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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Fwd: Just label it!
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Fwd: GE Sweet Corn? Tell Food Comanies to Just Say No
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Keep Pesticide-Ridden Corn Off Your Dinner Plate
The latest: Monsanto's new GMO corn, intended for the frozen and/or canned corn market. This experimental corn will not be labeled, so consumers cannot know when they may be eating a GMO food that contains a toxic pesticide in every bite. Monsanto's corn is a new GMO variety that has been genetically modified for three different traits, to resist two different insects and to withstand heavy spraying with Monsanto's toxic Roundup herbicide. Because there are already untested varieties of other insect-resistant and Roundup-Ready varieties on the market, federal regulators are not requiring ANY approval process—which means NO public comment on its introduction into our food supply. CFS has teamed up with the Center for Environmental Health to urge major companies that make frozen and/or canned corn to take action to avoid Monsanto's new crop. We need tell Del Monte, Bird's Eye and other major food makers to reject this new GMO corn. General Mills (Green Giant, Cascadian Farms) and Trader Joe's have already said they will not use Monsanto's new GMO sweet corn in their products—so can the other top companies!
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Fwd: Fooducate Blog - The Annoying Kids’ Eating Habit Parents Should Adopt
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| The Annoying Kids' Eating Habit Parents Should Adopt Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:35 AM PDT  Photo: Logan Antill, Flickr This is a guest blog post by Maryann Tomovich Jacobsen, MS, RD We were out at our favorite Mexican restaurant when the conversation at the next table caught my ear. A young boy, probably about 4, had only eaten half of his rolled taco and declared he was full. "You have half of it left, look at all that meat inside," the mom said. "Finish it!" The boy went on to finish the rolled taco and the dad chimed in with "I'm proud of you, son." What these parents didn't realize was that they are teaching their son that his fullness doesn't matter — and that eating more is better. Do parents really want kids to eat like adults? The problem with normal eating, at least in this country, is that most people have difficulty navigating the current food environment without over-eating. Yet most kids do well naturally. Research show that kids under 5 regulate their intake very well. Food intake may vary greatly from meal to meal, but young children are masters at getting the right amount of food for their bodies. That is, if parents served balanced meals and allow children to be in charge of how much they eat. Why it's so hard to raise an intuitive eater The biggest challenge, I believe, is the psychological one. As parents we want so badly to nourish our kids that we often get lost in that desire. We fail to see the big picture and the negative consequences that our actions can have over the long-term. I work hard to make sure my 4-year old (Big A) has an appetite for meals at home. But when we go other places, like out to dinner with friends or parties, she often snacks on what I call "appetite killers." When this happens — and it's finally time to sit down to dinner she usually takes a few bites (or none at all) and is done. People often give me the look that says, "You're going to let her get away with that?!" But if I make her eat more of the meal, what am I teaching her? It's better to over-eat? I do talk to her, ahead of time, about saving her appetite for the meal. And when she says she's done I make sure to ask her if she's full. The bottom line: I make a point to honor her hunger and fullness, even the times I'm disappointed she didn't eat better, because I want her to grow into an adult who does the same. Use your kids' eating behavior as a mirror How often do you fill up on food when out, only to go and finish your meal anyway? Maybe these little kids are on to something. While kid's eating-behavior can drive us crazy, the emotion it stirs in us can be used as a mirror to what's really going on. Maybe we are too controlling with our own diet or eat past fullness and ignore our body's signals? Either way, we need to remember that we live in a crazy food environment where single food (restaurant) portions are big enough to feed a family of 4 — and appetite killers are everywhere. We need, more than ever, to preserve kids' natural ability to regulate food — and to adopt this approach ourselves. We'll be much better equipped for eating well in the modern world. And if enough people do it, maybe portions (and appetite killers) will shrink too. I can dream, can't I? So tell me, how do you handle your child's ever changing appetite? Any challenges?
