Get more olive oil in your diet

For the past 6 years I have been trying to get more olive oil in my diet. After breakfast, I get half a teaspoon of organic peanut butter and fill it with olive oil. I keep this up until the peanut butter is licked off the spoon. Before my dinner, I make a salad and mix virgin olive oil with my salad dressing.

I have read that in order to get the vitamins and supplements that I take to be digested properly, one needs to have natural oils to help the digestive process. Olive oil was my choice. Have always heard that it was probably the best of all the oils to use in cooking. Here's an article that lists the other benefits of introducing olive oil into your diet...

http://www.naturalnews.com/043724_olive_oil_healthy_oils_dietary_fats.html

Understanding the benefits of natural olive oil

Friday, January 31, 2014 by: Sandeep Godiyal
Tags: olive oil, healthy oils, dietary fats

(NaturalNews) Everyone knows that natural and organic foods are far more healthier than their processed counterparts. Unfortunately, many people don't take to heart this valuable piece of information, and they continue to consume food products that are completely unhealthy for them. In doing this, they often develop a wide array of preventable health conditions. The road to getting healthier can begin today, and it can start by incorporating natural olive oil into one's diet. In fact, let's go ahead and take a quick look at five healthy benefits of natural and organic olive oil.

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It has been written and said that the vitamins and supplements we take usually all get flushed out of our system before being absorbed and incorporated into our bodies. I did research on this to find a way to help keep the vitamins from being discarded before they do their work. One way was to start taking probiotics. Another way was to incorporate a healthy oil into my diet. Olive oil was the obvious choice. Here's more about the digestive advantages of getting olive oil into your diet...

http://www.internationaloliveoil.org/estaticos/view/95-olive-oil-and-the-digestive-system

More proof that statin drugs don't prevent heart attacks

There's a new video up at Natural News about how statin drugs are a money making machine and how they don't actually lower your chances of getting a heart attack or stroke. In fact, this article and video talk about how people with low cholesterol are actually at a higher risk of heart disease than those with high cholesterol.

On top of that, there are the horrible side effects of taking statins for a long period of time. That's why I stopped taking them as my brother and a friend had some serious leg problems caused by taking statins.

There have been a lot of problems with statin drugs causing muscle pains and related symptoms. My doctor wants to keep me on them, but I feel there is a more natural way to keep the cholesterol down, like niacin.

Big Pharm and the medical industries are making billions upon billions with the selling of these harmful drugs. It's time to stand up and protect our own health by making healthy lifestyle choices instead of taking the pill.

ust Google this phrase: High Cholesterol Levels Don't Cause Heart Disease and you will find hundreds of scientific articles proving that high cholesterol doesn't necessarily result in a heart attack. In fact, it may even prevent it!

Big Pharm has the doctors working with them in spreading these lies about high cholesterol and the prescribing of statins to reduce the levels in patients. Even healthy, young people are now being prescribesd these poisons that could eventually kill them or cause muscle problems.

If you are considering taking statins at the suggestion of your doctor, please read the following...

http://ezinearticles.com/?High-Cholesterol-Levels-Dont-Cause-Heart-Disease&id=2454837


Here's from a site I just Googled...

quote:

Myositis (Muscle Inflammation)...Check the Meds!

Medical Author: William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR

Lipitor is a member of a class of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins. The statins include lovastatin (brand name: Mevacor), simvastatin (Zocor), pravastatin (Pravachol), fluvastatin (Lescol), atorvastatin (Lipitor), and cerivastatin (Baycol) (Baycol was withdrawn from the market in August 2001). Statin drugs are known to cause muscle pains and inflammation around the muscle cells (myositis). It should also be noted that the risk of muscle injury is greater when a statin is combined with other drugs that also cause muscle damage by themselves. For example, when lovastatin (Mevacor) is used alone to lower cholesterol, muscle damage occurs on the average in one person out of about every 500. However, if lovastatin (Mevacor) is used in combination with other drugs such as niacin, gemfibrozil (Lopid), or fenofibrate (Tricor) to further reduce cholesterol levels, the risk of muscle injury skyrockets to one person out of every 20 to 100 who receive the combination. The risk of muscle damage is thus multiplied five- to 25-fold by using a combination of a statin and another cholesterol-lowering drug rather than by just using statin alone.

In fact, the manufacturers of statins recommend that any patient taking a statin "should be advised to report promptly any unexplained muscle pain, tenderness or weakness...When a muscle disease is suggested, the doctor stops the statin drug."

You see, statin drugs cause three types of muscle conditions. First, they can cause muscle aching. This condition generally reverses itself within weeks of discontinuing the drugs. Second, they can cause muscle pains and mild muscle inflammation that may also be accompanied by minor weakness. Blood testing for the muscle enzyme, CPK, is mildly elevated. This condition also generally reverses, but it may take several months to resolve. Third, statins can cause severe muscle inflammation and damage so that not only are the muscles painful all over the body, they also become severely weakened. Heart muscle can even (rarely) become affected. Blood testing for the muscle enzyme, CPK, is markedly elevated. When the muscles are severely damaged, the muscle cells release proteins into the blood that collect in and can damage the kidneys. This can lead to kidney failure and require dialysis

 
This is from the Natural News...



