Genetically engineered Recombinant Bovine Growth
Hormone (rBGH/BST) in your milk
Both the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) and the Consumer's Union,
publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, have warned of the potential hazards
to human health caused by consuming products derived from rBGH-treated
cows.
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What is rBGH? Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone is a genetically engineered copy
of a naturally occurring hormone produced by cows. Manufactured by Monsanto
Company, the drug is sold to dairy farmers under the name POSILAC, though
you'll also find it called BGH, rBGH, BST and rBST. When rBGH gets injected
into dairy cows, milk production increases by as much as 10-15%. The use
of rBGH on dairy cows was approved by the Food and Drug Administration
in late 1993 and has been in use since 1994.
Both the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) and the Consumer's Union,
publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, have warned of the potential hazards
to human health caused by consuming products derived from rBGH-treated
cows.
While
rBGH is banned in Europe and Canada, and has been boycotted by 95 percent
of US dairy farmers, the FDA, Environmental Protection Agency and Department
of Agriculture continue to license the drug (and other new genetically
engineered foods) without pre-market safety tests. Thanks to industry pressure,
genetically engineered foods are NOT required to carry identifying labels.
According to the US Federal Office of Management and Budget the projected
increase in milk production caused by rBGH introduction will cost American
taxpayers an additional $116 million of dollars for further price supports
in 1995 alone. And what about the cows? rBGH use will cause suffering to
millions of animals: rBGH is like "crack" for cows. It "revs" their system
and forces them to produce a lot more milk - but it also makes them sick.
Even the FDA admits that cows injected with rBGH could suffer from increased
udder infections (mastitis), severe reproductive problems, digestive disorders,
foot and leg ailments, and persistent sores and lacerations.
There have been no long term
studies of BGH's effects on humans. The congressional General Accounting
Office has warned of the potential human health hazards from the consumption
of milk or flesh (about 40% of the beef used to make hamburgers come from
"old" dairy cows) derived from BGH-treated cows. The Consumer's Union went
on to state that the FDA should not have even approved it. BGH "treatment"
causes significantly increased levels of another growth hormone called
IGF-1 in the milk, according to a 1990 study sponsored by Monsanto and
published in Science. Bovine IGF-1 is identical to the IGF-1 naturally
found in humans.
Watch the video (left) -
Bovine Growth Hormone in Milk - Whistle Blowers Expose the Truth
Your
Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food More than half of America's processed grocery products — from corn
flakes to granola bars to diet drinks — contain genetically altered ingredients.
They are unlabeled and untested, and we are eating them. Your Right to
Know is a complete, full-color reference guide outlining how unmarked genetically
modified foods go from the factory to the family dining table, and what
consumers can do about the health risks they present. This accessible guide
is for concerned parents — as well as anyone concerned about genetically
altered foods — who want to know more about the potential health risks,
the organic alternatives, and the methods available to counter the corporate
takeover of the food we eat.
(If the video below
does not show/play, please download
the flash player)
The Truth About Genetically Modified Foods
Part 1
Seven years ago, Feb. 4, 1994, despite nationwide protests by consumer
groups, Monsanto and the FDA forced onto the US market the world's first
GE animal drug, recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH, sometimes known
as rBST). BGH is a powerful GE drug produced by Monsanto which, injected
into dairy cows, forces them to produce 15%-25% more milk, in the process
seriously damaging their health and reproductive capacity.
Despite warnings from scientists, such as Dr. Michael Hansen from the
Consumers Union and Dr. Samuel Epstein from the Cancer Prevention Coalition,
that milk from rBGH injected cows contains substantially higher amounts
of a potent cancer tumor promoter called IGF-1, and despite evidence that
rBGH milk contains higher levels of pus, bacteria, and antibiotics, the
FDA gave the hormone its seal of approval, with no real pre-market safety
testing required.
Moreover, the FDA ruled, in a decision marred by rampant conflict of
interest (several key FDA decision makers, including Michael Taylor, previously
worked for Monsanto), that rBGH-derived products did not have to be labeled,
despite polls showing that 90% of American consumers wanted labeling --
mainly so they could avoid buying rBGH-tainted products.
All of the major criticisms leveled against rBGH have turned out to
be true. Since 1994, every industrialized country in the world, except
for the US, has banned the drug. In 1998, Canadian government scientists
revealed that Monsanto's own data on feeding rBGH to rats, carefully concealed
by the company and the FDA, indicated possible cancer dangers to humans.
Since rBGH was approved, approximately 40,000 small and medium-sized
US dairy farmers, 1/3 of the total in the country, have gone out of business,
concentrating milk production in the hands of industrial-sized dairies,
most of whom are injecting their cows with this cruel and dangerous drug.
In a 1998 survey by Family Farm Defenders, it was found that mortality
rates for cows on factory dairy farms in Wisconsin, those injecting their
herds with rBGH, were running at 40% per year. In other words, after two
and a half years of rBGH injections most of these drugged and supercharged
cows were dead. Typically, dairy cows live for 15-20 years.