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Sunday, October 16, 2011
@jazzyhealth, 10/16/11 3:22 PM
 linda (@jazzyhealth)10/16/11 3:22 PM On 2 cabbage w/sesame oil - luv this dish Also toasting up quinoa which I'll add chicken stock 2, Garbanzo bns simmered n moms sofrito done |
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| linda (@jazzyhealth) 10/16/11 2:23 PM Up next roasted cauliflower with ghee and caramelized onion residue |
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Good stuff y'all
Health Impact News
Here's the latest:
Researchers Find Conclusive Link Between Swine Flu Vaccine and Narcolepsy
2011-10-08 14:34:25-04
YahooNews The Finnish government and major insurance companies announced Wednesday they will pay for lifetime medical care for children diagnosed with narcolepsy after receiving the swine flu vaccine. "The compensation will provide much-needed financial assistance for the families, although it cannot take away the emotional distress caused by this condition," Social Services and Health Minister [...]
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Why Are Federal Agencies Using Your Money to Fund Genetically Engineered Salmon?
2011-10-08 15:04:05-04
By Rich Bindell Food and Water Watch The USDA recently granted $494,000 in funding to AquaBounty Technologies, the company behind AquAdvantage, or genetically engineered (GE) salmon. The money will fund the company's research into sterilization techniques. GE salmon has been a rather controversial issue with the American public. In fact, most consumers have said they [...]
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Supreme Court Justice Scalia: Federal Drug Laws Were a Mistake
2011-10-08 15:22:51-04
by Conor Friedersdorf The Atlantic Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia isn't a supporter of legalizing drugs. But he does believe that passing federal laws against them has done harm to the U.S. government. "It was a great mistake to put routine drug offenses into the federal courts," he told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday. The Wall [...]
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Healing from Jesus is More Effective than Our Current Healthcare System
2011-10-08 19:02:15-04
by Brian Shilhavy God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them. (Acts 19:11-12) The city of Ephesus in Asia Minor (present day Turkey) was the center of the Roman province of [...]
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Governor Brown Takes Away Parents Rights in New California Vaccine Law
2011-10-10 18:27:50-04
National Vaccine Information Center Calls New CA Vaccine Law A "Violation of Parental Informed Consent Rights and Federal Law" WASHINGTON–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) today criticized California Governor Jerry Brown for bowing to pressure from the pharmaceutical and medical trade lobby and signing a controversial bill (AB499) into law that allows [...]
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New Study: Vaccinated Children Have 2 to 5 Times More Diseases and Disorders Than Unvaccinated Children
2011-10-10 18:31:49-04
by David Michael Augenstein Journal of Natural Food and Health A German study released in September 2011 of about 8000 UNVACCINATED children, newborn to 19 years, show vaccinated children have at least 2 to 5 times more diseases and disorders than unvaccinated children. The results are presented in the bar chart below; the complete data and [...]
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Ginger Slashed Prostate Cancer Growth in Mice by 56%
2011-10-11 18:09:30-04
By Dr. Mercola Ginger has a long history of medicinal use, primarily for soothing nausea and easing stomach upset and dizziness. But it's also a natural immune system booster with anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties, courtesy of several bioactive phenolics, including: Gingerols Paradols Shogaols Gingerones Zingerones Phenolic antioxidants, which are plant metabolites found throughout the plant [...]
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Judge who Ruled against Raw Milk in Wisconsin quits to work for Monsanto law firm
2011-10-11 18:19:43-04
By Rady Ananda Food Freedom The Wisconsin judge who recently ruled that we have no right to own a cow or drink its milk resigned to join one of Monsanto's law firms. Judge Fiedler ruled that humans: "Do not have a fundamental right to own and use a dairy cow or a dairy herd;" "Do [...]
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Texas Ace Pitcher Eats Organic with Coconut Oil
2011-10-11 21:25:21-04
by MEAGAN HARRIS WFAA TV DALLAS — Baseball players aren't necessarily known for being healthy, but that's not the case for Texas Rangers starting pitcher CJ Wilson. The game day omelet consists of three eggs with spinach, mushrooms, bell pepper and onion. The vegetables are sauteed in coconut oil before the eggs are added. [...]
