Grandma's Medicine Still Works

by Debra Sperry

The barrage of advertising from pharmaceutical companies has started falling on more informed and discerning ears these days. With more Americans waking up to reports like those from the Center for Disease Control stating that in 2005, "accidental" prescription drug overdoses killed 33,000 Americans, they are turning away from the many chemical concoctions passed off as medicine by big drug companies.

The search is on for what really works a cure and works without debilitating side-effects. Many health-conscious people are beginning to return to the time-honored and proven remedy of their grandmothers -- cod liver oil (CLO).

Not many relish the taste of cod liver oil and maybe that is the reason for its being overlooked or shoved aside in the past. But today's cod liver oil goes down much easier with lemon, orange, and mint flavorings, or in gel caps. Vitamin E is a part of the mix and tempers some natural harshness.

With all of the synergy of the omega-3 fatty acids, cod liver oil also delivers vitamins A and D in a superior fat-soluble base, making them more usable in the human body. Whereas scientists are finding synthetic sources of Vitamins A and D cause birth defects or kidney problems, they are quick to point out that the natural sources of these oil-soluble vitamins are safe and support life. Many modern diseases are simply a matter of malabsorption of these vital nutrients.

My own discovery of CLO came with the protocol prescribed for my mildly autistic child. Taking the CLO with him helped him accept the "fish burps" that sometimes occur with startup doses. Not only did CLO improve my son's concentration and poor memory retention, it also began to relieve my own perimenopausal discomforts.

Many reports of CLO benefits include almost immediate relief from inflamed joints; greater mental focus; reversals of heart disease and osteoporosis; improvements in vision, immune support, and skin problems; relief from depression; and a general feeling of well-being.

Some can experience nausea a little while after taking CLO, but this can be alleviated by taking the dose in the middle of a meal or by using the herbal preparation known as Swedish Bitters (another ancient wonder of the natural world).

Since CLO gives us such a simple and painless way to reverse many diseases, improve immune function, and relieve other discomforts, CLO is certainly one must-have supplement. Though it may appear to be pricey, it is far less expensive and vastly more effective over time than many drug cocktails available from drug manufacturers. Personal experience has proven Grandma's remedy to be the best, after all.

Made with Stevia, not Splenda

Where can you buy Zevia? Find out here.

Healing with water

The Water Cure Is No Mirage

by Debra Sperry

What could be simpler than using water to feel better?

Controversy surrounds even the simplest things today, and drinking water is no exception. Dr. Batmanghelidj's book, The Water Cure, has given many with modern day maladies a way out of expensive rounds of medical treatments. Everyone knows that life cannot exist without water, yet how many really practice hydration as a good habit? The medical community remains slow to emphasize hydration.

Maybe the very simplicity of the cure is not expensive enough for today's cynical market. But for those who find help with water it is worth every drop. Many can attest to feeling relief from general body pain, fibromyalgia, insomnia, allergies, high blood pressure, skin problems, diabetes, digestive ailments, and much more--by drinking water. That sweet tooth might just be a craving for H2O.

With the perfect pH, it helps the body return to a cooler, alkaline state, which begins the way back to health. Some experience relief from pain almost instantly when they drink enough water for their body size. Other problems require months of patient persistence to undo the damages of dehydration. With today's levels of toxicity, pure water gently draws out toxins and scrubs our inner environment.

The Water Cure offers a recipe making the benefits of hydration easily accessible to everyone. The only inconvenience involves a few more pit stops and a little planning to implement a new habit.

The Water Cure at a glance

Measure 1/2 ounce of water daily per pound of body weight. Restated, every day drink the number of ounces that is half your weight. For example, if you weigh 180 pounds, drink 90 ounces or 11-1/4 cups of water. Add a pinch of sea salt or other salt with minerals attached. Start the new routine on a non-workday morning. Drink not less than one-fourth of the whole amount first thing. Have it bedside. Intersperse the remaining water throughout the day, drinking at least a half an hour before or two hours after a meal to avoid diluting digestive juices. Don't drink anything three hours before going to bed. Then sleep like a baby.

After doing this for a while, I found that water fatigue was setting in. To make so much water go down a little easier, I added a tablespoon of fresh lime or lemon juice or raw apple cider vinegar. The dilution takes away the tang and the benefits are left intact.

