Candida diet plan is essential for people suffering from a medical condition known as Candidiasis. This medical condition is signified by the growth of organisms known as Candida albicans in the intestinal system of the affected person. The microorganism releases toxins into the host body and causes a person to fall ill. With the help of Candida diet some of the foods or ingredients that can help the sustenance of this organism are eliminated. When growth and multiplication of candida albicans is stopped by constraining yourself from certain types of foods and drinks you can quickly take on the path of recovery.

As all types of sugar are eliminated as a part of Candida diet, thus it is difficult to figure out what to drink. Most people are prone to drinking soda, ice tea, fruit juice and other sugary drinks. It is difficult for the Candida affected people to give up these drinks. Most of you might be left dismayed to find that light soda or fruit juice which was an essential part of their diet cannot be gulped any longer as they contain artificial sweeteners. Artificial sweeteners such as sucralose and aspartame feed the Candida organisms in the same manner as regular sugar. Though old habits die hard but it is essential to know beverages that are okay to drink and others that should be eradicated.

Water is the best drink for Candida diet. The human body is made of 70% water and it is a vital component for all the organs. Proper intake of water keeps the body healthy and all the organs in optimal state. When proper volumes of water are not taken it can lead to fatigue, headaches, constipation, weakness, nausea, etc. Properly hydrated body can overcome Candida as it flushes out the toxins from your body. Candida diet does not suggest drinking tap water as it may contain certain toxins. Rather drink filtered water or purified water.

Herbal tea or Green tea is another great drinking option for the Candida patients. Most diet plans bar tea and coffee consumption as coffee contains caffeine and tea leaves lead to mold contamination. However, green tea is the best choice as it provides anti oxidants to the body that protect against radical damage. Herbal tea has many medicinal benefits that help the Candida patients.

Other types of drinks that can be taken by the Candida sufferers includes lapacho tea, coconut water, kombucha and moderate amounts of wine.

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If you snore, even if it’s just occasionally, you’re not alone. Approximately 45% of normal adults snore, but that doesn’t stop most people from poking fun at a loud snorer. Snoring can even affect your relationship with your significant other. If one of you snores, it’s almost a guarantee that the snorer will wake the other up once in a while.  Fortunately, there’s hope. If you have a serious snoring problem, you don’t have to endure harsh treatments, or take medicine to solve it. There are plenty of organic remedies for snoring that you can try before ever even talking to a doctor.

The first thing anyone with a chronic snoring problem should try is changing their sleeping position. If you fall asleep on your back, the back of your tongue and your soft palate will sag back toward your throat, resulting in loud (or at least louder) snoring. Changing sleeping positions isn’t as easy as it sounds, but with a little help, you can do it. Try using a body pillow to keep you on your side. The additional support it offers should make it easy. Some people have also had success by taping tennis balls to their pajamas just behind the knees. It might sound strange, but it definitely helps.

In addition to changing your sleeping position, you’ll also want to look at your sleeping habits. If, for example, you work long hours on little sleep, when your head finally hits the pillow, you’ll crash into a deep sleep. In this state, the resting tone of the muscles in the back of your throat changes, allowing them to move in a manner that will cause you to snore. If you’re in a situation where you’re stuck working long hours, try to eliminate as many tasks that will force you to get up early or stay up late as you can. If you get enough rest to match your lifestyle, you won’t find yourself snoring nearly as often.

Whenever you’re sick, the doctor will always tell you to drink plenty of fluids. That’s also true if you’re a heavy snorer. If you become dehydrated, the secretions in both your soft palate and your nose will become thick, and sticky. As a result, you’ll begin to snore, or if you’re already a snorer, you’ll begin to snore louder.

Allergens in your bedroom can also contribute to a snoring habit. Try dusting your ceiling fan, and replacing your pillows. Allergens can get caught in your pillows, and make their way into your nose and mouth as you sleep, causing an allergic reaction that can lead to increased snoring.

By using these organic remedies for snoring, you’ll be able to cut down on your snoring, if not get rid of it entirely. If these methods fail, you may want to consult a doctor, but there’s a good chance that one of these remedies will solve your problem, and help give you and your significant other a good night’s sleep.

Andreas Henderson, MR, published author and medical researcher has spent many years supporting people finding the best snoring cures.

First we learned of the harmful side affects of Eli Lilly’s Thimerosal, the preservative used in vaccines that is linked to autism spectrum disorder. As reports trickled in, parents continued to be pressured to vaccinate their children: to do otherwise meant the possibility of a parental inquisition and the risk of their child being disallowed an education. Some parents braved the school district head-on and won their battle to protect their child through a doctor’s waiver, or were granted absolution through religious beliefs. But the outcome of battling school districts is a crapshoot, as the rules vary from state to state.

A New Threat

It appears there is another threat afloat that has gained the attention of the nation. Gardasil, a vaccine made by the pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co that was developed to combat the papilloma virus (HPV), a sexually transmitted disease that has been linked to cervical cancer.

Merck has admitted to the pre-licensure trial of only 1,200 girls under the age of 16. Yet, the CDC recommends this inoculation for girls between the ages of 9 to 26 years. Additionally, Merck’s Gardasil studies did not include side effects of taking multiple vaccines in conjunction with Gardasil.

Upon the release of Gardasil in 2006, Vaccine Safety Group began to receive alarming reports related to the vaccine titled Gardasil Reaction Report that contains indicators that warrant close parental scrutiny. The information shared by Vaccine Safety Group notes the following negative reactions tied to the Gardasil vaccination: fainting, tingling and loss of sensation in the fingers and limbs, seizures, facial paralysis and Gullian-Barre Syndrome (a disorder in which the body’s immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system).

In 2007, Texas Governor Rick Perry, unwilling to wait for Gardasil to be included to the list of state-mandated vaccines, lead the rush to mandate the Gardasil vaccine to be administered to sixth-grade girls in a three-shot series at a cost of $120 per vaccine. Perry’s mandate led to public outcry angered by the promotion of promiscuity and state intrusion into what they believed should remain a private parental decision.

With CDC endorsement that young girls receive the Gardasil vaccination, several states began taking steps to add the vaccine to its mandated list of inoculations, but the mandate was voted down by concerned citizens.

A Doctor & A Former Gardasil Spokesperson’s Warnings

On August 29, 2009, CBS investigative news reported warnings from a Gardasil spokesperson, Dr. Diane Harper, who stated parents of young girls should receive complete warnings about the vaccine from Merck. Dr. Harper went on to say that there were 3.4 out of every 100,000 doses distributed: the same rate as the death rate of cervical cancer. Dr. Harper has since joined the growing numbers of watchdogs warning parents of Gardasil’s potential harmful effects.

Joining Dr. Harper’s warnings, Dr. Scott Ratner and his wife spoke about their teenage daughter’s struggle after she became severely ill with autoimmune myofascitis following her first dose of the Gardasil vaccine. Their daughter is now dependant upon steroids to combat the autoimmune disease they are convinced is linked to Gardasil.

In 2009, ABC News released an alarming investigative report about the deaths of 32 young females that were suspected to be linked to the Gardasil vaccine. In the report, doctors questioned over the possible negative side effects of the Gardasil vaccine were a mixed bag with some stating they were concerned over the statistics surrounding Gardasil, while others went on record as being satisfied that the vaccine did not appear to hold any more alarming side effects than other vaccines.

Boys Are Next

On October 25, 2011, CNN announced that the federal advisory committee voted to include males as young as 9 years old to receive the Gardasil Vaccine. The committee states Gardasil will combat the papilloma virus, said to lead to cancers in males, and to protect females from the virus which is sexually transmitted. The initial report by CNN was followed up by Elizabeth Cohn, CNN’s senior medical correspondent who assured the viewers that physicians were not concerned about any side effects of the Gardasil vaccine. Later in the day, Cohn reported the CDC recommends, but does not mandate, inoculations. Rather, the decision to mandate inoculation is left up to individual states to determine.

Real Life Gardasil Nightmares

Over the few short years since initial reports began to be reported on the Gardasil vaccine, additional adverse reactions have been reported such as paralysis, blindness, pancreatitis, speech problems, blood clots, short-term memory loss and ALS.

