals can adversely affect people, especially during vulnerable periods of fetal development and childhood when exposures can have long lasting effects. Because the toxic effects of pesticides are worrisome, not well understood, or in some cases completely unstudied, shoppers are wise to minimize exposure to pesticides whenever possible.
Nearly all of the data used to create these lists already considers how people typically wash and prepare produce (for example, apples are washed before testing, bananas are peeled). While washing and rinsing fresh produce may reduce levels of some pesticides, it does not eliminate them. Peeling also reduces exposures, but valuable nutrients often go down the drain with the peel. The best option is to eat a varied diet, wash all produce, and choose organic when possible to reduce exposure to potentially harmful chemicals.
Get your copy of the guide here: http://www.ewg.org/sites/foodnews/walletguide.php (available in English and Spanish).
from the Environmental Working Group
For years, you've been able to choose foods with less fat or fewer additives. Now, with EWG's 4th edition of the popular Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce, you can minimize your chemical exposure in the produce aisle.
EWG always recommends organic, but we know you can't always find it. Our new Guide features the 12 fruits and veggies with the most and least pesticides so you'll know which ones to buy organic, and which conventionally-grown ones are okay when organic isn't available.
How'd we do it? EWG analyzed over 42,000 of the latest government tests for pesticide residues on commonly-eaten fruits and vegetables. We then ranked the results based on six measures of pesticide loads, after washing and peeling. Click here to download your printer-friendly PDF Guide now.
There is growing consensus in the scientific community that small doses of pesticides and other chemicals can adversely affect people, especially during vulnerable periods of fetal development and childhood when exposures can have long lasting effects. Because the toxic effects of pesticides are worrisome, not well understood, or in some cases completely unstudied, shoppers are wise to minimize exposure to pesticides whenever possible.
Nearly all of the data used to create these lists already considers how people typically wash and prepare produce (for example, apples are washed before testing, bananas are peeled). While washing and rinsing fresh produce may reduce levels of some pesticides, it does not eliminate them. Peeling also reduces exposures, but valuable nutrients often go down the drain with the peel. The best option is to eat a varied diet, wash all produce, and choose organic when possible to reduce exposure to potentially harmful chemicals.
Get your copy of the guide here: http://www.ewg.org/sites/foodnews/walletguide.php (available in English and Spanish).
Prostate Cancer Risks Rise With Shift Work
http://www.mercola.com/2006/oct/7/prostate_cancer_risks_rise_with_shift_work.htm
Japanese researchers found that workers on rotating shifts were four times more likely to develop prostate cancer than those working regular hours, whether on day or night shifts.
Shift work has also been linked to an increased risk of breast and bowel cancers.
The study, which examined more than 14,000 workers over eight years, also found that night shift workers were at a slightly increased risk of prostate cancer. Eighty percent of the workers studied worked daytime hours, 7 percent worked nights, and about 13 percent rotated their work schedules from night to day.
The reason for the effects may be reduced secretion of the hormone melatonin in those who work irregular hours and, to a lesser extent, nights. Reduced secretion of melatonin has been linked to increased production of sex hormones, which help to regulate prostate tissues.
American Journal of Epidemiology September 15, 2006; 164(6): 549-555
BBC News September 17, 2006
Yahoo News September 13, 2006
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Dr. Mercola's Comment:
Our modern culture requires that many of us work completely unnatural hours. We need police and fire protection and health care workers to be available in emergency rooms.
Unfortunately, what many people who work these shifts don't realize is the incredibly increased risk they put themselves at for early death. You simply can't violate foundational biological rhythms and not pay a price.
Just because some genius developed the ability to create inexpensive artificial light a century ago does not give us permission to ignore centuries of biology, which dictate foundational biological processes.
Getting the right amount of sleep every day, and getting it at the right time, can make such a profound difference in your health. If you happen to be one of the unfortunate people who are involved in shift work I would encourage you to place a high goal to change that as soon as possible.
Personally, there are very few things that affect me as much as not getting a good night's sleep. I don't need much, but -- if I can get a good solid six to six and a half hours -- I have no problems going to sleep around 10 p.m. and bouncing out of bed at 4 a.m. to 4:30 a.m., ready and raring to tackle the day and achieve my goals.
It is also important to sleep in complete darkness. Many do not appreciate that the tiniest bit of light can disrupt your body's natural circadian rhythms, in addition to the production of melatonin by your pineal gland, which is why it's so important for you to sleep in complete darkness.
This is one of the primary reasons for this study's observed increase in cancer. Melatonin is a very powerful cancer controller and when you decrease your production of it your risk of cancer climbs.
Also be sure to get a healthy amount of sun, another important way to slash your risk of prostate cancer. Not only will it increase your vitamin D levels, but bright sun exposure during the day will help your body make more melatonin at night if you are sleeping in a dark room.
So, let's get your sleeping right and get to bed when you were designed to. If you are having trouble with sleeping I urge you to review my 29 secrets for getting a good night's sleep safely, effectively and without a drug, including:
Avoid before-bed snacks, particularly grains and sugars. This will raise blood sugar and inhibit sleep. Later, when blood sugar drops too low (hypoglycemia), you might wake up and not be able to fall back asleep.
No TV right before bed. Even better, get the TV out of the bedroom or even out of the house, completely. It is too stimulating to the brain, and it will cause you to take longer to fall asleep.
Wear socks to bed. Due to the fact that they have the poorest circulation, the feet often feel cold before the rest of the body. A study has shown that wearing socks reduces night wakings.
Reduce or avoid using as many drugs as possible. Many medications, both prescription and over-the-counter, may have effects on sleep.
Avoid caffeine. A recent study showed that in some people, caffeine is not metabolized efficiently, and therefore they can feel the effects long after consuming it. So an afternoon cup of coffee (or even tea) will keep some people from falling asleep.
Related Articles:
How You Can Beat Prostate and Breast Cancer Nutritionally
Daily Red Wine Cuts Prostate Cancer Risk By Half
Night Shift Increases Cancer Risk
http://www.mercola.com/2006/oct/7/prostate_cancer_risks_rise_with_shift_work.htm
Japanese researchers found that workers on rotating shifts were four times more likely to develop prostate cancer than those working regular hours, whether on day or night shifts.
Shift work has also been linked to an increased risk of breast and bowel cancers.
The study, which examined more than 14,000 workers over eight years, also found that night shift workers were at a slightly increased risk of prostate cancer. Eighty percent of the workers studied worked daytime hours, 7 percent worked nights, and about 13 percent rotated their work schedules from night to day.
The reason for the effects may be reduced secretion of the hormone melatonin in those who work irregular hours and, to a lesser extent, nights. Reduced secretion of melatonin has been linked to increased production of sex hormones, which help to regulate prostate tissues.
American Journal of Epidemiology September 15, 2006; 164(6): 549-555
BBC News September 17, 2006
Yahoo News September 13, 2006
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Mercola's Comment:
Our modern culture requires that many of us work completely unnatural hours. We need police and fire protection and health care workers to be available in emergency rooms.
Unfortunately, what many people who work these shifts don't realize is the incredibly increased risk they put themselves at for early death. You simply can't violate foundational biological rhythms and not pay a price.
Just because some genius developed the ability to create inexpensive artificial light a century ago does not give us permission to ignore centuries of biology, which dictate foundational biological processes.
Getting the right amount of sleep every day, and getting it at the right time, can make such a profound difference in your health. If you happen to be one of the unfortunate people who are involved in shift work I would encourage you to place a high goal to change that as soon as possible.
Personally, there are very few things that affect me as much as not getting a good night's sleep. I don't need much, but -- if I can get a good solid six to six and a half hours -- I have no problems going to sleep around 10 p.m. and bouncing out of bed at 4 a.m. to 4:30 a.m., ready and raring to tackle the day and achieve my goals.
It is also important to sleep in complete darkness. Many do not appreciate that the tiniest bit of light can disrupt your body's natural circadian rhythms, in addition to the production of melatonin by your pineal gland, which is why it's so important for you to sleep in complete darkness.
This is one of the primary reasons for this study's observed increase in cancer. Melatonin is a very powerful cancer controller and when you decrease your production of it your risk of cancer climbs.
Also be sure to get a healthy amount of sun, another important way to slash your risk of prostate cancer. Not only will it increase your vitamin D levels, but bright sun exposure during the day will help your body make more melatonin at night if you are sleeping in a dark room.
So, let's get your sleeping right and get to bed when you were designed to. If you are having trouble with sleeping I urge you to review my 29 secrets for getting a good night's sleep safely, effectively and without a drug, including:
Avoid before-bed snacks, particularly grains and sugars. This will raise blood sugar and inhibit sleep. Later, when blood sugar drops too low (hypoglycemia), you might wake up and not be able to fall back asleep.
No TV right before bed. Even better, get the TV out of the bedroom or even out of the house, completely. It is too stimulating to the brain, and it will cause you to take longer to fall asleep.
