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I STRONGLY urge ALL to watch this new Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr. Video about his
IMPRESSIVE Plant Based Program that CURED 17 patients that were “given up on” by the medical system after stents, open heart surgery, drugs, etc.   I recommended Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr. as 2012 Man-Of-The-Year, as he is the greatest living physician associated with Cleveland Clinic. He richly deserves this designation because he has developed and promoted an approach that heals without the heavy medical intervention hospitals like  Cleveland Clinic are known for. In an era of skyrocketing healthcare costs and runaway obesity,
Esselstyn’s approach around an austere “heart-attack proof”Plant Based diet will soon be

Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr. considered one of the most important innovations of this era. And it is a supremely benevolent act, since his “Esselstyn Diet” has little revenue for hospitals and prevents reimbursable cardiac medical treatments. Esselstyn, a surgeon and former Olympic gold medalist rower, claims and hs demonstrated that you can prevent and reverseheart disease by eating a strict vegetarian diet with no meat, poultry, fish, dairy products or oils. “What really keeps me on fire about this is we have anepidemic of disease in this country that doesn’t need to exist,” Esselstyn told The Plain Dealer in 2008. “It’s so ridiculously simplistic to turn around this epidemic, it’s scary.” His controversial stance has recently received more attention, thanks to lavish praise in the documentary “Forks Over Knives”, Bill Clinton's interview with Wolf Blitzer, the 1 hour CNN Special with Dr. Sanjay Gupta The Last Heart Attack.http://sanjayguptamd.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/29/sanjay-gupta-reports-the-last-heart-attack/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqvjCIKoo8MBill Clinton, Dr. Esselstyn, Dr. Sanjay Gupta Bill Clinton, Dr. Esselstyn, Dr. Snajay Gupta, Don Porter

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Flame retardant chemical found in US soft drinks

FDA apprvd Dangerous Chemicals

Tues, Dec 20, 2011 by: Tara Green

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034448_brominated_vegetable_oil_soft_drinks_chemical.html#ixzz1hAZzzHHo

A substance patented as a flame retardant and banned as a food ingredient throughout Europe and in Japan is present in 10% of all soft drinks in the US. The Dec. 12, 2011 issue of
Environmental Health News reviews the history of this toxic ingredient, including the fact that “extreme soda binges – not too far from what many video gamers regularly consume” have resulted in skin lesions, memory loss, nerve disorders.

Fruit-flavored flame retardant

Mountain Dew, Fanta, Orange, Squirt, some flavors of Gatorade and Powerade, as well as other
fruit-flavored beverages contain brominated vegetable oil (BVO). On the Nutrition Connection page of its website, the Coca-Cola Company, which manufactures Fanta, defines BVO’s as “stabilizers to prevent the citrus flavoring oils from floating to the surface in beverages.” In other words, as Environmental Health News explains, BVO weighs down the citrus flavoring so
that it mixes with the other soda ingredients, just as flame retardants slow down the chemical reactions which can cause fires.

FDA says safe?

Brominated vegetable oil is derived from soybean or corn and contains bromine atoms. BVO was removed from the FDA’s “Generally Recognized as Safe List” for flavor additives in 1970. The Flavor Extract Manufacturers’ Association subsequently petitioned to get BVO re-approved, this time as a stabilizer rather than a flavor additive. Following the submission of industry-generated studies showing that BVO was harmless when present in soft drinks within “safe limits.” The FDA in 1977 granted “interim approval” for use of the substance, limiting it to 15 parts per million.  That interim has so far lasted 30 years. The Environmental Health News article quotes an FDA spokesperson as saying that re-examining the status of BVO “is not a public health priority for the agency at this time.”

Many critics in the past have likened the reliance of governmental watchdog agencies like the FDA on industry studies to “the fox guarding the henhouse.” One therefore might have cause to wonder about the scientific accuracy of those 1970s industry-generated data which persuaded the FDA to re-approve BVO. Even if those studies were accurate, toxicity testing has
improved significantly in the past three decades.