In total, there were 26 deaths of young girls who had received the Gardasil vaccine between September 1, 2010 and September 15, 2011.

Even then, the Center for Disease Control’s formal statement regarding the negative effects of the Gardasil vaccine is as follows: “There is no unusual pattern or clustering to the deaths that would suggest that they were caused by the vaccine.”

Yet, side effects being reported shortly after inculcation to otherwise healthy young girls are frightening similar, and these adverse reactions are being experienced by girls as young as 11 years old.

Sample Cases Reported to the FDA

After a second Gardasil vaccine on September, 26 2007, a 15-year old female  experienced a headache thirty minutes following the inoculation. The following day, the girl’s mother received a call from the school nurse that her daughter was suffering tingling in both hands. The 15-year old was again sent to the nurses office following what was described a s a shaking sensation over her body. That evening, the girl suffered pain and burning in her back. Her parents brought her to the emergency room, where she collapsed. The 15-year old suffered paralysis and remained in the hospital for two months. A report of the incident was sent to the FDA by the girl’s physician.

When visiting her family, a healthy 18-year old college freshman complained of feeling ill. Within two days, she was rushed to the emergency room and diagnosed with meningococcal disease of the brain and subsequently died that evening. The otherwise healthy young woman had received the Gardasil vaccine on May 10, 2007 and died on October 7, 2007 from complications of meningitis.

The following abbreviated report was sent to the FDA by the mother of a healthy 14-year old girl who received three Gardasil vaccinations on August 2007, June 2008, and June 2008. The adverse reactions she experienced were as follows: numbness and tingling in the fingers and toes, difficulty with falling asleep, urinary tract infections, ovarian cyst, moodiness, trouble getting out of bed and seizures.

Following her third shot, the girl suffered a reported 150 seizures, at which time she would stop breathing for 30 to 40 seconds. Eventually, the 15-year old was diagnosed with Neurocardiogenic syndrome and seizures. Upon her death, it was reported that her death was the result of an ovarian cyst. A reporter who followed up on the tragedy believed the information and medical records pointed to the Gardasil vaccination as the cause of the 14-year olds death. .

Reports also suggested a high rate of miscarriages for pregnant females who take the Gardasil vaccination. Reported by Dr. Akilah El of the Celestial Healing Wellness Center reports, a breastfeeding mother whose infant child died the day after having been breast fed by a mother who had taken the Gardasil vaccine:

Don’t Expect Your Day in Court

It behooves us to practice due diligence with regards to any vaccines, especially when they are being administered to children whose innocence may be threatened with an adverse reaction to the many “mandated” inoculations routinely given to children today.

When adverse reactions are egregious enough to require medical procedures or hospitalization, the news grows just as offensive as the vaccine. Nearly 25 years ago, the U.S. Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, exempting the vaccine manufacturer from the courts. Now, should you have a legitimate claim of vaccine injury, the case must be heard in a “Vaccine Liability Court”, which is centered on tort law  (violating the Constitutional process). The outcome usually goes against the complainant.

In essence, big pharma is shielded and reads a lot like appealing a determination from the IRS by requesting a court date at which time you plead your case in front of an IRS court judge.

It’s worth noting that we, the consumers, pay for the Vaccine Liability Court with a surcharge that is attached to medications, which in turn, is used for big pharma to pay the IRS. I could be wrong, in fact I could be one of those delusional conspiracy nuts, but even so, it all seems to come full circle.

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The preceding was a guest post for Organic Health by author Barbara Fix.

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If you are a little health conscious, then you might be aware of the health benefits of organic food. With the declining quality of food and people becoming more conscious about their health, organic food is gaining more attention and popularity. However, when some kind of organic foods are mainly beneficial for your health, there are numerous others that render many other benefits other than health benefits. If you still have any doubts about organic food, then just keep reading to know what you are missing without organic food.

Keeps away from chemicals

Apart from the fact, that organic food consists of more nutrients and that it provides you with more energy and keeps you away from diseases, there are some other benefits that you might not see on the surface, as these are hidden. If you dig down into the benefits that organic food provides, then you will come across many such facts that are beneficial in their own unique way. If you consume organic food, then you will not only keep yourself away from pesticides, and harsh chemicals, but will also help in keeping the environment healthy as well. In organic farming no chemicals are used for farming and farmers use natural fertilizers only.

Healthier plants and animals

Organic plants or food thrives because these are stronger due to the use of organic fertilizers. Not only the plants gain from organic practices but animals also gain a lot from such practices. When it comes to farm animals, they are fed with only organic feed, so you can be sure about the quality of the milk or meat that you get from animals reared as per the organic standards. There will not be any problem such as dying sea, sick birds, or even infertile wildlife due to harmful chemical exposure.

Get healthier environment and improved economy

Organic food renders many other benefits for the environment that include elimination of topsoil erosion, nutrient depletion, pollution, scarred landmark, etc. This is not all, as organic farming that brings organic food to you also helps in supporting your local economy. If you purchase more organic food, then this will help the farmers and also helps in growth of organic farming. Consuming organic food also keeps your family healthy. This is because traditional food practices have been associated with many birth defects such as childhood leukemia, learning disorder, nervous system disorder and autism, and even ADHD. Therefore, by switching towards organic food you can keep your family healthy and happy.

Organic food surpass non-organic food

One of the other benefits of organic food is that, it excludes genetically modified organisms, which are food that comes with a genetically modified structure. If you delve deep into the facts, then you will find out about the glaring deficits of such kind of food. If you weigh the benefits health and other benefits of organic food, then you will surely find out the benefits from organic food outweighs the doubtful goodness of food that are non-organic.

If you are concerned about the cost of organic food, then you should compare the cost of organic food to the cost that you will save on health, because if you stay healthy you can save health care costs, making organic food even more beneficial.

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About the author: Rebecca is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on luxury and fashion. Beside this she is fond of automobiles. These days she is busy in writing an article on healthy recipes.

Every day, more and more Americans are becoming aware of genetically modified organisms - GMOs - and the frightening reality of a mainstream food supply that is for many intents and purposes, poisonous. Due to this welcome new awareness, organic foods are growing in popularity faster than ever before. Recent data provides that the majority of Americans, when given the choice, will choose to avoid eating genetically modified foods, and are seeking out organic options more often as the rule, rather than the exception. The FDA, in spite of this information, does not require disclosure from food manufacturers when their products contain genetically modified content. This is disturbing indeed, but, there is a reliable way to more effectively avoid brands that are guilty of peddling GM goods. The way to do this is to seek out and purchase products that have been awarded the distinction of being Certified Organic by the USDA.

When shopping for food, look for items that are specifically labeled "USDA Certified Organic". According to the Organic Consumers Association, by taking this precaution, it's much safer to conclude that the food you're buying is free of GMOs because this is the only product label that is federally-regulated to prohibit the use of genetic engineering. Products that bear the seal are at least 95 percent organic, and no GMO ingredients were used in the manufacturing process. The remaining five percent of ingredients are required by law to be non-GMO. The seal is only awarded to products that pass a rigorous series of checks that are used to measure how they are brought to the consumer from the field to the fork.

Single-ingredient products such as fruit and vegetables or eggs can be labeled 100 percent organic under the USDA Certified Organic seal. The seal can also sometimes be found along with the word "organic" on select packages of meat and cheese, and containers of milk. Foods with multiple ingredients such as snacks, beverages, or breakfast cereal for example, fall into the category that is governed by the 95 percent rule. Varying proportions of organic ingredients are sorted by a classification system -

1. Products that are completely organic, or comprised of entirely organic ingredients are 100% Organic
2. Products that are no less that 95 percent organic are classed as Organic.
3. Products that are no less than 70 percent organic are classed as Made with organic ingredients.
4. Finally, products that contain less than 70 percent organic ingredients cannot be awarded the USDA seal, and are not allowed to use the word "organic" in their labeling. They can however list organic items in their breakdown of ingredients.

