.... Many of you have been asking about beneficial bugs and I'm happy to report the following;
Diatomaceous Earth - Experimental Feeding
of Codex Food-grade Diatomaceous Earth
to Zoo AnimalsRichard Smith, Hallwood Inc., Animal Food Specialties, Grand Rapids, Michigan
A mixture of feed incorporating 2% diatomaceous earth was sent to three zoos for evaluation. John Ball Park of Grand Rapids, Michigan; Brookfield Zoos of Chicago Illinois; and Buffalo Zoo of Buffalo, New York. John Ball and Buffalo Zoos reported that their black bears on the special feed showed a better coat and clearer eyes. The primates fed at the Brookfield Zoo displayed a pronounced improvement in both appearance and behavior. Stool samples taken at all three zoos showed an absence of any internal parasites - adult or egg. Parasites in these animals were present prior to using the diatomaceous earth food mixture.
Diatomaceous Earth will not harm warm-blooded animal, bees or earthwormsEarthworm farmers use it to treat their worm beds for parasites, fungus gnat larva etc. Earth worms are structurally different from insects in that they can actually digest particles of DE. The particles are then eliminated in their castings as an added benefit to the soil.
Organic Jan
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
FFO/DE for Tooth and Cholestrol Health
I have been thinking about this for some time and thought I would share it with you. Toothpaste has food grade DE in it as a polisher. It is used in industry as a glass polisher because of its hardness. A diamond is 10 and DE is 7. When my cats eat their food is covered with DE and I suspect it acts as a toothbrush. I did some research and found that some dog biskets have DE in them. I made treats at one time and may do it in the future. Its time consuming and expensive and not cost effective, but for the convenience and dogs who resist FFO in thier food I may offer it again.
Food Grade Diatomaceous EarthThe more you hear about this incredible product, the more you will be convinced that you need to make it a part of your daily routine. Every day brings evidence that the more people turn to nature and natural diets and homeopathic remedies for what ails them, the healthier and happier they are. Clearly, all that we need for our well being is provided to us by nature. This is certainly true for diatomaceous earth.
There are several uses for DE, but remarkably, now, humans too can benefit from the cleansing, filtering agents of diatomaceous earth. It is apparent from the research and antidotal evidence, that food grade diatomaceous earth provides multiple health advantages for humans and animals as well. Used as a daily treatment, diatomaceous earth can alleviate the potentially deadly risks of high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and obesity, ameliorate annoying and stressful issues stemming from intestinal bacteria and parasites, bronchia inflammation, kidney and urinary infections, irregular bowels, as well as assist with vertigo, headaches, tinnitus, insomnia, and acts as an anti-inflammatory. Diatomaceous earth is hands down the best remedy for parasites in our bodies. Studies show diatomaceous earth can help those suffering with diabetics and with arterial disease, joint pain and, may, prevent or alleviate Alzheimer disease by preventing the absorption of aluminum. Diatomaceous Earth is Mother Nature's product with no harm to the environment, pets or people. A small amount of Diatomaceous Earth gets absorbed into the blood stream as silica. One of the benefits of Silica is that it helps to destroy bad fats.
Diatomaceous earth is the ground up shells of diatoms, ancient sub-aquatic material. These microscopic sponges can absorb and trap particles to 3 microns. This miraculous filter system works in our bodies to trap and eliminate toxins and clean our internal systems for improved health as these harmful elements are passed through the body---without chemicals! Once our diets naturally included sufficient silica, but with depleted soils, hybrid crops, and over processing of foodstuffs, only about 1/3 of the required silica is consumed. Diatomaceous Earth is over 60% silica and when taken, makes up this deficiency. This natural substance has similar benefits for pets and animals too. Additionally, DE is a natural insect killer-killing by physical action instead of chemical. The DE gets on the insect and scratches their waxy coating off causing dehydration and death. Consumers can find totally organic, safe, and pure FFO Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth, online at fleafreeorganically.com, a family owned and operated business since 2008.
The following cover recent studies on DE and Cholesterol:
Diatomaceous Earth For Lowering Cholestrol
The following article is from an Austrian study using Diatomaceous Earth in cholesterol studies.
Diatomaceous earth lowers blood cholesterol concentrations.
Wachter H, Lechleitner M., Artner-Dworzak E, Hausen A, Jarosch E, Widner B, Patsch J, Pfeiffe K, Fuchs D
Institute of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Innsbruck, Fritz Pregl Strasse 3, Innsbruck, A-6020, Austria.
In this study a potential influence of diatomaceous earth to lower blood cholesterol was investigated.
During 12 weeks we monitored serum lipid concentrations in 19 healthy individuals with a history of moderate hypercholesterolemia (9 females, 10 males, age 35-67 years).
Individuals administered orally 250 mg diatomaceous earth three-times daily during an 8 weeks observation period.
Serum concentrations of cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides levels were measured before study entry, every second week during the period of diatomaceous earth intake and 4 weeks after stop of intake.
Compared to baseline (285.8 +/- 37.5 mg/dl = 7.40 +/- 0.97 mM) diatomaceous earth was associated with a significant reduction of serum cholesterol at any time point, reaching a minimum on week 6 (248.1 mg/dl = 6.43 mM, -13.2% from baseline; p<0.001).
Also low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (week 4: p<0.05) and triglycerides levels decreased (week 2: p<0.05, week 4: p<0.01).
Four weeks after intake of diatomaceous earth was stopped, serum cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides still remained low and also the increase of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol became significant (p<0.05).
Diatomaceous earth, a byproduct, is capable of reducing blood cholesterol and positively influencing lipid metabolism in humans. Placebo-controlled studies will be necessary to confirm our findings.
Your in Organic Health, Organic Jan
PS: I am working on a book on how to use organics instead of chemicals. Email me if you have any ideas for a title.
Food Grade Diatomaceous EarthThe more you hear about this incredible product, the more you will be convinced that you need to make it a part of your daily routine. Every day brings evidence that the more people turn to nature and natural diets and homeopathic remedies for what ails them, the healthier and happier they are. Clearly, all that we need for our well being is provided to us by nature. This is certainly true for diatomaceous earth.
There are several uses for DE, but remarkably, now, humans too can benefit from the cleansing, filtering agents of diatomaceous earth. It is apparent from the research and antidotal evidence, that food grade diatomaceous earth provides multiple health advantages for humans and animals as well. Used as a daily treatment, diatomaceous earth can alleviate the potentially deadly risks of high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and obesity, ameliorate annoying and stressful issues stemming from intestinal bacteria and parasites, bronchia inflammation, kidney and urinary infections, irregular bowels, as well as assist with vertigo, headaches, tinnitus, insomnia, and acts as an anti-inflammatory. Diatomaceous earth is hands down the best remedy for parasites in our bodies. Studies show diatomaceous earth can help those suffering with diabetics and with arterial disease, joint pain and, may, prevent or alleviate Alzheimer disease by preventing the absorption of aluminum. Diatomaceous Earth is Mother Nature's product with no harm to the environment, pets or people. A small amount of Diatomaceous Earth gets absorbed into the blood stream as silica. One of the benefits of Silica is that it helps to destroy bad fats.
Diatomaceous earth is the ground up shells of diatoms, ancient sub-aquatic material. These microscopic sponges can absorb and trap particles to 3 microns. This miraculous filter system works in our bodies to trap and eliminate toxins and clean our internal systems for improved health as these harmful elements are passed through the body---without chemicals! Once our diets naturally included sufficient silica, but with depleted soils, hybrid crops, and over processing of foodstuffs, only about 1/3 of the required silica is consumed. Diatomaceous Earth is over 60% silica and when taken, makes up this deficiency. This natural substance has similar benefits for pets and animals too. Additionally, DE is a natural insect killer-killing by physical action instead of chemical. The DE gets on the insect and scratches their waxy coating off causing dehydration and death. Consumers can find totally organic, safe, and pure FFO Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth, online at fleafreeorganically.com, a family owned and operated business since 2008.
The following cover recent studies on DE and Cholesterol:
Diatomaceous Earth For Lowering Cholestrol
The following article is from an Austrian study using Diatomaceous Earth in cholesterol studies.
Diatomaceous earth lowers blood cholesterol concentrations.
Wachter H, Lechleitner M., Artner-Dworzak E, Hausen A, Jarosch E, Widner B, Patsch J, Pfeiffe K, Fuchs D
Institute of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Innsbruck, Fritz Pregl Strasse 3, Innsbruck, A-6020, Austria.
In this study a potential influence of diatomaceous earth to lower blood cholesterol was investigated.
During 12 weeks we monitored serum lipid concentrations in 19 healthy individuals with a history of moderate hypercholesterolemia (9 females, 10 males, age 35-67 years).
Individuals administered orally 250 mg diatomaceous earth three-times daily during an 8 weeks observation period.
Serum concentrations of cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides levels were measured before study entry, every second week during the period of diatomaceous earth intake and 4 weeks after stop of intake.
Compared to baseline (285.8 +/- 37.5 mg/dl = 7.40 +/- 0.97 mM) diatomaceous earth was associated with a significant reduction of serum cholesterol at any time point, reaching a minimum on week 6 (248.1 mg/dl = 6.43 mM, -13.2% from baseline; p<0.001).
Also low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (week 4: p<0.05) and triglycerides levels decreased (week 2: p<0.05, week 4: p<0.01).
Four weeks after intake of diatomaceous earth was stopped, serum cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides still remained low and also the increase of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol became significant (p<0.05).
Diatomaceous earth, a byproduct, is capable of reducing blood cholesterol and positively influencing lipid metabolism in humans. Placebo-controlled studies will be necessary to confirm our findings.
Your in Organic Health, Organic Jan
PS: I am working on a book on how to use organics instead of chemicals. Email me if you have any ideas for a title.
Friday, March 18, 2011
House hold plants like the Dieffenbachia can cause the throat to swell and don’t forget the blue stuff in your toilet. Both cats and dogs will drink from it.
We are working on a list of poisonous plant to be added here later.
They following with regard to pesticides can be avoided by using FFO in your garden. And remember, it will amend you soil.
ASPCA Guide to Pet-Safe GardeningASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (APCC) experts field tens of thousands of calls each year involving animal companions who’ve had potentially hazardous contact with insecticides, weed killers and pet-toxic plants.
"Keeping animals safe from accidental poisonings should not end once you've stepped outside," says Dana Farbman, APCC pet poison prevention expert. "Protecting your pet from potential hazards in your yard is just as critical."
While gardens and yards are lovely for relaxing, they can also prove dangerous for our animal companions.
Our experts recommend you watch out for the following:
Poisonous Plants
When designing and planting your green space, it's a good idea to keep in mind that many popular outdoor plants—including sago palm, rhododendron and azalea—are toxic to cats and dogs. Sago palm and other members of the Cycad family as well as mushrooms can cause liver failure, while rhododendron, azalea, lily of the valley, oleander, rosebay, foxglove and kalanchoe all affect the heart. Please visit our full list—and pics!—of toxic and non-toxic plants for your garden.
Fertilizer
Just like you, plants need food. But pet parents, take care—the fertilizer that keeps our plants healthy and green can wreak havoc on the digestive tracts of our furry friends. Ingesting large amounts of fertilizer can give your pet a good case of stomach upset and may result in life-threatening gastrointestinal obstruction. Be sure to follow instructions carefully and observe the appropriate waiting period before letting your pet run wild outside.
Cocoa Mulch
Many gardeners use cocoa bean shells—a by-product of chocolate production—in landscaping. Popular for its attractive odor and color, cocoa mulch also attracts dogs with its sweet smell, and like chocolate, it can pose problems for our canine companions. Depending on the amount involved, ingestion of cocoa mulch can cause a range of clinical signs, from vomiting, diarrhea and muscle tremors to elevated heart rate, hyperactivity and even seizures. Consider using a less-toxic alternative, such as shredded pine, cedar or hemlock bark, but always supervise curious canines in yards where mulch is spread.
Insecticides
Like fertilizer, herbicides, insecticide baits, sprays and granules are often necessary to keep our gardens healthy, but their ingredients aren't meant for four-legged consumption. The most dangerous forms of pesticides include snail bait with metaldehyde, fly bait with methomyl, systemic insecticides with the ingredients disyston or disulfoton, mole or gopher bait with zinc phosphide and most forms of rat poisons. Always store pesticides in inaccessible areas—and read the manufacturer's label carefully for proper usage and storage.
