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Dr. William Rea’s Letter to His Patients
This letter is being sent to you so that we may provide information about a
potential serious potential threat to your choice of medical care. To put it bluntly,
there is currently an organized nation-wide effort to destroy the specialty of
Environmental Medicine and to eliminate from practice physicians who diagnose
and treat patients suffering from chemical sensitivities. see more...
health freedom USA

Tell Your Congressmen and Women to Co Sponsor the Health Freedom Protection Act, H.R. 2117- Ron Paul

The FDA is on a rampage against dietary supplements. Preventing reasonable and factual health claims, the FDA is using its immense power to fuel the pharmaceutical profit picture at the expense of the lives and health of hundreds of thousands of Americans each year. The rights of Americans to learn about natural products through truthful, science-based health claims is routinely stifled to the detriment of health and health freedom in the United States.
health freedom USA

memory loss due to high blood sugar
We all have times when our blood sugar jumps up. A meal with lots of refined carbs and a dessert can do it to the healthiest eaters. But chronically high blood sugar is extremely dangerous. Not only can it lead to diabetes; it can also cause you to lose your memory.
A recent four-year study of older women found that when their blood sugar was chronically high - even if they weren't diabetic - they had an increased risk for impaired memory. This could be due to either direct or indirect brain damage caused by high blood sugar. Or it could mean that there's an association between the enzyme that breaks down insulin and the development of Alzheimer's disease. There are a number of possibilities, all of which researchers are studying rigorously.
Women's Health Alert
Yaffe, K, MD, et al, Journal of Nutrition, Health, and Aging, Vol 10, No 4, 2007.
Women's health letter.com

OMAHA, Neb.–ConAgra Foods Inc., the largest microwave popcorn maker in the United States, will change the recipe for its Orville Redenbacher and Act II brands over the next year to remove a flavouring chemical linked to a lung ailment in popcorn plant workers, the company said yesterday.
The announcement comes a day after a doctor at a leading lung research hospital warned in a letter to federal regulators that consumers, not just factory workers, may be in danger from fumes from buttery flavouring in microwave popcorn.
diacetyl

Dangers of chlorine
If you are not convinced about the dangers of chlorine in your tap water, here's an extract from: Dr Z Rona MD MSc "Most people never give it a thought. After all, our elected public officials keep assuring us that chlorinated city tap water is completely safe for human consumption. Numerous scientific studies report that chlorinated tap water is a skin irritant and can be associated with rashes like eczema. Chlorinated water can destroy polyunsaturated fatty acids and vitamin E in the body while generating toxins capable of free radical damage (oxidation). This might explain why supplementation of the diet with essential fatty acids like flax seed oil, evening primrose oil, borage oil and antioxidants like vitamin E, selenium and others helps so many cases of eczema and dry skin.
dangers of Chlorine

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It works for:Allergies,pH imbalances,Emphysema,Indigestion,Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD),Kidney infections,Chronic fatigue syndrome,Skin disorders
Bronchial asthma,Arthritis and joint pain,Short-term memory loss,Fibromyalgia
Viral, fungal, and bacterial infections,Muscle pain,Candidiasis

I also use:coconut oil

is great for cooking and for continued weight loss. I really notice the difference in my weight control when I'm out of it for a while.
AND:
FLAX SEED OIL for my colon, but of course FLAX SEED OIL is also a great source of omega-3 essential fatty acids.

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~~~~Jokes And inspirations~~~~
Little Things


As you might know, the head of a company survived 9/11 because his son started kindergarten.

Another fellow was alive because it was His turn to bring donuts.

One woman was late because her Alarm clock didn't go off in time.

One was late because of being stuck on the NJ Turnpike
Because of an auto accident.

One of them Missed his bus.

One spilled food on her clothes and had to take Time to change.

One's Car wouldn't start.

One went back to Answer the telephone.

One had a Child that dawdled And didn't get ready as soon as he should have.

One couldn't Get a taxi.

The one that struck me was the man
Who put on a new pair of shoes that morning,
Took the various means to get to work
But before he got there, he developed
a blister on his foot.

He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid. That is why he is alive today.


Now when I am
Stuck in traffic,
Miss an elevator,
Turn back to answer a ringing telephone ...
All the little things that annoy me.
I think to myself,
This is exactly where God wants me to be
At this very moment..