Wear socks to bed. Due to the fact that they have the poorest circulation, the feet often feel cold before the rest of the body. A study has shown that wearing socks reduces night wakings.
Reduce or avoid using as many drugs as possible. Many medications, both prescription and over-the-counter, may have effects on sleep.
Avoid caffeine. A recent study showed that in some people, caffeine is not metabolized efficiently, and therefore they can feel the effects long after consuming it. So an afternoon cup of coffee (or even tea) will keep some people from falling asleep.
Related Articles:
How You Can Beat Prostate and Breast Cancer Nutritionally
Daily Red Wine Cuts Prostate Cancer Risk By Half
Night Shift Increases Cancer Risk
Cancerous Pancreas & Bowels Caused by Nitric Acid in Meat
Robert Young, Ph.D.
Consuming processed meats increases the risk of a cancerous pancreas, says new research conducted at the University of Hawaii that followed nearly 200,000 men and women for seven years. According to lead study author Ute Nothlings, people who consumed the most processed meats (hot dogs and sausage) showed a 67% increased risk of a cancerous pancreas over those who consumed little or no meat products.
But researchers failed to accurately identify the culprit responsible for this increased risk of a cancerous pancreas, says one author. The true cause of the heightened cancer risk is the widespread use of an acidic carcinogenic precursor ingredient known as sodium nitrite acid by food processing companies, says nutritionist Mike Adams, author of the just-published Grocery Warning manual at: http://www.TruthPublishing.com/GroceryWarning.html
Nearly all processed meats are made with sodium nitrite acid: breakfast sausage, hot dogs, jerkies, bacon, pepperoni, lunch meat, and even meats in canned soup products. Yet this acidic ingredient is a precursor to highly carcinogenic or acidic nitrosamines -- potent cancerous-causing acidic chemicals that accelerate the formation and growth of cancerous acidic cells throughout the body. When consumers eat sodium nitrite acid in popular meat products, acidic nitrosamines are formed in the body and prosion the cells that make up our tissues and organs, leading to cancerous cells of the colon and pancreas, says Adams.
"Sodium nitrite acid is a dangerous, cancer-causing ingredient that has no place in the human food supply," he explains. The USDA actually tried to ban sodium nitrite acid in the 1970's, but was preempted by the meat processing industry, which relies on the ingredient as a color fixer to make foods look more visually appealing. "The meat industry uses sodium nitrite acid to sell more meat products at the expense of public health," says Adams. "And this new research clearly demonstrates the link between the consumption of processed meats and cancer."
A cancerous pancreas isn't the only negative side effect of consuming processed meats such as hot dogs. Acid blood or Leukemia also skyrockets by 700% following the consumption of hot dogs. (Preston-Martin, S. et al. "N-nitroso compounds and childhood brain tumors: A case-control study." Cancer Res. 1982; 42:5240-5.) Other links between processed meats and dis-ease are covered in detail in the Grocery Warning manual.
Adams wrote Grocery Warning to warn consumers about the toxic or acidic, dis-ease-causing ingredients found in everyday foods and groceries. "There are certain ingredients found in common grocery products that directly promote cancer, diabetes, heart disease, depression, Alzheimer's disease, osteoporosis and even behavioral disorders," Adams explains. His Grocery Warning manual covers them all, teaching readers how to prevent and even help reverse chronic dis-eases by avoiding acidic foods and acidic food ingredients that cause dis-ease.
According to Adams, consumers can help reduce the cancerous-causing effects of sodium nitrite acid by consuming protective antioxidants before meals, such as vitamin E, glutathione and N-acetyl cysteine which offers some protection. The only safe strategy is to avoid sodium nitrite acid completely.
Adams especially warns expectant mothers to avoid consuming sodium nitrite acid due to the greatly heightened risk of brain tumors in infants. Parents are also warned to avoid feeding their children products that contain sodium nitrite acid, including all popular hot dogs, bacon, jerkies, breakfast sausages and pizzas made with pepperoni or other processed meats. "Sodium nitrite acid is especially dangerous to fetuses, infants and children," says Adams.
Sadly, nearly all school lunch programs currently serve school children meat products containing sodium nitrite acid. Hospital cafeterias also serve this cancerous-causing ingredient to patients. Sodium nitrite acid is found in literally thousands of different menu items at fast food restaurants and dining establishments. "The use of this ingredient is widespread," says Adams, and it's part of the reason we're seeing skyrocketing rates of cancer in every society that consumes large quantities of processed meats."
Some companies are now offering nitrite-free and nitrate-free meat products, which are far healthier alternatives, but those products are difficult to find and are typically available only at health food stores or natural grocers. Consumers can look for "Nitrite-free" or "Nitrate-free" labels when shopping for meat products. They can also purchase fresh meats, which are almost never prepared with sodium nitrite acid. The best solution is to never eat meat. It is always acidic even without the sodium nitrite acid, including uric acid, phosphoric acid and sulphuric acid.
The new research on processed meats points to an acidic chemical toxin as the cause of the increased cancerous risk. A heightened cancerous risk of 67% is "gigantic," warns Adams. "This is clearly not due to macronutrient differences. This is the kind of risk increase you only see with ingredient toxicity. Something in these processed meats is poisoning people, and the evidence points straight to sodium nitrite acid."
For more information on what causes cancerous cells and how to prevent cancerous tissues or organs visit our website at: www.phmiracleliving.com or join us on Thursday nights at 6 pm Pacific Time on our pH Miracle for Cancer Teleconference. To sign up for our pH Miracle for Cancer teleconference or to join us at our next pH Miracle Retreat, November 2nd - 4th, please call the pH Miracle Center at: 760 751 8321 or visit our website at www.phmiracleliving.com ph Miracle Center
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Robert Young, Ph.D.
Consuming processed meats increases the risk of a cancerous pancreas, says new research conducted at the University of Hawaii that followed nearly 200,000 men and women for seven years. According to lead study author Ute Nothlings, people who consumed the most processed meats (hot dogs and sausage) showed a 67% increased risk of a cancerous pancreas over those who consumed little or no meat products.
But researchers failed to accurately identify the culprit responsible for this increased risk of a cancerous pancreas, says one author. The true cause of the heightened cancer risk is the widespread use of an acidic carcinogenic precursor ingredient known as sodium nitrite acid by food processing companies, says nutritionist Mike Adams, author of the just-published Grocery Warning manual at: http://www.TruthPublishing.com/GroceryWarning.html
Nearly all processed meats are made with sodium nitrite acid: breakfast sausage, hot dogs, jerkies, bacon, pepperoni, lunch meat, and even meats in canned soup products. Yet this acidic ingredient is a precursor to highly carcinogenic or acidic nitrosamines -- potent cancerous-causing acidic chemicals that accelerate the formation and growth of cancerous acidic cells throughout the body. When consumers eat sodium nitrite acid in popular meat products, acidic nitrosamines are formed in the body and prosion the cells that make up our tissues and organs, leading to cancerous cells of the colon and pancreas, says Adams.
"Sodium nitrite acid is a dangerous, cancer-causing ingredient that has no place in the human food supply," he explains. The USDA actually tried to ban sodium nitrite acid in the 1970's, but was preempted by the meat processing industry, which relies on the ingredient as a color fixer to make foods look more visually appealing. "The meat industry uses sodium nitrite acid to sell more meat products at the expense of public health," says Adams. "And this new research clearly demonstrates the link between the consumption of processed meats and cancer."
A cancerous pancreas isn't the only negative side effect of consuming processed meats such as hot dogs. Acid blood or Leukemia also skyrockets by 700% following the consumption of hot dogs. (Preston-Martin, S. et al. "N-nitroso compounds and childhood brain tumors: A case-control study." Cancer Res. 1982; 42:5240-5.) Other links between processed meats and dis-ease are covered in detail in the Grocery Warning manual.
Adams wrote Grocery Warning to warn consumers about the toxic or acidic, dis-ease-causing ingredients found in everyday foods and groceries. "There are certain ingredients found in common grocery products that directly promote cancer, diabetes, heart disease, depression, Alzheimer's disease, osteoporosis and even behavioral disorders," Adams explains. His Grocery Warning manual covers them all, teaching readers how to prevent and even help reverse chronic dis-eases by avoiding acidic foods and acidic food ingredients that cause dis-ease.
According to Adams, consumers can help reduce the cancerous-causing effects of sodium nitrite acid by consuming protective antioxidants before meals, such as vitamin E, glutathione and N-acetyl cysteine which offers some protection. The only safe strategy is to avoid sodium nitrite acid completely.
Adams especially warns expectant mothers to avoid consuming sodium nitrite acid due to the greatly heightened risk of brain tumors in infants. Parents are also warned to avoid feeding their children products that contain sodium nitrite acid, including all popular hot dogs, bacon, jerkies, breakfast sausages and pizzas made with pepperoni or other processed meats. "Sodium nitrite acid is especially dangerous to fetuses, infants and children," says Adams.