Compost
You're doing the right thing for your garden and Mother Earth—you're composting! Food and garden waste make excellent additions to garden soil, but depending on what you're tossing in the compost bin, they can also pose problems for our pets. Coffee, moldy food and certain types of fruit and vegetables are toxic to dogs and cats, so read up on people foods to avoid feeding your pet.
Fleas and Ticks
Since fleas and ticks lurk in tall brush and grasses, it's important to keep those lawns mowed and trim. Fleas can cause excessive scratching, hair loss, scabs, hot spots and tapeworms as well as anemia from blood loss in both cats and dogs. Ticks can cause similar effects and lead to a variety of complications from tick-borne diseases such as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Babesia.
Garden Tools
Unattended garden tools may seem like no big deal, but rakes, tillers, hoes and trowels can be hazardous to pets and cause trauma to paws, noses or other parts of a curious pet's body. Rusty, sharp tools caked in dirt may also pose a risk for tetanus if they puncture skin. While cats don't appear to be as susceptible as dogs to tetanus, care should be taken by storing all unused tools in a safe area, not haphazardly strewn on the ground.
Allergy-Causing Flora
Ah-choo! Like their sneezy human counterparts, pets have allergies to foods, dust and even plants. Allergic reactions in dogs and cats can even cause life-threatening anaphylactic shock if the reaction is severe. If you do suspect your pet has an allergy, please don't give him any medication that isn't prescribed by a veterinarian. It's also smart to keep your pet out of other people's yards, especially if you're unsure of what kinds of plants or flowers lurk there. Keeping your pet off the lawn of others will make for healthy pets and happy neighbors.
We are working on a list of poisonous plant to be added here later.
They following with regard to pesticides can be avoided by using FFO in your garden. And remember, it will amend you soil.
ASPCA Guide to Pet-Safe GardeningASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (APCC) experts field tens of thousands of calls each year involving animal companions who’ve had potentially hazardous contact with insecticides, weed killers and pet-toxic plants.
"Keeping animals safe from accidental poisonings should not end once you've stepped outside," says Dana Farbman, APCC pet poison prevention expert. "Protecting your pet from potential hazards in your yard is just as critical."
While gardens and yards are lovely for relaxing, they can also prove dangerous for our animal companions.
Our experts recommend you watch out for the following:
Poisonous Plants
When designing and planting your green space, it's a good idea to keep in mind that many popular outdoor plants—including sago palm, rhododendron and azalea—are toxic to cats and dogs. Sago palm and other members of the Cycad family as well as mushrooms can cause liver failure, while rhododendron, azalea, lily of the valley, oleander, rosebay, foxglove and kalanchoe all affect the heart. Please visit our full list—and pics!—of toxic and non-toxic plants for your garden.
Fertilizer
Just like you, plants need food. But pet parents, take care—the fertilizer that keeps our plants healthy and green can wreak havoc on the digestive tracts of our furry friends. Ingesting large amounts of fertilizer can give your pet a good case of stomach upset and may result in life-threatening gastrointestinal obstruction. Be sure to follow instructions carefully and observe the appropriate waiting period before letting your pet run wild outside.
Cocoa Mulch
Many gardeners use cocoa bean shells—a by-product of chocolate production—in landscaping. Popular for its attractive odor and color, cocoa mulch also attracts dogs with its sweet smell, and like chocolate, it can pose problems for our canine companions. Depending on the amount involved, ingestion of cocoa mulch can cause a range of clinical signs, from vomiting, diarrhea and muscle tremors to elevated heart rate, hyperactivity and even seizures. Consider using a less-toxic alternative, such as shredded pine, cedar or hemlock bark, but always supervise curious canines in yards where mulch is spread.
Insecticides
Like fertilizer, herbicides, insecticide baits, sprays and granules are often necessary to keep our gardens healthy, but their ingredients aren't meant for four-legged consumption. The most dangerous forms of pesticides include snail bait with metaldehyde, fly bait with methomyl, systemic insecticides with the ingredients disyston or disulfoton, mole or gopher bait with zinc phosphide and most forms of rat poisons. Always store pesticides in inaccessible areas—and read the manufacturer's label carefully for proper usage and storage.
Compost
You're doing the right thing for your garden and Mother Earth—you're composting! Food and garden waste make excellent additions to garden soil, but depending on what you're tossing in the compost bin, they can also pose problems for our pets. Coffee, moldy food and certain types of fruit and vegetables are toxic to dogs and cats, so read up on people foods to avoid feeding your pet.
Fleas and Ticks
Since fleas and ticks lurk in tall brush and grasses, it's important to keep those lawns mowed and trim. Fleas can cause excessive scratching, hair loss, scabs, hot spots and tapeworms as well as anemia from blood loss in both cats and dogs. Ticks can cause similar effects and lead to a variety of complications from tick-borne diseases such as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Babesia.
Garden Tools
Unattended garden tools may seem like no big deal, but rakes, tillers, hoes and trowels can be hazardous to pets and cause trauma to paws, noses or other parts of a curious pet's body. Rusty, sharp tools caked in dirt may also pose a risk for tetanus if they puncture skin. While cats don't appear to be as susceptible as dogs to tetanus, care should be taken by storing all unused tools in a safe area, not haphazardly strewn on the ground.
Allergy-Causing Flora
Ah-choo! Like their sneezy human counterparts, pets have allergies to foods, dust and even plants. Allergic reactions in dogs and cats can even cause life-threatening anaphylactic shock if the reaction is severe. If you do suspect your pet has an allergy, please don't give him any medication that isn't prescribed by a veterinarian. It's also smart to keep your pet out of other people's yards, especially if you're unsure of what kinds of plants or flowers lurk there. Keeping your pet off the lawn of others will make for healthy pets and happy neighbors.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
The FDA has approved the active ingredient in FFO because of the farm industry. It needs it to keep livestock healthy. But the FDA is not your friend as more people are finding.
Read the flowing article and hang on tight to your garlic.
Why organized medicine wants to outlaw nutrition and turn healers into criminals
How about some truth for a change about the Food Supplements Directive in the European Union? The proponents of this directive say that it's about protecting patients from all these dangerous vitamins, minerals, supplements, plant extracts and antioxidants that are so dangerous for people. They say, "We're going to keep you safe!" Let me tell you what I think. It's an attempt to outlaw nutrition. It is an attempt to criminalize those who would offer nutritional products that can actually prevent and even treat chronic diseases.
Why would anyone want to do this? Well, look at what it's trying to ban. One of the things it's trying to ban is tocotrienols, which are various forms of vitamin E. These are naturally occurring antioxidants that are found in the plant world. You can find them in whole grains, nuts, seeds and a variety of different plants. Why would they want to ban these ingredients and make it a crime to sell these to people?
Well, think about it folks. These ingredients prevent chronic disease better than prescription drugs, without the side effects, and without the profitability of prescription drugs. If people really knew just how much they could prevent chronic disease with these plant extracts, medicinal herbs, vitamins, minerals, and supplements, the pharmaceutical industry would collapse overnight.
The defenders of "Big Pharma" and of organized medicine have realized that they can't win the information war. They can't prevent people from finding out how to be healthy. Believe me, they've tried! They've tried through censorship, oppression, influence, and even attempts to regulate medical information on the internet. They have tried to create a total blackout of information, but they've failed. Thank God we live in a (relatively) free society where the internet still operates and people have access to independent information. As people are increasingly finding out that prescription drugs actually kill you, while vitamins, nutrients, and plant-based supplements actually save your life, organized medicine had to go to Plan B. Plan B is to outlaw nutrition, which is what the European Union Food Supplements Directive is all about.
Let's take this one step further here. Let’s assume they succeed in outlawing this nutrition. It's suddenly illegal to buy any amount of vitamin C over 50 mg, for example. It's illegal to buy various minerals, such as vanadium or boron. It becomes illegal to buy tocotrienols, or other antioxidants derived from plants. Well, what's the next step? It is, of course, to outlaw medicinal foods entirely!
Can you imagine a world in which it would be illegal to purchase and consume garlic? It sounds ridiculous, right? You say, "Oh, come on, that's just exaggeration!" But is it really? Garlic is one of the most medicinally potent foods in the world. This is a product that prevents and treats topical and internal cancers. Raw garlic juice is one of the most potent anti-cancer supplements you can consume. You can go to a grocery store right now, buy garlic, and make this yourself. This is more powerful than many drugs out there. It's a broad-spectrum antibiotic. It's antiviral, antibacterial, anti-cancer and anti-tumor. This is an amazing healing food.
Would they try to outlaw that? Right now, they're trying to outlaw extracts from different plants. It's only a small step for them to actually outlaw these foods. You'd have to have a prescription to buy garlic. It would be a controlled substance, and if you grew it in your own garden, you'd be arrested as a criminal. Don't believe me? Just try to grow omega-3-rich hemp seeds in your backyard and see how long it takes for the DEA to show up at your doorstep.
You have a great number of foods out there that actually treat, not just prevent, chronic diseases. Molasses, for one, is a nutrient-rich sweetener. It's made from the byproduct of whole grain processing. If people ate more molasses or used it in their cooking or their oatmeal, they would get more B vitamins, more magnesium, more zinc. They would be healthier. We'd see a drop in the rate of Alzheimer's disease, nervous system disorders, and behavioral disorders, such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and other so called "behavioral diseases."
You may think it sounds crazy that these foods would some day be banned. But I think it's crazy to ban extracts of these foods. They're trying to ban these natural ingredients right now. Beyond the fact that I think it is unethical to do so, it is a crime against humanity to restrict people from access to the gifts provided by Mother Nature. As human beings, we have a God-given right to eat plants, to use the medicinal herbs found in our natural environment, and to heal ourselves using these gifts provided by nature. I believe any attempt to criminalize our connection with nature is itself a crime, and should be treated as such.
Nutrition is bad for you, didn't you know?
The Food Supplements Directive (in Europe) and this whole effort by the FDA (in the U.S.) to outlaw certain medicinal herbs and eventually nutritional supplements is based on the outlandish premise that prescription drugs are good for you and nutrition is bad for you. This is such a reversal of reality that it's absolutely astounding they can get away with even talking about it without being laughed off of the television show or radio interview.
If you think about it, prescription drugs are what's killing people. Prescription drugs are extremely dangerous, even according to the statistics put out by organized medicine. We have one class of drugs, Cox-2 inhibitors, which, all by itself, is responsible for at least 144,000 heart attacks in the United States alone. Over 40 percent of those are fatal. The FDA admitted all of this information, yet said, "That's not dangerous enough for us. Let's put this drug back on the market." They rubber-stamped it "APPROVED BY THE FDA." This is now safe for consumption, according to the FDA.
Meanwhile, a Chinese herb, ma huang, or "Ephedra," as it's better known, is blamed for the death of a few dozen individuals who overdosed like crazy trying to lose weight. A few dozen people and the FDA said, "This is dangerous! We have to take this off the market! It's unregulated. It's a Chinese herb. It will kill you!" It is now a crime to sell Ephedra. They're criminalizing medicinal herbs, while legalizing the drugs that kill you. This is what's going on today.
It's really about control
There's a lot at stake here -- a lot of power, control, and, of course, a whole lot of money. The people at the top of organized medicine's hierarchy, the FDA, the American Medical Association, top doctors, surgeons, hospitals, and so on, have all realized that if nutrition succeeds, and if people become educated about how to prevent disease through simple, easily available foods, then they are going to lose a lot of money. They're going to lose a lot of patients, whom they're depending on. You have drug companies looking at the coming wave of Alzheimer's and jumping up and down with joy, thinking, "Look how many customers we're going to have. Let's come up with an Alzheimer's drug!" Research then comes out showing that Alzheimer's drugs cause dementia. Yes, it's true. Pain drugs cause heart attacks, antidepressant drugs cause people to pick up automatic weapons and blow away their classmates; you can just go on down the list. These drugs are designed to treat disease and improve people's lives but they only destroy lives. Nevertheless, that doesn't stop the drug companies from being excited about the opportunity to sell these drugs to people.