Blockbuster documentary '$tatin Nation' reveals the great cholesterol cover-up; watch the trailer here

Wednesday, May 08, 2013
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) An amazing new film that questions the false medical narrative on statin drugs has just been launched on the Natural News video delivery platform. Called "$tatin Nation," the film features a dozen interviews with top medical doctors, authors and even patients who are now standing up and publicly questioning the medical myths we've all been taught about cholesterol and statin drugs.


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Click here for full access to $tation Nation from Natural News.

http://programs.naturalnews.com/Statin_Nation__NN.htm

The GMO war and what you should know

I have been reading a lot about GMO's and what they are doing to our food supplies and our health. GMO's are genetically modified organisms. Here's the definition from Wikipedia...

quote:

A genetically modified organism (GMO) or genetically engineered organism (GEO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. These techniques, generally known as recombinant DNA technology, use DNA molecules from different sources, which are combined into one molecule to create a new set of genes. This DNA is then transferred into an organism, giving it modified or novel genes. Transgenic organisms, a subset of GMOs, are organisms which have inserted DNA that originated in a different species.

There is a war going on between those that manufacture GMO's for such things as "better" crop and fighting weeds and insects. The problem is that GMOs are leeching into even organic farmlands to the dismay of farmers. It has gotten so bad in India, that suicides is a major epidemic with farmers over there because of how GMOs are causing havoc with their crop.

I will post a couple articles from Natural News about the GMO epidemic and you can judge for yourself the implications of GMOs on your health...

http://www.naturalnews.com/033784_GMO_animal_feed.html

Scientific studies conclude GMO feed causes organ disruption in animals

Wednesday, October 05, 2011 by: Jeffrey M. Smith

Backyard weeds for your salad!

Once again it's early spring and it's a perfect time to pick the dandelion leaves from my yard. While I may look kind of weird going around the front yard harvesting dandelion leaves, it adds even more nourishment to my organic salads I make every night.


Purslane is a weed that you always see in your garden. Who would think that it contains nutrients and vitamins that help keep you healthy. You can eat almost everything from this plane, from the seeds, to the flowers, the leaves and the stems. It goes great with a salad and also could be used in soup.  You can receiver five times more omega-3 than spinach and it is rich in  vitamin C.

Japanese Knotweed is another editable weed. The best time to harvest the leaves is early in the spring when the leaves are still furled. It is rich in resveratrol and has lots of vitamin C.

And don't forget the dandelion! I use that weed the most in my salads. It's best to pick the leaves in the early spring. The roots can be dried and also used in many dishes. The roots can be used for a tea and is highly-touted as an anti-cancer remedy.

Now there are even more weeds growing in your lawn and garden that are probably packed with even more essential vitamins and nutrients that you are unaware of. From Natural News...

http://www.naturalnews.com/040176_edible_weeds_free_food_garden.html

Dr Oz no wizzard in attack on organics

The all-out attack on growing organics in this country is continuing. With Dr. Oz going on board the big GMO companies ship, it shows just how desperate the big chemical companies are to hoodwink the public.

In Dr. Oz's attack on organic food, he says that GMO foods and chemically sprayed foods are better for you than eating pure, organic food. Soon expect Dr. Oz to proclaim the benefits of eating arsenic and rat poison!

Here's a good article by Mike Adams of Natural News about how low these big chemical and GMO companies are going to blind the public to the truth...

http://www.naturalnews.com/038172_Dr_Oz_organics_propaganda_campaign.html

The plot against organics: Dr. Oz part of an organized, well-funded P.R. propaganda campaign to destroy the organic industry

Sunday, December 02, 2012
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) Dr. Oz's recent attack on organics has left a large number of people shocked at his betrayal of the organic consumer community. Yesterday, his Facebook page was being absolutely inundated with posts from people calling him a "betrayer" and asking why he would attack organics and start promoting feedlot beef and food made with pesticides and GMO.

But Dr. Oz's attack on organics is not the action of a lone madman who has lost touch with reality. It's part of a coordinated P.R. campaign that has been organized against organics, Natural News has learned, and it's being run behind the scenes by one of the most prominent P.R. companies in America.

Their tactics resemble that of Big Tobacco in the 20th century, which promoted cigarettes by linking them to freedom and "coolness." Today, as Dr. Oz's TIME Magazine article nauseatingly demonstrated, the P.R. strategy is to try to link organics with "elitism" by calling people who eat organics "the snooty 1%."

Where did Oz get his talking points?

Dr. Oz was not the author of the talking points highlighted in his article, I believe. Those were likely handed to him by the P.R. firm behind the attack on organics, and this same P.R. firm (which shall go un-named for the time being) also has links to the "No on 37" campaign in California that got caught breaking federal law, fabricating FDA quotes and impersonating police organizations in order to steal the vote away from the YES on 37 campaign.

The way the plot works is to recruit influential people, then convince them to put their names on highly manipulative, derogatory stories about organics that are placed in mainstream media rags such as TIME Magazine or the New York Times, often dubbed the "toilet paper of record."

Roger Cohen at the New York Times recently put his name on a story that called people who eat organics "delusional cult members." That article implied that people who choose organic food suffer from a mental disorder. For that article, Natural News gave him the 2012 Idiot of the Year Award (which, in retrospect, may have been premature as Dr. Oz is definitely in the running now...)

The world recently learned that TIME Magazine suffers from hilarious nutritional illiteracy when its own managing editor, Rick Stengel, recently declared that canned food was nutritionally identical to organic food. Click here to listen to Robert Scott Bell and Jerry Doyle break down this outrageously ignorant statement from TIME Magazine's editor. This is all part of the same orchestrated plot against organics that we saw Dr. Oz spewing recently.