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Fed Up with Vaccine Pressure from Your Doctor? Try Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
2011-10-12 19:38:54-04
by Michael Belkin The Refusers Dr. Wakefield discusses the history of the measles vaccine controversy in this presentation to an independent US medical society, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. This video is great background on adverse reactions to the measles vaccine and the medical establishment's efforts to silence and cover up the scandal, which [...]
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Fwd: New DVD for Non-GMO Month, "Scientists Under Attack"
Check out this fabulous NEW film, Scientists Under Attack, a "must see" investigation into the scientists researching the health impacts of Genetically Modified Foods (read more about the film below). Click here to watch the trailer and get a copy to show during October's Non-GMO Month - invite all your friends and encourage them to spread the word! To make it easy to share this great film during Non-GMO Month, we've reduced the cost of buying the film in 6-packs to only $79.95 (individually priced at $19.95). We hope you'll enjoy this new film, and share it with all those who care about the safety of our food supply.
Biotech's Dirty Tricks Exposed in New Documentary Scientists Under Attack
Review by Jeffrey M. Smith
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"One question means one career." This was the harsh warning of UC Berkeley Professor Ignacio Chapela for those daring to conduct independent research on genetically engineered foods and crops. "You ask one question, you get the answer and you might or might not be able to publish it; but that is the end of your career." Both he and biologist Arpad Pusztai dared to asked questions and do the research. And then all hell broke lose.
Using stunning visuals filmed on three continents, veteran German filmmaker Bertram Verhaag tracks the fate of these two scientists at the hands of a multi-billion dollar industry that is desperate to hide the dangers of their genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
BR Online says of the film, "Belief in noble and incorrupt research and science is reduced to absurdity." Arthouse says the "movie shows how purchased truth becomes the currency in the perfidious business between science and multinationals." And GMWatch writes, "Original research showing problems with GM crops is buried under a deluge of smears and follow up studies are not done."
The insect-killing, career-ending potato
"As a scientist looking at it and actively working on the field, I find that it's very, very unfair to use our fellow citizens as guinea pigs." - Arpad Pusztai, UK's World in Action TV show
When Dr. Pusztai voiced his concerns about the health risks of genetically modified (GM) foods during a nationally televised interview in August 1998, his was not simply just another voice in a contentious debate. Pusztai was the world leader in his field, and he had received major government funding to come up with the official method for testing the safety of GM foods. His protocols were supposed to become the required tests before any new GMO entered the European market. Pusztai was an insider, and an advocate of GM foods—that is until he actually ran those tests on supposedly harmless GM potatoes.
The high-tech spuds were engineered to produce their own pesticide. "The point of the whole genetic modification experiment was to protect the potato against aphids, which are one of the major pests in Scotland," he said. His team inserted a gene from the snowdrop plant into the potatoes, which did in fact protect the GM crop from the insects.
As part of his safety studies, he fed that insecticide producing GM potato to rats, along with a complete and balanced diet. Another group of rats ate natural potatoes. A third was fed not only the natural potatoes, but they also received a dose of the same insecticide that the GM potato produced. This way, if the insecticide was harmful, he would see the same health problems in both the group that ate the GM potatoes, and those that ate the diet spiked with the insecticide. To his surprise, only those that ate the GM potato had severe problems—in every organ and every system he looked at.
Massive health problems linked to GMOs
"After the animals were killed and dissected," Pusztai recalled, "we found out that in comparison with the non-genetically modified potatoes, their internal organs developed differently." The intestines and stomach lining, for example, increased in size, the liver and kidneys were smaller, and the overall rate of growth was retarded. And the immune system suffered. Pusztai emphasized, "They found in those data 36 – 36! – very highly significant differences between the GM-fed animals and the non-GM fed animals."
Since the rats that ate the natural potatoes plus the insecticide did not have these issues, there was one obvious conclusion—the process of genetically engineering the potatoes caused unpredicted side effects, turning a harmless food into a dangerous one.