Recent Research

Both animal research and human studies of bromine have demonstrated its toxicity, finding links to lowered fertility, early puberty onset and impaired neurological development. Studies have also shown that bromine builds up in the heart, liver and fat tissue. The accumulation may also appear in breast milk. Because of this evidence, some health safety experts are concerned about bromine’s use even as a flame retardant which can be present in many household items.

Given the high levels of soda many people consume in the US, its presence in soft drinks is alarming. Health experts point in particular to the gamer culture where people may play video games for hours, drinking soft drinks throughout an extended session of gaming. Some soft drink companies, such as Mountain Dew, even offer game tie-ins, awarding players bonus points for drinking more of the soda.

Chemicals, Dollars and Health

The perspective of other countries on this US public health concern offers some interesting perspective. Wim Thielemans, a chemical engineer at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, points out soda
manufacturers use natural hydrocolloids to perform BVO’s emulsification function in countries where BVO is banned. Since there are viable alternatives to BVO’s, Thielmans speculates that “the main driver for not replacing them may be cost.”

BVO’s are another in a long list of reasons to avoid drinking sodas, and to teach your children to appreciate healthier beverages. In addition to the high fructose corn syrup of “regular” sodas or aspartame in diet drinks,
both of which bring a host of health risks, these are one more poison in the cocktail of chemicals contained in soda.

Sodas LOADED with sugar

Sources:

http://www.treehugger.com/health/fl…,     http://productnutrition.thecoca-col..,.    http://www.environmentalhealthnews…. ,    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/…

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034448_brominated_vegetable_oil_soft_drinks_chemical.html#ixzz1hAZlbIJ9

Prostate cancer treatments spur cancer to grow

Wed, Nov 09, 2011 by: Sherry Baker, Health Sciences Editor Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034099_prostate_cancer_treatments.html#ixzz1dImC2Q5P

 (NaturalNews) When men with advanced prostate cancer are treated with hormone therapy, the cancer usually stops growing for a year, maybe two. But then the disease often begins to grow again, and mainstream
doctors have few if any options left to try to help.

So why did the hormone treatment work for a while and then stop? According to findings recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the explanation may be unexpectedly simple: the very drugs given to men to fight their prostate cancer actually
spur some cancer cells to grow.

The new study, headed by Chawnshang Chang, PhD, director of the George Whipple Laboratory for Cancer Research at the Univ of Rochester Medical Ctr, and colleagues, suggests the androgen receptor, through which male hormones like testosterone work, turns out to be far more versatile than scientists realized. Specifically, a common form of hormone therapy for prostate cancer works by blocking the androgen receptor. And Dr. Chang’s team found that it was true that depriving the male body of testosterone this way can at times stop cancer in the short term by preventing some cells in the prostate from growing. But, unfortunately, they also discovered that blocking the receptor can actually cause a revving up of other prostate cell growth and can lead to a proliferation of cancer cells down the road.   While the findings are based on both laboratory studies and in experiments with mice, there’s plenty of reason to be concerned that androgen receptor blocking therapy could be putting men with prostate cancer at heightened risk
for spread of the disease instead of a cure.

The truth about blocking male hormones and emerging cancer

“When a man receives hormone therapy, initially the treatment works well, & his PSA (prostate specific  antigen) level goes down,” urologist Edward Messing, MD, an author of the paper, said in a media statement. “But inevitably, the PSA will start climbing again, & that is usually the first sign that the treatment is beginning to fail. It’s a sign that the cancer in the prostate is making a comeback.”   “The androgen receptor acts differently in different cells in prostate tissue,” Dr. Chang said in the media release. “It’s always been assumed that blocking the androgen receptor will stop all prostate cells from growing, but we have found that that’s not the case. Since current treatment acts non-specifically on all the cells having androgen receptors in the prostate, blocking the androgen receptor will give mixed results.”