It's all about selling the drugs. Really, the FDA is just one gatekeeper by which these drugs can be sold. The FDA is being exploited and controlled by drug companies. The FDA rubber-stamps drugs that are highly toxic and extremely dangerous. These drugs continue to be sold to people all around the world at ridiculously high prices. It's a big scam, and there's big money at stake.
That's why they've got to attack nutritional supplements. They've got to outlaw vitamin C, vitamin E, and minerals that prevent disease. They've got to criminalize them. Their strategy right now is to protect the profits of the pharmaceutical industry. This whole Food Supplements Directive in Europe is really nothing more than an attempt to protect profits. By doing that, they're committing a crime against humanity, in my belief. They're trying to say that it should be illegal for people to choose foods, medicines, and healing compounds provided by nature.
A crazy idea: let's outlaw dangerous pharmaceuticals
I have an idea, which may be crazy, but which I'll throw out there just in case. What if we outlawed all the drugs that killed people? What if we made it illegal to sell dangerous prescription drugs that actually cause chronic disease, that cause people to go crazy, or that cause people to have heart attacks and die? How about that? Now, there's a crazy idea. Then, what if we banned drug advertising so these drug companies can't run highly deceptive ads on television that get people running to their doctors' offices asking for drugs by name, even when they have no idea what those drugs do? Patients demand, "Give me the drug!" The doctor asks, "What do you need it for?" "I don't know, but those people on TV look really happy!" This happens every day. Any general practitioner will tell you the same thing.
Let's educate the public
So let's ban everything that actually harms people. Let's then spend some taxpayer money on public education campaigns to teach people how to be healthy. We could start with foods. We could start by teaching expectant mothers how to have good nutrition so that they give birth to healthy babies with healthy nervous systems, babies who aren't born predisposed to diabetes, schizophrenia, or other disorders. From there we can teach our nation's youth how to make healthier food choices.
While we're on a roll, why don't we take all the disease causing foods out of our school lunch programs. Why don't we ban fast food restaurants from hospitals. Let's put some healthy foods in people's mouths. Let's visit the nursing homes around the country, look at their diets, and say, "No wonder these people are half-mad. Look at what they're being fed." Let's put some healthy foods into their diets.
Let's teach people about the real health potential of sunlight. Let's teach them that if you get sunlight on your skin, you can prevent prostate cancer, breast cancer, and type 2 diabetes. You can prevent osteoporosis, schizophrenia, mental depression, and many other diseases and disorders just by getting some natural sunlight.
So this is my crazy idea: Let's ban the things that kill people, while supporting the things that improve people's quality of life, keep people healthy, and prevent chronic disease. Now, I know it's a radical idea and it would have terrible side effects, such as plummeting health care costs, increased longevity, increased quality of life and happiness across the entire population. It would have all these terrible side effects; for example, we wouldn't have such violent behavior in our young adults. I don't know if society can handle these side effects; but if it can, this could be a good route to go.
One more side effect would be that many corporate executives of pharmaceutical companies would find themselves out of work. That would just be terrible. Maybe we could have a government subsidy program to find new jobs for these people, or train them on something useful like web page design. They'll need some real jobs, right? If you can't sell drugs any more, you've got to do something useful for society.
The national doctor re-education program
The same would hold for all the doctors as well, the general practitioners who practice old school medicine. They wouldn't have as much work either. I think we'd have to retrain them. We could start by actually giving them a real education in health. We could start by teaching them about nutrition. The fact is they never learned that in medical school. Med schools don't teach nutrition. These doctors are clueless about it unless they went outside mainstream medicine and learned on their own.
When doctors find that they're out of work because people are healthy, because they're avoiding prescription drugs, eating healthy foods, and using medicinal plants, we might retrain those doctors to become health coaches. They could go into nursing homes and schools, and be hired as health coaches teaching people how to be healthy. There's an idea! Why don't we have our healthcare professionals actually teach health instead of being experts in disease?
From the history of medicine comes the idea: "First, do no harm." Today organized medicine is doing tremendous harm. Until we make a change, they have no right to call themselves doctors at all. They're not doctors, they're drug dealers. A true doctor is someone who teaches according to the Latin root of the word, which means "teacher." If you call yourself a doctor, but you're not teaching your patients about nutrition and lifestyle changes, you're living a lie. On the other hand, if you are teaching it, good for you. You should get more patients. You keep your patients healthy; they could tell more friends and bring you more business. You deserve to be rewarded for helping people stay healthy.
Conveniently forgetting the true history of medicine
One more point relevant to the history of medicine and the European Union Food Supplements Directive: The word "pharmaceutical" has as its root "pharm," which of course means "plant." Pharmaceuticals have their origins in plant-based medicine. That's where all pharmaceuticals originally came from. If you think about it now, things have gone 180 degrees! The pharmaceutical industry itself is trying to outlaw plants. How bizarre is that? It is a total disconnect from nature and from the history of medicine. It is a disconnection between those selling the drugs and the patients who take them. It's all about disconnection out there in organized medicine. A lot of doctors won't even touch their patients. It unnerves them.
Let's turn to natural healing, where we have connections, we have openness and we believe in health freedoms. We believe in freedom of choice. We believe in education. And we believe that individuals should have the right to choose what medicine, herbs, and supplements they wish to take to treat or prevent their own diseases or disorders, or just to stay healthy or enhance their health.
Healers and patients can have a connection. The patient, however, is the only real healer. The doctor or practitioner can only really educate and support the patient's own healing process. These are the beliefs of natural health. These are the beliefs which, frankly, organized medicine doesn't want you to ever adopt. They want you to believe that nature has no answers for you whatsoever. They want you to believe that an R&D lab, with its synthesized chemicals, is the only place where you should get your healing chemicals or compounds. They think that man is smarter than nature. They think that a man-made lab can produce smarter disease prevention chemicals than the lab which has been running for millions and millions of years out there called Mother Nature.
Covertly stealing from Mother Nature
Secretly, however, behind closed doors, all these pharmaceutical companies have people across the world trying to find medicinal plants to look for answers. They are basically stealing them from the native healers, the indigenous tribes in the rainforest, the deserts of Australia, you name it. They're stealing all these plants, then taking them back to the laboratory and trying to synthesize them. That's what they're doing behind closed doors. They know that the answers are in the plant. Publicly, however, they want to outlaw those plants. You see how they work this con?
I say to all of you out there reading who want to be healthy: Bypass all of that. Bypass the pharmaceutical industry. Bypass the profit, the greed and the control. Bypass the heavily bureaucratic FDA, which is dishonest and is operating in collusion with the drug companies. Bypass a traditionally trained medical doctor, and bypass all the costs and medical bills and bankruptcy that go along with being involved with organized medicine. Instead, go straight to nature.
You do that by hooking up with a naturopath. You do that by relying on plants, foods, natural environment, sunshine, fresh water, clean air, and by getting grounded with the earth. That's how you get healthy. I've done it, along with thousands of others who have done it. Organized medicine has no benefit whatsoever in modern society, except if you've been in a car crash or something. If an iron girder from a steel building falls on you and you need some surgery, then definitely get some surgery. American surgeons are some of the best in the world. They can stop the bleeding from gunshot wounds and put you back together. However, they can't prevent chronic diseases and they have no clue how to treat them.
Don't believe me? Observe this for yourself...
If you're skeptical of everything I've said so far, here's a little experiment you can run. Go out and find yourself people who are steeped in organized medicine. Find people who take a lot of pharmaceuticals, who get surgical procedures every time their doctor says they need one. Check these people out and see how healthy they are.
Are they fit and trim? Are they happy? Are they emotionally stable? Do they have healthy relationships in their life? How do they look? Do they look energetic? What's the color of their skin? Is it pale and yellowish? Do they have bags under their eyes? Is it discolored? What do they look like?
Afterwards, find yourself a bunch of people who follow natural health. Find people who do yoga, who get acupuncture, who eat well, who supplement with superfoods and supergreen supplements. Find people who take vitamins and use medicinal herbs. Find the kind of people you'd find in health food stores. Look at those people and ask yourself the same questions. How do they look? What kind of health do they seem to be demonstrating? If you compare these two groups, it becomes immediately obvious that the results you get are based on the belief system you follow.
If you follow organized medicine, take those prescription drugs, go get those surgical procedures, and you believe all those doctors, the FDA, and everything the drug companies tell you, you're going to be quite diseased. You're going to be miserable. You're going to have a shortened lifespan. You're going to have a shortened quality of life. You're probably going to be in chronic pain, and you'll have multiple side effects from all the prescription drugs you're taking. You'll have skyrocketing medical bills. You might end up in medical bankruptcy, and you'll be no better off than having done nothing.
If you follow natural health, on the other hand, you can be a healthy, happy person. You can be energetic, have fantastic mental clarity, and be free of chronic pain. You can reverse diseases such as type 2 diabetes, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and osteoporosis. You can avoid dementia, Alzheimer's, and all these so-called "diseases of aging." You can be healthy and happy. That's the world of natural health.
Stop trying to justify organized medicine
Some people think they can straddle these two worlds. They say, "I'm going to get chemotherapy, but I'm going to take some chlorella together with it. That way, I'll be practicing integrated medicine!" Integrated medicine is a huge hoax. It's basically a way for organized medicine to try to keep up with the times, to say that you can use these herbs only as a minor part of this traditional health procedure. They want to relegate everything that's alternative into the fringes of treatment. Integrative medicine is a joke.
Alternative medicine, or what I call "advanced medicine," is where the real healing power is. That's where you make a choice and say, "I'm not going to follow organized medicine any more. I'm going to get healthy. I'm going to start by taking responsibility for my health outcome. I'm going to fire my MD, and go get an ND, a naturopathic doctor. I'm going to start working on my foods, my nutrition, my supplements, and my lifestyle. I'm going to change my life and take responsibility for the outcome." That's where you get healthy. That's where you can bypass all that organized medicine.
Again, this is the kind of information that organized medicine hopes you never hear. They don't want people to bypass their system. They want people to run through their system like a factory. "Here, take these pills -- we'll make a dollar every day for each pill." But I believe you don't need that system. All you need is a naturopathic physician, a naturopathic approach to life, herbs, good nutrition, healing foods, natural sunlight, and the list goes on. These are easy things to accomplish. The answers are quite obvious.
Your health freedoms are at stake right now
Returning to the Foods Supplements Directive in Europe, it's really just the tip of the iceberg. The effort to outlaw plant extracts, certain vitamins, and certain minerals is just an extension of the philosophy that nutrition should be criminalized. It's part of the belief that people should be controlled and forced into a system of organized medicine based on huge egos, high profitability, control, and limiting people's access to information and choices regarding what they can use to improve their health.
That's why it is important for all of us that the Food Supplements Directive fails and is ruled illegal. Only when that happens can we create a system of more freedom, more awareness and more healing. People need choices. They need to have access to nature and to nutrition. The very idea that this Food Supplements Directive was even under consideration is quite maddening. Hopefully, sanity will prevail and the European Union will not outlaw nutrition.
Here in the United States, we can also hopefully move in the same positive direction by keeping nutrition freely available, and by making sure that DSHEA remains in place so that nutritional supplements remain legal and prescriptions are not required. Hopefully, we can get some criminal convictions for the real criminals out there: the people running these pharmaceutical companies, the decision makers at the FDA, and the people at the top of the hierarchy in American organized medicine, who are directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans each and every year.
If we can put those people behind bars, we can reform the FDA. We can then start educating people about the real causes of health, about how to take charge of their health outcome and be healthy for a lifetime. We can create a whole new society, a whole new generation of healthy young people who can learn, be creative and be happy. We can see health care costs plummet in this country. That's really what we need to see if we're going to be competitive in the global marketplace.
The alternative is to continue down the path of organized medicine. We will just get sicker, more miserable, and truly more insane as a nation if things continue. As if we're not insane enough already in this country, it could get even worse! We've got to reverse that, and it all starts with nutrition and access to nature.
Don't let the criminals running the organized medicine con outlaw your access to nature's healing gifts. They want to criminalize nutrition, and turn healers into convicts. If they succeed, only their own highly toxic drugs will remain legal, and the only health choice you have left will be to pick your poison.