When Pusztai saw the extensive damage that his potatoes caused in the lab animals, he also realized that if biotech companies had done the safety studies, the dangerous potatoes would have easily made it to market. He knew this because a few months earlier, he had reviewed the confidential submissions from the biotech companies which allowed their GM soy and corn onto the market. "They were flimsy," he said. "They were not scientifically well founded." They would never detect the changes in GMO-fed animals.
Reading the industry studies was a turning point in Pusztai's life. He realized what he was doing and what the industry scientists were doing was diametrically opposed. He was doing safety studies. Companies like Monsanto, on the other hand, were doing as little as possible to get their foods on the market as quickly as possible.
Pusztai also realized that the GM soy and corn already on the market had been produced using the same process that had created his dangerous potato. Thus, the GM crops being consumed in the UK and the US might lead to similar damage in the gut, brain and organs of the entire population.
Thus, during his TV interview, Pusztai flatly stated: "If I had the choice, I would certainly not eat [GM foods] until I see at least comparable experimental evidence which we are producing for genetically modified potatoes."
Ambushed
After the TV show aired, Pusztai was a hero at his prestigious Rowett Institute, where the director praised his work to the press, calling it world-class research. After two days of high-profile media coverage throughout Europe, however, the director received two phone calls from the UK Prime Minister's Office.
"It's only when we think there was political pressure coming from the top that the situation changed," said Pusztai. "And then the director, to save his own skin, decided that the best way to deal with the situation [was] A) to destroy me, B) to make me shut up."
Pusztai was told the next morning that his contract would not be renewed, he was silenced with threats of a lawsuit, his team was disbanded, and the protocols were not to be implemented in GMO safety assessments. And then came the attacks.
Coordinated between the Institute, biotech academics, and even the pro-GMO UK government, a campaign to destroy Pusztai's reputation was launched. They were determined to counter the negative media coverage and protect the reputation of GMOs—even if it meant promoting blatant lies and sacrificing a top scientist's career. Because Pusztai was gagged, he said, "whatever they did say on TV, radio and wrote in the newspapers, I could not deny it, I could not correct it, I could not say what was the real situation."
"The most hurtful thing of all," remembers Pusztai's wife Susan, "was that he wasn't allowed to talk to his colleagues and his colleagues were not allowed to talk to him. So whenever he entered a room, they went silent within seconds."
After seven excruciating months, a committee at the UK Parliament invited Pusztai to speak. This lifted the gag order, which allowed Pusztai to ultimately publish his research, and be interviewed for this film.
Oops—GMOs weren't supposed to be there
Ignacio Chapela, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, had "a long-term relationship with a group of indigenous communities" in Mexico. Although GM corn was not yet legally grown in the country, Chapela decided to equip the Mexicans with a laboratory that could test for its presence, in case GMOs were eventually introduced. To help with the training, his colleague David Quist brought GM corn from the US. For the non-GM control corn, Chapela said, "we thought we should just use the local corn, which, of course, is going to be clean and wonderful. And the surprise came when the negative control started coming out positive. That means we started finding transgenic materials where they were not supposed to be."
Chapela says, "The reason why our findings were so astounding was because it was thought that there was no transgenic corn being planted in Mexico at all. And people wanted it that way. . . . Why? Because Mexico is the center of origin of corn. The Mexican government was worried about maintaining the integrity of the land races." Apparently GM corn imported as food was unknowingly being grown, and had already started contaminating the source of corn's biodiversity.
According to Chapela the industry "had been telling the world that they really had control over these crops, that if they planted . . . transgenic corn in one field, that transgenic corn would not go anywhere else. So our discovery that we were finding transgenic corn maybe a thousand miles from the nearest legal transgenic corn field was a huge problem for them because it really showed very simply, and with real evidence, that they really did not have control."
Chapela and Quist wrote up the finding, which was accepted for publication by the prominent journal Nature. This made "many people within the industry very nervous and very unhappy," says Chapella. They "started a discreditation campaign for the paper. They did not want the paper to be published."