Alarmed and revolted by rBGH, consumers have turned in droves to organic
milk and dairy products or to brands labeled as rBGH-free. Nonetheless,
use of the drug has continued to increase in the US (and in nations like
Brazil and Mexico) especially in large dairy herds, so that currently 15%
of America's 10 million lactating dairy cows are being injected with rBGH.
Compounding the problem of rBGH contamination, most of the nation's
1500 dairy companies are allowing the co-mingling of rBGH and non-rBGH
milk, thereby contaminating 80-90% of the nation's milk and dairy supply
(including all of the major infant formula brands). For a list of organic
and rBGH-free dairies in the US consult the Organic Consumers Association
(OCA) website.
The major reason that rBGH is still on the market is that it is not
labeled. Supermarket dairy managers, following guidelines circulated by
the rBGH and biotech lobby, routinely lie to consumers, telling them either
that rBGH is not in their products, or that there's no way to tell, and
reassuring them that the FDA has certified that rBGH is safe. Of
course, every survey conducted since 1994 shows that if consumers were
given a choice, they would boycott rBGH-tainted products.
Responding to the global controversy surrounding the drug, Monsanto
put BGH for sale in 1998, but there were no takers. Transnational PR firms
working with the biotech industry have categorized Monsanto's handling
of the rBGH controversy as a "public relations disaster." Starbucks
has been a target as 3/4 of the 32 million gallons of milk it buys every
year in the US are coming from dairies that allow cows to be injected with
rBGH.
Once Starbucks' 15 million customers learn that most of the latte or
cappuccino drinks they're paying top dollar for (3/4 of the volume of these
drinks are milk) contain an extra dose of pus, antibiotics, and growth
hormones and that Fair Trade and organic coffee constitute less than one
percent of company sales, they may decide to take their business elsewhere.
Total annual sales for the company are approximately $2.5 billion.
The worst nightmare of Monsanto and the biotech industry is starting
to materialize: a mass-based consumer and environmental marketplace pressure
campaign in the heartland of GE foods-North America. A number of major
US food companies are already responding to public pressure and starting
to sweep GE foods off their products lists and their grocery shelves: Gerber
(baby food), Heinz (baby food), Frito-Lay (at least for their corn), Whole
Foods, Wild Oats, Trader Joe's, and even McDonald's (at least for their
French fries).
rBGH (recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone), is a genetically engineered
(GE) potent variant of the natural growth hormone produced by cows. Manufactured
by Monsanto, it is sold to dairy farmers under the trade name POSILAC.
Injection of this GE hormone forces cows to increase their milk production
by about 10%. Monsanto and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) insist
that rBGH milk is indistinguishable from natural milk and safe to cows
and consumers. However:
* rBGH makes cows sick. Monsanto has been forced to admit to about 20 veterinary
health risks on its Posilac label including mastitis and udder inflammation.
* rBGH milk is contaminated by pus from mastitis induced by rBGH, and antibiotics
used to treat the mastitis.
* rBGH milk is contaminated by the GE hormone which can be absorbed through
the gut and induce immunological effects.
* rBGH milk is chemically and nutritionally very different from natural
milk.
* rBGH milk is supercharged with high levels of a natural growth factor
(IGF-1), excess levels of which have been incriminated as major causes
of breast, colon, and prostate cancers.
* rBGH factory farms pose a major threat to the viability of small dairy
farms. Thus, rBGH
enriches Monsanto while posing risks but no benefits to the entire
U.S. population..
Bovine
Growth Hormone Although there have been no long-term tests of the hormone's health
effects on humans, some preliminary studies link BGH with increased risks
of breast cancer, colon cancer, diabetes and hypertension. BGH treated
cows are more susceptible to "mad cow disease", udder infections and birthing
deformed calves. Milk and other products from BGH treated cows may contain
less protein and higher levels of saturated fat as well as pus, bacteria
and antibiotics. Even though the FDA has acknowledged some of these dangers,
they maintain approval of BGH's use in beef and dairy products and have
refused to require labeling of products derived from use of BGH.
To find out more about BGH contact the Pure Food Campaign at 1-800-253-0681.
Both the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) and the Consumer's Union,
publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, have warned of the potential hazards
to human health caused by consuming products derived from rBGH-treated
cows.
While rBGH is banned in Europe and Canada, and has been boycotted by
95 percent of US dairy farmers, the FDA, Environmental Protection Agency
and Department of Agriculture continue to license the drug (and other new
genetically engineered foods) without pre-market safety tests. Thanks to
industry pressure, genetically engineered foods are NOT required to carry
identifying labels. According to the US Federal Office of Management and
Budget the projected increase in milk production caused by rBGH introduction
will cost American taxpayers an additional $116 million of dollars for
further price supports in 1995 alone. And what about the cows? The drug
company responsible for the marketing of this absurd drug under the trade
name Posilac is Monsanto. In their words: Use of POSILAC has been associated
with increases in cystic ovaries and disorders of the uterus...digestive
disorders...enlarged hocks and lesions (lacerations, enlargements, calluses)
of the knee
Genetically engineered growth hormones COULD BE IN YOUR MILK AND DAIRY
PRODUCTS. Starting on February 3, 1994, milk, cheese, butter, ice cream,
yogurt, beef and infant formula sold and consumed throughout the United
States will be laced with genetically engineered recombinant Bovine Growth
Hormone (rBGH) - also known as "Bovine Somatotropin" or BST. Recently,
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of rBGH in
dairy cows without long-term testing on the hormone's health effects on
consumers.