Dr. Oz joined the ranks of the food sellouts by claiming that people who eat organic foods are "snooty" and "elitist" and even "undemocratic," as if choosing organic food is somehow anti-American. Real Americans eat pesticides and GMOs, Dr. Oz implied!

Who is behind this massive P.R. effort to destroy organics? The usual suspects, of course: All the same corporations that were behind the "No on 37" campaign. The near-victory of YES on 37 freaked them out, and they realized they cannot win the GMO labeling issue long term, so the only way to defend their territory and profits is to make healthy food seem un-cool and elitist.

It is my belief that Dr. Oz is part of an organized plot to destroy organics. Influential people are being approached and recruited. Mainstream media publication of the hit pieces is being "arranged" at high levels. Talking points are being crafted by master manipulators. And the whole thing is funded by the obvious opponents of organics: Pesticide companies and biotech firms.

Why is organic better, actually?

Organic certification is one of the best things to come out of the federal government. Run by the USDA, organic certification audits the process of food production, handling and packaging. A farmer who obtains USDA organic certification must be able to prove the he used no synthetic chemicals on his farm. Everything that goes onto the plants -- fertilizer, insecticides, etc. -- must be from a stringent list of acceptable organic items such as neem oil for insect control. This is all audited for compliance, both at the paperwork level (showing purchase receipts, for example) and physically at the farm.

At the food formulator and packing level, organic certification means you follow a very stringent process for tracking raw materials, blending food products, packaging and labeling them.

Both farmers and food packers are audited once a year by a USDA-approved organic certifier. This includes an on-site inspection which covers detailed requirements including cleaning solutions for machinery and even rodent control. Toxic rat poisons, for example, are not allowed to be used in a certified organic facility.

In great contrast to organic food production, a non-organic operation can spray any toxic sludge they wish on crops in the field, including sludge laden with heavy metals. Food packing and handling can take place in a warehouse that's chemically fumigated with toxic, cancer-causing chemicals. There are no requirements that food batches be tracked or tested for possible contamination. A non-organic label means, essentially, "almost anything goes."

Because of the requirements of organic certification, organic foods consistently test as far lower in synthetic chemicals, and of course genetically modified foods are not allowed to be labeled "organic" at all. Organic foods are higher in nutrients, and their production method is more kind to the planet because synthetic chemicals are not sprayed on farms and then washed into streams, rivers and oceans.

Dr. Oz apparently does not care about any of this. He wants you to eat foods sprayed with synthetic chemicals that pollute the planet. He wants you to eat foods laced with toxic pesticides, herbicides and unknown quantities of heavy metals. He wants you to think that eating more agricultural poison is "cool" and that demanding clean, non-GMO, non-poisoned food is "elitist" and "snooty."

Such is the sad truth about a man who has sold out to the propaganda interests of the biotech and pesticide industries. Organic food is "undemocratic," he says, implying that if everybody just ate more GMOs and chemicals, then we'd all be more "equal." Huh? Yeah. That's how warped the P.R. has become on all this: Let's all be equally poisoned and call it "democratic."

You are going to see the attack on organics ramped up

Watch for more high-level attacks on organics from major newspapers and magazines. Based on the information I have received so far, it appears this P.R. propaganda effort -- which smacks of the tactics of Edward Bernays -- is actively recruiting high-level people who agree to put their names on op-ed pieces that are essentially ghost-written by the biotech industry.

It is very common, by the way, for drug companies to ghost-write "scientific" papers that are placed in so-called "science journals" under the names of prominent scientists who are paid to take part in the conspiracy. The pharmaceutical industry got caught red-handed fabricating papers in this way about hormone replacement therapy.

So don't think this tactic is unusual. It happens every day in America behind the scenes of the corporations that manufacture toxic vaccines, prescription drugs or GMOs. It's "business as usual" for those who are trying to pretend their poisons are somehow "scientific."

Beyond the fraudulent authorship of papers and articles, the P.R. propaganda effort also involves distributing a list of distorted, manipulative talking points to news organizations and TV talk shows. They include points like "organic is elitist" or "not all Americans can afford organic food, therefore it's un-American to recommend organic to everyone." Watch for talking heads on the evening news to start mindlessly repeating these talking points in the days ahead.

Natural News is going to call out those who betray organics and sell out to corporate interests

As more journalists and celebrities betray the organic movement and put their names onto these propaganda articles, Natural News is going to name them and call them what they are: TRAITORS to the movement, to the planet, to honest agriculture and to the American people.

Remember: Organic food is simply honest food. It's real food, the way your parents or grandparents might have grown it. Organic food is grown without pesticides or other synthetic chemicals, and it represents the only real future to sustainable food on our planet.

Even more importantly, organic food doesn't promote Alzheimer's, cancer and other diseases like synthetic pesticides do. For people who wish to lead healthy lives free from the disease-causing contamination of synthetic chemicals and cancer-causing GMOs, organic food is the best insurance against developing chronic disease.

Anyone who attacks organic foods is attacking health, sustainability and the environment. They betray everything that matters to informed consumers who want to know what they're eating.

Any person who attacks organics is a traitor to humanity and a sellout to the Monsantos, DuPonts and Bayers of the world. It is a despicable stance to take, as these companies have been involved in some of the most heinous crimes against humanity ever recorded in the history of the world. Bayer, for example, saw its own chairperson convicted and sentenced for the company's role in Nazi war crimes in World War II.

