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Alert over the march of the 'grey goo' in nanotechnology
Frankenfoods
from http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=25779334
Some skin creams use nano particles but many are now concerned about the use of the technology in foods
A breed of Frankenfood is being introduced into human diet and cosmetics with potentially disastrous consequences, experts said last night.
Academics, consumer groups and Government officials are warning that the arrival of nanotechnology threatens dangerous changes to the body and the environment.
The particles it uses are so small - 80,000 times thinner than a human hair - that they can pass through membranes protecting the brain or babies in the womb.
Nano health supplements, such as antioxidants, are already on the market while the first of hundreds of new foods are expected to arrive in the next 12 months.
However, the products are being introdeduced without any regulation or independent assessment to ensure they are safe - mirroring the controversy over the launch of GM foods ten years ago.
Some critics have talked of the threat of the creation of a "grey goo" of tiny particles with hidden harmful properties.
Prince Charles has said it would be "surprising" if the technology did not "offer similar upsets" to thalidomide - the morning sickness drug that caused children to be born with deformed limbs.
Professor Vicki Stone, Professor of Toxicology at Napier University in Edinburgh, is concerned about unforeseen side effects.
"We know very little about the ability of nanoparticles to move around the body, to accumulate or to be excreted, or their potential to cause toxic effects in organs," she said.
However, nanotech advocates have remarkable claims for the technology. For example, foods are in development that are said to stave off the aging process.
On a more trivial level, they suggest it would be possible to create a fizzy drink that changes flavour according to the number of times the can is shaken.
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The consumer group Which? is about to launch a nanotech campaign arguing that consumers need to be consulted on the risks and benefits before it is too late.
The food and farming department Defra has published an independent report which admits there are serious gaps in safety data.
It warns: "There could be very significant implications for business and the wider community if potential risks are not identified and managed before any harm to the environment or human health may be done."
The report - Characterising the Risks Posed by Engineered Nanoparticles - states there is a shortage of research money.
It says the resulting absence of basic information about the particles means "it will be difficult or impossible to develop any general understanding of nanoparticle toxicology".
The report adds: "Transfer across biological barriers - e.g. to the brain or foetus - should be studied. Research into how long these tiny particles persist in the body is urgently needed."
It warns that work assessing human toxicology is being hamstrung by "profound difficulties in accessing relevant funding for these longer term projects".
Research by Which? found six out of ten people (61 per cent) have never heard of nanotechnology.
Sue Davies of Which? said: "The benefits that nanotechnologies can offer consumers are really exciting.
'But before the market is flooded with products, it's crucial the Government addresses the lack of scientific understanding about how some nanoparticles behave."
The European Food Safety Authority last year held a conference on the future of food.
Dr Donald Bruce, an expert on food and ethics, told delegates that the arrival of nanotech foods has many similarities with GM products.
US corporations attempted to introduce GM before an effective safety regime could be established.
"One of the things to ask is do we need the benefits claimed by the producers?' he said. 'Also there is the underlying notion that we are tampering with nature."
Environment minister Phil Woolas admitted there were gaps in knowledge, but denied the Government was failing to provide enough research cash.
Tiny particles that have generated great hopes and growing concerns
Nanotechnology involves using a substance in particles that are so small that the substance takes on new properties.
The name of the technology comes from the size of the particles - one nanometre in diameter - a millionth of a millimetre. Reduced to this size, materials can suddenly show very different and unexpected properties.
For example, an opaque substance such as copper becomes transparent, or an inert metal such as platinum becomes a catalyst and triggers chemical reactions.
Advocates argue that such particles can be organised to work together to deliver specific effects in a piece of equipment or in the human body.
They can be used to build miniature hard drives that have an immense memory, so allowing further miniaturisation and sophistication of products such as computers and mobile phones.
Washing machines have been developed that release silver nanoparticles that will kill bacteria in dirty washing.
Sun creams have been created so they become transparent rather than chalky white.
In medicine, it is claimed that nanotechnology will allow the creation of drugs that reach and treat a problem quickly.
Manufacturers are working on nanotech foods and supplements that are also designed to deliver specific health benefits.
Similarly, firms are working on developing anti-ageing foods, where nanotech particles associated with renewing the skin from the inside could be included in everyday products such as yoghurt, spreads or breakfast cereals.
The technology promises huge riches for firms which develop winning applications.
One of the first group of nanoparticles being utilised are fullerenes - tiny hollow carbon balls and tubes. They are very heat resistant, strong and conduct electricity.
The football-shaped C60 fullerene is being used in some anti-ageing products. The creams are said to reduce fine lines and firm the skin.
C60 has some antioxidant properties in that it kills the rogue chemicals which damage cells. However, a high dose can itself damage cells.
Some nano particles are known to mimic the harmful effects of asbestos on the lungs. Consequently, they have the potential to trigger lung cancer if inhaled.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=505561&in_page_id=1965
I am not against medical help and medicine,
but what recom. tells me is
ex. following a snippet from Swiss education -
http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/nwopopcontrol.shtml
and a bit down on the article -
they also tell you about the vaccines etc. -
Bioengineered Diseases
AIDS, Ebola, Gulf War Illness (GWI), and many other "new" diseases were intentionally bioengineered in laboratories that are mostly found in the United States and include the Army's secretive facilities at Ft. Detrick Maryland (2.). Drs. Nancy and Garth Nicholson have done a great deal of research and investigation into the cause and treatment of Gulf War Illness, since they and their daughter (who was a helicopter flight nurse in the 1991 Gulf War) ALL came down with GWI. In 1996, the Nichols published a paper which states their deep suspicions that GWI is due to bioengineered pathogens and that a hidden population control agenda appears to be in place.
Some bioengineered pathogens were designed to target certain ethnic groups for elimination. These groups likely include blacks, hispanics, Black Africans, Native Americans, and homosexuals. The preferred Iluminati method to introduce disease is via vaccinations. Dr. Len Horowitz firmly established in his 1995 book, Emerging Viruses, that the HIV virus which causes AIDS was introduced and spread throughout the majority of black populations in Africa via the World Health Organization (WHO) during their mandatory smallpox vaccine campaigns of 1976-1980.
Ex. Dr. Len Horowitz has for many years on Christian radio
programs -
warned the Christians against the vaccines and to not take it -
its deadly viruses put in all vaccines to NWO popcontrol -
http://www.healthyworldstore.com/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=109
http://www.tetrahedron.org/.
http://www.drlenhorowitz.com/
Merk drug company vaccines admits injecting cancer viruses ? -
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=327_1195303011
Here is some of the Facts about childhood vaccines -
Scientific American Says Flouride Is Bad
DUH
http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=5819
LIST OF THINGS TO NEVER EAT OR DRINK
******************************************************************************
Hamburger Helper
ALL Sports Drinks, like Gatorade
SPLENDA SWEETENER - THIS STUFF IS DOWN RIGHT DANGEROUS !!
Cocoa - ready made
Chewing Gum, especially the "sugar free" kind
Processed dinners and foods
Most canned Soups and foods. Check label for MSG.
Beef - Unless Organically grass-fed grown.
Pork (in any form)
Fast Foods including Hot Dogs !
Fries ( the oil used to fry, releases a toxic poison into the fries)
ALL sodas, except for Gingerale
Store bought vitamins = loaded with dyes, and additives and Aspartame !