The (FDA) has also refused to require labeling of milk and other dairy
products derived from use of the genetically engineered hormone, even though
more than 90% of consumers favor labeling of rBGH products so they can
avoid buying them.
HERE ARE SIX THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW *BEFORE* YOU BUY MILK
and DIARY PRODUCTS IN ANY STORE. (Please
read on)
IF YOU ARE AGAINST GENETICALLY ENGINEERED HORMONES, ANTIBIOTICS
and PUS IN YOUR MILK and DAIRY PRODUCTS, *YOU BETTER ACT NOW!* There
is much more..Click here to learn
more about it!
Why did
the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler "lied to Congress"? Pure Foods Campaign (PFC) claims that Food and Drug Administration
Commissioner David Kessler "lied to Congress" when he assured legislators
that bovine somatrotropin (BST), the genetically engineered growth hormone,
was destroyed by pasteurization. Kessler's assurance, which spared Monsanto
(BST's manufacturer) the expense of any further research, was based on
a scientific paper written by Paul Groenewegen, a graduate student from
Guelph, Canada. According to PFC, Groenewegen was "outraged" to learn that
the FDA had misrepresented his research. Far from destroying BST, Groenewegen's
research showed that subjecting BST to pasteurization temperatures 120
times normal only destroyed 19 percent of the BST in milk. PFC also charges
that the FDA will not release research that "proves that lab animals got
cancer from BST," despite numerous Freedom of Information Act requests.
Milk and dairy
products
Does
pasteurizedmilk really do the body good?
During the 1930's, Dr. Francis M. Pottenger conducted a 10-year study
on the relative effects of pasteurized and raw milk diets on 900 cats.
One group received nothing but raw whole milk, while the other was fed
nothing but pasteurized whole milk from the same source. The raw milk group
thrived, remaining healthy, active and alert throughout their lives, but
the group fed on pasteurized milk soon became listless, confused and highly
vulnerable to a host of chronic degenerative ailments normally associated
with humans, including heart disease, kidney failure, thyroid dysfunction,
respiratory ailments, loss of teeth, brittle bones, liver inflammation,
etc. But what caught Dr. Pottenger's attention most was what happened to
the second and third generations... more
on A Study in Nutrition by Dr. Francis M. Pottenger, Jr., MD
Milk
and dairy products: Once upon a time, milk was teeming with
life forces. Today, supermarket milk is a brew of hormones, chemicals,
DDT, fungicides, defoliants and radioactive fallout, produced by artificially
inseminated creatures forced to stand around in muddy feed lots all day
long. RAW organic milk does the body
good
"Published research shows that rBGH injected into dairy cows substantially
increases the concentration of IGF-1 in cow's milk. (IGF-1 is a hormone
that appears naturally in humans and cows. The IGF-1 in cows is chemically
identical to the IGF-1 in humans. IGF-1 regulates cell growth, which causes
cells to divide, particularly in children). Feeding relatively low doses
of IGF-1 to mature rats for only two weeks resulted in statistically significant
and systemic effects: increased body weight; increased liver weight; increased
bone length; and decreased epiphyseal width. These results confirm prior
theoretical predictions. In layperson's terms: this drug may well be dangerous
to humans, especially infants and children. The FDA has completely failed
to investigate the effects of long-term feeding of IGF-1 and genetically
engineered milk on growth, in infant rats or infants of any other species.
In Georgia, South Dakota, Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma,
Mississippi, Colorado and Louisiana it is now against the law to publicly
criticize corporate food products under so-called "food disparagement"
laws promoted by agriculture, chemical and biotechnology industry lobbyists.
Similar laws are under consideration in Ohio and Illinois. "These laws
are intended to curtail the right to free speech, to make it illegal to
hand out leaflets or to dump rBGH milk in the gutter," Cummings charged.
"Instead of giving us affordable, healthy, natural, clean food -- safety-tested
and clearly labeled to enable consumers to exercise free choice -- the
powers-that-be seem intent upon taking away our right to know what's been
done to our food," Cummings stated.
rBGH Court Case
in Tampa Puts Reporters' Freedom of Speech on Trial
What You Can Do:
BioDemocracy and Organic Consumers
Association invites activists to stage milk-dumps around the
country to call attention to "food slander" laws. For more information,
contact: PFC, 860 Highway 61E, Little Marais, MN 55614; (218) 226-4146;
(800) 451-7670.