Sadly, nearly all school lunch programs currently serve school children meat products containing sodium nitrite acid. Hospital cafeterias also serve this cancerous-causing ingredient to patients. Sodium nitrite acid is found in literally thousands of different menu items at fast food restaurants and dining establishments. "The use of this ingredient is widespread," says Adams, and it's part of the reason we're seeing skyrocketing rates of cancer in every society that consumes large quantities of processed meats."
Some companies are now offering nitrite-free and nitrate-free meat products, which are far healthier alternatives, but those products are difficult to find and are typically available only at health food stores or natural grocers. Consumers can look for "Nitrite-free" or "Nitrate-free" labels when shopping for meat products. They can also purchase fresh meats, which are almost never prepared with sodium nitrite acid. The best solution is to never eat meat. It is always acidic even without the sodium nitrite acid, including uric acid, phosphoric acid and sulphuric acid.
The new research on processed meats points to an acidic chemical toxin as the cause of the increased cancerous risk. A heightened cancerous risk of 67% is "gigantic," warns Adams. "This is clearly not due to macronutrient differences. This is the kind of risk increase you only see with ingredient toxicity. Something in these processed meats is poisoning people, and the evidence points straight to sodium nitrite acid."
For more information on what causes cancerous cells and how to prevent cancerous tissues or organs visit our website at: www.phmiracleliving.com or join us on Thursday nights at 6 pm Pacific Time on our pH Miracle for Cancer Teleconference. To sign up for our pH Miracle for Cancer teleconference or to join us at our next pH Miracle Retreat, November 2nd - 4th, please call the pH Miracle Center at: 760 751 8321 or visit our website at www.phmiracleliving.com ph Miracle Center
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Monday, October 02, 2006
SUGAR LINKED WITH MENTAL PROBLEMS IN NORWAY STUDY
Reuters
September 28, 2006
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2006-
09-28T204517Z_01_N28374556_RTRUKOC_0_US-SUGAR.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
WASHINGTON - Oslo teens who drank the most sugary soft drinks also had more
mental health problems such as hyperactivity and distress, Norwegian
researchers reported on Thursday.
Their study of more than 5,000 Norwegian 15- and 16-year-olds showed a clear
and direct association between soft drink intake and hyperactivity, and a
more complex link with other mental and behavioral disorders.
They surveyed the students, asking them how many fizzy soft drinks with
sugar they had a day, and then questions from a standard questionnaire used
to assess mental health.
The teens who reported skipping breakfast and lunch were among the heaviest
soft drink consumers, Dr. Lars Lien and colleagues at the University of Oslo
found.
"There was a strong association between soft drink consumption and mental
health problems among Oslo 10th graders," they wrote in their report,
published in the American Journal of Public Health.
"This association remained significant after adjustment for social,
behavioral and food-related disorders."
Most of the students said they drank anywhere between one and six servings
of soft drinks per week.
Those who drank no soft drinks at all were more likely than moderate
drinkers to have mental health symptoms, the researchers said. But those who
drank the most -- more than six servings a week - had the highest scores.
For hyperactivity, there was a direct linear relationship -- the more sodas
a teen drank, the most symptoms of hyperactivity he or she had.
The worst problems were seen in boys and girls who drank four or more soft
drinks a day. Ten percent of the boys and 2 percent of the girls drank this
much.
The researchers said it was possible that other substances in the soft
drinks, such as caffeine, were to blame for the symptoms, and they did not
check other possible sources of refined sugar in the children's diets.
But they said many of the teens were clearly drinking too many sugary
drinks. Norway's recommended intake is 10 percent of the day's total
calories from sugar and the researchers said at least a quarter of the boys
were getting this much from soft drinks alone.
"One simple and effective measure to reduce soft drink consumption in this
age group would be to remove soft drink machines from schools and other
public places where adolescents gather," they wrote.
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RELATED NHNE NEWS LIST ARTICLES:
SUGARY DRINKS PILE ON POUNDS (8/10/2006):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/11653
ONE-THIRD OF U.S. ADULTS DIABETIC OR PRE-DIABETIC (5/28/2006):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/11313
CLINTON'S BROKERS DEAL TO GET SODA OUT OF SCHOOLS (5/9/2006):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/11247
CARCINOGENIC SOFT DRINKS (3/15/2006):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/10981
ALL ABOUT REFINED SUGAR (& WHY IT IS SO BAD FOR OUR HEALTH) (10/28/2005):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/10224
STUDY LINKS ASPARTAME WITH CANCERS (10/4/2005):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/10081
SUGARY SOFT DRINKS RAISE RISK OF DIABETES (9/6/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7831
ASPARTAME FOLLOW UP (2/11/2002):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/2694
THE DARK SIDE OF ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS (2/11/2002):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/2690
THE DARK SIDE OF PROCESSED FOODS (1/18/2001):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/1055
Reuters
September 28, 2006
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2006-
09-28T204517Z_01_N28374556_RTRUKOC_0_US-SUGAR.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
WASHINGTON - Oslo teens who drank the most sugary soft drinks also had more
mental health problems such as hyperactivity and distress, Norwegian
researchers reported on Thursday.
Their study of more than 5,000 Norwegian 15- and 16-year-olds showed a clear
and direct association between soft drink intake and hyperactivity, and a
more complex link with other mental and behavioral disorders.
They surveyed the students, asking them how many fizzy soft drinks with
sugar they had a day, and then questions from a standard questionnaire used
to assess mental health.
The teens who reported skipping breakfast and lunch were among the heaviest
soft drink consumers, Dr. Lars Lien and colleagues at the University of Oslo
found.
"There was a strong association between soft drink consumption and mental
health problems among Oslo 10th graders," they wrote in their report,
published in the American Journal of Public Health.
"This association remained significant after adjustment for social,
behavioral and food-related disorders."
Most of the students said they drank anywhere between one and six servings
of soft drinks per week.
Those who drank no soft drinks at all were more likely than moderate
drinkers to have mental health symptoms, the researchers said. But those who
drank the most -- more than six servings a week - had the highest scores.
For hyperactivity, there was a direct linear relationship -- the more sodas
a teen drank, the most symptoms of hyperactivity he or she had.
The worst problems were seen in boys and girls who drank four or more soft
drinks a day. Ten percent of the boys and 2 percent of the girls drank this
much.
The researchers said it was possible that other substances in the soft
drinks, such as caffeine, were to blame for the symptoms, and they did not
check other possible sources of refined sugar in the children's diets.
But they said many of the teens were clearly drinking too many sugary
drinks. Norway's recommended intake is 10 percent of the day's total
calories from sugar and the researchers said at least a quarter of the boys
were getting this much from soft drinks alone.
"One simple and effective measure to reduce soft drink consumption in this
age group would be to remove soft drink machines from schools and other
public places where adolescents gather," they wrote.
------------
RELATED NHNE NEWS LIST ARTICLES:
SUGARY DRINKS PILE ON POUNDS (8/10/2006):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/11653
ONE-THIRD OF U.S. ADULTS DIABETIC OR PRE-DIABETIC (5/28/2006):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/11313
CLINTON'S BROKERS DEAL TO GET SODA OUT OF SCHOOLS (5/9/2006):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/11247
CARCINOGENIC SOFT DRINKS (3/15/2006):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/10981
ALL ABOUT REFINED SUGAR (& WHY IT IS SO BAD FOR OUR HEALTH) (10/28/2005):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/10224
STUDY LINKS ASPARTAME WITH CANCERS (10/4/2005):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/10081
SUGARY SOFT DRINKS RAISE RISK OF DIABETES (9/6/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7831
ASPARTAME FOLLOW UP (2/11/2002):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/2694
THE DARK SIDE OF ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS (2/11/2002):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/2690
THE DARK SIDE OF PROCESSED FOODS (1/18/2001):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/1055
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Organic Foods-- What's the Big Deal?
Ten Reasons to Eat Organic Foods by Chrys Ostrander
Links by Order of Appearance
1)Stop Eating Chemicals
Organic foods must, by law (WSDA) (USDA), be free of synthetic chemicals
such as those which are easily detected on conventionally grown fruits,
vegetables and grains. "Conventional produce" is the type available in most supermarket produce sections. While far from over, there are signs that chemical abuse in American farming is declining and some of the most hazardous chemicals are no longer available to American farmers.
Unfortunately, under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the General Agreement on Tarrifs and Trade (GATT) rules and others, there are very few barriers to trade with respect to imported food which has a higher likelihood of contamination. Chemicals which have been banned for use in the United States (but which are still manufactured by U.S. Companies) are still routinely used agriculturally in other parts of the world. Due to a poor testing program for imported foods, these banned chemicals come back to our dinner plates and into our bodies via the deadly "Circle of Poison" unless we shift to an organic diet. USDA estimates some 20% of our fruits and vegetables are imported. Only 1-2% of these are inspected for pesticide residues. FDA's tests of imported produce
can detect only about half of the chemicals available worldwide.