Candy
Diet Foods and drinks
Anti-acids
Life Saver candy
Mouth Mints
Peanut Butter (commercial)
Margarine - NEVER use this ! Use real butter.
Cake Mixes
City treated water.
Fluoride Toothpaste
Cows Milk
Chips - ALL of them ! (The oil used gets toxic at the high temperatures used and has caused blindness)
Canola oil ; Cottenseed oil (makes the blood thick like a sticky glue substance - causes heart attacks and strokes !) Always use Extra Virgin Olive Oil for EVERYTHING !
Coffee
Cow Milk Cheese
Artificial Cheese ('CHEESE FOOD', they call it).
Ready made Puddings
Anything with 'unsaturated oils' in it.
Anything with ' partially hydrogenated' oils in it.
Anything that lists "spices" or "flavorings" - these are 'cover' words for MSG & Aspartame !)
MSG & Aspartame cause brain seizures, brain cell death and damage, - turns brain cells into mush basically. You will notice headaches, loss of memory, learning problems, black-outs, hyper activity, etc.
Once brain cells are damaged or dead, they are gone forever.
These cells do NOT repair or replace themselves.
MSG & Aspartame go under too many names to list; they are disguised under so many. These poisons are virtually in everything on the grocery shelf !
Also other poisons like Propylene Glycol (antifreeze) are in our foods too !!! Check out cake mixes, for example.
You would be shocked to know all the additives that are in our "foods" that we ingest daily; then we wonder why cancer , heart disease, diabetes, stroke, learning problems, hyper-active kids, violent kids, autism, etc. are epidemic in America ?
You just simply cannot mess with the brain like they are and expect nothing negative to happen !
[ This is not to forget about all the child vaccinations that damage brain cells over and over as they are being plunged into our children from birth on ! Autism is directly related to child vaccinations as are the sudden rise in violent kids and learning problems !! ]
We wonder why we now have young people just dropping dead by age 54 ??? Michael Landon, John Ritter, John Candy, Bill Bixby, Sonny Bono, to name just a few ! (Sonny Bono was drinking diet coke just before going out on the slopes. No one knows why this skilled skier just suddenly veered into a tree ! Could he have had a brain seizure (black out )) ?
And then there are all those *healthy* athletes that just drop dead on the floor during a game or just afterwards !
Then there are all those young people who are getting Parkinson Disease, and MS. ALL TIED TO MSG AND ASPARTAME !!!
Michael J. Fox for example, is said to be addicted to 'diet coke', as many people are, because the stuff IS ADDICTIVE !!!
What's so bad about these 'diet' sodas and drinks ??
ASPARTAME, that's what !! They are loaded with it.
Many air pilots that have drank a diet coke before flying, have had plane crashes due to them "blacking out" - - a brain seizure !!! This is a well kept secret !
Aspartame causes the very thing in the heart that killed John Ritter !
All those "artificial" flavorings in those drinks are MSG !!
Every time a person eats or drinks or chews (gum) anything with these poisons in them, they are doing brain damage to themselves !
There's a reason for all the sudden Alzheimers (In younger and younger peopele!) we have been seeing these past several years !!! People as young as in their 30's are now being seen with the onset of this disease ! It's not just from aluminum pots and pans, because aluminum is also another 'additive' in many of the things we ingest or use on our bodies ! Anti-acids (Tums, for example), powders, anti-perspirants, and some of our foods, also have Aluminum in them !!
This list is not complete by far, it is just a short list to give you an idea of what to avoid in every day life. It is meant to encourage you to really LOOK at those labels, as deceptive as they try to be. It is meant to make you aware of the poisons that you are putting into your body without realizing it; taking for granted that you can *trust* the FDA to be your 'guide' for health, as they portray themselves to be.
You really need to watch out for yourself, and trust no one with your health. It is YOUR body, not their's, so they don't care if you are used as an experiment or test !
Now they are coming out with more *artificial* (GE) foods, that are going to be real deceptive killers ! Since your body NEEDS enzymes to function and absorb the foods you eat, you will be slowly starving yourself to death (literally) on these GE (genetically engineered) 'foods', since these GE 'foods' do not have any enzymes in them ! Same with 'nuked' foods - the life-giving enzymes have been killed. There is a good reason why all those starving countries have turned down our GE foods ! They are wiser than we "educated" Americans think we are !!
And for all our 'wonder' drugs, vaccinations, and medical care, we are still the most UNhealthiest nation in the civilized world !
Only in America are there the long lines at the doctor's offices and drug stores ! We are a drugged society, thinking a pill will be the cure-all for whatever is wrong with us ! We have become so brainwashed on drug therapy that natural foods (that could really make us healthy) are never sought after - just the way the gov't really wants it !
The drug companies in America are the wealthiest companies in the world ! More so than the oil companies !!!!
That is something to really think about !!
Greed has become the number one criminal aspect of it all !!
Does Tainted Milk Cause Crohn's Disease?
a very informative video that the FDA would not
want you to see.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/1/1/does-tainted-milk-cause-crohn-s-disease.aspx
I Wonder If This Case of Milk Contamination Will Make the FDA's Presentation
http://www.thecompletepatient.com/journal/2007/12/29/i-wonder-if-this-case-of-milk-contamination-will-make-the-fd.html
ot: vaccination
http://www.909shot.com/state-site/state-exemptions.htm
Here’s the Smarter Oil Alternative I Recommend to Replace Those Other Oils in Your Kitchen
http://www.enlita.com/enlita_products/coconut_oil.htm
HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM THE PERFECT "ORGANIC" POISON
http://www.newswithviews.com/Ellison/shane32.htm
Great news from the Health Ranger: New way to beat disease, maximize health
http://www.newstarget.com/022368.html
The USA is ranked #1 in the world in degenerative diseases, Why?
http://www.truehealthfacts.com/
Very informative post.
We will probably go in the same direction, unfortunately.
sumi
Merck Unblinds AIDS Study
Two international trials of Merck & Co. Inc.’s experimental AIDS vaccine were stopped after researchers realized the vaccine did not prevent infection with the AIDS virus.
Instead, indications suggest that the vaccine may actually raise the risk of infection, though it cannot cause an HIV infection itself.
Now, Merck has announced that it will “unblind” the study, and let the thousands of volunteers know who received the active vaccine and who got a dummy shot.
Researchers have begun counseling volunteers that they could now be at a higher risk of contracting HIV.
The AIDS vaccine trials were conducted in the United States, Peru, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Australia and South Africa.
"Doomsday Seed Vault" in the Arctic
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7529
from an e-mail
Subject: Fw: I think you're gonna want to read this!
I've heard the same from the Canadians I know...
>> This was sent from Canada to a friend in the States.
>
> I saw on the news up here in Canada where Hillary Clinton introduced
> her new health care plan. Something similar to what we have in
> Canada. I also heard that Michael Moore was raving about the health
> care up here in Canada in his latest movie. As your friend and someone
> who lives with the Canada health care plan I thought I would give you
> some facts about this great medical plan that we have in Canada.
>
> First of all:
>
> 1) The health care plan in Canada is not free. We pay a premium every
> month of $96. for Shirley and I to be covered. Sounds great eh. What
> they don't tell you is how much we pay in taxes to keep the health care
> system afloat. I am personally in the 55% tax bracket. Yes 55% of my
> earnings go to taxes. A large portion of that and I am not sure of the
> exact amount goes directly to health care our #1 expense.