BioDemocracy and Organic
Consumers Association http://www.purefood.org/ 1-800-253-0681
Organic Consumers Association/BioDemocracy Campaign is a grassroots
organization. The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) promotes food safety,
organic farming and sustainable agricultural practices in the U.S. and
internationally. We provide consumers with factual information they can
use to make informed food choices. Genetic engineering, irradiation, toxic
sludge fertilizer, mad cow disease, rBGH are some of the issues we address.
The OCA gives interviews and supplies background material for journalists,
news organizations, and public interest activists worldwide. Our campaign
strategies include public education, activist networking, boycotts and
protests, grassroots lobbying, media and public relations, and litigation.
We publish two electronic newsletters: Organic View and BioDemocracy News.
Mad Cows and Mad Scientists 7,651+ articles on mad cow and new variantCreutzfeldt-Jakob disease,
prions, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie, BSE, CJD, CWD,
TME, and TSE.
The FDA does not require mandatory
pre-market safety testing or labeling of genetically engineered foods.
Consumers have the right to know the contents of the food they purchase
and consume.
more info on genetically engineered
foods
The FDA - Who Do They Really Protect? Health Freedom is Under Attack.
Worldwide pharmaceutical interests have launched a secretive global attack
to limit access to information on health choices and restrict the right
to obtain dietary supplements. Anti-Constitutional Activities and
Abuse of Police Powerby the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other
Federal
Physicians Right to Practice Alternative Medicine Alternative Medicine Bill
Bills that enable physicians
to provide alternative treatments are called Medical Freedom Bills.
New York, Alaska, and Texas in addition to other states have passed such
bills. For more information on the states that have passed medical freedom
bills or have pending bills. Sign
the petition
YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM IS IN JEOPARDY James
DeMeo, Ph.D.: "In recent years, there has been an upsurge of police
activities in the USA, the nature of which most Americans would more readily
associate with repressive dictatorships. We Americans have been educated
to believe that democracy, due process, assumed innocence-until-proven-guilt,
and Constitutional protections against illegal search and seizure are the
laws of the land. On paper, these protections are there; but in reality,
these basic Constitutional rights and freedoms have been gradually and
steadily eroded away by new laws, judicial rulings, and bureaucratic decrees.
One of the lesser-known but more significant leaders of this assault on
American freedom has been the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)." more
The FDA goes after pet
store owners too! 1990 El Cajon, California:
The FDA attempts to railroad Sissy Harrington-McGill, 57-year old owner
of a pet food store, for violation of a proposed "Health Claims Law" because
her literature stated vitamins would help keep pets healthy. Her store
was raided and ransacked without a search warrant. . Lawsuits against the
FDA have been filed.
Do
you have a question about holistic or natural health or need assistance?
click
here to contact Shirley or call 206-984-3009 or 323-389-0560.
"Something stinks. And it's not just left-over junk food or bacteria
and feces-contaminated meat from filthy slaughterhouses and hog and poultry
factories. It's not just the scent of chemical pesticides on non-organic
fruits and vegetables. It's not just the pus, antibiotics, and growth hormones
souring the public attitude toward rBGH dairy products
and other unlabeled, untested genetically engineered foods.
It's more than this. It's in the tap water, the topsoil, the air. In the
alarming statistics on increasing cancer, food poisoning, chemical hyper-sensitivity,
antibiotic resistance, allergies, sterility, and immune disorders. No wonder
80% of the public in a recent poll ranked "food safety" as a "very important"
issue. But now perhaps the most putrid smell of all seems to be wafting
out of the halls and backrooms of Congress, where a bipartisan effort is
underway to weaken already inadequate food safety laws.
Further smells emanate from state capitals in South Dakota, Alabama,
Georgia, Florida, Idaho, Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Colorado,
and Louisiana--and perhaps soon other states--where indentured legislators
are busy passing so-called "food disparagement" laws designed by ag-chemical-
biotech industry lobbyists. Laws intended to curtail your right to free
speech. To make it illegal to hand out a leaflet like this one, or to dump
"suspect" rBGH milk where it belongs--in the gutter.
Instead of giving us what we want: affordable, healthy, natural, clean
food--safety-tested and clearly labeled to enable consumers to exercise
free choice--the powers that be seem intent upon taking away our right
to know what's been done to our food and instead delivering another message:
Let them eat hormones, feces, chemicals, dioxin, antibiotics... Government
and corporation hacks use so-called "risk assessment" and "cost accounting"
to tell us it's "too expensive" to clean-up food industry practices, even
as the Centers for Disease Control admit that 20 to 80 million people a
year get food poisoning; and published data indicate that environmental
and food-related cancer rates are steadily increasing."
Seven drugs approved since 1993 have been withdrawn
after reports of deaths and severe side effects. A two-year
Los
Angeles Times investigation has found that the FDA approved each of
those drugs while disregarding danger signs or blunt warnings from its
own specialists.