US-EPA gets more than 2,000 notices of the export of unregistered pesticides yearly.
Recipient countries don't have to report whether these pesticides are
applied to produce which is later exported to the U.S., and FDA does not
test for them. Importers are rarely penalized for violations. Critics
contend that inspections do not adequately protect the public. It is ironic, however, that recent testing shows the highest levels of the most toxic residues is on domestic (U.S. Grown) produce. Many of the chemicals now in use were approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. Long before extensive research had been done linking them to cancer. It is now estimated that 60% of all herbicides, 90% of all fungicides and 30% of all pesticides are carcinogenic
Now, for the first time, because of a new federal law, every chemical in
use and proposed will be tested to determine whether organ damage, birth
defects, micarriages, sterility, endocrine system problems and other risks are associated with each chemical. The latest studies show unequivocally that it's safer to eat organic foods than ones produced using chemical pesticides. You can start eating clean, good, organic food right now!
2)Protect Your Children
Children are, as a rule, more vulnerable to toxins than are adults. This is why children especially should be fed an organic diet and taught how to resist junk-food culture. It may take years before many ailments associated with chronic or even episodic contact with toxins become apparent. Children,we hope, do have many healthy years ahead of them. In the aftermath of the Alar scare of the 1980's, a study concluded that the average child is exposed to four times as many cancer causing pesticides in food than are adults, based on the types of foods children are most likely to eat. Food choice can have a substantial effect on a child's future health.
3)Preserve Water Quality and Air Quality
Water and air are our most important resources. Infiltration of pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers and other soluable chemicals into surface and groundwater is a major source of concern all across North America. These dangerous synthetic chemicals are found in many cases in significant concentrations even in water supplies now being consumed by millions of people. Some herbicides actually evaporate into the air after application and drift for miles (still having bad effects on plant life!) and some agricultural chemicals bind to dust particles which you breath in during dust storms. In the United States, massive testing of municipal water systems has shown that the principal sources of drinking water for more than half the population have been contaminated. Right next door to Spokane in Airway Heights the city water supply has been declared undrinkable due to elevated nitrates, a sign of fertilizer pollution. Organic farmers do not contribute to water pollution. Organic livestock farms are prohibited from being point sources of nitrate.
4)Prevent Soil Erosion
Across North America, soil is eroding seven times faster than it can be
replaced. According to Cornell University, it costs us about $44 billion a year. Conventional farming has been guilty of extracting wealth from the land at the expense of our topsoil. Poor cultivation and cultural practices have created a worldwide topsoil crisis. Organic farmers are bound by law and oath to have a soil building program in place for maintaining and returning the tilth of this precious resource.
5)Protect Farm Worker Health
Farm workers in this country and abroad are exposed to the highest
concentrations of agricultural poisons of any segment of the population and the devastation to them and their families is well documented. These are the people who tend and harvest our food, they deserve better. Help in their struggle for a safe work environment and vote with your pocketbook by buying organic foods.
6)Support Small Scale Local Farmers
Most organic farms are small, independently owned and operated or family
farms of less than 100 acres (some are pretty big). By buying locally
produced foods, you are keeping local farms viable; you are not contributing to the environmental and social costs of the worldwide transport of foods or supporting a system based on the exploitation of third world labor. You are helping your community attain food security. It is a myth that huge, corporate agribusiness is more efficient than the small farmer.
7)Save Energy
Organic farming is accomplished with less energy consumption. Inputs like fertilizer are naturally occurring and require less processing than
substances manufactured by huge chemical companies. Organic food generally travels less miles from farm to market saving energy in transport. Many organic farmers incorporate alternative and renewable energy sources into their farming/homesteading systems.
8)Promote bio-diversity
Many large scale agri-businesses operate by the method of mono-cropping-- the practice of planting large plots of land with the same crop, year after year. This depletes the soil of nutrients causing farmers to become more and more dependent on fertilizers. Also, this upsets natures pest controls by reducing species variety. Different plants attract different bugs and the more bugs around a farm, the higher the percentage of beneficial insects in the population. Solid blocks of one crop actually attracts pests who like to eat that crop. Increased genetic resistance to pesticides has caused crop losses to double in the last 50 years. Organic growers practice methods and techniques like crop rotation , cover cropping and composting which directly address these problems of modern agriculture by re-learning how to work with
nature, not wage combat against her. Clearly more bio-diversity is necessary in farming and buying organic supports this movement.
9)Organics Aren't Really More Expensive
Many hidden costs are involved with the buying of conventionally produced food products. These hidden costs include billions of dollars in federal agriculture and energy subsides favoring big business. Chemical regulation and testing, hazardous waste disposal, environmental damage and cleanup, illnesses and hospitalizations are other hidden costs. Low prices of conventional foods are also a signal that the farm workers did not recieve a fair wage.
10)Organic Foods Taste Better. Taste is hard to quantify, but science does tell us that organic foods do have higher levels of vitamins and minerals than conventional foods. It only makes sense that food grown in soil that has been nourished and cared for is more nutritious and will end up tasting better. Why not find out?
11) Organic Foods are Required to be Free From Genetically Engineered or
Modified Ingredients (GMOs). Science is now suggesting GMOs pose
significant health risks to people and animals that eat them and it is
certain that GMOs pose unacceptable risks to bio-diversity and natural
ecosystems.
Ten Reasons to Eat Organic Foods by Chrys Ostrander
Links by Order of Appearance
1)Stop Eating Chemicals
Organic foods must, by law (WSDA) (USDA), be free of synthetic chemicals
such as those which are easily detected on conventionally grown fruits,
vegetables and grains. "Conventional produce" is the type available in most supermarket produce sections. While far from over, there are signs that chemical abuse in American farming is declining and some of the most hazardous chemicals are no longer available to American farmers.
Unfortunately, under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the General Agreement on Tarrifs and Trade (GATT) rules and others, there are very few barriers to trade with respect to imported food which has a higher likelihood of contamination. Chemicals which have been banned for use in the United States (but which are still manufactured by U.S. Companies) are still routinely used agriculturally in other parts of the world. Due to a poor testing program for imported foods, these banned chemicals come back to our dinner plates and into our bodies via the deadly "Circle of Poison" unless we shift to an organic diet. USDA estimates some 20% of our fruits and vegetables are imported. Only 1-2% of these are inspected for pesticide residues. FDA's tests of imported produce
can detect only about half of the chemicals available worldwide.
US-EPA gets more than 2,000 notices of the export of unregistered pesticides yearly.
Recipient countries don't have to report whether these pesticides are
applied to produce which is later exported to the U.S., and FDA does not
test for them. Importers are rarely penalized for violations. Critics
contend that inspections do not adequately protect the public. It is ironic, however, that recent testing shows the highest levels of the most toxic residues is on domestic (U.S. Grown) produce. Many of the chemicals now in use were approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. Long before extensive research had been done linking them to cancer. It is now estimated that 60% of all herbicides, 90% of all fungicides and 30% of all pesticides are carcinogenic
Now, for the first time, because of a new federal law, every chemical in
use and proposed will be tested to determine whether organ damage, birth
defects, micarriages, sterility, endocrine system problems and other risks are associated with each chemical. The latest studies show unequivocally that it's safer to eat organic foods than ones produced using chemical pesticides. You can start eating clean, good, organic food right now!
2)Protect Your Children
Children are, as a rule, more vulnerable to toxins than are adults. This is why children especially should be fed an organic diet and taught how to resist junk-food culture. It may take years before many ailments associated with chronic or even episodic contact with toxins become apparent. Children,we hope, do have many healthy years ahead of them. In the aftermath of the Alar scare of the 1980's, a study concluded that the average child is exposed to four times as many cancer causing pesticides in food than are adults, based on the types of foods children are most likely to eat. Food choice can have a substantial effect on a child's future health.
3)Preserve Water Quality and Air Quality
Water and air are our most important resources. Infiltration of pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers and other soluable chemicals into surface and groundwater is a major source of concern all across North America. These dangerous synthetic chemicals are found in many cases in significant concentrations even in water supplies now being consumed by millions of people. Some herbicides actually evaporate into the air after application and drift for miles (still having bad effects on plant life!) and some agricultural chemicals bind to dust particles which you breath in during dust storms. In the United States, massive testing of municipal water systems has shown that the principal sources of drinking water for more than half the population have been contaminated. Right next door to Spokane in Airway Heights the city water supply has been declared undrinkable due to elevated nitrates, a sign of fertilizer pollution. Organic farmers do not contribute to water pollution. Organic livestock farms are prohibited from being point sources of nitrate.