Unable to stop Nature, however, a Monsanto PR company - the Bivings Group - deployed plan B. "They created two fictitious characters, two doctors," recounts Chapela. "And these two doctors went on the internet and started spreading rumors that what we had said was false and that the paper was flawed." The disinformation campaign went viral. It put huge pressure on Nature, spread the false notion that contamination had not taken place, and resulted in a campaign against Chapela by biotech advocates in his University.
"In my case," says Chapela, "I was pushed out of the university at least three times. Every time I fought back and we managed to keep my job. But it's been very difficult."
Trashing scientists worldwide
The treatment of Pusztai and Chapela illustrates what happens around the world to scientists who discover harm from GM crops. The work of Russian scientist Irina Ermakova, for example, was viciously attacked, and there were repeated attempts to intimidate her: papers were burnt on her desk and samples were stolen from her lab.
Peeking through these stories of personal attacks are the very real dangers of GMOs, which compel the audience to question the use of GMOs in their own diets. Consider the impact of Ermakova's research on young women planning to raise a family. After she fed genetically engineered soy flour to female rats, more than half of their offspring died within three weeks.
The film also unravels the claims of biotech benefits on the farm level. A visit to Brazil introduces herbicide-tolerant Roundup Ready soybeans, engineered to make weeding a field easier. Farmers can spray Monsanto's Roundup herbicide right on the field, and the GMOs survive. But this has led to massive overuse of Roundup, which in turn has led to the emergence of herbicide-tolerant superweeds—no longer controllable with Roundup.
A natural reaction to these stories might be to ask why isn't the government telling us the truth and protecting us. Unfortunately, they are part of the problem.
FDA cover up
The FDA scientists who reviewed GMOs in the early 1990s were uniformly concerned about their health impacts, according to attorney Andrew Kimbrell, who runs the D.C.-based Center for Food Safety. He was on the team that sued the FDA in 1998, forcing them to turn over nearly 60,000 pages of secret internal memos. Kimbrell extracts key memos from massive filing cabinets in his office, reading the scientists' warnings: toxins, nutritional problems, loss of biodiversity, change in water use, etc.
"So the scientists asked for these studies," says Kimbrell. "But the politicians at the FDA and in the administration at that time said no. They suppressed the science. And these questions, these studies, have never been done."
Instead, the US government maintains the illusion that nothing is wrong, and that this science works just as the biotech companies are telling us. This is beautifully illustrated with excerpts of biotech apologist Nina Fedoroff, the former science advisor to the Secretary of State. Her bland assurances about the safety of GMOs crumble with each new revelation in the film.
Unprecedented risks; no benefits
"No one gets up in the morning saying I want to go buy a genetically engineered food," says Kimbrell. "They offer no benefits, no more nutrition, no more flavor, no nothing. They only offer risks." He says the average rational person would ask, "Why would I buy a food that offers me no new benefits but only risks?" Kimbrell, who wrote the book Your Right to Know, says it was "critical for the industry to get these foods out without anyone knowing, because if they knew, they would obviously choose not to buy them."
But as Chapela's discovery of self-propagating GMO contamination illustrates, the risk of GMOs extends well beyond individual considerations. He warns, "We are manipulating life in a way that we really do not understand, we cannot control, and then we're letting it go into the environment. So it's a change that is radical, that is unprecedented, that is beyond anything we can understand, and it is irretrievable. We cannot get it back. That's my concern!"
Scientists Under Attack is recommended for all those who love nature, and for everyone who eats. To view the trailer, click here. To buy the film, click here.
Bonus film
The Scientists Under Attack DVD includes a 30 minute bonus film Monster Salmon, also by Bertram Verhaag. It describes the efforts by the US firm AquaBounty to bring fast growing genetically engineered salmon to market in the US. Given the FDA's recent attempts to fast-track this controversial fish, this additional documentary is important and timely.