Other topics of interest:
Newest Research On Why You Should Avoid
Soy Contrary to popular belief that soy is a health food, evidence reveals
that soy consumption has been linked to numerous disorders, including infertility,
increased cancer and infantile leukemia, and precocious puberty in
children have been fed soy formula. (early maturation, such as breast development
and menstruation as early as 6 years of age)
"...the soybean contains large quantities of natural toxins or "antinutrients".
First among them are potent enzyme inhibitors that block the action of
trypsin and other enzymes needed for protein digestion. These inhibitors
are large, tightly folded proteins that are not completely deactivated
during ordinary cooking. They can produce serious gastric distress, reduced
protein digestion and chronic deficiencies in amino acid uptake. In test
animals, diets high in trypsin inhibitors cause enlargement and pathological
conditions of the pancreas, including cancer. Soybeans also contain haemagglutinin,
a clot-promoting substance that causes red blood cells to clump together.
Trypsin inhibitors and haemagglutinin are growth inhibitors."
The health claims of the soy industry
have one purpose and one purpose alone - to sell more soy! That's
why you'll only hear about the benefits of soy from the industry, but
thinks all consumers deserve the right to make an informed choice about
what they are eating and feeding to their children, their household pets
and their livestock.
Dr. Mercola - "Soy formula is one of the worst foods that you
could feed your child. Not only does it have profoundly adverse hormonal
effects as discussed above, but it also has over 1000% more aluminum than
conventional milk based formulas."
More than half of America's processed grocery products — from corn flakes
to granola bars to diet drinks — contain genetically altered ingredients.
They are unlabeled and untested, and we are eating them. Your Right to
Know is a complete, full-color reference guide outlining how unmarked genetically
modified foods go from the factory to the family dining table, and what
consumers can do about the health risks they present. This accessible guide
is for concerned parents — as well as anyone concerned about genetically
altered foods — who want to know more about the potential health risks,
the organic alternatives, and the methods available to counter the corporate
takeover of the food we eat.
"The
degenerative disease epidemic that wracks the nation came coincidentally
with the introduction of engineered fats and oils. It is the type of fats
and oils that we consume that is directly correlated to the rise of epidemic
degenerative disease; it is not the amount of fats and oils that we eat
that causes the problem.It is by chronically consuming the fats
and oils that cause degenerative disease that we impair our ability to
consume healthy fats and oils. We also impair our ability to consume carbohydrates
and thus become Diabetic and Obese."
"Today nothing that the Heart Specialist does cures Heart Disease.
Heart Disease, like Diabetes and many, many similar systemic failures,
is due largely, if not entirely, to the consequences of bad engineering
in our fats and oils industry. The transfats and other toxic isomers in
our engineered fats and oils are well understood to damage our cellular
membranes, to interfere with cellular respiration, to inhibit glucose transport,
to set in motion consequences that corrode our arteries, damage our eyesight,
devastate our kidneys, destroy our venous system, and directly cause the
large array of similar systemic problems. There is even evidence to link
these engineered fats and oils to our incredible Cancer epidemic through
their interference with cellular respiration. These toxic fats and oils
have even been linked to epidemic ADHD in our schools. It is important
to know enough about fats and oils to be able to make kitchen use of them
and to make intelligent food selections of these all important substances.
It's really not complicated, when information is presented with the intent
to inform instead of to deceive." Thomas Smith, author of
Insulin: Our Silent Killer
Flax Oil as a True Aid Against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer and
Other Diseases. Recent research suggests that ALA (alpha-linolenic acid)
and lignans in flaxseed modulate the immune response and may play a beneficial
role in the clinical management of autoimmune diseases
Refined table salt v/s
organic unrefined sea salt Table salt is only sodium chloride, all of the other beneficial elements
have been removed. Many of these 82 missing elements are only trace elements,
and are therefore required by our bodies in only very small amounts. But
a deficiency of these trace elements causes great harm to our bodies.
"Fish from the ocean will die quickly if placed in a solution of
refined
salt
and water. The sodium chloride, in its form as it comes from the refinery,
is actually poisonous to them. Bottom line, is that yes it can be harmful
to consume too much refined salt, but you cannot consume too much
natural
unrefined salt.
"Aspartame (NutraSweet) appears to cause slow, silent damage in those
unfortunate enough to not have immediate reactions and a reason to avoid
it. It may take one year, five years, 10 years, or 40 years, but it seems
to cause some reversible and some irreversible changes in health over long-term
use" Learn about the Legal class action against aspartame.
H. J. Roberts, M.D. "I have observed severe
intellectual deterioration associated with the use of aspartame products.
It was usually manifest as great difficulty in reading and writing, obvious
problems with memory and grossly impaired orientation to time, place and
person."
Ralph Walton, M.D., Psychiatrist, Chairman
of the Center for Behavioral Medicine: "We have known for years that when
aspartame is ingested with a carbohydrate rich meal the usual physiologic
increase in tryptophan is blocked, while brain phenylalanine and tyrosine
concentrations are increased. These changes in amino acid blocked neurotransmitter
precursors could, I believe, alter indoleamine/catechloamine balance, and
thus have a profound effect on mood and cognition ....depressed mood, anxiety,
dizziness, panic attacks, nausea, irritability, impairment of memory and
concentration.