Be aware that the terms "organic" and "natural" on product labels are absolutely not one and the same. Since, as described above, items that contain less than 70 percent organic ingredients are not awarded the USDA Certified Organic seal, advertisers introduce the terms "natural and "all-natural" instead. This is merely jargon and these products have no legal distinction of being organic. Foods containing GMO ingredients are marketed as "natural" on a regular basis, and it's important to keep this in mind.

This guest post is by Stephani Spitzer, a freelance writer who contributes on behalf of Advance Me America's Leading merchant cash advance provider.

Different types of genetically modified foods are easily amiable in the market. Many people are under the opinion that consuming genetically modified foods is unsafe for humans and can cause a lot of hazards to the environment. Though a lot of studies have been carried out in this aspect, no conclusions have been reached about it. So there are no proper guidelines for selling such kinds of foods in the market. Genetically altered foods are those which are altered at the DNA level. They are modified using certain precise technology developed by the scientists. The modifications are usually done to make the foods easier to produce and market. Most of the common types of foods that are genetically modified are tomatoes, corn and soybeans to name a few. Such crops are also produced to make them pest resistant and yield more. However, there are many potential disadvantages related to the genetically modified foods. Read on to find out why avoid eating genetically modified foods.

1. Many criticisms have been leveled at the genetically modified foods. As consumers we must be aware of the possible side effects associated with them.

2. Changing the plants genetically may have some lasting effects on the ecosystem as a whole. The change done to a particular plant may cause it to be toxic for other organisms that depend on the plant.

3. The use of the insect resistant crops, the insects can become resistant to the modifications done to the crops. This results in the loss of plants and crops with natural immunity leading to biodiversity loss.

4. Cross pollination and breeding across various specious can also result in a wide range of insect resistant weeds.

5. When such modified crops are produced there may be many lawsuits on who owns the crops and the seeds. It would become very difficult to maintain the organic status of the crops and plants.

6. The biggest concern is that the genetically modified foods can induce allergies in humans. They may become allergic to a wide range of such foods that contain a gene from the allergy causing item. Example, Brazilian nut gene used in corn.

7. According to some studies, ingesting the genetically modified foods can have some effect on the digestive system too. It can also lead to food poisoning in certain cases and various other problems.

8. Another concern is that the control of such foods may be done by a few large companies since they own the genetically modified seeds. It depends on these companies how they will be using the modified seeds and crops.

9. You will actually not know what you are eating while consuming the genetically modified foods. The plants may contain animal products due to the genetic engineering. This can be a great problem to those who have religious commitments and dietary restrictions.

In a nutshell, people will not know what they are eating unless they are aware of the genetic modifications done to a particular plant or crop. Without much scientific evidence it not safe to consume such foods because there is not proper guidance or records as to what these foods are capable of doing to the body in the long run.

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About the author: Rebecca is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on fashion and luxury. Beside this she is fond of books. She recently bought a book on teen pregnancy from a book fair. These days she is busy in writing an article on Industrial Design style.

Everyone is after organic foods. What is the reason behind this rush? Is it worth the money you spend on it? If you need to know the answers for these questions read on further. Eating organic food is a great way to improve your health and your energy level.  It is also a great way to protect yourself from some of the really horrible things that they are now putting in many of our foods.  The truth is that there are some fundamental differences between organic food and most of the food that you buy in the grocery stores.  Given below are ten reasons why you should start eating organic food.

1. Avoid antibiotics and hormones in dairy

The non-organic cows are usually given pesticide ridden feed and growth hormones which is ingested by us. These cows promote virus adaptability which in turn makes require stronger antibiotics to fight infections. In case of organic farms, the cows are free from such issues. The process of pasteurization is also absent in the raw dairy organic products. So the enzymes are not disturbed.

2. Avoid the antibiotics and hormones in the meat

Just like the non-organic products, the meat that we obtain from the non-organic variety may be contaminated with the growth hormones and antibiotics. Hormone residue is known to increase the risk of breast cancer and other types of cancer in men. Organic meat on the other hand is known to have higher levels of minerals and vitamins. They have better flavor and texture too.

3. Avoid irradiation

Irradiated non-organic products undergo genetic variation. This makes the food lose its enzymes, good bacteria and vitamins. All these are preserved in the organic foods because they are not irradiated.

4. Avoid pesticides

Most of the fruits and vegetable that are grown in non-organic way are sprayed with various kinds of pesticides to destroy harmful insects. When we consume these foods, we ingest the pesticides also that can cause different types of problems. Since the organic foods are grown without the use of chemicals you can be free from such issues.

5. Avoid toxins and other health concerns

The toxins found in the non-organic foods affect us at a cellular level and can cause a lot of problems like heart disease, obesity, cancer, hormonal and reproductive diseases. More than adults, the children get affected very quickly. Such type of illnesses may take a long time to show up.

6. Conserve air and water

Organic foods do not pollute the surroundings or the environment by releasing toxic substances like non-organic farming. The pesticides, fertilizers and other chemicals used by the non-organic farming infiltrate the surface and the groundwater. The polluted water is consumed by many people leading to various health problems. This can be greatly avoided by using organic farming.

7. Protect the environment

As already mentioned, the environment is safe in the case of organic farming. The organic farmers also have soil building program to prevent soil erosion and improve its quality. They also practice composting, cover cropping and crop rotation for protecting the land. Organic farming needs less energy and transportation requirements.

8. Reduce risk of cancer

Consuming organic foods can help you to reduce the risk of various types of cancers due to the presence or hormones, pesticides, toxins and other carcinogens.

9. Increase energy

When you eat organic food products there are no side effects of toxins and other chemicals. You can be sure of what you are eating without any potential danger. You will be eating clean foods that can promote your energy levels and nutrition requirements.

10. Support small farming communities and fair wages

The best thing is that you will be supporting minor farming communities who practice organic farming. They will also get a fair amount of their wages when more and more people buy these products.

Organic foods are very essential for promoting good health and proper growth.

Since they are grown without the use of chemicals, they are not contaminated with harmful chemicals too. So you can consume them safely without the fear of contacting different health problems. They do not pollute the environment too.

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About the author: Rebecca is a blogger and writer. She loves writing on health and lifestyle. Beside this she is fond of travelling. These days she is reading a book on easy ways to weight loss.

The health authorities are constantly whining about the state of our diets, the newspapers are telling us that everything gives us cancer and the media are producing TV shows to exhibit obese children and their terrible parents. However, while many are taking a negative stance on the man-against-cardiovascular disease campaign, there have been plenty of positive and encouraging reactions to our heavier society. TV chefs have made money promoting simple, healthy meals, a new wave of food branding has emerged with friendly, tongue-in-cheek comments on their pastel-colored cartons and McDonalds now sell bags of fruit. Among these positive reactions lie the ‘Superfoods’.

Superfoods have risen to stardom as a result of their high phytonutrient content. Phytonutrients are found in plants and are said to have health benefits, such as lycopene which is found in tomatoes and is thought to lower the risk of developing prostate cancer and cardiovascular diseases. While there has been some cynicism surrounding the actual health benefits of superfoods, these are undeniably healthy foods containing anti-oxidants so no one can complain that we’re being encouraged to eat them.

One of the best of these superfoods is the humble apple. Containing a large amount of skin-friendly Vitamin C, apples are a great snack to ensure that you’re left feeling and looking radiant. They are also low GI which means that an apple mid-morning will keep your energy levels high enough to get you through ‘til lunch time.

And some of the superfoods you can buy are merely seasonings to most people. Garlic can improve the circulation, for example, and turmeric is just all-round good for you. It might come as a surprise that some alcohol is beneficial – but before men around the world jump up from their respective sofas, this is referring to small quantities of wine rather than 24-packs of Bud Light.

Some of the superfoods which will slow the body’s aging process....

Baked beans
Cinnamon
Cilantro, also known as coriander
Turmeric
Mustard
Blueberries
Cherries
Orange or apple
Dark chocolate (70% or more cocoa solids)
Walnuts
Pecans
Pistachios (unsalted)
Lentils
Kidney beans
Avocados
Broccoli
Asparagus
SMALL amounts of red wine

Eight Simple Rules

Here are eight incredibly important things to remember about your diet. We’re not going to shoehorn it into five, or make up an extra two to make it ten. When you’re planning what you’re going to eat or how you’re going to tackle your children’s diets, base your endeavors around these points and you should see an improvement.