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
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Brace Yourself: The Build-Up to the 2011 Flu-Scare Has Begun!
Dear Reader,
Brace yourself: The build-up to the 2011 flu-scare has begun!
'Scaremongering' is a word often used by the mainstream when anyone challenges them or exposes the dangers of their Pharma-concoctions! Yet, this is a definite case of the pot calling the kettle black, especially when it comes to their incessant push to mass medicate and vaccinate.
A case in point is a recnet alarmist statement made by Prof John Oxford, a virologist at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, in the UK. He claims that Britain is facing one of its worst winter flu outbreaks in years and that older people will be hit harder than they have been in recent years.
Ring any bells?
Swine flu all over again
Shortly after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the H1N1 flu outbreak a public health emergency, in 2009, Prof Oxford was one of many mainstreamers who hysterically warned us that up to 750,000 people would die of Swine Flu H1N1.
We all remember what happened as this debacle unfolded: Tamiflu, an antiviral drug used to treat Bird Flu (the supposed flu pandemic of 2006), was touted as our only saving grace, until new potent vaccines were developed against the 'deadly' H1N1 virus strain. However, behind the scenes, it turned out that governments across the globe had excess stock of Tamiflu, which they needed to shift before it expired!
Once the public was cajoled into believing the H1N1 scare, the next step was to quickly develop vaccines. Big Pharma eagerly jumped at this money-spinning opportunity and their newly-developed vaccines were fast-tracked for approval without being properly tested. Before we knew what hit us, a global mass vaccination campaign began despite mounting fears about the safety and effectiveness of the new vaccines.
Much as we were scared into submission, a year later, in June 2010, the worldwide H1N1 death toll stood at 17,853. Compared to the annual death toll of ordinary seasonal flu (between 250,000 to 500,000), the H1N1 deaths made up a measly 5 per cent of that amount... Hardly the pandemic the mainstream expected!
Soon controversy erupted. Worries over the side effects of these vaccines (narcolepsy being the biggest concern), were down-played by remarks like the one from Prof David Speigelhalter, professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge, who said: "If millions of people are vaccinated then just by chance we can expect bad things to happen to some of them, whether it is diagnosis of autism or miscarriage."
Even some mainstreamers raised concerns about the whole debacle. A report, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, revealed that the WHO guidance, issued in 2004 (used to determine whether a health threat puts the public in danger), was authored by three scientists who had previously received payment from Roche, the makers of Tamiflu, and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), manufacturer of Relenza – one of the flu vaccines developed during the pandemic scare... I smell a serious case of 'conflict of interest' and 'backroom deals'.
An equally damning report, published by the Council of Europe, criticized the handling of the H1N1 pandemic by the WHO, EU agencies and national governments, and said it was a "waste of large sums of public money." It added that the reaction to the H1N1 outbreak by these groups was unjustified and that their scaremongering resulted in a distortion of public health priorities.
In fact, the only party that benefited from this despicable scenario was the vaccine makers. City analysts estimated that drug companies banked more than £4.8bn as governments stockpiled their vaccines... With money like that in their pockets, I'm sure they couldn't care less about the side effects of their poisonous concoctions!
Christmas is coming early
Since the H1N1 scare nearly three years ago, there have not been any reports about Swine Flu rearing its ugly head on a significant scale again. Yet still the H1N1 vaccine was included in last year's ordinary flu vaccine. Most likely, because many people saw through the H1N1 fallacy and refused to take the untested vaccines... leaving governments with massive stockpiles of vaccines that will expire soon. You'll also probably find that if you choose to have the flu vaccine this year, you'll have no choice in the matter: Inevitably you will be vaccinated with a dangerous and untested vaccine.
Winter is about three months away and so is Christmas... I can't help but think that it makes perfect sense for the mainstreamers to start making noises about the next flu- scare... pushing those vaccinations early to fill their pockets with a nice hefty Christmas bonus!