This is partly why Natural News has announced a lifetime boycott of the chemical pesticide companies who committed outright fraud to defeat the GMO labeling ballot measure in California.


If you don't support organics, you have no credibility in the realm of health

For any person who wishes to retain any credibility whatsoever with the informed public, there is only once acceptable stance on this issue: The whole-hearted support of organic and non-GMO agriculture. Anyone who is not advocating organic farming methods is encouraging the destruction of the environment. Anyone who is not advocating organic food consumption is encouraging chronic disease among the population. Anyone who is not fighting for the full-disclosure labeling of GMOs is selling out humanity to the most evil corporations in the world -- the biotech giants.

For a person to have any credibility whatsoever in the realm of health or food, they must first establish that they embrace clean, pesticide-free food (organics) and that they support honest labeling of such foods (GMO labeling). If a person fails on one or both of these counts, they have zero credibility in the realm of health.

You will note, by the way, that Dr. Oz never overtly advocated GMO labeling. He invited Jeffrey Smith on his show for a few minutes, then kicked him off the stage to bring on a biotech shill who blatantly lied to Dr. Oz's audience about GMOs. It was all part of elaborate theater to pretend to be "balanced" on the issue while actually pushing a collection of corporate lies about genetically modified foods.

Dr. Oz is finished as a person with any credibility among those who are informed. And any other person who puts their name on a P.R. propaganda piece that attacks organics will suffer a similar fate: Widespread ridicule followed by a collapse in their support base (and hence their influence).

To announce that you are opposed to organics in 2012 is the moral equivalent of announcing you support Hitler in 1945. The informed public is far beyond the point where they can be manipulated into thinking that eating more pesticides and GMOs is somehow patriotic or even healthy. They're much smarter than that, and any person who attaches their name to this outrageous P.R. propaganda plot to destroy organics is going to see their own credibility and reputation destroyed instead.

Good riddance, I say. It's time we stopped listening to quack authority doctors who betray humanity and sell out to corporate interests.

Natural cures for skin cancer

I've been doing some more searches for natural cures for skin cancer. I haven't used the vitamin C treatment for a year as that didn't seem to be working. Then I found out about this misquito bite ointment for skin cancer, called Cymilium. It seems to be working somewhat, as the spot isn't as large as before and seems to be blending in.

However, I heard about this other treatment that some say has a 100% healing rate. It's from an eggplant and can be used topically on the area that is infected. It's called BEC5, but is expensive. It sells for $149 a tube!


http://www.naturalnews.com/027506_eggplant_skin_cancer.html

Eggplant Cures Skin Cancer

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 by: Melanie Grimes

NaturalNews) An ingredient in common eggplant has been shown to cure cancer. The eggplant extract is a phytochemical called solasodine glycoside, or BEC5. Dr. Bill E. Cham discovered it, after hearing of a folk medicine cure from Australian farmers. They told him of eye cancers cured in cattle after application of a poultice made from the fruit of a weed called Devil's Apple, known in Latin as Solanum linnaeanum. This plant is part of the Solanacea family, which includes other common vegetables such as tomato and eggplant.

BEC5 works by bonding to a receptor on the surface of the cancer cell. After the cell digests the eggplant extract, it causes the cell to rupture. The cancer cell is destroyed and its contents are then reabsorbed by the body.

BEC5 has been proven effective in treating over 80,000 cases of skin cancer, preventing surgery. The types of cancer treated by eggplant are both invasive and non-invasive non-melanoma skin cancers. In every case the cancers went into remission and did not return. Australians have been curing their skin cancers using these phytochemicals for decades.

BEC5 acts by killing cancer cells without harming any other healthy cells in the human body. BEC5 can also be used to treat actinic keratose, the precursor to cancer, as well as age or sunspots on the skin.

Actinic keratoses are a possible predictor of skin cancer. These red patches caused by sun exposure are made of abnormal cells that can mutate into malignant cells in the basal, or lower layers of the skin. Squamous cell carcinomas are another common form of skin cancer, and one which causes nearly two thousands deaths annually. This wart-type growth has irregular borders and can also be treated with the eggplant extract.

Used as a cream for over twenty-five years in clinical trials in both Australia and the United Kingdom, BEC5 had success rate of over 78% when applied for eight weeks. Used for 12 weeks, the cream had a 100% success rate in removing cancers, none of which returned for the following five years.

Over one million new cases of non-melanoma skin cancers are diagnosed each year in the United States alone. Skin cancer is now the most common illness in men over the age of 50. It is even more common than lung, prostate or colon cancer. Incidences are so common that one out of three Caucasians are now expected to develop skin cancer at some point in their lives. With this simple, natural remedy, many surgeries might be prevented and health restored.

How goverments are controlling your health

The governments around the world are hell bent in controlling what substances you put into your body. Most of them are ruling against the natural way of eating and preserving your health.

If there's a choice between organic and synthesized, the government will force you to take the chemicals. That includes food and pharmaceuticals. In the United States, the states and feds are raiding stores and individual homesteads, confiscating the organics and arresting the occupants for having natural, organic products as opposed to the force-fed chemicals the gov wants you to ingest.