4)Prevent Soil Erosion
Across North America, soil is eroding seven times faster than it can be
replaced. According to Cornell University, it costs us about $44 billion a year. Conventional farming has been guilty of extracting wealth from the land at the expense of our topsoil. Poor cultivation and cultural practices have created a worldwide topsoil crisis. Organic farmers are bound by law and oath to have a soil building program in place for maintaining and returning the tilth of this precious resource.
5)Protect Farm Worker Health
Farm workers in this country and abroad are exposed to the highest
concentrations of agricultural poisons of any segment of the population and the devastation to them and their families is well documented. These are the people who tend and harvest our food, they deserve better. Help in their struggle for a safe work environment and vote with your pocketbook by buying organic foods.
6)Support Small Scale Local Farmers
Most organic farms are small, independently owned and operated or family
farms of less than 100 acres (some are pretty big). By buying locally
produced foods, you are keeping local farms viable; you are not contributing to the environmental and social costs of the worldwide transport of foods or supporting a system based on the exploitation of third world labor. You are helping your community attain food security. It is a myth that huge, corporate agribusiness is more efficient than the small farmer.
7)Save Energy
Organic farming is accomplished with less energy consumption. Inputs like fertilizer are naturally occurring and require less processing than
substances manufactured by huge chemical companies. Organic food generally travels less miles from farm to market saving energy in transport. Many organic farmers incorporate alternative and renewable energy sources into their farming/homesteading systems.
8)Promote bio-diversity
Many large scale agri-businesses operate by the method of mono-cropping-- the practice of planting large plots of land with the same crop, year after year. This depletes the soil of nutrients causing farmers to become more and more dependent on fertilizers. Also, this upsets natures pest controls by reducing species variety. Different plants attract different bugs and the more bugs around a farm, the higher the percentage of beneficial insects in the population. Solid blocks of one crop actually attracts pests who like to eat that crop. Increased genetic resistance to pesticides has caused crop losses to double in the last 50 years. Organic growers practice methods and techniques like crop rotation , cover cropping and composting which directly address these problems of modern agriculture by re-learning how to work with
nature, not wage combat against her. Clearly more bio-diversity is necessary in farming and buying organic supports this movement.
9)Organics Aren't Really More Expensive
Many hidden costs are involved with the buying of conventionally produced food products. These hidden costs include billions of dollars in federal agriculture and energy subsides favoring big business. Chemical regulation and testing, hazardous waste disposal, environmental damage and cleanup, illnesses and hospitalizations are other hidden costs. Low prices of conventional foods are also a signal that the farm workers did not recieve a fair wage.
10)Organic Foods Taste Better. Taste is hard to quantify, but science does tell us that organic foods do have higher levels of vitamins and minerals than conventional foods. It only makes sense that food grown in soil that has been nourished and cared for is more nutritious and will end up tasting better. Why not find out?
11) Organic Foods are Required to be Free From Genetically Engineered or
Modified Ingredients (GMOs). Science is now suggesting GMOs pose
significant health risks to people and animals that eat them and it is
certain that GMOs pose unacceptable risks to bio-diversity and natural
ecosystems.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Wellthy Choices
INCREASE ENERGY & MENTAL CLARITY WITH E3LIVE(TM)
Are you wishing you could keep up with the busy activities in your life?
Do you have kids, grandkids, a busy job, friends, family and more?
Are you the person that takes care of everyone else, except yourself?
Most people do not have time to take care of their own health and nutrition, and eventually it catches up with you and you may become tired or sluggish (or even ill) because you did not have time to spend taking care of YOU.
One way to be sure that you are getting the nutrition you need (and in an organic & Kosher form) is by eating E3Live(TM). "Feel The Difference!" or your money back. E3Live(TM) is the world's first and only fresh-frozen liquid source of 100% Organic & Kosher Aphanizomenon flos-aquae, an aquatic plant with over 64 vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, amino acids and more. E3Live(TM) is good nutrition for you and your family - just a teaspoon a day and you will "Feel the Difference!". Also available in powder or capsule form.
To order E3Live(TM) visit www.E3Live.com
Mention Jan Jenson, The Wellth Coach and receive a 20% discount!!
http://www.myaffiliateprogram.com/u/visione3/b.asp?id=1195
Want to try something new? Here's a couple of E3Live recipes
Another great way to incorporate E3Live(TM) into your life (and they are yummy, too!). Be on the lookout for more recipes on our website www.E3Live.com.
E3 Salsa
Ingredients:
5 large ripe, red tomatoes, chopped coarse or fine
3 Tbs. finely chopped cilantro
1-2 jalapeno chilies, seeded and minced
2 cloves finely minced garlic
1 small purple or white onion, finely chopped
2 tsp. lime juice
1 tsp. Himalayan sea salt (or celtic sea salt) (optional)
1 small avocado finely diced pieces (optional)
1Tbsp. E3Live(TM), or 2-4 capsules of E3AFA(TM) (use only the contents of
capsules), or 1-2 teaspoons of E3AFA(TM) flakes
Combine all ingedients in a bowl and mix well.
Makes about 4 1/2 cups Servings: approx. 8
E3 Smoothie
1 cup water (for low calorie), or 1 cup fresh almond milk (for protein) (see recipe for almond milk)
2 bananas
1/2 cup frozen fruit, any kind (optional if you want a cold, frozen smoothie)
1 tsp. vanilla
1-2 Tbs. E3Live(TM), or 2-6 capsules of E3AFA(TM), or 1-3 teaspoons of E3AFA(TM) flakes
Almond Milk
2 cups almonds in water (not tap water), soak overnight.
Next morning rinse well, the add 3 cups of water (not tap water).
Place all in blender and mix on high speed 2-3 minutes until smooth
and no large pieces.
Pour into cheesecloth bag and squeeze milk into container.
Discard pulp, or use as a base for seed cheese.
To order E3Live(TM) visit www.E3Live.com
Mention Jan Jenson, The Wellth Coach and receive a 20% discount!!
http://www.myaffiliateprogram.com/u/visione3/b.asp?id=1195
Vision
P.O. Box N
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
USA
http://www.myaffiliateprogram.com/u/visione3/b.asp?id=1195
INCREASE ENERGY & MENTAL CLARITY WITH E3LIVE(TM)
Are you wishing you could keep up with the busy activities in your life?
Do you have kids, grandkids, a busy job, friends, family and more?
Are you the person that takes care of everyone else, except yourself?
Most people do not have time to take care of their own health and nutrition, and eventually it catches up with you and you may become tired or sluggish (or even ill) because you did not have time to spend taking care of YOU.
One way to be sure that you are getting the nutrition you need (and in an organic & Kosher form) is by eating E3Live(TM). "Feel The Difference!" or your money back. E3Live(TM) is the world's first and only fresh-frozen liquid source of 100% Organic & Kosher Aphanizomenon flos-aquae, an aquatic plant with over 64 vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, amino acids and more. E3Live(TM) is good nutrition for you and your family - just a teaspoon a day and you will "Feel the Difference!". Also available in powder or capsule form.
To order E3Live(TM) visit www.E3Live.com
Mention Jan Jenson, The Wellth Coach and receive a 20% discount!!
http://www.myaffiliateprogram.com/u/visione3/b.asp?id=1195
Want to try something new? Here's a couple of E3Live recipes
Another great way to incorporate E3Live(TM) into your life (and they are yummy, too!). Be on the lookout for more recipes on our website www.E3Live.com.
E3 Salsa
Ingredients:
5 large ripe, red tomatoes, chopped coarse or fine
3 Tbs. finely chopped cilantro
1-2 jalapeno chilies, seeded and minced
2 cloves finely minced garlic
1 small purple or white onion, finely chopped
2 tsp. lime juice
1 tsp. Himalayan sea salt (or celtic sea salt) (optional)
1 small avocado finely diced pieces (optional)
1Tbsp. E3Live(TM), or 2-4 capsules of E3AFA(TM) (use only the contents of
capsules), or 1-2 teaspoons of E3AFA(TM) flakes
Combine all ingedients in a bowl and mix well.
Makes about 4 1/2 cups Servings: approx. 8
E3 Smoothie
1 cup water (for low calorie), or 1 cup fresh almond milk (for protein) (see recipe for almond milk)
2 bananas
1/2 cup frozen fruit, any kind (optional if you want a cold, frozen smoothie)
1 tsp. vanilla
1-2 Tbs. E3Live(TM), or 2-6 capsules of E3AFA(TM), or 1-3 teaspoons of E3AFA(TM) flakes
Almond Milk
2 cups almonds in water (not tap water), soak overnight.
Next morning rinse well, the add 3 cups of water (not tap water).
Place all in blender and mix on high speed 2-3 minutes until smooth
and no large pieces.
Pour into cheesecloth bag and squeeze milk into container.
Discard pulp, or use as a base for seed cheese.