That's also probably why Prof Oxford gave an early reminder. According to him, the B flu-strain (normally prevalent over the winter) has been overshadowed by swine flu for the last couple of years and that's why the B strain could strike much harder this year...
When will these scaremongers realise that the public has cottoned on to the fact that false pandemic scares, like those in recent years, have become an all too familiar scenario?
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In fact, I couldn't have agreed more and until yesterday I carried a bottle of water with me everywhere I went. That's changed now. Not because I stopped believing in the importance of drinking enough water each day, but simply because I saw a documentary film that absolutely shocked me!
Toxic mixture disguised as a healthy choice
The makers of the film 'Tapped' expose the global bottled water industry as one of the biggest health cons of our time. Aside from the fact that we are all paying good money for something that is free, we are also damaging our health and contributing to the demise of the environment in the process!
In most cases, bottled water is packaged in plastic. The fact is that these plastic containers harbour a toxic chemical called Bisphenol A or BPA (a synthetic oestrogen), used to harden plastics. BPA is one of the world's most widely manufactured chemicals, with more than 2.2 million tons made each year.
Studies have shown that BPA increases sperm DNA damage in men and can also cause structural damage to the brain. It also increases fat formation and the risk of obesity, compromises your immunity, stimulates prostate cancer cell growth and causes hyperactivity.
Here's the real kicker: If you live in Europe or the US, it is highly likely that you have BPA in your system, since 90 per cent of Europeans and Americans have detectable amounts.
So far, Denmark is the first EU country to ban the BPA in food and drink containers for children under three, and Canada and three US states have already brought similar bans in to effect. Unfortunately, in the UK, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) insists that there is no evidence BPA is harmful...
Another member of the 'toxic plastic gang' that's lurking around in your water bottle is dioxin. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) listed dioxin as a human carcinogen which may contribute to the development of breast cancer and is highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies.
In a John Hopkins Hospital information leaflet, 'Cancer News from John Hopkins' they warn people not to freeze plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. The same applies for heating these water bottles. Leaving your water bottle on a car seat in the sun, can heat the plastic significantly enough to release dioxin into the water and ultimately into the cells of your body when you ingest it.
But that's not all, in the US, many bottled waters are simply bottled tap water, which may or may not have received any additional treatment. So you get a hit of fluoride along with BPA's and dioxins! Pepsi's Aquafina and Coca-Cola Co.'s Dasani bottled waters are both made of 'purified' water from public reservoirs, containing contaminants like disinfection by-products (DBPs), nitrate, industrial chemicals, arsenic and bacteria.
Now that's hardly a healthy beverage from a sustainable natural source!
High price for no benefits at all
Then there's the price! You pay on average £1 to £1.60 for a 340ml bottle of water, in the UK. However, when you turn on the tap, the water is free!
When you factor in the harmful chemicals in plastic bottles, the environmental impact of plastic waste and the pollution caused by plastic manufacturing plants, bottled water becomes a losing proposition no matter how you look at it.
In fact, the environmental harm bottled water causes alone should be a deciding factor. The bottled water industry threatens the water supplies of local communities by mining water from underground aquifers and natural springs. These natural sources of water serve nearby streams, wells and farms, but aggressive 'water mining' can easily dry them out... and once water is gone, life ends!
Is all of this really worth £1?
Filtering is better
Even though tap water is much more regulated than bottled water, it's still contaminated with fluoride (a toxic chemical that causes dental decay among other things) and disinfection by-products (DBPs) that also harm our health. But there is a way around this...
The best solution (for your health, the environment and the sustainability of our planet) is to install a home water filtration system. It may seem like an extravagant expense but if you consider how much you spend on bottled water, you'll realise that in the long run you'll be saving a lot of money whilst protecting your health and the environment.
Look for a home water filtration system that has three separate stages of contamination removal:
* Stage one removes sediment.
* Stage two removes chlorine and heavy metals.
* Stage three should be a heavy-duty carbon filter for removing hormones, drug residues, chemicals, pesticides, and herbicides.
Until next week
Francois Lubbe
UK Editor
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