About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health researcher and author with a strong interest in personal health, the environment and the power of nature to help us all heal He has authored more than 1,800 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, reaching millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal health around the world. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes. He is the writer and singer of 'I Want My Bailout Money,' 'Don't Inject Me' and other popular hip-hop songs on socially-conscious topics. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded a personalized mass email software product used to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams also serves as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit consumer protection group, and pursues hobbies such as Pilates, Capoeira, nature macrophotography and organic gardening. Known by his callsign, the 'Health Ranger,' Adams posts his missions statements, health statistics and health photos at www.HealthRanger.org
Read the flowing article and hang on tight to your garlic.
Why organized medicine wants to outlaw nutrition and turn healers into criminals
How about some truth for a change about the Food Supplements Directive in the European Union? The proponents of this directive say that it's about protecting patients from all these dangerous vitamins, minerals, supplements, plant extracts and antioxidants that are so dangerous for people. They say, "We're going to keep you safe!" Let me tell you what I think. It's an attempt to outlaw nutrition. It is an attempt to criminalize those who would offer nutritional products that can actually prevent and even treat chronic diseases.
Why would anyone want to do this? Well, look at what it's trying to ban. One of the things it's trying to ban is tocotrienols, which are various forms of vitamin E. These are naturally occurring antioxidants that are found in the plant world. You can find them in whole grains, nuts, seeds and a variety of different plants. Why would they want to ban these ingredients and make it a crime to sell these to people?
Well, think about it folks. These ingredients prevent chronic disease better than prescription drugs, without the side effects, and without the profitability of prescription drugs. If people really knew just how much they could prevent chronic disease with these plant extracts, medicinal herbs, vitamins, minerals, and supplements, the pharmaceutical industry would collapse overnight.
The defenders of "Big Pharma" and of organized medicine have realized that they can't win the information war. They can't prevent people from finding out how to be healthy. Believe me, they've tried! They've tried through censorship, oppression, influence, and even attempts to regulate medical information on the internet. They have tried to create a total blackout of information, but they've failed. Thank God we live in a (relatively) free society where the internet still operates and people have access to independent information. As people are increasingly finding out that prescription drugs actually kill you, while vitamins, nutrients, and plant-based supplements actually save your life, organized medicine had to go to Plan B. Plan B is to outlaw nutrition, which is what the European Union Food Supplements Directive is all about.
Let's take this one step further here. Let’s assume they succeed in outlawing this nutrition. It's suddenly illegal to buy any amount of vitamin C over 50 mg, for example. It's illegal to buy various minerals, such as vanadium or boron. It becomes illegal to buy tocotrienols, or other antioxidants derived from plants. Well, what's the next step? It is, of course, to outlaw medicinal foods entirely!
Can you imagine a world in which it would be illegal to purchase and consume garlic? It sounds ridiculous, right? You say, "Oh, come on, that's just exaggeration!" But is it really? Garlic is one of the most medicinally potent foods in the world. This is a product that prevents and treats topical and internal cancers. Raw garlic juice is one of the most potent anti-cancer supplements you can consume. You can go to a grocery store right now, buy garlic, and make this yourself. This is more powerful than many drugs out there. It's a broad-spectrum antibiotic. It's antiviral, antibacterial, anti-cancer and anti-tumor. This is an amazing healing food.
Would they try to outlaw that? Right now, they're trying to outlaw extracts from different plants. It's only a small step for them to actually outlaw these foods. You'd have to have a prescription to buy garlic. It would be a controlled substance, and if you grew it in your own garden, you'd be arrested as a criminal. Don't believe me? Just try to grow omega-3-rich hemp seeds in your backyard and see how long it takes for the DEA to show up at your doorstep.
You have a great number of foods out there that actually treat, not just prevent, chronic diseases. Molasses, for one, is a nutrient-rich sweetener. It's made from the byproduct of whole grain processing. If people ate more molasses or used it in their cooking or their oatmeal, they would get more B vitamins, more magnesium, more zinc. They would be healthier. We'd see a drop in the rate of Alzheimer's disease, nervous system disorders, and behavioral disorders, such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and other so called "behavioral diseases."
You may think it sounds crazy that these foods would some day be banned. But I think it's crazy to ban extracts of these foods. They're trying to ban these natural ingredients right now. Beyond the fact that I think it is unethical to do so, it is a crime against humanity to restrict people from access to the gifts provided by Mother Nature. As human beings, we have a God-given right to eat plants, to use the medicinal herbs found in our natural environment, and to heal ourselves using these gifts provided by nature. I believe any attempt to criminalize our connection with nature is itself a crime, and should be treated as such.
Nutrition is bad for you, didn't you know?
The Food Supplements Directive (in Europe) and this whole effort by the FDA (in the U.S.) to outlaw certain medicinal herbs and eventually nutritional supplements is based on the outlandish premise that prescription drugs are good for you and nutrition is bad for you. This is such a reversal of reality that it's absolutely astounding they can get away with even talking about it without being laughed off of the television show or radio interview.
If you think about it, prescription drugs are what's killing people. Prescription drugs are extremely dangerous, even according to the statistics put out by organized medicine. We have one class of drugs, Cox-2 inhibitors, which, all by itself, is responsible for at least 144,000 heart attacks in the United States alone. Over 40 percent of those are fatal. The FDA admitted all of this information, yet said, "That's not dangerous enough for us. Let's put this drug back on the market." They rubber-stamped it "APPROVED BY THE FDA." This is now safe for consumption, according to the FDA.
Meanwhile, a Chinese herb, ma huang, or "Ephedra," as it's better known, is blamed for the death of a few dozen individuals who overdosed like crazy trying to lose weight. A few dozen people and the FDA said, "This is dangerous! We have to take this off the market! It's unregulated. It's a Chinese herb. It will kill you!" It is now a crime to sell Ephedra. They're criminalizing medicinal herbs, while legalizing the drugs that kill you. This is what's going on today.
It's really about control
There's a lot at stake here -- a lot of power, control, and, of course, a whole lot of money. The people at the top of organized medicine's hierarchy, the FDA, the American Medical Association, top doctors, surgeons, hospitals, and so on, have all realized that if nutrition succeeds, and if people become educated about how to prevent disease through simple, easily available foods, then they are going to lose a lot of money. They're going to lose a lot of patients, whom they're depending on. You have drug companies looking at the coming wave of Alzheimer's and jumping up and down with joy, thinking, "Look how many customers we're going to have. Let's come up with an Alzheimer's drug!" Research then comes out showing that Alzheimer's drugs cause dementia. Yes, it's true. Pain drugs cause heart attacks, antidepressant drugs cause people to pick up automatic weapons and blow away their classmates; you can just go on down the list. These drugs are designed to treat disease and improve people's lives but they only destroy lives. Nevertheless, that doesn't stop the drug companies from being excited about the opportunity to sell these drugs to people.
It's all about selling the drugs. Really, the FDA is just one gatekeeper by which these drugs can be sold. The FDA is being exploited and controlled by drug companies. The FDA rubber-stamps drugs that are highly toxic and extremely dangerous. These drugs continue to be sold to people all around the world at ridiculously high prices. It's a big scam, and there's big money at stake.
That's why they've got to attack nutritional supplements. They've got to outlaw vitamin C, vitamin E, and minerals that prevent disease. They've got to criminalize them. Their strategy right now is to protect the profits of the pharmaceutical industry. This whole Food Supplements Directive in Europe is really nothing more than an attempt to protect profits. By doing that, they're committing a crime against humanity, in my belief. They're trying to say that it should be illegal for people to choose foods, medicines, and healing compounds provided by nature.
A crazy idea: let's outlaw dangerous pharmaceuticals
I have an idea, which may be crazy, but which I'll throw out there just in case. What if we outlawed all the drugs that killed people? What if we made it illegal to sell dangerous prescription drugs that actually cause chronic disease, that cause people to go crazy, or that cause people to have heart attacks and die? How about that? Now, there's a crazy idea. Then, what if we banned drug advertising so these drug companies can't run highly deceptive ads on television that get people running to their doctors' offices asking for drugs by name, even when they have no idea what those drugs do? Patients demand, "Give me the drug!" The doctor asks, "What do you need it for?" "I don't know, but those people on TV look really happy!" This happens every day. Any general practitioner will tell you the same thing.
Let's educate the public
So let's ban everything that actually harms people. Let's then spend some taxpayer money on public education campaigns to teach people how to be healthy. We could start with foods. We could start by teaching expectant mothers how to have good nutrition so that they give birth to healthy babies with healthy nervous systems, babies who aren't born predisposed to diabetes, schizophrenia, or other disorders. From there we can teach our nation's youth how to make healthier food choices.
While we're on a roll, why don't we take all the disease causing foods out of our school lunch programs. Why don't we ban fast food restaurants from hospitals. Let's put some healthy foods in people's mouths. Let's visit the nursing homes around the country, look at their diets, and say, "No wonder these people are half-mad. Look at what they're being fed." Let's put some healthy foods into their diets.
Let's teach people about the real health potential of sunlight. Let's teach them that if you get sunlight on your skin, you can prevent prostate cancer, breast cancer, and type 2 diabetes. You can prevent osteoporosis, schizophrenia, mental depression, and many other diseases and disorders just by getting some natural sunlight.
So this is my crazy idea: Let's ban the things that kill people, while supporting the things that improve people's quality of life, keep people healthy, and prevent chronic disease. Now, I know it's a radical idea and it would have terrible side effects, such as plummeting health care costs, increased longevity, increased quality of life and happiness across the entire population. It would have all these terrible side effects; for example, we wouldn't have such violent behavior in our young adults. I don't know if society can handle these side effects; but if it can, this could be a good route to go.
One more side effect would be that many corporate executives of pharmaceutical companies would find themselves out of work. That would just be terrible. Maybe we could have a government subsidy program to find new jobs for these people, or train them on something useful like web page design. They'll need some real jobs, right? If you can't sell drugs any more, you've got to do something useful for society.
The national doctor re-education program
The same would hold for all the doctors as well, the general practitioners who practice old school medicine. They wouldn't have as much work either. I think we'd have to retrain them. We could start by actually giving them a real education in health. We could start by teaching them about nutrition. The fact is they never learned that in medical school. Med schools don't teach nutrition. These doctors are clueless about it unless they went outside mainstream medicine and learned on their own.
When doctors find that they're out of work because people are healthy, because they're avoiding prescription drugs, eating healthy foods, and using medicinal plants, we might retrain those doctors to become health coaches. They could go into nursing homes and schools, and be hired as health coaches teaching people how to be healthy. There's an idea! Why don't we have our healthcare professionals actually teach health instead of being experts in disease?
From the history of medicine comes the idea: "First, do no harm." Today organized medicine is doing tremendous harm. Until we make a change, they have no right to call themselves doctors at all. They're not doctors, they're drug dealers. A true doctor is someone who teaches according to the Latin root of the word, which means "teacher." If you call yourself a doctor, but you're not teaching your patients about nutrition and lifestyle changes, you're living a lie. On the other hand, if you are teaching it, good for you. You should get more patients. You keep your patients healthy; they could tell more friends and bring you more business. You deserve to be rewarded for helping people stay healthy.
Conveniently forgetting the true history of medicine
One more point relevant to the history of medicine and the European Union Food Supplements Directive: The word "pharmaceutical" has as its root "pharm," which of course means "plant." Pharmaceuticals have their origins in plant-based medicine. That's where all pharmaceuticals originally came from. If you think about it now, things have gone 180 degrees! The pharmaceutical industry itself is trying to outlaw plants. How bizarre is that? It is a total disconnect from nature and from the history of medicine. It is a disconnection between those selling the drugs and the patients who take them. It's all about disconnection out there in organized medicine. A lot of doctors won't even touch their patients. It unnerves them.
Let's turn to natural healing, where we have connections, we have openness and we believe in health freedoms. We believe in freedom of choice. We believe in education. And we believe that individuals should have the right to choose what medicine, herbs, and supplements they wish to take to treat or prevent their own diseases or disorders, or just to stay healthy or enhance their health.
Healers and patients can have a connection. The patient, however, is the only real healer. The doctor or practitioner can only really educate and support the patient's own healing process. These are the beliefs of natural health. These are the beliefs which, frankly, organized medicine doesn't want you to ever adopt. They want you to believe that nature has no answers for you whatsoever. They want you to believe that an R&D lab, with its synthesized chemicals, is the only place where you should get your healing chemicals or compounds. They think that man is smarter than nature. They think that a man-made lab can produce smarter disease prevention chemicals than the lab which has been running for millions and millions of years out there called Mother Nature.