>
> 2) I would not classify what we have as health care plan, it is more
> like a health diagnosis system. You can get into to see a doctor quick
> enough so he can tell you 'yes indeed you are sick or you need an
> operation' but now the challenge becomes getting treated or operated
> on. We have waiting lists out the ying yang some as much as 2 years
> down the road.
>
> 3) Rather than fix what is wrong with you the usual tactic in Canada
> is to prescribe drugs. Have a pain here is a drug to take- not what is
> causing the pain and why. No time for checking you out because it is
> more important to move as many patients thru as possible each hour for
> Government reimbursement
>
>
> 4) Many Canadians do not have a family Doctor.
>
> 5) Don't require emergency treatment as you may wait for hours in the
> emergency room waiting for treatment.
>
> 6) Shirley's dad cut his hand on a power saw a few weeks back and it
> required that his hand be put in a splint - to our surprise we had to
> pay $125. for a splint because it is not covered under health care plus
> we have to pay $60. for each visit for him to check it out each week.
>
> 7) Shirley's cousin was diagnosed with a heart blockage. Put on a
> waiting list Died before he could get treatment.
>
> 8) Government allots so many operations per year. When that is done
> no more operations, unless you go to your local newspaper and plead
> your case and embarrass the government then money suddenly appears.
>
> 9) The Government takes great pride in telling us how much more they
> are increasing the funding for health care but waiting lists never get
> shorter. Government just keeps throwing money at the problem but it
> never goes away. But they are good at finding new ways to tax us, but
> they don't call it a tax anymore it is now a user fee.
>
> 10) A friend needs an operation for a blockage in her leg but because
> she is a smoker they will not do it. Despite paying into the health
> care system all these years. My friend is 65 years old. Now there is
> talk that maybe we should not treat fat and obese people either because
> they are a drain on the health care system. Let me see now, what we
> want in Canada is a health care system for healthy people only. That
> should reduce our health care costs.
>
> 11) Forget getting a second opinion, what you see is what you get.
>
> 12) I can spend what money I have left after taxes on booze,
> cigarettes, junk food and anything else that could kill me but I am not
> allowed by law to spend my money on getting an operation I need because
> that would be jumping the queue. I must wait my turn except if I am a
> hockey player or athlete then I can get looked at right away. Go
> figger. Where else in the world can you spend money to kill yourself
> but not allowed to spend money to get healthy.
>
> 13) Oh did I mention that immigrants are covered automatically at tax
> payer expense having never contributed a dollar to the system and pay
> no premiums.
>
> 14) Oh yeah, we now give free needles to drug users to try and keep
> them healthy. Wouldn't want a sickly druggie breaking into your house
> and stealing your things. But people with diabetes who pay into the
> health care system have to pay for their needles because it is not
> covered but the health care system.
>
> I send this out not looking for sympathy but as the election looms in
> the states you will be hearing more and more about universal health
> care down there and the advocates will be pointing to Canada. I just
> want to make sure that you hear the truth about health care up here and
> have some food for thought and informed questions to ask when broached
> with this subject.
>
> Step wisely and don't make the same mistakes we have.
cancer news
http://www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca/vid1.htm
Will Raw Milk Soon Be Banned in California?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/11/15/will-raw-milk-soon-be-banned-in-california.aspx
Soil Minerals for Organic Gardeners
The difference between rich, fertile soil and poor, infertile soil is essentially this: the mineral composition of the soil. The flavor and nutrition in fruit, grains, and vegetables are based on the soil minerals available, not the amount or type of organic matter. If a needed mineral is missing, it is just that, missing, and no amount of organic matter will make up for it. No amount or combination of the air elements Carbon, Oxygen, and Hydrogen will add Zinc to your soil, and all plants and animals need Zinc. Plants also need Copper and Iron and Manganese, Calcium and Magnesium and Phosphorus, and at least seven other essential minerals (animals need at least fourteen more), and they need them in an available and balanced form. Rotting organic matter may release growth stimulants like Nitrogen and Potassium, but the other minerals are what create sweetness and flavor and nutrition in food. Without these other minerals you may achieve high production, but you will not achieve the highest quality.
We are Organic, Biodynamic, Biologique, and Sustainable gardeners, and we strongly support the idea of a living, energetic, biologically active soil. We have learned that the absolute best cannot be achieved without a full complement of minerals available and in balance. Welcome to SoilMinerals.com!
Compost, Manure, Humus, Organic Matter
and their relation to Soil Minerals and Trace Elements
Minerals and Manure
I had an interesting conversation with an organic grower a while back. This was a lady who had operated a successful organic goat dairy and CSA* for years. I was doing my usual "missionary" work, proselytizing about minerals, and she seemed interested. When I mentioned how much simpler it was to bring in a few ounces or a few pounds of the minerals that were actually needed than to pile on tons of compost and manure, she became more interested. She admitted, rather sheepishly, that her gardening operation was "addicted to chicken manure." She told me that no matter how much home-made compost or cover crops they used, they just couldn't get the growth response and production they wanted without bringing in chicken manure from one of the commercial chicken farms in the area.
Not long before this conversation, I had noticed a "free manure" sign in front of a veterinary hospital that I drove past regularly. This was a large-animal facility specializing in horses, and they had a stable behind the clinic, sort of an "in-patient" wing. I thought about the drugs that were undoubtedly used in treating the equine patients, and the various cleaners and sterilants that would need to be used in a stable for sick horses, and I wondered how many "organic" gardeners were picking up this free manure and using it on their vegetables.
Also around this same time, I was helping out at very large garden that was growing food for the community food bank and I offered to do a soil test and recommendations for them. The results from that soil test were a real eye-opener: One area of about 5,000 square feet had the highest levels of Copper, Zinc, and Boron that I had ever seen. I asked the garden manager just what had been used for fertilizer, and he told me a story about having had enough chicken manure delivered to cover the whole garden, but some volunteers had showed up when he wasn't there and spread the whole load on this one small area. He said that he had tried to shovel it back into wheelbarrows and spread it around better, but this one area had gotten way more than intended. Interestingly, although the Phosphorus and Potassium levels were high, they weren't exceptional. It was the Cu, Zn, and B that were through the roof.
The fertilizer breakdowns of manure that I've looked at generally only give levels of Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium, sometimes Sodium. None of them tell me anything about any drugs, hormones, or disinfectants the farmer may be using, or what may have been added to the animal feed. From my reading in the ecological literature, though, I have discovered that one of the biggest dangers in water pollution is the high level of dissolved pharmaceutical drugs found in the supposedly "treated" water flowing out of sewage treatment plants. The sewage treatment plants are dealing with human waste, of course, but we all know that many if not most large livestock operations give their animals drugs to keep them "healthy" or at least alive in their crowded and unnatural living conditions. Many dairies use the rGBH growth hormone for cattle, and most feedlots for fattening cattle use large amounts of antibiotics.** Cottonseed meal is frequently fed to cattle as a cheap protein source, and cotton farmers are allowed to use all sorts of pesticides that are banned from use on food crops, supposedly because cotton is not a food crop. It's also worth mentioning that most of the cotton, corn, and soy grown in the US these days is genetically modified, GMO, and most of that genetic modification is for herbicide resistance, so most of the feedstock has been sprayed with herbicides a number of times. None of the manure from these operations is treated with the care given to human waste; usually it is just piled up for a while until they can find someone to haul it away. It could and probably does have anything in it. And all of it, mind you, is accepted and used for "organic" gardening and farming.