Here are some of the stories that took place that shows how adamant the governments across the world are to force-feed (if not tube-feed) the public from the Natural News...

http://www.naturalnews.com/034509_health_freedom_2011_top_stories.html

The top 10 health freedom stories of 2011

Wednesday, December 28, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) Throughout 2011, health freedoms were under attack as both state and federal governments deliberately sought to criminalize foods, mandate vaccine injections and arrest parents who refused to subject their children to toxic conventional medical care.

Here are the top 10 health freedom stories of 2011, all reported here on NaturalNews:

#1 - Rawesome Foods infiltrated by FDA agents, then raided at gunpoint while government goons destroyed $50,000+ in wholesome food

FULL STORY:  http://www.naturalnews.com/034509_health_freedom_2011_top_stories.html

Turn to nature instead of chemicals!

The current medical environment is geared at making a profit...more than actual healing. The Big Med and Big Pharma industries are in it for the money. They manufacture these chemicals and try to promote them as real cures, but in fact, they make things worse.

One can get depressed or really upset when he is hit with the reality that the current medical environment in the U.S. is geared more for making money than for making people healthy.


Instead of letting it get me down, I try to view it in a way where I can get something positive out of it. Instead of going with the system, I am taking another path. It's a tougher one, but I find that there are cures for everything in nature. Man can take advantage of that and try to use some of the God-given remedies, or try to invent his own, which usually cause more harm than good.

One last article, and it's from Natural News, that talks about how medical industry has gone so far astray from actually trying to cure people and help them in their quest for big money...

http://www.naturalnews.com/033881_health_care_profits.html

Williamsville football

Went to my first Billies game of the season when South played Williamsville East. Ferguson and the Billies had a slow start as East took a 6-0 first quarter lead. Finally, they started to get moving, thanks to several great punt returns. Ferguson showed that he can run as well as he can pass, if not better. He kind of reminds me of Chad Kelly, Jim's nephew who plays for St. Joes. Kelly is a quarterback about the same statue as Ferguson and seems to be able to run even better than he can toss the pigskin. In the two games I saw Kelly play, I was more impressed with his great running ability than I was his arm.

Ferguson ended up running for 4 touchdowns in the Billies lopsided 34-14 win over cross-town rival Williamsville East. Fergy also completed 7 of 12 passes for 134 yards, but most of his fireworks came when he called his own number.

Trent Ferguson releases the ball against the Williamsville East Flames.

Trent Ferguson uses is feet as much as his arm. Here he takes off towards the endzone.

Trent Ferguson puts a tight spiral on his passes.

Ferguson hands off to his running back to runs up the middle.

UB expands in Medical Corridor

The University of Buffalo is expanding its presence in the Medical Corridor and one of the new buildings being erected is the UB Educational Opportunity Center which is on the corner of Ellicott and Goodell in Buffalo. This is being built right next to the M. Wyle Building on that corner. Here are some pics I took of the construction...

UB Homecoming

The UB Bulls dominated the play and the clock, especially in the first half. However, all they could muster after 4 trips into the redzone were 3 points. The Bulls defense kept them in the game, and except for two long receptions and runs by UConn receiver Nick Williams, the Huskies couldn't muster anything against Buffalo.


The end result of the redzone blues was a 17-3 loss by UB. Now they have only 1 win in 4 games and next travel to Tennessee, for an even tougher foe.

I went to the game and took a few pics.
 

UB stops UConn running back to force a field goal.

 

UConn's Johnny McEntee delivers a pass against UB.

Chaz Anderson gets off pass in first quarter.

UB's Brandon Oliver tries to get yardage against UConn.

Much more vitamin D needed than originally thought

I've been taking vitamin D3 for the past 2 years as I learned it was a very important ingredient that we lack in our diets. We get vitamin D mainly from the sun, but food also may possess it. I learned from Roswell Park Cancer Institute here in Buffalo that they were doing studies involving vitamin D to see if it helped reduce cancers. Seems that the studies are in and they indeed do help prevent and repress certain cancers.

Now they are saying that we need from 4,000 to 8,000 IUs of vitamin D to prevent cancer. I have been taking 2,000 a day.

There are so many ailments that are attributed to the lack of vitamin D, that it appears we need much more that origianlly thought to stay healthy, especially in the norhtern hemisphere.

From the Natural News...


8000 IUs of vitamin D daily necessary to raise blood levels of "miracle" anti-cancer nutrient, declares groundbreaking new research

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) The reign of censorship and suppression against vitamin D is now coming to an end. Even though the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and many institutions leading the cancer industry (including the ACS) have intentionally tried to downplay the ability of vitamin D to prevent cancer, a new study appearing in the journal Anticancer Research lays out the simple, powerful truth about vitamin D that we've been teaching at NaturalNews for years: A typical adults needs 4,000 - 8,000 IUs of vitamin D each day to prevent cancer, MS and type-1 diabetes, not the ridiculously low 400 - 800 IUs recommended by the U.S. government.

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http://www.naturalnews.com/031577_vitamin_D_scientific_research.html

Where's the beef? Taco Bell's beef least of our problems!

I have to admit that I have gone to Taco Bell on occasion. Also McDonalds, Burger King and Wendy's. When you eat those fast foods, you are literally poisoning your system. They are full of ingredients that sound more like weed killer than hamburger helper. Not only that, but by eating them you increase your chances for diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and cancer. But they taste great!

Mike Adams examines the current law suit against Taco Bell that the beef in their tacos is more like 35% beef, not the 70%beef required by federal standards. To Adams, that's a moot point. What is scary is the fact that most of these fast food places sell food that is even worse than Taco Bell. Same with the processed foods you buy at your local grocery store.