Bottom line: It turns out that when common cancer drugs are used to block hormone receptors, they “turn off” epithelial cells, which form the membranous tissue covering internal organs. By doing this, these drugs remove one of the body’s natural protections that prevent rostate cancer cells from spreading in the first place. The result? Cancer cells are more likely to metastasize and invade other tissues.

In addition to potentially causing prostate cancer to eventually spread, hormone treatment for prostate cancer comes loaded with a host of side effects including loss of muscle mass, impotency, brittle bones, weight gain, memory loss and hot flashes.

Sources for this articleinclude:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/…          http://www.pcf.org/site/c.leJRIROrE…                         http://www.prostate-report.org/__wh…

About the author: Sherry Baker is a widely published writer whose work has appeared in Newsweek, Health, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Yoga Journal, Optometry, Atlanta, Arthritis Today, Natural Healing Newsletter, OMNI, UCLA’s “Healthy Years” newsletter, Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s “Focus on Health Aging”newsletter, the Cleveland Clinic’s “Men’s Health Advisor” newsletter and many others.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034099_prostate_cancer_treatments.html#ixzz1dIm3WaRc

JUNK FOOD for Our Children’s Breakfasts 

Could it be self serving to build revenues ?

 LOTS OF SUGAR-  BAD for us & good for medical revenues

By ESTHER CEPEDA Published:  Wed, Dec. 14, 2011 . Sarasota Herald Tribune

Here’s a side note about the sugary cereals headlines you saw last week: It’s actually much worse than you think.

If your eyebrows rose when you saw news stories topped with lines such as “Kids’ cereals more like dessert than breakfast” and “Kids’ cereals pack more sugar than Twinkies and cookies,” consider that the cereals were compared to other junk foods only in single-serving sizes. The Environmental Working Group made waves by equating the sugar content in popular kids’ cereals to the famous snack cake and Chips Ahoy, Oreos and
homemade sugar cookies, but should have gone even further and told us what number of each is equal to the amount of cereal kids actually pour themselves. In other words, the Working Group missed the opportunity to talk about that wily sneak, portion size.

For instance, the report compared a “one-cup serving of Honey Smacks cereal” to a Twinkie. But if you look on the side of the Honey Smacks box, you’ll find that Kellogg’s considers a single serving to be a mere three-quarters of a cup — an even less filling expenditure of 100 calories and 15 grams of sugar. Then consider that if you drop that small amount of cereal into a standard-size bowl, it leaves that bowl well short of being half
full. Even including the milk, you’re looking at two full servings of cereal to make up a bowl.

If I allowed my 13-year-old son to eat Honey Smacks, I would have to pry the box from his sugar-twitchy hands before he downed half of it in one sitting. And there’s no way he would feel as if he’d eaten anything at all if he had fewer than two bowls, or, by my calculation, 400 calories and 60 grams of sugar — the nutritional equivalent of about three Twinkies, not counting the milk.

Not exactly the breakfast of champions.  More like – the make em sick for revnues game

I’ve actually been happy about the level of surprise and public interest in the Working Group’s findings because, in an October column on whether parents should be trusted with their kids’ breakfast, I noted that a
serving of Cheerios was nutritionally similar to three Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies — and some readers thought it was a strange and unfair comparison.  Hopefully, people stopped to think about the everyday foods their families have grown attached to.  If the Working Group really wanted to drive the point home, it would create an online visual calculator that would translate the number of bowls of cereal — and other fake
nutritious foods like sugary yogurts and candy-coated granola bars — a person eats, and convert them into the nutritional equivalent of treats like sports drinks, sodas, candy bars and salty snacks, which most people acknowledge should be a very limited part of their diets.

Think what a wake-up call it would be to learn that junior’s breakfast is as filling and healthy as a Snickers bar and can of Mountain Dew.

STOP BUYING Chemical food Garbage that damages your chilren !!