Eat balanced meals with a focus on whole grains and the most seasonal vegetables which are available to you.

Cook at home as much as you can. Nutrition is lost through inefficient industrial cooking processes, and the goodness in foods deteriorates over time, so make as much of your food at home as you can. When you buy bread, you’re buying a processed product, but when you make it you’re only eating what you want to put into the bread.

Control your portions. Remember, kids don’t need as much food as adults do, and men need more food than women. If you’re giving everybody in the family the same sized portion, it’s time to rethink. Investing in smaller plates is a very easy way to control portion size and to trick your brain (read: your son’s brain) into thinking it has had more than it has.

Eat and chew slowly. Some Victorian diets required the dieter to chew every mouthful thirty times. In recent trials, the volunteers found that they did in fact lose weight. Obviously not everybody has the time to chew their mouthfuls thirty times, but I’m sure we could all get close. It’s nice to actually stop and taste the food for a change, rather than just using it to refuel.

Drink water with your meal – and lots of it. It helps the whole body to deal with the food better, and will leave you feeling refreshed. It will also prevent you from feeling bloated from too much food. Avoid drinking carbonated or alcoholic drinks with your meals. A small glass of red wine, though, is thought to be beneficial.

Eat fish at least twice a week. Fish contain all sorts of healthy chemicals which are difficult to find in food from the land. Oily fish make the brain work better, and fillets of mackerel (you can normally buy them smoked or unsmoked, peppered or unpeppered) go with all sorts of dishes. Flaked onto a salad? Spread onto warm toast? You can even have them for breakfast instead of bacon like they do in Scandinavia. (You might think that sounds disgusting, but your children might enjoy it.)

Eat vegetarian at least twice a week. It gives your body a break from constantly digesting meat, and is a good opportunity to throw some roughage in the direction or your small and large intestines.

Eat game, offal, and red meats no more than three or four times a week.

***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.

For the time being, let's ignore the waste and mindlessness of having one government agency fund research of which another government agency forbids publication (Romans 1:18; I Timothy 6:20?).  Let's overlook the asinine notion that cherries are drugs.  Let's examine something else the FDA is doing.

Anyone who takes vitamin supplements has seen, on the labels of supplements, the vitally important message required by the Federal Death Administration:  “These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.  This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.”

For years, I've seen that notice on labels of supplements.  I know (wink, wink) that the government cares deeply about me.  Why haven't they gotten around to evaluating statements on the labels of supplements?  They rushed to test the pain killer, Vioxx, which ended up killing not a few people.  How many other “FDA-approved” pharmaceuticals have killed or harmed people?  But the FDA won't test natural remedies, with which old-timers were familiar, though those remedies work, as Mom knew about the relationship between lack of Vitamin C and scurvy.

Surely, people at the FDA aren't afraid that, if the general population were well nourished, people would keep from having to buy drugs which mask symptoms whose causes proper nutrients would eliminate.  And, surely, the Easter bunny is coming.  (Our massively corrupted food supply, with the “Green Revolution” having resulted in plants with decreased nutrient content, along with the up-and-coming trend toward GMO “foods,” is another subject.)

For years, I had a problem with those little painful sores in the mouth.  The ten-dollar name for them is aphthous ulcers, but they are commonly called canker sores.  A friend told me that Lactobacillus acidophilus would get rid of those sores.   I didn't see how that could be, but I figured that I had nothing to lose, except for the price of acidophilus tablets, or yogurt which contains live L. acidophilus bacteria.  And I found that, for me, maintenance of a population of L. acidophilus in my GT quickly gets rid of those canker sores.

“This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.”

Those canker sores kept me ill at ease, or in a condition of dis-ease.  Regardless of what the FDA requires to be printed on labels of supplements, L. acidophilusin tablets or yogurt put me back at ease.  Acidophilus tablets cured my dis-ease.

****The following is a guest post for Organic Health by author Jim Knapton**** Let us not kid ourselves anymore. America does not offer, in the main, healthcare but hugely expensive systems to support the care of the largely unnecessary sick. Is this not more aptly labeled sickcare? In contrast to any other developed nation, we lack a national health policy whose minimum qualification ensures at least adequate treatment for all, irrespective of economic standing. Socialized medical plans, no matter how abhorrent to American individualists who see them as an abomination only because they are seen to adversely affect their pocketbooks, guarantee that no one will ever have to forfeit their material lives for being ill. America states a contrary view: only if you can afford it can you get it.

It is imperative that alternatives be sought to replace our current sickcare programs, where self-serving interests—pharmaceutical profiteering, malpractice insurance absurdities, multiple-payer inefficiencies, privileged professional associations, and poor quality hospital care—hold too great a sway.1 Instead of equal and just primary care for all, we have spawned a sickcare industry that views patients as consumers not people, caring more for the curing of illness and less for the prevention of it, excellent though many of those services are for some in our society.

This is obvious from the latest news that adult obesity rates in 2010 rose in 16 states. Not even in one state did the level of obesity decrease, according to the just released Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation annual report on obesity. Twelve states, led by the southeast, now have obesity rates above 30 percent, whereas obesity rates exceed 25 percent in more than two-thirds of all our states. This has led to adult diabetes rates increasing in eleven states and Washington, DC, in the past year. In eight states, more than 10 percent of adults now have type 2 diabetes, marked by high levels of glucose (sugar) in the blood. And while the primary treatment for type 2 diabetes should be diet and exercise, what is our sickcare system doing to implement these solutions?

Healthcare should be all about teaching us how to be well. Proper nutrition is the most important factor in achieving and maintaining health, as well as a regular habit of appropriate exercise and minimizing exposure to environmental toxins. Instead, fast-food franchises; low-fat and fat-free products; MSG (in all its disguised names); sweeteners such as high fructose corn syrup, aspartame, and sucralose; hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils; irradiated and genetically modified food; factory-farmed animal products; and most packaged foods are anathema to good health. Obesity, today’s booming civilized-human dysfunction, is not an accident of nature but a predictable outcome of food industry advertising and exploitation of our highly profitable addiction to cheap, adulterated, processed food. Combined with the tendency for unnecessary care and over-treatment—doctors prescribing far too many toxic pharmaceuticals to the tune of an estimated annual $500 billion “that does nothing to improve our health”—as a nation we are growing fatter, sicker, and poorer.2 (Not surprisingly, traces of our massive pharmaceutical intake are now commonly found in our drinking water supply!) Unconscionably, we pass on our fascination with unhealthy eating habits to the rest of the world, which is now becoming equally cluttered with Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald’s, KFC, etc. to the detriment of their “growing” societies and their own nationalized sickcare systems.

This is not helped by growing government regulation, issuing through the Food and Drug Administration, designed in part to inhibit local fresh and unadulterated food production. Whereas one would have thought that our federal government, established not that long ago—if I am remembering correctly, of the people, by the people, for the people—would be in concert with people’s needs, this is apparently not the case. Instead, last year Congress introduced the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510), which opponents said would “lead to crushing regulations on local food production, to the benefit of the big corporate farming interests that backed passage of the law.”

What this act means, in fact, is that we will be increasingly disallowed to grow our own organic food and drink nutritious raw milk because the FDA says it’s bad for us, when it’s obvious, from the size and illness of our bodies, exactly the opposite is true. Consequently, even if not all of us are yet literally up in arms, many of us are metaphorically so, enough to recognize the energizing value of the Tenth Amendment and its protection of States’ Rights. For there is a growing awareness in the country that it is time to oppose the domination of Big Pharma and Big Ag—and become healthier on our own accord.

As the likes of Ron Paul and the Tenth Amendment Nullification Movement—an effort to push back against unconstitutional federal laws and regulations on a state level—are making plain, we can take back our destiny. For in the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States exists the right for any state to nullify any law passed by the US Congress that it considers unconstitutional or otherwise illegitimate.