Check this out and remember this next time you are thinking about McDonalds for lunch...


Taco Bell beef faked? No more than the rest of the FDA-approved toxic food supply

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Saturday, January 29, 2011

NaturalNews- The word spread like wildfire across the internet: An Alabama law firm had filed a class action lawsuit against Taco Bell in California, saying its meat fails to meet the definition of beef set forth by the U.S. government (and even that's a pretty low hurdle, if you ask me). The lawsuit claims Taco Bell's meat cannot be honestly advertised as "beef" because it claims tests showed the meat was only 35% beef, not the 70% beef required by federal standards.

If you're eating at Taco Bell, there's not something wrong with their meat... there's something wrong with your head.


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http://www.naturalnews.com/031147_Taco_Bell_beef.html

Stinging Nettle for allergies, cancer, inflammation

My allergies have been their absolute worst these past 6 weeks. I have had to use my Advair more than I wanted to for my asthma, and my eyes have been itching and watering for weeks. I have a limited supply of Allegra, which I used to get an now cannot as my insurance doesn't cover it. I have used that, but tried an over the counter brand, Zyrtec, and that really made me drowsy and had the feeling of when you take those cold medicines the night after. I didn't feel better for over 24 hours. It was worse than experiencing the allergies.

I had been searching for a natural cure for allergies and came across Stinging Nettle. It was supposedly a natural source of antihistimes. I got my shipment of Stinging Nettle and have tried it for a week now. It does seem to help, however I have still had some allegy problems like sneezing and stuffy nose, along with itchy eyes. But it has helped some and doesn't have any side effects.

I have done more research on Stinging Nettle and have found that it has a wide range of benefits. It could help reduce prostate cancer and other cancers, help reduce inflammation and other ailments.

Here's a good article about it...

http://www.herbwisdom.com/herb-nettle.html

Nettle Benefits

Nettle has been used for centuries to treat allergy symptoms, particularly hayfever which is the most common allergy problem. It contains biologically active compounds that reduce inflammation. Dr. Andrew Wiel M.D. author of Natural Health/ Natural Medicine says he knows of nothing more effective than nettle for allergy relief. And his statement is backed up by studies at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon.

Decongestants, antihistamines, allergy shots and even prescription medications such as Allegra and Claritin treat only the symptoms of allergies and tend to lose effectiveness over a period of time. They can also cause drowsiness, dry sinuses, insomnia and high blood pressure. Nettle has none of these side effects. It can be used on a regular basis and has an impressive number of other benefits most notably as a treatment for prostate enlargement.

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Are you absorbing your vitamins and nutrients?

Anyone who takes supplements for vitamins and nutrients sometimes wonders if these are being absorbed at all or "going right down the toilet."

I did a search to find about how the body absorbs nutrients and what one must do to make sure that his money isn't going "down the drain."

Since I have a lot of money tied up in vitamins, nutrients and minerals in the form of supplements, the past two days I have been intensely searching for ways in which to better absorb these supplements. From what I have recently discovered, the supplements are attacked by the acids in our stomach and are mostly neutralized or destroyed. In other words, the money spent on these supplements is literally going down the drain.

I have found two ways in which to have the supplements be absorbed better by our digestive systems. One is to find supplements of vitamins and nutrients that are Enteric Coated which all the supplements to withstand the attack by the acids in the stomach and pass intact into the intestines where they eventually dissolve and are incorporated into our systems.

The other way is to make sure we get the proper healthy fats, which then help the essential vitamins like A, Bs, C, K & E get into our system. While I now feel that the Enteric Coated tablets is the best way to go in which to get the highest percentage of the supplement into our system, using a healthy fat, such as Omega 3 fish oil, may be the best alternative until I can find a reasonably priced vitamin or nutrient which has the Enteric Coated cover.

I found that there are healthy fats that are important in the absorbing of vitamins and nutrients. Here is an article written by Mike Adams of Natural News about the subject...


Dietary fat is necessary for absorption of vitamins, nutrients and phytochemicals from fruits and vegetables

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

A fascinating new study published by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that dietary fat is necessary for the absorption of nutrients from fruits and vegetables. In the study, people who consumed salads with fat-free salad dressing absorbed far less of the helpful phytonutrients and vitamins from spinach, lettuce, tomatoes and carrots than those who consumed their salads with a salad dressing containing fat. This is interesting research, but not necessarily all that surprising. We've known for a long time that healthy fats are a critical part of a healthy diet, and that avoiding fats actually causes chronic disease. The key is in choosing the right kind of fats for your diet and making sure you don't overdo the fats, because fats have a very high caloric density and can add far more calories to your meal than you might expect.

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Here's another article about how healthy fats are essential, not only for the absorbing of our vitamins, but to help maintain our health...


What are the different types of healthy fats and oils?

Fats and oils are made up of basic units called fatty acids. Each type of fat or oil is a mixture of different fatty acids. Monounsaturated Fatty Acids (MUFA) are found mainly in vegetable oils, nuts, seeds, olives and avocadoes. They are liquid at room temperature.

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http://www.med.umich.edu/umim/food-pyramid/fats.htm

Statin drugs cause more harm than good

No matter how much I complain to my doctor, he still wants me to stick with statins and possibly go to a stronger one! He wants me to get my cholestrol down to around 150, but from what I read, the whole cholestrol thing is just hyped up by the medical profession.My older brother had muscle damage to his legs because of taking statins so long. Now he can't walk too far or play golf. A friend of mine ended up in the hosptial with intense pains because of taking statins.