Covertly stealing from Mother Nature
Secretly, however, behind closed doors, all these pharmaceutical companies have people across the world trying to find medicinal plants to look for answers. They are basically stealing them from the native healers, the indigenous tribes in the rainforest, the deserts of Australia, you name it. They're stealing all these plants, then taking them back to the laboratory and trying to synthesize them. That's what they're doing behind closed doors. They know that the answers are in the plant. Publicly, however, they want to outlaw those plants. You see how they work this con?
I say to all of you out there reading who want to be healthy: Bypass all of that. Bypass the pharmaceutical industry. Bypass the profit, the greed and the control. Bypass the heavily bureaucratic FDA, which is dishonest and is operating in collusion with the drug companies. Bypass a traditionally trained medical doctor, and bypass all the costs and medical bills and bankruptcy that go along with being involved with organized medicine. Instead, go straight to nature.
You do that by hooking up with a naturopath. You do that by relying on plants, foods, natural environment, sunshine, fresh water, clean air, and by getting grounded with the earth. That's how you get healthy. I've done it, along with thousands of others who have done it. Organized medicine has no benefit whatsoever in modern society, except if you've been in a car crash or something. If an iron girder from a steel building falls on you and you need some surgery, then definitely get some surgery. American surgeons are some of the best in the world. They can stop the bleeding from gunshot wounds and put you back together. However, they can't prevent chronic diseases and they have no clue how to treat them.
Don't believe me? Observe this for yourself...
If you're skeptical of everything I've said so far, here's a little experiment you can run. Go out and find yourself people who are steeped in organized medicine. Find people who take a lot of pharmaceuticals, who get surgical procedures every time their doctor says they need one. Check these people out and see how healthy they are.
Are they fit and trim? Are they happy? Are they emotionally stable? Do they have healthy relationships in their life? How do they look? Do they look energetic? What's the color of their skin? Is it pale and yellowish? Do they have bags under their eyes? Is it discolored? What do they look like?
Afterwards, find yourself a bunch of people who follow natural health. Find people who do yoga, who get acupuncture, who eat well, who supplement with superfoods and supergreen supplements. Find people who take vitamins and use medicinal herbs. Find the kind of people you'd find in health food stores. Look at those people and ask yourself the same questions. How do they look? What kind of health do they seem to be demonstrating? If you compare these two groups, it becomes immediately obvious that the results you get are based on the belief system you follow.
If you follow organized medicine, take those prescription drugs, go get those surgical procedures, and you believe all those doctors, the FDA, and everything the drug companies tell you, you're going to be quite diseased. You're going to be miserable. You're going to have a shortened lifespan. You're going to have a shortened quality of life. You're probably going to be in chronic pain, and you'll have multiple side effects from all the prescription drugs you're taking. You'll have skyrocketing medical bills. You might end up in medical bankruptcy, and you'll be no better off than having done nothing.
If you follow natural health, on the other hand, you can be a healthy, happy person. You can be energetic, have fantastic mental clarity, and be free of chronic pain. You can reverse diseases such as type 2 diabetes, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and osteoporosis. You can avoid dementia, Alzheimer's, and all these so-called "diseases of aging." You can be healthy and happy. That's the world of natural health.
Stop trying to justify organized medicine
Some people think they can straddle these two worlds. They say, "I'm going to get chemotherapy, but I'm going to take some chlorella together with it. That way, I'll be practicing integrated medicine!" Integrated medicine is a huge hoax. It's basically a way for organized medicine to try to keep up with the times, to say that you can use these herbs only as a minor part of this traditional health procedure. They want to relegate everything that's alternative into the fringes of treatment. Integrative medicine is a joke.
Alternative medicine, or what I call "advanced medicine," is where the real healing power is. That's where you make a choice and say, "I'm not going to follow organized medicine any more. I'm going to get healthy. I'm going to start by taking responsibility for my health outcome. I'm going to fire my MD, and go get an ND, a naturopathic doctor. I'm going to start working on my foods, my nutrition, my supplements, and my lifestyle. I'm going to change my life and take responsibility for the outcome." That's where you get healthy. That's where you can bypass all that organized medicine.
Again, this is the kind of information that organized medicine hopes you never hear. They don't want people to bypass their system. They want people to run through their system like a factory. "Here, take these pills -- we'll make a dollar every day for each pill." But I believe you don't need that system. All you need is a naturopathic physician, a naturopathic approach to life, herbs, good nutrition, healing foods, natural sunlight, and the list goes on. These are easy things to accomplish. The answers are quite obvious.
Your health freedoms are at stake right now
Returning to the Foods Supplements Directive in Europe, it's really just the tip of the iceberg. The effort to outlaw plant extracts, certain vitamins, and certain minerals is just an extension of the philosophy that nutrition should be criminalized. It's part of the belief that people should be controlled and forced into a system of organized medicine based on huge egos, high profitability, control, and limiting people's access to information and choices regarding what they can use to improve their health.
That's why it is important for all of us that the Food Supplements Directive fails and is ruled illegal. Only when that happens can we create a system of more freedom, more awareness and more healing. People need choices. They need to have access to nature and to nutrition. The very idea that this Food Supplements Directive was even under consideration is quite maddening. Hopefully, sanity will prevail and the European Union will not outlaw nutrition.
Here in the United States, we can also hopefully move in the same positive direction by keeping nutrition freely available, and by making sure that DSHEA remains in place so that nutritional supplements remain legal and prescriptions are not required. Hopefully, we can get some criminal convictions for the real criminals out there: the people running these pharmaceutical companies, the decision makers at the FDA, and the people at the top of the hierarchy in American organized medicine, who are directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans each and every year.
If we can put those people behind bars, we can reform the FDA. We can then start educating people about the real causes of health, about how to take charge of their health outcome and be healthy for a lifetime. We can create a whole new society, a whole new generation of healthy young people who can learn, be creative and be happy. We can see health care costs plummet in this country. That's really what we need to see if we're going to be competitive in the global marketplace.
The alternative is to continue down the path of organized medicine. We will just get sicker, more miserable, and truly more insane as a nation if things continue. As if we're not insane enough already in this country, it could get even worse! We've got to reverse that, and it all starts with nutrition and access to nature.
Don't let the criminals running the organized medicine con outlaw your access to nature's healing gifts. They want to criminalize nutrition, and turn healers into convicts. If they succeed, only their own highly toxic drugs will remain legal, and the only health choice you have left will be to pick your poison.
About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health researcher and author with a strong interest in personal health, the environment and the power of nature to help us all heal He has authored more than 1,800 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, reaching millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal health around the world. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes. He is the writer and singer of 'I Want My Bailout Money,' 'Don't Inject Me' and other popular hip-hop songs on socially-conscious topics. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded a personalized mass email software product used to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams also serves as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit consumer protection group, and pursues hobbies such as Pilates, Capoeira, nature macrophotography and organic gardening. Known by his callsign, the 'Health Ranger,' Adams posts his missions statements, health statistics and health photos at www.HealthRanger.org
Friday, February 4, 2011
Top 10 Pet Toxins of 2010
One I did not see in the following is the toilet bowl stickon cleaners. Dog will seek out the toilet bowl when ever he can.
Both known and unknown toxins can be found hiding in our houses and yards. In 2010, the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (APCC) in Urbana, IL, fielded more than 167,000 phone calls about pets exposed to possibly poisonous substances.
Human MedicationsHuman medications are once again at the top of the list of pet toxins for 2010. Almost 25 percent of our calls concerned human medications accidentally ingested by pets. The most common culprits include over-the-counter medications (ibuprofen, acetaminophen), antidepressants and ADHD medications.
Insecticides
About 20% of the calls to the APCC are about insecticides. Insecticides are commonly used on our pets for flea control and around our houses to control crawling and flying bugs. The most serious poisonings occurred when products not labeled for use in cats were applied to them. Always follow label directions.
Rodenticides
Baits used to kill mice and rats are mostly grain based. Not only does this attract rodents, but it attracts dogs and cats. There are several different types of rodenticides that can cause seizures, internal bleeding or kidney failure. Always make sure these items are placed in areas that pets cannot access.
People Food
Xylitol, grapes, raisins, onions and garlic are commonly ingested by our pets. Grapes and raisins can cause kidney failure in dogs, while onions and garlic can cause anemia if enough is ingested. Xylitol, a sugar alcohol used to sweeten sugar free gums and mints, can cause low blood sugar and liver failure in dogs.
Veterinary Medications
Many medications made for our pets are flavored for ease of giving. Unfortunately, that means that animals may ingest the entire bottle of medication if they find it tasty. Common chewable medications include arthritis and incontinence medications. Contact your veterinarian if your pet ingests more than his proper dose of medication.
Chocolate
Chocolate contains methylxanthines, which act as stimulants to our pets. The darker the chocolate, the more methylxanthines it contains. Methylxanthines can cause agitation, vomiting, diarrhea, high heart rate, muscle tremors, seizures and death.
Household Toxins
Cleaning supplies, such as bleach, acids, alkalis and other detergents, can cause corrosive injury to the mouth and stomach. Other household items such as batteries and liquid potpourri can cause similar problems. Always keep these toxins behind securely locked doors.
Plants
Both house plants and outdoor plants can be ingested by our pets. Lilies can cause life-threatening kidney failure in cats, while sago palms can cause liver failure in dogs and cats. Keep house plants and bouquets away from your pets.
Herbicides
Many herbicides have a salty taste, and our pets will commonly ingest them. Always follow label directions and keep pets off treated areas until they are dry.
Antifreeze, fertilizers and ice melts are all substances that animals can find outdoors. Keep these items in securely locked sheds or on high shelves where pets cannot get to them.
If you have any reason to suspect your pet has ingested something toxic, please contact your veterinarian or the Animal Poison Control Center’s 24-hour hotline at (888) 426-4435.
Both known and unknown toxins can be found hiding in our houses and yards. In 2010, the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (APCC) in Urbana, IL, fielded more than 167,000 phone calls about pets exposed to possibly poisonous substances.
Human MedicationsHuman medications are once again at the top of the list of pet toxins for 2010. Almost 25 percent of our calls concerned human medications accidentally ingested by pets. The most common culprits include over-the-counter medications (ibuprofen, acetaminophen), antidepressants and ADHD medications.
Insecticides
About 20% of the calls to the APCC are about insecticides. Insecticides are commonly used on our pets for flea control and around our houses to control crawling and flying bugs. The most serious poisonings occurred when products not labeled for use in cats were applied to them. Always follow label directions.
Rodenticides
Baits used to kill mice and rats are mostly grain based. Not only does this attract rodents, but it attracts dogs and cats. There are several different types of rodenticides that can cause seizures, internal bleeding or kidney failure. Always make sure these items are placed in areas that pets cannot access.
People Food
Xylitol, grapes, raisins, onions and garlic are commonly ingested by our pets. Grapes and raisins can cause kidney failure in dogs, while onions and garlic can cause anemia if enough is ingested. Xylitol, a sugar alcohol used to sweeten sugar free gums and mints, can cause low blood sugar and liver failure in dogs.
Veterinary Medications
Many medications made for our pets are flavored for ease of giving. Unfortunately, that means that animals may ingest the entire bottle of medication if they find it tasty. Common chewable medications include arthritis and incontinence medications. Contact your veterinarian if your pet ingests more than his proper dose of medication.
Chocolate
Chocolate contains methylxanthines, which act as stimulants to our pets. The darker the chocolate, the more methylxanthines it contains. Methylxanthines can cause agitation, vomiting, diarrhea, high heart rate, muscle tremors, seizures and death.
Household Toxins
Cleaning supplies, such as bleach, acids, alkalis and other detergents, can cause corrosive injury to the mouth and stomach. Other household items such as batteries and liquid potpourri can cause similar problems. Always keep these toxins behind securely locked doors.
Plants
Both house plants and outdoor plants can be ingested by our pets. Lilies can cause life-threatening kidney failure in cats, while sago palms can cause liver failure in dogs and cats. Keep house plants and bouquets away from your pets.
Herbicides
Many herbicides have a salty taste, and our pets will commonly ingest them. Always follow label directions and keep pets off treated areas until they are dry.