That's the bad news. There is some good news mixed in, sort of. Going back to the chicken manure with the high levels of Copper, Zinc, and Boron, where did those come from? It turns out that commercial livestock growers and feed manufacturers are well aware of the value of and need for minerals in the diet. They have a lot invested in those animals and they want rapid and sustained growth. I doubt that one could find a cow pasture in the country that doesn't have a mineral block sitting out, and those aren't just 'salt blocks", they have the whole spectrum of trace minerals in them and are specially formulated to supply the minerals usually lacking in various areas of the country. The chicken farmers know about this too, and the pig farmers. They know, or their feed manufacturers know, that Copper and Zinc added to the feed ration increases growth, and that Boron is essential for the utilization of Calcium. Those minerals are in the feed or provided to the animals "free choice" as an economic necessity. They must be added to the feed ration because the soil on which the grains and legumes and hay were grown didn't contain those minerals in the proper amounts or balance.
(Meanwhile, us humans are wandering around the middle aisles of the grocery store filling our shopping carts up with food that doesn't have nearly the mineral content of what the factory farm animals are fed, and we are wondering why we are always craving something. One could say that the grocery business doesn't make money on satisfying hunger.)
Whatever the motivations, most manure from commercial livestock operations contains trace minerals, and it may be those minerals that caused the lady who I wrote about at the beginning of this article to have a garden that was "addicted" to chicken manure. Zinc, Copper, and Boron are growth stimulants for plants, too. Unfortunately, that manure may also be loaded with drugs, antibiotics, hormones, and other chemicals such as dewormers, disinfectants, pesticides, herbicides, and GMOs. And we just don't know. Even if the minerals in the manure are minerals we want and need in our gardens, we generally have no way of knowing how much of which mineral is in the manure.
Note, please, that I have no problem with using good quality well-composted manure for gardening. If you raise livestock on healthy organic feed, or have access to manure from someone who does, count yourself very fortunate. But don't count on it to supply the correct balance of minerals that your particular soil needs, until or unless the feed for those animals is grown on mineral balanced soil.
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*CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, in which the grower sells "shares" of the crop to local people. CSA members get a share of whatever crops are in season, usually on a weekly basis, throughout the growing season.
**The feedlots, and confinement dairies, must give the cattle antibiotics because they are fattening them on grain, seeds, and soy, which are unnatural foods for cattle. Cattle are naturally grazers, eating grass and herbs and occasionally leaves from shrubs and trees. They have a huge population of microbes (mainly protozoans) in their stomachs to break down the cellulose in these plants and turn them into food. These microbes are not happy with grains, so the feedlot operators give antibiotics to kill off the normal microbes, and also give the cattle bicarbonate of soda to deal with the resulting acid indigestion. Large feedlots buy baking soda by the carload and antibiotics by the ton. Another unfortunate aspect of this unnatural feeding is that it changes the fatty acid profile of the milk and meat so that the fats cause atherosclerosis and heart disease and other problems in people who consume them and in the cattle. Grass fed beef and dairy do not cause health problems, they confer health on those who consume them. Much more on grass fed beef and dairy at
Stevia: The FDA's Attack On A Beneficial Supplement
http://www.newstarget.com/022234.html
FDA announces suspension of English language :)
http://www.newstarget.com/022141.html
The FDA's Ministry of Language today announced that the English language has been suspended. From now on, all words will only mean what the FDA declares they should mean. The word, "Pasteurization," for example, will now mean any process used to kill microorganisms, including irradiation, spraying toxic chemicals and lauching foods into the dark vacuum of space where they explode like Gallagher's watermelons.
Please disregard all previous definitions of words. They no longer apply in the world of FDA newspeak.
Tomorrow, the FDA could announce that "pasteurization" will suddenly mean jumping up and down barefoot on fresh produce with your tongue stuck frozen to a chilled flagpole, in which case all the food companies in the United States would suddenly have to comply. But for today, pasteurization has been announced by the FDA to mean the bombarding of food matter with high energy radiation. If this all seems rather extraneous, that's because it is. Pasteurization could just as easily be declared next week to be the soaking of fresh produce in moose drool.
Again, please disregard the definitions of all words in the English language. Words are meaningless now in the food and drug industries. They only mean what their promoters want them to mean.
Please note that all definitions are subject to change at any time, including the word "definition," which the FDA has threatened to change to mean, "the act of kissing one's own ass," which means that asking anyone for the definition of any word would be tantamount to a proposition bordering on sexual harassment. It is through this tactic that the FDA will stop cold the act of anyone asking for definitions of words.
Please disregard the word "organic"
The USDA has joined with the FDA in its effort to suspend the English language and has announced that the word "organic" will no longer mean anything associated with what most people think of when they formerly used the word organic. Instead, it will mean any food product that was manufactured with the intention of selling it to organic consumers, regardless of whether or not the product itself was farmed and harvested using methods previously known as "organic." Thus, "organic" is now simply an on-package marketing gimmick, sort of like, "Now, 30% more FREE! And organic!"
The Almond Board of California has also joined the effort to suspend the English language. They are starting with the word, "raw," which the Almond Board insists should now mean heating almonds to a high temperature for a duration sufficient to kill virtually all microorganisms that might be hitching a ride on the almonds. This concept was formally known to rational people as "pasteurization," but will now be called "raw" according to USDA regulations.
If you connect the dots on all this, you come to the startling realization that irradiated, chemically treated nuts grown with pesticides will soon be labeled raw, organic nuts.
Why? Because raw = pasteurized and pasteurized = irradiated. Thus, raw = irradiated. Plus, conventionally grown = organic.
If this equation is a bit hard to follow, just follow this simple pattern found in an actual FDA press release:
Toxic products x Gullible consumers = Corporate profits
Welcome to the world of FDA newspeak. All dictionaries will now, by law, carry black box warnings telling readers not to trust what they read in those dictionaries. The FDA is the final authority over all language and will likely even change its name to the FDLA (the Food, Drug and Language Administration).
Please note these new definitions
Consumers are warned to avoid using all words until they know their new definitions, which have been announced by the FDA as follows:
"HEALTH" shall mean death, as in "Health care" (death care).
"EDUCATION" shall mean propaganda, as in, "These TV ads sure are educating those patients about the benefits of prescription drugs!"
"CONFLICTS OF INTEREST" shall be banned from the English language entirely, since there is no such thing as any conflict of interest at the FDA or anywhere in medicine.
"SAFE" shall mean any drug that makes at least a billion dollars in profit while killing less than a hundred thousand Americans each year.
"SCIENTIFIC" shall mean any opinion statement or fraudulent statistical distortion that supports the definition of "safe," above.
"PROVEN" shall mean any finding that is supported by a majority vote of corrupt FDA decision makers.
"SCREENING" shall mean any patient recruitment method designed to ensnare the public into medically unjustified or harmful treatments designed to maximize the profits or doctors, hospitals and drug companies.