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, has more disturbing news about statins and their side effects that are worse than the benefits of using them...

http://www.naturalnews.com/028988_statin_drugs_side_effects.html

Big Pharma lies about statin drugs finally exposed in British Medical Journal

To hear Big Pharma tell it, statin drugs are "miracle" medicines that have prevented millions of heart attacks and strokes. But a recent study published in the British Medical Journal tells a completely different story: For every heart attack prevented by the drug, two or more people suffered liver damage, kidney failure, cataracts or extreme muscle weakness as a result of taking the drug. Statin drugs, in other words, harm far more people than they help.

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The path to true health is in your hands!

It all started with Stevia! I wanted to find a more healthy alternative to sugar and/or the chemically toxic sugar substitutes offered at your local grocery store. My search on the Internet led to stevia and all the benefits it had over sugar or any other sugar replacement. It also had additional health benefits of being good for your gums and helping protect against teeth decay.

When I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, the Internet turned into my second and third opinion and option. I found there were many different paths one could take to defeat this enemy and one didn't have to use the three main options of orthodox treatment: surgery, radiation or chemotherapy. From what I have found out, there is only a 3% chance of complete recovery using these methods. I also have learned that there is a cure for most every disease in nature. You just have to search hard enough and you will find it.

Nature doesn't have "profit" as the bottom line. The medical and pharmaceutical industries are geared to keeping their gold mines intact and protecting their bottom line: profit!!

While a lot of people may not believe in psychic power and other dealings with the paranormal, I used to do a lot of reading on the "Sleeping Prophet" Edgar Cayce. He used to do "readings" for people on all sorts of topics. The most common reoccurring theme was health and finding cures in nature. Cayce was able to find a lot of cures that people even use now days in alternative health care.

To me there are two main truths in life: You are what you eat, and the truth is out there.

One of the biggest reasons for the rise in cancer and other deadly diseases is what we put into our mouths. In this modern era of "eating on the go" and the other time constraints, we have given up the job of preparing healthy meals to others. The "others" are poisoning the food that we eat. From chemical sprays to food additives for long shelf life, the chemicals we digest that are incorporated in our foods are killing us slowly. It's like taking a small dose of arsenic every day. You can't taste it and it doesn't have an immediate effect, but someday it WILL kill you!

Steveia wasn't the first alternative choice I made in finding a new path to health. Over 15 years ago, I had started using niacin to help reduce my high cholesterol. It helped for a while, but my cholesterol gradually crept up again and my doctor put me on statins. One of the problems with niacin was the flushing experience I had with it. Eventually, I found a time-released brand and used that, but over the years, the product I used wasn't on the shelf any more. I have found a new non-flush niacin that doesn't give me any flushing, so hopefully, I can get off the statins that have given so many bad side effects.

This past year I have probably learned more about how to cleanse the body from causes of diseases than what most doctors ever learn. The few doctors who know about the real cause and effect of eating and nutrition will not preach to their patients about the way to perfect health is through a complete change in their eating habits. Such advice could lead to them losing their licenses. If a doctor is diagnosed with cancer, he most likely will not follow his own advice for his treatment. He will most likely find an alternative treatment that will have a much better chance of truly healing him.

I will have much more to say about this topic in the future, but wanted to start off this chapter showing that there are alternative paths to REAL health than what the orthodox medical industry tells you. You can take whatever path you want, but you owe it to yourself and the ones who love and depend on you that you weigh every option available to you, alternative or orthodox.

Dandelions a miracle cure?

Eating a dandelion is very healthy and nutritious.

"What?? You want me to eat a weed?"

That must be the first reaction that most people would have if they read the title of this tread. Eating a weed???

I have heard of making dandelion wine, a friend used to do that. And I may have heard about possibly having dandelion greens in a salad. But never did I realize how healthy eating dandelions, from flower to the root, can be very beneficial to one's health.I read in a health newsletter about how eating dandelion greens could help kidney stones:

Dandelion is most commonly used as a liver and kidney "tonic" to dissolve stones and increse bile flow. It is also employed as a diuretic to reduce water retention and to stimulate appetite. The root and leaves can be eaten in salads or as a cooked green.

That made me curious as I have a lawn full of dandelions just waiting to be sprayed with weed killer. I went out and picked a leaf and muched on it. It was pretty bitter. But I went ahead and harvested some and had them with my salad. No, I didn't die. LOLAnyway, I did some research on eating dandelions and found out the best time to harvest them is in the early spring BEFORE the flowers come out. That's like stevia. Once the flower blossoms, the leaf is much more bitter.One interesting fact I leared is that the dandelion has more vitamin A and C than most foods. It also has calcium, so this is definitey a healthy food to eat. And who'd have thunk that??

I usually don't post entire articles, but this one is worth putting here in its entirety...

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/williamsc44.html

The dandelion is a healthful, great tasting weed you can eat

By Carol Williams Want to eat a weed? One that’s easy to find and tastes great? Just start hunting for those first spring dandelions.

The dandelion’s true name is Taraxacum Officinale, which means “the official remedy for disorders.”

Legend has it that the people of Atlantis used the dandelion as a food and a tonic. The early colonists brought the dandelion to America from Europe. They used all parts of the plant, even the roots, which they roasted and ground for a coffee-like drink. We know that frontier healers often recommended dandelion greens as a spring tonic. They are full of vitamins unavailable to pioneers during the winter. There is no doubt dandelions have saved lives.