Obviously, the Founders of this nation weren’t fools. With the Tenth Amendment they guaranteed that if the federal government gets too big for its britches, any state has the power to assert the will of its people. So undoubtedly we will be hearing more from patriots like Ron Paul and Tom Woods, who see an overwhelming need for we the people to get back to depending on the democratic rights of our own initiatives and not to be in thrall to corporate-only interests. We hope this essential consideration for becoming a healthy nation will be a major issue of the next election and that 2012 will be the big turnabout year.

1. Linda T. Kohn, Janet M. Corrigan, and Molla S. Donaldson, ed., To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (2000–ISBN 9780309068376)

2. Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (2007–ISBN 9781582345802)

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To know more about Jim Knapton’s new book, Changing Our World: Solutions for a Future, visit his website at http://www.ottolinepublishing.com/. You can send him mail at info@ottolinepublishing.com.

****Today we have a guest post by Barbara Fix.  She is an outstanding writer and I think that you are really going to enjoy what she has to share with us below.  We encourage everyone to visit Barbara at Survival Diva Blog http://www.survivaldiva.com/.****  Our food chain has been under attack for quite some time. The newest attack, Bill S.510, the Food Safety and Modernization Act, introduced by Senator Harry Reid, makes all the other grabs for our sovereignty pale in comparison. Bill S. 510 has the potential to control our food chain, taking away our ability to buy organically grown fruits and vegetables, and some warn, will open the family garden to scrutiny and complete control. If you’re willing to go down into the depths of darkness in search of the reason for this Bill, consider a day when we are not allowed to purchase heirloom or hybrid garden seed, and are instead allotted GMO seed (more on GMO in my next article).

The following quote best sums up what we are facing:

“If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes.  It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.”  ~[Dr. Shiv Chopra], Canada Health whistleblower

Some may remember when Clinton passed NAFTA and GATT.  That was the day of lost innonence for me, for it suddenly became clear that our leaders did not always have our best interest at heart. Soon, our manufacturing began pond-jumping to overseas locations for lowered taxes and cheap labor. Seemingly overnight, we became a service-related society. In many ways, The Food and Safety Modernization Act has shades of NAFTA and GATT attached to it. The only difference is instead of controlloing our infrastructure, S. 510 is the kill-shot to take away the one thing none of us can live without—food.

The Bill, HR2749 passed, despite dire warnings that a Tester Amendment attached to the bill was a dupe, promoted as a way to protect small farmers and processors from going out of business, but was in fact a grab for complete control of the food chain. However, the Senate did not pick it up until they had added the death keel to our food sovereignty by taking up Bill S. 510. At that time, they added section 107 to the bill with which to generate revenue—something expressly forbidden in the Constitution when such revenue is not introduced by the House. That should have been the end of it. The Bill should have been given its walking papers, and the promoters and writers of the Bill should have been sent for a time out for the remainder of the session. Instead, they worked double-time to gain back lost ground with several possibilities;

The senate could backtrack and get unanimous agreement on removing section 107; or they could remove the offending revenue generation and the “Tester amendment” and hope to fast-track the Bill through the Senate; the Senate could have taken HR2749, having already passed the house, to be slapped on the president’s desk; or they could have the House Ways and Means shove it on through, forgive the constitutional infraction, and vote on it before the deadline they faced. But this liars poker would never fly because of the legal issues that had the potential to ensnare the many plans put into place with the Food and Safety Modernization Safety Act to regulate our food.

The Bully On The Hill: Here are the highlights: The Tester Amendment included in Bill S. 510 was promised as a complete exemption for all farmers with revenues of less than $500,000 annually.

However, it’s important to watch the slight of hand. If one reads the actual amendment, it is evident that it will not do what it is purported to do for the vast majority of small producers. The Tester Amendment has strict restrictions on those who may be “exempted” from HACCP (Hazard and Critical Control Point) enforcements. Those exempted must agree to have a certifier sign off on the plan, and a team to be trained to make sure the farmer follows the plan.

1996 should have taught us a lesson when HACCP forced many meatpacking businesses out of business. Now, only four large meat packaging make up 80% of the meat packing industry.

The Tester Amendment holds farms with less production exempt as long as the farmer keeps records substantiating their sales. The problem with this approach is that an inspector is allowed to use their desecration (power) and nothing says they will be inclined to play well with others. The farmer must apply to be included in the protections of the Tester amendment and keep meticulous records for three years to prove they meet the category of selling more than 50% of annual revenue within a 275-mile radius, or be slapped with the full force of S.510, which would put them out of business.

When a farmer sells from a roadside stand or at a farmers market, they must keep a running record of sales if they don’t want to lose their exemption, and they’d better get really good at map reading to avoid selling outside the allotted 250-mile marker. This is definitely a case of “May I see your papers, please?” The purchaser’s I.D must be shown to double-check that they reside within the small, allowable circumference. In many ways it is not unlike a grocery rewards cards, where every morsel you buy and every liter you drink becomes a permanent record. If you’re getting a visual of brown shirts and jack boots, you share the view of many!

Officials have stated this regulation will be in effect within the Tester Amendment because of Agenda 21 Suitable Development. This translates to total, complete control over human impact on the environment. And to think some of us thought the spotted owl and wetlands protection was a bit over the top!

What a great way to monitor food distribution and keep the farmer in their cross-hairs. Think about the farmer who has devoted their life to provide food that won’t kill his fellow man and then be forced to register under the Bioterrorism Act of 2002 (aka Section 415), but this is what farmers will be facing if they wish to stay in business.

I did say forced, as in past tense. The Food Safety Modernization Act officially passed in early January 2011 with a vote of 75 to 23. For this to be made possible, it took a bit more than slight of hand. It took a late Sunday night vote without a roll call and it was attached to the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Act H.R. 3082 Act. This is very telling, for something intended for the good of the people could have been voted on in the light of day with a full contingency of Senators in attendance.

Lets take a cleansing breath because this is not unlike trying to master a rubrics cube… blindfolded. But, remember what’s at stake is our ability to eat and keeping the government out of our gardens. It’s worth the read.

Watch out For That Suit!Monsanto claims they have no interest in the bill and would not benefit from it. Lets cosider that statement. Mosanto has said they intend to own the food chain, and so far they’ve done an exempliraly job. Every Judge that has found against them for ruiining a farmers crops (there are a paltry few on this list. Typically, Monsanto sues the farmer for unauthorized planting of their seed which was picked up in the wind, ruining a organic gardenrs crop and livelyhood), or in several cases where a Judge put an injunction against Montansanto from growing crop that held concerning health ramifications has been sumilarily overturned.

In fact,  Monsanto’s Michael Taylor may have connections to writing S. 510 and it has been discussed in high places that he expects to be named “Food Czar” to the FDA in preperation for introducing this new government “Department,” although this position has not been approved by Congress. Lets hope Congress decides to put their Big-Boy pants on and put a halt to yet another of Monsanto’s brass that have been infiltrating the Hill for far too long. Some claim S. 510  will give Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food supplements, food and farming.

We can be thankful for a few attachments that were removed before the bill was passed. Most nutritional supplements would have been outlawed through “harmonization” of European Laws and farmers caught selling raw milk, even to their neighbors, would have received a ten-year prison sentence. Even though these mandates were removed, it bears closer scrutiny. The Bill’s authors could only have had a police state in mind when writing such draconian measures in to a Bill that was supposedly there to pave the way for food safety.

Check out this video which exposes the centrally planned "farmers market" where now you must submit a "crop plan" and have your Garden inspected by filling out a "farm schedule" After that's done you're more than welcome to sell your oranges once you fill out your various tax forms, sign the ten page 8000 word contract agreement with the city manager, pay your filing fees and attain your organic certification and proper permits. It has become harder than ever to grow and sell organic natural food. Support venders who sell organic who now have to jump through multiple hoops to make natural food available.