To order E3Live(TM) visit www.E3Live.com
Mention Jan Jenson, The Wellth Coach and receive a 20% discount!!
http://www.myaffiliateprogram.com/u/visione3/b.asp?id=1195
Vision
P.O. Box N
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
USA
http://www.myaffiliateprogram.com/u/visione3/b.asp?id=1195
Wellthy Choices
Subject: Warning about Splenda from an MD
James Bowen, M.D., A physician, biochemist, and survivor of aspartame
poisoning warns about yet another synthetic sweetener, Splenda.
HAWAII‹The chemical sucralose, marketed as "Splenda", has replaced aspartame
as the #1 artificial sweetener in foods and beverages. Aspartame has been
forced out by increasing public awareness that it is both a neurotoxin and
an underlying cause of chronic illness worldwide. Dr. James Bowen,
Researcher and biochemist, reports:
"Splenda/sucralose is simply chlorinated sugar; a chlorocarbon. Common
chlorocarbons include carbon tetrachloride, trichlorethelene and methylene
chloride, all deadly. Chlorine is nature's Doberman attack dog, a highly
excitable, ferocious atomic element employed as a biocide in bleach,
disinfectants, insecticide, WWI poison gas and hydrochloric acid.
"Sucralose is a molecule of sugar chemically manipulated to surrender three
hydroxyl groups (hydrogen + oxygen) and replace them with three chlorine
atoms. Natural sugar is a hydrocarbon built around 12 carbon atoms. When
turned into Splenda it becomes a chlorocarbon, in the family of Chlorodane,
Lindane and DDT,
"It is logical to ask why table salt, which also contains chlorine, is safe
while Splenda/sucralose is toxic? Because salt isn't a chlorocarbon. When
molecular chemistry binds sodium to chlorine to make salt carbon isn't
included. Sucralose and salt are as different as oil and water.
"Unlike sodium chloride, chlorocarbons are never nutritionally compatible
with our metabolic processes and are wholly incompatible with normal human
metabolic functioning. When chlorine is chemically reacted into
carbon-structured organic compounds to make chlorocarbons, the carbon and
chlorine atoms bind to each other by mutually sharing electrons in their
outer shells. This arrangement adversely affects human metabolism because
our mitochondrial and cellular enzyme systems are designed to completely
utilize organic molecules containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and
other compatible nutritional elements.
"By this process chlorocarbons such as sucralose deliver chlorine directly
into our cells through normal metabolization. This makes them effective
insecticides and preservatives. Preservatives must kill anything alive to
prevent bacterial decomposition."
Dr. Bowen believes ingested chlorocarbon damage continues with the formation
of other toxins: "Any chlorocarbons not directly excreted from the body
intact can cause immense damage to the processes of human metabolism and,
eventually, our internal organs. The liver is a detoxification organ which
deals with ingested poisons. Chlorocarbons damage the hepatocytes, the
liver's metabolic cells, and destroy them. In test animals Splenda produced
swollen livers, as do all chlorocarbon poisons, and also calcified the
kidneys of test animals in toxicity studies. The brain and nervous system
are highly subject to metabolic toxicities and solvency damages by these
chemicals. Their high solvency attacks the human nervous system and many
other body systems including genetics and the immune function. Thus,
chlorocarbon poisoning can cause cancer, birth defects, and immune system
destruction. These are well known effects of Dioxin and PCBs which are known
deadly chlorocarbons."
Dr. Bowen continues: "Just like aspartame, which achieved marketplace
approval by the Food and Drug Administration when animal studies clearly
demonstrated its toxicity, sucralose also failed in clinical trials with
animals. Aspartame created brain tumors in rats. Sucralose has been found to
shrink thymus glands (the biological seat of immunity) and produce liver
inflammation in rats and mice.
"In the coming months we can expect to see a river of media hype expounding
the virtues of Splenda/sucralose. We should not be fooled again into
accepting the safety of a toxic chemical on the blessing of the FDA and
saturation advertising. In terms of potential long-term human toxicity we
should regard sucralose with its chemical cousin DDT, the insecticide now
outlawed because of its horrendous long term toxicities at even minute trace
levels in human, avian, and mammalian tissues.
"Synthetic chemical sweeteners are generally unsafe for human consumption.
This toxin was given the chemical name "sucralose" which is a play on the
technical name of natural sugar, sucrose. One is not the other. One is food,
the other is toxic; don't be deceived."
Dr. Bowen also calls attention to another seldom recognized and deadly
permanent effect of these chemicals: "Aspartame, sold as NutraSweet, Equal,
E951, Canderel, Benevia and under other names, is a hypersensitization agent
which causes Polychemical Sensitivity syndrome. Chlorocarbons strongly
induce uncurable hypersensitivity diseases which are now becoming rampant."
(James Bowen, M.D.)
Doctor Bowen has spent 20 years researching artificial sweeteners after his
use of aspartame resulted in being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. Dr
Bowen's intention is to warn the world of the toxicity of tabletop poisons
like aspartame, Splenda and Neotame.
For more information on aspartame and Splenda click on the Aspartame
Information List onhttp://www.wnho.net
Poisoned World" For the movie call 1 818 349 8822 or email
cori@... See how aspartame was approved by clicking on
http://
www.soundandfury.tv/pages/Rumsfeld2.html
Aspartame and Splenda Toxicity Centers,
http://www.holisticmed.com/ aspartame
Aspartame and brain tumors cases for litigation contact Dr. Betty Martini at
Bettym19@...
http://us.f311.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To¾ttym19@...
or 770 242-2599.
Currently taking states New York, New Jersey, Madison County, Illinois and
Mississippi
A medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic by H. J. Roberts,
M.D. presents, 1038 pages of aspartame horrors.
http://www.sunsentpress.com
Russell Blaylock, M.D., has published Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills on
the subject,http://
www.russellblaylockmd.com
Dr. Betty Martini says "the controversy rages over Splenda (sucralose). Is
it safe and natural like sugar or is it a chlorinated hydrocarbon? As
lawsuits fly, consider the chemistry of this artificial compound." She adds:
"The FDA denied approval of aspartame for 16 years, then caved in to
political/economic pressure when Don Rumsfeld, CEO of the manufacturer, was
brought to Washington by Ronald Reagan. A new FDA Commissioner was appointed
to approve it then became a consultant for NutraSweet's public relations
firm for $1,000/day on a 10 year contract. Forthcoming has been a global
epidemic of disability and death. One might expect FDA to be more cautious
next time, yet FDA approved the toxic chlorocarbon Splenda without
hesitation and without any long term testing on human subjects." <
Dr. Betty Martini MISSION POSSIBLE INTERNATIONAL, 9270 River Club Parkway,
Duluth, Georgia 30097http://www.wnho.net
http://www.dorway.com
Jan Jenson
The Wellth Coach
Breathe Better Live Longer
704-450-6115
http://thewellthcoach.typepad.com
Subject: Warning about Splenda from an MD
James Bowen, M.D., A physician, biochemist, and survivor of aspartame
poisoning warns about yet another synthetic sweetener, Splenda.
HAWAII‹The chemical sucralose, marketed as "Splenda", has replaced aspartame
as the #1 artificial sweetener in foods and beverages. Aspartame has been
forced out by increasing public awareness that it is both a neurotoxin and
an underlying cause of chronic illness worldwide. Dr. James Bowen,
Researcher and biochemist, reports:
"Splenda/sucralose is simply chlorinated sugar; a chlorocarbon. Common
chlorocarbons include carbon tetrachloride, trichlorethelene and methylene
chloride, all deadly. Chlorine is nature's Doberman attack dog, a highly
excitable, ferocious atomic element employed as a biocide in bleach,
disinfectants, insecticide, WWI poison gas and hydrochloric acid.
"Sucralose is a molecule of sugar chemically manipulated to surrender three
hydroxyl groups (hydrogen + oxygen) and replace them with three chlorine
atoms. Natural sugar is a hydrocarbon built around 12 carbon atoms. When
turned into Splenda it becomes a chlorocarbon, in the family of Chlorodane,
Lindane and DDT,
"It is logical to ask why table salt, which also contains chlorine, is safe
while Splenda/sucralose is toxic? Because salt isn't a chlorocarbon. When
molecular chemistry binds sodium to chlorine to make salt carbon isn't
included. Sucralose and salt are as different as oil and water.
"Unlike sodium chloride, chlorocarbons are never nutritionally compatible
with our metabolic processes and are wholly incompatible with normal human
metabolic functioning. When chlorine is chemically reacted into
carbon-structured organic compounds to make chlorocarbons, the carbon and
chlorine atoms bind to each other by mutually sharing electrons in their
outer shells. This arrangement adversely affects human metabolism because
our mitochondrial and cellular enzyme systems are designed to completely
utilize organic molecules containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and
other compatible nutritional elements.
"By this process chlorocarbons such as sucralose deliver chlorine directly
into our cells through normal metabolization. This makes them effective
insecticides and preservatives. Preservatives must kill anything alive to
prevent bacterial decomposition."