The US Is One of Only a Few Countries Using Genetically Engineered Food
- The US, Canada and Argentina account for 96% of the world's GE crops.
In Europe, the largest agricultural market in the world, all of the major
supermarket chains and food companies have removed GE ingredients from
their consumer products. Shouldn't we consider this a huge clue that there
are major potential dangers with this technology? Why is the survival of
indigenous people, within the U.S. and across the globe, is being directly
threatened by genetic engineering (GE) of food crops? Why is the governments
of the United States and many other nations permit these experimental foods
to be mass marketed without safety testing and labeling?
What
Every Parent Should Know BEFORE Their Childen Are Vaccinated! Why
are a growing number of parents and health care professionals around the
world questioning vaccination? The controversy stems from the thousands
of deaths and permanent disabilities attributed to vaccination annually,
as well as the many published medical studies, government statistics, congressional
testimonies, and other credible sources that directly contradict commonly
held assumptions about vaccine safety and effectiveness.
Bart Classen, a Maryland physician, published data showing that diabetes
rates rose significantly in New Zealand following a massive hepatitis B
vaccine campaign in young children, and that diabetes rates also went up
sharply in Finland after three new childhood vaccines were introduced.
More pictures
of vaccine damage available to view at the
CDC
website
In fall 1997, two influential professional magazines featured articles
asking the question: Has the decrease of infectious diseases in childhood
through the mass use of vaccines been replaced with an increase in chronic
diseases such as diabetes and asthma? The Economist, a prestigious international
magazine read by world leaders in government, business and public policy,
and Science News, a magazine read by both health care professionals
and the general public, explored the reported links between vaccines and
chronic diseases in their November 22, 1997 issues.
Homeopathy
can be used successfully to prevent and treat smallpox, measles,
whooping
cough, chickenpox, and other ailments.
Would you allow big brother to enforce vaccinations on your kids? Government
Enforced Vaccinations Vaccination Tracking Registry - Government programs
that limit your choices -and your rights- in health care when it comes
to mandatory vaccination. These mandates last for 40 or so years
and they're impossible to repeal. Also, learn about Legal Requirements
and Exemptions
Are Vaccines Damaging Our Pets?
Routine Vaccination: Is
it really safe and effective? Most recently, an article
appeared in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
entitled "Are We Vaccinating Too Much?" Read about the comments of veterinarians
who believe that vaccines are damaging our pets.
Beware of Canola Oil
Canola oil comes from the rape seed, which is part of the mustard family
of plants. Rape is the most toxic of all food-oil plants. Like soy, rape
is a weed. Insects will not eat it; it is deadly poisonous! The oil from
the rape seed is a hundred times more toxic than soy oil.
There is considerable controversy with regard to canola oil and the
rape seed plant. One aim of my website is to present views which do not
necessarily conform to the views of the establishment. It is very easy
to find views which conform to the establishment's views. It is very often
difficult to find opposing views. Therefore, you can read the views
presented on my website and then visit other websites which present opposing
views, and then you can make up your own mind. (see links to conventional
website in support of canola oil below). Shirley - The
following excerpt is from John Thomas' book: Young
again: How to Reverse the Aging Process published by Promotion Publishing,
San Diego
Scientists have known for years that the isoflavones in soy
products can depress thyroid function and cause goiters in otherwise
healthy children and adults. Researchers at Cornell University Medical
College said that children who got soy formula were more likely to develop
thyroid disease and that twice as many diabetic children had received soy
formula in infancy as compared to non-diabetic children. In fact, in other
countries such as Switzerland, England, Australia and New Zealand, public
health officials recommend highly restricted medically monitored use of
soy for babies and for pregnant women.
Healing
Clay - Healing Earth Clay is renowned to have many uses in promoting
health in plants, animals and humans. Bentonite, Pascalite, as well as
other types of healing clays, have been used by indigenous cultures since
before recorded history. According to Knishinsky, benefits reported by
people using liquid clay for a period of two to four weeks include: improved
intestinal regularity; relief from chronic constipation, diarrhea, indigestion,
and ulcers; a surge in physical energy; clearer complexion; brighter, whiter
eyes; enhanced alertness; emotional uplift; improved tissue and gum repair;
and increased resistance to infections. Clay works on the entire organism.
No part of the body is left untouched by its healing energies, he notes.