"DISEASE" shall mean any observable symptoms, real or imagined, that can be expressed as a number requiring chemical modification. High cholesterol (a number), for example, will be called a disease named, coincidentally, High Cholesterol.
"BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR" shall mean any woman who isn't immediately killed by the chemotherapy.
"GENETICALLY ENGINEERED" shall be banned from the English language, as the phrase only misleads consumers. From now on, "genetically engineered" shall be replaced with the word, "organic."
Additional language rules
According go these new FDA rules, nutritional supplement companies are hereby banned from using verbs. This is to prevent them from making unsubstantiated claims that involve worlds like, "prevents" or "cures." All supplement companies shall be restricted to using only nouns, pronouns, adverbs and adjectives. Acceptable website copy for a nutritional supplement company may look similar to these statements:
"Consumer multivitamin upwards dosage minimum requirement*"
"Healthness vitamin capsule you taking daily allowance*"
* This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.
Please note that failing to adopt these new definitions is punishable as a federal crime. Any citizen who singles out traitors refusing to adopt this new language will be rewarded with free Prozac and raw, organic almonds. Those who expose ten or more traitors will receive a free six month supply of soylent green.
Dissent will not be tolerated. Ignorance is strength. War is peace. Save America. Defend freedom. Take more pharmaceuticals. Pass it on.
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FDA seizes $71k in herbal tea products as campaign of censorship against nutritional supplements continues
http://www.newstarget.com/022137.html
Aspirin comes from Willow trees. Valium is made from the Valarian root. Digitalis is made from Foxglove. All of these medications began as herbal, cures.
The reality is that the FDA is enforcing dependence on the pharmaceutical industry by banning and removing low-cost natural (and non-patentable) cures.
It is hard to imagine a more cynical attitude by an agency funded by our tax dollars.
Officials say drug caused Nigeria polio
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071005/ap_on_he_me/nigeria_polio_paradox
Industry wouldn't fund cancer drug, so Alberta town rode to the rescue
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/10/04/fundraising-dca.html
Another Industry Added to Casualty List of GM Foods
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/pages/another-industry-added-to-casualty-list-of-gm-foods...
it'a a pretty good diet in my opinion.
Eggs and Greens Protect Vision
Reuters Sep 17, 2007
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-9-17/59859.html
Brussels sprouts is one of the vegetables that ward off macular degeneration. (Photos.com)
CHICAGO—Two nutrients found in eggs, spinach, and other leafy green vegetables offer some protection against the most common cause of blindness among the elderly, researchers said last Monday.
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects 1.2 million Americans, mostly after age 65, and the irreversible condition gets gradually worse, robbing victims of the center of their vision. Many people may be susceptible due to genetic factors, while smoking is known to heighten the risk.
The two nutrients, lutein and zeaxanthin, are both carotenoids—compounds that give many fruits and vegetables a yellow color.
They help ward off the condition, apparently by allowing the eyes to filter harmful short-wavelength light and by curtailing other damaging effects to the macula, or the center of the eye's retina, the researchers said.
"No clear associations with other nutrients were seen," including the vitamins C and E and beta-carotene, according to the researchers, led by John Paul SanGiovanni of the National Eye Institute, one of the National Institutes of Health in Maryland.
The six-year study asked about the dietary habits of 4,519 people aged 60 to 80 when enrolled.
Those in the top fifth of dietary consumption of foods containing the two nutrients had 35 percent less chance of developing the condition compared to those in the lowest fifth of consumption.
"Lutein and zeaxanthin may be considered as useful agents in food or supplement-based interventions designed to reduce the risk of AMD," the researchers wrote in their report, published in the journal Archives of Ophthalmology.
Foods considered good sources of the nutrients include eggs, spinach, kale, turnip greens, collard greens, romaine lettuce, broccoli, zucchini, corn, garden peas, and Brussels sprouts.
Vitamin K, an Essential Nutrient
By Franklin McCoy, M.D.
Epoch Times New York Staff Sep 28, 2007
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-9-28/60201.html
Swiss chard is an excellent source of vitamin K. (Louise Valentine/The Epoch Times)
Vitamin K is probably best known for its role in blood clotting. However, it has many other functions.
Studies have demonstrated vitamin K's role in bone health, the health of arteries, as well as its contribution to the strength of the immune system.
Since vitamin K is available from a variety of foods, and the body has a recycling method of conserving vitamin K, and the intestinal bacteria synthesize vitamin K2 (menaquinones), it is widely thought in the medical community that humans hardly need to think about their vitamin K consumption.
Consumption of lower amounts of vitamin K has been associated with a higher incidence of hip fracture and osteoporosis.
Other studies have demonstrated low levels of vitamin K consumption are associated with arterial calcification.
Additional studies have demonstrated that patients with certain forms of cancer have benefited from consumption of larger than usual doses of vitamin K.
Our most abundant source of vitamin K (vitamin K1, also known as phylloquinone) comes from plants. Leafy green vegetables, such as kale, Swiss chard, and collard greens, have an abundance of vitamin K1. It is also found in high quantities in foods such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts, spinach, and cabbage.
If the above food sources are eaten in sufficient quantity, supplementation with vitamin K should usually not be needed.
Since vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin, it is helpful to have fat in a meal when eating food high in vitamin K content.
Anticoagulants, such as warfarin, interfere with vitamin K metabolism. If a patient is taking anticoagulants, a physician's advice should be sought before consuming large quantities of foods rich in vitamin K. Otherwise, it is wise to remember what we were told as children: "Eat those greens!"
References:
Ten Important Facts About Vitamin K That You Need to Know by Dr. Joseph Mercola with Rachael Droege, http://www.mercola.com/2004/mar/24/vitamin_k.htm
Vitamin K by the Linus Pauling Institute, http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/vitamins/vitaminK/
The Mediterranean Diet
Can it Reduce Your Risk for Heart Disease?
http://tinyurl.com/358beo
If a cheap and effective cure for cancer appeared, hospitals would go out of business, collapsed by the debt they incurred for the expensive diagnostic and treatments systems they purchased. There is a huge financial incentive to develop continuous treatments rather than one-time cures. This is why nobody is searching for a cure for the common cold, because there is far more money to be made off of cold TREATMENTS. Nobody wants to cure AIDS; they want to TREAT it, continuously, for however many years the patient remains alive.
Obesity is Only One Piece of the Diabetes Puzzle
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/08/24/obesity-is-only-one-piece-of-the-diabe...
Is diabetes caused by pharmaceuticals?
http://www.newstarget.com/022027.html
Certain pomegranate juice products deceive consumers with dishonest labels and ingredients, reveals new consumer guide
http://www.newstarget.com/022026.html
Mystery Meat Macrophotography
http://www.newstarget.com/phototour_mystery_meat_1.html
The Raw Milk Debate Reaches the New York Times and the Washington Post
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/08/10/the-raw-milk-debate-reaches-the-new-yo...
CLA and Weight Loss: CLA Content of Dairy Foods
http://www.rebuild-from-depression.com/blog/2007/06/cla_and_weight_loss_cla_conten.html
Almond Growers Seek Delay of Pasteurization Rule
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/08/10/almond-growers-seek-delay-of-pasteuriz...
you are very welcome toddh
good article thankx todd
August 24, 2007
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URGENT ALERT: TIME IS SHORT AND THE ISSUE IS HUGE!