Antifreeze, fertilizers and ice melts are all substances that animals can find outdoors. Keep these items in securely locked sheds or on high shelves where pets cannot get to them.
If you have any reason to suspect your pet has ingested something toxic, please contact your veterinarian or the Animal Poison Control Center’s 24-hour hotline at (888) 426-4435.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Groundbreaking report shatters myths of vaccine industry
Vaccines: Get the Full Story
Doctors, Nurses and Scientists on Protecting Your Child and Yourself
Nicola Antonucci, MD Todd M. Elsner, DC Alexander Kotok, MD, PhD Máximo Sandín, PhD
David Ayoub, MD Jorge Esteves, MD Eneko Landaburu, MD Len Saputo, MD
Nancy Turner Banks, MD Edward "Ted" Fogarty, MD Luc Lemaire, DC Michael Schachter, MD
Timur Baruti, MD Jack Forbush, DO Janet Levatin, MD Viera Scheibner, PhD
Danny Beard, DC Milani Gabriele, CRNA, RN Thomas Levy, MD, JD Penelope Shar, MD
Françoise Berthoud, MD Sheila Gibson, MD, BSc Stephen L'Hommedieu, DC Bruce Shelton, MD, MD(H)
Russell Blaylock, MD Mike Godfrey, MBBS Paul Maher, MD, MPH Debbi Silverman, MD
Fred Bloem, MD Isaac Golden, ND Andrew Maniotis, PhD Kenneth “KP” Stoller, MD
Laura Bridgman, FNP, ND Gary Goldman, PhD Steve Marini, PhD, DC Terri Su, MD
Kelly Brogan, MD Garry Gordon, MD, DO, MD(H) Juan Manuel Martínez Méndez, MD Didier Tarte, MD
Sarah Buckley, MD Doug Graham, DC Sue McIntosh, MD Leigh Ann Tatnall, RN
Rashid Buttar, DO Boyd Haley, PhD Richard Moskowitz, MD Adiel Tel‐Oren, MD, DC
Harold Buttram, MD Gayl Hamilton, MD Sheri Nakken, RN, MA Sherri Tenpenny, DO
Lisa Cantrell, RN Linda Hegstrand, MD, PhD Christiane Northrup, MD Renee Tocco, DC
Lua Català Ferrer, MD James Howenstine, MD Amber Passini, MD Demetra Vagias, MD, ND
Jennifer Craig, PhD, BSN, MA Suzanne Humphries, MD Ronald Peters, MD, MPH Franco Verzella, MD
Robert Davidson, MD, PhD Belén Igual Diaz, MD Jean Pilette, MD Julian Whitaker, MD
Ana de Leo, MD Philip Incao, MD Pat Rattigan, ND Ronald Whitmont, MD
Carlos de Quero Kops, MD Joyce Johnson, ND Zoltan Rona, MD, MSc Betty Wood, MD
Carolyn Dean, MD, ND A. Majid Katme, MBBCh, DPM Chaim Rosenthal, MD Eduardo Ángel Yahbes, MD
Mayer Eisenstein, MD, JD, MPH Tedd Koren, DC Robert Rowen, MD
The above signatories represent a spectrum that includes pediatricians, family physicians, brain surgeons, and professors of pathology, chemistry, biology and immunology. All have independently researched the real science and have come to the conclusions you will read about in this document. MD, DO, MB, MBBCh all indicate a doctor of medicine. ND indicates a medically trained and licensed doctor in some areas. FNP indicates a family nurse practitioner.
Ever wonder why doctors can’t find the cause for many diseases? It’s because they are conditioned to ignore the relationship between illness and vaccines. These are some of the diseases that have documented associations with vaccines:
Allergies and eczema
Arthritis
Asthma
1 2
Autism
Acid reflux requiring an infant to take proton pump inhibitors, which have many side effects
Cancer
Diabetes (infant and childhood)
Kidney disease
Miscarriages
Long list of neurological and autoimmune diseases
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
And many, many more
These are some known vaccine side effects, documented in medical literature and/or in package inserts:
Arthritis, bleeding disorders, blood clots, heart attacks, sepsis
Ear infections
Fainting (with reports of broken bones)
Kidney failure requiring dialysis
Seizures/epilepsy
Severe allergic reactions, such as hives and anaphylaxis
Sudden death
Many common diagnoses given for hospital admissions.
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, (NVICP) has awarded more than $1.2 billion in damages to children and adults injured by vaccines.
Autism is associated with vaccines.
Autism was rare until the mass vaccination programs were accelerated in 1991, with the introduction of the hepatitis B vaccine and the HiB (meningitis) vaccine. Tens of thousands of parents will attest that autism appeared in their children very soon after they were given these, and other, vaccines.
Study the information on the website www.fourteenstudies.org. You will find the studies denying the association between autism and vaccines to be highly questionable.
Drug companies, insurance companies and the medical system get rich when you get sick.
Vaccines do not give life‐long immunity, which means booster shots are recommended.
Each booster shot increases the risk of more side effects.
Vaccine side effects can make you sick for the rest of your life. Conveniently, there are many drugs to treat the side effects caused by vaccines.
In the U.S., neither drug companies nor doctors can be sued when something bad happens from a vaccination. Both are protected by the 1986 National Child Vaccine Injury Act. This law, signed into effect by then‐president Ronald Reagan decreed: “No vaccine manufacturer shall be liable in a civil action for damages arising from a vaccine‐related injury or death.” (Public Law 99‐660)
Many doctors and health‐care practitioners do not get vaccinated and do not vaccinate their children. Why not?
They know vaccines are not proven to be safe or effective.
They know vaccines contain dangerous substances.
3
They know vaccines cause serious health problems.
They have treated patients with serious side effects from vaccines.
The only people who benefit from being healthy are you and those you care about.
Drug companies have infiltrated and seized control over the entire healthcare system, including medical schools, medical journals, hospitals, clinics and the local pharmacy. A doctor’s very livelihood thus depends on blind faith, without questioning any aspect of any vaccination. Even when obvious evidence of vaccine damage occurs right before a doctor’s eyes, s/he is usually unwilling to consider a vaccine as the cause. Though uncorrupt science and medicine support rejection of vaccines, doing so can be considered professional career suicide. The signatories to this document boldly risk this end for the safety of you and your child.
Hospitals benefit financially from hospitalizations and tests.
Drug companies make billions of dollars from vaccines.
Drug companies make tens of billions of dollars from drugs given to treat side effects and life‐time illnesses caused by vaccines.
Vaccines are the backbone of the medical system. Without vaccines, healthcare costs would go down because we would have a healthier overall society. We have exchanged chicken pox for autism, flu for asthma, ear infections for diabetes. The list goes on and on. In the zeal to eliminate a short list of relatively benign microbes, we have traded temporary illnesses for pervasive, life‐long diseases, disorders, dysfunctions and disabilities.
How many vaccines are there?
If U.S. children receive all doses of all vaccines, they are injected with up to 35 shots that contain 113 different kinds of disease particles, 59 different chemicals, four types of animal cells/DNA, human DNA from aborted fetal tissue and human albumin.
If you think you don’t have to worry about vaccines because your children are older, think again. There are at least 20 more vaccines currently in the development pipeline for release in the next few years, mostly targeting adolescents and adults.
Some Vaccine Ingredients: How is it possible that vaccines will not be harmful to your health?
Stray viruses and bacteria from the animal cell cultures that vaccines are made in.
Mercury, a well‐documented neurotoxin, is still in the multi‐dose flu vaccines throughout the world. Trace amounts remain in several other vaccines.
Aluminum, a poison that can cause bone, bone marrow and brain degeneration.
Animal cells from monkeys, dog kidneys, chickens, cows, and humans.
Formaldehyde (embalming fluid), a known carcinogen.
Polysorbate 80, known to cause infertility in female mice and testicular atrophy in male mice.
Gelatin, from pigs and cows, known to cause anaphylactic reactions, is found in large quantities in the MMR, chickenpox and shingles vaccines.
Monosodium glutamate (MSG) in inhaled flu vaccines, is known to cause metabolic disturbances (e.g. diabetes), seizures and other neurologic disorders.
4
Conflicts of Interest
The same people who make rules and recommendations about vaccination profit from vaccine sales. For example, Dr. Julie Gerberding, who was in charge of the CDC for eight years, is now the President of Merck Vaccines. Dr. Paul Offit, a member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice(ACIP), developed and patented his own vaccine.
According to the CDC, the average U.S. 10‐doctor pediatric group has over $100,000 of vaccine inventory in their office to sell. These doctors make money from office visits and from giving your children vaccines, and also from follow up office visits for assessing reactions.
U.S. pediatricians reportedly make quarterly bonuses from the HMOs they work for by maintaining high vaccination rates in their practices and have reportedly been reprimanded by insurance companies if their vaccination rates fall.
Is there any research that shows the difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated children? The Cal‐Oregon project sponsored by Generation Rescue surveyed parents of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated U.S. children. Of the 17,674 children included in the survey, the results showed:
Vaccinated children had 120% more asthma.
Vaccinated boys had 317% more ADHD.
Vaccinated boys had 185% more neurologic disorders.
Vaccinated boys had 146% more autism.
Girls represented only 20% of the total number of children in the survey. To read the full study for yourself, go to www.generationrescue.org/pdf/survey.pdf. To read a report on the low incidence of autism among unvaccinated Amish children go to http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/quick‐compare‐2. More studies on autism are found here http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/japvaxautism/ and here http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/britvaxautism/
Vaccine Exemptions in the U.S.
You do have the right to refuse. Use it.
Your child does not have to be vaccinated to attend public school.
Every state has exemptions giving you the right to refuse unwanted vaccines. http://exemptmychild.com/10752
Find a healthcare provider who agrees with your choice to not vaccinate and will respect you at www.vaccinationcouncil.org/providers.pdf
Many choose health and safety by saying no to vaccines.
Groups that generally do not vaccinate include holistic practitioners, chiropractors, parents who home school, and those who belong to certain religions.
Thousands of testimonies written by parents of non‐vaccinated children about the state of their children’s robust health are available many places online.
Vaccination decisions are between you and your spouse/partner. No one else needs to know. It is not the business of your family members, your neighbors, or your in‐laws.
To have vibrant health, you will need to take the initiative to learn some new things. 5
The safe choice is to say no to vaccines. You have control over health choices you make for yourself and your children. You have no control over the outcome of a vaccination.
You do not need a pediatrician to simply weigh and measure your child and give shots. Consider a naturopathic doctor, a pediatric chiropractor, a doctor of oriental medicine, or a homeopathic doctor. You may find that family doctors of osteopathic medicine are more open‐minded about vaccine‐free choices.
Babies are born with powerful, natural defenses. If this were not so, all would die shortly after birth. Enormous cascades of complex immune processes start with the first cry. This needs to occur naturally, without the interruption caused by the injections of toxic substances.
Learn about the “vaccine preventable” diseases. Your children will never come in contact with most of them and if they do, nearly all healthy and unvaccinated children recover uneventfully, with long term immunity. Health cannot come through a needle.
Learn about the importance of fever, how to take care of it at home and when it is time to call the doctor. Most fevers resolve on their own, with care and support, in just a few hours. www.drtenpenny.com/fever.aspx
Understand that your child can be vaccinated and still contract the illness you are wishing to prevent. Vaccines may not provide the protection that people assume they do. Health cannot come through a needle.
Learn that the primary keys to health are good nutrition, pure water, adequate sleep, routine exercise and happiness.
Learn some simple information about vitamins, especially the critically important information about vitamin D3. Learn how to use basic herbs and basic homeopathy for health and for addressing minor illnesses.
Learn more than your doctor about vaccines. Your medical doctor has probably never read anything about vaccines except drug‐company and CDC‐sponsored publications that support their use.
Know that healthcare is something you pay for; sick care is covered by insurance. Your insurance will pay for drugs and vaccines.
Budget accordingly to stay healthy. Your life depends on it.