"The eating of clay has been observed in [ native ] peoples and animals
in all parts of the world since antiquity. Early writers described the
widespread use of kanwa ( earth from a lick near Lake Chad ) for animals
and humans in Nigeria. Long journeys were made to [ this ] lick to obtain
a tribal supply of this earth, and it was then issued as rations to cattle
and humans... learn more
Other Earth Cure: Fulvic
Acids and Shilajit Fulvic Acid and Shilajit are involved in
complex biochemical reactions in living plants and animals, which directly
influence the very metabolic processes at the cellular level. Fulvic acid
is a humic substance or extract. Humic substances are found in rich humus
soil in trace amounts and are
considered nature's own best medicine
for plants, animals, humans,
and the Earth itself. To the science
of living cells, fulvic acids are vital in bringing substantial amounts
of nutrients and minerals into water solution and delivering their living
energies to the living cells. Fulvic acid assists every stage of cellular
metabolism and is the most powerful, natural electrolyte known. It restores
electrical balance to damaged cells, neutralizes toxins and can eliminate
food poisoning within minutes. Shilajit in Sanskrit means "conqueror
of mountains and destroyer of weakness". It comes from the rocks in the
lower Himalayas and is the most important natural remedy of Ayurvedic medicine.
The
active principle of shilajit is fulvic acid.
Traditionally considered
a panacea and a strong kidney tonic, it increases the core energy responsible
for your sexual and spiritual power, the same force that is withered by
stress and anxiety. “There is hardly any curable disease which cannot be
controlled or cured with the aid of Shilajit.” - Famous Indian Vaid Charak
(1st Century A.D. It is used by the indigenous system of medicine in India,
Hakims and Vaids and traditional healers, in a great variety of diseases:
genitourinary diseases, diabetes, chronic bronchitis, asthma, gall stones,
jaundice, painful and bleeding piles, enlarged liver and spleen, fermentative
dyspepsia, digestive disorders, worms, renal and bladder calculi, nervous
debility, sexual neurasthenia, hysteria, anaemia and in bone fracture.
"Bee
Pollen is often referred to as nature's most complete
food, containing all of the 22 elements that the human body requires to
function, provides you with 135 essential nutrients, a vast array of vitamins,
minerals, amino acids and more. Human consumption of bee pollen is praised
in the Bible, other religious books, and ancient Chinese and Egyptian texts.
It has long been prescribed by traditional health practitioners-including
the fathers of Western medicine Hippocrates, Pliny the Elder, and Pythagoras-for
its healing properties. Bee pollen rejuvenates the body, stimulates organs
and glands, enhances vitality, and brings about a longer life span. Bee
pollen's ability to consistently and noticeably increase energy levels
makes it a favorite substance among many world class athletes and those
interested in sustaining and enhancing quality performance." Steve Schecter
N.D.
"There is no family of foods
more protective against radiation and environmental pollutants than sea
vegetables ... sea vegetables can prevent assimilation of different radionuclitides,
heavy metals such as cadmium, and other environmental toxins." Steven
Schecter, N.D.
Many kinds of seaweed are eaten by people because they are full of
vitamins and iodine. Asian cultures use seaweed like green beans and carrots
are used in the United States. One of seaweed's most prominent health benefits
is its ability to remove radioactive strontium and other heavy metals from
our bodies. Whole brown seaweeds (not granulated) such as kelp contain
alginic acid which binds with the toxins in the intestines rendering them
indigestible and carries them out of the system.
Salt Deficiency: the cause of many
serious diseases When organic, unrefined
salt lack in your diet, weakness and sickness follow. An abundance of the ingredients in unrefined real salt (not
common table salt) are as synonymous with life today as they were a billion
years ago before single cells appeared here. Lack of them is synonymous
with birth defects, organ failure, decay, diseases, premature aging and
death at a young age. more about real salt
A further look at healing with nature. Nature provides
us with a simple, straightforward system for regaining and maintaining
superb human health and beauty.
Healing with Food: Most human illnesses and diseases
are due to a deficiency of vital nutrients. When you supply your body with
the proper nutrients, in a form that your body can use, it knows how to
repair itself.
Healing through Fasting: Fasting is the world's
most ancient and natural healing mechanism.
Healing with Water: Hydrotherapy has been used
for centuries to heal the sick.
Healing with Sunlight: Sunlight helps the body
heal wounds and injuries and overcome virtually any illness.
Healing with Earth: Clay is renowned to have many
uses in promoting health in plants, animals and humans.
Healing with Plants: Plants have the power to supply
the bodies’ life force with the energies it needs to restore and maintain
health.
Healing with Urine: One of the most powerful, most
researched and most medically proven natural cures ever discovered.
Healing from the Hives: Bee pollen rejuvenates your
body, stimulates organs and glands, enhances vitality, and brings about
a longer life span.
Basic Healing Principles:
The body has an
innate capacity to heal itself. Self-healing can only occur once the cause
of
the illness has been eliminated. Why elimination of the symptom is NOT
the same as elimination of the disease? Physicians and surgeons
palliate
symptoms
instead of removing causes
AIDS/HIV/AZT What if everything you thought you knew about
AIDS was wrong? A growing number of scientists world-wide have
publicly denounced the total failure of the HIV/AIDS hypothesis, questioned
the meaning of the "AIDS test", and criticized the use of AZT which has
been proven to be a toxic poison that makes the patient sicker and is actually
the cause of AIDS deaths. The group includes scientists such as Kary Mullis,
who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1993 for inventing the polymerase
chain reaction used to test for HIV, Peter H. Duesberg, Ph.D., a professor
of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley
and Charles Thomas, PhD., Former chair of the Cell Biology Department,
Scripps Research Institute - Healing AIDS: a holistic
approach.