Study confirms that many survivors of breast cancer chemotherapy treatments suffer from brain damage
Just like they often do in response to the numerous health problems brought about by things like Morgellons Disease and the HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix, doctors commonly deny that the cognitive problems reported by breast cancer patients following chemotherapy are in any way related to the toxic treatment. But a new study published in the journal Archives of Neurology suggests otherwise, as it points to clear evidence of what is known as “chemo brain,” or brain damage caused by chemotherapy.

Shelli Kesler from the Stanford University School of Medicine in California evaluated 25 breast cancer patients that had been treated with chemotherapy, 19 breast cancer patients that had surgery, and 18 healthy women, as part of her study. All the women were instructed to solve various problems and complete a variety of tasks. They also filled out questionnaires about their perceived cognitive abilities.

During the process, researchers monitored the women’s brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and discovered that those in the chemotherapy group had reduced cognitive ability in three key areas of the brain’s prefrontal cortex — two of the areas were associated with working memory, cognitive control, and monitoring, while the other was associated with executive function, or the area where planning activities take place in the brain.

“This is a huge validation for these women who are telling their doctors ‘something is wrong with me’,” Kesler is quoted as saying by Reuters Health. “This shows that when a patient reports she is struggling with these types of problems, there’s a good chance there has been a brain change.”

That any doctor would even deny a potential link between chemotherapy and brain damage in the first place is quite disturbing. Chemotherapy drugs, of course, are widely known to damage both healthy and malignant cells in the body — and many chemotherapy drugs admittedly cause permanent DNA, heart, and other damage (http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/Tre…).

And the new findings give breast cancer patients yet another valid reason to reconsider going the conventional treatment route. With so many other safe, alternative methods of breast cancer prevention and treatment, why would any woman want to subject herself to potentially permanent brain and other damage caused by chemotherapy? (http://www.naturalnews.com/breast_c…)

Jonathan Benson  NaturalNews  Dec 13, 2011

http://www.infowars.com/study-confirms-that-many-survivors-of-breast-cancer-chemotherapy-treatments-suffer-from-brain-damage/

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Kucinich: Protect Our Food Supply from Manufactured Crises

WASHINGTON – Dec. 9 - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today announced commonsense legislation that would prohibit open-air cultivation of Genetically Engineered (GE) pharmaceutical and industrial crops, preventing biological contamination of our food supply. The bill would also establish a tracking system to regulate and ensure the safety of GE pharmaceutical and industrial crops.

“We must take steps to prevent genetically engineered organisms from being grown in a way that could do irreversible damage to our food supply. Under pressure from profit-minded industry, we have already allowed the spread of genetically modified crops into our agriculture at great cost to our economy and with unknown effects on our bodies,” said Kucinich.

The Department of Agriculture has allowed more than 300 outdoor field trials of plants—including feed crops including corn, soybeans, rice, safflower, barley, alfalfa, mustard greens, peas, sugarcane, tomatoes, and wheat—which are genetically engineered to produce experimental pharmaceuticals, industrial enzymes and novel proteins. Those GE substances are not intended to be incorporated into food or to be spread into the environment or our food supply. Yet there are examples of such contamination, with enormously destructive consequences.

“Many Americans are unaware that crops that are genetically engineered to produce experimental pharmaceutical drugs are being grown in this country in the open, allowing them to contaminate conventional crops without detection. We cannot rely on industry to prevent the unintended spread of genetically engineered organisms,” said Kucinich.

H.R. 3554, The Genetically Engineered Safety Act, which would prohibit the open-air
cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) pharmaceutical and industrial crops. The bill would prohibit the use of common human food or animal feed as the host plant for a genetically engineered pharmaceutical or industrial chemical. H.R. 3554 would also establish a tracking system to regulate the growing, handling, transportation, and disposal of pharmaceutical and industrial crops protect native ecosystems and traditional farms from the unstudied dangers of growing GE organisms. The legislation is part of a package of bills introduced by Kucinich, which includes H.R. 3553, the GE Right to Know Act.