Dr. Bowen believes ingested chlorocarbon damage continues with the formation
of other toxins: "Any chlorocarbons not directly excreted from the body
intact can cause immense damage to the processes of human metabolism and,
eventually, our internal organs. The liver is a detoxification organ which
deals with ingested poisons. Chlorocarbons damage the hepatocytes, the
liver's metabolic cells, and destroy them. In test animals Splenda produced
swollen livers, as do all chlorocarbon poisons, and also calcified the
kidneys of test animals in toxicity studies. The brain and nervous system
are highly subject to metabolic toxicities and solvency damages by these
chemicals. Their high solvency attacks the human nervous system and many
other body systems including genetics and the immune function. Thus,
chlorocarbon poisoning can cause cancer, birth defects, and immune system
destruction. These are well known effects of Dioxin and PCBs which are known
deadly chlorocarbons."
Dr. Bowen continues: "Just like aspartame, which achieved marketplace
approval by the Food and Drug Administration when animal studies clearly
demonstrated its toxicity, sucralose also failed in clinical trials with
animals. Aspartame created brain tumors in rats. Sucralose has been found to
shrink thymus glands (the biological seat of immunity) and produce liver
inflammation in rats and mice.
"In the coming months we can expect to see a river of media hype expounding
the virtues of Splenda/sucralose. We should not be fooled again into
accepting the safety of a toxic chemical on the blessing of the FDA and
saturation advertising. In terms of potential long-term human toxicity we
should regard sucralose with its chemical cousin DDT, the insecticide now
outlawed because of its horrendous long term toxicities at even minute trace
levels in human, avian, and mammalian tissues.
"Synthetic chemical sweeteners are generally unsafe for human consumption.
This toxin was given the chemical name "sucralose" which is a play on the
technical name of natural sugar, sucrose. One is not the other. One is food,
the other is toxic; don't be deceived."
Dr. Bowen also calls attention to another seldom recognized and deadly
permanent effect of these chemicals: "Aspartame, sold as NutraSweet, Equal,
E951, Canderel, Benevia and under other names, is a hypersensitization agent
which causes Polychemical Sensitivity syndrome. Chlorocarbons strongly
induce uncurable hypersensitivity diseases which are now becoming rampant."
(James Bowen, M.D.)
Doctor Bowen has spent 20 years researching artificial sweeteners after his
use of aspartame resulted in being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. Dr
Bowen's intention is to warn the world of the toxicity of tabletop poisons
like aspartame, Splenda and Neotame.
For more information on aspartame and Splenda click on the Aspartame
Information List on
Poisoned World" For the movie call 1 818 349 8822 or email
www.soundandfury.tv/pages/Rumsfeld2.html
Aspartame and Splenda Toxicity Centers,
Aspartame and brain tumors cases for litigation contact Dr. Betty Martini at
http://us.f311.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To¾ttym19@...
Currently taking states New York, New Jersey, Madison County, Illinois and
Mississippi
A medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic by H. J. Roberts,
M.D. presents, 1038 pages of aspartame horrors.
Russell Blaylock, M.D., has published Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills on
the subject,
www.russellblaylockmd.com
Dr. Betty Martini says "the controversy rages over Splenda (sucralose). Is
it safe and natural like sugar or is it a chlorinated hydrocarbon? As
lawsuits fly, consider the chemistry of this artificial compound." She adds:
"The FDA denied approval of aspartame for 16 years, then caved in to
political/economic pressure when Don Rumsfeld, CEO of the manufacturer, was
brought to Washington by Ronald Reagan. A new FDA Commissioner was appointed
to approve it then became a consultant for NutraSweet's public relations
firm for $1,000/day on a 10 year contract. Forthcoming has been a global
epidemic of disability and death. One might expect FDA to be more cautious
next time, yet FDA approved the toxic chlorocarbon Splenda without
hesitation and without any long term testing on human subjects." <
Dr. Betty Martini MISSION POSSIBLE INTERNATIONAL, 9270 River Club Parkway,
Duluth, Georgia 30097
Jan Jenson
The Wellth Coach
Breathe Better Live Longer
704-450-6115
http://thewellthcoach.typepad.com
Warning about Splenda
from an MDJames Bowen, M.D.
A physician, biochemist, and survivor of aspartame poisoning warns about yet another synthetic sweetener, Splenda
HAWAI: The chemical sucralose, marketed as "Splenda", has replaced aspartame as the #1 artificial sweetener in foods and beverages. Aspartame has been forced out by increasing public awareness that it is both a neurotoxin and an underlying cause of chronic illness worldwide.
Dr. James Bowen, Researcher and biochemist, reports:"Splenda/sucralose is simply chlorinated sugar; a chlorocarbon. Common chlorocarbons include carbon tetrachloride, trichlorethelene and methylene chloride, all deadly. Chlorine is nature's Doberman attack dog, a highly excitable, ferocious atomic element employed as a biocide in bleach, disinfectants, insecticide, WWI poison gas and hydrochloric acid.
"Sucralose is a molecule of sugar chemically manipulated to surrender three hydroxyl groups (hydrogen + oxygen) and replace them with three chlorine atoms. Natural sugar is a hydrocarbon built around 12 carbon atoms. When turned into Splenda it becomes a chlorocarbon, in the family of Chlorodane, Lindane and DDT.
"It is logical to ask why table salt, which also contains chlorine, is safe while Splenda/sucralose is toxic? Because salt isn't a chlorocarbon. When molecular chemistry binds sodium to chlorine to make salt carbon isn't included. Sucralose and salt are as different as oil and water.
"Unlike sodium chloride, chlorocarbons are never nutritionally compatible with our metabolic processes and are wholly incompatible with normal human metabolic functioning. When chlorine is chemically reacted into carbon-structured organic compounds to make chlorocarbons, the carbon and chlorine atoms bind to each other by mutually sharing electrons in their outer shells. This arrangement adversely affects human metabolism because our mitochondrial and cellular enzyme systems are designed to completely utilize organic molecules containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and other compatible nutritional elements.
"By this process chlorocarbons such as sucralose deliver chlorine directly into our cells through normal metabolization. This makes them effective insecticides and preservatives. Preservatives must kill anything alive to prevent bacterial decomposition.
"Dr. Bowen believes ingested chlorocarbon damage continues with the formation of other toxins: "Any chlorocarbons not directly excreted from the body intact can cause immense damage to the processes of human metabolism and, eventually, our internal organs. The liver is a detoxification organ which deals with ingested poisons. Chlorocarbons damage the hepatocytes, the liver's metabolic cells, and destroy them. In test animals Splenda produced swollen livers, as do all chlorocarbon poisons, and also calcified the kidneys of test animals in toxicity studies.
The brain and nervous system are highly subject to metabolic toxicities and solvency damages by these chemicals. Their high solvency attacks the human nervous system and many other body systems including genetics and the immune function. Thus, chlorocarbon poisoning can cause cancer, birth defects, and immune system destruction. These are well known effects of Dioxin and PCBs which are known deadly chlorocarbons.
"Dr. Bowen continues: "Just like aspartame, which achieved marketplace approval by the Food and Drug Administration when animal studies clearly demonstrated its toxicity, sucralose also failed in clinical trials with animals. Aspartame created brain tumors in rats. Sucralose has been found to shrink thymus glands (the biological seat of immunity) and produce liver inflammation in rats and mice."In the coming months we can expect to see a river of media hype expounding the virtues of Splenda/sucralose. We should not be fooled again into accepting the safety of a toxic chemical on the blessing of the FDA and saturation advertising.
In terms of potential long-term human toxicity we should regard sucralose with its chemical cousin DDT, the insecticide now outlawed because of its horrendous long term toxicities at even minute trace levels in human, avian, and mammalian tissues."Synthetic chemical sweeteners are generally unsafe for human consumption. This toxin was given the chemical name "sucralose" which is a play on the technical name of natural sugar, sucrose. One is not the other. One is food, the other is toxic; don't be deceived.
"Dr. Bowen also calls attention to another seldom recognized and deadly permanent effect of these chemicals: "Aspartame, sold as NutraSweet, Equal, E951, Canderel, Benevia and under other names, is a hypersensitization agent which causes Polychemical Sensitivity syndrome. Chlorocarbons strongly induce uncurable hypersensitivity diseases which are now becoming rampant."
(James Bowen, M.D.)Doctor Bowen has spent 20 years researching artificial sweeteners after his use of aspartame resulted in being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. Dr Bowen's intention is to warn the world of the toxicity of tabletop poisons like aspartame, Splenda and Neotame.
For more information on aspartame and Splenda click on the Aspartame Information List onhttp://www.wnho.net
Dr. Bowen can be seen in the movie "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World" For the movie call 1 818 349 8822 or emailcori@... See how aspartame was approved by clicking on http:// www.soundandfury.tv/pages/Rumsfeld2.html
Aspartame and Splenda Toxicity Centers,http://www.holisticmed.com/ aspartame Aspartame and brain tumors cases for litigation contact Dr. Betty Martini at Bettym19@... http://us.f311.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To¾ttym19@... or 770 242-2599.