If you have been diagnosed with cancer like mesothelioma, you may be faced with an overwhelming number of decisions. Choosing doctors, health care facilities, and even treatments can leave you feeling numb and exhausted, and that won’t even take into account your emotions and physical toll from the cancer itself. While conventional medicine may play a large role in treating mesothelioma you may be considering alternative treatments as well. For centuries, people have been turning to the world around us for medicinal plants and healing treatments. While herbs and other complementary treatments may not be able to cure your cancer or offer you an increased mesothelioma life expectancy, they can offer substantial relief from the uncomfortable symptoms related to the cancer or the treatments you’re undergoing and dramatically improve your quality of life. Complementary treatments can also help ease the stress of cancer and cancer treatments and help you take control during what is inarguably a very stressful time.

Complementary medicine can encompass a variety of different treatments and is generally used alongside more conventional treatments to achieve maximum results from both. When used alone instead of conventional medicine, these treatments are considered alternative medicine. Herbs, diets, and special foods may be recommended to bring the body into a more balanced state. Reflexology and chiropractic can help relax the body and help it operate more efficiently. Yoga, meditation, and hypnosis can help the mind take more control over the body’s functions.

One of the most popular complementary treatments today is acupuncture, which can help reduce pain and discomfort. Massage is also popular for pain relief, as well as for easing stress and anxiety. However, massage should be avoided when blood counts are low, and incision areas should not be massaged at all. Organic foods, juicing, and algae-based drinks are becoming increasingly popular in recent years. Although complementary cancer treatments offer hope, you need to do as much research about your chosen options as you would any other treatment you’re considering before you make any final decisions.

If you’re interested in learning more about complementary organic treatments, it is essential that you talk to your doctor first. Not all organic cancer treatments are risk-free, and not all can be safely combined with traditional cancer or mesothelioma treatments. You can also learn more about complementary organic treatments by visiting the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

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.

In the two part video posted below, radio host Alex Jones breaks down many of the dangers that we are now facing.  What Alex Jones has to say in these videos will have your jaw on the floor....

Part I:

Part II:

Many Americans do not understand these dangers, and in particular, many Americans are amazed when they are told that many vaccines are actually dangerous. 

If you still doubt that vaccines are dangerous, just consider a few of the recent comments left by readers of this website....

Joanna:

I lost my stillborn son Jeremiah Byron Alexis at 20 weeks on August 15th 2010. I was very healthy and so was my baby. My baby was still trying to breathe for 2 and 1/2 hours after birth. I even heard him cry. My water broke without any pain nor discomfort. I took the H1N1 vaccine as well. I took my pre-natal vitamins and I did everything to have a healthy pregnacy. I had no morning sickness and everything was going smoothly. There was no infections, my placenta was okay. The doctor concluded that it was due to incompetent cervix. I know of many women who miscarried this year and I have a feeling that it is due to the H1N1 vaccine. I had asked my doctor what were the risk involved and he told me NONE. I did not want to take it, but I took it because I wanted to have a safe pregnancy. I miss my Jeremiah so much… he was so active during the pregnancy and he wanted to live. They took my baby from me. I can’t stop crying…

Lorri:

I am a midwife, and am seeing very odd placental anomalies now from mothers whose H1N1 vaccinations were taken last fall during first trimester. Other events include return of serious persistent nausea in third trimester, erratic pre-eclampsia symptoms in healthy well-nourished mothers, excess cramping and threatened pre-term labor, retained placentas, lingering lochia after the birth, unexplainable acute anemia, and one healthy active young mother developed severe DVT one month after birth. My non-vaccinated mothers have not shown any of these symptoms, but all of the mothers who received the H1N1 shot have had some or all of these. With eugenicists like Bill Gates pushing mass involuntary sterilization using vaccinations, all of us need to be asking: Whose brilliant idea was this, giving an untested vaccine to our pregnant mothers, and why has the medical establishment gone along with this scheme without question?

Time to get very, very cynical folks. It is your best self-defense.

Kate:

I was having an otherwise healthy pregnancy up until recieving the H1N1 vaccine at 9 weeks gestation. My 11 week ultrasound could not find a fetal heartbeat and identified a fetus that stopped thriving at the 9 week mark……..the week i recieved the vaccine. I tried to report the ‘adverse’ effect to both of my local health units, where I was not clearly taken seriously. I am an educated RN who was reluctant to take the vaccine at first, however decided to go through with it after advice from my family doctor.

Charlie:

I got my swine flu shot here in Canada in November/09 and one week later I got Guillain-Barre Syndrome. I have been in a wheelchair for the past 3 months as the disease progressed to become CIDP (long-term GBS) and last month in hospital I was completely paralysed for two weeks. I have a minimum two years off work, maybe forever dependig on the disease outcome.

Canada took a shortcut and ordered Arepanix H1N1 vaccine from GlaxoSmith Kline with an adjuvant (additive) containing “Squalene”. Squalene was banned by the USA in 2004 as it is considered a biological weapon that contributed to over 100,000 cases of Gulf War Syndrome, but it is still being used in our vaccines for pseudo-pandemics like H1N1, and doing more harm than good in our country.

On top of this the Government of Canada has protected GlaxoSmith Kline for any lawsuits arising from vaccine problems, so we are left to struggle and survive on our own, and feel abandoned by our government.

Lori:

I wish I never listened to the doctor’s orders. After receiving the swine flu vaccine I developed terrible headaches but little did I know the worst reaction had yet to come. I woke up one day and could barely speak a single word. I could not say my daughter name, speak to my husband, or talk to friends. Frankly, I could not talk to anyone without a soft whisper.

The news came like a title wave. My right vocal cord was paralyzed! My vocal cord was unable to move, unable to vibrate, unable to swallow effectively.

The news was devastating and the medical community tested me for every disorder under the sun only to find me perfectly healthy other than the paralysis. The swine flu vaccine paralyzed me.

So if you’re pondering, is the vaccine safe? Is it effective? Is it necessary? I would answer a resounding NO!

Since the majority of swine flu patients own immune system effectively fights off the flu it seems unnecessary to take a shot that could potentially disable you. It is mandatory to sign a release prior to the shot which provided immunity against any law suits that might result. That within itself was a red flag. Instead of saving my life it disabled me. In retrospect, had I got the swine flu in the first place, I’m sure I would have been speaking just fine by now.

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Are you starting to get the picture?

There is a lot more to protecting your health than you have been told by the media and by the health establishment.

It is time to get educated.  You need to find out what you need to do in order to protect yourself and your family from the health dangers that are multiplying all around us.

For much more on the health dangers that our food supply now poses, we recommend that you check out Sweet Remedy: The World Reacts to an Adulterated Food Supply and Bad Seed: The Truth About Our Food and The Future Of Food.

It seems with each passing month the world just keeps becoming a crazier and crazier place.  We really do live in extraordinary times.  The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has become the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, the genetic modification of our food and of our animals continues to accelerate and global threats to our health just seem to continue to multiply.   Things are getting really frightening out there.  Fortunately there are websites like this that can help keep us all up to date about what is going on out there.  The following are some of the top organic health news stories from all over the globe....

The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill

*One senior BP executive has indicated that the oil washing up on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico could be just the start of a 50-day build-up of pollution.

*Scientists are now telling us that the true danger from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is from what is going on underneath the surface of the water.

*Subsea plumes of oil have been discovered as far as 142 miles from the damaged rig.

*Michigan State University professor Nathaniel Ostrom says that the oil spill could worsen and expand the oxygen-starved region of the Gulf of Mexico known as "the dead zone" for its inhospitability to marine life.

*Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the coordinator of the federal response to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, is warning that it could take years of hard work to fully scrub the Gulf Coast of all the oil.

*BP is being accused of trying to manipulate the search results on search engines like Google and Yahoo, as it attempts to salvage its battered image following the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico.

*Transocean, the firm hired by BP to operate the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig, has announced that it will distribute $1 billion in dividends to shareholders even as oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico.

*Transocean has also announced that it will make a whopping $270 million profit on the insurance policy for the rig.

Genetic Modification

*DuPont and Monsanto are engaged in a brutal war to see who will dominate the genetically modified food market, and you and your kids are the guinea pigs.

