***The following is a guest post for Organic Health by Jimmie Parr*** When I was very young, my mother told me about the nutritional value of oranges, and citrus fruits, in general.  She said that English sailors had become known as “limeys,” because they carried limes, or other citrus fruits, on their vessels.  They had discovered that citrus fruits helped prevent a condition called scurvy, which had, in past times, been linked to a deficiency of Vitamin C. I say that, “in past times,” scurvy had been linked to a deficiency of Vitamin C because that type of information may now be lost on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In the March, 2006 edition of Life Extension magazine is an article entitled “Why Is the FDA Picking on Cherries?”  The article has to do with the U.S. Department of Agriculture having given a grant of $150,000 to cherry growers in Michigan.  Michigan cherry growers used the grant to do research about nutritional benefits of cherries.  Among other discoveries, the research revealed a correlation between the consumption of tart cherries and a decrease in pain in joints of people with arthritis.  The anthocyanin in tart cherries was said to be better at pain relief than an equal amount of aspirin.  However, the Fools and Dumb As...oops...the FDA told cherry growers either to stop advertising that tart cherries may help with relief of pain, or to register their cherries as a “new drug,” and to pay the required fees. (Read More.....)

Today it is becoming increasingly difficult to live an organic lifestyle.  We are literally being bombarded with toxins in what we eat, what we drink and in what we breathe.  There are so many serious health dangers all around us that it is hard to name them all.  Aspartame, fluoride, genetically-modified food, pesticides, high fructose corn syrup, pharmaceutical drugs and toxic vaccines are just a few of the major health dangers that confront us each day that most Americans don't even know about.  As Americans absorb increasingly higher levels of toxic substances each year, diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes are absolutely exploding.  The truth is that what you don't know about what is on your grocery store shelves can hurt you. (Read More.....)

One of the points that we have been trying to make over and over and over on this blog is that you should do your own research before taking any vaccine or drug.  As we have repeatedly demonstrated, the consequences for letting someone else do your thinking for you can be catastrophic.  In particular, please do not let someone do your thinking for you who is paid to promote or push vaccines and pharmaceutical drugs.  If something gets put into your body that ruins your health, it is you that is going to have to live with it for the rest of your life.  Today there are two comments left by our readers that we felt deserved to be featured because they do an excellent job of making these points.  Omega and Ellen are both obviously very knowledgeable, and I think that you will enjoy the information that they have to share about vaccines and pharmaceutical drugs.... (Read More.....)

For years, scientists have been trying to figure out a way to get a cancer-causing chemical known as acrylamide out of our french fries and potato chips. You see, acrylamide is not intentionally put into our food - it is the unintentional byproduct of the cooking process. Up until now it seemed as though there was no solution to this problem. Now, Health Canada is proposing to allow food manufacturers to put small amounts of a cancer-fighting drug known as asparaginase into french fries and potato chips and other similar foods to solve this problem. Apparently asparaginase reduces the production of acrylamide during the cooking process by as much as 90 percent. But is this really such a good idea? (Read More.....)

If there was any doubt remaining whether or not Barack Obama has old out, it completely vanished with the recent news that he had cut a dirty deal with the pharmaceutical industry over health care costs.  In exchange for promises by the pharmaceutical companies of 80 billion dollars in future health care savings, President Obama has pledged NOT to use its immense purchasing power to negotiate lower drug prices. (Read More.....)