“We have taken few steps to ensure that our own genetic experiments are kept in check. This commonsense legislation would simply ensure that our experimentation with genetic engineering and cloning do not disrupt our traditional food supply. When you are talking about the safety and stability of the food supply, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” said Kucinich.

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Vote them OUT ! Put the Chemical Fat Cats on a Strict Diet:

 Stop Buying Tainted Food From BillionDollar Tainted Corps.

By Ronnie Cummins  Organic Consumers Assoc, Dec, 7, 2011  Amended by Don Porter 12-11-11

 “I have not spoken to one farmer who doesn’t understand the message of Occupy Wall Street, the message that so many people keep saying is nebulous. It’s very clear. Because of business & corporate participation in agriculture, farmers are losing their livelihoods. And if it goes on like this, all we’re going to have to eat in this country is unregulated, imported, genetically modified produce. That’s not a healthy food system.” – Jim Gerritsen, a Maine organic farmer.
“A Farmer Speaks to Wall Street,” The New York Times, Dec. 5, 2011

For the first time since the late-1960s, the American elite &  their indentured politicians are losing legitimacy, part of a deepening global crisis that is simultaneously political, economic, & ecological. In the powerful wake of the 2011 Arab Spring, the European Summer of the Indignados (the indignant ones), & the Occupy Wall Street movement, rebellion is in the air. As protestors in New York put it “The one thing we all have in
common is that we are the 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed & corruption of the 1%.”  Across the
U.S. & planet, the corporate elite is under attack. An emerging army of indignados are starting to act on the premise that minor policy adjustments in corporate boardrooms, or a cosmetic reshuffling of faces in Washington, are not enough. What the Earth & the 99% underclass need, including consumers & farmers, is a grassroots revolution – a fundamental transfer of power from the corporatocracy to the people. What
is required in the face of economic meltdown, deteriorating public health, & climate disaster is a full-scale mutiny on the USA Titanic, a radical change of course before the 21st Century suicide economy of Wall St & Corporate America puts an end to the human species & life on Earth.

Perhaps the first order of business on the USA Titanic is to stop stuffing money in the pockets of the greedy 1% who are steering us toward disaster. This is why a million consumers, & thousands of community  rganizations, unions, & churches, have started to strike back against the “banksters,” staging sit-ins & protests & moving billions of dollars out of Wall Street & the big banks into community credit unions & local banks. As the internet campaign MoveYourMoneyProject.org proclaims, it’s time to “invest in Main St, not Wall St, & to lend a hand to local businesses.”  Following a similar trajectory a debtors’ campaign is gathering steam among students & ex-students to stop paying their onerous student loans, which now total one trillion dollars, & demand the implementation of a federal program of free college tuition & jobs for youth & the unemployed. Approximately 11% of student loans in the U.S. are already in arrears. Similarly, millions of Americans are turning away from Big Pharma’s drug pushers & embracing holistic, preventive medicine.

The time has come for America’s 300 million food consumers to join the mutiny. Our trillion dollar food &
farming System has been corrupted & manipulated by Wall St, Corporate Agribusiness, & Big Food Inc. into what can only be described as a weapon of mass destruction, severely damaging public health, the environment, & the climate; torturing animals in filthy, disease-ridden factory farms; exploiting immigrant farm workers & food industry workers; & destroying the livelihoods of small farmers & rural communities.

As the first official Declaration of Occupy Wall Street explained on Sept. 29: “They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, & undermined the farming system through monopolization.”

Food Democracy or Corporatocracy?  Did you ever vote to allow corporate agribusiness to spray a billionpounds of toxic pesticides, & dump 24 billion pounds of climate-destabilizing chemical fertilizers on U.S. crops & farmlands every year? Did you give the OK for factory farms, so-called Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), to feed billions of hapless creatures massive amounts of genetically engineered grain, antibiotics, hormones, steroids, blood, manure, & slaughterhouse waste? Did you give Monsanto, Dow, & Dupont permission to “modify” so-called “conventional” supermarket, school cafeteria, & restaurant food with genetically engineered bacteria, viruses, foreign DNA, & antibiotic-resistant genes? Did you sign a permission slip for the USDA or your local school system to feed students, including your children, greasy, fatty, unhealthy, chemical food in the cafeteria?