PUBLIC COMMENT CLOSES SEPTEMBER 7, 2007
PRO-ILLNESS REGULATIONS SUPPRESSING HEALTH INFORMATION DESIGNED FOR IMPLEMENTATION DECEMBER 2007
JUST The FAX, Ma'am!
Fact: FDA is trying to eliminate your right to scientifically based health information
Fact: New FDA Guidance on Health Claims ( Evidence-Based Review System for the Scientific Evaluation of Health Claims, Docket 2007D-0125, http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/hclmgui5.html ) is their current tool to do exactly that
Fact: Public Comment period on this Guidance ends September 7, 2007. Direct e-comments have been blocked by the FDA because The Natural Solutions Foundation was so successful last time around mobilizing 197,000+ e-comments from the entire country!
Fact: FDA's truth-hostile policy is in line with US-led Codex attempt to take away all sources of information on health benefits of foods (including supplements) through the Codex Committee on Food Labeling's (CCFL) distorted definition of "Advertising"
Fact: You have a right to be heard on this issue under the First Amendment which has been confirmed by the US Supreme Court. The FDA is required by law to seek public comments before issuing regulations or guidances. This health and freedom right is under direct attack by the FDA's latest health-hostile guidance.
IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR HEALTH OR YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM, NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE ACTION!
Fact: You can fax ( http://tinyurl.com/24mrn8 ) your comments to the Receiver of Dockets! Click here to send that fax and let the FDA know that you know that the agency is out of control and off track by a wide and deadly margin.
Fact: Ron Paul has introduced a The Health Freedom Protection Act, HR 2117. His excellent bill makes this FDA suppression of truthful, science-based information illegal. It would get at least one important piece of the FDA back under Congressional control. Click here (http://tinyurl.com/yvm8tr ) to urge your Congressmen and women to join Dr. Paul in this effort to protect your freedom of speech and health information.
Fact: The FDA has declared that it will bring Codex to the US, no matter what the US law or regulations allow or prohibit. This is a perfect example of that intention on behalf, in this case, of Big Pharma. Only your concerted action will prevent this illegal stifling of information.
The FDA Does NOT Want to Hear From You.
Too Bad!
OK. Let's fact the facts: The FDA does not really want to hear what you have to say about anything. Your snail mail letters, for example, are not even tallied. According to the Supervisor of the Office of the Receiver of Dockets, they are just stored in the FDA reading room where people can look at them if they want. Your direct email comments are now blocked.
They do, however, want to hear the beautiful sound of huge high ticket "User Funds" hitting the till, the wonderful rustle of a letter saying that a grant proposal has been approved by a drug company, of the welcoming committee showing a former FDA official, now a new drug company executive around his offices which are, of course, much larger than the one he occupied at the FDA last week, of applause at a drug company sponsored "educational seminar" which the very well compensated FDA expert gives for the drug company whose product he is reviewing in the guise of a neutral scientist for FDA approval. They listen really hard for those sounds.
We know that. Consider the FDA's CAM Guidance which could criminalize just about everything Americans do to stay out of the clutches of the illness industry. First they literally hid the fact that they had put out a Guidance on CAM from December 26, 2006 to February 26, 2007. Then they made the public comment period absurdly short for such a massively important topic (only until April 30, 2007). Your comments forced them to extend it, of course. Next they made sure that their submission link for those comments was not working. No link, no comments. No public input.
The Natural Solutions Foundation called the supervisor of the Receiver of Dockets and got another link meaning that the only reliable way to submit comments was through that link. In fact, 588,000+ people tried to use it. Because of various (but predictable) attacks, "ONLY" 197,000+ comments hit the FDA's computer! Not even Washington can ignore that kind of outpouring!
But the bureaucrats who are trying to take away your freedom (and your health, remember) for the benefit of the multinationals are playing a thrust-parry-counter thrust kind of game. The FDA, no longer funded primarily by public funding, but by Big Pharma's "User Fees" (turning it into a client agency of the drug companies) is on the attack again. How can the public trust this agency to oversee food safety?
This time, when they issued their unprecedented third regulatory move hostile to natural health in less than a year they changed the rules: you can no longer submit your comments by email unless you use the FDA link which is, quite predictably, "broken" much of the time. The FDA is trying to block your comments on the very important Guidance on Health Claims. They found a way to prevent your emails and set a ridiculously short time for Public Comment during the summer vacation, no less.
So, We'll FAX Our Comments to the FDA!
And we'll fax ( http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=12189 or http://tinyurl.com/24mrn8 ) them by the many hundreds of thousands. And, just to make things better, when you fax through our link, even if the FDA fax runs out paper or they turn them off, the Natural Solutions Foundation has the legal record of the transmission so we can count them or print them out and deliver them if necessary. They can run, but they cannot hide from "Vox Populi", the Voice of the People, YOUR voice!
Reality Check
Faxes cost money. We have never charged for emails because, although each one costs us money to submit, we know that people are used to free emails and did not want to limit a single person from sending out those vitally important communications. So we are asking you to make a tax deductible donation (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189 or http://tinyurl.com/sw9xf ) to at least cover the cost of the fax (yours and, if you can, the cost of someone else who cannot afford even a dollar).
David and Goliath: Our Collective Pockets vs. "More Money Than God"
You have heard me say it before: the other side has all the money they could possibly need. They get it by marketing illness and profiteering from suffering.
We don't.
They use their money for magnificent, but deceptive, ads to doctors and to you, vast sums of "campaign contributions" and other corrupting inputs of money, huge lobbying budgets, stock options, trips, give away goodies and seminars which are really just slick sales pitches, phony science, control of entire medical school departments through grants, a sales force of drug detail men and women pegged to the physical and sexual preferences of the the doctor being visited (by the way) and a thousand more underhanded and dangerous tricks.
We Use Your Money To:
- Educate. That includes lectures at meetings like the ones listed under "Events" on our website. No one pays our way and no one covers our expenses (often including registration at these events). We hold meetings with Congressional staff and elected representatives. Next week, General Stubblebine, Ralph Fucetola http://www.vitaminlawyer.com , Charlie Frohman, http://www.cfrohman.com/ (our outstanding Legislative Consultant), other knowledgeable people and I will be in Washington DC to bring our health freedom agenda forward for you with decision makers, "influencers" and Congress. When we go to Washington to educate and get the audiences that are so important to the success of this battle, we stand, by the way, firmly on the base provided by your actions, your letters to Congress and your comments to the FDA. The more you have sent, the more of an ear bends toward us.
- Attend Codex and other important meetings.
- Pay for phone bills, internet connection, ink, paper and other similar expenses out of your donations.
- Purchase airline tickets and pay for hotel rooms and means when we go to countries where their leadership is willing to take action to defy the multinational agenda, grow clean food (which will then wind up in your kitchen) and take action on behalf of the health and survival of their people.
- Communicate with US government decision makers who might not be willing to hear what you want them to hear.
- Create materials like " Nutricide: the DVD " (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=156 or http://tinyurl.com/2ewxzz ), the Codex eBook ( http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=205 or http://tinyurl.com/3yy5zq ) and our highly informative new video, The Codex Two Step: Codex Options for Pro Health Nations
We Do Not Use Your Money to:
Pay salaries or legal fees to the officers and trustees of the Foundation. None. Our lawyers, the Natural Solutions Foundation President and I work without any financial compensation for what we do. None.