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Shirley was once a victim
of the never-ending flow of propaganda from the medical establishment who
wants to maintain a monopoly on the word "cure" and who wants us to believe
that we have no control over our own health and that our only hope to get
"well" is with drugs, surgery and radiation. You can read an account
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journey into health without drugs, surgery or radiation.
The Truth
About the Drug Companies : How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
"The medical establishment works closely with the drug multinationals whose
main objective is profits, and whose worst nightmare would be an epidemic
of good health. Lots of drugs MUST be sold. In order to achieve this, anything
goes: lies, fraud, and kickbacks. Doctors are the principal salespeople
of the drug companies. " Guylaine Lanctot, M.D.
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A
growing number of holistic doctors, pediatricians and veterinarians use
transfer
factors as an alternative to, or in conjunction with conventional
medicine for their acute and chronic cases, including cancer and other
serious health conditions, with excellent outcome.
Dr. Rob Robertson, MD
- "There is no other product in a nutritional substance, nor a drug, that
has this kind of power and ability to affect our immune system. With the
increase of killer viruses, mutated germs, super-resistant germs, and food
contaminations, our only hope and defense, must lie within our own immune
system." Transfer factors and the immune sytem
Dr.
Howard Peiper MD "Our immune systems are under attack from toxic substances
that are everywhere - in the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water
we drink. Serious disease doesn't just happen. The accumulation of toxins
compromises our immune system and wears the body down leaving us vulnerable
to all sorts of maladies. The body has an amazing ability to recover from
illness and restore itself if we give it the tools to work with." learn
more...
Dr. Jerry Tennant, M.D.
says
that marine phytoplankton contains almost everything
one needs to sustain life and to restore health by providing the raw materials
to make new cells that function normally. These nutrients improve mental
function, and memory. They reduce depression, harmful effects of stress,
and mood swings. Profound Life-Giving Properties
of Marine Phytoplankton
MagnesiumTherapy
Magnesium helps maintain normal muscle and nerve function, keeps heart
rhythm steady, and bones strong. Dr. Sidney Baker - "Magnesium deficiency
can affect virtually every organ system of the body. With regard to skeletal
muscle, one may experience twitches, cramps, muscle tension, muscle soreness,
including back aches, neck pain, tension headaches and jaw joint (TMJ)
dysfunction." more
The
Native Americans call it "Ee-Wah-Kee" meaning "The-Mud-That-Heals".
In addition to the role it plays as a potent detoxifier, therapeutic
clay has also been used extensively in the treatment of pain, open
wounds, colitis, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, stomach ulcers, intestinal problems,
acne, anemia, and a variety of other health issues. more
Raising
Public Awareness Most modern maladies are
caused by prolonged exposure to a combination of negative lifestyles and
toxic environmental factors, including junk food and malnutrition, pesticides,
antibiotics, microwaves, chemical pollution of food, water and air, lack
of exercise and chronic stress. These factors are further aggravated by
the failure of modern medicine to recognize them as agents of dis-"ease"
and death and the consequent failure to take preventative measures against
them. more
Teas
Are One of The Most Effective Ways to Benefit from Nature's Healing Herbs Teas can help fight depression
and anxiety, heal skin conditions and gastrointestinal disorders, regulate
hormone imbalances, improve your sex life, prevent illness, and help
you heal faster.
Many diseases and conditions for which we turn to modern medicine can also
be treated naturally with healing herbs. These treatments can be safer,
less expensive and possibly even more effective than traditional methods.
Dr.
Myklebust, MD: "Teas are rich in antioxidants called polyphenols which
are plant chemicals that may help prevent cancer, heart disease, and other
diseases" More
Chia
Seeds: The "Aztec" Wonder Food with Healing Power. The ancient Aztec
civilization used Chia seed to provide them with radiant health, endurance,
and boundless energy.
The
Healing Power of Original Himalayan Crystal Salt For centuries,
the energy/information content, in the form of vital mineral elements
locked away within these perfectly formed crystals of mineral rich salt,
were utilized by doctors for treating most every disorder known to humans,
and with unfailing success. Recently. this ancient knowledge was once again
uncovered by biophysicists and brought to light in the acclaimed book,
Water
and Salt, The Essence of Life , by Dr. med Barbara Hendel and biophysicist
Peter Ferreira
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Peter R. Breggin,
M.D - "The drugging of children has gotten
so out of hand that America is waking up to this. This is a national catastrophe."
more
Julian Whitaker M.D -
"Class
action lawsuits have been filed in Texas, California and New Jersey charging
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis, maker of Ritalin,
with conspiracy to create the psychiatric disorder known as ADHD in order
to fuel the market for their product." more...
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