*Farmers throughout the U.S. are learning to cope with an increasing number of Roundup-resistant weeds.

*Researchers have found that one of Roundup’s inert ingredients can kill human cells - particularly embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells.

*Genetically modified crops have been given very enthusiastic backing by the U.K. Environment Secretary.

*The U.K.’s Motor Neurone Disease Association has announced that it will donate £800,000 to fund human/animal "hybrid embryo" cloning research by the same Edinburgh University team that created "Dolly" the cloned sheep.

*U.S. government funding for "synthetic biology" is very much on the rise.

*The U.S. Department of Agriculture is attempting to downplay the risks of genetically modified alfalfa, a crop previously banned by numerous federal courts.

*According to one new poll, Americans are increasingly becoming more tolerant of genetic engineering and embryonic stem cell research.

*ArborGen, a biotechnology firm affiliated with three large paper companies, got U.S. Department of Agriculture approval last month for field trials involving as many as 250,000 genetically modified trees planted at 29 sites over the next few years.

*A genetically modified variety of maize banned in the EU has been accidentally sown all across Germany.

*It has been announced that Monsanto will be dumping 60,000 sacks of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds on the people of Haiti.

*Genetic scientists at one university in Germany have spliced a gene for a protein that activates under light into cells in the olfactory system of fruit flies.  The results of this experiment were quite bizarre.

*Prison inmates in Illinois are becoming seriously ill from all of the genetically modified soy that they are being fed.

Drug Warnings

*Shocking new research has found that expectant moms taking antidepressants have an astounding 68 percent increase in the overall risk of miscarriage.

*According to a new nationwide survey, an increasing number of American teens are getting high off of prescription drugs.

Health Warnings

*A new report based on several preliminary studies claims that nanosized particles of titanium dioxide and zinc oxide used in many sunscreens have the potential to cause serious harm.

*Phoenix-area health officials have confirmed that a relatively new, extremely toxic strain of bacteria has been found in hospitals and other health care facilities in the area.

*One team of scientists claims that the growing use of cellphones is what is really behind the disappearance of honey bees and the collapse of their hives.

*A spokeswoman for Wal-Mart says that alfalfa sprouts recalled because of salmonella poisoning were originally sold to more than 400 Wal-Mart stores in 15 U.S. states.

*Tritium was reported leaking from a nuclear plant in Vermont in January, and since that time it has turned up in monitoring wells at levels 100 times the federal Environmental Protection Agency's safety limit for that substance in drinking water.

*A new study has shown that a "highly toxic" chemical in the glue on supermarket labels can seep through packaging and contaminate the food inside.

*The "environmental threat of Amish farming" is drawing increased scrutiny from the EPA.

*Scientists have identified four new strains of the Ug99 wheat-killing fungus that could greatly endanger the global food supply.

Good News

*Researchers have found that an extract taken from green tea reduces cancer cells in the blood of patients with a form of leukaemia and may slow progression of the disease.

*Lastly, one team of researchers believes that they can prove that eating less will enable you to live longer.

Why does the mainstream media continue to insist that the H1N1 vaccine is safe for pregnant women to take?  In the past, doctors would advise pregnant women against taking any vaccines during their pregnancy.  But now they are pushed to the front of the line for vaccines.  What insanity!  Here at Organic Health, we have been one of the few media outlets that has told the truth about the H1N1 vaccine and pregnancy.  In our previous article entitled "Is The H1N1 Vaccine Safe? Shocking Stories From Pregnant Women Who Have Had Miscarriages After Taking The Swine Flu Vaccine", we documented dozens of cases of women who have had miscarriages after taking the H1N1 vaccine.  Hopefully this has helped many pregnant women avoid the mistake of taking the vaccine.  But unfortunately, reports continue to roll in of women who have lost their babies after taking the H1N1 vaccine.

Posted below are three new miscarriage reports from readers of this website....

I lost my baby too:

It’s not only happening in the U.S and Canada. I live in Ireland and lost my baby also. I received the H1N1 vaccine and 1 week later miscarried my baby. I was 9 weeks pregnant. Had a scan at 6 weeks and saw a heartbeat. Got the vaccine and went into the hospital with bleeding and they told me babies heart had stopped at 7.5 weeks. This would have been around the same time as I got the vaccine. TO ALL THE MOTHERS WHO ARE PREGNANT PLEASE DONT GET THIS VACCINE IF YOU WANT YOUR BABY TO LIVE

Diane:

I WAS 24 WEEKS WHEN I HAD A STILLBORN, I TOOK THE AJUVANTED ONE THEN 2 WEEKS LATER I GAVE BIRTH TO A STILLBORN BABY BOY AND NOW TODAY I THOUGHT TO MYSELF THAT I SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO MY GUT FOR NOT WANTING TO TAKE THE SHOT. I TOTALLY BLAME THE H1N1 SHOT FOR MY BABYS DEATH.

nads:

I had the H1NI vaccine at 7 weeks…right after we had seen the fetal heart beat. We MC on week later. I can’t help but wonder why a healthy 33 yr old with no history of MC in family lost her pregnancy right after the vaccine.

When are organic products not really organic?  Well, when you buy them at the organic food store but it turns out that they were made in China.  Yep, that's right.  A major news investigation has revealed that many of the "organic foods" that you are buying at organic food stores are actually made in China.  It turns out that Whole Foods (the largest organic food chain in the United States) is selling a large number of "organic foods" that are actually produced across the globe in China.  Of course the notification that the product is made in China is in small lettering on the back of the package, so most consumers never have any idea that the organic product that they just purchased was grown half a world away.

In fact, if you are trying to eat organic, you might want to avoid anything made in India as well.  It is now estimated that 75 percent of India's surface water is contaminated by human and agricultural waste.  In fact, according to a UN study on sanitation, far more people in India have access to a cell phone than to a toilet.

Talk about disturbing!

The truth is that it is getting really hard to find products that are organic and that are good for your health these days.

For example, it turns out that many big American cattle farms actually feed chicken manure to cattle because it is so inexpensive and because the U.S. produces far too much of it to properly dispose of as fertilizer.

Are you eating cattle that have been raised on chicken manure?

How would you ever know?

In addition, a new study shows that genetically modified crops "can cause liver and kidney damage".  Considering the fact that the vast majority of soy and corn produced in the United States is genetically modified, that is very, very bad news.

But our cell phones are slowly poisoning us too.  If you doubt that, take the time to read this article.

Even the health problems that we did know about (such as fluoride in the water) are actually a lot worse than we  originally thought.

We live during a time of great technological advances, but many of those advances are polluting the air we breathe, the food that we eat and the water that we drink.  The result is a massive health crisis as our aging population develops all sorts of chronic and debilitating diseases.

We encourage as many people as possible to "go organic", but as you can see above, that is getting very difficult to do.

Let's hope that there will be a mass awakening about what we are doing to our bodies and the world around us.  Because if not, the price that we will all pay will be enormous.

The other day I was standing in line at the supermarket when I saw the latest issue of Reader's Digest.  On the cover in big, bold letters was this title: "The Vitamin Scam".  I thought that I must be seeing things.  But I wasn't.  Reader's Digest was actually trying to convince us that those pushing vitamins were trying to scam all of us.  Of course those of us who know the truth just laugh at such nonsense, but the reality is that the vast majority of the American public does not know what to believe about health issues.  Thousands of people are going to believe Reader's Digest on blind faith.

And that is just sad.  Apparently the natural health industry has gotten so much momentum that now the establishment feels that it must openly attack vitamin supplements.  Just check out the following excerpt from the recent Reader's Digest article....

Once upon a time, you believed in the tooth fairy. You counted on the stability of housing prices and depended on bankers to be, well, dependable. And you figured that taking vitamins was good for you. Oh, it's painful when another myth gets shattered. Recent research suggests that a daily multi is a waste of money for most people—and there's growing evidence that some other old standbys may even hurt your health.

What in the world?

Once upon a time we believed in the tooth fairy?

What kind of propaganda is this?

And that is what it is.

Propaganda.