Web resources for more information and help
International Medical Council on Vaccination (free webinars) www.vaccinationcouncil.org
Example IMCV regional sites www.imcv‐wi.org, www.imcv‐me.org
Dr. Sherri Tenpenny www.drtenpenny.com, Facebook www.facebook.com/vaccineinfo
ThinkTwice Global Vaccine Institute www.thinktwice.com
Vaccination Liberation www.vaclib.org
U.S. doctors who don’t vaccinate www.novaxdoctors.webs.com
Holistic Moms www.holisticmoms.org
Moms Like Me www.momslikeme.com
Books for more information and a place to start
Saying No To Vaccines – Sherri Tenpenny, DO
Make an Informed Vaccine Decision For the Health of Your Child – Mayer Eisenstein, MD, JD, MPH
Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective? – Neil Miller
Child Health Guide – Randall Neustaedter
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Childhood Vaccinations: Questions All Parents Should Ask – Tedd Koren, DC
How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor – Robert Mendelsohn, MD
Jabs, Jenner and Juggernauts – Jennifer Craig, PhD, BSN, MA, Dhom
Natural Alternatives to Vaccination – Zoltan Rona, MD
The Crime of Vaccination – Tenison Deane, MD
The Sanctity of Human Blood: Vaccination is Not Immunization – Tim O’Shea, DC
Vaccination – Gerhard Buchwald, MD
Vaccination: 100 Years of Orthodox Research – Viera Scheibner, PhD
Medical doctors(MD,DO, 4yr ND), Doctors of Chiropractic, health care workers who work in a conventional setting, and holistic practitioners wishing to participate in future versions of this document or who would like to join our group, please send an e‐mail to sayno@vaccinationcouncil.org
International Medical Council on Vaccination www.vaccinationcouncil.org www.facebook.com/vaccinationcouncil
2011‐02‐01
Doctors, Nurses and Scientists on Protecting Your Child and Yourself
Nicola Antonucci, MD Todd M. Elsner, DC Alexander Kotok, MD, PhD Máximo Sandín, PhD
David Ayoub, MD Jorge Esteves, MD Eneko Landaburu, MD Len Saputo, MD
Nancy Turner Banks, MD Edward "Ted" Fogarty, MD Luc Lemaire, DC Michael Schachter, MD
Timur Baruti, MD Jack Forbush, DO Janet Levatin, MD Viera Scheibner, PhD
Danny Beard, DC Milani Gabriele, CRNA, RN Thomas Levy, MD, JD Penelope Shar, MD
Françoise Berthoud, MD Sheila Gibson, MD, BSc Stephen L'Hommedieu, DC Bruce Shelton, MD, MD(H)
Russell Blaylock, MD Mike Godfrey, MBBS Paul Maher, MD, MPH Debbi Silverman, MD
Fred Bloem, MD Isaac Golden, ND Andrew Maniotis, PhD Kenneth “KP” Stoller, MD
Laura Bridgman, FNP, ND Gary Goldman, PhD Steve Marini, PhD, DC Terri Su, MD
Kelly Brogan, MD Garry Gordon, MD, DO, MD(H) Juan Manuel Martínez Méndez, MD Didier Tarte, MD
Sarah Buckley, MD Doug Graham, DC Sue McIntosh, MD Leigh Ann Tatnall, RN
Rashid Buttar, DO Boyd Haley, PhD Richard Moskowitz, MD Adiel Tel‐Oren, MD, DC
Harold Buttram, MD Gayl Hamilton, MD Sheri Nakken, RN, MA Sherri Tenpenny, DO
Lisa Cantrell, RN Linda Hegstrand, MD, PhD Christiane Northrup, MD Renee Tocco, DC
Lua Català Ferrer, MD James Howenstine, MD Amber Passini, MD Demetra Vagias, MD, ND
Jennifer Craig, PhD, BSN, MA Suzanne Humphries, MD Ronald Peters, MD, MPH Franco Verzella, MD
Robert Davidson, MD, PhD Belén Igual Diaz, MD Jean Pilette, MD Julian Whitaker, MD
Ana de Leo, MD Philip Incao, MD Pat Rattigan, ND Ronald Whitmont, MD
Carlos de Quero Kops, MD Joyce Johnson, ND Zoltan Rona, MD, MSc Betty Wood, MD
Carolyn Dean, MD, ND A. Majid Katme, MBBCh, DPM Chaim Rosenthal, MD Eduardo Ángel Yahbes, MD
Mayer Eisenstein, MD, JD, MPH Tedd Koren, DC Robert Rowen, MD
The above signatories represent a spectrum that includes pediatricians, family physicians, brain surgeons, and professors of pathology, chemistry, biology and immunology. All have independently researched the real science and have come to the conclusions you will read about in this document. MD, DO, MB, MBBCh all indicate a doctor of medicine. ND indicates a medically trained and licensed doctor in some areas. FNP indicates a family nurse practitioner.
Ever wonder why doctors can’t find the cause for many diseases? It’s because they are conditioned to ignore the relationship between illness and vaccines. These are some of the diseases that have documented associations with vaccines:
Allergies and eczema
Arthritis
Asthma
1 2
Autism
Acid reflux requiring an infant to take proton pump inhibitors, which have many side effects
Cancer
Diabetes (infant and childhood)
Kidney disease
Miscarriages
Long list of neurological and autoimmune diseases
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
And many, many more
These are some known vaccine side effects, documented in medical literature and/or in package inserts:
Arthritis, bleeding disorders, blood clots, heart attacks, sepsis
Ear infections
Fainting (with reports of broken bones)
Kidney failure requiring dialysis
Seizures/epilepsy
Severe allergic reactions, such as hives and anaphylaxis
Sudden death
Many common diagnoses given for hospital admissions.
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, (NVICP) has awarded more than $1.2 billion in damages to children and adults injured by vaccines.
Autism is associated with vaccines.
Autism was rare until the mass vaccination programs were accelerated in 1991, with the introduction of the hepatitis B vaccine and the HiB (meningitis) vaccine. Tens of thousands of parents will attest that autism appeared in their children very soon after they were given these, and other, vaccines.
Study the information on the website www.fourteenstudies.org. You will find the studies denying the association between autism and vaccines to be highly questionable.
Drug companies, insurance companies and the medical system get rich when you get sick.
Vaccines do not give life‐long immunity, which means booster shots are recommended.
Each booster shot increases the risk of more side effects.
Vaccine side effects can make you sick for the rest of your life. Conveniently, there are many drugs to treat the side effects caused by vaccines.
In the U.S., neither drug companies nor doctors can be sued when something bad happens from a vaccination. Both are protected by the 1986 National Child Vaccine Injury Act. This law, signed into effect by then‐president Ronald Reagan decreed: “No vaccine manufacturer shall be liable in a civil action for damages arising from a vaccine‐related injury or death.” (Public Law 99‐660)
Many doctors and health‐care practitioners do not get vaccinated and do not vaccinate their children. Why not?
They know vaccines are not proven to be safe or effective.
They know vaccines contain dangerous substances.
3
They know vaccines cause serious health problems.
They have treated patients with serious side effects from vaccines.
The only people who benefit from being healthy are you and those you care about.
Drug companies have infiltrated and seized control over the entire healthcare system, including medical schools, medical journals, hospitals, clinics and the local pharmacy. A doctor’s very livelihood thus depends on blind faith, without questioning any aspect of any vaccination. Even when obvious evidence of vaccine damage occurs right before a doctor’s eyes, s/he is usually unwilling to consider a vaccine as the cause. Though uncorrupt science and medicine support rejection of vaccines, doing so can be considered professional career suicide. The signatories to this document boldly risk this end for the safety of you and your child.
Hospitals benefit financially from hospitalizations and tests.
Drug companies make billions of dollars from vaccines.
Drug companies make tens of billions of dollars from drugs given to treat side effects and life‐time illnesses caused by vaccines.
Vaccines are the backbone of the medical system. Without vaccines, healthcare costs would go down because we would have a healthier overall society. We have exchanged chicken pox for autism, flu for asthma, ear infections for diabetes. The list goes on and on. In the zeal to eliminate a short list of relatively benign microbes, we have traded temporary illnesses for pervasive, life‐long diseases, disorders, dysfunctions and disabilities.
How many vaccines are there?
If U.S. children receive all doses of all vaccines, they are injected with up to 35 shots that contain 113 different kinds of disease particles, 59 different chemicals, four types of animal cells/DNA, human DNA from aborted fetal tissue and human albumin.
If you think you don’t have to worry about vaccines because your children are older, think again. There are at least 20 more vaccines currently in the development pipeline for release in the next few years, mostly targeting adolescents and adults.
Some Vaccine Ingredients: How is it possible that vaccines will not be harmful to your health?
Stray viruses and bacteria from the animal cell cultures that vaccines are made in.
Mercury, a well‐documented neurotoxin, is still in the multi‐dose flu vaccines throughout the world. Trace amounts remain in several other vaccines.
Aluminum, a poison that can cause bone, bone marrow and brain degeneration.
Animal cells from monkeys, dog kidneys, chickens, cows, and humans.
Formaldehyde (embalming fluid), a known carcinogen.
Polysorbate 80, known to cause infertility in female mice and testicular atrophy in male mice.
Gelatin, from pigs and cows, known to cause anaphylactic reactions, is found in large quantities in the MMR, chickenpox and shingles vaccines.
Monosodium glutamate (MSG) in inhaled flu vaccines, is known to cause metabolic disturbances (e.g. diabetes), seizures and other neurologic disorders.
4
Conflicts of Interest
The same people who make rules and recommendations about vaccination profit from vaccine sales. For example, Dr. Julie Gerberding, who was in charge of the CDC for eight years, is now the President of Merck Vaccines. Dr. Paul Offit, a member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice(ACIP), developed and patented his own vaccine.
According to the CDC, the average U.S. 10‐doctor pediatric group has over $100,000 of vaccine inventory in their office to sell. These doctors make money from office visits and from giving your children vaccines, and also from follow up office visits for assessing reactions.
U.S. pediatricians reportedly make quarterly bonuses from the HMOs they work for by maintaining high vaccination rates in their practices and have reportedly been reprimanded by insurance companies if their vaccination rates fall.
Is there any research that shows the difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated children? The Cal‐Oregon project sponsored by Generation Rescue surveyed parents of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated U.S. children. Of the 17,674 children included in the survey, the results showed:
Vaccinated children had 120% more asthma.
Vaccinated boys had 317% more ADHD.
Vaccinated boys had 185% more neurologic disorders.
Vaccinated boys had 146% more autism.
Girls represented only 20% of the total number of children in the survey. To read the full study for yourself, go to www.generationrescue.org/pdf/survey.pdf. To read a report on the low incidence of autism among unvaccinated Amish children go to http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/quick‐compare‐2. More studies on autism are found here http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/japvaxautism/ and here http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/britvaxautism/
Vaccine Exemptions in the U.S.
You do have the right to refuse. Use it.
Your child does not have to be vaccinated to attend public school.
Every state has exemptions giving you the right to refuse unwanted vaccines. http://exemptmychild.com/10752
Find a healthcare provider who agrees with your choice to not vaccinate and will respect you at www.vaccinationcouncil.org/providers.pdf
Many choose health and safety by saying no to vaccines.
Groups that generally do not vaccinate include holistic practitioners, chiropractors, parents who home school, and those who belong to certain religions.
Thousands of testimonies written by parents of non‐vaccinated children about the state of their children’s robust health are available many places online.
Vaccination decisions are between you and your spouse/partner. No one else needs to know. It is not the business of your family members, your neighbors, or your in‐laws.
To have vibrant health, you will need to take the initiative to learn some new things. 5
The safe choice is to say no to vaccines. You have control over health choices you make for yourself and your children. You have no control over the outcome of a vaccination.
You do not need a pediatrician to simply weigh and measure your child and give shots. Consider a naturopathic doctor, a pediatric chiropractor, a doctor of oriental medicine, or a homeopathic doctor. You may find that family doctors of osteopathic medicine are more open‐minded about vaccine‐free choices.
Babies are born with powerful, natural defenses. If this were not so, all would die shortly after birth. Enormous cascades of complex immune processes start with the first cry. This needs to occur naturally, without the interruption caused by the injections of toxic substances.
Learn about the “vaccine preventable” diseases. Your children will never come in contact with most of them and if they do, nearly all healthy and unvaccinated children recover uneventfully, with long term immunity. Health cannot come through a needle.