Next time your morning seems to be
Going wrong ,

The children are slow getting dressed, You can't seem to find the car keys,
You hit every traffic light, Don't get mad or frustrated;
It may be just that God is at work watching over you.
~~~
Can you cry under water?

How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

If money doesn't grow on trees then why do banks have branches?

Since bread is square, then why is sandwich meat round?

Why do you have to "put your two cents in"...but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to?

Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?

Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

What did cured ham actually have?

How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

If you drink Pepsi at work in the Coke factory, will they fire you?

Why are you IN a movie, but you are ON TV?

Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

How come we choose from just two people for President and fifty for Miss America?

Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They're going to see you naked anyway.

If a 911 operator has a heart attack, whom does he/she call?

~~~
This is the true story of George Phillips of Meridian, Mississippi, who was going to bed when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the shed. George opened the door to go turn off the light but saw there were people in the shed in the process of stealing things.

He immediately phoned the police, who asked "Is someone in your house?" and George said no and explained the situation. Then they explained that all patrols were busy, and that he should simply lock his door and an officer would be there when available.

George said, "Okay," hung up, counted to 30, and phoned the police again.

"Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people in my shed. Well, you don't have to worry about them now because I've just shot them all."

Then he hung up. Within five minutes three squad cars, an Armed Response unit, and an ambulance showed up. Of course, the police caught the burglars red-handed.

One of the policemen said to George: "I thought you said that you'd shot them!"

George said, "I thought you said there was nobody available!"

~~~

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Deep within a forest a little turtle began to climb a tree. After hours of effort he reached the top, jumped into the air waving his front legs and crashed to the ground. After recovering, he slowly climbed the tree again, jumped, and fell to the ground. The turtle tried again and again while a couple of birds sitting on a branch watched his sad efforts. Finally, the female bird turned to her mate. "Dear," she chirped, "I think it's time to tell him he's adopted."
~~~


ONE DAY A MAN NAMED BOB KNOCKED ON HIS NEIGHBOR'S DOOR. HIS NEIGHBOR WHO WAS AN OLD LADY WHO ASKED WHAT THE MATTER WAS. THE MAN REPLIED "I AM SO SORRY BUT I JUST RAN OVER YOUR CAT AND KILLED IT" THE MAN SAID "BUT I WOULD LIKE TO REPLACE IT." THE OLD LADY THEN SAID "WELL I HOPE YOUR GOOD AT CATCHING MICE THEN"!!!
~~~
A cab driver picks up a nun. She gets into the cab, and the cab driver won't stop staring at her.

She asks him why he is staring.

He replies: "I have a question to ask you, but I don't want to offend you".

She answers, "My son, you cannot offend me. When you're as old as I am and have been a nun as long as I have, you get a chance to see and hear just about everything. I'm sure that there's nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive."

"Well, I've always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me."
She responds, "Well, let's see what we can do about that. But first, you have to be single and you must be Catholic."
The cab driver is very excited and says, "Yes, I'm single and Catholic!"

"OK" the nun says. "Pull off to the side of the road, "maybe we will see what we can do."

The nun plants a whopper of a kiss on the cabbie! But when they get back on the road, the cab driver starts crying.

"My dear child," said the nun, why are you crying?"
"Forgive me, but I've sinned. I lied. I must confess, I'm married and I'm Jewish."

The nun says, "That's OK, my name is Kevin and I'm going to a Halloween party."
~~~
A daring vacationer in Vienna is walking through a graveyard on Halloween when all of a sudden she hears music. No one is around, so she starts looking to see where it’s coming from.

She finally locates the source and finds it is coming from a grave with a headstone that reads, “Ludwig van Beethoven.”

Then she realizes that the music is the Ninth Symphony and it is being played backward. Puzzled, she leaves the graveyard and persuades a friend to return with her.

By the time they arrive back at the grave, the music has changed. This time it is the Seventh Symphony, but it is also being played backward.

Curious, the ladies agree to consult a music scholar. When they return with the expert, the Fifth Symphony is playing and the expert concludes that the symphonies are in fact being played in reverse order.

By the next day the word spread and a huge group gathered around the grave to hear the Second Symphony being played backward. Just then the graveyard's caretaker approaches the group. Someone in the crowd asks him if he has an explanation for the music.