Liquid measures: 1 cup = 8 ounces, 1 quart = 32 ounces

GMO Trilogy: Hidden Dangers in Kids' Meals

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The World According to Monsanto

There is a very common tendency to ascribe to greed the damage that Monsanto is doing , but that is incorrect. Greed is a positive attribute that provides vital motivation to act. The damage is done when Monsanto and their agents inside and outside of government use deception, when Monsanto trespasses on the rights of others, and when those rights are not vigorously defended.

This video helps prevent damage by warning farmers, consumers, and Monsanto employees and stockholders just what kind of damage is being done. The genetic modification, health, and economic damages are extreme. Unless Monsanto's practices are changed, everyone is being threatened, including the stockholders.



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The Future of Food

by Mark Yannone

See the results of forgetting what we have learned and closing our eyes to injustice. Note that small changes can produce huge consequences.

The last four words of this video are "it's up to you." Indeed it is. It's up to you to understand that companies like Monsanto are committing trespass against those who consider contamination by genetically modified organisms not just a nuisance but a criminal assault. When you and your neighbors insist that Monsanto pay the full cost of the damage they are doing to you, then the problem will be solved as easily as it started.

When Monsanto infects your crops, trespasses on your land, and then demands payment for the seed they have infected, you have one option: an all-out attack on Monsanto. Sound the alarm. Let the world know. We will rise up and come to your aid with everything we've got. Justice is not optional.

Are you getting enough benzene in your diet?

The lemon study

If these are the lemon test results, consider the rest of the restaurants' food.

Monsanto lies about their milk

Don't even think of drinking tap water

If you live in an American city, chances are good that your city employees are buying industrial waste--rat poison, in fact--and adding it to your drinking water supply on purpose.

They call it fluoridation, and the common justification is that it reduces cavities. The logic behind that is as sound as eating a bandage to repair a broken arm.

Fluoride has been linked to cot death, eczema, and Alzheimer's. It has been shown, at low doses, to cause genetic damage. And it has been linked by doctors from the National Cancer Institute and the National Health Federation to cancer.

Because fluoride causes collagen, an essential structural component in skin, muscle, ligaments, and bone, to disintegrate, big question-marks are being raised over its possible contribution to arthritis, a problem that has increased by 63 per cent since 1997, and which now affects 70 million Americans.

Other reports are appearing that link the accumulation of fluoride in bones to an increase in hip fractures among the elderly. The Journal of the American Medical Association reported recently that "with increasing dose of fluoride in the drinking water, the hip fracture ratio increases," a view echoed by The Lancet, The Annals of Epidemiology, and other science journals.

Further studies have linked fluoride use to hyperthyroidism (underactive thyroid glands), one of the most widespread medical problems in the US, affecting more than 20 million people and leading to fatigue, weight gain, depression, and heart disease. That's scarcely surprising, given that fluoride used to be prescribed by European doctors to depress thyroid activity. [Full story]

See also: Arsenic in my Fluoride? CDC admits Yes

See also: Fluoridation, the NRC report and "crucial" false news alerts

Super Size Me

This is how a nation can be made fat, sick, stupid, and impotent.

Splenda

Q: Do products sweetened with SPLENDA® Brand Sweetener carry any warning labels or information statements?

A: No. The regulatory agencies and scientific review bodies that have approved the use of SPLENDA® Brand Sweetener have not required any warning or special information statements to be placed on the labels of products sweetened with SPLENDA® Brand Sweetener.

Q: Which regulatory agencies and scientific review bodies are included?

A: The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Given the extremely negative reports from hundreds of consumers, the opinions of the FDA and WHO have diminished value, if any.

The company that sells Splenda also sells treatments for the symptoms brought about by consuming Splenda. In effect, they sell the snake and the snake bite kit. Many organizations behave this way, so pay attention to whom you are supporting with your dollars.

See also: How to Get Your Sweet Fix Without Sabotaging Your Health

Breakfuss of Champeens

Grape Nuts was something I slowly came to realize had no grapes and no nutz in about the 1970s. Then I began wondering, well, what izzactly is these things? But, no one questions anything--or at least they didn't back then.

My family was particularly fond of Froot Loops, which was primarily an assortment of food dyes coated with high octane fructose, and handsomely packaged.

My father, of course, chose to have a more sensible breakfast, Shredded Wheat, which was hairlike and treated by a different food dye and contained no fructose as he could take his cereal straight, and those Shredded Wheats were also handsomely packaged. Sometimes he was just a basic Corn Flakes man, because this was surely good--as good as his Lucky Strikes.