If we intend to break the stranglehold of the corporatocracy over the economy, including what & how American farmers grow & what most people eat, it’s time to stand up. If we believe that a healthy, organic, & equitable system of food & farming are essential to our health & the health of the planet, we need to think twice before we pull out our wallets at the supermarket or sit down for a meal in a restaurant or a fast food joint. Do you want to be supersized by
Monsanto, Wal-Mart, or McDonald’s, & allow biotechnocrats, factory farms, & chemical food manufacturers to dictate your food choices? IT”S YOUR HEALTH & YOUR CHILDREN’S ! Vote to buy Organic @ Farmers markets !

It’s time to vote with our food dollars at the grocery check-out aisle. It’s time to rein in elected public officials who take money from corporate agribusiness & Monsanto in the voting booth. It’s time for the Great Boycott of Big Food Inc., & a culinary strike against all of their chemical, genetically engineered, sugar, & fat-laden processed foods & beverages. It’s time to put the fat cats on a diet, shrink the profits of Wall Street, & drastically reduce the collateral damage of chemical agribusiness, Big Box food stores, & billion dollar junk food restaurants. It’s time to Occupy our food chains, kitchens, lunchrooms, & school cafeterias, & transform our $30 billion local & organic food & farming system from being the niche alternative to being the norm in the
nation’s trillion dollar food economy.

The good news is that most people already know that chemical food is bad for them, bad for their children, & bad for the environment. No one wants to eat Big Ag or Big Biotech’s pesticide residues, antibiotics, hormones, or feces-tainted meat. No one is enthusiastic about food that has been irradiated, genetically engineered, or grown with municipal sewage sludge. A recent national poll found that 54% of Americans prefer organic food, especially locally-produced organic food. Millions say they’d buy more organic products if only they had a decent paying job, or less mortgage, medical, or school loan debt. That’s partly why millions of us are becoming backyard organic gardeners, or small “market farmers” growing our own. That’s why a new generation of fod lovers & health addicts are swearing off
corporate food & marching to the kitchen, cooking from scratch & celebrating the joys of home-cooked fare with our friends & our families.

Millions of us are starting to break the chains of corporate control in our lives, by supporting organic, fair made, & locally produced products & businesses. IT”S YOUR HEALTH & YOUR CHILDREN’S ! Vote to buy Organic @ Farmers markets !

Tired of the quality & range of our daily essentials being dictated & degraded by a powerful network of Brand Name Bullies & Big Box chains? Tired of profit-at-any cost, Wall Street-traded corporations “outsourcing” from sweatshops in the factories & fields, cutting corners on public health & the environment, & sucking up billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies? ” Basta,” enough already.

Make your pledge today to put the fat cats on a diet. Buy organic & fair made/fair trade products, preferably locally produced. Boycott factory farmed meat & animal products. Eat more raw food, dairy, & vegetables. &
if you can, start growing some of your own, even if for now, your “garden” only consists of potted herbs or tomatoes on your window sill or a sprout-making machine in your kitchen. & finally, keep in mind that where you buy a healthy, sustainable product has a very large impact on the economy, the environment, & climate stability. Do you really want to buy your organic food or your fair trade coffee from a multi-billion dollar corporation like Wal-Mart, Safeway, Starbucks, or even Whole Foods Market & Trader Joes?

Ronnie Cummins is the co-founder & National Director of the Organic Consumers Association.

 IT”S YOUR HEALTH & YOUR CHILDREN’S !

Vote to buy Organic @ Farmers markets !

SHOP at FARMERS MARKET