"Oh, it's nothing to to worry about" says the caretaker. "He's just decomposing!!"

~~~
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than
not having any opinions at all.
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

No human thing is of serious importance.
-- Plato

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you
are keeping.
-- Kenneth Tynan

A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at
stake at the moment.
-- Willis Player

~~~

reversing Diabetes

(1)

If you are pre-diabetic, that means you have reduced insulin sensitivity but haven't yet been diagnosed with full-blown adult onset type 2 diabetes. In most cases, you can directly reverse this condition and return to a healthy metabolic state by making new choices in your foods and physical exercise. Remember, diabetes is a disease that is quite easy to reverse if you catch it early enough. And if you're pre-diabetic, you have an opportunity to reverse the situation right now.
Reversing it means making some tough choices in your life. It means, first of all, getting out and engaging in physical exercise on a regular basis. That's 45 minutes a day of walking, or something more strenuous if you can handle it. If you can't walk 45 minutes a day, walk 30 minutes a day. If you can't walk 30 minutes a day, walk 5 minutes a day. If you can't walk 5 minutes a day, just get up out of your chair 3 times -- do something to increase your exercise stamina, and work towards walking 45 minutes a day. Everybody can do something. Sitting around doing nothing is no excuse, and it will directly lead you to full-blown diabetes. (Diabetics are really good at making excuses. I know, I used to be pre-diabetic. I would find every reason in the world to avoid physical exercise.)
The second thing people can do is give up all foods that promote diabetes. This means foods that contain ingredients like refined white sugar, sucrose, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, dextrose, white flour, enriched flours, and so on. So that means getting rid of all ice cream, cakes, cookies, sweets, desserts, candy bars, etc. These foods are causing your diabetes. Now, you won't hear this from the American Diabetes Association, because that organization is, to put it bluntly, actually thriving on the skyrocketing trend of diabetes in the United States. I've never found the ADA to actually give beneficial nutritional advice that would help people reverse diabetes. Remember, they are funded in large part by pharmaceutical companies who would actually lose customers if people reversed their diabetic conditions. It's not a conspiracy: it's just plain old corporate greed."

I've found that eating large quantities of Cinnamon each morning in my oatmeal is very helpful.

Or I could take cinnamon caps

Cinnamon has been a big open secret for diabetes, it really puts the breaks on the blood glucose levels. I load up my morning oatmeal with it. I struggle with getting enough fibre so I eat oatmeal in the AM.

coconut oil

is great for cooking and for continued weight loss. I really notice the difference in my weight control when I'm out of it for a while.

The best healer and the one that has made the biggest change in my health isCellPower™ ; with it's cellular oxygenating power, the pH adjustment and bacterial/viral/fungal control has really CHANGED MY LIFE!

I've found eating whole raw foods really helps too. The enzymes we need are totally absent in our typically cooked foods. A good goal is to eat about 1/3 raw foods each day.

Also eating Alkalizing foods brings our bodies from an acidic [sick] condition to a healthy one.

Another thing we rarely ever talk about is our air supply, we know about pollution but did you know also that there is getting to be less and less oxygen in our air? We NEED lots of it for cell health [cells being the smallest parts of our body's health requirement.]

Things like Candidiasis are rampant among diabetics, fungal infections must be brought under control.

These are a few of the reasons why CellPower™ is so good for me; it has enzymes, fungus-killers, it is alkalizing, and the oxygen it pumps into each and every cell gives me boosts of strength and health. I'm just happy, for the first time in my nearly 60 years. I feel good and I am healing up from diabetes, candidiasis and Fibromyalgia, I think even the stroke damage is getting to be less pervasive. And due to CellPower™ I never get any infectious diseases, colds, flu [and I used to be sick for months at a time, folks]

My allergies are getting to be less prominant, I can be outside for hours and I can still see the next day!!!!! In fact I can get up in the morning and NOT feel like I've been chopping onions all night long! My eyes don't sting, I used to be blind for a while each morning due to stinging and THAT IS GONE.

I had completely lost my sense of smell but it's coming back and my sense of taste too.

Words can't convey how exciting it is to start getting well, And How Many problems I had that are just non-esistant now.