Pay office overhead. That's donated that to the Foundation, too.
Pay rent or mortgages. General Stubblebine and I sold our house so that we could continue doing this for you. That's where a good deal of the money we have put into the battle (and gotten this far with) has come from.
We Are Doing This So You Don't Have To
We don't expect you to sell yours or give up your job for this battle. But it is your battle. We need your action, your willingness to disseminate information and your financial support. It's that simple. There are extremely important things you can do to expand on those three items. Get involved or there won't be much left to get involved with.
Please send this email to everyone you know with a short paragraph at the top saying that this is important to you and you that you are taking the requested actions and hope that the person you are sending it to will, too. If you like, you can include a paragraph like this one sent by a supporter to their entire email list a few days ago:
"Friends, just imagine if a million people each donated just $10 to Health Freedom! just imagine how far $10,000,000 would go in this fight! If you make a donation at http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189 and then forward this to all your friends and ask them to do the same---and so on---and each of you donates a minimum of $10. (and more if you can, of course!), it's not beyond the realm of possibility to reach a million people. And surely it is as important to you as it is to me to be able to purchase the vitamins and minerals we want, and to have access to organically raised (and other non-genetically engineered) foods, etc. etc. These things are REALLY in jeopardy! Please help! (For details, please go to www.healthfreedomUSA.org and sign up for the free Natural Solutions Foundation Health Freedom Alerts. Your freedom and your health are both under attack. Help preserve both of them!"
Every penny we receive goes directly to the cost of doing battle for your health freedom. Every purchase* you make from our all-Organic store, www.Organics4U.org , provides you with a tax break on your supplements and health care items while it provides us with much needed income to keep on doing what we are doing in the US and internationally.
All of your deductions are tax deductible, of course, if you pay taxes in the US. And every donation makes a difference. Spread the word. And if you prefer mail to electronic donations, please feel free to send your check to
Natural Solutions Foundation
P. O. Box 772
Maryville MO 64468
Either way, THANKS!
Another Attack
In our last email, Reading the Fine Print to Get It Right! - August 21, 2007, we discussed two pieces of distortion which we felt needed correction since they were pretty important and were circulating around the internet confusing several issues. In order to preserve the dignity and decency with which the Natural Solutions Foundation always conducts itself and its affairs, we pointedly did not name names, nor did we make this a personal attack. We corrected facts which we believe to be wrong in the spirit of truth, not the unseemly attacks which are so often a part of the sickest and least productive parts of the Health Freedom movement.
Predictably, a rebuttal was forth coming. Sadly, the rebuttal was another in the series of personal attacks on me and attacks on our organization and its integrity. What none of us needs is another war of words and ill feeling.There are plenty of those around, some of them directed at the Natural Solutions Foundation. You may have noticed that we never respond to them. We do urge people who are so inclined, however, to write to the propagators of these attacks and ask to see the data upon which they rest. Since there is none, that is an interesting exercise: the replies would be funny if they were not so wasteful of time and resources.
So, suffice it to say that the Natural Solutions Foundation stands firmly behind our interpretation of the facts as presented in our most recent blast and that those facts were not only checked by me, but by our excellent legal council as well to assure compete accuracy. We do not mind debate, but we adamantly deny that vicious personal attacks have any place in winning and keeping our health freedoms.
As I said in that blast, you CAN count on the Natural Solutions Foundation for accurate, relevant, timely and helpful information. We mean what we say and we say what we mean without attacking anyone or any organization. Wouldn't it be nice if everyone in the Health Freedom arena walked on the same dry shod part of the High Road? And if they don't, why not? Who is served by all this divisiveness?
Looking forward to a huge numbers of faxes to the reluctant eyes and ears of the FDA,
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima R. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
Forget eating your greens: red and blue foods are the cancer fighters
· Health properties detected in new laboratory tests
· Pigment can slow growth or even kill tumour cells
* Ian Sample, science correspondent
* The Guardian
* Monday August 20 2007
Natural pigments that give certain fruit and vegetables a rich red, purple or blue colour act as powerful anti-cancer agents, according to a study by American scientists.
The compounds, found in foods such as aubergines, red cabbage, elderberries and bilberries, restricted the growth of cancer cells and in some cases killed them off entirely, leaving healthy cells unharmed.
The study combined laboratory tests on human cancer cells with experiments on animals that were designed to see whether a diet rich in the foods made a difference to their risk of developing cancer.
Foods with the highest levels of the compounds were most effective at slowing cancer growth, with exotic purple corn and chokeberries stopping the growth of colon cancer cells and killing 20% in lab tests. Foods less enriched with the pigments, such as radishes and black carrots, slowed the growth of colon cancer cells by 50% to 80%.
The findings bring scientists closer to unravelling the key ingredients responsible for giving fruit and vegetables their cancer-fighting properties.
Because the pigments, which belong to a class of antioxidant compounds known as anthocyanins, are not easily absorbed by the bloodstream, they travel through the stomach to the gastrointestinal tract, where they are taken up by surrounding tissues.
Their survival through to the lower part of the intestine may be the key to their role in preventing cancers in the tract, the scientists believe.
Researchers led by Monica Giusti, an expert in plant nutrients at Ohio State University, extracted anthocyanins from a variety of exotic and more common fruits and vegetables that all had a deep red, blue or purple hue and added them to flasks containing a suspension of human colon cancer cells.
When the team calculated how much of each extract was needed to reduce cancer cell growth by 50%, they found anthocyanin from purple corn to be the most potent. Chokeberries and bilberries were nearly as effective, while radish anthocyanin required nine times as much - or 131 micrograms per millilitre of cancer cell solution to cut cell growth by half.
In a second study, the researchers fed rats with colon cancer a diet of anthocyanin extracts from bilberries and chokeberries, which are most often used as flavourings in jams and fruit drinks. Colon tumours in the rats fell by 60% to 70% compared with a control group that were not given anthocyanin.
"These foods contain many compounds and we're just starting to figure out what they are and which ones provide the best health effects," said Dr Giusti.
"All fruits and vegetables that are rich in anthocyanins have compounds that can slow down the growth of colon cancer cells, whether in experiments in laboratory dishes or inside the body."
The research was presented yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Boston.
The team are now investigating whether it is possible to modify the structure of the pigment compounds to make them even more potent. Tentative results so far suggest that grafting an extra sugar or acid molecule to the anthocyanins improved their effectiveness.
The work is part of a long-term investigation aimed at a greater understanding of the 600 anthocyanins found in nature. "We're just beginning to scratch the surface of understanding how the body absorbs and uses these different structures," Dr Giusti said.
In June, market researchers reported that sales of anthocyanin-rich blueberries had doubled in the past two years. The berries joined a growing list of what associations marketing the products call "superfoods", alongside oily fish, brazil nuts and tomatoes. Anthocyanins have previously been linked to helping towards a healthy heart and with treating skin conditions.
Source: Guardian UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/20/sciencenews.cancer
Genetically Modified Foods: Cause of Toxicity and Reproductive Failures?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/08/16/genetically-modified-foods-cause-of-to...
Enjoy Pesticides in Every Bite of GMO Food?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/24/gardasil-reactions-and-deaths-on-the-r...