Of course Reader's Digest would never publish data from those who can show that Vitamin C and Vitamin D can be used to prevent an array of diseases that millions of Americans are suffering from.

No, of course not.

They just want to prop up the notion that there is little you can do to prevent getting sick, and when you do, there are no alternatives except to run to the doctor and get the drugs and surgery you need.

What a bunch of nonsense.

But then later on I saw something that even topped that.

In an article entitled "Fried breakfast is healthiest start to day, say scientists", a major U.K. newspaper actually tried to convince their readers that a breakfast of bacon, sausage and eggs was an incredibly healthy way to start the day.

Yeah, bacon, sausage and eggs is a great way to start the day - if you want to die soon.

It is no wonder that so many people are sick these days if this is the kind of health advice they get from the mainstream media.

Most people are completely and totally confused when it comes to health issues these days.

If this is the kind of nonsense that the mainstream media is going to keep putting out, we are going to stop buying their newspapers and magazines and we are going to turn off their television programs.

Fortunately, the establishment does not have a monopoly on information these days.  The Internet is a great channel for sharing information, and I know that I have learned a great deal of what I know about health from the Internet.

If you would like to share some of your knowledge about health issues with the audience of this website, please click the "Contact" tab at the top of this page and get in touch with us.  We are looking for some guest posters who have some useful knowledge about natural health to share with us.

Just don't try to tell us that vitamins are a scam or that bacon and eggs are a good, healthy breakfast. 

The more one learns about fruits and vegetables that more amazed one becomes. You see, the truth is that God created a vast array of natural foods that are incredibly versatile and incredibly good for us. In fact, the other day we learned how absolutely extraordinary a simple cucumber is. A cucumber? Yes, a cucumber. It turns out that cucumbers have some absolutely incredibly properties. Check out all of the things that we learned about cucumbers the other day....

*Just one simple cucumber contains significant amounts of all of the following:

-Vitamin B1

-Vitamin B2

-Vitamin B3

-Vitamin B5

-Vitamin B6

-Folic Acid

-Vitamin C

-Calcium

-Iron

-Magnesium

-Phosphorus

-Potassium

-Zinc

*Not only that, but cucumbers also contain enough sugar, B vitamins and electrolytes to quickly replenish most of the essential nutrients that the body loses, so it is a great vegetable to eat after strenuous activity or if you just need to bring your body back into equilibrium.

*According to gardeners, cucumbers are also great for pest control.  Apparently if you place a few cucumber slices on an aluminum pie tin where bugs can smell them, your garden will be free from pests all season long. 

Why?

Well, it turns out that the chemicals inside the cucumber react with the aluminum to give off a scent that is undetectable to humans but that drive garden pests crazy.  We have not tried this ourselves yet, but we definitely plan to!

*Cucumbers can also tighten up your skin and reduce the appearance of wrinkles.  If you rub a slice or two of cucumbers on the area you want to tighten for a few minutes, the phytochemicals in the cucumber will cause the collagen in your skin to firm up.

Come to think of it, we always wondered why people would put cucumbers on their eyes in the movies.  Now we know!

*In addition, cucumbers can be used on squeaky hinges.  Seriously!  Just take a cucumber slice and rub it on a squeaky hinge and watch the magic happen!

*Believe it or not, cucumbers can also fight bad breath.  If you take a slice of cucumber and press it to the roof of your mouth for a minute or two,  the phytochemcials will kill the bacteria in your mouth that are responsible for causing bad breath.

Who ever said we needed expensive chemical products to fight bad breath anyway!

*Cucumbers are so versatile that they can even serve as a cleaner!  Just take a slice of cucumber and rub it on any surface that you want to shine up.  Not only will it remove years of tarnish, it will bring back the shine and it won't leave streaks!

We just wanted to share this info about cucumbers with you because we thought that it was very cool.

But unfortunately, the big agricultural companies will probably start genetically modifying cucumbers in a few years and we'll probably start losing many of these amazing properties. 

Nature was fine just the way that it was, but our scientists think they know better and they feel the need to go ahead and tinker with it and mess it up.

We encourage all of you to stock up on organic seeds while you still can.  Now is the time to pay off your bills, get out of debt and start living a simpler lifestyle.  If you can move away from the major cities, now is a great time to start doing that.

Hard times are coming down the road and we all need to start becoming more self-sufficient and start getting ready.  Those who choose an organic lifestyle will be much farther ahead than those who don't.  Do what you need to do to get yourself and your family prepared for what is coming.

A couple of comments by our readers and an article over at tetrahedron.org are causing us to ask some hard questions about a hormone called "human chorionic gonadotrophin" (hCG) and vaccines.  Apparently, when the hormone hCG is added to a vaccine, the human body not only develops antibodies against what it is being vaccinated for, it also develops antibodies against hCG.  If a woman is pregnant when this hormone is injected, her body starts a battle to kill off this hormone.  In essence, injecting this hormone induces the body's immune system to attack the hormone needed to bring an unborn child to term.  What you will find below is a comment from a reader named Amy who got the H1N1 vaccine and later had high hCG levels even though her embryo had stopped growing, a comment from a reader named Goobs about hCG in vaccines, and an excerpt from an article on tetrahedron.org about hCG in vaccines.  When read together, these pieces start to raise some very serious questions....

Amy:

I received the H1n1 vaccine (my first flu vaccine ever) at about 6 weeks pregnant. This was my third pregnancy & I have had two healthy ones prior to it… A few weeks after receiving the vaccine I had an ultrasound that showed that the embryo had stopped growing around that same time I had received the vaccine. Since my HCG levels had not diminished, my doctor put me on progesterone supplements to see if we could get things moving. Didn’t help. Days later at about 730pm I began bleeding so badly, my fiance had to rush me to the ER where I had to spend the night in the most agonizing pain I have ever experienced in my life, and I was rushed to emergency surgery after nearly bleeding to death. Not only did we lose what would have been our precious baby, but my fiance & I were both literally scared to death not knowing if I was gonna make it. This happened on Dec 8th & I have wondered since about the possibility of the vaccine being to blame somehow… Also, my OBGYN (who has been an OB for nearly 40 years) said he had never seen such a case where my HCG levels & all of my OWN body’s hormones were moving along normal, yet the baby just STOPPED developing for no obvious reason. He couldn’t even make sense of this himself. I am glad I finally looked online, yet SHOCKED to see so many other women have experienced this! Now I REALLY feel there is a problem with this vaccine. I would NOT recommend that any pregnant woman get the H1N1 vaccine! It is just not worth the risk!!!

Goobs:

What I find most worrying is that hCG (pregnancy hormone) has been administered in typhoid vaccines in poor countries. When hCG is added, the body not only develops antibodies against the carrier (flu virus, typhoid, etc.) but also develops antibodies against hCG. If the woman is pregnant, her body has this hormone and a battle begins to kill off the hormone. The hormone is necessary for the uterus to support a fetus. If the woman is not pregnant, she develops the antibodies and when she does become pregnant, her body produces hCG. The hCG antibodies then go to battle to kill this necessary hormone.

Any woman who has lost their baby or who has had this h1n1 vaccine should DEMAND that she be tested for anti-hCG antibodies. If they are present, she most likely will never conceive.

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http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/new_world_order/HcG_Vaccine_for_Pop._Control.html

A recent study conducted by the Philippine Medical Association on behalf of the Philippine Department of Health revealed that almost 20 percent of the tetanus vaccine sampled positive for the hormone human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG), according to Human Life International. Vaccines containing the hormone immunize women not only against tetanus but also against pregnancy by inducing the body's immune system to attack the hormone needed to bring an unborn child to term.

"This study lends credence to what Human Life International (HLI) and some other groups have suspected all along," said Father Matthew Habiger, president of the international pro-life/family organization. "We first began to hear reports last year about tetanus vaccination campaigns in the developing world that targeted only women of child-bearing or pre-child bearing years, and that they required multiple injections. The vaccination program is sponsored by the World Health Organization, an agency with a 20-year history of researching anti-fertility vaccines," Fr. Habiger said. "We brought our suspicions to the world's attention. This new study greatly heightens our concerns."