I'm just talking about myself here, Hey it's MY blog I can do that. I can hope all of you will get well too though. In fact even though I do sell CellPower™ and make a few bucks off the sale of each bottle of a month's supply of it; at $25.00 I only make just a few bucks, remember there are costs of buying the inventory, and I pay shipping pretty much all over the world, Mostly I want others to be getting well like I have.

In truth Even though I eat no processed foods, nor anything with MSG,few grains, nothing microwaved, no High Fructose Corn Syrup, no sugar [well a little in the form of dark chocolate candy, infrequently] only a bit of raw honey, very little carbs, NO Genetically modified foods, I'm not all that strict with myself, I do mostly eat chicken and vegetables. I'm no exercise fanatic, because I just don't have the time. I have 5 yahoo groups I take care of, two blogs, and a message group, I also write devotionals and working on couple of books, all sedentary activities. I still maintain my yard, however and build furniture when I think of something I want to build. I keep our tiny home clean when I feel like I want to, but I don't climb on some expensive piece of bulky machinery to force my muscles to do something they aren't used to doing, but I do want to buy a bicycle to go on the occasional foray into the countryside.

So that'a it for today, I wish you all the very best of hrealth and well-being:

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Oh, oh don't forget I've started a new healthwatch message group so you can see what's dangerous to our health out there, you can post at will, I don't censor nor condemn other's posts, There's no voting. I just enjoy input, post your site or your own articles:healthwatch Join free!

-----THE GARDEN GNOME


~~~~Jokes And inspirations~~~~

Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to
turn up the intelligence? There's one marked
'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
-- Gallagher

You couldn't even prove the White House staff
sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
-- Ed Meese, on the Hinckley verdict

The point of philosophy is to start with
something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to
end with something so paradoxical that no one
will believe it.
-- Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy
of Logical Atomism

It's a dangerous business going out your front
door.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien
~~~
A frustrated father vented, "When I was a youngster, I was disciplined by being sent to my room without supper. But in my son's room, he has his own color TV, telephone, computer, and CD player."

"So what do you do?" asked his friend.

"I send him to MY room!" exclaimed the father
~~~
A Cop pulled a car over for speeding.

When the Cop asked the driver why he was traveling 95mph, the driver answered that he was a juggler on his way to do a show for a birthday party and didn't want to be late.

The Cop told the driver he was fascinated by juggling, and if the driver would do a little juggling for him that he wouldn't give him a ticket.

The driver told the Cop that he had sent all of his equipment on ahead and didn't have anything to juggle.

The Cop told him that he had some flares in the trunk of his patrol car, and asked if he could juggle them.

The juggler stated that he could, so the Cop got three flares, lit them and handed them to the juggler.

While the man was doing his juggling act, a car pulled in behind the patrol car.

The driver got out, watched the performance briefly, went over to the patrol car, opened the rear door and got in.

The Cop observed him doing this, and went over to the patrol car, opened the door and asked the driver what he thought he was doing.

The driver replied, "You might as well haul me to jail, cause there's NO way I’ll pass that test."
~~~
Why Pumpkins are Better than Men





1. Pumpkins don’t accuse you of loosing the TV remote!

2. Pumpkins respond quite well to negative re-enforcement!

3. Pumpkins make better pie!

4. Every year you get new Pumpkins to choose from!

5. Pumpkins always greet you with a smile!

6. If you don't like the way a Pumpkin looks, just make up another face!

7. If a Pumpkin starts smelling up your place, just throw him out!

8. Pumpkins don’t expect you to cook and still grow 24 hours a day!

9. You can clean up Pumpkins in just minutes!

10. Pumpkins don’t hide their feelings!

11. Pumpkins don’t stare at other pumpkins!

~~~
Ten Signs That You’re Too Old for Trick or Treating

10. You get winded from knocking on the door.

9. You have another kid chew the candy for you.

8. You ask for high fiber candy only.

7. When someone drops a candy bar in your bag, you lose your balance and fall over.

6. People say, "Great Keith Richards mask!" and you're not
wearing a mask.

5. When the door opens you yell, "Trick or..." and can't
remember the rest.

4. By the end of the night, you have a bag full of
restraining orders.

3. You have to carefully choose a costume that won't
dislodge your hairpiece.

2. You're the only Super Hero in the neighborhood with a
walker.

1. You avoid going to houses where your ex-wives live.
~~~
Be blessed my friends!