Cacao stabilizes blood sugar; chocolate may actually help diabetics
http://www.newstarget.com/021961.html
August 4, 2007
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CONGRATULATIONS!
Your Response Helped Fend Off Yet Another
Attack on Supplements
Supplement Protective Language WILL Be Included in Compromise
"FDA Revitalization Bill!"
Ralph Fucetola, our Trustee, and Charles Frohman, our Legislative Consultant, took your message to Congress and told them that you, as a Natural Solutions Foundation supporter, demanded that access to dietary supplements be exempt from the provisions of the bad Senate version of the "FDA Revitalization Act, S. 1082, and the even worse House version of it, HR 2900.
They presented your Liberty Coalition letter (http://www.libertycoalition.net/protect-health-freedom#attachments)with over 100 organizations signing on to say "Protect my Health Freedoms and reign in the out-of-control FDA!". They presented a powerful new Natural Solutions Foundation Congressional Briefing called "Congressional Choice: Health Freedom or Health Tyranny" (http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/content.jsp?content_KEY=3061)... they presented your arguments for protecting our health by separating the food and drug regulation and for protecting US sovereignty and food security by reigning in our mad dash to "HARMonize" with Codex for the sake of the multinational agenda.
While We Were In Washington This Week....
Ralph and Charlie visited with senior legislative staff (more than 100 of them) and had a chance to present your information to them. Then they visited the offices of powerful decision makers giving them access to the same information and letting them know that the Natural Solutions Foundation supporters were alert and actively watching what they did. We were able to generate new co-sponsors for Ron Paul's bill which protects many of your health freedoms, The Health Freedom Protection Act, HR 2117 (http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=117....
They also reminded the folks in Congress that the FDA is on a rampage against natural health and that its latest Guidance would, according to that agency itself, put large numbers of small and medium sized supplement companies out of business while leaving the big, Big Pharma-owned and backed, firms in place.
We visited the offices of
Dana Rohrabacher (R-Newport Beach, CA)
Chris Cannon (R-Provo, UT)
House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health Chairman Frank Pallone (D-Long Branch, NJ)
House Energy and Commerce Henry Waxman (Los Angeles, CA)
Senate HELP (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) Committee
HELP Member Tom Harkin (IA)
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Hillary Clinton (NY)
Senate HELP Democrat Richard Durbin (IL)
And the Good News is....
And the good news is that everywhere we went, the power and activism of the Natural Solutions Foundation's voice, YOUR voice, hundreds of thousands strong, meant that highly placed Congressional staffers and other thanked us for our activism, were clearly aware of our numbers and our input (CLEARLY aware) and thanked us for our input. They also invited us back to discuss our issues and asked for additional information.
That's Your Cue!
Action Steps
A. Call the Congressional Switchboard, 202-224-3121, and ask to speak to your Representative or Senator. The operator will ask for your zip code and then connect you to the right office. You will probably have to call back to speak to both your Senators and your Representative. When you reach their staff (you will not be connected with the Member), let the staffer know that you strongly urge your Member of Congress to:
1. Become a co sponsor of the Health Freedom Protection Act, HR 2117 (tell this to your your Representative) or introduce sister legislation which matches HR 2117 (tell this to your Senator)
2. Hold Congressional Hearings at the earliest possible date on the corruption and Pharma-Friendly abuse of power by the FDA which is knowingly allowing deadly drugs to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans each year while wantonly attacking their safe, effective and inexpensive competitors, namely clean food and effective dietary supplements, forcing small companies out of the wellness industry and corrupting both the medicinal and food supplies of this country to the detriment of the safety of all Americans.
3. Help reduce health care spending and increase health status for Americans by supporting natural medicine options as first options under mandated Federal Programs like Medicare for seniors, children, the poor and other vulnerable groups who are the most vulnerable to drug-caused death and damage.
B.Visit Your Congressmen and women in their local offices. It's August, Congress is in session and your Congressional Members are at home. They all have local offices and it is their responsiblity to be available to you. It is your responsibility to tell them what you want and what is important to you.
Take the Liberty Coalition letter
(http://www.libertycoalition.net/protect-health-freedom#attachments) with the signed on groups and the Natural Solutions Congressional Briefing, "Congressional Choice: Health Freedom or Health Tyranny" (http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/content.jsp?content_KEY=3061). Use them to make your points. with your Congress people. Go in with a bullet point one pager and stick to your points. Take lots of people with you and let your Congress person know you are watching their performance on the Health Freedom issue!
C. Spread the word. Everyone on your email list is a potential health freedom advocate. Let them know that this is important to you and ask them to make it an issue they take action on, too! As individuals they can sign on to the Health Freedom Action Alert list (secure) at www.HealthFreedomUSA.org or www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org.
As decision makers for groups they can still sign on to the Liberty Coalition letter by emailing Michael Ostrolenk at michaeldostrolenk@gmail.com and giving the name of their organization, their name and position with the group and the URL of the group, company, department, club, foundation or what ever with a statement like "Please sign the xxxx (your group's name) on to the Natural Solutions Foundation's Health Freedom letter".
D. Please support our work by making a tax deductible Donation
(http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189)
Every dollar you donate enables us to continue our epic battle for Health Freedom. Please know the Natural Solutions Foundation requires a substantial level of regular donations each month just to continue our normal operations. Your donations are used for the Internet services, computer hardware, technical support, office supplies, travel, outreach efforts, research and document preparation and a multitude of other costs directly enabling the successful execution of our mission. We cannot continue without your support and we cannot secure our objectives if we lack the commitment of our supporters. We hope that over the past years we have demonstrated both our ability to make a real difference and our deep, personal commitment to our shared, and necessary cause. The path back to Health Freedom may be long, but it is surely worth every step. Again, we ask you to share the burdens of our fight and consider making a much-needed Donation (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189)
SPECIAL EXEMPTION FOR IRA ROLLOVER GIFTS ENDS THIS YEAR
Under the Pension Protection Act of 2006, any individual 701/2 or older can make direct transfers from an individual retirement account (IRA) to qualifying non-profits, such as the Natural Solutions Foundation, of up to $100,000.
But, unless extended by Congress, this special exemption will expire at the end of 2007. The transfer must be postmarked or delivered to the Natural Solutions Foundation no later than December 31, 2007.
Distributions can be made only from traditional IRA's or Roth IRA's. Donations from 403(b) plans, 401(k) plans, pension plans or other retirement plans are ineligible for the tax-free treatment.
Distributions should be made directly by your IRA trustee payable to the Natural Solutions Foundation. A distribution to a charitable remainder trust or gift annuity would not be qualified, nor would a distribution to a donor-advised fund.
There are additional tax benefits. Because the transfer is not included in the IRA ownern's income, nor reported on the taxpayer's income tax return, it does not count against the taxpayer's charitable deduction adjusted gross income (AGI) percentage limitations.
Consult your financial adviser to determine if an IRA rollover contribution to the Natural Solutions Foundation would be advantageous.
Direct IRA rollovers should be sent directly to the Natural Solutions Foundation, 1008 Forest St, Maryville, MO 64468. Direct any questions you may have to our attorney and Foundation Trusteel, Ralph Fucetola at 973-300-9594, ralph.fucetola@usa.net.
Thanks for you continued support. Health Freedom is worth fighting for! It is, after all, the Mother of all Freedoms!
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
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