Currently taking states New York, New Jersey, Madison County, Illinois and MississippiA medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic by H. J. Roberts, M.D. presents, 1038 pages of aspartame horrors.http://www.sunsentpress.com
Russell Blaylock, M.D., has published Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills on the subject,http:// www.russellblaylockmd.com
Dr. Betty Martini says "the controversy rages over Splenda (sucralose). Is it safe and natural like sugar or is it a chlorinated hydrocarbon? As lawsuits fly, consider the chemistry of this artificial compound." She adds: "The FDA denied approval of aspartame for 16 years, then caved in to political/economic pressure when Don Rumsfeld, CEO of the manufacturer, was brought to Washington by Ronald Reagan. A new FDA Commissioner was appointed to approve it then became a consultant for NutraSweet's public relations firm for $1,000/day on a 10 year contract.
Forthcoming has been a global epidemic of disability and death. One might expect FDA to be more cautious next time, yet FDA approved the toxic chlorocarbon Splenda without hesitation and without any long term testing on human subjects."http://www.wnho.net http://www.dorway.com
Jan Jenson, The Wellth Coach
Breathe Better - Live Longer
704-450-6115
http://thewellthcoach.typepad.com
http://wellthychoices.blogspot.com
from an MDJames Bowen, M.D.
A physician, biochemist, and survivor of aspartame poisoning warns about yet another synthetic sweetener, Splenda
HAWAI: The chemical sucralose, marketed as "Splenda", has replaced aspartame as the #1 artificial sweetener in foods and beverages. Aspartame has been forced out by increasing public awareness that it is both a neurotoxin and an underlying cause of chronic illness worldwide.
Dr. James Bowen, Researcher and biochemist, reports:"Splenda/sucralose is simply chlorinated sugar; a chlorocarbon. Common chlorocarbons include carbon tetrachloride, trichlorethelene and methylene chloride, all deadly. Chlorine is nature's Doberman attack dog, a highly excitable, ferocious atomic element employed as a biocide in bleach, disinfectants, insecticide, WWI poison gas and hydrochloric acid.
"Sucralose is a molecule of sugar chemically manipulated to surrender three hydroxyl groups (hydrogen + oxygen) and replace them with three chlorine atoms. Natural sugar is a hydrocarbon built around 12 carbon atoms. When turned into Splenda it becomes a chlorocarbon, in the family of Chlorodane, Lindane and DDT.
"It is logical to ask why table salt, which also contains chlorine, is safe while Splenda/sucralose is toxic? Because salt isn't a chlorocarbon. When molecular chemistry binds sodium to chlorine to make salt carbon isn't included. Sucralose and salt are as different as oil and water.
"Unlike sodium chloride, chlorocarbons are never nutritionally compatible with our metabolic processes and are wholly incompatible with normal human metabolic functioning. When chlorine is chemically reacted into carbon-structured organic compounds to make chlorocarbons, the carbon and chlorine atoms bind to each other by mutually sharing electrons in their outer shells. This arrangement adversely affects human metabolism because our mitochondrial and cellular enzyme systems are designed to completely utilize organic molecules containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and other compatible nutritional elements.
"By this process chlorocarbons such as sucralose deliver chlorine directly into our cells through normal metabolization. This makes them effective insecticides and preservatives. Preservatives must kill anything alive to prevent bacterial decomposition.
"Dr. Bowen believes ingested chlorocarbon damage continues with the formation of other toxins: "Any chlorocarbons not directly excreted from the body intact can cause immense damage to the processes of human metabolism and, eventually, our internal organs. The liver is a detoxification organ which deals with ingested poisons. Chlorocarbons damage the hepatocytes, the liver's metabolic cells, and destroy them. In test animals Splenda produced swollen livers, as do all chlorocarbon poisons, and also calcified the kidneys of test animals in toxicity studies.
The brain and nervous system are highly subject to metabolic toxicities and solvency damages by these chemicals. Their high solvency attacks the human nervous system and many other body systems including genetics and the immune function. Thus, chlorocarbon poisoning can cause cancer, birth defects, and immune system destruction. These are well known effects of Dioxin and PCBs which are known deadly chlorocarbons.
"Dr. Bowen continues: "Just like aspartame, which achieved marketplace approval by the Food and Drug Administration when animal studies clearly demonstrated its toxicity, sucralose also failed in clinical trials with animals. Aspartame created brain tumors in rats. Sucralose has been found to shrink thymus glands (the biological seat of immunity) and produce liver inflammation in rats and mice."In the coming months we can expect to see a river of media hype expounding the virtues of Splenda/sucralose. We should not be fooled again into accepting the safety of a toxic chemical on the blessing of the FDA and saturation advertising.
In terms of potential long-term human toxicity we should regard sucralose with its chemical cousin DDT, the insecticide now outlawed because of its horrendous long term toxicities at even minute trace levels in human, avian, and mammalian tissues."Synthetic chemical sweeteners are generally unsafe for human consumption. This toxin was given the chemical name "sucralose" which is a play on the technical name of natural sugar, sucrose. One is not the other. One is food, the other is toxic; don't be deceived.
"Dr. Bowen also calls attention to another seldom recognized and deadly permanent effect of these chemicals: "Aspartame, sold as NutraSweet, Equal, E951, Canderel, Benevia and under other names, is a hypersensitization agent which causes Polychemical Sensitivity syndrome. Chlorocarbons strongly induce uncurable hypersensitivity diseases which are now becoming rampant."
(James Bowen, M.D.)Doctor Bowen has spent 20 years researching artificial sweeteners after his use of aspartame resulted in being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. Dr Bowen's intention is to warn the world of the toxicity of tabletop poisons like aspartame, Splenda and Neotame.
For more information on aspartame and Splenda click on the Aspartame Information List on
Dr. Bowen can be seen in the movie "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World" For the movie call 1 818 349 8822 or email
Aspartame and Splenda Toxicity Centers,
Currently taking states New York, New Jersey, Madison County, Illinois and MississippiA medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic by H. J. Roberts, M.D. presents, 1038 pages of aspartame horrors.
Russell Blaylock, M.D., has published Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills on the subject,
Dr. Betty Martini says "the controversy rages over Splenda (sucralose). Is it safe and natural like sugar or is it a chlorinated hydrocarbon? As lawsuits fly, consider the chemistry of this artificial compound." She adds: "The FDA denied approval of aspartame for 16 years, then caved in to political/economic pressure when Don Rumsfeld, CEO of the manufacturer, was brought to Washington by Ronald Reagan. A new FDA Commissioner was appointed to approve it then became a consultant for NutraSweet's public relations firm for $1,000/day on a 10 year contract.
Forthcoming has been a global epidemic of disability and death. One might expect FDA to be more cautious next time, yet FDA approved the toxic chlorocarbon Splenda without hesitation and without any long term testing on human subjects."
Jan Jenson, The Wellth Coach
Breathe Better - Live Longer
704-450-6115
http://thewellthcoach.typepad.com
http://wellthychoices.blogspot.com
Saturday, July 08, 2006
WELLthy Choices Potlucks
3rd Thursday each month
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Please bring a healthy potluck dish (raw foods encouraged)to share with at least 10-12 people. Guests come FREE - please bring extra food for your guests!
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Gander Mountain Outdoor Store
236 Norman Station Blvd. * Mooresville, NC 28115
I-77 to Exit 36 - east to first light - Right .. past Staples, Applebees, Wal-Mart, theaters & straight ahead toGander Mountain. Looks like BIG hunting lodge! LOTS of parking out front! Meeting room back right corner.
RSVP: 704-450-6115
Dehydrated & fresh foods for outdoors enjoyment (demo & tasting) to take when you go: boating, camping, fishing, hiking & outdoor events
Presenting: Gagan's Cosmic Kitchen
Gagan Hunter
Topic: The Power of Raw and Live foods...
for camping, hiking & every-day & outdoors enjoyment!
gaganjii@earthlink.net * 704-737-2326
Gagan Hunter is a holistic health guru. He has presented in Raleigh,Chapel Hill, Durham, Greensboro and Charlotte, NC conducting raw & livefoods demonstrations and lectures. He has produced a video on raw foodscalled U-DO- IT Raw & Live. Gagan is a lecturer, teacher, Yogi, chef, and Natural Path WellnessCounselor. He's been studying and practicing holistic health, as well as being a vegetarian for 19 years and has studied herbology, iridology, reiki, kinesiology, yoga therapy, and nutritional counseling. Gagan studied yoga for 28 years and currently teaches yoga in Charlotte, NC. and he operates his own natural products sales and marketing company in the Carolinas and Tennessee.
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