SOURCES
(1)Newstarget.com/reversing diabetes means making tough choices in foods, nutrition and exercise
http://www.newstarget.com/002035.html

KEEPING A HEALTHY IMMUNE SYSTEM

NOTE THIS IS FOURTH IN A SERIES ABOUT THE IMMUNE SYSTEM, SO SCROLL DOWN FOR LOTS MORE INFORMATION.
(1)

Our bodies require adequate oxygen , they are not designed to thrive on low oxygen levels. 6%
or less oxygen in the atmosphere causes asphyxiation. We simply cannot live without oxygen,
and the more oxygen we breathe in from the air, the better for our health and well being. Good
breathing techniques in fresh clean air and exercises contribute much to a person's good health.
When the air smells bad we tend to breathe shallowly and our blood gets starved of oxygen.
Poor air warnings are now common in many places. (Is it possible that low oxygen levels in our
body are at least partly responsible for the increases in cardiovasular disorders?)

We can live only for a few minutes without oxygen, that makes oxygen the most important
nutrient of them all. If a totally adequate supply of oxygen is made available to all the
cells of our body, disease can diminish. Well-oxygenated cells are not as likely to get
sick.

So the very first thing we need for a healthy body is well oxygenated cells. That's one of the first things CellPower™
does for us when we take it everyday. CellPower™ brings pure oxygen to the cellular level. Then it helps each cell to release whatever is spent in it to keep each cell working hard to do what it's supposed to do. CellPower™ then enables the detoxification process at the cellular level.

ALL THIS MEANS IS THAT INSPIRATION AND EXHALATION IS DONE PROPERLY RIGHT DOWN TO EACH INDIVIDUAL CELL.

~~~~

We've all heard of T-cells and how they are the immune system in microcosm, and you've no doubt been watching and waiting for the cancer vaccines, but so far (2)without going into the "precise biological workings of cancer the... findings suggest why experimental cancer vaccines have to date been plagued by T-cell tolerance, a weakened rather than strengthened immune response,... because the vaccines keep the T cells from binding with proteins that identify the foreign antigens on the surface of unhealthy cancer cells." In other words the vaccines don't work so far. BUT, there is always CellPower™
, because it raises an acidic pH that cancer thrives in to a more normal alkaline pH and therefore---TADA---no cancers.

~~~
Then there are the external agent I spoke of in my last entry, viruses, bacteria and fungus, here again we have CellPower™ to the rescue. CellPower™ kills infectious bacteria and viruses, fungi, mold, and parasites. It has been shown to boost T-cell numbers and activity. It does not harm the beneficial flora and microorganisms needed by the body.

So, now we have a healthy body, what are the benefits? First, our bodies were designed to heal, so chronic inflammatory dis-eases like Diabetes, arthritis won't start or begin going away. Allergies, Emphysema, Indigestion, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Kidney infections, Chronic fatigue syndrome, Skin disorders Bronchial asthma, joint pain, Short-term memory loss Fibromyalgia Viral, fungal, and bacterial infections, Muscle pain, AND Candidiasis WILL BE IN OUR PAST.
Second we can successfully deal with some of our excess habits like weight control. A healthy body will be a fit body, because we'll have more energy to use to stay active.

One more thing that I find very helpful in losing weight, coconut oil



But you could also try:
Mega is the most complete daily source of Omega-3/6/9 fatty acids for healthy skin, joints, hormonal balance and cardiovascular functions


~~~ I have something I wanted to share with you today, I managed to capture a picture of a hummingbird moth in my yard. I'd read about them in my garden magazines and sure enough there it was, about an inch long, wings so fast that you cannot see them and a curly proboscis to suck the juices out of my plants.

I'll post some more garden pictures when I can mow, we've had a two month drought and I can mow until the grass greens up and needs mowing. Well parts are really tall but much is burned brown. We should be getting some rain this week and after that I can mow!

I was so desperate for some garden exercise today that I started digging up the dreaded lilac in our front yard, it's so entrenched the roots go down to China, and it's really a chore getting it out!
You can see a few new pix at my photobucket
you can see the new front garden I made this week and the lattice I painted and installed behind my hedgegarden to block the views of my neighbor's fence and weeds, not that I don't have lots of weeds in my yard this year.

~~~Jokes~~~
A trailer driver lost control of his rig, plowed into an
empty tollbooth on the Garden State Parkway and smashed it into
hundreds of pieces.