Learn about the importance of fever, how to take care of it at home and when it is time to call the doctor. Most fevers resolve on their own, with care and support, in just a few hours. www.drtenpenny.com/fever.aspx
Understand that your child can be vaccinated and still contract the illness you are wishing to prevent. Vaccines may not provide the protection that people assume they do. Health cannot come through a needle.
Learn that the primary keys to health are good nutrition, pure water, adequate sleep, routine exercise and happiness.
Learn some simple information about vitamins, especially the critically important information about vitamin D3. Learn how to use basic herbs and basic homeopathy for health and for addressing minor illnesses.
Learn more than your doctor about vaccines. Your medical doctor has probably never read anything about vaccines except drug‐company and CDC‐sponsored publications that support their use.
Know that healthcare is something you pay for; sick care is covered by insurance. Your insurance will pay for drugs and vaccines.
Budget accordingly to stay healthy. Your life depends on it.
Web resources for more information and help
International Medical Council on Vaccination (free webinars) www.vaccinationcouncil.org
Example IMCV regional sites www.imcv‐wi.org, www.imcv‐me.org
Dr. Sherri Tenpenny www.drtenpenny.com, Facebook www.facebook.com/vaccineinfo
ThinkTwice Global Vaccine Institute www.thinktwice.com
Vaccination Liberation www.vaclib.org
U.S. doctors who don’t vaccinate www.novaxdoctors.webs.com
Holistic Moms www.holisticmoms.org
Moms Like Me www.momslikeme.com
Books for more information and a place to start
Saying No To Vaccines – Sherri Tenpenny, DO
Make an Informed Vaccine Decision For the Health of Your Child – Mayer Eisenstein, MD, JD, MPH
Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective? – Neil Miller
Child Health Guide – Randall Neustaedter
6
Childhood Vaccinations: Questions All Parents Should Ask – Tedd Koren, DC
How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor – Robert Mendelsohn, MD
Jabs, Jenner and Juggernauts – Jennifer Craig, PhD, BSN, MA, Dhom
Natural Alternatives to Vaccination – Zoltan Rona, MD
The Crime of Vaccination – Tenison Deane, MD
The Sanctity of Human Blood: Vaccination is Not Immunization – Tim O’Shea, DC
Vaccination – Gerhard Buchwald, MD
Vaccination: 100 Years of Orthodox Research – Viera Scheibner, PhD
Medical doctors(MD,DO, 4yr ND), Doctors of Chiropractic, health care workers who work in a conventional setting, and holistic practitioners wishing to participate in future versions of this document or who would like to join our group, please send an e‐mail to sayno@vaccinationcouncil.org
International Medical Council on Vaccination www.vaccinationcouncil.org www.facebook.com/vaccinationcouncil
2011‐02‐01
Saturday, September 25, 2010
TAXING OUR SAVINGS AND TAKING OUR VITAMINES?!
A lot of what i send come from NaturalNews. These guys know their stuff. Check out what the Government is trying to do to vitamines and the following taxes on your property and savings. Makes sick just thinking about it and without vitaamins to help cope with the stress...well, you get the picture.
Use the link to tell congress to leave you vitamines alone!
Organic Jan
Health care reform to tax all home sales and savings income
Dear NaturalNews readers,
The U.S. health care reform bill seems to turn up all sorts of new, shocking surprises on a regular basis.
The latest surprise is a 3.8% tax on income from home sales, rental income and other sources -- all due to take effect in 2013.
And where does this tax money go? It goes directly into the pockets of drug companies, cancer clinics, vaccine manufacturers and other industry giants in the "sick-care" industry who prey on Medicare funding to line their pockets.
Read more in my weekend update:
http://www.naturalnews.com/029849_health_care_reform_taxes.html
Your vitamins and supplements are under attack in Washington, but some new bills aim to restore and protect your freedoms. We need your help to send a message to legislators on these important proposed laws:
http://www.naturalnews.com/029840_free_speech_nutritional_science.html
Check this out: Depressioncan be treated with electromagnets(and it works better than drugs):
http://www.naturalnews.com/029848_depression_electromagnets.html
Considering a mammogram? New evidence reveals they really don't work:
http://www.naturalnews.com/029839_mammograms_risk.html
P.S.Check out this brilliant and genuine video from Magnus Mulliner who talks about sugar as a "class A drug" (while holding his beautiful baby):
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=066E7E0755551223669F7ADF931B65A3
More news continues below on the benefits of green tea, the healing powers of coconut, news about the upcoming Franken-potato, how to support your adrenalswith vitamin Cand much more (see below)...
Today's Feature Stories:
Obama health care reform imposes 3.8% tax on all home sales and home rental income
(NaturalNews) The news about Obama's health care reform just keeps getting worse -- and we only find these things long after the bill has passed, of course. The newest revelation concerns a 3.8% tax on home sales and home rental income which will...
Depression can be treated with electromagnets (better than drugs)
(NaturalNews) A therapy known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), which involves inducing electromagnetic fields in the brain, may ease the symptoms of depression in hard-to-treat patients better than antidepressant drugs, researchers...
Schoolchildren have access to milk and sugary drinks at lunch, but not water
(NaturalNews) Some school districts around the country have taken drastic measures to improve childhood health by banning sugary soda beverages from their cafeterias, but according to the Los Angeles Times millions of California schoolchildren...
Researchers in India unveil Franken-potato
(NaturalNews) Mad food scientists are at it again, this time targeting potatoes with altered genetics that they say improve the starchy vegetable's nutritional value. Subhra Chakraborty and her team from the National Institute of Plant Genome Research...
Unnecessary stomach drugs exposing millions to side effects
(NaturalNews) Widespread overprescription of potent and expensive stomach drugs is unnecessarily exposing millions of patients to potentially devastating and even fatal side effects, according to a study conducted by researchers from the San Francisco...
The Hormone Pregnenolone is a Memory Enhancer and Healer
Pregnenolone is a hormone produced by the glands, the liver, skin and retina and in the brain itself. Pregnenolone is made from cholesterol in the cells of both the adrenal gland and the central nervous system. Studies have identified pregnenolone...
Green Tea and DHA: Nutrients Promote Health and Assist Weight Loss
Green tea and the Omega-3 fatty acid DHA combine to provide a powerful natural shield against certain forms of cancer, heart disease, stroke and dementia while assisting weight loss and maintenance. Both of these nutrients directly target...
How to Use Vitamin C for Adrenal Support
Many alternative health experts consider vitamin C to be the most important nutrient for adrenal fatigue recovery. Healthy adrenal function requires vitamin C, and some of the highest concentrations of vitamin C in the whole body are found...
Discover the Superfood Power of Coconut
Foods that have an incredible array of health benefits that go well beyond just their nutrient value are considered 'super-foods.' Mothers' milk is considered the most perfect food on the planet for human consumption do to its ideal nutritional...
Help end criminalization of vitamin, supplement makers in America
(NaturalNews) Telling the truth in America is currently illegal... at least as far as food and supplements are concerned. You see, for decades the federal government has suppressed the free speech rights of food and supplement manufacturers, preventing...
Mammograms don't really work, say researchers
(NaturalNews) You now have another good reason to skip that next mammogram, based on new research out of Norway. According to findings by Dr. Mette Kalager and his team from Oslo University Hospital, getting a mammogram appears to cut the risk of dying...
Urban pollution found to raise blood pressure
(NaturalNews) Exposure to urban pollution may be a cause of high blood pressure, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Dusiburg-Essen in Germany and presented at a meeting of the American Thoracic Society. "Our results...
Have you noticed mainstream health news getting crazier lately?
(NaturalNews) Mark your calendars. This week goes down in history as the most bizarre health news weeks in the history of the mainstream media. I've noticed more truly strange and illogical health stories this week from the conventional press than ever...
Use the link to tell congress to leave you vitamines alone!
Organic Jan
Health care reform to tax all home sales and savings income
Dear NaturalNews readers,
The U.S. health care reform bill seems to turn up all sorts of new, shocking surprises on a regular basis.
The latest surprise is a 3.8% tax on income from home sales, rental income and other sources -- all due to take effect in 2013.
And where does this tax money go? It goes directly into the pockets of drug companies, cancer clinics, vaccine manufacturers and other industry giants in the "sick-care" industry who prey on Medicare funding to line their pockets.
Read more in my weekend update:
http://www.naturalnews.com/029849_health_care_reform_taxes.html
Your vitamins and supplements are under attack in Washington, but some new bills aim to restore and protect your freedoms. We need your help to send a message to legislators on these important proposed laws:
http://www.naturalnews.com/029840_free_speech_nutritional_science.html
Check this out: Depressioncan be treated with electromagnets(and it works better than drugs):
http://www.naturalnews.com/029848_depression_electromagnets.html
Considering a mammogram? New evidence reveals they really don't work:
http://www.naturalnews.com/029839_mammograms_risk.html
P.S.Check out this brilliant and genuine video from Magnus Mulliner who talks about sugar as a "class A drug" (while holding his beautiful baby):
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=066E7E0755551223669F7ADF931B65A3
More news continues below on the benefits of green tea, the healing powers of coconut, news about the upcoming Franken-potato, how to support your adrenalswith vitamin Cand much more (see below)...
Today's Feature Stories:
Obama health care reform imposes 3.8% tax on all home sales and home rental income
(NaturalNews) The news about Obama's health care reform just keeps getting worse -- and we only find these things long after the bill has passed, of course. The newest revelation concerns a 3.8% tax on home sales and home rental income which will...
Depression can be treated with electromagnets (better than drugs)
(NaturalNews) A therapy known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), which involves inducing electromagnetic fields in the brain, may ease the symptoms of depression in hard-to-treat patients better than antidepressant drugs, researchers...
Schoolchildren have access to milk and sugary drinks at lunch, but not water
(NaturalNews) Some school districts around the country have taken drastic measures to improve childhood health by banning sugary soda beverages from their cafeterias, but according to the Los Angeles Times millions of California schoolchildren...
Researchers in India unveil Franken-potato
(NaturalNews) Mad food scientists are at it again, this time targeting potatoes with altered genetics that they say improve the starchy vegetable's nutritional value. Subhra Chakraborty and her team from the National Institute of Plant Genome Research...
Unnecessary stomach drugs exposing millions to side effects
(NaturalNews) Widespread overprescription of potent and expensive stomach drugs is unnecessarily exposing millions of patients to potentially devastating and even fatal side effects, according to a study conducted by researchers from the San Francisco...
The Hormone Pregnenolone is a Memory Enhancer and Healer
Pregnenolone is a hormone produced by the glands, the liver, skin and retina and in the brain itself. Pregnenolone is made from cholesterol in the cells of both the adrenal gland and the central nervous system. Studies have identified pregnenolone...
Green Tea and DHA: Nutrients Promote Health and Assist Weight Loss
Green tea and the Omega-3 fatty acid DHA combine to provide a powerful natural shield against certain forms of cancer, heart disease, stroke and dementia while assisting weight loss and maintenance. Both of these nutrients directly target...
How to Use Vitamin C for Adrenal Support
Many alternative health experts consider vitamin C to be the most important nutrient for adrenal fatigue recovery. Healthy adrenal function requires vitamin C, and some of the highest concentrations of vitamin C in the whole body are found...
Discover the Superfood Power of Coconut
Foods that have an incredible array of health benefits that go well beyond just their nutrient value are considered 'super-foods.' Mothers' milk is considered the most perfect food on the planet for human consumption do to its ideal nutritional...
Help end criminalization of vitamin, supplement makers in America
(NaturalNews) Telling the truth in America is currently illegal... at least as far as food and supplements are concerned. You see, for decades the federal government has suppressed the free speech rights of food and supplement manufacturers, preventing...
Mammograms don't really work, say researchers
(NaturalNews) You now have another good reason to skip that next mammogram, based on new research out of Norway. According to findings by Dr. Mette Kalager and his team from Oslo University Hospital, getting a mammogram appears to cut the risk of dying...
Urban pollution found to raise blood pressure
(NaturalNews) Exposure to urban pollution may be a cause of high blood pressure, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Dusiburg-Essen in Germany and presented at a meeting of the American Thoracic Society. "Our results...
Have you noticed mainstream health news getting crazier lately?
(NaturalNews) Mark your calendars. This week goes down in history as the most bizarre health news weeks in the history of the mainstream media. I've noticed more truly strange and illogical health stories this week from the conventional press than ever...
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