Our name for the weed comes from the French Dent de Lion, meaning “lion’s tooth.” This refers to the jagged points on the leaves, which look like sharp teeth. The French grow dandelions to eat, just as we grow lettuce in our gardens.

Modern science has analyzed dandelion greens. They are a good source of calcium, potassium, vitamin A, and vitamin C. They have twice as much vitamin A in a one-cup serving than most vitamin pills. They also have as much calcium as a children’s vitamin or half a glass of milk. That’s more than most other vegetables. Without vitamin A, people have eye problems and have trouble fighting infections. Vitamin A helps kids grow tall and keeps skin healthy. Calcium keeps bones strong and growing and nerves working right. Your parents might have heard of eating dandelions, but even your grandparents might not know how to prepare them.

The first steps are knowing when and where to gather the tasty greens. Dandelions are best picked where the grass grows tall and free. Yard dandelions, which have been cut often, do not have as good a flavor. Also, many people try to poison the dandelions in their yards, and those chemicals are not healthy to eat.

The best time to gather is long before the last frost of spring.The first edible portion appears as a slightly reddish tangle of leaves. The greens grow from these. Dandelion greens are the leaves above the surface. They must be gathered before the plant blooms to be delicious. The best time to gather them is just when the bloom bud appears, before the stalk grows. If you wait too long, they will taste bitter. Eating the leaves after the yellow flowers bloom is like chewing yesterday’s gum.

To cook dandelion greens, wash them well with water, then place them in a pan and pour boiling water over them. Let them boil for five minutes, then season with salt and butter. Eat them hot. If the taste is too strong, gather the bloom buds and cook them with the leaves to smooth out the taste. This spring, cook up a batch of nutritious, delicious greens for dinner. And you may want to invite your grandma . . . it could bring back some memories for her.

Big Pharm & FDA's war on Alternative remedies

Money rules in the United States. If you have enough, you can buy enough clout to control what people read and think. Big Pharm has the money to buy lobbyists in Washington and to influence Congress members. Because of the huge money in pharmaceuticals, the people in power are bought by Big Pharm and Big Med to make laws that help their industries at the expense of the common people who just want to be healthy and be cured of diseases.

Alternative remedies proves to be a threat to Big Pharm and Big Med as these are multi-billion dollar industries that thrive on the sickness of people, not their wellness. Now the AP is going on the warpath to attack any and all alternative medicine, trying to discredit those approaches and brainwashing people.

http://www.naturalnews.com/027424_medicine_alternative_Associated_Press.html

Associated Press declares war on alternative medicine

by: Mike Adams
NaturalNews Editor
Saturday, November 07, 2009

(NaturalNews) The Associated Press has declared war on alternative medicine, publishing a series of stories attacking everything from nutritional therapies to bioidentical hormones. These stories, which are syndicated across thousands of websites around the world, are prefaced with the following highly-opinionated "Editor's Note":

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet these mostly unproven treatments are now mainstream and used by more than a third of all Americans. This is one in an occasional series examining their use and potential risks.What this note reveals is an extraordinary bias against natural medicine from the start. It's clear from the claim of "examining their use and potential risks" that the Associated Press isn't even looking for potential benefits of natural medicine. They're just looking to discredit it. And the part about "Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures" is factually incorrect.

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Natural cures for prostate cancer

Ever since I was diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer over a year ago, I have been doing a lot of research for natural cures. With the magic of Google, I was able to find tons of information about how to treat cancer naturally, without going through the barbaric procedures of "modern medicine" which have proven to not be as successful as the althernate and natural methods.

I have found that taking vitamins and supplements like vitamin E, D3, C, Omega 3 fish oil, Kyolic garlic extract, turmeric, saw palmetto, New Chapter's Prostate 5LX, New Chapter's Zyflamend, zinc, L-Lysine essential ammino acids, selenium and my regular One-A-Day vitamin have reduced my PSA blood work. It went from 5.6 to 4.5 in just one month of taking these supplements.

There was also another ingredient, Paw Paw, which is supposed to target and kill cancer cells. I took Paw Paw for one month and hopefully it did do as advertised. Here's a link to information on Paw Paw...

http://alternativecancer.us/pawpaw.htm

I have now learned on Mike Adam's Natural News web site that eating walnuts is also supposed to help reduce the prostate cancer (and probably others too). This is yet more proof that nature has cures for many diseases, if not all of them. This is an amazing story of a perfect natural medicine...

Scientists find walnuts fight prostate cancer

by: S. L. Baker, features writer
Thursday, April 15, 2010

(NaturalNews) Walnuts are a rich plant source of omega-3s, the fatty acids also found in cold water fish like salmon. Omega-3s are known to lower the risk of a host of health problems from depression to heart disease. Walnuts are also loaded with gamma tocopherol (a form of vitamin E), phytochemicals known as polyphenols, and antioxidants. Now, for the first time, scientists have reported that these nutrient-rich nuts have the ability to reduce the size and growth of prostate cancer.

Scientists from the University of California-Davis just reported their discovery at the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), being held in San Francisco this week. "Walnuts should be part of a prostate-healthy diet," Paul Davis, Ph.D., who headed the study, said in a statement to the media. "They should be part of a balanced diet that includes lots of fruits and vegetables."

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