While filling out the police and insurance reports for the damage
he had caused, he noticed a crew of workers picking up each broken
piece of the wrecked tollbooth and spreading some kind of creamy
substance on it. Then they began fitting the pieces together. In
less than twenty minutes, they had the entire tollbooth
reconstructed and looking good as new.

Amazed at what he had witnessed, he asked the police officer, "What
was that white stuff those men used to assemble all those pieces
together?"

The police officer smiled and said, "Oh, that was tollgate booth
paste."
~~
I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis
and I don't deserve that either.
-- Jack Benny

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically
into three major categories - those that don't
work, those that break down and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the
funniest joke in the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw,
~~~
Steven Spielberg was discussing his new project - an action docudrama about famous composers starring top movie stars. Sylvester Stallone, Steven Segall, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger were all present. Spielberg strongly desired the box office 'oomph' of these superstars, so he was prepared to allow them to select whatever composers they wished to portray, as long as they were famous.

"Well," started Stallone, "I've always admired Mozart. I would love to play him."

"Chopin has always been my favorite, and my image would improve if people saw me playing the piano," replied Willis. "I'll play him."

"I've always been partial to Strauss and his waltzes," said Segall. "I'd like to play him."

Spielberg was very pleased with these choices. "Sounds splendid." Then, turning to Schwarzenegger, he asked, "Who do you want to be, Arnold?" Arnold in a slow deliberate voice replied, "I'll be Bach."

tha-tha-that's all folks!

Have a great day, may you be always blessed and your wallet always full, May you find fresh pasture and cool shade. Be blessed my friends!
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blessings

-----THE GARDEN GNOME



SOURCES
(1)OXYGEN SUPPLY.COM
http://www.freewebs.com/bestchoice/oxygensupplyproduct.htm
(2)Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions/Immune system 'escape hatch' gives cancer cells traction-Contact: David March
Public release date: 16-Jul-2007
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-07/jhmi-is071607.php

Genetically modified foods

Did you know that Many other countries won't buy foods grown or processed in the US? Do you know why? It's because 7 out of 10 items you buy in our grocery stores are GM foods. They are in:
-Cooking oils
-Boxed cereals
-Grain products
-Frozen dinners
-Many corn products and soy products are GM.
-Mice don't like them,[does that tell you something?]
-GM crops when grown will,do and HAVE cross-pollinated with other crops.
-One Swiss biotech company mistakenly sold U.S. farmers an unapproved GM corn seed; tons of the experimental corn was sold between 2001-2004
-A GM corn, approved only for animal use, got into taco shells and chips and resulted in recalls, lawsuits and public uproar.
-There’s no system for tracking or reporting associated health problems caused by GM foods.
-Much of the rice crop has already been contaminated in the south US by GM crops.
-GM crops have cost the United States an estimated $12 billion in farm subsidies, lost sales and product recalls due to transgenic contamination
-Contrary to the claims of proponents, GM crops have not been proven safe.
-One chemical company was given permission to grow, yes, right out in the open, rice modified with HUMAN DNA!!![Does anyone remember where Ebola got it's start?[cannibalism] Why cows got mad cow disease? [again cannibalism, feeding cows bone meal,cows are herbivores they don't eat any meat!]
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DANGERS OF GM FOODS
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-increase instances of cancer
-lung damage
-dangers allergies
now I'm glossing over all the details, but I am providing all the links so you can read this for yourself.
Here are some of the companies that are producing GM foods and who are insisting they are good for you.
-Kraft Foods
-Monsanto
-DuPont- Why are chemical companies dabbling in foods?
-Phillip Morris- does anyone remember during the congressional hearings on the dangers of smoking how Tobacco companies kept insisting that they didn't know cigarettes were harmful or addictive?
-Monsanto
-DuPont
A report issued by the Department of Agriculture's own auditor stated that the department has failed to regulate field trials of genetically engineered crops adequately, thereby raising the risk of unintended environmental consequences.
Failed to Notice Violations
The report found that regulators failed to notice rules violations, inspect planting sites, or make sure that GM crops were destroyed following the field trials. In many cases, regulators had no idea where field trials were even as they granted permits for them.
AND NO ONE REALLY KNOWS, IN THE FACE OF SO FEW TESTS WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES WILL BE ON OUR COLLECTIVE HEALTH?