In praise of ancient pulque

Sacred Aztec drink losing out to beer in Mexico

MEXICO CITY (AFP) — It was a sacred liquid to the Aztecs and consumed for centuries in Mexico, but the traditional pulque drink seems to be falling in popularity despite its historic roots.

Produced from the sap of the maguey plant, pulque advocates say the drink has medicinal qualities but worry that beer and other standard beverages are pushing it aside.

Beer drinkers can find pulque's taste off-putting and no advertising campaign has been undertaken to promote the drink, said Epifanio Leyva, who runs La Botija, a pulque bar or pulqueria in the Mexican capital.

"For 15 years the consumption of pulque has fallen, due to a lack of advertising by the big bars," Leyva said.

"At this rate, it's likely that the next generation won't be acquainted with it," said Leyva.

Once, 20 trucks would arrive to deliver pulque in the popular Xochimilco quarter every three days, he said. "Today, sad to say, no more than two trucks come," Leyva said.

Five pulque bars operate in the district, where there were once 18 pulquerias.

The milky beverage, with a low alcohol content, is served neat or with a taste of honey or fruit. Known as "octli" in the indigenous Nahuatl language, pulque has been a mainstay for workers who do not frequent the city's chic bars.

Pulque fans say the drink's status came under attack years ago when the beer industry is said to have spread rumors that the drink was fermented from the feces of amimals or humans.

Pulque is really made from the fermented sweet sap of the maguey plant, which is also the source for mezcal -- a more potent liquor produced from the heart of the plant instead of the sap. Tequila comes from another type of agave plant.

References to pulque date back centuries in pre-Hispanic Mexico, generating folk tales and myths. Aztecs were believed to use pulque for religious rituals and worshiped a god of pulque.

At Levya's bar, a glass of pulque goes for 10 pesos (less than a dollar/euro) and is served with maize tortillas with a spicy salsa.

"You can drink one or two, eat three or four tortillas and you have a meal. Pulque is very nourishing," said Pablo Flores, a stout man with a passion for pulque.

"It gives strength to women after childbirth, helps produce milk in breastfeeding mothers and makes them want to have more children," said a smiling Flores, a regular at La Botija.

Ana Pablo, 55, who works as a dishwasher at a restaurant, prefers pulque to beer "because it doesn't make you sick and there is no hangover the day after."

Her brother was advised to take pulque for his diabetes, said Pablo, before draining her final drink of the evening.

To the relief of La Botija's owner, much of his bar's clientele is young.

"At first, I didn't like the texture," said 21-year-old Saria Fuentes, "then I got used to the taste and now, I love it. And it doesn't give you a hangover. What more can you ask for."

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Soybean

Pushing Soy

by Dr. Luise Light

A new study from the Harvard School of Public Health shows that men who eat as little as one-half serving of soy foods daily have 41 million fewer sperm per milliliter. The Harvard study is consistent with previous research that has implicated processed soy in the epidemic of infertility among American men and women. Processed soy is also thought to be behind the epidemic of thyroid problems in the United States.

Soy is a ubiquitous ingredient in packaged foods such as soy milk, nutrition bars, macaroni and cheese, ice cream, and even tuna fish. Although promoted as beneficial in protecting against breast and prostate cancer and relieving symptoms of menopause, there is no research basis for these ideas.

Soy foods make up most of the emergency food aid the United States federal government sends to Africa and other regions where people are starving due to dislocation, wars, and natural calamities. The soy industry has launched massive campaigns promoting the (purported) health benefits of eating more soy foods to consumers in Asia, anticipating new markets for their products. But is something else behind these massive soy campaigns, such as global population control?
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Luise Light, MS, EdD, is a nutritionist, educator, author, journalist, and a radio and TV producer. She is the original creator of the USDA Food Pyramid, which was later altered by the cereal and grain industry. Her interests are in providing the public with the information and skills to eat better and enjoy better health.

Pomegranate

by Mary Sparrowdancer

Right now is the time to purchase fresh organic pomegranate fruits. You have to break into the fruits, discard the membranes, but eat the seeds whole. There is some sort of an ancient natural health suggestion (from the gods) that we should be eating seed-bearing plants, and this is like the most incredible seed-bearing fruit of all. The highly classified secrets are under lock and key here.