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WHAT CAN WE DO?
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1) Avoid Processed Foods. As you learned, 75 percent of processed foods contain GM ingredients. There are many reasons why processed foods are not optimal for your health -- for instance they often contain trans fat, acrylamide and little nutritional value -- so avoiding them will not only help you to cut back on the amount of GM foods you are consuming, but will also boost your health.

2) Read produce and food labels. GM soybeans and corn make up the largest portion of genetically modified crops. When looking at a product label, if any ingredients such as corn flour and meal, dextrin, starch, soy sauce, margarine, and tofu (to name a few) are listed, there's a good chance it has come from GM corn or soy, unless it's listed as organic.

3) Buy organic produce. Buying organic is currently the best way to ensure that your food has not been genetically modified. By definition, food that is certified organic must be free from all GM organisms, produced without artificial pesticides and fertilizers and from an animal reared without the routine use of antibiotics, growth promoters or other drugs.

4) Look at Produce Stickers. Those little stickers on fruit and vegetables contain different PLU codes depending on whether the fruit was conventionally grown, organically grown or genetically modified. The PLU code for conventionally grown fruit consists of four numbers, organically grown fruit has five numbers prefaced by the number nine, and GM fruit has five numbers prefaced by the number eight.

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''We simply do not have enough reliable scientific evidence on their safety to be able to make a valid decision as to whether there are potential health effects or not.''

Charles Saunders, chairman of the British Medical Association's public health committee
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YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT, have you heard that before?
So far it has been the watchdog Scientists and [MD] Doctors who study Natural medicines who have been warning us about GM foods, but they were the ones who taught conventional medicine about the dangers of Cholesterol years ago.
I remember reading a short story about a group of teenagers at a future time in a special school, It was told from the viewpoint of one of the girls. Her Diary was the story. She'd tell us each day what they did at the school and how they were taught. Every single day she would talk about the film they saw on training dolphins. Then they had a film on how the food supply was safe to eat. The School children were fed something called foodah, a genetically modified food source. Different entries described food riots the teens witnessed; confused as to why people were fussing about not having enough to eat when there was a plentiful supply of foodah, and didn't the film they saw today explain it was very healthy, They also got to see a film about training dolphins.
Each day's entries were eerily similar, underlining the point that what one eats determines not just their health but also their ability to think. Ok, this was science Fiction but it mirrors our modern society.
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http://www.mercola.com/2006/jan/28/feds_faulted_for_scant_oversight_on_gmos.htm.

-The Damage GM Foods Can do to Your Body
http://www.mercola.com/2005/dec/8/the_damage_gm_foods_can_do_to_your_body.htm

-The False Promise of GM Crops Never Realized
http://www.mercola.com/2006/mar/2/the_false_promise_of_gm_crops_never_realized.htm

-Genetically Modified Foods, Inc.
http://www.mercola.com/2003/jan/1/gm_foods.htm

-Warning -- GM Food Linked to Cancer
http://www.mercola.com/2007/mar/8/warning----gm-food-linked-to-cancer.htm

-50 Harmful Effects of Genetically Modified Foods
http://www.cqs.com/50harm.htm

-Featured Report:
Genetically Modified Crops and Foods (I-00) Full Text[by the way this is a report from the AMA. http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/13595.html

-GM food banned at Monsanto canteen
http://www.urban75.org/archive/news099.html

-EUROPEAN UNION BANS GM FOODS, BRITAIN FOLLOWS
http://bioquest.org/llnsta/gmfoods.html

-Pro-USA Corporations Embarrassed as Sri Lanka Bans GM Foods-Genetically Modified Foods Banned as Unsafe http://www.progress.org/gene65.htm

-Ban These GM Foods Now
a GM pea led to the creation of a novel protein which caused inflammation of the lung tissue of mice.

-Rice with human genes to be grown in US- a pro GM food site
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/gm-food
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/322566/ban_these_gm_foods_now/index.html?source=r_health
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Keeping track of my prgress I've officially lost 25 pounds without drugs or fake foods from expensive 'plans', And my blood sugar is down to 'normal' levels. I pretty much stay below the 125 magic diabetic number, often the evening reading is well below that. I take 10 units of insulin twice a day.